FACEBOOK "LIKES"

What I "LIKE" on Facebook....Shadows, obscurity, abstract photos and paintings, absurdities of life, close-ups of miraculous flowers and landscapes, friends getting together to eat of perform to the camera, students who still have hope and made-it through to graduation, photo art of political and social reality, young animals and kids, non-clichéd paintings and drawings, visionary architecture, simple hard true realizations for the heart and spirit, friendship and love, revolution without murder, dark and dry humor, brilliant unique performers, good and bad singers and musicians who touch my soul, tiny details of life that are beautiful but no one notices,

LOVE NIBBLE

FUR BALL

GOOD CHILDHOOD

PUSS WITHOUT BOOTS

FRIENDSHIP

NOT EVOLUTION

ART

ART FOR ART

Broad Art Museum, Michigan

GAUDI THE MAGNIFICENT

PAINTING BY A GOD

HAPPY GRADUATION!

Survey: out of 100 recent American high school grads.....

■ 71 were physically assaulted: 28 victimized sexually (10 from date violence, 10 raped), 32 experienced maltreatment, 27 had a physical fight, 16 carried a weapon.

■ 64 had sex: 48 are sexually active, 27 used condoms, 12 on birth control pills; 21% had a sexually transmitted infection; 3-4 young women have been or are pregnant, 1 had an abortion.

■ 39 have been bullied, physically or emotionally: 16 in the past year; 29 felt “sad and hopeless” continually for at least two weeks; 14 thought seriously about suicide, six went through with the attempt.                         ■ 34 are fat, 22 live in poverty (10 in deep poverty).

NY SUBWAY STATION

Architect: James Carpenter

CINEMA ART

MARTIN SCORCESE'S

85 FAVORITE FILMS

HISTORY

Alexandre Farto

History, as taught in schools, is endless war (i.e. murder), using religion, economy, and ideology as justification for mutated animal behavior....

GAYS & STRAIGHTS FOREVER

On a positive note, there have always been and always will be gay (bi-, gay, lesbian, transgendered) people. Laws, threats, oppression, torture, and death have not been able to stop them. Just as, on a negative note, there will always be hurtful affairs outside marriage, spousal and child abuse, addictions, hypocrisy, greed, corruption, injustice, and poor people. The flawed wiring of human creatures demands it....Now, is it possible to stop hitting our societal heads against the wall of fact, and start improving the sad, often tragic lives of us all?

GOOD & EVIL HACKERS

Capitalist, Communist, Oligarchy, and Dictatorship governments around the world 

all react to their good citizens seeking justice and truth 

in the exact same way: CRUSH THEM. 

Here is only one example....

"HACKER WHO EXPOSED VIOLENT SEX CRIME 

CAN GET LONGER JAIL SENTENCE THAN 

CONVICTED RAPISTS." 

The U.S. Department of Justice should be thanking 

Deric Lostutter (the hacker), not imprisoning him.

Demand that they stop prosecution of Deric Lostutter.

http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/steubenville_lostutter

WHAT IS POSSIBLE . . .

Leosvel and Diosmani...gymnastics and strength on a French TV show. Watch until the end. Incredible. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=player_embedded&v=J2brlhHMJw0

TOUCHING

ART

MEANINGLESS STATISTICS

Does it matter if 15,000 or 18,000 people get killed. (Only the 3,000 care.) Is this news or just space-filling statistics to feel negative about?....It's obvious, more people are poorer, without hope, poisoned by the environment, manipulated by toxic leaders, and angrier without focus, and no place to put their fury.

RUBBER & REAL DUCKS GO VIRAL IN CHINA

COMMUNISTS AND OLIGARCHS HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR.....

BEST WRITTEN TV SERIES

101

BEST WRITTEN 

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE
(meaning eliminating most of the world)
TV SERIES 

OF ALL TIME
(meaning 60 years)

Chosen by WGA Members 

[Writers' Guild of America],

the professional association 

which every film/television writer joins 

(voted by internet, 6/13).....

Some great series were left out, 

but (as writer/director/teacher)

I agree with 95% of these choices. 

Every film and television student and writer 

should watch ALL of these. 

Really!

COMMUNICATION

有錢人這樣想

LAUGHING AT MY NIGHTMARE.COM

There are a so many things to do on Facebook, YouTube, 

and even in real life....

Some are worth spending a few minutes of your time.  

This is one of them.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/shane-burcaw-laughing-at-my-nightmare-documentary?c=home

GIVING UP THINGS WE LOVE

STANLEY FISH May 27, 2013, 9:00 pm 414 Comments

Moving On

By STANLEY FISH

Stanley Fish on education, law and society.

I have sold my books. Not all of them, but most of them. I held on to the books I might need while putting the finishing touches on a manuscript that is now with my publisher. I also kept the books I will likely need when I begin my next project in the fall. But the books that sustained my professional life for 50 years — books by and about Milton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Skelton, Sidney, Herbert, Marvell, Herrick, Donne, Jonson, Burton, Browne, Bacon, Dryden, Hobbes — are gone (I watched them being literally wheeled out the door), and now I look around and see acres of empty white bookshelves.

STILL SPINNING

Every morning, the old mother, who looks like the original Madonna, wakes up off her floor mat and goes out to the garden to pick up fallen leaves. No one asked her. No one thanks her or mentions it. It's just what old mothers do to help the family.

She's helped the family for 60 adult years, sending her beloved teenage son to the other side of the planet, so he could have a better life. Sending her beloved daughter to the other side of the planet, so she could have a better life. The illusion of freedom and happiness sometimes becomes real. Life without hope is always real.

This is what mothers were born to do, in Hollywood Golden Age movies and the rest of the truly impoverished world...sacrifice. Men don't know what it means, at its deepest mother-level, although too many may work at jobs that steal their spirits or fight in wars that steal their lives.

A moment of pleasure, together with the luck or misfortune of a brainless frantic sperm connecting with a patient waiting egg, often leads to a lifetime of disappointment, intolerable pain that is tolerated, or magnificent creativity that rewards a species which doesn't notice or deserve it.

Now, the mother makes traditional coffee for the sleeping man who will awaken soon to nod or say a few words, then go on about his man's business, whatever that may be.

Somehow, the pieces come together to form human existence. Another generation goes by. More leaves are picked up, more coffee made, more wars fought, more art created, more children released to their fates, more loneliness and momentary love.

There is beauty in the absurd and sad. Laughter and play may make it all worthwhile, but who is to judge. Another handful of leaves just floated from heaven to earth. Another coffee bean sprouted.

(Painting by 陳守玉)

JOSS WEDON, DIRECTOR

GRADUATES:  Action is more important than words....but words are more important than nothing.  Here are 13 minutes of funny, serious, true words than can help you, if you occasionally think of them.

The two professor-administrators at the front, who probably invited him, get his dark entertaining humor and agree. The professor in the back is probably bored and thinks he's a jerk.  You can make your own decision.  (The English is clear and non-academic.)

The problem is that at graduation ceremonies, students are thinking about partying, their dates, supportive and non-supportive families, no job, the terrifyng future, being hot or cold, holding on to their caps in the wind, eating, texting, boredom, and having a good night's sleep, hopefully with someone.

Still, the Graduation Speech Ritual is one of civilization's more useful inventions, too often unused.

http://www.upworthy.com/behold-the-bluntest-funniest-and-deadliest-graduation-speech-in-the-history-of-the-known-universe?g=2&c=upw1

CULTURAL DIFFERENCE

Pakistan is America's ally.

http://www.upworthy.com/watch-a-brave-little-girl-take-on-her-rapists-her-village-and-her-culture-2?g=2&c=upw1

POLITICAL ART CAN BE GOOD ART

ARTISTS: Self-promotion is not wrong and doesn't pollute art...if you have something worthwhile to promote.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/arts/design/ai-weiwei-dioramas-depict-his-imprisonment.html

EXPLORATION OF THE UNIVERSE

佾選的健康生活

STRAIGHT MARRIAGE / GAY MARRIAGE

Does the fact that on average married people are happier mean that we should promote marriage?

ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL / ALTERNATIVE LIFE

The diverse human struggle to live a happier, more meaningful life radiates hope.....

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/26/magazine/26look-lagos.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130526&_r=0

CHICKEN & EGG

LOCUST

NATURE IS WISE

Graham McGeorge

ART and art

GREAT ART uses many different, constantly changing, carefully chosen and carefully crafted techniques (art language) in a single painting, to reveal deeper levels of thought and feeling....

MINOR ART discovers one or two new techniques and maintains them obsessively -- afraid to break through the surface, lose control, make mistakes, do failed paintings, or lose temporal reputations and sales. This very human, but anti-creative fear can be seen in a single painting, a series of paintings, or throughout an entire career....

There is nothing wrong with minor art. It can give us great immediate visual pleasure, make us laugh, feel a simple non-challenging emotion, and make our boring ugly environment more interesting or pretty....

But minor and great art are not interchangeable, and should not be mistaken for each other by art lovers, critics, museums, buyers, art teachers, art students, or other serious artists. The actual fate of our civilization and the human spirit depend on knowing, admitting, and celebrating the difference.

REALITY TV LIFE

I watch "The Voice," "American Idol," "Undercover Boss," etc....for the pain and tears, not for the talent. Like in sports, I don't care who wins, as long as everyone appears to grow. If they reveal themselves, I feel less alone. Death is less scary if we all die, even at different rates. Thank you cynical exploitative producers for allowing us to share each other's suffering, so our own is less unique and intense....I mean it.

Vivienne Flesher

More:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/opinion/sunday/bruni-show-us-your-woe.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130519

BAZ

The thrill of pure visual cinema, giving much deeper, long-lasting aesthetic echoes than Disneyland. Nothing much to do with the book as great written literature, but who cares (except suffering English teachers, who shouldn't watch screen adaptations of anything written). Not useful for subtle people. But thrilling for introverted depressed viewers who still feel the magic of cinema, without CGI sadism. DiCaprio can act, even though he was too pretty as a boy. Rap music slaps Fitzgerald in the face, but he may enjoy being slapped. If you hated "Moulin Rouge," don't see this. If you loved "Moulin Rouge," see it. There's only 2 kinds

AMERICA'S LEAST-VISITED PARK

  

Aniakchak National Preserve, Alaska...19 visitors in 2012

FLAPPERS

Women were allowed to own and drive cars in the 1920s and 1930s. They could go dancing, have fun, have sex, explore life, make their own decisions, and live independently....

Then World War 2 came, and women worked physically hard in factories building guns, tanks, boats, and planes for America's (male) Armed Forces....

Then Peace came, and women were sent back into the home to do dishes, clean, cook, and take care of babies.

Now woman can serve in the Armed Forces, where they are often raped like Comfort Women. They can also go into battle and get killed equally with men.

Progress.

TO ARTISTS . . . . .

GREAT TAIWAN ARTISTS

Painter Chen Cheng-po (陳澄波, 1895–1947)

Chou Tzu-chao, Yilan

Doctor (2003)--film by Chung Mong-hong (鍾孟宏)

Chen Cheng-po (1936)

Parking--("Fourth Portrait," 2010)--film by Chung Mong-hong (鍾孟宏) 

WRITHING CALLIGRAPHY