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Category Archives: ART
Paintings, photography, aesthetic objects, beautiful communication, and anything I consider to be art, artful, artistic, artsy or whatever.
Art is subjective. It is a quality of communication can be contributed to by the viewer through empathy or agreement with its creator.
SPOT THAT SAYS “NOT”
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Spots that say “NOT” have been used in this universe for billions and billions of years. Get yours now, and make any reality you can’t confront disappear!
FOLLOWING
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“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought”.
— *Basho, (1644-1694)
This is good advice. However, I would amend it to say “Follow in the footsteps of the wise and seek what they sought”. The harmonics of wisdom recognize the gradient scale of wisdom. Wisdom is relative to all other wisdom.
In the teaching of wisdom, one much become a good follower. Yet to follow effectively one must lead others. Basho exemplified the most able of wise men. At the time of his death, Basho had more than 2000 students.
Yet, here is the eternal right of the individual to disdain from the playing of games simply to enjoy the serene and simple state of Being. Or, the enjoy the pleasure of Creation for its own sake, without regard to an audience. However, it is far easier to preach to the choir than to enlighten the “heathen”.
Here are a few of the wonderful *Haiku poems attributed to Bash (they may not have retained their purity in the English translation, but you get the flavour of them):
An old pond!
A frog jumps in-
The sound of water.
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The years first day
thoughts and loneliness;
the autumn dusk is here.
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Poverty’s child –
he starts to grind the rice,
and gazes at the moon.
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A weathered skeleton
in windy fields of memory,
piercing like a knife
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*DEFINITION OF HAIKU: Haiku is one of the most important form of traditional Japanese poetry. Haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. Since early days, there has been confusion between the three related terms Haiku, Hokku and Haikai. The termhokku literally means “starting verse”, and was the first starting link of a much longer chain of verses known ashaika. Because the hokku set the tone for the rest of the poetic chain, it enjoyed a privileged position in haikaipoetry, and it was not uncommon for a poet to compose ahokku by itself without following up with the rest of the chain.
The name Basho (banana tree) is a sobriquet he adopted around 1681 after moving into a hut with a banana tree alongside. He was called Kinsaku in childhood and Matsuo Munefusa in his later days.
HUMAN INFESTATION
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It’s a rhetorical question. It’s a theoretical question. But, don’t you ever have a glimmer in the dimmest recesses of your soul that we may have encountered this problem before? Perhaps far, far away….a long, long time ago…. How did we handle it then? Or, did we fail to handle it at all? Either way, here we go again, my godly friends. Here we go again. What do we do now?
MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW
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INSECTS SEE MORE MORE CLEARLY USING MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW….MAYBE WE CAN TOO?
“Compound and human eyes are essentially the same in some respect. The main difference is that compound eyes are made up of many individual eyes (called ommatidia), each forming its own image. Thus, the insect brain receives and processes many images and converts them into “pictures” made up of many pieces, like a puzzle. Compare it to watching a single scene on many screens showing slightly different perspectives. The image produced by each ommatidium is very small but collectively, an insect’s ommatidia can cover almost a 360-degree field of view, allowing good binocular vision in all directions, important for capturing prey and avoiding predators. They’re especially good at detecting motion, because images pass successively across the ommatidia. That’s why it’s so hard to sneak up on insects!
Insect vision surpasses human vision in several other ways. Insects can see well into the ultraviolet end of the light spectrum, to which we are completely blind. Insect eyes function well at different light intensities, including much lower intensities (i.e., darker conditions) than ours. Many insect eyes also can detect the plane of polarized light, which is useful for orientation on cloudy days.
Insects’ simple eyes are called ocelli, and they are more different from compound eyes than compound eyes are from human eyes. Many adult insects have two or three and some larvae have up to six. Each ocellus consists of up to 1000 or so sensory cells and a single lens. Ocelli respond to the intensity and direction of light but do not form images. They do form a highly sensitive and fast-reacting system that helps the insect preserve stability in flight.”