After standing in a long lineup at the multiplex movie theatre, we finally got our tickets. There I was with my mother and father going to “Mamma Mia”. I felt 8 years old again. When I was 8 my parents had wine and cheese parties that morphed into dancing, singing, and guitar playing. When these [...]
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Mamma Mia: Here I go again
Posted in Art and Media, Connections, Music, Poetry, Reflections on a theme, tagged ABBA, dreams, life, mamma mia, movie, Music, thoughts, youth on August 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sensing Art and Music
Posted in Art and Media, Connections, Music, Reflections on a theme, science, tagged art, biology, creativity, Elisabeth Sulser, fusion, genetic, hear, learn, life, memory, Music, politics, sci-fi, science, see, sense, synaesthete, taste, thoughts on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Transverse Line, 1923
141 x 202 cm
Oil on canvas
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
With fused senses Elisabeth Sulser has an amazing gift to see words and hear sounds with colors, shapes and tastes. She is called a Synaesthete. There are others, like her, who see colors and shapes, but not tastes when they hear music or words. [...]
Real Superhumans
Posted in Art and Media, Connections, Music, Reflections on a theme, tagged Discovery Channel, game, life, memory, mind, Real Superhumans, superhuman, talent on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone has a special talent, but some have extraordinary talents. I always believed there were people walking among us that understand their world differently. These people have special abilities to use their minds to adapt and interpret their environment differently than most people. Discovery Channel has produced a show called “The Real Superhumans” –
http://www.discoverychannel.ca/shows/castlist.aspx?sid=4399
The show follows [...]
Guðni and Krawecka
Posted in Art and Media, tagged art, clouds, Elzbieta Krawecka, freedom, Georg Guðni, grace, landscape, light, mountains, painting, serenity, simplicity, sky on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No boundaries through stillness and movement…that is how I feel when contemplating paintings by Georg Guðni and Elzbieta Krawecka.
Georg Guðni
Several years ago Georg Guðni had an exhibition at Track 16 Gallery in California. Even though I could not attend the show, I picked up his book from Perceval Press. It was a spectacular exploration of nature around his [...]
