Colour is one of those aspects of life that everyone experiences, or at least most humans, and many other animals do, and most of us experience it without much conscious thought.
I have always had an unusually intense relationship with colour. From a very early age, I noticed colours, and talked about them with anyone I could find. I remember the colours of many things and environments that were around me. Sometimes, colours are all I remember about an experience. The colour of the car of my first love; the colour of the wall in my second love’s bedroom. The colour of the dingy carpet in my first apartment, before I removed it. The colour of an eccentric purple and orange house in a Massachussetts suburb. The colour of tea with milk that would be the perfect cup of tea to my mother. The colour of my baby’s brother’s favourite stuffed toy fifteen years ago. I even remember the dark blue tint of my own first pram, which I must have been in between the ages of two and four.
Last year, I joined a website called ColourLovers. This addictive site allows members to create palettes of any combination of up to five shades of colours. There are also millions of seamless patterns, many of them incredibly beautiful, that members can use to colour with any palette. There are lots of amazing, talented people on this site, who create these pattern templates that others can colour. I have ended up using a few of my coloured-in patterns on some of my other sites.
I will be featuring some of my work from this site on my blog. All these will be available under the Colours category here.
If you like colour, or have any comments or questions, I would love to hear from you! Share your thoughts as a comment here.
The fact is that violence against women is an everyday reality for millions of girls and women around the world. There are many kinds of violence. The word “violence” is related to the word “violation” – and each time a woman’s right to be a full, self-determining human being is violated because she is a woman, violence against women is committed. From media and advertising depictions of women as vapid damsels in distress worthy of little more than objectification for men’s pleasure, to domestic abuse, workplace sexual harassment, date rape, marital rape, the misogyny of religious fundamentalisms, and sexual assault and gender-based violence, women, girls and trans people are still much more likely to be at the receiving end of violence and violation. These problems are usually worse for women who are not white, not from the upper-middle classes, and those of us who straddle multiple social-cultural identities as immigrants and children of immigrants. Continue reading ‘National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women’»
So, I’ve been experimenting with cooking with new recipes. Here are some photos of a Gujrati Indian snack I made for the second time today. It’s called Dhokla.
If you’ve never tried it before, Dhokla is a spongey cake-like snack but it’s salty and spicy instead of sweet, and while there are multiple versions of it, this particular kind is made with Semolina flour, yoghurt and herbs and seeds, all mixed up and steamed together, then seasoned with mustard seeds and sesame seeds. The Chutney in the middle photo is a simple Tomato and Tamarind chutney that I improvised, and it came out delish! There’s nothing quite like having this rich, multi-textured Dhokla with a cup of hot Chai! Oooh! Everyone who’s tried this so far (especially yours truly) is HOOKED!
This is all part of my new found love for cooking, something I never got into before, but lately have been exploring more and more. Experimenting in the kitchen is something that seems to run in my family. I only just decided to flex those muscles. Along with working out regularly and trying to eat healthier, I’m also going to be experimenting with and trying out recipes of various cuisines from around the world. One of my other specialties is Fettuccine Alfredo with Shrimp, Broccoli and Mushrooms. Wait for those pictures in the next week!
It’s got 103 of the most interesting figures of history juxtaposed together, and in some cases, interacting with each other, in a timeless image. From Bill Gates to Plato, Bruce Lee to the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, Margaret Thatcher to Audrey Hepburn, Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein, Sigmund Freud to Jack Kevorkian, Albert Einstein to Che Guevara, Charles Darwin dressed as Noah, to Osama Bin Laden and the 72 Houris. Check it out!
Originally painted by three Chinese artists: Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An, in 2006; oil on canvas.
1. Live for the past.
2. Live for the future.
3. Think everything is always about you.
4. Think that you just don’t matter at all.
5. Believe that pills will solve all your problems.
6. Believe that pills are stupid and useless.
7. Do not let yourself change.
8. Believe that it is all your fault.
9. Believe that it is all other people’s fault.
10. Accept all the bad things you have heard, read or thought about you.
11. Deny any good things you have heard, read or thought about you.
12. Never think about other people’s problems.
13. Think that because you can’t do everything, you shouldn’t do anything.
14. Roll your eyes while reading this list.
15. When happiness comes, greet it with fear or guilt or resentment.
16. Think that you are or have bad luck.
17. Don’t express yourself creatively in any way.
18. Keep on trying to please and/or piss-off Mom and/or Dad.
19. Wait for someone else to come and save you.
20. Exercise only sporadically and only out of guilt.
21. Don’t make friends with silence.
22. Watch a lot of TV.
23. Stay away from Nature.
24. Think of everything in terms of black or white.
25. Take all, give nothing.
Lastly, but definitely not leastly, here’s a tribute to the funniest guy who ever lived who died this past weekend, George Carlin. The world was funnier with ya, George, we’ll miss your sick, twisted, brilliant brain. Here he is, in his own words…
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