Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Bill Clinton blue dress, GW Bush's towers

(Kim Iversen) Another Epstein related 'suicide' (shot AND hanged) connected to crooked Clintons

When Zionist Dick Cheney ruled
(ETimes) Epstein had a painting of buddy Bill "Bubba" Clinton in the blue single-polkadot dress Monica "Lollypop" Lewinski ruined on their date. Cheeky devil. Epstein also had a painting (shown below) of George W. Bush holding paper airplanes over knocked down Jenga towers. Whatever could these artworks be referring to? *Grunt, guffaw, nudge-nudge, wink-wink*

Sunday, November 2, 2025

Realms of the Dharma: LACMA exhibit



Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) 
LACMA has an excellent permanent collection.
"Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art Across Asia" presents an international survey of Buddhism and Buddhist art, beginning with the religion’s origins in India and following its spread through mainland and island Southeast Asia (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Indonesia), the Himalayas (Kashmir, Nepal, and Tibet), and East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan).


Incorporating 180 masterpieces of pan-Asian Buddhist art, the exhibition introduces key concepts of Buddhist thought and practice viewed through the prism of rare and extraordinarily beautiful Buddhist sculptures, paintings, and ritual objects.

Drawn from LACMA’s permanent collection, with several significant loans from private collections, the exhibition explores:
  • the life of the historical Buddha,
  • the role of the bodhisattva or Buddhist savior,
  • Buddhist cosmology,
  • and such key concepts as Dharma, karma, nirvana, mantra, mudra, and mandala.
The show focuses on art associated with such key phases of Buddhism as Theravada (early monastic Buddhism), Mahayana (the “Great Vehicle” populism), Vajrayana (the “Diamond Vehicle”—tantric or esoteric Buddhism), and Chan (Zen).


While closed on the Day of the Dead, the exhibit reopens along with the museum on Nov. 2, 2025, and continues until July 12, 2026. Ticket purchase necessary. Discounted for members.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

20 ancient, unexplained CAVE paintings


Chhattisgarh is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the 17th most populous [14]. It borders seven states:
  1. Uttar Pradesh to the north,
  2. Madhya Pradesh to the northwest,
  3. Maharashtra to the southwest,
  4. Jharkhand to the northeast,
  5. Odisha to the east,
  6. Andhra Pradesh and
  7. Telangana to the south [15].
Formerly a part of Madhya Pradesh, it was granted statehood on Nov. 1, 2000, with Raipur as the designated state capital [16]. The Sitabenga caves in Chhattisgarh, one of the earliest examples of theatre architecture in India, are dated to the Mauryan period of 3rd century BCE. More

Oldest in Europe? Spain's caves

Centuries old Mexican cave art

Cave unexplored for 500 years reveals previously unknown Mesoamerican people 
(Discovery Future) Oct. 14, 2025: Deep within the remote mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, a team of explorers stumbled upon what they first thought was trash—only to discover it was a 500-year-old treasure hidden in the depths of a cave no human had entered for centuries. Inside Tlayócoc, the “Cave of Badgers,” archeologists uncovered 14 extraordinary artifacts crafted by a previously unknown culture now called the Tlacotepehua

 These objects—shell bracelets, stone disks, and carbonized wood—reveal a lost people who likely practiced agriculture, held sacred cave rituals, and possessed their own spiritual and artistic traditions. This discovery sheds light on a forgotten civilization that thrived in the shadow of great Mesoamerican powers like the Aztec and Maya.
  • Who were the Tlacotepehua?
  • Why did they vanish?
  • And what do their sacred offerings tell us about their beliefs, their environment, and their place in history?
Join as we explore how this cave discovery is rewriting what we know about pre-Hispanic (pre-Columbus) Mexico, uncovering the mysteries of a people lost to time.

#archeology #archaeology #LostCivilizations #MexicoHistory #AncientArtifacts #Mesoamerica #Tlacotepehua #CaveDiscovery #AncientMysteries #TlayococCave #ArchaeologicalDiscovery #HistoryDocumentary #AncientMexico #CulturalHeritage

Peru's Nazca Lines (seen from ancient balloon)

Friday, October 24, 2025

Humans lived, interacted with dinosaurs


(The Trend Burst) AI scans expose a terrifying secret buried in Angkor Wat (temple) stones
Dinosaur of Ta Prohm on syncretic Buddhist/Hindu temple wall in Cambodia.
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As if ancient Buddhist and Mexican proof were not enough, here comes another discovery from Brazil: Ancient rock art shows humans once knew dinosaurs:

In Brazil, humans and dinosaurs met
How could cavemen have known? Unless they...
(MSN) In a remote region of Brazil, archeologists have unearthed rock art dating back approximately 9,000 years, which intriguingly depicts scenes that seem to reference dinosaurs. Found alongside ancient dinosaur footprints, this discovery challenges our [current, scientific and therefore very slow-to-change] understanding of early human awareness of now presumed-to-be-] extinct megafauna and suggests that these prehistoric humans may have interacted with or observed dinosaurs or dinosaur remnants [individuals or whole unknown species of descendants], incorporating them into their cultural expressions. More
  • The history of Buddhism in Cambodia spans a number of successive kingdoms and empires. Buddhism entered Cambodia via two different streams. The earliest forms of Buddhism, along with Hindu influences, entered the Kingdom of Funan with Hindu merchants. In later history, a second stream of Buddhism entered Khmer culture during the Angkor empire when Cambodia absorbed the various Buddhist traditions of the Mon kingdoms of Dvaravati and Haripunchai. For the first thousand years of Khmer history, Cambodia was ruled by a series of Hindu kings with an occasional Buddhist king, such as Jayavarman I of Funan, Jayavarman VII, who became a Mahayanist, and Suryavarman I. A variety of Buddhist traditions co-existed peacefully throughout Cambodian lands, under the tolerant auspices of Hindu kings and the neighboring Mon-Theravada kingdoms.
  • VIDEO: Mysterious Ica Stones of Peru show humans, dinosaurs (Brien Foerster)
On the walls of the famous Khmer rock art of Buddhist Cambodia, with strong Hindu and Jain syncretism, there are stone depictions of a very famous dinosaur that was only "discovered" and made popular by the West in the last century or so: the stegosaurus.

Many living dinosaurs were known to humans.
Moreover, a German expat bought land in Mexico which, when he surveyed it on horseback, yielded a series of ceramic figures, more than 30,000 of them. This is the Acambaro Figures Collection. Some showed cryptids, while others showed humans on the back of dinosaurs, playfully riding them. This entire collection was deemed a hoax, as if Mexican farm hands had built a ceramic workshop and fabricated the priceless works of art. Even if that's the case, HOW could Mexican farmers possibly know what dinosaur fossils -- which had not been discovered yet and had certainly not been brought into the popular imagination like they are now with cartoons like The Flintstones (pre-Mandela Effect)?

Monday, October 20, 2025

Jewel heist at the Louvre, France


What we worship: Monas over mountains
(Channel 4 News) No one cared about the Mona Lisa until someone stole it in 1911. Then it became famous, was recovered, became subjected to the Mandela Effect, and grew in fame every year since, until an entire wall then room became dedicated to it. When we visited, the rooms were beautiful, even the halls were grand, but the mob in front of this one painting was ridiculous. At that time it could still be photographed, but taking a photo of the photographers seemed more appropriate.


Now it has a shield and guards, and goodness knows it's probably not the original, just a forgery with the real thing in a safe somewhere. The Louvre's security is behind the times, possibly because Pres. Macron's husband (and the couple's ridiculous fight with American Candace Owens about gender) and the riots in the streets are sucking all the oxygen and discretionary funds that should be applied to keeping the imperial booty and irreplaceable treasures in this pyramidal repository safe.

  • Channel 4 News, Oct. 20, 2025; former jewel thief Larry Lawton, CNN, Oct. 20, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Bridget bridges ET and human races


I live joyfully in the Southwest in Arizona
The dominant past lives (rebirths) as a human that I utilize and work with are as a Wiccan "nature woman" and as a Druid. In both lives, I developed an incredible connection to nature and other realms.

In my Wiccan life, I am a medium helping humans and their passed over loved ones.

In my Druid life, I can see through time using seers’ stones.

In both lives I am tuned in with higher realms and intimately connected with nature. These two lives know about me and actively assist me in re-awakening my abilities and my ancient wisdom.

The Hidden Power of Granite: Secrets Beneath Giza's Forgotten Pyramids | Watch
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With hypnotism, I have regressed to remember.
Mediumship and art have allowed me to perceive and intuit and have given me prophetic ability to explore the galactic frontier.

Other lives I connect with are my explorer adventurer lives. My excitement is always pulling me to new places and cultures.

I often feel my explorer life on the cool crisp sea – finding new lands and exotic cultures.

I’m also a pioneer in two lives, one going West with my family along the Oregon Trail and the other as a mountain man pioneering the Wild West.

Art and creativity are huge parts of my life, and I was wildly attracted to Europe in my youth…[because] I had LOTS of lives there.

The dominant lives are those as artists. I have major connections with the early Renaissance painter Caravaggio and his use of light as well as the emotional sensitivity of Lenardo Da Vinci.

Bridget's Balarinas by Edgar Degas
My other heart-sparking connections are as the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas and the painters of the Primitivism Movement in the late 19th century. These painters were seeing and visually capturing new frequencies and making them physical on Earth – pushing the boundaries of our view of reality and rebirthing old paradigms.

I’m very grateful for these cross-connecting influences and their assistance as guides to me in my art. (Click to view my art).

Life on other planets
Rebirth: There's life on other planets
My extraterrestrial lives are my guiding light to Fourth Density. Through an ET regression, I wholeheartedly connected with my Zeus-like Pleiadian counterpart. I remembered making a beautiful agreement with him to always remember his essence so he could guide my way back to the stars in this Earth life.

I utilize my adept emotional body from my Arcturian counterpart and often connect with my Sirian, Shakani, and Shalinaya lives.

The dominant focus for the rest of this human life is focused on Bridging-ETs, that is, planting the new frequency on Earth assisting the landing of The Hybrid Children. More: All about Bridget Nielsen

Thursday, July 17, 2025

It's Magic, This World (Pasadena Library)



EXHIBIT: It's Magic, This World.
The Eaton Fire hit three foothill cities
Art, Nature, and Sustainability by Katie Savoy is an installation that continues through Sunday, August 31, 2025, at the Hastings Branch Library.

Art, Nature, and Sustainability is inspired by Southern California's landscapes. Katie Savoy finds magic painting Nature's hidden details, from flowers to mountain views. The art, including abstract explorations of texture and fluidity, is a constant journey of growth and therapy.

She's committed to sustainability, sourcing all materials secondhand and repurposing every piece. Her hope is to share this peace and calm with Los Angeles. More info
Stronger Together: A Collaborative Puzzle Mural
Ongoing through Saturday, July 26, 2025: A colorful abstract with pencils and paintbrushes and the word ART. Each of us is a “piece” of what makes the library special! Help create a puzzle mural by decorating your own puzzle piece during this year’s Summer Reading.

Individual pieces will become part of a larger mural that will be unveiled during our End of Summer Bash on Saturday, August 2nd at Jefferson Branch Library. Designs can be about anything related to the library – a favorite book or favorite book character, or something that makes one think of the Pasadena community.]

How to Join: Pick up a puzzle piece at any Pasadena Public Library location starting Saturday, June 14th. Return decorated puzzle piece by Saturday, July 26th to be added to the mural.

Questions? Ask Marie Plug at mplug@cityofpasadena.net. We can’t wait to see what contributors create. Let’s make something awesome together!
Library Location Allendale Branch Library, Hastings Branch Library, Hill Avenue Branch Library, Jefferson Branch Library, La Pintoresca Branch Library, Lamanda Park Branch Library, Linda Vista Branch Library, San Rafael Branch Library, Santa Catalina Branch Library, Villa Parke Community Center Branch Library Audience Adults, Adults 50+, Children, Emerging Adults (18-24), Family (0-12), Infants and/or Toddlers, Preschool, Tweens Event Type Arts & Culture, Celebrations, Community & Civic Affairs, Exhibits, Summer Reading.

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Let’s talk chalk: Museum Without Walls


Sky goddess devi warrior princess?
Every summer, Pasadena puts together the Chalk Festival event so that hundreds of skilled artists can create large colorful chalk murals in a wide variety of styles and subject matter.

They range in style and subject matter, including funny, whimsical illustrations, serious portraits of people, recreations of classic masterpieces, incredible original designs, adorable characters, moving tributes, powerful statements, and jaw-dropping art.

Thanks to everyone who joined the 2025 Pasadena Chalk Festival. Thanks for braving No Kings Day protests, ICE crackdowns near the hotels, and the heat in Pasadena, coming together to create another Museum Without Walls.

Angry Jewish God creates sinful world to punish
This is a treasured event, and it doesn’t happen without artists, volunteers, sponsors, and all the wonderful art lovers who come to see the chalk murals.

All funds raised through merchandising and unique Silent Auction support the arts education programs of the Light Bringer Project throughout the year. Thanks for showing support so that we can continue to offer these programs to local youth.
  • Artist’s Applications will be posted come spring 2026. Artists are encouraged to follow for up-to-date information @pasadenachalkfestival
  • Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Monday, May 26, 2025

Oldest art on Earth twice as old as Europe's


Borneo (/bore-nee-yo/) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of 288,869 square miles (748,168 km2) and a population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses) [1, 2, 3]. Situated at the geographic center of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda Islands, located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra. The island is crossed by the equator, which divides it roughly in half. More
CAVES: Borneo has significant cave systems. In Sarawak, the Clearwater Cave has one of the world's longest underground rivers while Deer Cave is home to over three million bats, with guano accumulated to over 330 feet (100 meters) deep [28]. The Gomantong Caves in Sabah have been dubbed the "Cockroach Caves" due to the presence of millions of cockroaches inside [29, 30]. The Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak and Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Karst in East Kalimantan have karst areas that contain thousands of smaller caves [31].

History of Borneo: the original headhunters
ANCIENT HUMAN ART:
 Scientists reported the discovery of the oldest known figurative art painting, over 40,000 years old (perhaps as old as 52,000 years old), of an unknown (bull) animal, in the cave of Lubang Jeriji Saléh on the island of Borneo in Nov. 2018 [52, 53]. It has been proposed, based on house construction styles, linguistic, and genetic evidence, that Madagascar may have been first populated from southern Borneo. More
Science?
Gold standard peer reviewed publication
Figurative cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date to at least 35,000 years ago (ka) and hand-stencil art from the same region has a minimum date of 40 ka1. Here we show that similar rock art was created during essentially the same time period on the adjacent island of Borneo. Uranium-series analysis of calcium carbonate deposits that overlie a large reddish-orange figurative painting of an animal at Lubang Jeriji Saléh-a limestone cave in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo-yielded a minimum date of 40 ka, which to our knowledge is currently the oldest date for figurative artwork from anywhere in the world. In addition, two reddish-orange-coloured hand stencils from the same site each yielded a minimum uranium-series date of... Source: Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo (PubMed)

The Oldest art on Earth: Discovered in a hidden Borneo cave
(documentalism) May 19, 2025: Deep in the rainforests of Indonesian Borneo, a scientist has uncovered ancient secrets hidden in unmapped limestone caves. Join Steve Backshall and an expedition team as it battles through jungle to film what is the oldest figurative cave art ever discovered — dated as being up to 50,000 years old.

This was one of the most memorable expeditions I have ever directed and filmed. It is an amazing privilege to have worked with such an amazing and competent team. In memory of the brilliant Pak Pindi Setiawan. Huge thanks to Steve Backshall, Pak Pindi Setiawan, Aldo Kane, the whole filming team and True To Nature, UKTV, FMI. Watch the full episode on the BBC: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002... Watch more wild expeditions: u.co.uk/shows/expedition-with... #Borneo #CaveArt #Expedition #AncientHistory #SteveBackshall
  • Steve Backshall, documentalism, May 19, 2025; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Summer of Love's Fantasy Fair: 1st fest


1967 Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival (home movie)
The Summer of Love of 1967 (wiki)
(Digitalbondo) The Summer of Love was 50 years ago, way back in 1967. The KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival ran from June 10th to the 11th, 1967. Here are home movies (from a kind of recording time machine) of The Seeds, Country Joe and the Fish, The Jefferson Airplane, and The Byrds by John Cuniberti. Music by The Byrds.

Why is summer for love? - It's the outfits.
June 10, 1967, was an important day for the Summer of Love and for music history.

Exactly one week later than its originally scheduled date (inclement weather the previous weekend having postponed it for a week), the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival kicked off on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, next to San Francisco.

Over two days (June 10-11, 1967), tens of thousands of music fans (many of the shiny hippies) would participate in the first rock festival in American history.


While the Monterey Pop Festival is often credited with being the first rock music festival in history, in fact it was the “Fantasy Fair” that deserves the honor.

Led by KFRC, an AM radio station, the festival featured the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, the Byrds, Sons of Champlin, and many other bands that were gaining notice throughout California and beyond.

  • Digitalbondo, June 11, 2017; Seth Auberon, Crystal Q., CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Thursday, November 21, 2024

DC politics, late night comedy (JKL)


Trump’s body-double conspiracy, Gaetz out as AG, The Rock and Guillermo in Hawaii
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Nov. 21, 2024: Criminal Ex-Congressman Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration for the role as attorney general, Gay Republican George Santos pops up again in spite of all his legal troubles, he was out on Capitol Hill showing support for criminal Republicans trying to keep them from getting in trouble, DJ Trump weighed in with some MAGA-nanimous words, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are heading up what they are calling DOGE, there is a new conspiracy theory involving a Trump body-double, Eric Trump is very busy sharing his powerful charm with our friends across the pond, a banana with a piece of duct tape sold for $6.2 million as Sotheby's art, and Security Guard Guillermo heads to Hawaii to review Moana 2 with a special appearance from show pal Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. #Kimmel

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Harvest Festival Party, Los Angeles (free)

Mom, you're embarrassing me. Sit down already. I'm going home. They're laughing at you.

Fall is here, and everyone is invited to a be in and gathering at Rhythms of the Village, above Pasadena in Los Angeles. Join us for a multicultural festival of music, foods of all kinds (lots of vegan stuff), crafts, arts, dancing, healing, and more with over 50 vendors, ethnic traditions and kids' workshops. There's a big stage and thousands are expected for this biannual event.

Come cozy up and socialize as things cool, fall sets in, and it starts getting dark sooner. Ananda will lead a group meditation and healing near the main stage, Cody will perform, and Korean dance with vegan Sam (for her plantbasedtreaty.org) and food from the Cosmic Breezeway Cafe and trucks and food stalls, healer Janell, and doula Tori (flowwithtori.com) for yoga amid the massage tables.
  • Village Fall Fest & Fashion Show
  • Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024, noon-6:00 pm
  • Rhythms of the Village (BACK LOT)
  • 2279 N. Lake Ave., Altadena, LA 90001
DETAILS AND FREE TO RSVP:

Thursday, August 29, 2024

Burning Man: 5 things everyone gets wrong

How the Burning Man festival has influenced Silicon Valley innovations over the years
I brought my family and gave them ACID - not LSD, just acetic acid, vinegar, for our tummies.

I went for the first time. Here are 5 things everyone gets wrong (Anneta Konstantinides/Insider)
Isn't Burning Man just a bunch of Mad Max cosplay wannabees in the desert? Has to be! Look at 'em
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This is "The Man" burned to stick it to The Man
I went to Burning Man for the first time in 2023 — and many people are wrong about the event.

They think Burning Man is a big music festival only attended by celebrities and CEOs. But the truth is Burning Man is full of regular people who work year-round to create an incredible sense of community.
What is this crowd of ordinary folk looking at? Burning Couple in the distance. Fire's cool.
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Enter if you dare: "The Orgy Dome"
Over the last few years, Burning Man has become known as a haven for Silicon Valley tech bros and Instagram influencers, who cough up thousands of dollars to party in "Mad Max" desert cosplay.

Mad Max, the original in the Outback of Australia
But when I went for the first time last year, I realized there's a lot that people get wrong about the legendary annual event. Now that I've done my own inaugural "Dust Angel" and gotten the full playa experience, I'm ready to correct some of the biggest Burning Man myths. Here are five things everyone gets wrong.

Let's go, Mark. - Where? - I'll kick your @$$!
Burning Man
became more prominent as it began attracting high profile Burners like billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, including supermodels like Heidi Klum and Cindy CrawfordMore via Yahoo
How this event became a city

(DamiLee) What is this magical communion of humanity? This is not a capitalist endeavor like Coachella or Lollapalooza. This is the peoples' event, powered by participants and their creativity. It's like nothing else in the world. There's a reason why 70,000 make it out to desert in a journey as tough as the good old mystery rave days before they got commercial.

CHAPTERS
  • 0:00 INTRO
  • 02:43 Evolving City
  • 05:03 NEW SITE - HUALAPAI VALLEY
  • 05:30 THE CIRCLE
  • 08:06 Safety & Accessibility
  • 08:54 AN EXAMPLE
  • 12:19 Maayan Ziv
  • 14:00 Participatory Design
Some of the footage comes from the videos published on the Burning Man official channel: burningman
Check out their work. It's amazing! I do not own any of this footage or any other footage used in this video. I use it only for the purpose of commentary. Please let me know if I missed anyone. :) GET IN TOUCH: If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you! Commenting on a video or tweeting @damileearch will be the quickest way to get a response from me, but if your question is very long, feel free to email me at hello@damilee.com. I try my best to respond to the emails, but unfortunately, there just aren't enough hours in the day! #architecture #burningman

The Mutants of Black Rock
 
(Burning Man Project) Astounding! Unbelievable! Motorized! Witness the relentless onslaught of mighty mutant vehicles into Black Rock City, the home of Burning Man in the Nevada desert. THRILL to giant alien predators on wheels. GASP at the mechanized mayhem of these strange and wonderful art cars. AMAZING! Two years in the making, Mutants of Black Rock is a production from Profiles in Dust, the all-volunteer documentary crew that’s been dealing in playa AWE AND WONDER since 2011. Catch more of their work at vimeo.com/profilesindust. Coming soon from Profiles in Dust: Out of Nothing, the first ever behind-the-scenes look at the building of Black Rock City and the dusty heroes who make it happen. You, too, can be a hero and help make it happen: gofund.me/a3e44a7b