2 stories in the NY Times today relating to heroin addictions and the consequences thereof, which i’m posting here following my year last year in a psychology internship working with opiate addicts. i wrote less than i thought i might about that experience as it was going on – though in retrospect the idea that [...]
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touching and troubling
Posted in art, law & policy, psychology, tagged art, drug policy, psychology on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
happy people dancing on planet earth
Posted in art, tagged dance happiness on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
apparently NASA has a website where they post beautiful pictures of the cosmos every day, and today’s astronomy “picture” of the day is a video of this guy matt who films himself dancing all around the world. i think he has been doing this all over youtube for 2 years (so says wikipedia) but i [...]
costumes
Posted in art, mysticism, poetry, tagged art, illusion, mysticism, poetry on April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Art was cast into the world by superior beings, intending to clothe the truth and attract to it, by artifice, our spirits which had become incapable of loving it in the nude. – Vedic tradition
From my devotional chanting class…and also calls to mind this Hafiz:
You are the Sun in drag.
You are God hiding from yourself.
Remove [...]
beautiful awesome
Posted in art, tagged art on March 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
watch.
my a cappella debut
Posted in art, tagged music on December 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
very fun…so my roommate joelle is in a band called blammos, and i just spent the evening being part of an impromptu 16-person a cappella chorus for a music video for them, which was a superfun reminder that my life needs more singing!
check out some of the other videos blammos has [...]
now that’s what i call a renegade installation
Posted in art, mysticism, tagged art, spirituality, visionary on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
i’m dying to see this – some guy in italy spent 16+ years digging a secret network of underground caves that he created into some breathtaking visionary art temples. wow. take me please .
please to enjoy painting, poem, music
Posted in art, tagged art on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Holy Longing
Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,
because the mass man will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive,
what longs to be burned to death.
In the calm water of the love-nights,
where you were begotten, where you have begotten;
a strange feeling comes over you
when you see the silent candle burning.
Now you are [...]
some of my artwork from this semester
Posted in art, tagged art on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
