This is a piece of art! Sensual. Provocative. Beautiful. Elegant and Seductive.
Woman as Perfection incarnate.
From my friend Polly, the director and magnific eye for ecstatic beauty.
Delight of Perfection HD | Polina Rabtseva (by Polina Rabtseva)
Creative routines from brilliant geniuses. Daily rituals to increase creative flow
The place for containment and protection. The spot where “I am presence” lays. The center of the heart, the beginning of the breath. Where the soul merges with the body.
(via Anatomical Collages by Travis Bedel | Colossal)
“How do you imagine our relationship to scent will evolve?
I think schools should have new disciplines dealing with the amazing software we have on our bodies: our senses. We’re learning how to see and how to hear, but we don’t learn how to taste, how to smell or how to touch.
Sissel Tolaas, scent curator”
Sissel Tolaas: The Science of Smell - NOWNESS
via Nowness
Scent curator, researcher and “professional provocateur” Sissel Tolaas is currently exploring the aromatic potential of bacteria in her ongoing investigation into the most mysterious and evocative of our senses. Raised between Iceland and Norway, for a decade Tolaas has called Berlin home, where she has been building an extensive and ever-growing library cataloguing different smells—now over 7000.
Paintings by João Figueiredo
via But does it float
The Art of Transformation at the Asian Art Museum. A retrospective of the evolution of yoga in visual culture. Highly recommend it!! I’ll be sharing some pieces with you. Follow #artofyoga #yoga #yogahistory #artoftransformation (at Asian Art Museum)
'The Science of the Interior'
Have you ever imagined what is happening inside of your bone structure while you are practicing yoga?
This video is a beautiful representation of the inner subtle movement of the bones and the vertebras while a body practices Yoga Asanas.
The rad (short for radiological) folks at Hybrid Medical Animation have developed an incredibly awesome way to see how our leg bones are connected to our hip bones, making it animatedly beautiful with yoga in motion. Imagine an instructional app to teach adjustments to yoga teachers/ students?
This weekend I’m going on a creative Pratyahara Retreat: Unspoken. Two days of silence, yoga, meditation and painting.
Pratyahara is the 5th limb of yoga and it is concerned with taking us from the outside to the inside, with withdrawing the senses, so that the yogi, like an inner-naut, can travel within and find the Self.
Pratyahara is built brick by brick through yama niyama, asana and pranayama, then utilized in dharana dhyana and samadhi. It is the fifth petal of yoga, also called the “hinge" of the outer and inner quest. It is the pivotal movement on yoga’s path.
In Sanskrit, pratyahara literally means “to draw toward the opposite”. The normal movement of the senses is to flow outward and this limb is concerned with going against that grain.
Pratyahara is mano-vrtti nirodha, it directly works from the mind like a pneumatic tool to cut its outgoing habits by changing its direction to penetrate inwards towards the core.
Withdrawing the senses helps us come into the present moment without any filters, that is what Pattabi Jois meant, to come to a blank state where there is no projection, where we simply are.
Pratyahara is a culture on the mind. As I see it is a “new wiring”, a creation of a new habit of sorts where we change directions as the attention constantly goes out and we rein it inside.
Pratyahara has to be firmly established on asana and pranayama which disciplines the organs of action, perception, and mind.
“Dessert can be excess or antidote, solace or provocation, a stampede of the senses or a tickling of the mind. Rarely is it all at once.”
Seventh Sense (Excerpt) / 第七感官 (五分鐘版) (by 舞蹈劇場安娜琪)
This is one of the most amazing live performances I’ve seen! Defies time and space and every dimension. The improvisational dance in contrast with the hyper modern projection mapping is superbly executed!
KINECT | PROJECTOR DANCE (by PrinceMio)
Yesterday, Carson and I did our first motion sensor art installation. We projected a point cloud demo of the visual field of the table at a dinner we hosted for MIT Media Lab. This was for sure an inspiration for us. And this is just the beginning of a new period of our creative practice, where we are starting to play with motion sensors, wearable technology, kinnect, led lights…
The first air show at the Grand Palais in Paris, France. September 30th, 1909. Photographed in Autochrome Lumière by Léon Gimpel.
via Pamela Hernández
Thanatology is the scientific study of death. It investigates the mechanisms and forensic aspects of death, such as bodily changes that accompany death and the post-mortem period, as well as wider social aspects related to death.
Photo: Enrique_Simonet_-_La_autopsia_-_1890
My new sounds:
Suddhosi Buddhosi (original song by Shimshai).
It is time to return to our purest essence, our purest truth and singing is one easy way to get there///
Suddhossi Buddhossi Niranjanosi
Samsara Maya Parivar Jitosi
Samsara Svapanam Traija Mohan Nidram
Na Janma Mrityor Tat Sat Sva Rupe
You are forever pure, you are forever true
& the dream of this world can never touch you
So give up your attachment & give up your confusion
& fly to that space that's beyond all illusion.
