I enjoy the big picture that boston.com publishes because it reports world events solely with images . . . This is a photo from Dan Kitwood on men from Ghana waiting for repatriation & passports in a UN refugee camp in Tunisia a few weeks ago.
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April 04, 2011
November 16, 2010
What's Your Art? (Pencil Vs Camera - art by Ben Heine)
"What's your art?"
Everyone has something deep inside begging to show just a bit of its brilliance to the world. But somehow long ago (a year ago or 50 years ago) we learned to shelve that deep something in order to bow down & worship "expectations" - a euphemism for success guised in the routine & the mundane.
There is brilliance inside of you. Everyone has it. But not everyone risks enough to embody it. Secretly you know it's there - whether you're willing to admit it or not. But too often your friends or your family or your colleagues are the ones who unintentionally extinguish the flame of your deepest callings - because dreams seem not to be a good way to "make a living." And so you wake up yet another day to make a living & neglect to live a life.
You know what I mean. And of course not everyone can draw like Ben Heine. And not everyone can play the cello like Zoe Keating or sing like Jackie Evancho.
But everyone does have something. And the world is dying to know it. Don't live other people's small expectations for your life. Stop it - you're miserable for doing so. Begin living the giant unexpected dream God breathed deep inside of you. Rhythm into the grand risk of it. We can't wait to experience it.
May 10, 2010
It's how you learn to embrace perspective . . .
It's all in how you see the world. Look closely at this photo from George Steinmetz of National Geographic. The images of the camels are actually their shadows. The white streaks are the living beasts. Look closely.
April 19, 2010
Photo of Volcanic Cloud
A farmer in Iceland photographs the volcano's eruption. From talkingpointsmemo.com
For some truly amazing pictures and a site that records current events through photo-journalism go here.