moving on

No write up for today’s pick. Pixar marvels as usual. There could not be a more apt piece of art to go with today’s quote. Moving on before you actually got there ! The video really talks about "moving" in more ways than one. Watch and enjoy. Geri’s Game is an animated short film made by Pixar in 1997. It was written and directed by Jan Pinkava and was the first Pixar short created after the 1989 Knick Knack. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1998.

credits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYRC7g2ICg

proximity

JR is a French photographer who chooses to be undisclosed. In 2007 he set up a Face 2 Face project along with Marco. They traveled through the Israeli and Palestinian cities and met and spoke with local people. Common people on both sides that practiced same professions like doctors, hairdressers and teachers. Using a 28 millimeter lens they took photographs in huge format of people who consented to be a part of this peace project. They realized that these people, who spoke almost the same language, looked the same were just simple people on two sides of a war zone. The Face 2 Face project consisted of taking portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and posting them face to face, in huge formats. These were put up in places where they would be seen by everyone on both Israeli and Palestinian sides. The objective was to laugh and to think by seeing the portrait oneself and that of the other. On 20 October 2010, JR won the TED Prize for 2011. Distance truly is not a measurable parameter. It’s a variable that can be bridged by sensitivity. On their blog they say, “In a very sensitive context, we have to be clear. We are in favor of a solution in which two countries, Israel and Palestine would live peacefully within safe and internationally recognized borders. All the bilateral peace projects (Clinton/Taba, Ayalon/Nusseibeh, and Geneva Agreements) are converging into the same direction. We can be optimistic. 

credits:

http://www.jr-art.net/projects/face-2-face

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR_(artist)#2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64t1or8RETQ

crossing paths

Trupti Godbole, a young talented homemaker, from India has an interesting blog about embriodery , crafts and other creative pursuits. A simple needle deftly pulling in and out of a cloth dragging along a thread is able to create such fabulous patterns. Similarly we come across so many people in one lifetime that come in an go out of our lives leaving behind unique patterns. India has such a fabulous array of design ideas where embroidery and handicrafts are concerned. Embroidery from India includes dozens of regional embroidery styles that vary by region. Designs in Indian embroidery are formed on the basis of the texture and the design of the fabric and the stitch. The dot and the alternate dot, the circle, the square, the triangle and permutations and combinations of these constitute the design. Please visit Trupti's blog for some interesting videos.
Link to her blog is as follows:

 for more visit : http://reshimgathi-crafts.blogspot.in/
images courtesy : Trupti