Today’s video, Amethyst Mandala – How I Created this Mandala by Elemental Mandala, shows you how Elemental Mandala creates a mandala using photographs of a beautiful amethyst crystal. For those of you who love photographing nature this could lead you down a whole new path of creation.
This is what he says about this mandala:
“All of my mandalas begin as single photographs of nature – everything from lava and fire to leaves and water. I put this behind the scenes video together to show you how the process I used to create my Amethyst Mandala.”
“When you look at the Amethyst Mandala, it might be a little tricky to tell that it actually came from a photograph of an amethyst crystal. That’s why I wanted to show you the crystal itself, and what it actually looked like in real time from my camera lens. :)”
“The finished piece you see later in the video is a 24×24” Metal Infusion Print of the Amethyst Mandala. It is finished with hanging hardware and spacers on the back that allow the mandala to appear to be “floating” on the wall when it is displayed.”
“This Amethyst Mandala is available in these different sizes: 30×30″ 24×24″ 16×16″ 12×12″ (Custom sizes can be anywhere from 5×5″ – 40×40″)”
According to TED.com: “In the deep, dark ocean, many sea creatures make their own light for hunting, mating and self-defense. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder was one of the first to film this glimmering world. At TED2011, she brings some of her glowing friends onstage, and shows more astonishing footage of glowing undersea life.”
“A specialist in bioluminescence, Edith Widder helps design and invent new submersible instruments and equipment to study bioluminescence and enable unobtrusive observation of deep-sea environments. Her innovative tools for exploration have produced footage of rare and wonderful bioluminescent displays and never-before-seen denizens of the deep, including, most recently, the first video ever recorded of the giant squid, Architeuthis, in its natural habitat. “
Enjoy.
Edith Widder: The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence
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”
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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