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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.
GUITARRA FLAMENCO
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I first hear Flamenco music in 1964 when the uncle and father of members of The Gypsy kings released their first record album in the US titled: Manitas de Plata: Guitarra Flamenco. It was recorded in a small room with a few invited guests, including the world famous artist Pablo Picasso. His cousin, a carpet layer, Jose Reyes, who is the father of several of the members of The Gypsy Kings, was the vocalist. When I heard the magnificent and authentic guitar playing on this record I was instantly electrified! Memories of my past lives spent in Spain and France as a gypsy flooded back into my consciousness with overwhelming passion for this music and these beautifully crude, by free, peasants who were originally refugees from India and Egypt. Here are two cuts from Manitas De Plata performing Tarantas. This is the first US recordings ever made of Manitas De Plata — October 1963, in Arles, France, produced by Connoisseur Society (the recording engineer was David B. Jones). It was initially released as an LP (“Manitas de Plata aux Saintes Maries de la Mer“) on the Philips and Connoisseur Society labels. To this day I have never heard a performance of authentic Flamenco guitar playing as flawlessly performed as those recorded on this record.
Here are TWO selections from that album:
In 2003 I attended a concert of the Gypsy Kings at The Greek Theater in L.A. as a birthday present to myself. This is my favorite music group of all time! They continue the proud heritage of the true gypsy spirit of freedom and passion and musical genius! Here is the complete album of the Gypsy Kings Greatest Hits:
TEARS OF JOY!
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10,000 VOICES and Orchestra performing “Ode To Joy” by Beethoven….. Turn up the volume on your speakers to make the windows shatter!!!! Tears of Joy!!! Tears of Joy, My Beautiful Friends!!!!
The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (sometimes known simply as “the Choral”), is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best-known works of the repertoire of classical music. Among critics, it is almost universally considered to be among Beethoven’s greatest works, and is considered by some to be the greatest piece of music ever written. The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony (thus making it achoral symphony). The words are sung during the final movement by four vocal soloists and a chorus. They were taken from the “Ode to Joy”, a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additions made by the composer.
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THOUGHTS FLY FASTER THAN LIGHT
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“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
~ Nikola Tesla ~
“A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.”
– R.C. Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University , “The Mental Universe” ; Nature 436:29,2005) (source)