This video about Luminous Mandalas is not only a how-to demonstration on creating and coloring mandalas, but also an invitation to consider your own bright light. According to 100Mandala’s blog:
In this video you’ll find:
An introduction to the Great Round and Stage Twelve.
A demonstration using colored pencils on a black background to create a luminous effect.
A demonstration of using stencils to create a mandala design.
A gallery of luminous mandalas from members of the 100 Mandalas Community that features a variety of styles and mediums.
How to Draw Luminous Mandalas
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According to TED.com: “What’s the key to using alternative energy, like solar and wind? Storage — so we can have power on tap even when the sun’s not out and the wind’s not blowing. In this accessible, inspiring talk, Donald Sadoway takes to the blackboard to show us the future of large-scale batteries that store renewable energy. As he says: ‘We need to think about the problem differently. We need to think big. We need to think cheap.'”
“The problem at the heart of many sustainable-energy systems: How to store power so it can be delivered to the grid all the time, day and night, even when the wind’s not blowing and the sun’s not shining? At MIT, Donald Sadoway has been working on a grid-size battery system that stores energy using a three-layer liquid-metal core. With help from fans like Bill Gates, Sadoway and two of his students have spun off the Liquid Metals Battery Corporation (LMBC) to bring the battery to market.”
Enjoy.
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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