Berber women in south-west Morocco harvest Argan nuts from Iron Wood trees for both their medicinal and culinary use. Argan oil is reputed for its many benefits including treatment of heart disease and is particularly popular in France.
The fact that the nuts acquire a foul aroma in passing through the animal’s digestive tract makes it easy to tell this oil apart from food-grade produce with its rich, walnut oil-like flavor. Read the rest of ‘argan oil’ »
A poetic short film about a walking blind young boy. The sound plays the head role. Read the rest of ‘blind boy walking’ »
What’s the use of a title? They don’t make it, the beautiful die in flame- suicide pills, rat poison, rope whatever…
they rip their arms off, throw themselves out of windows, they pull their eyes out of the sockets,
reject love , reject hate ,reject, reject. Read the rest of ‘it’s my life’ »
Love hurts, love scares, Love wounds, and mares, Any heart, not tough, Or strong, enough To take a lot of pain, Take a lot of pain Love is like a cloud Holds a lot of rain Love hurts, ooh ooh love hurts Read the rest of ‘love hurts’ »
“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I’m halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God….I could be eating a slow learner.”
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Whales are sensitive, social animals with highly developed nervous systems. They have a profound capacity to suffer distress, terror and pain: like humans do. “I, I wish I could swim. Like dolphins can swim, ….” Read the rest of ‘killing dolphins’ »
Mario, my friend and OL cartoonist, has a new music project. Special Choir is an ensemble of musicians who use an unusual instrument- the conch shell. This work of nature is the original trumpet, used since 10,000 B.C. The choir uses these instruments through the filter of all kinds of music- drum and bass, Brazilian rhythms, gospel, Indian raga, renaissance. But the discovery of the amazing physical sound of the conch shells (especially played together) has led this group to a simple, open, form of minimalism. It is an expression of the fascination and joy of making long, skull vibrating sounds. Read the rest of ‘conch shells’ »
google banned Oskar Lewis because of to much nudity… jeezes… 17.668.388 viewers for the productplacing video ‘Telephone’. Read the rest of ‘lady gaga & beyoncé’ »
“Maybe for detached observer my creative work may seem like some kind of delirium of drunk angels, but actually each work of art I create contains a relevation, which partly is hidden, but other it’s parts gets denuded before the viewer. It’s such a marginal twilight world which I fill with my metaphors, and then I build these images on them like on frameworks.” A. Berzinsh. Read the rest of ‘delirium of drunk angels’ »
Hindu devotees and others enthusiastically drop their inhibitions, and chase each other in temples and through the streets, playfully splashing colorful paint, powder and water on each other. People also attend bonfires to commemorate the story of Prahlada, a Hindu figure and devout follower of Lord Vishnu who prevailed over his father and the demoness Holika with the power of his devotion.
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Lucian Freud: “At the outset there is always a mystery. We cannot know what a painter brought to painting or what drew him to it. Yet everything he paints throughout his life adds to our understanding of one or both these things. Read the rest of ‘Lucien Freud: man at work’ »
Over the past few weeks parades and celebrations have taken place throughout Europe, the Caribbean and South America: it is Carnival Season in many countries around the world with a Roman Catholic heritage. Read the rest of ‘carnaval’ »
“greasy oilpastels on super qualitypaper” Hannablue is having an exhibition of her warm welcome work in Ekeren, Belgium, 20 march. Desires, seduction, feelings, speech, birth, the soul, wisdom, dreams, divinaties, intuïtie, anonymity, the seasons, human relations, old tales: Allegories in Ladyland Read the rest of ‘hannablue art: reds’ »
Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids. Read the rest of ‘birth’ »
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