Saturday, March 24, 2007
Place to go for inspiration
Most of my work is done at this park located on pleasant hill road. Ive had some sort of connection with this park since I was in middle school and it helps inspire alot of my work. Its very peaceful yet the noise from the traffic helps bring me back to reality. The combination gets ideas flowing and helps me find a place where I can get my thoughts down.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Stomp
I went to the STOMP concert two years ago at the FOx theatre. At first, I wasn't sure how it would be but it was amazing to see these people make some beautiful sounds and music with things we use everday. sounds not that good on these videos!!
Booklet Ideas
My paper company makes speciality papers and they all have this nice texture and natural look to it. I want to use a natural or environmental concept for my booklet. Here are some ideas:
*Techniques used in Design
*Rainforest
*Botanical Gardens
*Georgia Aquarium
*Global Warming
*The benefits of recycling
*The three r's of the Earth
*Techniques used in Design
*Rainforest
*Botanical Gardens
*Georgia Aquarium
*Global Warming
*The benefits of recycling
*The three r's of the Earth
The Color of Mendhi
After mendhi dries and peels off, the hands are stained with the designs and begin to fade after several days. It takes about two weeks for the color to completely fade away.
Some quotes to get the mind thinking!
A. A. Milne:
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Abraham Maslow:
The key question isn’t "What fosters creativity?" But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Albert Einstein:
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein:
Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein:
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Arthur Koestler:
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Beatrix Potter:
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Buckminster Fuller:
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller:
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Carl Sagan:
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
Carl Sagan:
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Edward de Bono:
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edwin Land:
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Erich Fromm:
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Abraham Maslow:
The key question isn’t "What fosters creativity?" But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Albert Einstein:
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein:
Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein:
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Arthur Koestler:
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Beatrix Potter:
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Buckminster Fuller:
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller:
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Carl Sagan:
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
Carl Sagan:
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Edward de Bono:
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edwin Land:
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
Erich Fromm:
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
The end of the Reception
At the end of the reception, the sisters of the bride are suppose to steal the grooms shoes. In order for the groom to get his shoes back and leave with his new bride, he must give the sisters an amount of money that is acceptable to them. We asked for $700 but only got $250. This is a picture after we stole his shoes and one of my sisters got too excited and stole his socks as well. =)
Mendhi
Mendhi, or henna, is a paste made from leaves and herbs and used in islamic traditions as a symbol of happiness or luck. This past weekend my sister got married. An Islamic wedding lasts about 5 days, one of which are used to put mendhi on. There is also a myth that comes with mendhi on a wedding day: The darker the brides mendhi color, the more her husband loves her. I also put learned how to put mendhi on by looking at designs. I was never taught but I pick up on ideas and designs. Sometimes my mendhi isn't the traditional designs. I use a more arabic template.
Artist Residency program
Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto presents
UNIDEE in Residence - International Program 2007
2 July - 31 October 2007
Deadline for applications: 16 April 2007
http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee
photo by: Michele Lamanna
UNIDEE in Residence is an international program open to artists,
professionals, students and graduates of various university faculties
from any country in the world.
UNIDEE offers an experience unlike anything offered in any other
university or academic program: a research-oriented practice that
operates within each discipline and is directed towards theresponsible
transformation of society and the creative activation.
The UNIDEE programs are directed by Michelangelo Pistoletto. The course
in residency include an active participation in meetings and seminars
hold by experts and professors of various humanistic, scientific,
economic, political, artistic and social disciplines.
The residents work individually or in groups to develop ideas and
projects, working along creative lines pertinent to the following
fields: Art, Communication, Ecology, Economics, Education, Work,
Nutrition, Politics, Production, Science, Spirituality.
The work of the UNIDEE residents involves constant interaction with the
offices of Cittadellarte, which put the program of responsible social
transformation into effect through projects developed in conjunction
with public and private institutions, companies, cultural bodies and
economic and production structures.
All the events in the Cittadellarte program - exhibitions, conferences,
performances and workshops - offer further opportunities for the
residents to explore issues and develop ideas.
At the end of the residency, the ideas that have been generated are
presented publicly at the UNIDEE in progress exhibition-event.
:: How to apply
A maximum of twenty residencies are available each year.
The residency lasts four months, from July 2nd to October 31st.
The official language is English.
Cittadellarte selection panel chooses candidates on the basis of their
aptitude for developing projects relating to the aims of the University
of Ideas.
Applicants are invited to send any material they consider pertinent to
such an assessment: curriculum, documentation of previous work, one or
more examples ( well-developed or developing during the residence) of
projects that illustrate their approach to the theme of a socially
responsible transformation.
A filled-in and signed application form must also be included with the
material.
Scholarship grants are available, total and partial cover. Anyone
interested is invited to consult the website or to contact the
organizing secretary for further information.
The sum includes:
- seminars during the residency
- attendance of the workshops
- technical and teaching assistance, visits and inspections
- participation in Cittadellarte activities
- board and lodging on the premises
UNIDEE 2007 is supported by:
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Regione Piemonte<
Provincia di Biella ,
Città di Biella Unicredit, Fondazione CRT,
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Biella , M.I.T. - Italy Program,
Universidad de Antioquia ,
Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes , Castello di Rivoli,
Fulbright,
A.M. Qattan Foundation, Inlaks Foundation, SNAIT,
IFPC - Unesco Associazione Pacefuturo, Love Difference,
Hangar Fondazione, Ermenegildo Zegna, illy caffè ,
CiAl Consorzio Imballaggi Alluminio, Ars Aevi, Sarajevo Academy,
deBuren
Applications must be submitted by April 16th 2007 (postal stamp) to the
following address:
UNIDEE in Residence
Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto
Via Serralunga, 27
13900 Biella - Italia
UNIDEE in Residence - International Program 2007
2 July - 31 October 2007
Deadline for applications: 16 April 2007
http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee
photo by: Michele Lamanna
UNIDEE in Residence is an international program open to artists,
professionals, students and graduates of various university faculties
from any country in the world.
UNIDEE offers an experience unlike anything offered in any other
university or academic program: a research-oriented practice that
operates within each discipline and is directed towards theresponsible
transformation of society and the creative activation.
The UNIDEE programs are directed by Michelangelo Pistoletto. The course
in residency include an active participation in meetings and seminars
hold by experts and professors of various humanistic, scientific,
economic, political, artistic and social disciplines.
The residents work individually or in groups to develop ideas and
projects, working along creative lines pertinent to the following
fields: Art, Communication, Ecology, Economics, Education, Work,
Nutrition, Politics, Production, Science, Spirituality.
The work of the UNIDEE residents involves constant interaction with the
offices of Cittadellarte, which put the program of responsible social
transformation into effect through projects developed in conjunction
with public and private institutions, companies, cultural bodies and
economic and production structures.
All the events in the Cittadellarte program - exhibitions, conferences,
performances and workshops - offer further opportunities for the
residents to explore issues and develop ideas.
At the end of the residency, the ideas that have been generated are
presented publicly at the UNIDEE in progress exhibition-event.
:: How to apply
A maximum of twenty residencies are available each year.
The residency lasts four months, from July 2nd to October 31st.
The official language is English.
Cittadellarte selection panel chooses candidates on the basis of their
aptitude for developing projects relating to the aims of the University
of Ideas.
Applicants are invited to send any material they consider pertinent to
such an assessment: curriculum, documentation of previous work, one or
more examples ( well-developed or developing during the residence) of
projects that illustrate their approach to the theme of a socially
responsible transformation.
A filled-in and signed application form must also be included with the
material.
Scholarship grants are available, total and partial cover. Anyone
interested is invited to consult the website or to contact the
organizing secretary for further information.
The sum includes:
- seminars during the residency
- attendance of the workshops
- technical and teaching assistance, visits and inspections
- participation in Cittadellarte activities
- board and lodging on the premises
UNIDEE 2007 is supported by:
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Regione Piemonte<
Provincia di Biella ,
Città di Biella Unicredit, Fondazione CRT,
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Biella , M.I.T. - Italy Program,
Universidad de Antioquia ,
Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes , Castello di Rivoli,
Fulbright,
A.M. Qattan Foundation, Inlaks Foundation, SNAIT,
IFPC - Unesco Associazione Pacefuturo, Love Difference,
Hangar Fondazione, Ermenegildo Zegna, illy caffè ,
CiAl Consorzio Imballaggi Alluminio, Ars Aevi, Sarajevo Academy,
deBuren
Applications must be submitted by April 16th 2007 (postal stamp) to the
following address:
UNIDEE in Residence
Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto
Via Serralunga, 27
13900 Biella - Italia
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