Beyond The Gold’s Worth

For this post I wanted to steer away from my typical post and talk about having a friendship that is truly worth more than gold. In one of my Facebook post I reminisced about how lucky of a guy I am to have found a great group of friends. Growing up I had learned to accept that I couldn’t call everyone my friends. In a world like today you really got to be careful who you call your friends. It’s hard to find people you can trust to be there for you no matter what but I truly believe that I have found a group of friends that is worth more than gold. The group of individuals that made their way into my life, I wouldn’t give them up. You can’t put a price tag on a real friendship. Yes. money can get you basically anything you want but not true friends. Money can make you happy but it can’t listen to your problems and help you get through them. If you have a quick second please take a moment right now and comment below. Tell me your concept of a true friendship.

Beyond The Tepui

A team of three set out on a exhibition to one of earth’s wonders.

The team of Joe Riis, National Geographic photographer, Mark Synnott, North Face climber, and Dr. Bruce Means, the scientist, traveled to Mount Weiassipu. Mount Weiassipu is located within Guyana, South America. They traveled to the top of the mile high Tepui.

This video displays some of the most amazing still photography images. They capture the essence and wonders of what nature truly looks like.

One of my passions is to travel the world and explore the known and unknown wonders of this world. After watching this video, my eagerness to want to go on many exhibitions just spiked through the roof.

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Beyond The 2,500-Year-Old Mummy

One team on Friday Dec. 5, embarked on a journey to uncover a fragile Egyptian coffin that held the remains of a 2,500-year-old mummified 14-year-old Egyptian boy.

A team of three scientists and a conservator at Field Museum on Chicago, I.L., had taken the lid off the Egyptian coffin using specially created clamps as a cradle to lift the coffin’s lid, according to Associated Press writer Caryn Rousseau. The had uncovered the coffin in a humidity-controlled lab. To bring the coffin into the room they had used surgical gloves to lift the coffin and walk it safety to a table.

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The Field Museum received this artifact back in the 1920s from the Chicago Historical Society.

The artifact is set to premier in fall of 2016 in a showcase called “Mummies: Images of the Afterlife.” Rousseau stated that the artifact is “expected to premier in September at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, then travel to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in fall 2016.”

Read the full story at http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-scientists-open-egyptian-mummy-coffin-061832763.html

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Beyond The Thankful Festivities

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First off, I want to say Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate this day of feasting.

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If you and the family are looking for a great holiday movie to bring everyone together, I recommend the movie Free Birds. It’s a great movie for the kids. Free Birds is about two turkeys traveling back in time to take turkeys off the menu for thanksgiving. I watched this awhile back with my family and I can honestly say I really enjoyed the movie.

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Don’t forget to catch, if not all but one of the NFL games that are coming on today. I know some of you got those type of families who loves to chow down on food and watch some good ol’ American football. The first match up of the day will be between the (5-6) Chicago Bears and the (7-4) Detroit Lions. This will be their first of two match ups of the season. The Lions are second in the NFC North division and the Bears sit right behind them in third place.

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The second matchup of the day will be between the (8-3) Philadelphia Eagles and the (8-3) Dallas Cowboys. This should be a great match up between two great teams looking to take first place in the NFC East division. This will be their first of two match ups of the season. Tony Romo and the Cowboys will look to beat the Eagles. Mark Sanchez and the Eagles will try to continue keep their momentum from last week’s win over the Tennessee Titans, to secure a victory.

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The last game of the day will be between the (7-4) Seattle Seahawks and (7-4) San Francisco 49ers. There is no doubt in my mind that this will be a heated matchup. The Seahawks are the team that stopped the 49ers from going to Super Bowl XLVIII. This will be their first of two match ups of the season. Both teams will be fighting for second place in the NFC West division.

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Beyond The Surface Of The Water

There are a vast variety of different forms of art in this world, some of which we may have never seen or heard of before. Paper marbling is one form of art that I really grew very interested in. In both the Islamic and Turkish cultures, they call this type of art, Ebru. Ebru is just another word for paper marbling. Some day I would love to design something using this technique. The video up above is truly a breathtaking video. If you love art you have to love the nature of the art, the colors, the style and the art overall breathtaking. You have to admire creativity. The colorful dots that you saw in the video is tragacanth. Tragacanth is a type of natural gum. Most of the type of brushes an artist will choose to use are horse hair brushes.

There are a variety videos on YouTube where someone is creating something using this technique. I honestly think this technique is one of the most creative art techniques. It’s not something simple; it’s not like the rest of the art techniques you see everywhere. This is a popular technique in most cultures but not a lot people really know about it. If you have time I recommend, watching other videos to learn more about this technique.

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Beyond The E-Traces

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When you think of ballet you really don’t think of technology. Before, I thought putting those two words together didn’t make sense but then I came across this video on Facebook. A designer by the name of Lesie Trubat has created a new piece of technology called Electronic Traces. Electronic Traces are pointe shoes that are capable of tracing the movement of ballet dancers. While it’s recording the dancer’s movements, it’s sending traces of the moves to the application in your mobile device. I think it’s cool that dancers will get see their own movement. I personally think dancing is a form of art but in its own unique way. Click the link below to see the full story.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/19908/20141111/high-tech-ballet-shoes-visualize-a-dancers-movements-as-a-work-of-art.htm

Beyond The Aspects Of The Design

Photo of Steven Spazuk “Courtesy of Steven Spazuk/Slate”

When it comes to works of art the most fascinating aspect is the design process used to make it. Every artist has their own unique methods, which they use to design their works of art. There are many different ways you can design a work of art, some of which I have never heard of or seen. Artist Steven Spazuk uses the process of fire-painting to create his works of art. Check out the intriguing video of Spazuk using the fire-painting technique below. According Mature Nature Network (MNN) Spazuk first started using the technique of fire-painting back in 2001. From what I’ve seen Spazuk has a lot captivating works of art.

In a blog post on Slate.com, Kristin Hohenadel, a blogger, quotes Spazuk talking about where he got his inspiration to start fire-painting.

“”People always ask me this question and every time I am sort of embarrassed by it,” the artist tells me in an email. “The truth is that I dreamt of it. I was in a gallery (in my dream) and was looking at that black and white landscape and I knew that it was done with fire and completely understood the technique. In the morning when I woke up I remembered that dream and started to experiment. It was an instant love affair with the medium. That was in April of 2001 and I have been working with fire ever since.””

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You can check out more of his work out at www.spazuk.com/fr/home-spazuk.php

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Beyond The Pumpkin Designs

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Are you surfing the Internet looking for pumpkin design ideas. Well, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) staff writer, Margaret Gallagher, offers tips for designs for pumpkin carving from experts. Check out her article on the CBC News website.

Pumpkin carving is a messy job but the end result is worth it. Pumpkin carving will help you get into that Halloween spirit. I remember my first time carving into a pumpkin it didn’t look that great but I can say that I at least tried. Cutting into the pumpkin and taking out the seeds out is such a magical moment. It makes you look like you’re a surgeon operating on a patient, It’s just you and the pumpkin. I’m a huge fan of pumpkin pie and pumpkin seeds. So I like to put the seeds in the oven afterwards. Besides that, we know Halloween is all about the candy.

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Beyond The Deadly Hallows Paint

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For this blog post I wanted to go with the topic of Halloween, since it’s right around the corner.

I decided to surf through the web to find Halloween makeup artist and I came across this one individual who was featured on ABC News. The Nikki Shelley, 33, is a makeup artist who really has a lot of talent. Shelley she’s one of those artist who developed her skills through self-teaching. I was impressed by her All Hallows’ Eve face paint collections that went viral. My favorite one of her face paintings is the scary clown face, face painting. The way Shelley is able to hide her face behind the paint, blend colors and make everything like authentic and real is beyond amazing. To be able to mix light and dark colors, shade and apply details to make everything seem real is a skill set that takes a lot of patience. For a self-taught makeup artist, I think Shelley is a heck of an artist.

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Beyond The Idealisitic

For this post I wanted to take everyone back in time to talk about different historical time periods. This is more of a heavy read post but I wanted to take everyone further beyond today’s modern art. I decided to analysis different art works from different periods, to help everyone to understand the ideals of ancient art.

Photo of “Discobolus of Myron” (Discus throw) Courtesy of Wikipedia

When trying to understand where some of the ideas of Ancient Greek art came from, some of ancient Greek art ideas were borrowed from Egypt and Mesopotamia. We can look at the marble copy of Myron lost bronze statue of the Discus Thrower. The marble copy is a copy of Myron’s original bronze sculpture. The discus thrower was also referred to as the Discobolus that was sculpted by sculptor Myron. The marble sculpture of the Discus Thrower is a sculpture from the Early and High Classical periods. The Classical Period (480-479 BCE) was a period where a lot of emphasize on what was tasteful and perfect. Myron really emphasizes on the physical aspects of the Olympic Discus Thrower. Myron emphasized on that three-dimensional aspect of showing a 5’ 11’’ feet tall sculpture in motion. Greeks art really emphasizes on male nudity. Their Olympic games was where athlete competed in the nude. Greek athletes of that time competed in the nude, where they showed a sense of openness but that does not apply to most cultures now. The sculpture is captured within a very chaotic and harmony style. It feels like Myron tries to emphasize of the idea of perfection. When looking at the sculpture it sort of look like a non-naturalist human pose, because of the way he’s about to throw the discus. The sculpture resembles sort of the ideal figure of a male athlete.

When we look at the Hellenistic Period (334-323 BCE), the Hellenistic Period was a period about the concepts of unprecedented realism and heightened emotions. When we think about art from the Hellenistic period we can think of the 4’ 2’’ tall bronze sculpture of the seated defeated boxer from Rome, Italy. The statue is a statue that shows an old boxer with a broken nose and bruised ears. Still within the Hellenistic Period Greek sculptors really emphasizes on the aspect of nude athletes. When you look at the structure you can draw a lot of emotions from this statue. His face is really shows a lot of emotion, the senses of being exhausted and sad. We can draw that sense of the defeat boxer not yet being defeated quite yet, he’s ready for another round. The boxer could be looking up to the heavens asking his God to for the strength to carry on. You can see the heighten realism emotional part about being battered and tired within this sculpture. He is in a sort of dazed state of mind, as if he is thinking of something.