THE Ⓓ∆☾❂☽

Learn what you fear, then make love to it - の▲☯

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:04:00 +0000

Beauty

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:01:00 +0000

Throwback Manny

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Tue, 03 May 2011 03:52:00 +0000

(( ))

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:25:00 +0000

Real Eyes Realize Real Lies

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:50:00 +0000

Japan Tsunami

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:53:00 +0000

FOR MISHA and FOR JAPAN.

Music by Bei Bei & Shawn Lee.

The Golden Rule

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:39:00 +0000

The Golden Rule in Various Religions

Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. Matthew 7:12

Brahmanism (Hinduism): This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you. Mahabharata 5:1517

Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. Sunnah

Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. Udana Varga 5:18

Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary. Talmud, Shabbat 31:a

Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. Analects 15:23

Taoism: Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. T'ai Shag Kan Ying P'ien

Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good: for itself. Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5

Inner Strength

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:11:00 +0000

MISHA!

[painting for Misha completed a few days ago]

Sun Ra: daO

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:03:00 +0000

El mundo es justo un circulo simple

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:49:00 +0000

yo navego mi barco de papel

el mar esta hecho de fuego

monto mi caballo de tuercas y tornillos

estamos hecho para nunca casarnos

el mundo es justo un circulo simple

tengo que dar las vueltas

hasta me acabe

arriba de una montaña

dentro de nuestra roca

yo finjo como soy una isla

en vez de carne y hueso

el mundo es justo un circulo simple

y siempre se da las vueltas

largate, no puedo soportar a ver tu cara

porque has visto el lado mio mas debil

y ahora sabes que soy simplemente humano

en vez de todas las cosas

que me gustaria ser

el mundo es simplemente un circulo simple

i just put in google translate into this website ---->

it's really amazing to me.

i put up this poem i translated while I lived in South America

from a Gil Scott song I was listening to over and over.

I wonder if my translation makes any sense.

Thrift Store Projects 2

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:34:00 +0000

I wanted to do something for my parents house.

I got this piece of wood for $6.

I thought it would make a nice gigantic keyholder,

for when you walk out the door.

BEFORE

AFTER

♔ ♕ ♚ ♛

Amel

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:59:00 +0000

Pisces.

Tribe

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:03:00 +0000

Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or new ways to act. This invention cycle occurs most effectively when the practitioner has a thorough intuitive and technical understanding of the necessary skills and concerns within the improvised domain. Improvisation can be thought of as an "on the spot" or "off the cuff" spontaneous activity.
The skills of improvisation can apply to many different abilities or forms of communication and expression across all artistic, scientific, physical, cognitive, academic, and non-academic disciplines. For example, improvisation can make a significant contribution in music, dance, cooking, presenting a speech, sales, personal or romantic relationships, sports, flower arranging, martial arts, psychotherapy, and much more. Techniques of improvisation are widely trained in the entertainment arts; for example, music, theatre and dance. To "extemporize" or "ad lib" is basically the same as improvising. Colloquial terms such as "let's play it by ear," "take it as it comes," and "make it up as we go along" are all used to describe "improvisation."
The simple act of speaking requires a good deal of improvisation because the mind is addressing its own thought and creating its unrehearsed delivery in words, sounds and gestures, forming unpredictable statements that feed back into the thought process (the performer as listener), creating an enriched process that is not unlike instantaneous composition [with a given set or repertoire of elements]

Call my Name

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:48:00 +0000

Manila Paper Series ::: daO

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:22:00 +0000

Some portraits done on Manila paper, in Manila.

Mayra

Freida

Andrea. This last one is done with melted chocolate

Miles Davis & John Coltrane - So What (Live Video)

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 01:19:00 +0000

Some drawings I did a while back. Coltrane + Miles = Classic.

Projects

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:26:00 +0000

New Projects coming soon. I look forward to sharing.

The easy part is keeping projects a secret. The hard part is containing the excitement.

AFRICA

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:54:00 +0000

Textiles [dao: visual encyclopedia]

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:23:00 +0000

currently heavily immersed in looked at textiles.

next few weeks will involve me taking them apart

and putting them together.

Little Dragon

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:57:00 +0000

If someone in the 90's were to ask me what dope music would sound like in 2011...
I would say...Little Dragon. And, unfortunately cars aren't flying yet.

TWICE.

Little Dragon - Twice (Flyte One Remix) by Flyte One

yin.

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:05:00 +0000

i carved lines in this paper

like designs in nature

when everyone is out

i stay in

i'm the artisan

the kind of art i'm in

is what keeps me in

a world within

heard no further

than where an echo ends

people gather and i'm out fast

amongst a group of solitary souls

i'm the outcast

i know each night like

a page in my past

letters written in the stars

the sky is my guidance

a black scroll unrolled

with holes letting heaven's light in

silence, silence, silence

closed my eyes

and heard the joining of my eyelids

when everyone is out

i stay in

my skin is the only thing

separating me from them

if you speak to me on the street

it's my soul you meet

you might not ever know how dark is

the silence i keep

when i open my mouth to speak

only light is released

yang.

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:30:00 +0000

i rise with the light

night moves me in ways

too sullen to say

conveyed my dreams

on sky's backlit screen

the fact that it seems

half lit illumination

lucid concentration

morning sensation

restoration for the retired

i rise with the light

repeat the rhetoric

till i get it right

my life is a journey

never hurried thru the plight

the fight is inside

dark times, dark mind

but the light i shine

is of the brilliant kind

in time in space

walk against the

direction of the race

here you'll find a breed

whose soul purpose was

to sow their seeds

knowing their deeds

may not be reaped

the path of reciprocity

takes a circular form

any point in the path

where you begin

is also the point where you'll end

only that the path can't end

again and again, around again

the point is to begin

Manifesto (( revisted ))

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:24:00 +0000

JKD

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:15:00 +0000

"An artist's expression is his soul made apparent, his schooling, as well as his "cool" being exhibited. Behind every motion, the music of his soul is made visible. Otherwise, his motion is empty and empty motion is like an empty word--no meaning."
- Bruce Lee

Kim Jong IL Looking at Stuff

noreply@blogger.com (aka daO) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:46:00 +0000

i never realized how funny this dude is.

funny in pictures, maybe not so funny dictatorially.

he kind of reminds me of my dad.

if you dig these pictures, there's a whole

website dedicated to tracking this man's viewing habits:

http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/

Looking at the drywall

Looking at meats (through a window)

Looking at your computer

Looking at pigs

Looking at radish