Ing and John’s Street Art, Downtown
Newark, New Jersey, USA- Part 3
Photographs by Ing-On
Vibulbhan-Watts
On Monday, August 28, 2019 John
added his work to the display. John’s artwork is on the far left,
“Impossible Dreamer”. “Gandhi Man of Peace”, in the middle is my artwork,
which I produced in 2010. The far right is John’s artwork “Beneath the
Lake”.
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I am very happy to have an
opportunity to display our artworks in public. There were people asking
some questions about our artwork. Some people took pictures of our
artwork. It seems to be a positive reaction from the people who view
them. People comment about the beautiful plants and unique artwork.
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts and John
Watts, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Since October 2014, the streets of
Upper Manhattan have become an unexpected destination for rare sightings of
some 314 endangered birds. The Audubon Mural Project is a collaboration between the National Audubon Society
and Gitler &_____ Gallery to commission murals of climate-threatened birds
surrounding the old neighborhood of John James Audubon.
So far 20 artworks
have been painted on storefronts, building facades, window panels, and
retractable security grates. The number of species depicted isn’t arbitrary, it
reflects a report from last year highlighting 314 birds most threatened by climate change. The growing list of involved artists includes Gaia,
Iena Cruz,
Hitnes, Lunar New Year, and many
others. You can learn more about the artworks and the birds depicted in them,
including a map of where to find them, on the Audubon Mural Project Website.
Photo: Mike Fernandez/Audubon
The Swallow-tailed Kite mural
contains 12 other climate-threatened species. The church tower to the right of
the mural is the location of John James Audubon’s final resting place.
Black-chinned Hummingbird, by Ashli
Sisk. Photo: Mike Fernandez/National Audubon Society
Brazilian artist L7M (previously)
depicts owls, ducks, sparrows, and other birds materializing from a chaotic
swirl of dripped paint and flourishes of spray. The graffiti birds not only
contrast urban and natural elements, but also depict a distinct clash of both
abstract and figurative techniques. According to Street Art News the artist was recently in Rome where he completed several
of the pieces you see here. Check out more of his latest mural work on Facebook.
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How do you fix broken public
systems? You spark people’s competitive spirit. In a talk about getting people
motivated to make change, public sector strategist Abhishek Gopalka discusses
how he helped improve the health system of Rajasthan, a state in India home to
more than 80 million people, using the powers of transparency and public
accountability. “Motivation doesn’t just appear,” Gopalka says.
“Something needs to change to make you care.”
This talk was presented at a TED
Institute event given in partnership with BCG. TED editors featured it among
our selections on the home page. Read more about the TED Institute.
Every year, TED works with a group
of select companies and foundations to identify internal ideators, inventors,
connectors, and creators. Drawing on the same rigorous regimen that has
prepared speakers for the TED main stage, TED Institute works closely with each
partner, overseeing curation and providing intensive one-on-one talk
development to sharpen and fine tune ideas. The culmination is an event
produced, recorded, and hosted by TED, generating a growing library of valuable
TED Talks that can spur innovation and transform organizations.
Watching a flower bloom is peaceful
and calming. Relax while watching a stunning 4K time lapse of blooming flowers,
while listening to soft, gentle piano music. Blooming flowers are mesmerizing
to watch, especially in 4K. Piano music is wonderful for stress relief,
meditation, relaxation, and sleep.
Butterflies and Flowers – 1 Hour Nature Meditation
with Soothing Music
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BUTTERFLIES AND FLOWERS FOR MORE THAN 1 HOUR NATURE RELAX, JOY AND HAPPINESS
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If you’ve been
looking for an opportunity to download free high resolution images of 435 bird illustrations,
you’re finally in the right place. The National Audubon Society has recently made John
James Audubon’s seminal Birds of America available to the public in a
downloadable digital library (signing up for their email list is a
prerequisite).
Birds of America was printed between 1827 and 1838, and was filled prints
created from hand-engraved plates based on Audubon’s original watercolor
paintings. In addition to the prints, each bird’s page also includes a
recording of the animal’s call, plus extensive written texts from the period of
the book’s printing.
Audubon is widely lauded as the
individual who brought an awareness and appreciation of birds’ beauty and
fragility; the National Audubon Society has been active since 1905. Explore
more of the Society’s current conservation efforts, as well as ways to get
involved, on their website. (via Open Culture)
A biochemist by
training, photographer Linden Gledhill is fascinated by the beauty of
infinitesimally small aspects of nature and science, from capturing the flight of insects to exploring the beauty of magnetic ferrofluid. Among his most jaw-dropping images are macro photographs of butterfly wings that reveal complex patterns that look
like perfectly organized flower petals. These tiny protrusions are actually
scales, similar to what you would find on reptile, though extremely small and
fragile. Gledhill’s photography recently inspired an episode of Smarter Every Day where Destin Sandlin learns how to
shoot similar photos. (via awkwardsituationist.tumblr.com)
Google + closed their
operation on April 2, of this year, 2019.
It is more than one week now. The
more time goes by, the more I miss people who followed my google + site, and
people that contributed their time to post their work in different communities. I decided to present on my website, the
contents of last day of posts on my Google+ site, which I had been shared from
other members of my community and other Google+ communities.
It is to remind me of human
interaction and relationships around the world.
Even though I did not see them in person, communication and
participation with their ideas, and work, can interconnect our feeling of
kinship. I wish all of them the best,
and hope we may meet again in the future.
The lesson one learns is that we need more interactions and
communications between all humans around the world to be able to find kinship
with one another. This communication can
help reduce human conflict and war that occurs around the world, now, and in
the future.
On this edition for Saturday, April
20, a look at what has changed on the 20th anniversary of the Columbine school
shootings, the fallout continues from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report,
and after decades of political strife and conflict Iraq’s capital city of
Baghdad is seeing an emerging art scene. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New
York.
April 2nd will be the last day of G+, I’ll be here ’till the end, but if you
want to find me elsewhere you can get in touch via my website or follow me on
Instagram.
If you’re looking for somewhere new, our new lifeboat is afloat:
This film is also available at https://to.pbs.org/hMZzq0 Watch Daniel Goldhagen’s ground-breaking documentary
focused on the worldwide phenomenon of genocide, which premiered on PBS on
April 14, 2010. To see this and other full-length PBS videos go to https://video.pbs.org. Please support your local PBS station at https://www.pbs.org/support “By the most fundamental measure — the number of
people killed — the perpetrators of mass murder since the beginning of the
twentieth century have taken the lives of more people than have died in
military conflict. So genocide is worse than war,” reiterates Goldhagen.
“This is a little-known fact that should be a central focus of
international politics, because once you know it, the world, international
politics, and what we need to do all begin to look substantially different from
how they are typically conceived.” WORSE THAN WAR documents Goldhagen¹s
travels, teachings, and interviews in nine countries around the world, bringing
viewers on an unprecedented journey of insight and analysis. In a film that is
highly cinematic and evocative throughout, he speaks with victims,
perpetrators, witnesses, politicians, diplomats, historians, humanitarian aid
workers, and journalists, all with the purpose of explaining and understanding
the critical features of genocide and how to finally stop it.
Tiffany Bozic is a self-taught
artist based in Marin, CA who has spent the majority of her life observing the
intricacies of the natural world.
Drawing inspiration from her
extensive travels to wild places, and the research specimens at the California
Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, she composes beautiful large-scale nature
illustrations blended with surreal and metaphorical themes.
To create her compositions, Bozic
uses multiple layers of watered down acrylic paint on maple wood panels which
give a realistic level of detail to each of her paintings.
See below a selection of Bozic’s
work and find more on her website and Instagram.
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Leonardo’s famous painting “The
Last Supper” hides a secret: only 20 percent of the original work is still
visible. In the style of a thriller, the documentary attempts to reconstruct
what it originally looked like. Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of the
Renaissance Man. May 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of his death. The artist
created world-famous works such as the fresco “The Last Supper” –
perhaps the most famous. It is still in its original setting, on the wall of
the dining room of the former Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in
Milan. The painting, which is 4.60 meters high and 8.80 meters wide, has been
undergoing restoration for the last 19 years. But the restorers now know that
only 20 percent of the original is visible today. So what did something that is
the focus of so many legends originally look like? Our investigation also takes
us to the small Belgian abbey of Tongerlo, where a mysterious copy of da
Vinci’s work has been discovered. It is a painting on canvas that could have
been commissioned from da Vinci’s workshop by the French King Louis XII. It has
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At the center of a galaxy more than
55 million light-years away, there’s a supermassive black hole with the mass of
several billion suns. And now, for the first time ever, we can see it.
Astrophysicist Sheperd Doeleman, head of the Event Horizon Telescope
collaboration, speaks with TED’s Chris Anderson about the iconic, first-ever
image of a black hole — and the epic, worldwide effort involved in capturing
it.
This talk was presented at an
official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.
Kinetic sculptor Bob Potts creates beautiful kinetic sculptures
that mimic the motions of flight and the oars of boats. Despite their intricacy
the pieces are surprisingly minimal, Potts seems to use only the essential
components needed to convey each motion without much ornamentation or flourish.
There is very little information online about the artist, however blogger Daniel Busby managed to get
a brief interview with the 70-year-old artist last year. If you liked this,
also check the work of Dukno Yoon .
