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Birds on the Wires

3/5/2014

I love this marriage of nature and technology. Here is what the creator of the video had to say about it:
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Reading the newspaper one morning, I saw this picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.

This work was made over the original photo, un-retouched, published in one of the biggest Brazilian newspapers, "O Estado de São Paulo" on 27/aug/2009, and shot by Paulo Pinto (note: I just erased the birds for effect at the end, but didn't change their positions at all. What would be the point?).

I've made this short video to demonstrate my interpretation of the birds as notes.

Music made with Logic.
Video made with After Effects.

Jarbas Agnelli
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Blessings,
Shakura Cathryn
"Everything in the Universe is musical vibration." ~Pythagoras

A Finger, Two Dots, Then Me

10/17/2012

Oh. My. God.

This is the most awe-inspiring, sometimes funny, and poignantly beautiful thing I've seen/heard in a loooooong time! Give it a listen. Watching is good, too, but *listen*......

Blessings,
Shakura Cathryn

"We are travelers in a cosmic journey - star dust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. But the expressions of life are ephemeral, momentary, transient. Buddha once said "This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky." We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, light heartedness and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile." ~Deepak Chopra

Laughing Buddhas (2)

10/5/2012

If this doesn't make you laugh .... are you alive?

Wishing all of you a blast of joy and mirth!
Blessings,
Cathryn

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Help me! (I resemble this remark.)

9/7/2012

The day can turn into certain disaster
When you’re the servant and the mind is the master.
You become the director of a tragic play
Where none of the actors see it your way.
Stuck in your head with this arrogant snob,
You’d think he would have thought himself out of a job
Because he’s petty, stingy, paranoid.
You’d fire the jerk but you’re self-employed.
You’ve had about all of yourself you can take
And you begin to plan this prison break
Where you get yourself busy figuring something out
And you get out of your head and you begin to shout…

Help me, I’m trapped on the inside of my face.
I woke up from a nap, brainstem all over the place.
Down Boy. Sit. Roll over. Stay.
Anybody know any psycho feng shui?
‘Cause I’m trapped on the inside of my face.

So with your brain stuck in the “On” position
You drag yourself to a mental physician.
And he shakes his head at your furtive stare,
He says “Never, never be alone when you go in there.”
Anything you say’ll be misunderstood,
‘Cause your mind is like a bad neighborhood.
Maybe it’s from back there in your psycho-active years,
You might’ve stripped some really important gear.
It’s dark in there and it’s dangerous, too,
From doing what all the little voices have been telling you to do.
And I think it’s damaged way beyond fixing.
Some parts are broken. Some are missing.

Help me, I’m trapped on the inside of my face.
I woke up, something snapped,
Now the real me is being erased.
They’re launching a frontal attack.
Somebody help me get the real me back.
I’m trapped on the inside of my face.

So it turned out that reality is just a collective hunch,
Points of view all gathered in a bunch.
People with opinions believing one another,
Brain against brain, brother against brother.
We’re all chips off the same mainframe, you know.
It’s just hard to find when you’re thinking with this brain.
So no amount of thinking is gonna find the place
When the brainstem’s in control of the face.
All the little voices drive you to the brink
Of believing everything that you think.
And your true whereabouts remains unknown.
The lights are on and EVERYBODY’S home.

Help me, I’m trapped on the inside of my face.
I woke up kidnapped, this imposter taking my place.
Be afraid… be very afraid…
Reptilian gangleates are overrunning the inside of my face.

Out of my mind…..
Leave a message.

~Chuck Pyle

Meanwhile, I'm s-t-i-l-l thinkin'....
Shakura Cathryn
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Hallelujah and Yeah!

8/29/2012

“I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, ‘cause you know what happened when I took ‘em? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours, going “My God, I love everything.” The heavens parted, God looked down and rained gifts of forgiveness onto my being, healing me on every level, psychically, physically, emotionally. And I realized our true nature is spirit, not body, that we are eternal beings, and God’s love is unconditional ‘n’ there’s nothing we can ever do to change that. It is only our illusion that we are separate from God, or that we are alone. In fact the reality is we are one with God and He loves us. Now, if that isn’t a hazard to this country… Do you see my point? How are we gonna keep building nuclear weapons, you know what I mean? What’s gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we’re all one? Ha ha ha ha ha! It’s gonna fuck up the economy! The economy that’s fake anyway! Ha ha ha! Which would be a real bummer. You know. You can see why the government’s cracking down on experiencing unconditional love.” ~ Bill Hicks

Seriously?

8/15/2012

How could any woman, any black person, any brown person, any gay person, any senior person, any middle class or poor person, any person with an IQ capable of comprehending the English language, actually think these guys are GOOD? It completely short-circuits my ability to believe what I'm seeing. I keep wanting to rub my eyes and have my vision clear and see something that makes sense.

Sigh.

The Earth As You've Never Seen It Before

6/8/2012

I am simply AWESTRUCK by this video. What an amazingly beautiful planet and surrounding atmosphere we have to live on..... in an incredible Universe. Click on "vimeo" at the bottom right of the picture to open it up to full screen size and ENJOY!

The Earth as You've Never Seen it Before: Atmosphere, Airglow and Aurora from AJRCLIPS on Vimeo.

Blessings,
Shakura Cathryn
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"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers." ~Archibald Mc Leish

Super Moon of May 5, 2012

4/12/2012

On May 5th we will have a Super Moon. This is very cool~!

Watching the moon at midnight, Alone in the middle of the sky,
I saw myself completely whole,
No part left out.

Words of a Dance of Universal Peace, based upon a poem written in the 11th century by a Zen Buddhist woman, Izumi Shikibu.

Enjoy the moonlight!
Blessings,

Here we go again~!

2/9/2012

Welcome to the new home of Grateful Woman Shakura MoonSinger and LunaToons online.

This new website and blog will give me much more flexibility to add new pages and other features I couldn't do on the old blog. If you'd like to re-visit something from the old blog you can always go to www.shakura-moonsinger.blogspot.com. AND I THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME HERE!

Blessings,
Shakura Cathryn