Ways of reading

I came across Twyla Tharp’s ‘The Creative Habit’ while reading Tina Seelig’s ‘InGenius’ which I was reading for ‘A Crash course to creativity’.
Twyla Tharp is known as a dancer and choreographer. Terpischore is not the only muse that favored her. She is Clio’s darling too.
In the book Twyla refers to her reading as archaeological, reading back to the source. If you follow links then you are doing the same only to the degree of n, depending on how far you can afford to veer from what you are reading. And when you try to trace back in your head, the place where it all started you are doing another archaelogical trace.

PS: She has two other reading habits

“reading fat”
 We were put through a skim version of this in high school where we had to read the biography, books, awards of an author. In the Hindi book, we were asked to write a letter to the authority of the Golden gate Bridge. That postcard is going to take Forever to reach the concerned authority.
The Twyla’s whole version of it is where you read related texts, contemporary books, commentaries, writer’s letters.
To reach that 3% I watched a youtube video of Twyla Tharp’s ‘In the Upper Room’

Oxford English Dictionary
Terpischore is from Greek ‘delighting in dancing’.
Clio is from Greek ‘Celebrate’.

PPS:
‘The Upper room’ is the light form of Cenacle, where ‘The Last Supper’ happened.

What are your reading habits?

lessons

Your creative autobiography

Reading archaeologically
A plan is like a scaffolding
box it
20 questions
what leonardo da vinci knew about water

Daring in art

Mati rose blog

Brayering

When the painter puts all her techniques in one painting at the end, it still works. At that point, the placement of various techniques is one way to got to analyse the picture.

Resurecting human dignity

The World will follow the Joy by Alive Walker

The text has very few words on each line. It is distracting to put together the lines in head. The spaces do stop you to think of the poets need for them, impregnating each word with all the possibilities. The words like dry seeds that puff with the water of the space.

Word reaches us is a poem to Gabrielle Giffords after the shooting. A poet can speak to/for one. A poet can speak for masses(Sorrow song).

In May it be said of me, the 'men and women of this earth' makes me feel proud to be human.
What do I get for getting old a picture story for the curious

Why peace is always a good idea

6 daily habits for artists

banana bread and brownies from Beat it cookbook

The frame

sunset mag

Colouring tubs, decal print on laundry

The green tall frame.
What is it framing?
A frame is like a candle holder
Can a candle holder be the light?

An empty frame
like the glass and paper
slipped

The edges come together
enough to make the
empty space
veenrated

In poetry, what is the frame?
Title?
Have you read the poem with only title?
Space?
Alice walkers space lends to
possibilities of the word on line


Title is like the wall
In 'Moose has Loose poops'
illustration and text meet in
the hang of a tablecloth
Space if frame makes
prose poetry the
frameless painting

In Blueprints, the narrator
'wanted to build a room
around a painting'...'a painting of a woman
adjusting a wall to suit a painting'

The green tall frame
is the painting, and the emptiness
the frame adjusted to suit the painting.

Maya Angelou writing, lying on the carpet, a stack of cards dealt out.

Speaking, Writing

Judy Carter's blog

Appearing on NPR

6 days to giving a ted talk or any inspiring presentation

Safety and Design

In Because I said so, author Ken Jennings writes about 'never play around refrigerators'. It takes us back to the time when refrigerators had a mechanical latch. Now they have magnetic door seal. Thanks GE.
Its always a terror when kids go to the back of the refrigerator where they are placed in the open nstead of the corners that are specially located for the appliances in the US. The way, the stove,oven, fridge and all are attached, you would think the kitchen was born with them.
 Refrigeration safety act

What passed down?

10 pieces of wisdom from Because I said So

Some more myths and their truth

Remember the movie Running with Scissors? I never saw it. I didnt know that never run with scissors is an expression. A warning. An admonition.

I remember a friend telling me of an incident where heir son was bleeding an the father held the baby's head back. Ken Jennings, the author of because I said so says not to lean the head back when the nose is bleeding, as it wont stop the bleeding and will force the blood to take other paths like throat or esophagus.

Puzzles and creativity

The cover of the book Imagine has paper quilling.

Benefits of travel

The book has stories of mask tape, barbie, 3M products invention.

Flip Flap fun

Fish Follies (Flip Flap Fun Book)

The page is divided into boxes of flaps. Its fun even for adults to open the flap and compare the top and underneath the flap to reveal an event, a story. It works as find the differences as well as providing a dynamic into the picture with an event happening instead of just the missing or addition of a person or object.

A book with word diarrhea

The book is colourful. You can easily get lost in the details of a Moose's house - A toy bear lying on wheels. The story beats around the bush for a long time. But the things  going for this book are the illustrations - if this is your first time into a Moose's house, you will wander in the house, the text is placed on a table cloth hang on one page. Thats good use of space.

While reading the book, I realised why the pediatrecian has it in her office. It has a doctor in it, where the moose's mother calls in. Knowing the author is an MD, it all falls in place, why the informational - what is diarrhea translate into a captivating story.

Conciseness is Walt disney's cinderella book with about half a dozen pages.

Grandma and her pet

Looking at the pictures, you cant but notice grandma's colourful clothes and her colourful character. The grandchild's voice is prominent even with just his shoes showing beneath a curtain when they play hide and seek.Grandma appreciates the grandchild's baking skills even if the muffins turn out hard even for a hammer. This is shown in a thought bubble. 

Grandma's pet bird too takes part in the chaos.

daily connoisseur

New research into babies and their comprehension of intention