Friday, October 17, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
The Butterfly...
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole.
...>i<
The man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shrivelled wings.
................>i<
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened!! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shrivelled wings. It was never able to fly.
....................................>i<
The restricting cocoon, and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through its tiny opening, were nature's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings, so that it would be ready for flight, once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
......................................................>i<
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If we were allowed to go though our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been.
..................................We Could Never FLY ...!!...>i<
P.S. - Pic was taken on a trek to the smokies... (Aaahh.. the smokies..!!! :)
Content - an excerpt from TOI's sacred space.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008
Ferns and Pebbles...
Tryst with charcoal and pencils .. a starter for my sketchbook ...!!
update 04/09 - this sketch was selected cover page for Georgia Tech's art journal "ERATO"
update 04/09 - this sketch was selected cover page for Georgia Tech's art journal "ERATO"
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
Into the Wild...
This verse from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, shows up in the very first scene of this amazing movie "Into the Wild".
Must say..It mirrors my thoughts ..!!
Must say..It mirrors my thoughts ..!!
There is Pleasure in the Pathless Woods...
there is Rapture on the Lonely Shore,
There is society, where No one intrudes...
by the deep sea, and music in its Roar,
I love not Man the less, but Nature more..!!!
-- Lord George Gordon Byron
Link to the complete poemSunday, June 1, 2008
Yellow Lemon Tree...
This ones a favorite by FOOL's GARDEN ....can't help humming along :) ...!!!
am sitting here in a borin' room
It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon
am wasting my time...I got nothing to do
am hanging around...am waiting for you
Buttt nothing ever happens and I wonder....
am driving around.. in my car
am driving too fast...am driving too far
I'd like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely...am waiting for you
Buttt nothing ever happens ..nd I wonder...
I wonder how..??..I wonder why..??
Yes'day you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
nd all that I can see.. is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm turnin my head up and down..
I'm turnin turnin turnin turnin turninnn around
nd all that I can see.. is just another lemon-tree...!!
Sinnggg.. da..da da da.. da deedapda
da da da ..da deeedapda....dapdeepdeda..!!!
am sitting here...I miss the power
I'd like to go out takin' a shower
But there's a heavy cloud inside my head
I feel so tired...Put myself into bed
Well, nothing ever happens nd I wonder...
iiiisolation is not good for me
iiiiisolation ...I don't want to sit on the lemon-tree
am steppin' around in the desert of joy
Baby anyhow I'll get another toy
nd everything will happen.. nd you wonder....
I wonder how..??..I wonder why..??
Yes'day you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
nd all that I can see.. is just another lemon-tree
I'm turnin my head up and down
I'm turnin turnin turnin turnin turninnn around
nd all that I can see.. is just a yellow lemon-tree
nd I wonnder, wonnnder
I wonder how..??..I wonder why..??
Yes'day you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
nd all that I can see...nd all that I can see..nd all that I can see...!!
Is just a yellow lemon-tree...!!!
BTW informally.... a "lemon tree/lemon" is a person/thing that turns out to be defective, imperfect, or an unsatisfactory dud.
am sitting here in a borin' room
It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon
am wasting my time...I got nothing to do
am hanging around...am waiting for you
Buttt nothing ever happens and I wonder....
am driving around.. in my car
am driving too fast...am driving too far
I'd like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely...am waiting for you
Buttt nothing ever happens ..nd I wonder...
I wonder how..??..I wonder why..??
Yes'day you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
nd all that I can see.. is just a yellow lemon-tree
I'm turnin my head up and down..
I'm turnin turnin turnin turnin turninnn around
nd all that I can see.. is just another lemon-tree...!!
Sinnggg.. da..da da da.. da deedapda
da da da ..da deeedapda....dapdeepdeda..!!!
am sitting here...I miss the power
I'd like to go out takin' a shower
But there's a heavy cloud inside my head
I feel so tired...Put myself into bed
Well, nothing ever happens nd I wonder...
iiiisolation is not good for me
iiiiisolation ...I don't want to sit on the lemon-tree
am steppin' around in the desert of joy
Baby anyhow I'll get another toy
nd everything will happen.. nd you wonder....
I wonder how..??..I wonder why..??
Yes'day you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
nd all that I can see.. is just another lemon-tree
I'm turnin my head up and down
I'm turnin turnin turnin turnin turninnn around
nd all that I can see.. is just a yellow lemon-tree
nd I wonnder, wonnnder
I wonder how..??..I wonder why..??
Yes'day you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
nd all that I can see...nd all that I can see..nd all that I can see...!!
Is just a yellow lemon-tree...!!!
BTW informally.... a "lemon tree/lemon" is a person/thing that turns out to be defective, imperfect, or an unsatisfactory dud.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Creating Objects that tell stories...
Product design - Something.. that has always always excited me. Maybe this field is more n more synonymous to APPLE for most of us today.
This video here is from TED TALKS - one amazing place where zillions of groundbreaking ideas are shared. Most of the talks here are power houses of inspiration. This talk today reminded me of CEED and all the informative browsing I did a zamana back..!! (These days its constrained merely to watching random videos on Youtube or some movie every other day.)
Isn't he charming :D...!! I loved the way he concluded saying values can change the products we design.. change the companies we work for and together we can change the world into a better place. Think of designing products that are more environment friendly, ergonomic, recyclable, that can be put to multiple uses, products with a cause , products that make a difference and then "the world as a better place" isn't far off at all...
Every Product's design and its aesthetics has its own story to tell. This field has such loads of creativity involved that it awes me all the time. The one time I put in a serious thought and effort to be there doing what I wanted to, was when I prepared for CEED ...Yeah ..!! very few even know of it ...Its (Common Entrance Examination for Design). I couldn't get through...too many highly creative souls sat for it back then and one thing led to another and here I am.. doing a Masters in Industrial Engineering right now.(sob)...!!! But talk of an exam that I thoroughly enjoyed preparing for and got a lot outta doing so...this would be it...!!
These are some links that were so much fun :D
This video here is from TED TALKS - one amazing place where zillions of groundbreaking ideas are shared. Most of the talks here are power houses of inspiration. This talk today reminded me of CEED and all the informative browsing I did a zamana back..!! (These days its constrained merely to watching random videos on Youtube or some movie every other day.)
Isn't he charming :D...!! I loved the way he concluded saying values can change the products we design.. change the companies we work for and together we can change the world into a better place. Think of designing products that are more environment friendly, ergonomic, recyclable, that can be put to multiple uses, products with a cause , products that make a difference and then "the world as a better place" isn't far off at all...
Every Product's design and its aesthetics has its own story to tell. This field has such loads of creativity involved that it awes me all the time. The one time I put in a serious thought and effort to be there doing what I wanted to, was when I prepared for CEED ...Yeah ..!! very few even know of it ...Its (Common Entrance Examination for Design). I couldn't get through...too many highly creative souls sat for it back then and one thing led to another and here I am.. doing a Masters in Industrial Engineering right now.(sob)...!!! But talk of an exam that I thoroughly enjoyed preparing for and got a lot outta doing so...this would be it...!!
These are some links that were so much fun :D
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Ramblin On...
Well, FINALLY..Finally, I'm onto writing a blog :D ...never thought I'll find the patience for doing this ..!!
Joblessness, solitude and lunacy, definitely drive people to doing strange things they never thought they would.
Now that I've created one...I'd like to clarify to the very few souls I know on the face of this planet and even fewer ones reading this piece of blah, that the title of this Blog is nowhere racist... It just suggests the degree of unstructured randomness, absurdity, triviality and insanity of the posts to come. The title would seem gibberish to any sane person... I agree..!! Heres some trivia to it.
A red herring is a narrative element intended to distract the reader from a more important event in the plot, usually a twist ending.
It originates from the tradition where young hunting dogs in Britain were trained to follow a scent with the use of a red herring(salted and smoked). This pungent fish would be dragged across a trail until the puppy learned to follow the scent. Later, when the dog was being trained to follow the faint odor of a fox or a badger, the trainer would drag a red herring (which had a much stronger odor) across the animal's trail at right angles. The dog would eventually learn to follow the original scent rather than the stronger scent.
A white elephant is a valuable possession whose cost of upkeep exceeds its supposed usefulness, and is therefore treated like a liability.
It originates from the sacred white elephants kept by traditional Southeast Asian monarchs. To possess a white elephant, was regarded as a sign that the monarch was ruling with justice and the kingdom was blessed with peace and prosperity. The tradition derives from tales in the scriptures which associate a white elephant with the birth of the Buddha, as his mother was known to have dreamed of a white elephant presenting her with a lotus flower, a symbol of wisdom and purity, on the eve of giving birth. Because the animals were considered sacred and laws protected them from labor, receiving a "gift" of a white elephant from a monarch was both a blessing and a curse - a blessing because of the animal’s sacred nature and a curse because the animal could not be put to practical use.
Joblessness, solitude and lunacy, definitely drive people to doing strange things they never thought they would.
Now that I've created one...I'd like to clarify to the very few souls I know on the face of this planet and even fewer ones reading this piece of blah, that the title of this Blog is nowhere racist... It just suggests the degree of unstructured randomness, absurdity, triviality and insanity of the posts to come. The title would seem gibberish to any sane person... I agree..!! Heres some trivia to it.
A red herring is a narrative element intended to distract the reader from a more important event in the plot, usually a twist ending.
It originates from the tradition where young hunting dogs in Britain were trained to follow a scent with the use of a red herring(salted and smoked). This pungent fish would be dragged across a trail until the puppy learned to follow the scent. Later, when the dog was being trained to follow the faint odor of a fox or a badger, the trainer would drag a red herring (which had a much stronger odor) across the animal's trail at right angles. The dog would eventually learn to follow the original scent rather than the stronger scent.
A white elephant is a valuable possession whose cost of upkeep exceeds its supposed usefulness, and is therefore treated like a liability.
It originates from the sacred white elephants kept by traditional Southeast Asian monarchs. To possess a white elephant, was regarded as a sign that the monarch was ruling with justice and the kingdom was blessed with peace and prosperity. The tradition derives from tales in the scriptures which associate a white elephant with the birth of the Buddha, as his mother was known to have dreamed of a white elephant presenting her with a lotus flower, a symbol of wisdom and purity, on the eve of giving birth. Because the animals were considered sacred and laws protected them from labor, receiving a "gift" of a white elephant from a monarch was both a blessing and a curse - a blessing because of the animal’s sacred nature and a curse because the animal could not be put to practical use.
A black swan is a term indicating a hard-to-predict, large-impact and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. Many scientific discoveries are regarded black swans - undirected and unpredicted by nature.
It originates from the ancient Western conception that 'All swans are white'. In that context, a black swan was a metaphor for something that could not exist. The 17th Century discovery of black swans in Australia metamorphosed the term to connote that the perceived impossibility actually came to pass.
So much for those who care about history..!!
This name was to be... coz I had chanced upon reading a book "Red herrings and White Elephants" by Albert Jack... (once upon a time when I was officially at work). It was a random compilation of various phrases of the English language and their historical origins, a pleasurable read and the name just struck me when I wanted to drop the idea of blogging, coz it seemed, I couldn't even come up with a title that interested me.
Colors and Nature have always fascinated me... and this just seemed more apt than any other phrase that struck my cerebrum. On a cognitive note, herrings I associate with water, elephants to land and swans to flight and air, encompassing elements of nature. My degree too, now seems to me, a white elephant... expensive but worthless and impractical of sorts. I'll leave all the angst to feature in the future posts though.
Posts to come will contain snapshots of vagueness that my mind conjures up regularly, its fancies, impulsive bursts of creativity (well, thats according to me), dreams, random thoughts, people and incidents that inspire now and then, wishlists, regrets ....so on and so forth ... !!!
In short.....Some place I am going to vent it all out ..!!
This name was to be... coz I had chanced upon reading a book "Red herrings and White Elephants" by Albert Jack... (once upon a time when I was officially at work). It was a random compilation of various phrases of the English language and their historical origins, a pleasurable read and the name just struck me when I wanted to drop the idea of blogging, coz it seemed, I couldn't even come up with a title that interested me.
Colors and Nature have always fascinated me... and this just seemed more apt than any other phrase that struck my cerebrum. On a cognitive note, herrings I associate with water, elephants to land and swans to flight and air, encompassing elements of nature. My degree too, now seems to me, a white elephant... expensive but worthless and impractical of sorts. I'll leave all the angst to feature in the future posts though.
Posts to come will contain snapshots of vagueness that my mind conjures up regularly, its fancies, impulsive bursts of creativity (well, thats according to me), dreams, random thoughts, people and incidents that inspire now and then, wishlists, regrets ....so on and so forth ... !!!
In short.....Some place I am going to vent it all out ..!!
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