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Sunday Jun 22, 2003
Picture Perfect
When I was living in California, I knew a photographer who specialized in photographing fine art. He would take 35mm slides of my artworks and I paid him a fee for each slide.
After moving back to the East Coast, I checked the Yellow Pages to find another photographer to take slides of my work. I called a nearby photographer and asked if he had experience taking slides of paintings. He assured me that he did. I brought him 30-paintings and he said he’d have them ready in a few days. I had paid him in advance—$6 dollar per slide, or $180 dollars.
Thursday Jun 19, 2003
Patina
I enjoy creating art with color pencils, especially while having a cappuccino at my nearby Starbucks.
Occasionally, someone will come up to me, look at what I’m doing, and then ask: “How often do you crank (or churn) out one of those?”
Monday Jun 16, 2003
Find Your Purpose
In the sacred scripture of ancient India, the Bhagavad-gita (The Song of God), Supreme Lord Krishna, the avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism, reveals transcendental knowledge, including this: everyone has a path they must follow in order to uphold righteousness, and that leads to their individual salvation, which is the purpose and goal of human existence.
Find your soul, your dharma, and the form of your art will follow organically.
Thursday Jun 12, 2003
Pilgrim, Know Thy Self
Every day I receive spammer emails offering to sell me software that promises to let me find out nearly anything about anyone. Who cares?
Maybe this is an invasion of privacy issue, or not—but it smacks of totalitarian nonsense for people with too much time on their hands.
It would be much better to find out everything about your self—that is, if you’ve got the courage to take on such a journey. Better to live in a society where integrity is not only its own reward, but it pays to develop this quality.
As the sages have taught us: a wise man knows others; a master knows himself.
Tuesday Jun 10, 2003
Healthy Outlook
"I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.”
—Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970), one of the founders of humanistic psychology
Instead of focusing on pathology, or why things didn’t work, he felt it was more important to study healthy individuals in both mind and body—and what made them tick.
