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Bitchin’: Life Lessons

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About me

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mundane and meaningful

What inspired me to create today

Sometimes we see a photograph of some dunes in Africa and we think that the splendor of such  a photograph is its exotic quality. I think more important than exoticism is significance – what it signifies to the artist and then to the viewer.  I love the captures of  mundane [...]

Underwater Garden

Don’t let a couple of cubits of water get between you and inspiration

Sculptor Jason Taylor has begun what he hopes will be the world’s largest underwater scuplture garden. 400 statues of human figures have been erected thus far in a national park in Cancun. Some of the [...]

Diplomacy in One Frame

Everything is Illuminated

Obama welcomes Indian PM Singh to the White House

By AP/Susan Walsh. This picture is so good. Not a thing astiring. All attention fixed the guest of honor. Even the much lauded Mr. Obama looks reverent.

Art Trips

Tim Burton Collection

It’s getting cold out. In Washington DC, it sometimes rains for an entire week during late Autumn. What is an art-geek to do?

Art Trips

NY – MoMa is going to set up a Tim Burton retrospective of his works, paintings, photos, storyboard and stories. According to the New York Magazine, his films [...]

Art Review: A Crutch is a Ladder

La vida es sencilla, somos quienes la complica. La belleza tambien es sencilla, somos quienes la ensucia. He encontrado a un fotógrafo completamente original y su originalidad se debe precisamente a que haya sabido coger en las manos la belleza sencilla. Completely unostentatious, I give you Chema Madoz, whose name reminds me of Mago de [...]

Flaunt your dark secrets

Dark Corners

- What’s the place like?

- Good. Good. Full of dark corners for doing dark deeds. – Love Actually

Last night we went to dinner at Saigon Bistro, a little DC gem of a Viet restaurant, conveniently off the Red Line metro. I am addicted to their food especially the shrimp vermicelli. As usual, the food [...]

Flaunt Your Little Triumphs

Progress

…is made by putting one foot in front of the other. Sprinting is enticing to me, you get a rush and it comes fast. I sound like I regularly strap my arm down and flood it with an exciting elixir.— But I mean all that metaphorically. I am re-learning what it is to be not [...]

Written in bricks

Nature, in every way, inspires us. Louis Khan apparently said that “to express…give presence..we must consult Nature.” Because we need only follow Nature’s design and we will find where we should put this piece and that piece. Perhaps writing is like that too.

” Even a brick wants to be something,” Kahn said. “A brick wants [...]