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When you give yourself fully to your creativity, you expand the mindâbrush the cobwebs off the far reaches of the brain and let things out. Youâll release such beauty that could bring the hardest of hearts to tears. Youâll release ugliness, hatred, and envy.
the story of spirit -
in evolution, in enlightenment, in experience,
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defining depths, scaling heights. to upgrade our world, to new version - with new vision. feeling this world thinking of that future join to begin. here & now.
The Stuff of Dreams
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Often for the writer or artist, the brain uses art as a translator, or its sorting tool for explaining what it has seen. In his article, âArtistic Creativity and the Brain," professor of Neurobiology at University College in London, Semir Zeki said, âA major function of art can thus be regarded as an extension of the function of the brain, namely, to seek knowledge about the world.â The creative mind finds commonalities and parallels to what we have experienced. The resulting poem or work of art helps the reader or viewer make the mental leap of understanding.
Debbie Ouellet | 17.FEB.2012
It is that moment of recognition, that sudden âahaâ that pulls the audience in and a connection is made. Dreams, in their imagery and storytelling qualities often act as a creative bridge for these mental leaps.... Read More
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Rhetorical Dimensions of Native American Documentary
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The real question in indigenous film and video is not who is behind the camera but how that person visually structures his or her perception of the world. This perspective allows for the potential that some indigenous filmmakers have created and will continue to create ways of viewing and understanding the world that are different from non-Native views. As an expression of a culture as well as a record about a culture, the process of indigenous documentary springs from social relations and worldviews found in Native American communities, and, in many cases, these relations differ markedly from those of non-Native communities. When studying indigenous media, then, we should not primarily ask whether there is a style, outlook, or code that is characteristically Native in approach, but whether indigenous media emerge from social processes and worldviews that point to alternative possibilities for structuring and knowing our world. This ability of Native media to invite or urge viewers to empathize with alternative points of view demonstrates its rhetorical importance for Native and non-Native viewers alike.
Steve Leuthold | 12.JAN.2012
Video's decreasing cost, ease of use, and resulting accessibility make it a convenient medium for establishing an alternative ideological framework to that of the dominant culture. The increasing use of video technology by indigenous peoples points to alternative scenarios for media production and use. This scenario runs counter to dominant culture assumptions about the inevitable demise of Native cultures in the face of Euro-American progress, assumptions that have been ingrained by centuries of imagery portraying Indians as enemies, then vanquished foes, and currently relegating Indians in the popular imagination to movies, curio shops, and museum exhibits. In the United States, Native Americans have been actively making videos based on an initial focus of "helping to enhance the survival of their own communities," in their own production facilities and through coproduction arrangements with non-Native videographers and filmmakers...... Read More
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Jungian analyst (now retired), author, lecturer. Authored: The One Work: A Journey Towards the Self, The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time. Co-authored, with Scilla Elworthy, Soul Power: An Agenda for a Conscious Humanity; with Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image; with Andrew Harvey, The Mystic Vision and The Divine Feminine. The ground of all her work is a deep interest in the spiritual, mystical and artistic traditions of different cultures as well as the psychological causes of human suffering. Her website (annebaring.com) is devoted to the affirmation of a new vision of reality and the issues facing us at this crucial time of choice. Her new book, The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul, is posted there and will be published shortly. She lives near Winchester, England.
Mariana Sabino has a degree in Media Arts and post-graduate specialization in Screenwriting. She writes short stories, screenplays, and poetry â some of which can be read in the literary journals Dogmatika http://www.dogmatika.com, Up the Staircase http://www.upthestaircase.org, and her own Greenbeard http://www.greenbeardmag.com
Analisa Lee is a healer, poet, lover of beauty, and student of the psyche and heart. She has an MFA in Poetry and an MA in Counseling Psychology. She is interested in the interplay of the psyche, the imagination, creativity, and ritual in psychological and spiritual healing. Â You can read more on her blog: theheartcaughtfire.blogspot.com
Romit Chowdhury received his B.A. in English literature from Presidency College Kolkata in 2004, after which he worked with Orientlongman publishers in New Delhi as assistant editor on their social science titles. He has written articles, short-stories, vignettes, and reviewed books and documentary films for publications such as The Statesman and India Together. He has also scripted graphic novels and retellings of popular childrenâs stories. Romit has recently completed graduate studies in Media and Cultural Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He is interested to research and write on masculinity, documentary films, and city cultures. Â
Danielle has a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology and a Bachelor's of Art in Religion from The University of Georgia, USA. Her work can also be found at cafebabel.com. She thrives on traveling, writing, singing, and being in the midst of good conversation. Ecumenicism is the driving force in her spiritual beliefs, and creating a forum for respectful interchange is a lifelong goal. Her home base is Athens, GA, USA, but she's usually traveling. When people question her lack of permanence in location she responds, "I don't choose to be homeless, I choose to make everywhere my home."
Leanne Goebel is an award-winning arts journalist from the Southwest United States. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and the Society of Professional Journalists. She writes for major magazines, newspapers, and online media while blogging about art and culture at http://leannegoebel.blogspot.com.
Sarah Evershed began her career as a filmmaker while studying in India where she made a short documentary about globalizationâs effects on sacred sites in Sikkim. After getting her degree in English and Anthropology from Pitzer College Sarah became a production coordinator for World of Wonder productions. She worked on shows for major networks including HBO, Bravo, Discovery, Oxygen and VH1. In her spare time she produced 6 short documentaries for Current TV. For two years she worked full time at Current TV in San Francisco in their Viewer Created Content and Collective Journalism departments. She has been published in Anthropology Today, The Royal Anthropology Institute and Tricycle Magazine. Sarah currently lives in Los Angeles where she is the Director of Distribution for a new media company and is working on her own feature length documentary. Her interests include new media, old films, global networks and local food.
Seandor Szeles, a graduate student at New School University encountered foreign film in a Theology in Cinema class where he studied the Italian Neo-Realist movement, an interest that grew when he spent a semester in Italy. After receiving his bachelorâs degree in English Literature from Saint Josephâs University in Philadelphia, he moved to New York and splits his time between school, writing and working for a multimedia production company in Chelsea.
Priyanka Borpujari is a freelance journalist based in Mumbai. Forever looking out for chances to get out of the mad city, she is also always on the lookout for those small signs where humanity is visible at its best, and worst. Next, she gets down to write about them and sell her pieces, mostly written with overwhelming emotional zeal, to publications which would see through her words, all that she has experienced. She has covered war zones like Dantewada in Central India, much before it was labeled as the epicenter of Maoist violence, as well as Kalinganagar in Orissa, which will soon be the ground for a civil war. When not writing, she is either sketching or making utensils and jewelery out of waste paper.
For twenty years Erica Briggs was a traveling gypsy in America, moving from coast-to-coast and back again, including trips both north and south of the borders as well as a brief stay in Florencia, Cuba. She studied people of color in film at Mills College in Oakland, California. Her master's thesis from Cornell University explored the social construction of race in America. She taught creative writing at a correctional facility for girls in Lansing, New York and general education at a program for adjudicated youth in Micanopy, Florida. She had an extended tenure in the Black Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach where she taught creative writing and Black Theater. Erica writes regularly on tothemthatlovegod.blogspot.com. Her favorite ministry is that of motherhood; her daughters, a four-year-old and an 18 year-old now in college, are a source of both pride and humility. The latter is how she seeks to live, a simple, highly spiritual life committed to learning through cultural exchange and healing through the power of the word. www.ericaabriggs.blogspot.com