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"A riot of colours and cartoon characters! This mural is a playful explosion of creativity, bringing a smile to anyone who passes by."
Artwork by the lovely Frankie ( curtiscreationz ) during the recent ice storm in Penge.
Mr Imagination: www.art.org/2015/01/welcome-to-the-world-of-mr-imagination/
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade Special 2008 at Disneyland
Walt Disney World - Regis Philbin & Kelly Ripa
Disneyland - Ryan Seacrest
Imagination Movers
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Day 24 of 365
The theme for Macro Monday this week is Imagination and I thought what better tool lets you liberate your imagination in so many ways ;-)
Happy Macro Monday !
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580EX II gridded camera left at 1/32 power, fired by Flex TT5
Journey Into Imagination With Figment begins with an invitation by Chairman Dr. Nigel Channing to attend an open house event at his prestigious Imagination Institute.
Inside his precious sensory labs, Dr. Channing sets out to prove how the 5 senses—sound, sight, smell, touch and taste—capture and control the imagination. But much to Dr. Channing's chagrin, the playful purple dragon Figment has joined the tour, too.
Full of mischief and music, Figment derails Dr. Channing's sound experiment, screws around with the sight chart and causes quite a stink in the Smell Lab.
Taking over the tour, Figment leads you to his whimsical upside-down house where, from this topsy-turvy perspective, he proves that imagination works best when set free.
ImageWorks – The Kodak "What If" Labs
After your Journey Into Imagination With Figment, take your imagination and let it loose at the ImageWorks - The Kodak "What If" Labs. Conduct an orchestra, experiment with lights and video, make dragons sing, check out the live show Digital Imaging which features the world's largest digital camera, and explore the interactive stations at "the creative playground of the future."
Imagination Pavilion
Walt Disney World Epcot Orlando Fl
Everyone has their own image of America. For the most part it is the people, 'the Americans'. who capture our imagination. Be they presidents, film stars, wrestlers or Wall Street financiers, they absorb, appeal to and appall us. the stage upon which these players strut hardly figures at all. however, it is this stage or landscape that is the chief subject of most of Martin Beek's paintings. People, when they feature, are by no means insignificant but they occupy a small part in the scheme of things, His paintings seem to me to fall into two distinct categories. In the one he depicts that secret America: the largely unexplored and certainly uninhabited countryside of forest and rolling plain; the fearsome emptiness of the New Mexican desert the lush jungle either side of the Mississippi the cold sweep of a British Colombia Lakeside. These paintings are not cosy, railway waiting room art. Like the landscape of the United States and Canada, the images presented are exciting and grand. In what appears to be an entirely different body of work and one which incidentally has not been shown in Britain or America before, Martin depicts the quintessential American Mid-West small town with the comfortable images of library, school, church, twisting river and pleasant green. Here Beek's America is quiet and orderly despite being set in technicoloured aspic. It is a tapestry, fantasy world viewed somewhere above the fluttering Stars and Stripes, where like some sort of benevolent god, he shifts the familiar images around from painting to painting. Beek in these recent works acknowledges the influence of American folk artists Grandma Moses and Grant Wood as Europeans Breughel and Gauguin but the boldness and vibrancy of his colours, whether he is working in oil pastel or water-colours, are all his own making."
Jane Dexter(1991)
Portola Valley kids had a great time playing, building and creating with the Imagination Playground during our Tricycle Music Fest Concert!
George has rearranged his bedroom and is playing pretend. Armed with a sword (broom), shield (piece of cardboard) , and helmet (trashcan) Sir George is ready to take on the dragon (dog with cardboard wings tied on) upon his noble steed (bed and cardboard head looking thing) in order to rescue the princess (cat) from her tower (cage stacked on top of books and dresser). After beating the dragon (still a dog) he must enter the castle (desk with blocks on top and blanket over the back) of the dragon king, whose flame burns eternally above the gate (desk lamp) and assault the tower (still a stack of books and cage) with the blue flag (toilet plunger and pair of pants) where the princess (still a cat) is trapped.
This was built for the final day of Vignweek, with the theme Contrasting Reflections
Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth.
— Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
kumotemari.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-imagination-flies-2.html
Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade Special 2008 at Disneyland
Walt Disney World - Regis Philbin & Kelly Ripa
Disneyland - Ryan Seacrest
Imagination Movers
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In 1929, Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
For me, imagination is an outcome that flows from positive belief in limitless possibilities. The Apostle Paul said that faith comes from what we hear... or perhaps, what we listen to. Sometimes our Internal Dialogue is less than supportive. What voices are you listening to?
If you haven't yet seen the excellent Pixar animation, "Inside Out" - I whole-heartedly recommend it. In it, the heroine, Riley's quality of life is directly affected by the voices she listens to in her mind. These are the voices of five emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust.
Our Inner Dialogue is the driver of so much of our experience.
Jesus said two balancing statements on this essential dilemma:
Nothing is impossible for those who believe, and
Everything is possible for those who believe.
So, what do you believe? Or, if you like the Inside Out concept, whom do you believe? Are you going to listen to Joy - the voice of possibility? Or are you going to listen to Sadness or Fear - the reasoned voices of experience?
With imagination, everything is possible. You can imagine the best possible scenario, or you can imagine the worst possible scenario - it's your choice to whom you listen.
Einstein claimed imagination was more important than the knowledge that currently exists.
I would say, Imaginaction is even more import - taking action to back up your sense of what is possible. Faith in the future, backed up by corresponding action, can bear amazingly abundant fruit.
So, ask yourself, "What would I attempt if I knew I could not fail?"
Perhaps, at the end of the day, it comes down to the voices you are listening to...
While I find this version of Journey into Imagination not nearly as good as the original, I still enjoy it.
Trying to make something out of whatever one has to work with certainly can involve some imagination.
Explore #174 May 1st 2008
In order to mimic a child's mark-making with authenticity, I invited my 5-year old cousin to draw whatever she would like. I gave her a pack of Crayola, a bulk of A5 paper and left her to her own devices. The film highlights her natural curiosity and eagerness when presented with a blank page. I documented this task I gave her, focusing on how serious she takes on the challenge, how concentrated she is, how ideas seem to just flood out of her. She puts her pen to the paper, without stopping to think or plan or contemplate. I overlaid the paintings I made to create a harmony of visuals. This represents her constant stream of imagination. The first scene presents the audience with the blank page and crayon, as if asking the viewer to also think about the task given to the child. I find that it is much more daunting to an adult to be confronted with this plain sheet, this void. One worries about placement, composition, balance and most importantly, what to draw and how exactly to draw it "well."
Please don't tell my wife that, I took things out of the dining and family room to create this photo. I just wanted to say thanks for all the nice, excellent, and inspiring photos that you capture and upload. Your artistry inspires me to do a better job at what I enjoy most. To each of you, where ever you are in life, have a great remainder of the year 2008.