FINDING MEANING...Connecting the dots...

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The Canoe | Canadian Canoe Culture

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Scenes From The Ground: Puerto Ricans Document Shattered Lives | NBC Latino | NBC News

I had been planning to visit Austin this month...now gratefully flying
to Miami to get flight to our island, check on my family, friends in San Juan, and
my dear nephew...so, our plans to meet are off, have a
good time in Las Vegas...dance a couple for me...until soon, Greco

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Drawn to the Sea - A Waterlust Film about baby fish & free diving

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Beautiful Exotic Birds with Relaxing Music and Bird Sounds

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Between Music's AquaSonic: Breaking the surface

something soothing about this...water?...music?




betweenmusic.dk - facebook.com/betweenmusic.dk
An underwater concert by Between Music. Five performers
submerged in water tanks, playing custom-made
instruments and singing - entirely underwater.
This is an excerpt from the concert.

AquaSonic is made by Between Music, Denmark.
International producer and representation: FuturePerfect Productions

Composer, and Performer: Laila Skovmand - vocal and hydraulophone
Performer: Robert Karlsson - violin and crystallophone
Performer: Morten Poulsen - drums
Performer: Dea Marie Kjeldsen - percussion
Performer: Nanna Bech - vocal and rotacorda

Lighting Designer: Adalsteinn Stefansson
Sound Designer: Anders Boll
Video: Christoffer Brekne

Hydraulophone by Ryan Janzen
Crystallophone and Rotacorda by Andy Cavatorta
Some percussion and cymbals by Matt Nolan
Carbon fiber violin by Mezzoforte.de


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"Guide Me"

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Wladyslaw Szpilman playing Chopin Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor


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Darius Rucker Discusses Race and Country Music

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SAMELLA LEWIS : PIONEERING VISUAL ARTIST AND EDUCATOR

Film by Eric Minh Swenson.

Samella Lewis says, “My inspiration as an artist and
art historian comes from the need to bring greater
attention to the accomplishments of African American Artists.”

SAMELLA SANDERS LEWIS - The career of visionary
teacher, scholar and artist Samella Lewis spans some
fifty years and has taken her to many parts of the
world. As an art historian and scholar, her knowledge
is boundless and accessible. As an artist, Lewis remains
at the forefront of her field. As a collector, she has amassed
an impressive and diverse collection that includes
African American, Asian, Caribbean, Native American, South American
and African Arts. As a social and community activist, she will serve
as a reference for generations to come.

Her college education began in 1941 at Dillard University
in her native New Orleans, where she studied with her
mentor renowned artist Elizabeth Catlett. After two years
at Dillard, she transferred to Hampton Institute (University)
where she was a student of Viktor Lowenfeld, a Jewish refugee
from Austria who taught his students not to feel they had to
produce art to please anyone, but to produce it from the heart.
This is an attitude Lewis still maintains and imparts to others.

At The Ohio State University, Lewis received her Master of Arts degree
in 1947 and her Ph.D in fine arts and art history in 1951.
In 1952 she became chair of the fine arts department at
Florida A&M University. Her next stop was a teaching position
five years later at the State University of New York (Plattsburgh),
where she developed an interest in Chinese language and
Chinese art history. This soon led to a Fullbright Fellowship to
study Chinese language and art history in Taiwan.

On her return from Taiwan, Dr. Lewis was awarded a
New York state grant to study Chinese language and
art history at the Freer Gallery in Washington D.C.
with famed author and art historian Sherman Lee.
Following this she resumed her studies at
New York University and later at the University
of Southern California with a three year course
in Chinese language and history on a
National Defense and Education grant.

Currently Dr. Lewis is Professor Emerita of art history at Scripps College
of the Claremont Colleges. Scripps was instrumental in two of
Lewis' career milestones. The school provided space and assistance
in 1975 when she founded The International Review of African American
Art. The school also lent support to The Museum of African American Art
in 1976, of which Lewis was founder and director.

During the course of her career, Lewis has received numerous awards
and honors, including an appointment as a distinguished scholar at
the Getty Museum and the Samella Lewis Scholarship and Contemporary
Art Collection at Scripps College in Claremont, California.

About: BAILA (Black Artists in Los Angeles) Film Series is a
collaboration between Eric Minh Swenson and Lili Bernard.
The series celebrates the diversity found within the
Black visual arts community of Los Angeles, featuring the
voices of important artists and leaders therein.

Lili Bernard is a Cuban-born, Los Angeles-based artist
whose work explores the impact of trauma and the
unconquerable nature of the human spirit.

For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website
at thuvanarts.com. His art films can be seen at
thuvanarts.com/take1

Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art
scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen
at Huffington Post Arts : http://m.huffpost.com/us/author/eric-

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India's Outsider Artist, Looking In: Bharti Kher | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 8

Feminist, mythology narrator and quasi-anthropologist
are just some of the titles that describe artist Bharti Kher,
currently at the center stage of the Indian contemporary
art scene. Kher was born in London in 1969 and earned
a BFA at Newcastle Polytechnic before moving to India in
1993. She currently lives and works out of New Delhi.
Unique Indian sentiments and colors are abundant in her
art, which address topics of culture and tradition with a
refined contemporary sensibility.

The artist takes inspirations from India’s history and
philosophy, but also from more mundane daily moments.
With her original takes, the issues are transformed into
sublime art forms that defy classification. She kindles
new thought in viewers of India and across the
globe, inviting them into a mysterious, beautiful
world of art.

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Darren Vigil Gray: Counterclockwise


A short documentary / profile on the art and life of
Native American artist Darren Vigil Gray, in collaboration
with the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, during
a retrospective exhibition held at the museum in 2002.
The story travels from the Jicarilla Apache Nation, to the
Santa Fe art galleries, to the beaches of Los Angeles.
Starring: Robbie Robertson, Jill Momaday, Steve Miller,
Daniel Lanois, N. Scott Momaday, Todd Gold,
Michael Horse, John Morris and Marcus Amerman.

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Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian

In the 1960s and '70s, the notion of American Indian
art was turned on its head by artists who fought against
prejudice and popular clichés. At the forefront of this
revolution was Fritz Scholder (Luiseño, 1937-2005).
This video introduction to the eponymous exhibition
"Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian" was awarded the
2009 Gold Muse award by AAM for best video production
of the year.

Featuring 135 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures
drawn from major public and private collections, including
the color-saturated canvases for which the artist is
famous, "Indian/Not Indian" opened concurrently at
the National Museum of the American Indian in
Washington, D.C., and at NMAI's George Gustav Heye
Center in New York. The Washington exhibition surveyed
Scholder's forty-plus years as a working artist, with
particular emphasis on his groundbreaking and
controversial Indian paintings from the 1960s and 1970s.
The New York exhibition focused on the artist's works from
the 1980s and 1990s, when he stopped using overt Indian
imagery and explored mythical beings, the afterlife, and
the unknown.

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Meet Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

"Jaune Quick-To-See Smith grew up on the
Flathead Reservation in Montana and
traveled around the Pacific Northwest and
California with her father, who was a horse trader.
Smith decided she wanted to be an artist after
watching a film on the French painter
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. She painted a
goatee on her face with axle grease and
borrowed a neighbor's beret so she could
be photographed posing as the famous artist.
In 1958, Smith enrolled at Olympic College in
Bremerton, Washington. She had to take many
breaks from college in order to earn money, however,
and didn't earn her degree until 1976.
She moved to Albuquerque, where she studied
at the University of New Mexico and founded
the Grey Canyon group of contemporary
Native American artists."
(Postmodern Messenger, Exhibition
Catalogue, 2004)

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WSRE | Pensacola State College Perspectives | Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Conversation with Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

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Inbal Segev and the Bach Cello Suites - Documentary

Aside from Du Pré, and Yo Yo Ma, Inbal Segev plays
the Bach Cello Suites beautifully.

And tonight is all
about Bach and the cello.

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Michael Jordan 's Wisdom (Rare Interviews)

a reminder...for myself...take the shot...

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Jennifer Lopez's Top 10 Rules For Success (@JLo)

reminding myself...

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Serena Williams's Top 10 Rules For Success (@serenawilliams)

reminding myself...

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RUNNING TO THE LIMITS (Running Documentary)

interesting UK doc on an average joe starting to
run...he's approx. 224lbs when beginning

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Most People Don't Even Realize What's Coming

wake-up call...

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