Artists are intuitive. They wait for inspiration. That's what art is about, the intuitive, not the intellectual. Art about ideas stimulates ideas, but art that comes from inspiration stimulates feelings of happiness, innocence and beauty.
I don’t think there is much separation in all the things we do. How we do one thing is how we do anything.
-- Lauren Spencer KingFrom apieceapart.com
"Deciding what is essential in our lives isn't about paring back our belongings and forgoing our beloved but unnecessary frivolities: Instead of determining how little we can live with, it's about working out what we simply can't live without."-- Kinfolk Magazine/The Essential Issue.
The long body is a Native American term which refers to the individual body plus the life support systems around it. It is a much bigger conception of the human body than we have in western culture, and considers the body continuous with the larger environment.-- Frank Forencich over at Liberated Body
The perception of our bodies as isolated units is dangerous because it doesn’t take into consideration that organisms live in context. We co-evolve with our habitats over many millions of years.
We think we have nervous systems to regulate our bodies- and we do- however the nervous system has other functions- for humans in particular - it's purpose is to learn habitat and our social environment too.
The long body is a Native American term which refers to the individual body plus the life support systems around it. It is a much bigger conception of the human body than we have in western culture, and considers the body continuous with the larger environment.-- Frank Forencich over at Liberated Body
The perception of our bodies as isolated units is dangerous because it doesn’t take into consideration that organisms live in context. We co-evolve with our habitats over many millions of years.
We think we have nervous systems to regulate our bodies- and we do- however the nervous system has other functions- for humans in particular - it's purpose is to learn habitat and our social environment too.
Movement visualization has been used by many elite athletes, dancers and musicians to improve performance for a long time. Science has been interested in the effects of visualization on physical performance since the 1920s. Although there have been conflicting results, research has left no doubt that imagery can improve physical performance. Here is a brief summary of some interesting results.
Numerous experiments have shown that people can increase their physical skills by imagining themselves practicing the skill. For example, in one experiment two groups of people were taught a series of notes on the piano. Neither group had ever played before. One group practiced playing the notes for five days, two hours a day. The second group simply imagined playing the notes for the same amount of time. At the end of the experiment, the imagining group had improved almost as much as the practicing group. In fact, they had completely caught up after two hours of hands on practice. Further, their brains showed objective changes in the neurons that control the skills. How is this possible?-- Todd Hargrove
"Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life...my precept is, 'Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.""
