SEA

What if we trun the sea upside down... will we be able to see the bauty that lies binieth the sea?

There's no more rabbits in my hat...

I remember once i've written a fairytale about the most optimistic super hero in the world. He was "Mago" he was so tiny that thumbelina looked like basketball player in front of him.. Mago had this special power to turn things upside down with a really simple procedure he used to visit people enter their heads and just make see things upside down, with this way he could make ugly things look beautiful and generally fix things when fairytale has gone bad....

the day i will stop trying is the day i die.

Once upon a time in a classroom there was a Philosophy instructor that appeared in front of his students holding a big box made of paper. Without speaking pulled out of the box a vase made of glass and started filling it with pebbles. His students were looking at him really wondering what he was up to. When the instructor realized that the vase couldn't afford any other pebbles asked his students: “Do you think this vase is full?” Then the students with one voice responded: “yes it is full”

He smiled at them he then pulled out from the box a small bag containing smaller pebbles and started putting them into the vase after putting enough of these little pebbles inside the vase he asked again his students: “Is the vase full this time” the student once more replied to him: “Yes it is full”.

The Instructor smiled again without speaking and he pulled out of the box a small bag with sand, he then started filling again the vase with the sand and the sand filled all the gaps that the pebbles and the smaller pebbles have left, when the vase couldn't afford more he asked once more his students; “Is this vase full?” the student this time thought of it a bit more but after a while they again replied to him: “Yes it is full”

The Instructor pulled out of the box two bottles of Beer and started filling the vase with beer again the liquid filled all the remaining space there was left in the vase , the Instructor then asked the students: Is this vase full? The students laughed and said again “Yes this time is full”

Ok then says the Instructor; I now want you to think that this glass vase is your life. Big Pebbles are the most important things in your life, like family, friends, home, health, children… things that can make your life look full even if there are no other things in your life. The little pebbles are all those things that keep coming in our lives like studies, work, our flat, our car these are small things if you put them first in your vase there will be no room for the bigger pebbles the important things in life. The sand is everything else a nice dinner, a big travel, dancing, watching sports.. if you put the sand first in the vase there will be no room for either the pebbles nor the little pebbles. The vase is your life if you spend your time and power to the unimportant things you will never find time for the most important things in life.

Put your priorities in life separate which things are more important for your happiness. Talk with your parents, spend time with the one you love, take care of your health, and enjoy time with your friends. Eventually you will always find time to study, acquire knowledge, buy a new car pay the phone bill, but first you need to take care of the big pebbles the priorities in your lives. The Students were speechless and staring the instructor. Until one of te students asked him “Sir, what does the beer stands for in our lives” then the instructor smiled at him and said: “I'm glad you ask this question, no matter how full your life is, no matter how stressed you are in life, no matter how difficult life treat you there will always be a room for a couple of beers. Cheers.

follow the signs...

THANK YOY THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

I would like to thank..
Cinderela, Clio, Popo, Gema, Niki, Fri, Joao, Mira, Angie, Coche, Barbara, Pavlina, Selinko, Maria, Claude, Timothy, Tiago, Julia, Pilu, Erian, Victoria, Lily, Meme, Virginia, Ksn, Darinka, Stelios, Sarah, Milica, Stella, Peterpanic, David, Atir, Christina, Julia, Soli, Shiranui, Frankie, Gonzalo, Jay, Omar, Babak, Engin, Noor, Saisoi, Laura, Poison, Alex, Ruxy, Saubiya, Andres, Edmond, Seem, Xuanluiz, Mirac Efe, Kawthar, Mona, Anke, Cigdem, Cecilia, Patricia, Sherif, Claire , Larisa, Gic…. And everyone else who helped me in my research and took some time to respond, you are all Fantastic Thanks.:-)


It was really interesting to hear many points of view for our question!

we are....

the time is now!

There are two distinct views on the meaning of time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured. This is the realist's view, to which Sir Isaac Newton subscribed.

This text above could be in way a definition of time. I believe that time can be directly related to the question “Can anything be beautiful?”

One of my favorite quotes says that:

Yesterday is a History.
Tomorrow a mystery
And today is a gift... that’s why we call it present.

So the best way to answer this question is to set the time to “now”.
Many of you might remember the amazing & innovative trilogy of the 80’s “back to the future.”
In that movie Marty McFly and Dr. Emmet Brown (doc) had traveled through time. They actually decided to move forwards to 2055 if I remember well. When they arrived In the future they realized there were a few bad characteristics in their lives needing change. Although by the end of the 2hour movie they were able to return to the present(mid-eighties) and lay the foundation for the necessary changes, they realized that the insights from this journey were a bit overwhelming and somewhat disappointing.

For an imaginative example of how important the present is, Michael J. Fox and cast give a nice depiction. The present, or living in the now as people like to say, is the only opportunity we will ever have to make something of this very moment. Now that it’s gone, rest assured that another opportunity is coming right NOW.
Since we have established our mania with the Now, in considering the question “Can anything be beautiful?” our answers will change from this.. moment to this.. one. If for example we put the word NOW after the question (Can anything be beautiful+now?) then the answer is definitely a big ugly NO! Everything has a beautiful and ugly side to it. When something’s ugly side is brightly shining through it may have potential to become beautiful, but until it does make that change it will still be ugly. At this very moment a caterpillar may have the potential to become a butterfly but until it does it is only a crawling worm.

Now is where everyone says that “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder.” My response is that each beholder lives in such a different environment their eyes have been trained to see their version beauty. A fly sees a pile of manure as a treasure hunter sees a mountain of gold. If everything is beautiful now, then this world would be the most boooring place in the universe and the author of this blog would be following Frank to see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. The antithesis of what is beautiful and ugly creates the fascination we have with what is happening now; life.

If however speak about seeing the future, and as a destination we are headed to “Anything can be beautiful” then we should be aware that the most beautiful part would be the journey; the journey of making anything beautiful, the metamorphosis of a potentially beautiful vision, idea, thought, event, occurrence…. And Now is your chance to take action and make anything beautiful ;-)

Failure can be beautiful!

As times goes by and the bad deadline is approaching faster than a speeding bullet. I have to post about the failures. What i did was to send emails asking an answer to the Question "Can anything be beautiful?"
The Vast majority responded me that they can't help me (for many reasons) and some but few didn't bothered answering me at all.


So here are my failures:
Philippe Starck,
Pixar,
U2,
amnesty,
greenpeace,


Moreover i tried to tried to communicate directly with lot of famous people by inventing imaginary email adresses:
bill@whitehouse.gov, ceo@microsoft.com, stallone@yahoo.com, tonyb@yahoo.co.uk, paris@hilton.com, mickey@disney.com.. and many many more... the result was a complete failure but in the end i found it funny.. & beautiful

:-)

Anything is...

As i promised here i wrote down some thoughts on what is anything... soon i noticed that anything is anything that exists in my world in your wourld and in everyworld of every universe of every every....... so Can anything be ( )? the answer is YES!

Juxtaposition by un Genio!

Here is an interesting article I found about a famous and well respected Artist. For me a Genius; Signore Leonardo Da Vinci!
Very few artists other than Leonardo appear to have felt a life-long need to articulate their ideals of beauty in drawings, along with seemingly endless variations on the theme of supine ugliness, and certainly none did so with comparable persistence or coherence of vision. As the great master's words intimate, 'beauty (bellezza) and ugliness (brutteza) appear each more powerful when seen in contrast, one with the other'. (1) In his conception of the 'ages of man', Leonardo would often juxtapose the ideally perfect beauty of youth with the grotesque deformity and decay of old age, because--as he inscribed below the sketch of an old hag--'a beautiful thing that is mortal passes and does not last'. (2) Between the late 1480s and the late 1490s, Leonardo's preoccupation with the human face (its proportions, expressions, and deterioration with age) resulted in especially penetrating physiognomic studies, and the sum of these drawings--which are notably heterogeneous in style and medium, for here one needs to think broadly about content, and include, for example, the pen and ink grotesque heads, as well as the chalk studies for the apostles in the Last Supper--appears to indicate that Leonardo had arrived at highly cogent, unified theories about gesture, some of which he probably covered in his lost treatise on painting and human motion. (3) In his role as a theorist of painting, Leonardo repeatedly stated that the two most formidable challenges facing the good painter were the portrayal of man and the intentions of the mind; in his lost Libro A of 1508-10, he had variously called the latter the 'passioni dell'anima', the 'accidenti mentali', and the 'moti mentali', and the very eclecticism of his vocabulary seems to indicate that he was both relying on different sources and returning to his own previous ideas, the earliest of which he may have formulated in 1490-92. (4) It is clear, therefore, from both his drawings and writings that the concern with the physical and psychological dimensions of gesture was a lifelong preoccupation.
A memorable and groundbreaking exploration of this aspect of Leonardo's work was provided in the recent exhibition, 'Leonardo da Vinci: The Divine and the Grotesqque', selected by Martin Clayton from the unparalleled holdings of the six hundred or so Leonardo drawings at the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. (5) As a scholarly contribution to the vast field of Leonardo studies, this exhibition was remarkably innovative in conception, and treated the material with extraordinary intellectual elegance. It displayed a number of drawings by Leonardo that have either not previously been exhibited, or very rarely so (for example, nos. 10, 11, 23, 49, 57, 67, 68-70, 75), and made the kinds of imaginative visual connections across themes that very much embody Leonardo's own method of drawing by analogy and permutation. The exhibition brought together seventy-six drawings (one, hors catalogue, RL 12576) that were arranged in eight sections designed to highlight the various dimensions of Leonardo's thought. In this regard, the visual experience of the display may have had a greater clarity of structure than the fine, accompanying scholarly catalogue. A monumental sheet in pen and ink of around 1478 (no. 1), portraying ideas for a nursing Madonna and Child with the infant St John the Baptist, along with numerous sketches and doodles of heads of men, women, and animals in profile, served as a centrepiece of the exhibition; it helped illustrate in germ form many of the recurrent themes in Leonardo's work over the next forty years of his career. An introductory section of thirteen drawings (nos. 2-14), entitled 'The divine body', cast a wide conceptual net over a great diversity of endeavours. (It is worth pointing out that 'divine' is not a term Leonardo himself used in describing physical beauty or bodily perfection.) Here represented were Leonardo's exploratory drawings of the body, whether human or equine, and these also included a variety of different drawing types (studies of anatomy, proportion, and of purely artistic intent). Although it perhaps wove together a few too many strands with an insufficient number of examples, this section on the 'divine body' provided, nevertheless, an entirely necessary springboard for the more integrated display of drawings that followed of Leonardo's ideal types of women and men, of bodily and facial expression (as was magnificently evident in the studies for the apostles in the Last Supper), of grotesque facial deformity, of portraits, and of the magical transformations from real to imagined creatures. A section on 'Fantasy and costume' (nos. 62-75), which included a number of Leonardo's designs for courtly spectacles, provided an arresting finale for this well-thought-out exhibition.

"Everything is Beautiful"

Worn out, wasted
Like a bird with broken wings
Sometimes grace reminds me
I don't get to be the king

But love it washes over
Love it pulls me closer
Love it changes everthing

Everything is beautiful
Even when the tears are falling
I don't need a miracle to believe
Even in the crashing down
I can hear redemtion calling
And everything is beautiful to me

Sweetly, You release me
From the weight of what I've done
The trigger trips the hammer
But the bullets never come

And love like a landslide
Like the wind
Spins around me pulls me in
At it's unveiling, I begin


Starfield

Any.. what?

Many people say that making the right questions can lead to the right answer..

"Can anything be beautiful?" is an intriguing questions that generates many other small questions like what is Anything? what is beautiful? how can anything be beautiful? what does the writer want to say... and many more questions of this kind. However the first most important question that needs to be answered would be...
What is anything at first place...
Thinking of this question "What is anything?" i decided to present my perception over "Anything..
Anything is Everything, Can be a single thing, why a thing, it's unexpected, does anything includes the unknown as well, anything is anything, it is any-thing, includes feelings, nature and everything in between... anything is so weird that can be anything...

So what i'll do is to write on a white page, what is anything..

Any given Sider.

I don't know what to say really.
Three days to the biggest battle of Wk Side.

I'm in hell right now, mister believe me
and i can stay here
and get the shit kicked out of me or i can fight my way
into the WK side.
One post, at a time.
The answer I need is everywhere around me.

On this blog, I fight for each post On this blog,
I question myself, and everyone around me for that Post.
I can CLAW with my fingernails for that post. Cause i know when I
add up all those posts that's going to make the fucking difference
between Qualifying and failing between being a Sider and not
Now I can't make you take me……

Doodling-- With Art Vol.2

Martin Creed is an English artist noted for his works which hark back to the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s.
BBC asked Martin a similar question to ours;

Can anything be Art?

The answer is definitely yes! Anything can be art absolutely anything! Because art can be made out of anything wood, plastic, paint, it doesn't matter!
When you learn about art for the first time you learn about the art that people consider to be very good art. If that happens to be painting then it's easy to then consider that art needs to be paintings or paintings of a certain kind but that's just what certain people think or many people have thought over a long period.
Something is art if you think it's art, anything can be an artist experience.
Like if you are walking down the street and you see something. I have those kind of experiences all the time, which for me are like little moments of art. And they aren't even being made by anyone it might be something you see on the street... like someone walking along or like the shape of a shadow against a tree... or just like a feeling.
I don't think there are any rules... I don't think anyone knows the answers to these questions about art that's why it's such an exciting thing.

Anything can definitely be art!


And here is what happens when Art become Beautiful...


Can Anything Be beautiful

The answer is definitely yes! Anything can be Beautiful absolutely anything! Because Beauty can be made out of anything day, people, nature, it doesn't matter!
When you learn about beauty for the first time you learn about the beauty that people consider being very beautiful. If that happens to be a girl then it's easy to then consider that beauty needs to be women or women of a certain kind but that's just what certain people think or many people have thought over a long period.
Something is beautiful if you think it's beautiful, anything can be an beautiful experience.
Like if you are walking down the street and you see something. I have those kind of experiences all the time, which for me are like little moments of beauty. And they aren't even being made by anyone it might be something you see on the street... like someone walking along or like the shape of a shadow against a tree... or just like a feeling.
I don't think there are any rules... I don't think anyone knows the answers to these questions about beauty that's why it's such an exciting thing.

Anything can definitely be beautiful!

Doodling-- With Art!

My thought here was to replace the word art with the word beauty! I think that the outcome is quite interesting...

Isn't it nice when we DOODLE?

Here is the original text:

Today the questions What is Art? and What is an Artist? are not easily answered.
According to William Rubin, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "there is no single definition of art." The art historian Robert Rosenblum believes that "the idea of defining art is so remote [today]" that he doesn't think "anyone would dare to do it."
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, states that there is "no consensus about anything today," and the art historian Thomas McEvilley agrees that today "more or less anything can be designated as art."
Arthur Danto, professor of philosophy at Columbia University and art critic of The Nation, believes that today "you can't say something's art or not art anymore. That's all finished." In his book, After the End of Art [see BIBLIOGRAPHY], Danto argues that after Andy Warhol exhibited simulacra of shipping cartons for Brillo boxes in 1964, anything could be art. Warhol made it no longer possible to distinguish something that is art from something that is not.
What has finished, however, is not artistic production, but a certain way of talking about art. Artists, whoever they are, continue to produce, but we, non-artists, are no longer able to say whether it is art or not. But at the same time, we are no longer comfortable with dismissing it as art because it fails to fit what we think art should be (whatever that is).
We struggle with this because we have been taught that art is important and we're unwilling to face up to the recently revealed insight that art in fact has no "essence." When all is said and done, "art" remains significant to human beings and the idea that now anything can be art, and that no form of art is truer than any other, strikes us as unacceptable.

DO DO Doodle...

Most of the times beauty is in our hands, we humans have the power to change ugly things and make them beautiful, we humans have the ability to make anything beautiful, or better make something that in our eyes looks beautiful. Just imagine a white piece of paper and a marker, now imagine that this plank page of paper is life and the Marker is the ability we have to create beautiful things... or even change ugly things and turn make them beautiful. Is this ART? this is some kid of ART and many people believe that art...is associate with beauty.. so what about "DOODLING"

Can anything be beautiful???

Well... sometimes we need to change our point of view? Don't We??

Beautiful...

Is beauty something to be observed coolly and rationally or is it something dangerously involving?

What?

Dostoyevsky once observed that "beauty is the battlefield where God and the devil war for the soul of man". In History of Beauty Umberto Eco provides an historical context to how that battlefield has changed over the past 3000 years or so.

GREEN LIGHT!

Good news for this Blog :-)) deadline extended to 30th of March.. which makes 12 days...
And that's the second part of this blog....
Loads of things to do... loads of ideas... Let's GO!


"Can anything be beautiful?"