Magazines

I am trying to read atleast one volume of a magazine when I can get hands on a different one.
AZ hitchingpost
Leo Camarillo

Alley Cat Mews

PETA Vol 3, 2013

Prospecting and Mining Journal

American anti vivi section society and National Anti vivi section society

Born Free USA

Well Done Abba

Well Done Abba.
The first frame of the narrator explaining the whole movie to his boss is a way of adding peels to a story.

Wild Reader

Reading in the Wild by Donalyn Miller
Presentations and forms
Preview stacks

What is a poem?

Reading these Pi lines, I felt the poem after line 2.

Officen cube wall joke

Emergency: Take the Stairs

Unity of Theme

Reduced to Joy by Mark Nepo

Made from bone
Poems for Women
Coiled pottery in To Speak of Storms
The Law of Spirit
Without knowing - A love song
Leaving
The Throat of dawn
Discernment- Watching in the wild
Paper boats and At the end of the field
Walking Together. I have grandma's box with cloves in it. Mom, I am your memento.
The Promise of the Inner world
Transformation
Reduced to joy

I have never read Mark Nepo's work before.
In 'Transformation' which begins with 'It could be the letter never answered' or in the eponymous poem - 'We never know when we will blossom into what we're supposed to be. It might be early. It might be late ..', its like the Russian Roulette - Joy can hit you any time. The joy of being human. A person in any walk of life can relate to the poems. There's spirit, love, bliss - Top human needs.
Our planet, needs this book to Calm.

Birds going Northwest

Going home
were birds in a long line
very few in a V
the ones at the back
broke the line
sticking out in twos
like they had something
to say to the one behind them
like the backbenchers

Food Habits and Culture

Number of food decisions per day - 200

Postal office

How and why Postal savings system was started in Britain.
Night mail movie

Birds

On today's birdwatch I saw some Ring- necked Duck.

I was quick to point that I ave never seen them before. But my birdwatching book with a tick mark on th Ring Necked duck says otherwise.

The book also says that coots make 9 nests before moving into one. they must get their building permits very easily.

Saw some burrowing owls too. A housing project for the burrowing owls.

On a dry patch of land there were many killdeer.

They all started flying away and some issued calls. It was in reaction to appearance of a Northern Harrier.

In no time, a killdeer was back to tapping the ground to whip out bugs.

Next to the park was a field and I couldnt help wondering of the different birds in the field. I was told that they would be different from the natural habitat birds. I repeated that abert Towhee's can only be found in the Sonoran Desert, thats when I was told that Mojave Desert, Chihuahuan Desert were all different because of their different rainfalls and temperatures. And that Antarctica is a desert.

Salt mine

After a long time, I went birdwatching. I brought up canary in the mines in a conversation and heard of Salt mines in Kansas. How now they send water into the mines and then dry the pulled out dissolved water to get the salt.

To the asleep in 1997

Hong Kong Art: Culture and Decolonization

If you have been asleep or ignorant of what happened to Hong Kong in 1997 and you want to see the expression of the transition of the 'handover', then pick this book.

The book begins with the paintings of Luis Chan very reminiscent of the 'see if you can find the nine faces hidden in the figure' followed by sculpture by Antonio Mak in whose works you can see 'verbal associations'. This binding of words with works is prominent in art from the places known from calligraphy like China and Arabia.

The next chapter deals with display of feelings of the people through the temporary 'The Wishing Star' . Many artists expressed the onset of uncertainty in different formats - video, installation.

Public Art is well described. The rise of installation art in the Art Space exhibition is studied too.

Sep 14, 2006

True Painter of the Modern Age

This book contains art by Rackstraw Downes which is more likely to be taken for photographs than the paintings that they are. Now, these are not still life or portraits of people but very common urban landscapes and waste lands. The book also has a section by the painter himself on some of the difficulties faced by artists when the vertical angle seems to change over a wider or deeper view.

Is Modern art representative of our age? What tools of our age can be used to truly stand for its time? Jackson Pollock,master of 'drip' technique feels,"The modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any past culture". Downes with his technique of painting what he sees, has expressed modern age with the tall buildings,metal bridges,expressways and cars in a very realistic way like a camera would.It would be unfair to compare a painter with a camera.The book has well organized material on the differences in art by a realist and what a photo can hold.

The book also has references to the work of many other artists like Jonathan Borofsky(Molecule Man), Eva Hesse, Brice Marden and so on.

Sep 4, 2006

Talking to the readers

The appeal of Stendhal's 'on love' is that it is written in a very fact style than fiction and yet interesting. This is a book in which the writer is busy writing to the reader and not lost in the craft of making characters.

His concept of crystallisation is interesting to read on and not very difficult to identify with if you have reached the fifth stage of life successfully.

We all run after happiness, but he questions its definition.

Love in various countries is so strikingly different. Stendhal has brought out that difference clearly.

With such good description on the stages of love, one is left wanting more on 'Remedies Against Love'.

July 31, 2006

Infoteresting

'The Creating Brain' by Nancy C Andreasen is about creativity, the person and the process involved. Nancy also talks about how creative people have a certain personality which could affect their mental behavior.

The book starts with how most creative ideas sprang into the select minds while in 'bed, bath or bus'- Kekule, Archimedes, Poincare in the order for their situation.

The chapter on five creative persons gives a first account of the creative person at their act.

A very interesting chapter of the book is the one in which Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo are studied to see how nature (Genes. The concept of 'Hereditary Genius' and Francis Galton's contribution of Scatter Plots and Unique finger prints theory , his misused theory of eugenics was interesting to know) and nurture(the need for a mentor) are both part in bringing about a persons creativity to light.

The last chapter deals with how to build a better brain with exercises like learning something new everyday since its associating different domains which has been seen as a bed for creativity, active reading with a list of books for children of different ages.

June 18, 2006