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Cinema &Music Entropy | 21 Aug 2010

Steinway’s Master Tuner

” I sense that the instrument is alive – that when I listen closely for nuance and tone, the inanimate world of strings, wood, pins and steel comes to life. When I honor the piano’s vitality and complexity, I can’t tell whether I am playing the piano or it is playing me.” –Michael Jones A [...]

Cinema &Philosophy Entropy | 21 Oct 2009

Where the Wild Things Are

Psychologists and philosophers tend to gravitate toward very different views of conduct and whether we can truly say that there is such a thing as character. Read this profound & insightful essay by NYT Columnist David Brooks.. Where the Wild Things Are In Homer’s poetry, every hero has a trait. Achilles is angry. Odysseus is [...]

Theme

One of the attributes that makes us human is that we try to make sense of things that don't make sense. We often impute order where there may be none...

These traits occasionally can lead us to form conclusions that don't correspond to reality ..

Poetry & Entropy

If you ask me what my poetry is, I must answer : I don’t know but if you ask my poetry, it will tell you who I am -- Pablo Neruda

Passion

The voice of Passion is better than voice of reason. The passionless can not change history- Czeslaw Milosz

Reflection

To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight--and never stop fighting. -E.E. Cummings

Thoughts

I should not talk so much about myself if there was anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. - Henry David Thoreau

Conscience

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. -Madame De Stael-

Connecting the dots..

marie on Culture of Words
NImesh Dadia on Escher for Real
Parul Doshi on Escher for Real
Marie on Escher for Real
Rajesh Kothari on Escher for Real
Michele Roohani on Escher for Real
Priya on Drawn to New York
NImesh Dadia on The History of Typography – Animated Short
Michele Roohani on The History of Typography – Animated Short
Marie Ancolie on The Idea of Maintaining Symmetry Seems Romantic
Max Babi on The Idea of Maintaining Symmetry Seems Romantic
Marie Ancolie on The Idea of Maintaining Symmetry Seems Romantic
Jenna Timmons on Architect of Photography
Marie on Architect of Photography
Michele Roohani on Architect of Photography
Michele on Manhattan of the Mind
Rajesh Kothari on Perspective in space
max babi on Perspective in space
Sujit Patwardhan on Pieces of Life
marie on Let your longings breathe

Art

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. -Joan Miro.

What you may wish to read

Beauty

“Beauty is something to be found, rather than passively encountered” -- --Alain de Botton