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Diary of a marionette maker

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

Puppetry is an ancient form of performance. Some historians claim that they pre-date actors in theatre. There is evidence that they were used in Egypt as early as 2000 BC when string-operated figures of wood were manipulated to perform the action of kneading bread, and other string controlled objects. Above is a marionette I stumbled across [...]

The mosque next door

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

My opinion is just that, an opinion. Whether or not there’s ‘a right’ or some think it ‘wise’ to build a mosque two blocks from where the World Trade Center crumbled – the timing is awful. There are pivotal moments in history that require time and space for those who experience its chaos to process, accept, and [...]

Music on paper

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

..I once read that Pythagoras is credited with having discovered the physical relationship between mass and sound, (otherwise known as music), and that this relationship (expressible as ratios) is essentially what led to Galileo’s revolutionary discoveries in physics. Reading this intrigued me …could the relationship between mass and sound be the same as the relationship between [...]

Thank you…Mother Nature!

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

With such picture perfect weather,                                                                     undeniably yesterday was the most incredible day to be out and about in New York.   [...]

What does it take?

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Teachers, friends and books … three simple words, but they mean so much. This past Monday Dominick and I were having a conversation about art and asking what does it take for an artist to truly reach their potential? So I shared with him something my Kabbalah teacher Sarah told me last week, (it was [...]

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