Link goes to Automatic states on saatchi:
Ancient Rome in HD /
Ancient Rome is such a powerful symbol, visually and aesthetically, as well as in terms of ideas, its battles and wars, the powerful personalities that blasted their thoughts across the centuries. Remember I spent hours with ancient Roman marble busts from the Vatican, just like with old friends. Here is Caesar's marble bust ( all photographs in this post I took during a Christmas in Rome ), video by Khan Academy :
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The walls of this gallery at the Vatican are lined with marble busts:
Visited the Colosseum in the evening on Christmas day and it was absolutely a solitary and beautiful experience, with a bit of drizzle and without a single living soul in sight.
A second edition of my Japanese Gardens book, entirely re-written with small poems by me /
Japanese Gardens: A Journey Into Zen Kindle Edition
Photographs and Small Poems by Mirena Rhee.
Buy on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YAE520K/#_swftext_Swf
Here is a poem I wrote on the occasion of this second edition :
Tranquil world of rocks, sand, trees, shrubs and moss. Little streams water the grounds. The colors are earthy and bright, no gusty winds dishevel the patterns. The wooden floors are swept clean. The mats lie still.
Landscape with peaceful shapes. It makes nice thoughts and asks deep questions. A design with no intent or angle. Whatever you bring you can take back. We don’t know who made it that way.
You can come back many times and find it just the same. Trees bend this way or that. Twigs flow here or there. Ponds flicker. Rocks ripple the sand a little.
With the Runway from Xquisite Corpse Act Two /
Automatic States, Pen And Ink Drawing On Hot Press Board /
Purchase a print here.
Winter Diagrams: February, animated pen and ink drawings /
Winter Diagrams: January, animated pen and ink drawings /
Hand painted ocean, animated pen and ink drawings /
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman." Jonathan Swift /
It was Christmas day, I was running a small fever and this man cheered me up in the Madrid Subway. “The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman." Jonathan Swift
Winter Diagrams: December, animated pen and ink drawings /
Automatic States, pen and ink on hot press board /
Invented Mythologies - pen and ink on hot press board, with Vader /
States and Solids, pen and ink drawing on hot press board /
Interactive high-resolution annotated zoom into Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights /
https://tuinderlusten-jheronimusbosch.ntr.nl/en# Accompanied by medievalish music and sheep bleating.
Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights was (one) of the reasons I went to Madrid. The Garden is in the Prado and is just as stunning as the online projects show her to be. Plan to visit the painting in off hours as there is usually a crowd waiting to inspect it, and it is a delight. I spent several hours with and around the painting just breathing the molecules of paint flakes in the air, hoping to breathe in enough so it stays with me.
Also worth a visit in Madrid are the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. The Gasparini room in the Royal palace is also a pleasure visually.
As I was writing the post I went to the Prado website and ... behold there is an Ingres exhibition. Ingres is better than Leonardo in complete drawings, I tell you. Now that with google you can travel pretty much anywhere in the world from your Saturday morning bed - take a trip through the beautiful and the intellectual and into this painting. Visit it in person if you can.
Expedition 42 - Don't Panic! /
A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
Piano improv on Twitch - Bernie is currently playing in front of a Madison Square Garden size audience. 20, 000 and growing. It is mad and absolutely amazing /
The Favorites:
http://imgur.com/gallery/i7ELPwQ
Twitch:
http://www.twitch.tv/pianoimproman
I recently saw the excellent Danny Boyle movie Steve Jobs and in the movie Jobs predicted that the computer is going to be like a bicycle for the mind. Joseph Campbell said that everyone is a hero at birth. And here I am in front of my treasured Mac, enjoying the work of a musical hero in front of his piano, related to me via his computer. The audience is currently at 20, 000, larger than Madison Square Garden. What an awesome time to be alive.
( just found out he had 65, 000 simultaneous viewers yesterday, so yeah )
Star Wars - Cantina - http://www.twitch.tv/pianoimproman/v/37799456?t=05h38m35s
Thanks to reddit.
Star Wars 30th anniversary gift I received from George Lucas while working at Lucasfilm - a swiss made watch forged withe the Force /
The watch now belongs to my dad. Cause he is awesome.
