Thursday 26 January 2012

Compassion - an infinity of teaching in a short piece

Abraham Menashe - outstanding 'humanistic' photographer

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Today someone, Abraham Menashe, changed my life in his introduction to 'humanistic photography' - about the 'changing' more later.  

The words of his introduction to his flip-book were if anything more impressive than his impressive photography - see  HERE  - read through to the end of the short introduction.

His books are HERE


 

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Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable - 7 tools to help shut it down.

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You may remember that there was a time when apartheid in South Africa seemed unstoppable.

Sure, there were international boycotts of South African businesses, banks, and tourist attractions. There were heroic activists in South Africa, who were going to prison and even dying for freedom. But the conventional wisdom remained that these were principled gestures with little chance of upending the entrenched system of white rule.

“Be patient,” activists were told. “Don’t expect too much against powerful interests with a lot of money invested in the status quo.”

With hindsight, though, apartheid’s fall appears inevitable: the legitimacy of the system had already crumbled. It was harming too many for the benefit of too few. South Africa’s freedom fighters would not be silenced, and the global movement supporting them was likewise tenacious and principled.

In the same way, the legitimacy of rule by giant corporations and Wall Street banks is crumbling. This system of corporate rule also benefits few and harms many, affecting nearly every major issue in public life. Some examples: 

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Split -screen: a love story - a great vid on Vimeo

Wednesday 25 January 2012

Monday 16 January 2012

"There is nothing so mysterious as a fact clearly presented." - Lisette Model

CRI 11274 GOWIN, FRIEDLANDER & CALLAHAN: The Model Wife (2001)Maria Friedlander, Southwestern United States, 1969

II. Lee Friedlander (b. 1934)

Lisette Model said, “There is nothing so mysterious as a fact clearly presented.” Lee Friedlander’s photographs are both clear and mysterious.

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Wednesday 11 January 2012

Science and Spirit - Prof Rupert Sheldrake

The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry, By Rupert Sheldrake Independent review by Colin Tudge

The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry, By Rupert Sheldrake

 

Science is wonderful and necessary - one of the great creations of humankind. Most importantly, it is helping us to see just how extraordinary life and the universe really are, far exceeding the unaided imagination even of the greatest poets. At its best, too, science lives up to its own mythology: a disinterested, self-effacing search after truth, carried out by people of humility in true generosity of spirit. As a fairly considerable bonus it has led us to create a wide range of "high" (science-based) technologies that have improved the lives of a great many people, and have the potential to help all humankind and our fellow creatures too.

But alas, in large measure, science and the idea of it have been seriously corrupted. That some of its high technologies are not in the general good is all too obvious – although it isn't always obvious which ones are and which ones aren't. Even more to the point, and in some ways more serious, is that science all too often becomes the enemy of what it should stand for. Although it must have rules and methods – in particular, the ideas of science must be testable – it should be open-minded. It should go where the data lead. That's what the myth says it does do – but the reality is very different.

Click here to read this review

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Tuesday 10 January 2012

Zen Art: Water Speaking Water, - YouTube

Zen Art. Photographed by John Daido Loori Roshi among the rivers and streams of Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, NY, this video reflects on ways of seeing water, attempting to go beyond appearances to capture the direct experience of water in its myriad manifestations.

Words by Zen Master Dogen.

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ZEN PHOTOGRAPHY, John Daido Loori Roshi of Zen Mt. Monastery, NY

Monday 9 January 2012

Vivian Maier, Photographer Extraordinaire - wonderful presentation of her life as a first-person narrative

So beautiful - a true homage to an extraordinary woman and the story of her new beginning.

Worthy of BBC Radio 4 at its very best - I would love to hear it broadcast and/or televised in the UK.

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Thursday 5 January 2012

One of the world's great photographers, Carol Guzy - Pulitzer-Prize Winning Photographer for the Washington Post

US troops occupied Haiti to restore order after a military coup. Guzy was covering a pro-democracy march when a grade went off. "The mob was about to tear apart the man they thought had thrown the grenade," she says. "The soldier had pulled him out and definitely saved his life. I had fallen to the ground and got this shot looking up at the action."

Editor's note: This slideshow contains some graphic images.

 She had just returned from family leave to her job as a photographer for the Post. Her mother was suffering from Alzheimer’s, and Guzy had been by her side in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. “I promised her I would help her through the journey,” Guzy says. “If it had been anywhere but Haiti, I could not have considered going. But I had to.”

She packed in 20 minutes, hitched a ride to New York with AP photographer Gerald Herbert and Post reporter Mary Beth Sheridan, caught a flight to the Dominican Republic, and made her way to Port-au-Prince. “It was a surreal scene,” she says. “To see places I had been so many times, with people dead under schools, palaces, churches, apartments.”

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