It's the full moon tonight, the first one of Spring 2013

It's the full moon tonight

Moon Magick

Going all out on the tambourine





Bake A Cake Inside An Egg


Interesting to check out all the expensive stuff, the rich people's CraigsList is called
JamesEdition

Something interesting to think about:
How do you think you'd react if you met yourself?




So cool. Mapping the connections artists had with others.
MOMA has this cool website where one can click on an artist's name and see the names of people with whom they were connected.




My Tibetan teacher, Geshe Ngawang Dhargey made me memorize this sentence in Tibetan:
གོམས་ན་སླ་བར་མི་འགྱུར་བའི། །དངོས་དེ་གང་ཡང་ཡོད་མ་ཡིན།
Transliterated it says: 
gom na la war ming gyur way ngo day gang yang yeu ma yin.
It means, basically: There is nothing that does not become easy with familiarity.
It is from one of my favorite Buddhist texts, the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra, written by Shantideva about 700 AD.


Some vintage illustrations and ads from hprints

Henri Matisse 1943 Jazz, Le Cheval, L'Ecuyère, Le Clown

                                                      Pavel Tchelitchew

Pavel Tchelitchew

Pavel Tchelitchew

Ruth and Henri collected Pavel's work during his lifetime and after.

Pavel Tchelitchew

at work in his studio

All of these paintings hung in their apartment in the Dakota

where they famously entertained.

Hmmm. My sympathy to the daughter, Shelley. I can only imagine what kind of painful life she endured.

When Ruth Ford, the late actress and wife of Hollywood star Zachary Scott, died last year at age 98, she left behind two apartments at the storied Dakota building at 1 West 72nd Street — to her Nepalese butler. Her will, accepted last month in the Surrogate’s Court in Manhattan, revealed that with the exception of her clothing and costume jewelry, Ford’s entire, $8.4 million estate has been turned over not to her daughter, Shelley Scott, or to either of her two grandchildren, but to Indra Tamang, the butler, cook and caretaker whom she employed for more than 30 years. 

In South Asia fish traps are woven out of bamboo. When they are taken to market to sell on bicycle they look like this

Three bicycles loaded with bamboo fish traps leave Tat Vien village in Vietnam's northern province of Hung Yen.

Japanese condom ice cream and other meanderings

So funny. Two girls wonder what the heck Japanese condom ice cream could possibly be.

A marvelous website, Cinephilia & Beyond archive. A treasure trove of videos, audio, pictures, behind the scenes info, all kinds of good stuff about movies, actors, directors.





Inspiring the energy and vigor of this young baker. Beautiful, intense craftsmanship.
Makes me extra thankful for the bagels, croissants and non-factory made bread I love so much.



Watch 60,000 Bottle Caps put on a wall in 2 minutes. Love the music, Music for a Found Harmonium



Unbroken seal on King Tut's tomb. However the tomb had already been entered by robbers.

Love these fun anatomical cutaway images of Kaiju monsters. A whole collection of them here as well.









Whoa, who knew World War 3 could have happened in 1983? Yikes.
Soviet officer who 'saved the world from WWIII' gets Dresden Peace Prize

 Stanislav Petrov

So interesting, churches in Ethiopia carved out of a single stone. The churches of Lalibela.

Over 1000 recordings of music from the San or Bushmen people in the Kalahari now available on the British Museum Sounds website.

10 Most Devastating Homemade Street Drugs

Whistled language of the island of La Gomera (Canary Islands)


An example of the whistled language in La Gomera.


Whistling Languages in Kuskoy, Turkey

Washington, D.C., circa 1910. "King of Cardonia" is the caption here, perhaps the name of a play. [Update: The correct spelling is "Cadonia"; the play ended its D.C. run in January 1910.] Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

How big is the moon comparison