Making a Mandala in Nature is the topic of today’s video. Many of us have seen pictures on Facebook or other online sources of beautiful mandalas made out of natural materials in nature settings. Today, with this short, but thorough video mandalanomadess shows us step by step how to create these mandalas. Here is what mandalanomadess says about the video:
“Learn how to make a nature mandala with this 5 step process. Get inspired, get outside and get creative making your own mandalas out of natural materials. Requirements needed: a love for nature, a resourceful mindset, creative spontaneity and a desire to let go into the present moment with the flexibility to endure many hours of squatting and kneeling over the earth.”
Enjoy!
How to Make a Mandala in Nature with Natural Materials
Today Donna Wolfe from Naztazia shows you how to crochet a flower of life chain shawl. This is what she says about this video:
“This is a more advanced pattern, so please also download the written free pattern on Donna’s website: http://naztazia.com. It also forms a lovely star stitch pattern that you can use for a shawl, wrap, scarf, hoodie, tunic, sweater and more!”
According to TED.com: “Angélica Dass’s photography challenges how we think about skin color and ethnic identity. In this personal talk, hear about the inspiration behind her portrait project, Humanæ, and her pursuit to document humanity’s true colors rather than the untrue white, red, black and yellow associated with race.”
“As a member of a multiracial family, Brazilian artist Angélica Dass is acutely aware of how small differences in skin tone can swell into large misconceptions and stereotypes about race.”
“In her ongoing project Humanæ, Dass pairs thousands of portraits of people from diverse parts of the world with their Pantone codes, revealing that our racially charged skin color labels – red, white, brown – as not only inaccurate but also absurd. Instead, she shows us that “these colors make us see each other as different, even though we are equal.”
Enjoy this thought provoking talk.
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”
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