Opera Meets Animation to Tell a Chinese Tale June 1, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/arts/music/26monk.html

	William Struhs The opera “Monkey: Journey to the West” at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C.

Art finds April 28, 2008

Ceanna continues to amaze me with her eye for beautiful art.

http://ceanna.stumbleupon.com/

Egypt - Maxfield Parrish

Egyptians,

master builders of yore

whose creations fascinate to this day.

A peek at the history of architecture in Ancient Egypt

Nicholas Roerich March 28, 2008

 

http://www.roerich.org

Leonard Cohen March 15, 2008

 

Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I’m crazy for love but Im not coming on
I’m just paying my rent every day
Oh in the tower of song

I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn’t answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the tower of song

I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice
And twenty-seven angels from the great beyond
They tied me to this table right here
In the tower of song

So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I’m very sorry, baby, doesn’t look like me at all
I’m standing by the window where the light is strong
Ah they don’t let a woman kill you
Not in the tower of song

Now you can say that Ive grown bitter but of this you may be sure
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And theres a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the tower of song

I see you standing on the other side
I dont know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
Well never have to lose it again

Now I bid you farewell, I don’t know when Ill be back
There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you’ll be hearing from me baby, long after Im gone
Ill be speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the tower of song
Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I’m crazy for love but Im not coming on
I’m just paying my rent every day
Oh in the tower of song

The “Big Buddha” Sichuan, China * Photo by Friedrich Reg March 12, 2008

The Gates February 28, 2008

HBO has just premiered an extrodinary documentary about

The Gates

In 1979, the provocative artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude approached New York City officials with a proposal to create a temporary, large-scale work of art in Central Park. The city turned them down. Twenty-four years and several administrations later, following dozens of high-concept, high-profile works of landscape art in numerous urban and rural locations around the globe, they finally got the city’s approval to complete their vision. THE GATES chronicles the decades-long struggle of Christo and Jeanne-Claude to bring their most ambitious work of art to life. Read more.

It reminded me of this sweet video I found with Bhagavan Das walking and praying through The Gates.