CREATIVITY: What do you see?

17 08 2014

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Beauty: Are things beautiful because they give delight, or do they give delight because they are beautiful?

3 07 2014

Luna: Mummy your have so many grey hairs now.
Mummy: Is that bad?
Luna: No, it just looks funny.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. David Hume

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Beauty is language, happiness is putting it to good use

28 06 2014

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Footballers, like philosophers, need to have passion as well as intellect; they need to be a part of the game, not apart from it.

7 06 2014
 
Football is a dance, the partner is the ball. – Brazilian football coach for children.
 
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals – Aristotle
 
Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.
Robert Baden-Powell
 
I love football. I love the aesthetics of football. I love the athleticism of football. I love the movement of the players, the antics of the coaches. I love the dynamism of the fans. I love their passion for their badge and the colour of their team and their country. I love the noise and the buzz and the electricity in the stadium. I love the songs. I love the way the ball moves and then it flows and the way a teams fortune rises and falls through a game and through a season. But what I love about football that it brings people together across religious divides, geographic divides, political divides. I love the fact that for ninety minutes in a rectangular piece of grass, people can forget hopefully, whatever might be going on in their life, rejoice in this communal celebration of humanity. The biggest diverse, invasive or pervasive culture that human kinds knows is football and I love the fact that at the altar of football human kind can come worship and celebrate. – Andy Harper (Former Newcastle player) 
 

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Derrida on football

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LOVE = FORGIVENESS

6 06 2014





Push the Bush: The Mostar Diving Club

5 06 2014

Tonight at the Bush Hall –  the beautiful poetry of Mostar Diving Club: with Vicky Osterberg, Will Worsley, Michael G Moore and Damian Katkhuda.

 

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http://www.bushhallmusic.co.uk/





A Matisse for Mummy

4 06 2014
“Mummy this is for you. It’s our Matisse. And see, it’s your path through trees and storms, under rainbows and into sunshine.”
– love Philomena & Luna

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Notes & Neurons: In search of the common chorus

3 06 2014




Beauty is when the physicist and the artist come together in a dance

28 05 2014

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Poems about Light
Blyth Gallery
Imperial College SW7 2AZ

http://www.poemsaboutlight.com
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Glimpses of Higher Truth

24 04 2014

It is written, “As the sun and its sheath, [so are the divine names] Havayah-Elokim” (Psalms 84:12).  God desired that the infinite light with which he creates the world (Havayah) should be sheathed and concealed within the definitive laws and patterns of nature (Elokim). . . . But seeing that the world could not endure an absolute concealment, God allowed glimmers of His infinite light to be glimpsed through the sheath. These glimmers are the souls of the righteous and the miracles recounted in the Torah. —Shaar Hayichud Veha’emunah (lessons in Tanya)

Since 1998, and after having experimented with various creative forms to highlight the relationship between art and science, TOBIA RAVA’ has been carrying out research into the mystic elements of Hebraism, ranging from the Kabbalah to Chassidism, suggesting a new symbolic approach through the infinite possibilities of numerical combinations. His research should in no way be seen as a reduction of mystic to mystery or esoterics but instead as a visualisation of a deep awareness that mystical theology, according to Plato’s definition and to its original, authentic meaning, signifies wisdom and knowledge of that which is universal. [http://www.etgallery.co.il/exhibition-seat/Telaviv/]


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Creativity in Mexico

21 04 2014

Children should be allowed to be children. Talented children will find their way. As parents you should look to children to find their natural inclination for self expression; exposing them to things but never pushing. Better is to self-ignite. Encourage, stand behind your children and if they really want it, be there to support them. – Toller Cranston (global figure skating champion, artist and friend)
 
 
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Philomena, you don’t have to worry if you think you’ve made a mistake – the best thing about painting is that you can always paint over them. – Nina Wisniewski (artist and teacher, San Miguel de Allende)

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PHILOMENA’S SELFIE

(luna drew her outline, philomena filled it with pure philomena)

 





Melancholy can smile. Sorrow cannot.

18 04 2014
 
“Melancholy can smile. Sorrow cannot. And smiling is the legacy of my tribe.”
– Friedrich Torberg in Tante Jolesch  [http://www.viennareview.net/vienna-review-book-reviews/torberg-in-exile]

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LISTEN here to Basil Rathbone read The Selfish Giant:

 

 

 





LOVE is how the LIGHT gets in

26 03 2014

all of these artists will all be performing here: http://howthelightgetsin.iai.tv/

Mr. Scruff also sells tea. Proceeds go to charity. Check it out. http://www.makeusabrew.com/showscreen.php?site_id=20&screentype=site&screenid=20

 

“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”

The poem from which the line comes exhorts Roman citizens to develop martial prowess such that the enemies of Rome will be too terrified to resist them. In John Conington‘s translation, the relevant passage reads:

To suffer hardness with good cheer,
In sternest school of warfare bred,
Our youth should learn; let steed and spear
Make him one day the Parthian’s dread;
Cold skies, keen perils, brace his life.
Methinks I see from rampired town
Some battling tyrant’s matron wife,
Some maiden, look in terror down,—
“Ah, my dear lord, untrain’d in war!
O tempt not the infuriate mood
Of that fell lion I see! from far
He plunges through a tide of blood!”
What joy, for fatherland to die!
Death’s darts e’en flying feet o’ertake,
Nor spare a recreant chivalry,
A back that cowers, or loins that quake.

(thank you wikipedia for always being there for me when i need you)

 

Afro-Beat Collective, explores the need and importance of exploring for the sake of exploring…”The objective is to to create music derived from a deliberate intention to transmit a message of determination, substance and, most importantly, Unity. To see music as One World, a musical space that transcends and breaks free from styles and any kind of sound that compromises the skills of the musicians playing and the importance of musicianship or group collaboration and expression.” – HENRY COLE & AFROBEAT COLLECTIVE