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 a-STOUND-ing watercolor and pen work by Rio Nanami There is N33N to be seen, as well. "In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, Pablo Amaringo, a former vegetalista (Amazonian shaman) discovered painting as a way of expressing his visionary experiences while using the fabled plant medicine, ayahuasca. Inspired by the brew, he developed techniques to teach painting to others, especially children, and established the Usko-Ayar school. Usko-Ayar (Usko in Quechua means 'spiritual' and Ayar means 'prince') was set up in the summer of 1988 with some financial aid from the Finnish Government when Pablo Amaringo decided to transform his home into a painting school. Here, several dozen young people and children receive instruction on painting, drawing, speaking English and an appreciation of the rich botanical diversity of the jungle." Citizen Kubrick: Jon Ronson was invited to the Kubrick estate and let loose among the fabled archive "Somewhere else in this house," Tony says, "is a cabinet full of 25,000 library cards, three inches by five inches. If you want to know what Napoleon, or Josephine, or anyone within Napoleon's inner circle was doing on the afternoon of July 23 17-whatever, you go to that card and it'll tell you." "Who made up the cards?" I ask. "Stanley," says Tony. "With some assistants." "How long did it take?" I ask. "Years," says Tony. "The late 1960s." Kubrick never made his film about Napoleon. During the years it took him to compile this research, a Rod Steiger movie called Waterloo was written, produced and released. It was a box-office failure, so MGM abandoned Napoleon and Kubrick made A Clockwork Orange instead. "Did you do this kind of massive research for all the movies?" I ask Tony. "More or less," he says. "OK," I say. "I understand how you might do this for Napoleon, but what about, say, The Shining?" "Somewhere here," says Tony, "is just about every ghost book ever written, and there'll be a box containing photographs of the exteriors of maybe every mountain hotel in the world." T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi trance music from Asheville NC ...and some jazz trance from Poland ...plus all sorts of new music from Stellar Regions which reminds me of the official John Coltrane site that I just found out about. Farm Security Administration + Office of War Information photos, 1935-45 Marion Post Wolcott, who had worked as an FSA photographer ...and a decent list of contemporary and historic photographers, just for perusal And then there was the apple that I ate this morning. Contemplating its texture and recursive speckling, I thought of how we need to treat the things of the Earth well... because they will treat us (sustain us, nourish us) in a similar fashion.  Let me back away from Intelligate for awhile |
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