Quote for Today: Alexander Lowen
We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we …
Quote for Today: John Holiday
There are Navajo teachings about how a car works. This vehicle is very much like a horse, operating on the same principles. The automobile is considered more “intelligent,” and we …
Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a …
Living Dots and Glorious Dust: The Human Form Revealed in Unnamed Soundscape by Daniel Franke
Daniel Franke is an artist, designer and music video director who seeks to combine digital art with reality and thus extend our understanding of the world in which we live. …
Re-imagining Movement and Growth in the Sea: Hinode by Tetsuka Niiyama
The sea is full of movement, from the motion of small rocks, seeds and other particles carried by the water to the growth of plants and animals. The impressionistic film …
Startled by a Flock of Birds: Houston Ballet’s Murmuration
Sometimes we are stunned into silence or provoked into outbursts by an image or a sound. Why does this happen? This weekend I was excited to attend the Houston Ballet’s …
Quote for Today: Frank O’Hara
I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute …