At the family estate, summer 1917. Paul Wittgenstein is second from left; his philosopher brother Ludwig Wittgenstein is at right. Photo by Michael Nedo After having his right arm amputated in WWI, stubborn pianist Paul Wittgenstein kept playing using only his left hand. The Beauty of the Music Makes My Heart Swell I came across his life …
After the several block walk with an illiterate woman getting her cigarettes today, I walked on feeling like I had one of the most amazing abilities in the world. She had approached me at the bus stop and asked me to walk with her to read the bus detour signs directing pedestrians through the mile …
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Today a gal on the bus was swooning over a guy. He proceeded to tell her that he’d date if she’d help him buy a few things. Then he glances at me and says “ya know how it is.” I shook my head NO, and said “That’s not dating, that’s being a bum. Let’s be …
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Technology empowering paralyzed to create art using only their eye movement. EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower graffiti writers and artists suffering from ALS. An insightful innovation that captures eye movement and lets people express themselves in real time. To know more about The EyeWriter, log on to eyewriter.org. Read more: …
Beautiful. 2,000 people videoed themselves singing alone, and they were all put together to make a virtual choir. Voices from 58 countries. I ♥ this. Here’s what a single voice sounded like: And here’s what it sounds like when he put the virtual choir all together:
Saw this sculpture “Panda” by Takashi Murakami while visiting the MIA art museum. It makes me happy. It’s made of fiberglass with an antique Louis Vuitton trunk and wooden pedestal. It measures 100 1/2 by 65 by 43 inches. It’s tall! Was executed in 2003. It sold for $385,600
Opening the post office box and fishing out letters with stickers from places like “Luftpost” & “Deutsche Post” makes me want to tear into my mail while standing in front of the walls of locked PO Boxes. But I don’t. There’s something delectable about waiting until I am back home and sitting at my writing …
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I find wardrobe fittings to be a necessary evil. Necessary because it’s important to figure out what a character will look like in their clothes, and how they relate to other character’s clothes… etc. The awkwardness is that for me, the actor, I feel like am a human hanger during a fitting. I wonder if …
I found two cats today at the bus shelter while waiting for my bus. They were mewing like mad and shivering as they obviously aren’t outdoor cats. So I put them in my pockets and carried them home. Thing is that I can’t keep ’em due to allergies. Does anyone know someone that would like …
For February’s “Books I’ve Read On Set” I picked Ten Poems To Change Your Life. I came across this book while meandering through the shelves of the library. The title lives up to it’s name. (I hate over hyped-titles) It’s from this book that I came across my all time favorite lines from a poem …
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