When the sky made its descent

Impossible is nothing!!

Every now and then,that pretty little restless butterfly within turns violent and flaps its ever so delicate wings not so delicately.When 'Now' is not all that happening and the tomorrow seems like its never going to happen i resort to trolling the net,books,art,music and life in general,to break through the clutter of thoughts!!

Chanced upon these awesome pieces of work during one of my recent 'trolling the seabeds of facebook'.They are bound to bring a smile to your face if not bring back the spunk back in your stride :-)

These pictures are a part of the 'Totems project' by French photographer Alain Delorme.This series captures the grit and 'balance of power' of the Chinese daily wage worker.Truly Impossible is nothing!!

Triggers!!

10 words that can't be translated to English

Came across this interesting compilation,thanks to Dipani Sutaria,these are my personal favorites :-)
If you'd like to check out the whole list http://listverse.com/2010/09/23/10-words-that-cant-be-translated-to-english/

1.Wabi-Sabi

Language: Japanese

Much has been written on this Japanese concept, but in a sentence, one might be able to understand it as “a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay.”

2.Torschlusspanik

Language: German

Translated literally, this word means “gate-closing panic,” but its contextual meaning refers to “the fear of diminishing opportunities as one ages.” This partly explains why so many older people wish to ‘recapture their youth’ – in order to try re-establish their, perhaps, passed opportunities.

3.L’appel du vide

Language: French

“The call of the void” is this French expression’s literal translation, but more significantly it’s used to describe the instinctive urge to jump from high places.

4.Ya’aburnee

Language: Arabic

Both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person, because of how difficult it would be to live without them.

5.Saudade

Language: Portuguese

One of the most beautiful of all words, translatable or not, this word “refers to the feeling of longing for something or someone that you love, and which is lost.” Fado music, a type of mournful singing, relates to saudade.

6.Mamihlapinatapai

Language: Yagan (indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago off the coast of South America)

“The wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start.” This explains so much for my failures with women.

7.Hygge

Hygge is something we all want all the time – but seldom have. It is a Danish word meaning a “complete absence of anything annoying, irritating or emotionally overwhelming, and the presence of and pleasure from comforting, gentle and soothing things”. It is especially associated with Christmas time, grilling Danish sausage on long summer evenings and sitting around lit candles on a rainy night. What an amazing word

8.Kyoikumama

No doubt we are all familiar with the stereotype of Japanese mothers who push their children far too hard when it comes to schoolwork. Well, so have the Japanese; they even have a word for it: kyoikumama. Literally translated this means “education mother”. Kuoikumama can be seen in many Japanese movies, literature and, despite western nations having similar parents these days, it does not have a word exactly like it in English.

9.Uitwaaien

Literally, this Dutch word means to walk in the wind, but in the more figurative (and commonly used) sense, it means to take a brief break in the country side to clear one’s head. It is amazing that one word needs so many in English to make the same sense. In fact, it is so amazing that I might need to take an uitwaaien before I continue on with this list!

10.Tingo

This is a word that hopefully few of us would need to use. It comes from Easter Island and it means a person who borrows things from a friend’s house one by one until there is nothing left. I guess the closest thing we could use in English would be “thief”, but then, usually, a thief is not a friend to begin with. Perhaps this is a particularly common problem in Easter Island

Redo.Renew.Refresh

Crackling...

Have you ever heard the crackle of electric wires as they sway like swings abandoned by impatient children,its a surreal feeling walking below them...So much power just waiting to be unleashed...to light up homes and lives...
Feel like an electric wire today as i sway to the rhythm of life,careless,unabashed at the stares shot my way at this display of arrogant oblivion...

Holding my dreams close to my heart i swing higher and higher to the point of tipping over!!Dreams that come alive when the world sleeps and the mind wanders into the wonderful world of the unknown...Where magic takes over and reality is so far away!In the twilight i sit with arms stretched high in the hopes of touching delicate candy floss clouds!Take a ride on a whispy white cloud to new possibilities...

Love the crackling electric wires for weaving dreams built on webs of a future untold!!

For the first time...

As 2010 slowly grinds to a halt and the last minute of the last hour prepare to bid farewell to the year gone by.
Was mulling over the year gone by...

Realized there were quite a few things i landed up doing for the first time or realizing for the first time.Here are the ones i can remember.

1. Good friends and great conversation cant compare to any of the riches of the world.
2. Truly appreciated the power of words.
3. Took to the brush after a good10 years!!loving it!
4. Have had one too many midnight conversations in the last year than i've had in my 26yrs!!Loved every minute of it!!Tx to all my nocturnal friends!!
5. Didn't let the numbers do the talking.
6. Binged on junk food for 5 days straight,only to learn too much of a good thing loses its flavor after a while.
7. Got 2 tattoos on the same day!!Yaaayy
8. Health is wealth,no fun when your at the doc every other day
9. Connected with beautiful strangers,unabashed,unafraid and enlightened!
10. Laughed so hard felt my gut pop out...
11. Lived,learnt and loved
12. Found a deeper connect in the places you'd least expect
13. Solitude is a gift we don't gift ourselves often enough.
14. Loved the feeling of freezing in cold on a terrace top with the cold wind and a warm thought for company.
15. Family gives you the time and space when you need it the most.
16. Set up a tent on an unfamiliar beach!
17. Fought the hardest than i've ever fought for what i believe!
18. Am living part of the dream already...till dreams evolve.
19. Tried my foot at a fish spa,if you haven't had a million fish exfoliating your feet you haven't really been tickled.
20. Trusted my thoughts without a second thought
21. Have learnt the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
22. Cheques don't always make you happy.
23. Took the longest bath i've ever taken a good 2 hours!!
24. Life is a whole bunch of wild,fun projects...a self proclaimed Project Addict!!
25. Mad conversation must be entertained!!
26. Celebrated Astra's birthday with an ice-cream cake!!Finally a cake she likes more than me!
27. Used more post-its and scribble pads in this year than i've done before
28. Reconnected with so many old friends and laughed about the years gone by and dreamed silly dreams of the years to come!!
29. Realized its OK to say NO when you don't believe
30. Hung upside down!
31. Bought an expensive watch i will probably never wear
32. Have indulged the unknown,with arms wide open and butterflies in my belly
33. Found a friend in the words of Allanis!
34. Ate biryani and nachos for breakfast!
35. Painted my room purple!!
36. Got left behind in a train :-( not as scary when your 26,but nevertheless my first!
37. Ate rassam pani puri!!hahahaa wasn't as bad as it sounds!
38. Gave away something that shouldn't have been given away in the first place,only to find something i wouldn't have found without giving that away.
39. Perspective is what makes you the person you are.
40. Learing to experience life...

Feeling on a global scale!

Like many posts that haven't seen the light of day this one too was frozen in my cold storage drafts for a while now.Had come across this really unusual and interesting site a long time ago.
Its an amazing project created by #Jonathan Harris.I stumbled upon his #Tedtalk video recently and there are some points he made that jumped right out and caught my attention.

•  We define ourselves by our gaps[be it educational,religion,income...]
• We have a very deep need to express ourselves and with the internet and all the online media platforms,we now leave behind digital footprints of these moments of self expression

Heres the link to the video,its amazing how its able to capture human emotion so beautiful!!The correlation is fantastic!!We are all a part of so many social experiments we are unaware of!!

Jonathan Harris 

http://wefeelfine.org

It maps feelings on a global scale,their systems search blog posts for the phrase 'I am feeling' or 'i feel' every few minutes.Resulting in a database of over 15,000-20,000 new feelings everyday.


What i love about this site is the unique artful display of these feelings,instead of having a steady stream of feeling updates[say like a twitter feed or fb feed]they've come up a beautiful collage of bright coloured particles that represent a particular feeling posted by a single person.Click on a particle and it throws up the feeling and a picture!Their systems also organize the feeling wherein each particles colour,size,shape,opacity reflects the nature of the feeling.


The feelings are broadly classified into 6 movements

1.Madness
The madness movement is a birds eye view of humanity stripped of its walls feelings exposed.It is a movement with a networks of tiny colourful particles  designed to echo the human world. Seen from afar, Madness presents a massive number of individual particles, each colored and sized uniquely, each flying wildly around the screen, proclaiming its own individuality. 

2.Murmurs
Murmurs, the second movement, presents a highly structured environment in which to view human feelings. As this movement begins, every particle on screen gently floats upwards, eventually bouncing off the ceiling several times before settling. Then, one by one, the particles are excused from their attraction to the ceiling in order to join a simple scrolling list of human feelings, organized in reverse chronological order. The sentences appear letter by letter, as if being typed by their author, and fade to black as new sentences appear. 

3.Montage
Montage, the third movement, was created to answer questions like: what does sadness look like? Happiness? Loneliness?

Montage presents the feelings from a given population that contain photographs, and displays these photographs in a simple grid of variable size, depending on the number of photographs available. Any photograph in the grid can be clicked, causing it to zoom in to the size of the screen

4.Mobs
Mobs, the fourth movement, consists of five smaller movements, each of which utilizes a self-organizing particle system to configure its shape, color, distribution and physics to best express the different zeitgeists of: feeling, gender, age, weather, and geographical location.
Mobs (Feeling) displays the most common feelings in the sample population. In this movement, the particles self-organize into rows of shared feelings. The rows are sorted by the number of particles they contain, and the particles within each row are sorted by the length of the sentence that each particle contains. The rows are colored to inherit the chosen color of the feeling they represent. Any particle can be clicked to reveal the sentence within.

5.Metrics
Metrics, the fifth movement, consists of five smaller movements. Whereas Mobs expresses the notion of “Most Common”, Metrics expresses the notion of “Most Salient”. A full discussion of the difference between “Most Common” and “Most Salient” is here. Essentially, the traits listed in Metrics are those that best distinguish the sample population from the global average (i.e. how is this population different?). Metrics displays the most representative traits of the sample population, along five axes: feeling, gender, age, weather, and location.

6.Mounds
A small scrollbar below the mounds represents the entire database of feelings, and allows the viewer to jump to a specific point in the list. The viewer can also position the mouse near the left or right edge of the screen to cause the mounds list to self-scroll. Above each mound is listed its feeling, along with the rank of that feeling, and the total number of occurrences of that feeling contained in our database. Clicking the feeling above a mound retrieves feelings from people who feel that way.




Result a delightful artwork authored by the world!!reflecting our emotions,what's in our hearts and minds shrinking the world just a more.