Saturday, April 05, 2014

Saturday, February 15, 2014

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Frederik van Eeden, A Study of Dreams

"In these lucid dreams the reintegration of the psychic functions is so complete that the sleeper remembers day-life and his own condition, reaches a state of perfect awareness, and is able to direct his attention, and to attempt different acts of free volition." ~ by Frederik van Eeden, A Study of Dreams (1913)

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Jack Kerouac

"It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die." ~ Jack Kerouac

Friday, January 10, 2014

Dreamtime by mirroreyesserval

Dreamtime by mirroreyesserval

"The animals featured are Red Kangaroo, Black Cockatoo, Bilby, and Echidna."

http://mirroreyesserval.deviantart.com/art/Dreamtime-320596408

Friday, December 20, 2013

Chris McCandless on the Passion for Adventure


"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun." ~ Chris McCandless

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Oliver Sacks on Waking Consciousness and Dreaming

"Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality." ~ Oliver Sacks

Thursday, December 05, 2013

Muhammad Ali on the repetition of affirmation

"It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." ~ Muhammad Ali

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Henry Miller on Attention

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." ~ Henry Miller

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Bertolt Brecht on Art

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it." ~ Bertolt Brecht

Monday, November 04, 2013

The Primary Cause of Unhappiness

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it." ~ Eckhart Tolle

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Congratulations to Oracle Team USA!

To the victors goes the spoils. Congratulations to Oracle Team USA on winning the 34th Americas' Cup in San Francisco yesterday.

Saturday, September 07, 2013

Doris Day Pinup


Doris Day Pinup, originally uploaded by RickRaven'sBeak.

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Christopher Nolan on Stanley Kubrick’s filmmaking:

Christopher Nolan on Stanley Kubrick’s filmmaking:

"From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate."

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Charlie Kaufman, Screenwriter, Filmmaker

"Movies tend to be very concrete in their construction of events and characters. It's a tricky medium in which to deal with interior lives. But I think it's really a great medium for it. Movies share so much with dreams, which, of course, only deal with interior lives. Your brain is wired to turn emotional states into movies. Your dreams are very well written. I know this without knowing any of you. People turn anxieties, crisis and longing, love, regret and guilt, into beautiful rich stories in their dreams." ~ Charlie Kaufman, Screenwriter, Filmmaker

Sunday, July 14, 2013

François Truffaut, Filmmaker

"Whatever is said instead of being shown is lost on the viewer." ~ François Truffaut, Filmmaker, Film Critic