Femme Touareg

By: Pascal Maître

The Virgins

One week of Danger:

The Feeling Good Handbook

Read the cover. Do you have anxiety? How about depression? Overcome it and enjoy greater intimacy, hahaha. No, for real though. This man works wonders. It's a great book whether you have these issue or not. You can hone in on your cognitive thoughts. It really helps you understand the physcology of your mind. It is written by David D. Burns, who happens to teach at Harvard.

Jasper Park

By: Lawren S. Harris

The Glove

The glove from Bewegtbildarbeiter on Vimeo.

I can really associate with the message in this piece. Youth, Selfishness, Mind Games. Ay Carumba! This short movie is based on the story "the glove" from Friedrich Schiller and was directed by Henning Backhaus, who also made the nice piano music.

Paint Horse

Project Pedal

This is the first episode in the Documentry feature Project Pedal. This is a great, inventive chronicle of stories that I have had the pleasure of running into. Mike Ambs is the creator, and this is the mission statement as seen on the website ProjectPedal.com:

This documentary - tentatively titled 'Pedal', will bookend with the Pacific and Atlantic oceans... anchored to a small group's cross country trip and focusing on the inspiring people that cross their path.

Each week a vlog will be posted that will share stories from these people met along the way - as well as the main cast and the occasional behind-the-scenes footage. In the end, the bi-product of these vlogs will be used for a feature length documentary.

The end-goal of this project, both in it's vlog and documentary form, is to share people's reasons and motivations behind their trip. Most importantly to share what makes or drives a person to leave everything behind and to understand what they each take away from this overwhelming and painful journey.

I think I like this one the best, all though I prefer and suggest you watch them in order:

Episode Seven: 64 Days - Part 2 from mike ambs on Vimeo.

Building Bridges

The New York Philharmonic was recently invited to play for the country of North Korea in February 2008. This is a monumental event considering the fact that North Korea and the U.S are still at war; The end of the Korean War was brought about by an Armistice, not a peace treaty. The Orchestra opened with the Star Spangled Banner, and played songs that covered some of the great Western composers including:

George Geshwin- An American in Paris

Antonin Dvorak -"New World" Symphony No. 9

The crowd was appreciative but largely unmoved in my opinion, that is, until the last song was played. The final encore was the Korean folk song Arirang, and it sent a swell of emotion through the previoiusly stale North Korean audience. I think this is very appropriate seeing how the song Arirang is about two people, a man and a woman, who are separated. It is a love song of a dancing girl from Miryang who was left behind by her lover from Seoul. She is calling him to take her with him to Hanyang. Could there be a correlation between the song and the U.S./ North Korea relationship?? Who knows? But I do think that it is a testament that the first olive branch sent in a long time was through song. The arts can be a powerful thing.

Here is a video of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra playing the Korean folk song Arirang:

Grazzi Leonardo!!

These images might help explain the the name I have chosen for my blog:








These images are based on Leonardo DaVinci's theory that everything esthetically pleasing follows a certain mathematical formula. When viewed, the human brain registers anything that follows the guidelines of this mathematical formula (Golden Triangle, Golden Ratio) as beautiful.


Pictures courtesy of MathemiticiansPictures.com

Here's To My Maiden Voyage

My hopes in starting a blog are to be more aware of the world's great achievements and the people who are responsible for them, as well as, obtaining a better understanding of what this small, azure, rock in the Milky Way galaxy has to offer. Salut!!