Imagine
an empty space
in the mind,
the future
awaiting our arrival,
pristine,
bracing for all things archival.
See
clear plexiglass spaces,
an open mind
not to be cluttered
by preconditions,
empty
of hackneyed renditions.
Recognize
new concepts,
well-edited files,
a clear state of mind,
careful unpacking and stacking,
order,
moving forward not backing.
Cherish
blasts of fresh air,
the unexpected,
the joy of each new day,
brand new compartments to fill,
unusual,
fresh opportunities of free will.
Treasure
legacies of centuries,
historic memories merged and converged,
ideas and thoughts intertwined
bursting to re-enter the scene
reinvigorated,
awaiting the moment to intervene.
Be Thankful
for all your abilities,
the past that has shaped you,
friends and family who care for you,
a spirit of adventure to fill your new spaces,
optimism
to be off to the races.
Welcome
the avant garde,
the new and unknown,
spaces left empty,
room to grow,
freedom,
random seeds to sow...
in the future of the mind...
Words come alive when answered in kind.
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Is it too late to move in? I've been watching the tower grow and I think it's marvelous.
Love Joan
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Hi, Joan. They are all posted on the "tower"s site. I saw you had visited, but not replied in "Reservations," so I assumed you didnot want to join the tower crowd. Hugh had not stopped by, so I sent a note to visit if he would like to be included. Well, that did not turn out well, as I took his comment about wanting to keep his feet on the ground as a polite "no," but that wasn't a No he said! Men!
He thought I was speaking of making an avatar. Most of the people who replied had been reading my work for a while and knew all about the plexi towers that I listed in author's notes.
But for all of my new Hugeunauty friends, I thought I'd best leave a clue to the previous piece, so you'd know what I was
talking about.
Now, for a solution. If I had to letter on the drawing, it will only be on the original. I used text to get Hugh's name in after the fact---as you can see in "Impulse, Desire, Obsession."
It took forever, as someone keeps changing the site. First
code works, than paste, then code. Was tearing my hair.
I think what I'll do is add it to the black and white,
or, if anyone else comes along, add an annex!!!
I'll see what I can do!
What do you think? Put it on the black and white.
The ones here are the test postsd as I had Moony on the phone helpingme decide which ones to use as the color added wasn't scanning well!
If you go to "Impulse" you can see them all.
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I thought the same as Hugh at first but watching it grow has been amazing. I know that I can see the names better in black and white, but then at my young age I guess it's to be expected. I'll have a look at the colored ones and look at impulse.
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I'm posting it now. Had a few tech problems!!!!
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I love it ...
1st ly the drawing which I can appreciate fully having just gone through the likes of learning 1 point and 2 point perspective and then your poetical words lining up down the screen form a whole new perspective that was welcomed by my mind and agreed upon whole heartedly!
I counted that to be a 7-point perspective with lots of windows to peer into. Well done my new friend. j
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Right, your recent experience, keeping
all the rules in mind, both to follow and break.
Further down the page, explosions of color
in varied versions of that space into which
the mind may move to seek the future.
Thank you, Joy!
Aesthete
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Awesome.
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Hey Aesthete -- thought you might get a kick out of this:
My immediate boos, the dept. head, is leaving and moving to California. Today is her "going away" luncheon. I've only been here a month or so, but she is cool and I hate to see her go, but move on into the future she must. We've been chatting a bit about "follow your bliss" etc.kind of thinking. She's been interested, and worried that she's making the right decision. She has an engineer father and a strict academic background, and I've been racking my brain to think of a present. Nothing, nothing, nothing. (A bag of Hershey
s Bliss chocolates...) But I trusted that an idea would [resent itself. And sure enough, I had a 5 watt light bulb moment, that has turned into a krieg light event. I am happily copying and compiling some of your work and will make her a book/card thingy. Hope that's ok by you.
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Perhaps a few camera shots of the finished project??????
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Very cool! I applaud your ingenuity!
(Try Ghirardelli 60% cocoa dark chocolate chips,
the answer to all stress!!!!)
(Pat, pat on the back!!!!!)
Aesthete
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Imagine... I'm having to clean some clutter out of mine to make room... lol... ni
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Hi, Carma!!
But you have been so good with that recently!!!!!!
So nice to see you here!!!
Aesthete
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This reminds me of the Bill Murray line in "Stripes."
"BLOWN UP, SIR!" as to where Master Sargeant Hulko
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well, you know how much i love this. fyi- i have been helping move some projects by architectural students to the archives, and i ain't seen nothing like this!!! i think i'll just print a copy for inspirational purposes.
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Hey, PJ!!!
I was hoping you would pop in again to see these.
It's so much fun to get the effects without redrawing and redrawing and redrawing! By a combination of reversals, and using the focus feature to apply the efffects to individual areas, the composition can grow and vary in each area, achieving somewhat a center of interest within the subtlety!!
Inspiration? Ah, that is a nice thought!!!!
It still overwhelms me, thinking of the time it would take to create multple images like this without the
technology we know have a mouse click away!!!!!!!!!
Must be enjoyable, getting to see all that student
work you are filing away.
Take care!
Aesthete
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Beatiful condo. Do you have architectural experience?
Lee
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Hello, Lee.
The experience---teaching perspective to my art students!
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Like the "YOW!"
Glad you got to see them, PJ.
Not Wright-like, but trying to make their own staement,
the structures.
M-C
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Oh my, this reminds me of the scenery of the silent film Metropolis. Or maybe infrared, if you look closely that lighter section denoting heat, that is me hiding in a closet trying to drink my Moxie and eat my Needhams (A primarily Maine candy, I think) in peace.
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Why does that seem so probable---Yem finding
a spot in the setting for himself and his Moxie,
and Needhams, too? I am learning so much more
about Maine than I ever learned from Jessica,
the Doc and the Sheriff! Oooooooo, does that imply
my knowledge of Maine is mainly derived from TV and
the internet? Let's say those sources broaden and
enliven the knowledge sources!
M-C
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Quoting PJ:
"Hey, I found an elevator for the cloud condo."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFmCxPCmdFw&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNK8yNCXXx4&feature=related
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Repeating the link from PJ
so it doesn't get lost in the clouds.
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Attempting to envision
the soft glow of
the meditation zone
in the right brain,
the auto-artistic area.
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Ooooooo. Lots of eye/mind candy. I like the red one, with the inner glow of soul the best, I think. The one in the brown frame would look nice on a wall. Oh, the purple. I like. But my mind is screaming for symmetry.
The multi-level Trump Tower version is great, reminding me that there's plenty of room.
And the best is that in visiting again I get to read the poem again. It is a mind-fully helpful little thing.
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A companion piece to the red zone with the moon-soul.
Perhaps it can hang on the wall!
Another read, another day, another breath of fresh air
to remind you a another brand new 24 hours, another
compartment awaiting your concepts for the future.
Just for you PJ!
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Hey, I found an elevator for the cloud condo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFmCxPCmdFw&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNK8yNCXXx4&feature=related
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Waaaaaaaaaaay cool!
Sending a long distance pat on the back
for finding that moving illusion.
Don't you like how it travels horizontally
as well as vertically, like a geometric
roller coaster, only less scary!
Just viewed the second one---mesmerizing---
rather like a thought process that just keeps
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Yes! As one who doesn't like roller coasters, I think this one moves at just the right speed. We can go anywhere inside the cloud condo without even having to walk!
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AAAAAaagghhhh! I get sick on the merry-go-round!
This looks moderate enough for me, too!
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this almost sounds like a shamanic journey ...
my brain is still shortcircuited from the shamans-gathering here, so my words won't make much sense, I'm afraid ...
I love your poetic suggestions though ...
and I love the fact that there are no doors between the condos ... no neighbors going to bother me if I play my drum too loudly ...
you'll soon have a huge waiting list for your psychadelic space-tower ... or was it all in my mind ?
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Indeed, all in the mind.
If we think it,
so it shall be,
an open mind
the future to free.
If we could only
do it with that ease!
I hope you will be writing about the gathering.
Take care,
M-C
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I HAD TO RETURN AND COMMENT
ON THIS ONE AESTHETE
THE FIRECHARGED SPARKS OF THE BRAIN
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THE GREEN INNER GLOW OF THE PASSION SOUL
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Moony, I almost dubbed it
a "moon-soul"---but then
thought I'd save that concept
for another day and time!
Nice to see you stop back!
Love and hugs,
M-C
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Yay for hospitality suite! Great colors. Packing -- do I need a key?
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Note: no doors. This is for the open-minded!
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Because my original intent was to create
an imaginary new compartment of the brain
to house elements of the future, I purposely
did not put in access from one space to another,
no stairs, no doors. Thus making necessary
some form of transcendental meditation to move
from one storage compartment to another!
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That gives it the MC Escher look. mmmm. That's why it has a meditative, transcendental feel. Love it more. Must move in.
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I've got more in the works...ready to input
to photobucket.
I have MC Escher prints taped on my bedroom door
and wall. If only I had that discipline!
Somewhere back in my work there is an Escher
print as illustration and reference to the work;
it was spawned by a comment to a piece by
HopeWithWings, a very talented young writer.
Just getting the hang of the new program.
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wow --this double-take is especially interesting. Almost like looking into a store window.
(I wish I had some shelving like this...)
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Hard to draw nonetheless. When looking at the original, under the title, I first thought of Frank Lloyd Wright. It looked like a glass building. But it was the later models that seemed more like shelves. Hmmm. Not just a morphing of the image, but a morphing of the subject itself.
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Aha! Three magic words---Frank Lloyd Wright!
Was captivated by the style as a very small child
when my mother took me to see an FLW residence
right atop Lake Michigan, and then the marvelous
pillars of the S.C Johnson building.
Wisconsin does have first claim on Wright.
The possibilities of adjusting the original drawing
seem endless. I had to help it along by making
of copy, cutting it out and pasting it upside
down on a copy of the original drawing.
But I still have not determined what happened
in Corel that the scanned image is cropped
where I don't want it to be. The original
had "cloud" forms at the top and bottom, so
to be reversible. But most was cut off.
When life surrounding me gives me time I must
figure this out.
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Yay for Frank Lloyd Wright. (I've done a small bit of research on him, and knew one of his students -- one of his favorites!) In the movie The Lakehouse, the grouchy old father is actually supposed to be FLW. The Lakehouse is, of course, all glass.
However, the problem at hand is what was Corel thinking...I'll be troubled by this all day
I need those clouds!
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Aesthete, just wanted to let you know that I enjoy this and have come back to read several times. It captivates me, both image and poem, and engages my thought processes in a refreshing and clear manner. I will be back reading this again. I appreciate where your creativity takes us ~
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PJ, so nice to read your words.
Happy you have revisited
and that it appeals to your mind.
I am most appreciative of your comments.
To create is joy in itself, but to take
others along for the ride is indeed
artistic satisfaction!
Aesthete
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You have such great visions for us to see.
When mind works, it produces creative outcome, like what you did. Then you vision something in there...like seeing what it can be...the future as you foresee.
Great work, Mumsy! You're the best.
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Thank you, dear summer.
The mind does like to create,
to envision what might be.
I've been caught up in
life surounding me,
sharing the tiredness thing,
getting zapped really easily!!!
Mumsy
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It's like unfolding layers, breaking walls, letting all be open, clear inside. Only then we can see how true the light that shines upon us is. We can't have intervention of positive lights if there is presence of opaque walls between us and us.
I still wonder what comes first, the drawings or the poems...or if they come hand in hand.
Both show your talent and perceptive mind.
You are good M-C!
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Mari, you shine the light
with your interpretation--
lovin' it! You open further
the translucent walls
"between us and us."
The drawings first, for they
are harder, can be messed up
so easily. The words float around
until the drawing is finished.
But I can't really think about
the words until fingers are
on they keys, or they will slip
away into the great beyond!
The words behave, obeying the keys,
lining up at my command.
LInes, especially pen lines, are
their own master or mistress.
Pencil, of course, is more acommodating.
But the "story" is not complete
until the conversation occurs,
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"I can't really think about
the words until fingers are
on they keys, or they will slip
away into the great beyond!"
That is how it works for me too!
Can't start lines in my mind
they become diffuse, out of shape
and end by getting lost amid so many thoughts.
Only when I hold a pen, or see the words
I seek smiling at me from the keyboard
only then, that specific thought
transforms into words.
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Right! Sometimes the pad of paper next to the bed
has rhyming words scribbled on it.
Hah, as if I will remember later
where they were going!!!!!
I need instant transcription--
brain to keys!
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PS The illustration is excellent!
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Thank you!
I resisted adding stairs or inter-access between
the compartments to reinforce the concept of
separate cubbies.
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I like this
This has a Zen feeling, the "beginner's mind", which is empty of preconceptions and thus ready for a clear sight. You inject hope and excitement, with "a spirit of adventure to fill your new spaces" and so many phrases where the worn-out ideas and habits have no place. I like the heading lines, you set up and explain the ideas so that we can follow thoughts easily.
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