HELP: Ekaterina Sky's Altadena Mural

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Help wanted: We need your participation to create a better world, save the planet, and heal!

Altadena Mural Project is planned for Thursday, July 24, 5:00 pm through Saturday, July 26, 9:00 pm, on Lake Ave. in Altadena, LA County. RSVP to see full location details.

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Full Project Overview

🌍 FULL PROJECT OVERVIEW

I paint by inspiration, downloading visions.

YOU are invited: Be part of the Prayer for the Earth Mural Project in Altadena. This is a community art offering for healing, hope, and reconnection.

Through the invitation of John Hopkins and Sev Dhar of Oh Happy Day Vegan Café and Grocery in Altadena, we welcome you to join the creation of Prayer for the Earth — a mural that honors grief, inspires renewal, and reminds us of our deep connection to nature and one another.

This project is a space for community healing, artistic expression, and collective visioning.

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✨ How You Can Participate

(Final schedule to be confirmed — all events will take place during the weekend of July 25–27)

Ekaterina Sky, a contemplative and inspired artist | Les Belles et les bêtes

Prayer for the Earth Mural Weekend: July 24–27, 2025

Final schedule to be confirmed

FULL PROJECT OVERVIEW

🔨 Wall Building and Assembly - Thursday, July 24th (4:00-9:00 pm): Help construct the mural wall (building and assembly of portable wall) — the physical and symbolic foundation of this prayer for the planet.

🎨 Background Painting Days - Friday, July 25th (3:00 pm base painting begins: Join in painting the mural’s first layers. No experience needed — just bring your heart and hands.

🕊 Intention and Prayer Writing - Saturday, July 26th (all day, taping and painting the background): Gather with us to write personal and collective prayers for the Earth and Altadena — adding soul to the mural’s core.

🌿 Final Reveal and Community Celebration - Sunday, July 27 (3:00 pm intentions, prayer writing; 5:00-9:00 pm, sealing prayers and community celebration): Join us for a closing ceremony with sound healing, community talks, spoken word poetry, and music as we unveil the finished mural together.

Next Zoom meeting: Wednesday, July 23

• Final logistical Zoom meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4827388921?pwd=VFNETGtuejlzMDZUQXU4VWVsZHArZz09
• Meeting ID: 482 738 8921
• Passcode: 0hk6Wc
• When: Changed to Wednesday July 23, 2025, 5:00 pm–5:30 pm (Pacific Time - Los Angeles)
• Previous Zoom: Altadena Fire Mural coordination

🌍 Supported by:

• LA Designers @Climatedesignersla
• Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal
• Dharma Buddhist Meditation (Meetup)
• Los Angeles Climate Week @laclimateweek
• Collidescope Foundation @Collidescopefoundation
• Plant Based Treaty @plantbasedtreatyla @plantbasedtreaty
• Soul Force Project @soulforceproject (live music).

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We welcome more partners, volunteers, and local community members to help bring this vision to life. If YOU care about Altadena post Eaton Fire, the Earth, or the power of collective healing — this is your invitation. Whether you build, paint, pray, or simply witness, your presence will leave a mark.

With care and gratitude,

Ekaterina Sky (ekaterina-sky.com)

Visual Artist and Creator of Prayer for the Earth

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Meetup RSVP (free):

• (Disclosure Project) HELP WANTED to create healing mural after Altadena fire with Ekaterina Sky, Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup
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• Help wanted creating Ekaterina Sky's mural
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• Art through healing: It's Magic, This World (Pasadena Library)
• Art — Altadena Library District (Art-Display-Policy PDF)
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Painting my car (in 23 dimensions)

Adam Rogers (wired.com/story); Seth Auberon (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Inside the 23-Dimensional World of A Car’s Paint Job

Painter Coco Gonzalez (Christie Hemm Klok)

Hue. Saturation. Luminance. Sparkle. Fixing a door ding is about way more than color. (Also: Why the sky is blue and clouds are white).

Adalberto Gonzalez may well be one of the best painters of cars in Northern California.

He doesn’t work in the eye-popping sparkle-and-shine mode of Cali low-rider culture, and he only rarely finds himself refinishing an Italian exotic.

Gonzalez, who goes by the nickname Coco, runs the paint room at Alameda Collision Repair, a high-quality shop that fixes slightly more than 13 cars every day, six days a week.

Painting a panel, from a simple ding to something much, much worse is the last stop in a car repair, which makes it a bottleneck.

What makes Gonzalez so good is that he's fast. He is an artist at uncorking the bottleneck. But unlike most artists, if you can perceive even the faintest hint of his work, he has made a mistake.

You’re thinking, big whoop. A car comes in, a 2015 Toyota Camry, let's say, in Ruby Flare Pearl (that’s red) needing a bashed-in door Bondo’d and sanded. You just go to a shelf and take down 2015 Toyota Ruby Flare Pearl, click a canister into an airgun, and swoosh, you’re back on the road, right?

 

Nope. Car companies have put 50,000 to 60,000 car colors on the road, but even a big body shop like Alameda Collision Repair has just 70 or 80 colors on its shelves. Turns out Gonzalez isn't just a fast painter, he’s a fast matcher. “I get the closest one,” he says, “and then I match the color.” More

Milarepa and Mad Genius

The film "Milarepa" depicts the humble beginnings of the man who was to become Tibet's greatest saint. Based on ancient oral traditions, a youthful Milarepa is propelled into a world of sorrow and betrayal after his father's death. Destitute and hopeless, he sets out to learn black magic -- to exact revenge on his enemies -- encountering magicians, demons, an enigmatic teacher, and unexpected mystical power along the way. But it is in confronting the consequences of his anger that he learns the most. Photographed in the stunning Lahaul-Spiti region of Northern India, "Milarepa" offers a provocative parallel to the cycle of violence and retribution we see consuming today's world (Duke University).

Mad Geniuses
Jane McGrath (HowStuffWorks.com)

Is insanity the secret companion to ­genius? Though we can't very well perform psychological examinations on those who are long dead, that hasn't stopped historians from speculating about the mental conditions of deceased geniuses by interpreting their personal letters, their works, and others' accounts.

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It turns out some of the world's greatest geniuses were quite mad. In fact, some scientists claim that a far greater percentage of creative types (poets, painters, musicians, and the like) have been afflicted with bipolar disorder than the general ­population. Some of the world's most renowned creative minds -- including writers Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway; composers Irving Berlin and Sergey Rachmaninoff; and painters Paul Gauguin and Jackson Pollock -- are believed to have suffered from the illness (source: Patient Health International).

H. Armstrong Roberts/Getty Images (Brain Image Gallery). Though we may not know what a high IQ has to do with mental illness, brilliant people often strike us as more than a bit nutty. You don't have to look far to find examples of the mad genius in history. See more ­brain pictures.

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­Despite evidence of a link between genius and madness, no one has proved that such a link exists. However, scientists at the University of Toronto have discovered that creative people possess little to no "latent inhibition," the unconscious ability to reject unimportant or irrelevant stimuli. As University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson puts it, "This means that creative individuals remain in­ contact with the extra information constantly streaming in from the environment. The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it, even though that object is much more complex and interesting than he or she thinks. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities [source: University of Toronto]."

­Let's take a look at these mad geniuses -- the famous thinkers and artists who may have experienced mental illness. First, we'll inspect the modern case of John Nash, whose schizophrenia has been sensationalized by Hollywood.

Introduction to Top 5 Mad Geniuses
Mad Genius 5: John Nash (1928 - )
Mad Genius 4: Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
Mad Genius 3: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Mad Genius 2: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Mad Genius 1: Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)

MILAREPA the MAHASIDDHA YOGI
Edited from Wikipedia.com

Jetsun Milarepa (c. 1052-c. 1135 CE) is one of Tibet's most famous yogis and poets, a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and a major figure in the history of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.


As soon as he saw Milarepa, an ineffable experience of concentrated bliss (Samadhi) arose in him, and for a moment he stood transfixed in ecstasy. Afterwards, he became a "Heart-Son" of Milarepa (rimpoche.co).

The essence of Milarepa lies in his writings rather than the many legends that have grown up around him. The writings, often referred to as the One Hundred Thousands Songs of Milarepa, are canonical Mahayana Buddhist texts [or at least of the Vajrayana branch of Mahayana Buddhism] that emphasize the temporary nature of the physical body and the need for non-attachment.

In contrast, the legends (and 2006 movie) of Milarepa's life are full of references to magic and wizardry and lack the same sense of devout non-attachment. They became popular through a romanticized and historically questionable biography (Mi-la-rnam-thar) sometime between 1452 and 1507.

According to the book by French explorer Alexandra David-Néel Magic and Mystery in Tibet, Milarepa boasted of having “crossed in a few days, a distance which, before his training [in ‘black magic’], had taken him more than a month. He ascribes his gift to the clever control of ‘internal air.’” David-Néel comments “that at the house of the lama who taught him black magic there lived a trapa [monk] who was fleeter than a horse” using the same skill.[2]

This esoteric skill, which in Tibet is known as Lung-gom-pa (“Wind Meditation,” lung = “wind,[3] gom-pa = “meditation”[4]), allows a practitioner to run at an extraordinary speed for days without stopping. This technique could be compared to that practiced by the Kaihigyo Monks of Mt. Hiei in Kyoto, Japan.[5] His cave is revered to this day.

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