Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
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Waking Life (Movie)



It’s impossible for you to grasp Waking Life without actually watching it, but I’ll do my best to explain it. The ‘plot’ centers around lucid dreaming with the main character floating around dreamscapes having incredibly interesting conversations with strangers about a variety of topics.

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استدراك - أحمد مطر

تَخَلًّفتُ عَنِّي.
كثيراً كثيراً تخلّفتُ عَنّي.
تَناهي التّباعُدُ بَيني وَبَيْني
إلي حَدِّ أنيّ
أُضِيءُ طريقي لِشَمسِ اليَقينِ
بِعَتْمةِ ظَنّي!
وأُطعِمُ نارَ الحقيقةِ
ماءَ التَّمنّي!

تَخلّفْتُ عَنّي
لأَنّي تَوقّفتُ أَبني
كِياني وَكَوْني
علي كائِنٍ لَمْ يَكُنِّي!

وَإذ لاحَ أَنّي
بَنَيتُ السِّنينَ علي هَدْمِ سِنّي
تَلَفَّتُ كي أَطلُبَ العُذْرَ مِنّي
فَما لاحَ مِنّي خَيالٌ لِعَيْني!

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سَفَعْتُ وُجوهَ الصُّخورِ
بنارِ المعاني
فَلَمْ تُعْنَ يوماً بما كُنتُ أَعْني!
وألقَيْتُ بَذْرَ التّعاطُفِ
فوقَ الهَوانِ

فَلَمْ أَجْنِ إلاّ ثِمارَ التَّجني!
وأَحنيتُ عُمْري
لِتَعديلِ سَمْتِ الغَواني
فَلَمْ أَلقَ مِنهُنَّ غَيْرَ التَّثنّي!

أَمِنْ أَجْلِ هذي الغَياهِبِ
أَحرقتُ فَنّي؟
أَمِنْ أَجْلِ هذي الخَرائِبِ
هَدَّمتُ رُكني؟

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أَمِنْ أَجْلِ هذي الدَّوابِ
التي تَحتفي بالعَذابِ
وتبكي بُكاءَ الثّكالي لموت الذِّئابِ
غَمَسْتُ بدمعِ المواساةِ لَحني؟!
إلهي أَعِنّي.

أَعِدْني إليَّ.. لَعَلَّ التّسامي
غَداةَ التئامي
سَيغفِرُ للرُّوحِ جُرْحَ التَّدَنّي.
أَعِدْني..
لَعَلّي بنَشْري أُكفِّرُ عن كُفْرِ دَفني.
وأَلقي بذاتي
بقايا حياتي

فأدنو إلي نَسمَةٍ لم أَذُقْها
وأحنو علي بَسْمةٍ لم تَذُقْني
وَأُغْني دَمي وَحْدَهُ بالتَّغنّي.
سَأُغْني دَمي وَحْدَهُ بالتَّغنّي.

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talisman-Suheir Hammad


it is written
the act of writing is
holy words are
sacred and your breath
brings out the
god in them
i write these words
quickly repeat them
softly to myself
this talisman for you
fold this prayer
around your neck fortify
your back with these
whispers
may you walk ever
loved and in love
know the sun
for warmth the moon
for direction
may these words always
remind you your breath
is sacred words
bring out the god
in you

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Art and Artists are two different things!

"This is a post from deep within"

I often wonder about the conclusion or the consequence I will get from writing all those thoughts down on my blogs. I often confuse writing my own thoughts with writing thoughts that would address humanity in a way that is unforgettable, with feelings that are palpable and words that are thinkable. I never got to experience the importance of my writings two years from today; every word was a mere consolation to my own struggles, or shall I say, simple experiences.
I think the first thing that tugs every artist into that precise kind of art is the self-struggle they are put through along the phases of their lives. There is always a need to run away from everything, to find shelter and a beautiful escape into something - and then the escape becomes the addiction, the habit, the talent. Everything then takes a path that we all know: casual pieces (either in music, writing, painting or drawing..etc) that are shared only on a personal level. And then things go step by step until you find yourself unable to be extremely happy UNLESS you're doing your own special art. It's a cure, but only if you know perfectly well how to take advantage of that.
Then you get to a point where you suffer with your incapability to create -- another phase of life probably interferes with your artistic thoughts, and then you either become numb, or you become so miserably exhausted from all the attempts that are left on your desktop or your folder as drafts. Too many draft. Just too many that you sense failure dragging you downwards, though inwardly, you're hysterically addicted. Still are.
This is the point I need to talk about the most in this article; the point where you start questioning your own talent and whether or not it's doing people any good.
Does your music inspire people to write more purposeful lyrics to be sung?
Do your portraits speak about something beautiful God has created, for people to ponder, deeply?
Do your writings hold ideas that can change the world in a way, or lessons and stories that let people know they are never alone? That we're all in this together and all we need is to understand that our thoughts are just about the same in different minds?
Let's face it, many of us never had these purposes when we started loving that artistic difference within us. Perhaps none of us now thinks they can truly, thoroughly change the world with some mere artistic piece. But you know, you can only achieve what you really believe in. Or say, what you really fight for before death's visit, let's just not be idealistic here.
For now, please remember that your art isn't yours, or let's say it's not yours alone. Your art is for the whole world, even if you think it's awful. The way we have different tastes is the reason why artists are still creating, because some people will loathe them, other people will fall in love.
Please right your purposes if they're wrong, or create them if you only use your art for your own consolation. Please put in mind that your art is an important factor in the lives of others. Compose lovingly. Portray inspiringly. Write wholeheartedly.
On a final note, never forget that you're a great source of inspiration to everyone, even if you don't get to see that. Here is me telling you.

Inspire on!


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Modern Art - Impressionism

The impressionist style of painting is characterized chiefly by concentration on the general impression produced by a scene or object and the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light.

Impressionism is a major movement, first in painting and later in music, that developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Impressionist painting comprises the work produced between about 1867 and 1886 by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques. The most conspicuous characteristic of Impressionism was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour. The principal Impressionist painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, and Frédéric Bazille, who worked together, influenced each other, and exhibited together independently. Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne also painted in an Impressionist style for a time in the early 1870s. The established painter Édouard Manet, whose work in the 1860s greatly influenced Monet and others of the group, himself adopted the Impressionist approach about 1873.


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Freedom Tunnel



The Freedom Tunnel
is the name given to the Amtrak tunnel under Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York City. It got its name because the graffiti artist Chris "Freedom" Pape used the tunnel walls to create some of his most notable artwork. The name may also be a reference to the freedom one may find in this tunnel, the freedom to live unobserved, the freedom to create artwork, and freedom from rent.
























Often, the artwork is centered under the light giving the space the feeling of a chapel or great cathedral.


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Stolen Quotes from songs

If I told you things I did before,
Told you how I used to be,
Would you go along
with someone like me?
Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John

You were never supposed to leave,
Now my head's splitting at the seams
Radical face - Welcome home

Would you always? Maybe sometimes?
Make it easy? Take your time
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear

Isn't life under the sun just a crazy dream?
Isn't life just a mirage of the world before the world?
Stillness of the move - Dirty projectors

All the words are gonna bleed from me
and I will think no more
And the stains coming from my blood tell me to go back home
Seven Nation Army - The white stripes

You are not ill and I'm not dead
Doesn't that make us a perfect pair?
The Modern Leper - Frightened Rabbit

You're resting on your laurels and
stepping on my toes
Whose side are you on?
What side is this anyway?
Moth's wings - Passion Pit

Success is so forbidding
But it makes me think I'm winning
Over and over again (Lost & Found) - Clap your hands and say Yeah

All your diction dripping with disdain
Through the pain, I always tell the truth
Oxford Comma - Vampire weekend

There were always golden rocks to throw
at those who admit defeat too late
Postcards from Italy - Beirut

People, they don't mean a thing to you
They move right through you
Just like your breath
An Honest mistake - The Bravery

It's bugging me, grating me,
and twisting me around
I'm endlessly caving in and
turning inside out
Hysteria - Muse

Source : Jonk Music
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Dwell in thought..





























I thought this photo is breathtaking :)


"If you’re feeling frightened about what comes next… Don’t. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness. Don’t waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present - each moment as it comes - because you’ll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart, where your hope lives. You’ll find your way again…" -Julia Brown, Everwood


"Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears." -Khalil Gibran
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Imagination means Responsibility

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin
Being a reader, I thought writers were so very lucky, they got the whole dictionary of feelings and sentiments in their own hands, striving to create, from their imagination, into the real world, an image that comes to life as the reader goes by. But being a writer, I envied readers, because they take what I never took, each time they read something they thought they understood in a way, next time the interpretation will most probably differ, while mine..it stays the same. However, I carry the responsibility of writing what I am writing, now, and every single day I write, and if you think about it..it's applicable to every kind of art.
You can never really run away from responsibility, if you want to be an artist, you have to be responsible because the whole world will be watching you; scrutinizing, criticizing, doing everything they can to find your flaws-oh and you thought it was easy!
What's written never really dies with time unless you choose to kill it with your own weakness..but once it had its effect on somebody-and I mean negative effect-know that YOU are the one carrying this burden. I'm often picky when it comes to writing, especially articles, because whenever I want to waste someone's precious time on reading, it should be worth it, at least the idea, even if I'm the ugliest writer in the whole world.
Most people in our society think artists are dreamy, unreasonable and idealist. Despite the fact that all artists search for perfection and immortality-or at least most of them-if you're not being dreamy, you're not being reasonable; it only means you're unimaginative and ungifted, and we all know everyone's gifted until they stop to think.
Bottom line is: If you want to be gifted, you have to be responsible, every beautiful thing can get ugly because you never knew how to take full advantage of it, and your gift isn't yours, don't be selfish for it all will come down on you. Speak to the world while you create!
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The Art Of Barbra Kruger

She has some nice stuff, Some would say they're average, I say they're not that easy to perceive.
Here we go: