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GETTING THE BLUES WITH PHIL POYNTER   British born fashion photographer Phil Poynter channels Yves Klein in ‘Monotone Symphony,’ an editorial shot for Ponystep. Poynter began his career as creative director of the trend-setting magazine Dazed & Confused, during his five years collaborating with the magazine he became a regular contributor for the publication as a photographer. Renowned as one of the worlds leading photographers his array of work spans beauty, fashion, celebrity portraiture and advertising. He is currently expanding his work to encompass moving image and has completed television commercials as well as pop videos and shorts. Phil developed his unique, eclectic and elegant style while working in London, Paris, Milan and New York.https://vimeo.com/groups/thecollection/videos/20308459
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GETTING THE BLUES WITH PHIL POYNTER   British born fashion photographer Phil Poynter channels Yves Klein in ‘Monotone Symphony,’ an editorial shot for Ponystep. Poynter began his career as creative director of the trend-setting magazine Dazed & Confused, during his five years collaborating with the magazine he became a regular contributor for the publication as a photographer. Renowned as one of the worlds leading photographers his array of work spans beauty, fashion, celebrity portraiture and advertising. He is currently expanding his work to encompass moving image and has completed television commercials as well as pop videos and shorts. Phil developed his unique, eclectic and elegant style while working in London, Paris, Milan and New York.https://vimeo.com/groups/thecollection/videos/20308459
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GETTING THE BLUES WITH PHIL POYNTER   British born fashion photographer Phil Poynter channels Yves Klein in ‘Monotone Symphony,’ an editorial shot for Ponystep. Poynter began his career as creative director of the trend-setting magazine Dazed & Confused, during his five years collaborating with the magazine he became a regular contributor for the publication as a photographer. Renowned as one of the worlds leading photographers his array of work spans beauty, fashion, celebrity portraiture and advertising. He is currently expanding his work to encompass moving image and has completed television commercials as well as pop videos and shorts. Phil developed his unique, eclectic and elegant style while working in London, Paris, Milan and New York.https://vimeo.com/groups/thecollection/videos/20308459
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GETTING THE BLUES WITH PHIL POYNTER   British born fashion photographer Phil Poynter channels Yves Klein in ‘Monotone Symphony,’ an editorial shot for Ponystep. Poynter began his career as creative director of the trend-setting magazine Dazed & Confused, during his five years collaborating with the magazine he became a regular contributor for the publication as a photographer. Renowned as one of the worlds leading photographers his array of work spans beauty, fashion, celebrity portraiture and advertising. He is currently expanding his work to encompass moving image and has completed television commercials as well as pop videos and shorts. Phil developed his unique, eclectic and elegant style while working in London, Paris, Milan and New York.https://vimeo.com/groups/thecollection/videos/20308459
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GETTING THE BLUES WITH PHIL POYNTER   British born fashion photographer Phil Poynter channels Yves Klein in ‘Monotone Symphony,’ an editorial shot for Ponystep. Poynter began his career as creative director of the trend-setting magazine Dazed & Confused, during his five years collaborating with the magazine he became a regular contributor for the publication as a photographer. Renowned as one of the worlds leading photographers his array of work spans beauty, fashion, celebrity portraiture and advertising. He is currently expanding his work to encompass moving image and has completed television commercials as well as pop videos and shorts. Phil developed his unique, eclectic and elegant style while working in London, Paris, Milan and New York.https://vimeo.com/groups/thecollection/videos/20308459
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GETTING THE BLUES WITH PHIL POYNTER   British born fashion photographer Phil Poynter channels Yves Klein in ‘Monotone Symphony,’ an editorial shot for Ponystep. Poynter began his career as creative director of the trend-setting magazine Dazed & Confused, during his five years collaborating with the magazine he became a regular contributor for the publication as a photographer. Renowned as one of the worlds leading photographers his array of work spans beauty, fashion, celebrity portraiture and advertising. He is currently expanding his work to encompass moving image and has completed television commercials as well as pop videos and shorts. Phil developed his unique, eclectic and elegant style while working in London, Paris, Milan and New York.https://vimeo.com/groups/thecollection/videos/20308459
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GETTING THE BLUES WITH PHIL POYNTER

  British born fashion photographer Phil Poynter channels Yves Klein in ‘Monotone Symphony,’ an editorial shot for Ponystep. Poynter began his career as creative director of the trend-setting magazine Dazed & Confused, during his five years collaborating with the magazine he became a regular contributor for the publication as a photographer. Renowned as one of the worlds leading photographers his array of work spans beauty, fashion, celebrity portraiture and advertising. He is currently expanding his work to encompass moving image and has completed television commercials as well as pop videos and shorts. Phil developed his unique, eclectic and elegant style while working in London, Paris, Milan and New York.

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Que Houxo, Garden In May (2009) Houxo Que aka Questa is an artist based in Tokyo. He started his career as a painter in 1999 with a background in graffiti and has been worksing on canvases, live-paintings, murals since. His main series of works, which frequently references flowers, titled “Day and night” are luminous installations using florescent paints and black lights.
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Que Houxo, Garden In May (2009) Houxo Que aka Questa is an artist based in Tokyo. He started his career as a painter in 1999 with a background in graffiti and has been worksing on canvases, live-paintings, murals since. His main series of works, which frequently references flowers, titled “Day and night” are luminous installations using florescent paints and black lights.
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Que Houxo, Garden In May (2009) Houxo Que aka Questa is an artist based in Tokyo. He started his career as a painter in 1999 with a background in graffiti and has been worksing on canvases, live-paintings, murals since. His main series of works, which frequently references flowers, titled “Day and night” are luminous installations using florescent paints and black lights.
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Que Houxo, Garden In May (2009)

Houxo Que aka Questa is an artist based in Tokyo. He started his career as a painter in 1999 with a background in graffiti and has been worksing on canvases, live-paintings, murals since. His main series of works, which frequently references flowers, titled “Day and night” are luminous installations using florescent paints and black lights.

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WOOD SCULPTURES BY ARON DEMETZ For years, Aron Demetz (facebook) has been focusing on the human figure, on contemporary characters which appear to be frozen in poses of the antique portraiture or paralysed in bizarre postures. Aron uses traditional woodcarving techniques to convey his preoccupation with humanity’s relationship to nature. In his work he eschews the classical opposition of human and nature, and allows the two to become an inseparable whole, evoking the primordial experience. 
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WOOD SCULPTURES BY ARON DEMETZ For years, Aron Demetz (facebook) has been focusing on the human figure, on contemporary characters which appear to be frozen in poses of the antique portraiture or paralysed in bizarre postures. Aron uses traditional woodcarving techniques to convey his preoccupation with humanity’s relationship to nature. In his work he eschews the classical opposition of human and nature, and allows the two to become an inseparable whole, evoking the primordial experience. 
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WOOD SCULPTURES BY ARON DEMETZ For years, Aron Demetz (facebook) has been focusing on the human figure, on contemporary characters which appear to be frozen in poses of the antique portraiture or paralysed in bizarre postures. Aron uses traditional woodcarving techniques to convey his preoccupation with humanity’s relationship to nature. In his work he eschews the classical opposition of human and nature, and allows the two to become an inseparable whole, evoking the primordial experience. 
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WOOD SCULPTURES BY ARON DEMETZ For years, Aron Demetz (facebook) has been focusing on the human figure, on contemporary characters which appear to be frozen in poses of the antique portraiture or paralysed in bizarre postures. Aron uses traditional woodcarving techniques to convey his preoccupation with humanity’s relationship to nature. In his work he eschews the classical opposition of human and nature, and allows the two to become an inseparable whole, evoking the primordial experience. 
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WOOD SCULPTURES BY ARON DEMETZ For years, Aron Demetz (facebook) has been focusing on the human figure, on contemporary characters which appear to be frozen in poses of the antique portraiture or paralysed in bizarre postures. Aron uses traditional woodcarving techniques to convey his preoccupation with humanity’s relationship to nature. In his work he eschews the classical opposition of human and nature, and allows the two to become an inseparable whole, evoking the primordial experience. 
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WOOD SCULPTURES BY ARON DEMETZ For years, Aron Demetz (facebook) has been focusing on the human figure, on contemporary characters which appear to be frozen in poses of the antique portraiture or paralysed in bizarre postures. Aron uses traditional woodcarving techniques to convey his preoccupation with humanity’s relationship to nature. In his work he eschews the classical opposition of human and nature, and allows the two to become an inseparable whole, evoking the primordial experience. 
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WOOD SCULPTURES BY ARON DEMETZ For years, Aron Demetz (facebook) has been focusing on the human figure, on contemporary characters which appear to be frozen in poses of the antique portraiture or paralysed in bizarre postures. Aron uses traditional woodcarving techniques to convey his preoccupation with humanity’s relationship to nature. In his work he eschews the classical opposition of human and nature, and allows the two to become an inseparable whole, evoking the primordial experience. 
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WOOD SCULPTURES BY ARON DEMETZ

For years, Aron Demetz (facebook) has been focusing on the human figure, on contemporary characters which appear to be frozen in poses of the antique portraiture or paralysed in bizarre postures. Aron uses traditional woodcarving techniques to convey his preoccupation with humanity’s relationship to nature. In his work he eschews the classical opposition of human and nature, and allows the two to become an inseparable whole, evoking the primordial experience. 

Awe - The Spirituality of Science

Modern and ancient cosmologies converge as a leading astrophysicist and a former Buddhist monk take us on a visual journey from subatomic smallness to star-sized vastness, dismantling the boundaries that separate the human from the cosmic.

Directed, Produced, Edited, and Composed by Jake Bloch.

I continuously surround the idea of a link between creation and destruction throughout this work. Stumbled across this video this morning, and I think it beautifully speaks to this idea. There is such a thin line between existence and non-existence, which the film speaks of as space. I am also fascinated by their theories on the self an realizations of the self. I am exploring the idea of the self within the digital elm throughout my work and have noticed these anxieties and theories emerging in my offline self-identity. By revealing the fragility of the self, one does not bolster that identity but threaten its very survival. What is the self? How is it affected by physical existence?

“The Meaning of Life” Dir. Don Hertzfeldt (2005)

One of my favorite animators/ directors. Don tackles complext spiritual, psychological, and social issues through simple form. Allowing the voice of his content to speak louder than form, while maintaining a strong artistic aesthetic. This is an older work but I reccoment wathing. “Everything Will Be Ok” and “Wisdom Teeth” as well.

David Lynch and Transcendental Meditation

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Kevin Law, a former music-industry executive who has been invited to join the foundation’s board, told me that he was inspired by the fact that people like Martin Scorsese and the billionaire hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio were very public that T.M. had changed their lives. “These masters of the universe,” he said, “all from different backgrounds, all have one thing in common and it’s Transcendental Meditation.” Law said that for him, T.M. is more like working out.

Read this piece in last weeks Times Magazine for the discussion on the benefits of T.M. and, more importantly, for the way Claire Hoffman deftly separates the image of the practice itself from the people who teach and practice it. David Lynch is, in my opinion, a great artist. In addition, his work with Transcendental Meditation is the best example I can think of a celebrity working with a spiritual practice for a social cause. Beside a portrait of him, there is the brief biography of the Maharishi.

From the moment that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi arrived at the Honolulu airport in 1958, wearing robes, his ambition was to make Transcendental Meditation a global practice. He had been traveling across India for a few years, spreading the notion that meditation wasn’t just for monks and yogis but instead could be simplified for the masses. He would soon seize on a generation of young people’s desires to recreate the nirvana of hallucinogenic drugs and to live meaningful lives. In 1967, the Beatles met Maharishi, and he quickly became their spiritual adviser. Life magazine declared 1968 “the Year of the Guru,” with photographs of Maharishi. By 1977, a Gallup poll reported that 4 percent of Americans said they practiced T.M.

But then things got murky, and questions about the cult of personality grew. The Beatles left Maharishi’s ashram in a huff. Maharishi intensified his focus on a “world plan” to create peace through what he called the “Maharishi Effect,” in which 1 percent of the square root of the world population would meditate and radiate positivity. By the late 1970s, he had told his followers that they should practice more advanced, and more expensive, meditation techniques that took about two hours a day and could result in superhuman powers — the strength of an elephant and the ability to levitate. By the 1980s, only a devout base remained dedicated to the world plan, and many of them settled in a small community in a corner of southern Iowa. Deepak Chopra, who worked for the Maharishi at the time, told me, “I started to be uncomfortable with what I sensed was a cultish atmosphere around Maharishi.” Soon, Maharishi stopped making public appearances, spending his time in an isolated compound in the Netherlands. He named a Lebanese neuroscientist as his successor, giving him the ceremonial name and title Majaraja Adiraj Rajaraam, the First Ruler of the Global Country of World Peace. He had given him his weight in gold. It is the story of the teacher who, despite enlightenment, remains human. Competitive spirituality and power do a lot of damage. For this reason speak truth to power, especially your own. And meditate.

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