There are many roads to take in life. I happen to be on an open road, that has no walls. It has no lines painted down the center and that allows me to swerve to the left in the last moment, or if I feel like it drift zig zag, and flow from one side to the other. We are in a maze and the sooner we realize that there are no rules to follow which path, the better. I sometimes go full speed, other times I like to meander. This is my life……many roads, no end in site.
These are some of the shows, Films, Commercials, Print, and Video that I have had the great fortune to do with my art. I was cleaning my desk today, and ran across the files I keep for entertainment and advertising…….I sat back and took a look at what I had accomplished and was blown away.
Wow, I feel so lucky to be able to participate even in my little way to these productions…..I am a lucky girl ( I keep saying I need that tattoo)
I am just so grateful….. Thank you Universe!
Well I have learned a few things in life.
I think one of the most important is to swim with the flow.
Be flexible.
Be patient.
Go with the flow of all things naturally.
It does take awhile to find your flow.
There are those times when you say, that’s not me….I have to do it my way.
That’s all part of finding your own natural flow and rhythm.
We gotta find our own beat, and just flow with it.
Life then just becomes a smooth float down a lazy river.
“You can come to truth only when you are absolutely nude; when you have discarded all clothes, all philosophies, all theologies, all religions; when you have dropped all that has been given to you; when you come empty-handed, not knowing in any way. When you come with knowledge you come already corrupted. When you come in innocence, knowing that you don’t know, then the doors are open — then you will be able to know. Only that person who has no knowledge is capable of knowing.”OSHO
O.K. … It’s the ol’ Christian/Muslim fundamentalist vs. EVERTHING else.
I just can’t imagine how someone in our modern day society, with all our information and technology, can be so swept away, so rigid, so unyielding, so unable to entertain there are other opinions and beliefs in the world??? This is the cause of wars, religion causes most of the problems, and fighting around the globe. One person saying theirs in “the only way”. Christian fundamentalists say this all the time. If you have not accepted Jesus Christ as your savior and asked for salvation, you are doomed to live in Hell the rest of your days.
Bullshit.
Now, I don’t know about you, but this is just absolutely crazy, brain washed, Jim Jones kool aid drinking, thinking to me. What about that little Chinese lady squatting in the garden. She loves her family, works hard, is a friend to everyone. She is kind and sweet to neighbors and compassionate to all. She doesn’t curse, is extremely happy, polite and conscientious, and always laughs her troubles away. All she has ever done is GOOD. She is a Buddhist, not a Christian or Catholic.
But…..she is going to HELL??????
Oh I guess, she’ll find herself in hell then with The Dalai Lama, The Maharishi, Thich Nhat Hahn, Krishna, and Mahavira just to name a few. I’d say pretty interesting company.
How can someone believe this is true? It seems unfathomable to me. But, I guess they do. What really bothers me is that they think theirs is the ONLY religion, and wouldn’t even entertain listening or reading anything else. Isn’t this what we call brain washing? When the doctrine is so regimented that nothing else is even respected…..on the contrary it is belittled, and scoffed at.
I try to have respect for everyone’s belief, it is such a personal issue….But I’ll admit it……
I do have a problem with these kind of self serving Christians who are cloaked in the “right religion”, they thoughtlessly throw a bible verse, dismissing the offending person as the devil, bigoted, close minded, or even calling you the aniti-christ, is their usual response.
This fundamentalists mind set, whether Muslim or Christian is an accepted response to God’s powers and is actually an intimidation to thinking clearly. They are swept away in terror and the horror of burning alive, etc.
My understanding is that Jesus Christ was an enlightened being like many others before him, and many to come after. He was a loving, compassionate teacher, who befriended even the worst of the worst. Do you think that the loving Jesus would say some of the things that come out of the mouths of these fanatics…..I think not.
My take……I get something out of every religious book or quote I happen to read. The kindness and compassion of the Dalai Lama IS as real as Jesus Christ’s. The understanding and guidance of Thich Nhat Hahn is equal to Lao Tsu. If people want goodness and kindness they have to be willing to accept it, opening their minds and hearts to the world we live in.
There is NOT JUST ONE WAY!
The world comes in many colors, many beliefs, and many faces.
I’m an old hippy who happens to believe the rainbow has more than one color in it. I must have patience and compassion for those with a closed door of a mind.
A couple of quotes from The Dalai Lama…..
“The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation is really difficult. It gives us a certain amount of inner peace, which allows us some self-control, so that we can choose to respond to situations in an appropriate and compassionate manner, rather than being driven by our disturbing emotions.”
“The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That’s why it’s important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.”
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This page is dedicated to the work of Japanese researcher Masaru Emoto and his beautiful water crystal photos.
Masaru Emoto was born in Yokohama in July 1943. He is a graduate of the Yokohama Municipal University’s department of humanities and sciences with a focus on International Relations. In 1986 he established the IHM Corporation in Tokyo. In October of 1992 he received certification from the Open International University as a Doctor of Alternative Medicine. Subsequently he was introduced to the concept of micro cluster water in the US and Magnetic Resonance Analysis technology. The quest thus began to discover the mystery of water.
He undertook extensive research of water around the planet not so much as a scientific researcher but more from the perspective of an original thinker. At length he realized that it was in the frozen crystal form that water showed us its true nature. He continues with this experimentation and has written a variety of well received books in Japanese as well as the seminal Message from Water published bilingually. He is married to Kazuko Emoto who shares his passion and is head of Kyoikusha, the publishing arm of his company. They have three children.
Mr Emoto took water samples from around the world, slowly froze them, then photographed them with a dark field microscope with photographic capability. As each water crystal is unique, around 90 photos would be taken of the same water source, and the water crystal photo that represented the majority would be chosen.
The next few pictures are of water crystals from different sources. Generally, clean healthy water creates beautifully formed geometrical crystals, while polluted water is too sick to form any crystals at all.
Imagine you are an artist, and you sell a painting to someone for $10,000. Ten years later, your popularity has spiked and that someone sells your painting at auction for $1 million. The price appreciation is great for the collector, but under current U.S. law, it’s not so great for the artist — he or she receives none of the proceeds from the resale. Now two Democratic congressmen, House representative Jerry Nadler of New York’s 8th District and Senator Herb Kohl from Wisconsin, are trying to change that.
The pair introduced a bill in Congress last week that would guarantee an artists’ right to resale royalties — or droit de suite, to use the French term — for visual artwork bought on the secondary market. This law already exists in Europe, where it will expand even further in 2012, and it’s already (a much-flouted) state law in California. But certain artists and their advocates would like to see it go federal in the U.S. One major difference between the new proposed legislation and the other models is that the Nadler-Kohl bill would restrict royalties to works bought at public auctions through houses that bring in revenue over $25 million per year — only big fish like Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Phillips de Pury, Heritage, and Bonhams, in other words. Secondary-market sales through galleries, dealers, and online auction sites like ebay are all exempt, as are auction house private sales. Those restrictions aside, the bill proposes an exorbitantly expensive royalty — a full seven percent tax — that is far higher than its European counterpart, and is likely to forever change the secondary-market landscape in the U.S. if passed.
On the surface, the Nadler-Kohl bill seems rational — it’s a populist response to the corporate behemoths that rule the art world and give collectors in the 1 percent a platform on which to throw millions of dollars back and forth between one another. But the problem is that it goes too far and is likely to backfire. The tax is substantial enough to cause the auction houses to change their business model rather than pay it, and in the end it would serve to either line the pockets of the establishment while punishing struggling artists, or push even more of the auction market to Hong Kong. ARTINFO studied the text of the proposed legislation and pulled out five things you need to know about it and its consequences.
IT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET TO MORE PRIVATE SALES
The exclusion of private sellers from the bill is an attempt to circumvent one of the major arguments against droit de suite in Europe, which is that it disproportionately affects smaller galleries and dealers because they are ill-equipped to shoulder the administrative costs of paying the royalties and tracking artists down — unlike the major auction houses. The problem is, the biggest sales done in the art world often happen in the back room. The rumored top three art sales in history (“rumored” because private sales don’t need to be disclosed) are Jackson Pollock‘s “No. 5, 1948,” which was sold privately by music executive David Geffen through Sotheby’s for $140 million to an anonymous buyer in 2006; Willem de Kooning‘s “Woman III,” which was sold (again) by Geffen to hedge fund giant Steve Cohen through megadealer Larry Gagosian for $137.5 million in 2006; and Gustav Klimt‘s “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” which was sold privately through Christie’s by Maria Altmann to cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder for $135 million in 2006.
While the thrill of the packed auction room certainly boosts hammer prices for Christie’s and Sotheby’s, it’s clear that they can also pull in impressive sums privately. A massive tax is likely to push even more big-ticket items behind the curtain of private sales, or into the hands of secretive dealers like Gagosian who have an interest in keeping quiet about who’s buying, who’s selling, and what prices are like at the top end of the market.
IT’S NOT A SLIDING SCALE
One of the craziest things about this bill is that it institutes a flat tax on the auction houses — the rate is seven percent whether a work sells for $10,000 or $10 million. In Europe, droit de suite is determined by a sliding scale, much like buyer’s premiums at auction houses. For work sold for more than €1,000 and less than €50,000 the royalty is four percent, but as the price goes higher the percentage charged for the royalty goes down. At the low end, sellers of works that reach prices of more than €500,000 ($651,000) are only taxed .25 percent. Assuming prices are always in dollars to avoid exchange rate confusion, the auction house that, say, sold a painting for $1 million in London or Paris would be responsible for a few thousand dollars in European droit de suite taxes. Under this proposed legislation, if Christie’s or Sotheby’s in New York sold a painting for the same amount, the auction house would be responsible for $70,000 in taxes.
A difference of more than $50,000 in tax for selling a $1 million work of art in New York versus London is far more than enough to defray the cost of shipping the work to Europe for auction. As a result, New York’s long-held dominance in the contemporary art auction market could be imperilled, with much of the inventory being shipped to London, or even better, Hong Kong, to be sold at their respective contemporary auctions.
COLLECTION AGENCIES WIN, ARTISTS LOSE
The essence of the bill is this: after an auction, the house has 90 days to pay a collection agency the royalty. That agency can then take up to 18 percent off the top for its own operating expenses. Half of what’s left goes into an account that will be used to fund various art nonprofits. Then, and only then, does the artist get a cut — now down below 3 percent of the purchase price. For the minimum price of $10,000, the artist would get $287.
The problem with this is that collectors buying in the primary market are going to expect to have to pay the full seven percent royalty if they resell a work. If they expect to get seven percent less back if they resell the work, they probably won’t be willing to pay as high a price in the primary market, meaning that the artist would lose out on the first transaction. The vast majority of artists never see their work get resold at auction, so they only lose out on the first purchase of their work.
THE CAVEAT
The one caveat to all of this analysis is that it relies on basic economic theory, which has one major flaw: it assumes rationality. If you have ever been to a flashy contemporary art sale at one of the major auction houses, rational is the last word you would use to describe it. As art advisor Todd Levin told ARTINFO in regards to the European droit de suite question, “I get that the economists are looking at this strictly as a dollar-and-cents thing, but I don’t think that the economists get how the collectors think.”
The twinkling eyes of Osho. I love this photo, he looks so mischievious, like he has probably just ripped someone wide open with one statement exposing their soul to the Universe.
Check out what programs are available this winter at www.Osho.com
If you cannot get to India, read a book, or listen to a discourse.
I guarantee it will change your life, no kidding.
Osho is one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century, and the least known.
Image: Wikimedia Commons
Source: Education News
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Well, I don’t know about you but these little Kindle things do NOTHING for me, they actually kinda creep me out. Oh O.k. I guess living in an immediate gratification society, it is expected to have these so called conveniences. I for one love the feel of a book in my hands. I like turning pages. I like to feel that the spine is tight in my hands, and I like flipping thru the pages like a deck of cards. I like the way books smell. I like the way they all look laid out in a book store. I love searching through a used book store for something recognizable, a name, design, etc.
I really like the quiet of a library or book store. As if people really do revere these places as sacred. The churches of knowledge. All questions answered in the Universe.
I seriously could live in a book store.
The picture above gives me hope.
Libraries rent 2.1 million DVD’s a day….Netflex 2.2…..which gives me hope that some of these visitors will actually see a book they want to check out, take home, and enjoy.
An Homage to Duke…..I still love what you stand for and always will, we gave many years of our lives to try to create the legacy. We have now released…. we have relinquished our concerns, but not our love. I love that you were a true waterman thru it all. I love that you embodied the “aloha spirit”. Your legacy will go on in others hands, and just wish that the weight of that responsibility not sit lightly. I am at peace, I hope you are too Charlie. It was a hell-of-a-ride!
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