by atmara | Jan 5, 2017 | Inspiration, Poetry, TED, TED Talks, Truth
According to TED.com: “With words like shards of glass, Chinaka Hodge cuts open 2016 and lets 12 months of violence, grief, fear, shame, courage and hope spill out in this original poem about a year none of us will soon forget.”
“Chinaka Hodge is a writer and educator from Oakland. She received her BA from NYU’s Gallatin School and studied Writing for Film and Television at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts MFA program. Her work has been featured in Believer Magazine, Teen People Magazine, Newsweek, San Francisco Magazine, on PBS and NPR, and in two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry. She was an Associate Producer on Simmons Lathan presents Brave New Voices for HBO.”
“She is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, was a playwright-in-residence at SF Playwrights Foundation and serves as a Visiting Editor at The California Sunday Magazine. She is an inaugural Senior Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.”
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
——————————————————————————————————–
I look forward to your thoughts and comments!
by atmara | Jan 2, 2017 | Art, Drawing Mandalas, Mandala Coloring, Mandala Monday, Mandalas
I found 2 new places to draw mandalas online. The first I found from the post Mandala-Making: Release Your Inner Wisdom, a tutorial on how to draw mandalas, which also links to a video, which we featured on November 7, 2016 (Mandala Monday – How to draw Mandalas (even if you can’t draw) by Andrea Schroeder). In addition, Mandala-Making: Release Your Inner Wisdom also points you to MyOats.com where you can draw your own mandala with their interface and download it to color, or color it online.
The instructions for using the tool on MyOats.com are included in the post and I have copied them for you here as well:
- Go to the MyOats.com creation page.
- From the bottom menu, choose your “Stage Color” as white and “Shape Color” as black.
- From here you can play with the drawing “Tools” on the bottom menu. It works well if you start with the “Polygon” shape option and then add details with the “Smooth Pencil.” To make a more intricate pattern, go the “Sides” tab on the bottom menu and increase the number.
- On the upper menu, you can undo or clear your work under the “Edit” tab.
- The “Download Wallpaper” function under the “File” tab creates the perfect downloadable and printable coloring page!
- Note: Under the “View” tab of the top menu, unchecking the “Blur” option makes for a cleaner coloring page printout.*
(*These instructions are directly quoted from Mandala-Making: Release Your Inner Wisdom)
You can also simply make colorful mandalas online using this program and share them with friends!
This post has lots of other mandala links and information. Those include links to mandala coloring pages as well as a link to download mandalas to color right from the post. Here is an example of one of them:
This post is a treasure trove of mandala information. Enjoy.
Another cool site to draw mandalas online is Drawerings.com. They also have apps for your phone or tablet that can be found at http://www.drawerings.com/app .
So go forth and draw mandalas online! Happy mandala making.
——————————————————————————————————–
I look forward to your thoughts and comments!
by atmara | Dec 29, 2016 | Inspiration, Peace, TED, TED Talks, Video
According to TED.com: “Here’s a crazy idea: Persuade the world to try living in peace for just one day, every September 21. In this energetic, honest talk, Jeremy Gilley tells the story of how this crazy idea became real — real enough to help millions of kids in war-torn regions.”
“A day of peace. It seems lovely and hopeful to those of us lucky enough to live in peace already. But to those living in war, a day of peace, a temporary cease-fire, is not only lovely, it’s incredibly practical. On a day when no bullets fly, families can go to the clinic, mosquito nets can be given out, and kids who’ve known only war can learn what peace looks like, sounds like. In short, it’s a window of opportunity to build peace. For the past 10 years, filmmaker Jeremy Gilley has been promoting September 21 as a true international day of ceasefire, a day to carry out humanitarian aid in the world’s most dangerous zones. The practical challenge is huge, starting with: how to convince both parties in a conflict to put down their weapons and trust the other side to do the same? But Gilley has recorded successes. For instance, on September 21, 2008, some 1.85 million children under 5 years old, in seven Afghan provinces where conflict has previously prevented access, were given a vaccine for polio.”
May all beings know peace.
TED Talk Thursday – Jeremy Gilley: One day of peace
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
——————————————————————————————————–
I look forward to your thoughts and comments!
