CHANGE IS A CONSTANT

Monday, April 25, 2016

Art Photos

Елена Качмарик ‏@elenakachmarik

@sssssiiidd @medicenluciana

Anja Stiegler

EleniFineArtPhoto ‏@EleniFineArtPho 16 Jul 2015

"In the Shadow of Memory" #photography #art #Greece

Beatriz Díez Lopez ‏@beatrixten

"'Learning to fly' by Adrian Borda #photography #fotografia"

gaki Wheatfields,1930s #photography

JeanPhilippedeTonnac ‏@inthemoodfortw 9h9 hours ago

https://www.instagram.com/jeanphilippedetonnac/ …

EleniFineArtPhoto

Darksun ‏@Darksun_always 7h7 hours ago

Rob Cartwright Photography - Tenements of Glasgow's West End -

JeanPhilippedeTonnac ‏@inthemoodfortw
https://www.instagram.com/jeanphilippedetonnac/ …

adalberto alves ‏@adalbertoasf

Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc interpreted by Tilda Swinton

Chet Baker

Benjamin Millepied ‏@B_Millepied

#VintageWeek ! Misha and Pontois in Giselle @BalletOParis

Opéra de Paris ‏@operadeparis

#RomeoJuliette #Noureev Premières images des répétitions, avant un retour très attendu sur la scène de Bastille.

Benjamin Millepied Verified account
@B_Millepied

Directeur de la Danse @BalletOParis. Choreographer. Former Principal dancer with nycballet. Founder @artformco @LADanceProject @AmoveoCompany
BenjaminMillepied.com
Joined July 2013

Nicholas Britell on @ArtformCo https://artform.co/u/j7EyN7

NY Choreo Institute
@NYChoreoInst

NY Choreo Institute
@NYChoreoInst

The NYCI, an affiliate of @nycballet, promotes the development of choreographers and dancers involved in classical choreography by providing opportunities.#NYCI
New York, NY
ny-ci.org

@NYChoreoInst

Meet Craig Davidson! His work Ambiguous Content premiered on @TheAusBallet #MeetTheChoreographerMonday PC: S Pevnev

NY Choreo Institute Retweeted

JUANJO ARQUES ‏@JUANJOARQUES

FRESAS - junior company/Dutch National Ballet. Photo: Antoinette Mooy.

Richard Heideman ‏@Bafloon Feb 22

FRESAS #HNBbubbles New work created @JUANJOARQUES @jbosch500 Opens tomorrow @Theateradparade https://youtu.be/u_ygKumXMUU

Ernst Meisner, Het Nationale Ballet, jheronimusbosch500 and 6 others

Richard Heideman ‏@Bafloon Feb 24

First press pic from FRESAS @JUANJOARQUES worldpremiere last night @Theateradparade #HNBbubbles pic @michelschnater

Joey Massarelli, Het Nationale Ballet, Ernst Meisner and 4 others

NY Choreo Institute ‏@NYChoreoInst 12 Nov 2015

#TBT to @nycballet dancer Alston Macgill's gravity defying grand jeté in @JUANJOARQUES's work from Spring 2015

elissa Hamilton ‏@hmelissa84 19h19 hours ago

Before the heartbreak ~ La Bayadere ~ 27.02.16 @semperoper with @IstvanSimon #ianwhalen #ballet #semperoperballett

Melissa Hamilton ‏@hmelissa84 Mar 8

La Bayadere ~ 27.02.16 @semperoper with @IstvanSimon #TutuTuesday #debut #ianwhalen #semperoperballett

ks.com

“I wanted to make a series of portraits of the dancers themselves, as opposed to dancers dancing, to show the character that underpins their performance, to see the determination and sacrifice that it takes to succeed at such a high level.” Rick Guest.

What Lies Beneath
A book of dancers portraits by Rick Guest
Published by PUSH Print in large format, 300mm x 370mm
Available at £50 from 15 December 2015 in a limited first run of 1000 copies.
More details at: rg-books.com
Rick Guest: rg-dance.com

There will also be an exhibition of the portraits at The Hospital Club in Covent Garden
Dates: 22 – 31 January 2016
Details: www.thehospitalclub.com

What Lies Beneath: portraits of dancers by Rick Guest – Book Cover
Available at: rg-books.com

Marianela Núñez.
© Rick Guest. (Click image for larger version)
Taken from: What Lies Beneath – portraits of dancers by Rick Guest
Available at: rg-books.com

TooThin?

Melissa Hamilton.
© Rick Guest. (Click image for larger version)
Taken from: What Lies Beneath – portraits of dancers by Rick Guest
Available at: rg-books.com

Zenaida Yanowsky.
© Rick Guest. (Click image for larger version)
Taken from: What Lies Beneath – portraits of dancers by Rick Guest
Available at: rg-books.com

Mª Jesús Galdos ‏@mjesusgz 9 Dec 2015

Melissa Hamilton, The Royal Ballet - #photo #art #ballet

pierre boegly ‏@PBoegly

Raven Girl ■ #EricUnderwood & Melissa Hamilton / Alexandrinsky Theatre - Saint Petersburg @EricUnderwood1@hmelissa84

Mariinsky Swans by Gene Schiavone - #ballet #art #photo

Julia ‏@julia_zba Mar 3

Scotland

Venice

Mª Jesús Galdos ‏@mjesusgz Mar 3

Ballet - Anastasia Matvienko and Denis Matvienko - #photo #art #ballet

Mª Jesús Galdos ‏@mjesusgz Mar 4

Painting by Liu Ying Zhao - #pintura #art #artwit #twitart #painting

Painting by Alex Chernigin - #pintura #art #artwit #twitart #painting

Paris by Richard Macneil - #pintura #art #artwit #paris #painting

The Rehearsal of the Ballet on Stage by Edgar Degas - #pintura #art #artwit #degas #painting

Cherry Blossom Japan

Ballerina by Gene Schiavone - #photo #art #ballet

Mª Jesús Galdos ‏@mjesusgz Mar 7

Watercolor - Paris Café by John Salminen - #pintura #art #artwit #twitart #paris #painting

Watercolor - Venice by Thierry Duval - #pintura #art #artwit #painting

Andrea ‏@andrea_4520 Mar 8

Fuji Japan

Family Flamingos by Natalia Baras

Andrea ‏@andrea_4520

Taj Mahal - #india

Andrea ‏@andrea_4520 Mar 3

Morning with my sister ... by Herman Damar

Reform, Adjust, Improve, Evolve, Change, Adapt, Grow

This raccoon is the oldest member of our Spirit Collection, from 1730. See it on a BTS tour http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/whats-on/programs/nhm/behind-the-scenes_spirit_collection_tour.html …

Hope: Emily Dickinson

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around the World

Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around the World

Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music. Join the movement here:

https://playingforchange.com/members/

From
the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through
Music", comes "Stand By Me", the first of many Songs Around The World
produced by Playing For Change. This Ben E. King classic features
musicians around the world recorded by the Playing For Change team
during their travels. This song continues to remind us that music has
the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between
people.

Link: https://youtu.be/Us-TVg40ExM

Thursday, April 21, 2016

How To Work Better

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Brain circuit that helps us adapt to change fades with age, study finds Key points: Brain circuit called the striatum deteriorates with age Decreased activity in this circuit reduces ability to develop new strategies to meet goals Keeping brain active key to healthy ageing

Brain circuit that helps us adapt to change fades with age, study finds

Key points:

Brain circuit called the striatum deteriorates with age
Decreased activity in this circuit reduces ability to develop new strategies to meet goals
Keeping brain active key to healthy ageing

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Black Elk Speaks

Black Elk quotes

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”
― Black Elk

“The Holy Land is everywhere”
― Black Elk

“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks

“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.”
― Black Elk

“Behold this day. It is yours to make.”
― Black Elk

“Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions”
― Black Elk

“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see.”
― Black Elk

“All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.”
― Black Elk

“It is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost”
― Black Elk

“There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men.”
― Black Elk

“Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where.”
― Black Elk

“I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”
― Black Elk

“While I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw;
For I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being....And I saw that it was holy”
― Black Elk

“Know the Power that is Peace.”
― Black Elk

“I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream...”
― Black Elk

“It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.”
― Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks

“When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greenier and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.”
― Black Elk

“Every little thing is sent for something, and in that thing there should be happiness and the power to make happy. Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus we should do, for this was the wish of the
Grandfathers of the World.”
― Black Elk

“there can be no power in a square”
― Black Elk

“I knew that the real was yonder and that the darkened dream of it was here.”
― Black Elk

“And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”
― Black Elk

“At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.”
― Black Elk

“This they tell, and whether it happened so or not I do not know, but if you think about it, you can see that it is true.”
― Black Elk

“Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus we should do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.”
― Black Elk

“The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm.”
― Black Elk

Black Elk Speaks

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by John G. Neihardt

“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”
― Black Elk

“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see.”
― Black Elk

“It is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost”
― Black Elk

“I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”
― Black Elk

“It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.”
― Black Elk

Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world

With stunning photos and stories, National Geographic Explorer Wade
Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous
cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate.

Link: https://youtu.be/bL7vK0pOvKI

http://www.ted.com

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Writer's Philosophy

My Philosophy of Blogging

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or to be the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton

Ms. Wharton sums up how I think of blogs. My desire is to reflect the articles and pictures that inspire me when surfing the Web by posting them on my blogs. Blogs create a scrapbook of events to review later inspiring me for a second time. This is a great pleasure and an educational activity providing me with learning missed when I was in school. The Web has demonstrated its great value in generating and spreading new ideas. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Occupy Wall Street and other revolutions have gained momentum on the Web.
If you have a favorite cause like animal rights, you can play a part in education the world by posting to your blog. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

"To read means to borrow; to create out of one's reading is paying off one's debts."
- Charles Lillard

Communicating my worldview, as seen from my backwater home town situated on an island in the Pacific, is my way of staying engaged with current events. Multiple Sclerosis has reduced my physical energy and keeps me close to home so I need to adapt and find new ways of relating to the world at large.