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This is a random assortment of things that inspire me to create art...
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Craftsmanship by Jake Weidmann, the youngest master penman in the world.

 “The unskilled genius may have the vision, but he or she is condemned to failing it, without first acquiring the eloquence of skill.” Daniel Maidman

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"The Virgin Rainbow," an opalized fossil.

LINES LOST AMONG TREES
by Billy Collins 

These are not the lines that came to me 
while walking in the woods 
with no pen 
and nothing to write on anyway. 
  
They are gone forever,
a handful of coins 
dropped through the grate of memory, 
along with the ingenious mnemonic 
  
I devised to hold them in place- 
all gone and forgotten 
before I had returned to the clearing of lawn 
in back of our quiet house 
  
with its jars jammed with pens, 
its notebooks and reams of blank paper, 
its desk and soft lamp, 
its table and the light from its windows. 
  
So this is my elegy for them, 
those six or eight exhalations, 
the braided rope of syntax,
the jazz of the timing, 
  
and the little insight at the end 
wagging like the short tail 
of a perfectly obedient spaniel 
sitting by the door. 
  
This is my envoy to nothing 
where I say Go, little poem- 
not out into the world of strangers' eyes, 
but off to some airy limbo, 
  
home to lost epics, 
unremembered names, 
and fugitive dreams 
such as the one I had last night, 

which, like a fantastic city in pencil, 
erased itself 
in the bright morning air 
just as I was waking up. 

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Nimbus, 2010 by Berndaut Smilde

TRANSMATERIAL.NET
- a blog about materials

God's Grandeur
 by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs --
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings
The Gospel of John
Chapter 1:1-19

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.

9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

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Kintsugi - the art of redemption

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is...

from The Four Quartets, 
Burnt Norton,  II
 by T. S. Eliot

Grace by U2

Grace
She takes the blame
She covers the shame
Removes the stain
It could be her name

Grace
It's a name for a girl
It's also a thought that changed the world
And when she walks on the street
You can hear the strings
Grace finds goodness in everything

Grace, she's got the walk
Not on a ramp or on chalk
She's got the time to talk
She travels outside of karma
She travels outside of karma
When she goes to work
You can hear her strings
Grace finds beauty in everything

Grace, she carries a world on her hips
No champagne flute for her lips
No twirls or skips between her fingertips
She carries a pearl in perfect condition

What once was hurt
What once was friction
What left a mark
No longer stings
Because grace makes beauty
Out of ugly things

Grace makes beauty out of ugly things


The Artmaking of the Bowerbird... from LIFE


Cueva de los Cristales


Glow Worm Cave


Art after death ...THE JOHNNY CASH PROJECT


2 Poems by Amit Majumdar 
from POETRY
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Love—is anterior to Life--
Posterior—to Death--
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth— 

Emily Dickinson
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Basically, Popular Mechanics blog and zine for digital age.

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Original Rorschach Ink Blot Card I
Flip The Script by Christian Acker - Graffiti is one of the last reservoirs of highly refined, well practiced penmanship.  The most reviled and persecuted form of Graffiti, the tag, is seldom appreciated for the raw beauty of its skeletal letter forms. Most tags are removed immediately, and thus the casual viewer seldom has a chance to discern the difference between entry level and advanced hand styles.

Within the pages of Flip the Script, author Christian Acker has systematically analyzed a cross section of American graffiti hand styles, contextualizing the work of graffiti writers from around the United States. Acker presents the various lettering samples in a clean organized format, giving the material a proper, formal treatment evoking classic typography books.

224 pages, Hardcover, 8 ̋ x 10.5 ̋ (178 x 229 mm)
100s of 2-color illustrations, English ISBN: 978-1-58423-460-9

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden. 
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Kahlil Gibran
 "On Love" 
from The Prophet

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This Captured Lightning® sculpture was created by injecting a block of acrylic with trillions of high-speed electrons from a 5 million volt particle accelerator. 

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Fordite, also known as Detroit agate, is old automobile paint which has hardened sufficiently to be cut and polished.
Manganese nodules form in the ocean over millions of years, sometimes around a prehistoric sharks tooth.
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Furniture maker Greg Klassen
Product designer Hilla Shamia
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Benjamin Graindorge, FallenTree
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Eric Standley - laser cut paper

TIM'S VERMEER OFFICIAL TRAILER from total:spec on Vimeo.

Tim's Vermeer - the journey of one inventor to figure out how Vermeer painted so realistically.

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SIGNAL - 2014 World Press Photo of the Year, Contemporary Issues , John Stanmeyer

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 All of Gandhi's worldly posessions

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Theodore Gray's 
Popular Science Blog


Melanie Hoff's 15,000 volts (Lichtenberg figures burnt into plywood).
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3-D Paintings 
in Resin 

by Keng Lye
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The Hidden Face of God
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The Hidden Face of God
The Hidden Face of God, 2014 by Jed Malitz

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Winter Light, 2014
Winter Light
2014
Justin Sorenson
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What began as a quiet attempt to sign my name among the stars, instead became an unacknowledged gesture, lost in the middle of a silent February landscape.
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Kawika Singson On Fire
On fire: Kawika Singson was shooting in the volcanoes of Hawaii, which was so hot his tripod and shoes caught alight

Even the birds of the fields... play.

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