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Flora vs. Fauna, UNDERWORLD IV
This one illustrates the occasional dominion of plants over animals, hence the title; "FLORA vs FAUNA"
The scrotal looking plants in the painting are California Pitcher plants, also known as "COBRA LILIES". These clever plant adaptations entice their insect pray into a narrow mouth, heading toward a digestive "pot" with inward pointing hairs, preventing the insect from reversing out, sort of like a lobster trap.
The big red "flower" is modeled after an Anthurium. However the stamen of this particular Anthurium is patterned after a "Sticky Trap" carnivorous plant, (the Drosera Capensis). But of course, Anthuriums don't have tendrillic appendages which capture hornets either. (But wouldn't it be wonderful if they did!)
The scrotal looking plants in the painting are California Pitcher plants, also known as "COBRA LILIES". These clever plant adaptations entice their insect pray into a narrow mouth, heading toward a digestive "pot" with inward pointing hairs, preventing the insect from reversing out, sort of like a lobster trap.
The big red "flower" is modeled after an Anthurium. However the stamen of this particular Anthurium is patterned after a "Sticky Trap" carnivorous plant, (the Drosera Capensis). But of course, Anthuriums don't have tendrillic appendages which capture hornets either. (But wouldn't it be wonderful if they did!)
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miércoles
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viernes
Ecos al leer a Swedenborg
Las cosas mentales son espirituales las corpóreas naturales, y a la inversa. Juego de espejos y correspondencias proyecta nuestro cuerpo, descienden por oscuros tramos y se eleva hasta completar la radiante esfera que es así mismo una rosa y universal cuerpo. Podemos ver correspondencias que ocurren entre el fenómeno espiritual y natural; un fenómeno naturales es la representación de uno espiritual, imagen sensible de la sustancia invisible. Cuando los atributos interiores del hombre son proyectados al exterior, son imagen móvil visibles de estados mentales eternos como cristales de roca que refleja las ondas de las luz al exterior y así mismo del exterior recibe y reforma las formas exteriores que se hacen interiores y exteriores al tiempo y se representan sensiblemente los poderes intrínsecos del hombre y el cosmos . Cuando éstos están en harmonia; lo interno y lo externo, superficie y profundidad, textura y etéreo, sagrado y profano, tiempo y espacio, todo se corresponde en doble y triple movimiento de correspondecias, sentido y razón se reflejan, superponen y trascienden en una red de sonidos y divinas letras
miércoles
To a chinese Friend
Your old masters said;
The whole universe, infinite, vibrate within you;
The hundred school of thought,
The methods of government, war, and diplomacy;
the School of Law.
Taoism; seeking experimenting with the self and adapting it to the rhythm of nature.
Confucian and Taoist shifting with the music of nature.
Mohism and the idea of universal love
The Burning of the books and burial of the scholars by the first emperador
The suppression of freedom of speech (to be invented later prints) .
The infinite wall
The Wu Xing or the Five Movements;
Wood, fire, earth, metal, water; all are made of yin and yang in precise amounts.
That secret pentagon that time and his cycles have drawn
The structure of the cosmos; Mirrored in five phases:
Can you see the magic Flower?
There is a delicate Balance in the intricate movement of fire.
Geomancy
Oracle bones
Sun Tzu's and his Art of War,
The Chinese characters
I Chin and his cryptic hexagram, with a symbolic system used to perceive order in chaotic events,
The mythical Fu xi and the yellow river,
The feng shuim, the magic compass and the harmonic course of life-energy
The early instrument;
The Chinese astronomy and astrology,
The traditional Chinise medicine and music,
Military strategy and martial arts.
The magnetic river going through nature and mind
The powerful wizard from Magreb that in the book of one hundred and one night, arrive to China because he knows that there he can find the only one able to exhume the magic lamp, Aladin, and see the smoke become a genius as tall as the sky,
The world is made of correspondences, feels the wizard,
It is full of magical mirror where the small things are the key of the biggest.
In the Chinese calendar;
The sun is like fire
the moon like water.
The fire gives out light and the water reflects it
The armillary sphere and the music that sacred energy strike.
Laozi; author of the (Tao Te Ching)
The fire, the swords, the Dragons and Tigers.
The forgotten memory.
The secret mind.
All those things and thought had to be,
They had to be propitious to carry, in the course of time, your soul
Can you polish your mysterious mirror?
Let´s hear the echoes of your old master.
I ching- thought- in the dynamic balance of opposites;
The evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change
Chuang-Tzu dreamed he was a butterfly and when He woke up he didn't know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi.
Laozi -said- The name that can be named is not the real Name;
Free from desire, you experience reality; Trapped in desire, you see only appearances.
Fu Hsuan, thought, Riches and honour are the handmaids of disaster
Takakusu, wrote, stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand, pursue the light, and you will lose its source.
All are singing as moving music
They are dancing in the play of light and shadows, time and eternity
Heavy is the foundation of light.
Stillness is the source of movement. That is tao
They are talking, You can know the whole world without going out the door,
They are saying in secret tone;
Come into life, go into death.
Before you was born out of your mother, generations, thoughts, and an infinite civilization guided you,
Now you are visible,
in your place you stand with your robust soul.
and through your body, flows the universe.
La danza de los sueños
Cuando el hombre ha intentado dar una explicación del mundo que lo rodea surge el mito como una imagen palpitante de nuestro estado, un movimiento, un dibujo que representa lo incierto, lo problemático y cómico de nuestro estado, y es en éste humor en que surge el baile, la representación móvil de lo eterno, una forma de sentir el mundo, un estilo del vida, un acto que sublima a unos hasta el éxtasis religioso y enloquece a otros tras el hechizo de sensuales pasos y el turbulento movimiento de caderas.
Desde los más remotos tiempos, a trevés de geografías, religiones y filosofías, la danza ha encantado los sentidos y la mente de los hombre, incluso ha trascendido la humanidad, ascendido hasta las esferas sagradas de los dioses como un acto divino que simboliza el movimiento de la creación, la preservación y la disolución; Un ordenado ritmo que crea y rige las cosas, ya que la danza es en su naturaleza una cosa rítmica y repetida que vuelve sobre sí misma. El baile es el cosmos; Música hecha carne .
Si echamos una mirada a la historia veremos como el baile fue concebido como un principio creador del universo. De la pre-historia se han encontrado pinturas rupestres de hace más de 12.000 años donde se representaba el baile como un ritual sagrado, que gobierna el movimiento de las nubes, los cambios de las estaciones y es una forma de comunicación del cuerpo con el mundo físico y el mundo espiritual, como también lo hacían los chamanes de las tribus Colombianas en el periodo pre-Colombino. En India, entre el movimiento sensuales de pies y caderas encontraremos bailando al rey de la danza, Shiva, el bailarín Cósmico, fuente de todos los movimientos del cosmos; las pulsaciones de la sangre, los ciclos de las mareas, el despliegue de las flores, las vibraciones de la energía y el movimiento de las estrellas surgen de su movimiento divino. El propósito de su danza fue pensado como un medio de liberar los hombres de la ilusión del yo que refleja el mundo físico, ésto porque la danza induce al trance, al éxtasis y la experiencia de lo divino y por consiguiente, a la revelación de nuestro lugar en el cosmos. Desde las antiguas civilizaciones; Egipto, Grecia, Roma hasta nuestra América, el baile ha sido un acto de creación y recreación, capaz de transformar nuestras vidas.
Pero dejemos por ahora la historia, el baile sigue formando parte de nuestras vidas así como lo hizo con nuestros antepasados, es algo vivo y en evolución. Vivamos el baile en vivo, tomémonos de la mano y bailemos entre todos, descendamos a la temperatura de las calles y de los cuerpos en movimiento, al son de la música veremos cómo las diferentes formas de bailar pulen el lente a través del cual vemos la ciudad que nos rodea, ya que éste es parte de nuestra identidad, pasión y expresión. La música es nuestro espejo, el baile es nuestro reflejo.
martes
viernes
Go with the Flow
Go with the Flow
....or be the Captain of Your Own Ship, or whatever trips your trigger. Have a great 2010.
....or be the Captain of Your Own Ship, or whatever trips your trigger. Have a great 2010.
miércoles
Tawny Owl
Tawny Owl
Yesterday I went bird hunting together with Dennis Rademaker whom I met a month ago at the Veluwe.
Luck was on our side when we started off at the Oostvaardersplassen, a Nature Reserve in the centre of Holland. Upon arrival we were greeted by the most co-operative Buzzard I've ever met! Totally at ease and undisturbed, he even caught 3 mice while we were standing right next to him!
Next we got tipped off on the location of a Tawny Owl up north in the Netherlands and went looking for it. Guess it was a pretty wild idea to go driving 100 miles just on a vague description, but the fact that you are now looking at it, obviously means we found it :-)
Ended the day at the Veluwe to see the Red Deer, which completed a fantastic day.
Yesterday I went bird hunting together with Dennis Rademaker whom I met a month ago at the Veluwe.
Luck was on our side when we started off at the Oostvaardersplassen, a Nature Reserve in the centre of Holland. Upon arrival we were greeted by the most co-operative Buzzard I've ever met! Totally at ease and undisturbed, he even caught 3 mice while we were standing right next to him!
Next we got tipped off on the location of a Tawny Owl up north in the Netherlands and went looking for it. Guess it was a pretty wild idea to go driving 100 miles just on a vague description, but the fact that you are now looking at it, obviously means we found it :-)
Ended the day at the Veluwe to see the Red Deer, which completed a fantastic day.
Marine Turtle in Moorea, French Polynesia
Marine Turtle in Moorea, French Polynesia
Marine Turtle in Moorea's Lagoon. Shot with an Olympus 5050 in a waterproof case - no flash
Marine Turtle in Moorea's Lagoon. Shot with an Olympus 5050 in a waterproof case - no flash
martes
campanario
campanario
El sonido sacudiendo el silencio, llenandolo como ondas en el agua con tiempo, dramas y tragedias del mundo griego
El sonido sacudiendo el silencio, llenandolo como ondas en el agua con tiempo, dramas y tragedias del mundo griego
sacred fire
Quien mira el fuego, lo hace con un asombro, antiguo y sAgrado
Uploaded by glassysound on 22 Jun 09, 11.08AM COT.
Uploaded by glassysound on 22 Jun 09, 11.08AM COT.
lunes
The mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) in Glen Affric, Scotland
The mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) in Glen Affric, Scotland
Originally uploaded by David & Cheryl M
patience
wish i could look this good when i'm hungry...
this is a venus flytrap with its "mouth" open patiently waiting for an unsuspecting fly to be its lunch
this is a venus flytrap with its "mouth" open patiently waiting for an unsuspecting fly to be its lunch
Sarracenia flower without its petals
here is the flower after it had droped its petals of the pitcher plant that i posted yesterday . alot of people think that the pitcher is the flower, yet that is just for the plant to get it nutrients from digested insects.
the flowers are for pollenation, mostly by bees.
one of the cooler flowers to me
the flowers are for pollenation, mostly by bees.
one of the cooler flowers to me
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