Objects

Bricolage

Like walking, playing the cello engages just enough of my mind to suppress the internal chatter, leaving me free to imagine. - Tod Machover

Carol Strohecker - knot lady

Froebel gifts
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durable slippers increased the ballerina's potential for athleticism and broadened the range of movement - Eden Medina

Comfort object - Winnicottian transitional object

Chinese scholar's rocks - for meditation

Moire pattern

Foucault pendulum

sublime in nature, art and politics

Proust, ideas and griefs

Rilke and future 

Mental evaluation

Korsakoff's syndrome
six of one and half a dozen of the other
Akathisia
Sniff test
Dialectical behavior therapy
Liaison psychiatry
Psychologist different from psychiatry

Author: Tom Rose

"The Arctic had a new and thriving bird: the construction crane."

"Human scent often means a dog's next meal - one way or another."

Art barrage

Looking at these paintings, I am impressed by Alexa Meade that she has done so much work in juts a couple of years. Her artist statement makes me wonder how befitting it is that her inspiration is politician and PR world of putting acceptable faces on display.
Using a medium of painting, her intermediate work an installation, end work a photograph. Her inspiration explains the need for overwhelming use of many mediums. Its like Paula Deen overdoing different successful methods or like fried icecream.
Looking from another point of view she adds 3D to the great length people go for successful masking. It will be interesting to watch her themes. When she meets the end of fake and meets transparent situation, I wonder if she will start photoraphing people by plastic wrapping them.

Modern chemistry

Author: Arundhati Roy

I never got around to reading her popular book. In this book, she shadows the Maoists and gives us a good picture of the government Vs Maoists. Its a volte face when with Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas act or PESA 1996, she shows that its the Maoists who are fighting for whats in the constitution. She makes us understand the motivation of all the parties involved.
I like the way she rewrites some speeches the way she should be if they were to reflect truth. She places the current situation in the context of India's past as well as the current global context. Quickly she brings up readers unaware of the issue to speed.
She calls the the 'people who live with their dreams , while the rest of the world lives with it nightmares'. When she says that Maoists use the road not to walk on them but cross them paints the alternate life from mainstream, a Robinhood style life.

Kondha tribe. The book talks about the amount of digging to be done for  a certain amount of Bauxite which will then be converted to Aluminium. There is also an estimate of the residue. I wonder when we were taught the chemistry of Bauxite, why were we not taught the implications of the equations from  an ecological point of view.

MoU

Solatium
Mahua
Babool
Operation Green Hunt
Bhumkal
Janatana Sarkar

Food on TV

Author: Dana Polan

Charlotte malakoff

wine to water