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Saraswati is a Goddess that was worshipped in the Vedic religion. She is the goddess of knowledge and all literary arts including music, arts, and speech. She is also worshipped as the Goddess of thoughts of truth and forgiving. She is mentioned in the Rig Veda as well as in Puranic texts. It was likely that She originated as a river Goddess because Her name in Sanskrit means "she who has lakes or pools". (Taken from: www.thaiexotictreasures.com/saraswati.html)
The text reads:
"To live is to choose"
"sin" vs. "knowledge"
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"Has it ever occurred to you, Euthydemus, ... that though pleasure is the one and only goal to which incontinence is thought to lead men, she herself cannot bring them to it, whereas nothing produces pleasure so surely as self-control?”
“How so?”
"Incontinence will not let them endure hunger or thirst or desire or lack of sleep, which are the sole causes of pleasure in eating and drinking and sexual indulgence, and in resting and sleeping, after a time of waiting and resistance until the moment comes when these will give the greatest possible satisfaction; and thus she prevents them from experiencing any pleasure worthy to be mentioned in the most elementary and recurrent forms of enjoyment. But self-control alone causes them to endure the sufferings I have named, and therefore she alone causes them to experience any pleasure worth mentioning in such enjoyments."
– Xenophon, Socrates and Euthydemus in "Memorabilia", 4.5
48/365
This was a collaboration I did with my friend Jack. Check out his flickr HERE
February 17, 2011
© Austin Sullivan 2011
365 Project - Day 245
This is a Jaume Plensa installation I shot on day 99 (flic.kr/p/hMwoYn), a cold November night. We had the most amazing blue skies today (I didn’t even use a polariser for this shot) and I missed quite a few great photo opportunities later on day 245 because I didn’t shlep my camera to the Opera where we spent the evening.
After being inspired by Flicker I have decided the only way to improve on my photography is practise, practise, practise!! Today was an attempt at self portrait – and as you know I prefer to be behind the scene rather that in front! Myself will be revealed as time passes on so, what’s for my first photo?? My fave pastime at the moment is reading photography books. So for my first shot - me engrossed!! I did not realize just how difficult taking self portrait can be in regards to focus, and how time consuming it becomes to constantly set self timer and recompose etc. A learning experience today. So for my first shot – my 44 year old hand holds a wealth of knowledge that needs to be applied to real life!
For knowledge, too is itself a power.
Sir Francis Bacon
Cut and paste collage using cover image from "Sapere" (Knowledge) magazine of the 1950s, and an Italian political yearbook of the same period.
© 2011 Eric Adeleye Photography. (Press "L" for a larger view of the photograph)
The bonds that two brothers share are like no others. I always enjoy photographing Donte and Keon whenever I can. I told them to just pretend I wasn't standing in front of them and I started taking pictures. I like when people can just be themselves in front of my camera. Donte (on the left in this photograph) is preparing to take the GRE exam for graduate school. Keon (on the right in this photograph) finishing up his PHD program at the University of Pennsylvania in Africana Studies. Both are undergraduate alumni of Wake Forrest University in North Carolina. Yes, they are identical twins, it took me a while, but I can tell them apart from each other now.
Get you fave doll and do a magazine cover.
Tagged By Palix, Always Vogue, and zezanprince.
This is an importat magazine because all the person in the worl need knowledge about how save our world.
And The best part. Whit BARBIE !!!
books are knowledge and i think i did a good job choosing a variaty of books with information on alot of subjects that are varry informative to divers group of people .. and we had them on hand even !
The expositor
or, Many mysteries unravelled. Delineated in a series of letters, between a friend and his correspondent, comprising the learned pig, invisible lady and acoustic temple, philosophical swan, penetrating spy glasses, optical and magnetic, and various other curiosities on similar principles: also, a few of the most wonderful feats as performed by the art of legerdemain, with some reflections on ventriloquism
ILFORD DELTA 3200 pulled to 1600
Self develop: 8 mins in Ilford DD-X 1:4, 20 deg
Leica M2
Leica SUMMICRON Rigid 1:2/50mm
B+W medium yellow 022 filter (2X)
Straight negative scan
Title: The Knowledge - 2010
Portland State Art Professor Harrell Fletcher, with assistance from Avalon Kalin
Books selected from the PSU Millar Library by members of the PSU community, digital print
This mural is part of a unique partnership between Portland Development Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council, and PSU, called the Block by Block Art Program.
me as Patchouli Knowledge from Touhouvania (Koumajou Densetsu II)
photo by Catspassion
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Sharing just with FULL credit of cosplayer's and photographer's name and website link !!!!
GP Images by Gianpierre Soto is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Knowledge Corridor work at Milepost 44 shows completed track work in this section of the Knowledge Corridor.
The Knowledge Corridor - Restore Vermonter Project will restore Amtrak's intercity passenger train service to its original route by relocating the Vermonter from the New England Central Railroad back to its former route on the Pan Am Southern Railroad. The Pan Am Southern route provides a shorter and more direct route for the Vermonter between Springfield and East Northfield, and improves access to densely populated areas along the Connecticut River. The Pan Am Southern route would include station stops at the former Amtrak station at Northampton and the new intermodal station at Greenfield. The routing of Amtrak service in Vermont and south of Springfield would remain unchanged.
All abstract knowledge is a faded reality: this is because to understand the world is not enough, you must see it, touch it, live in its presence and drink the vital heat of existence in the very heart of reality.
The most difficult thing in this picture were books. For this selfie I brough all available books from my home. It's almost half of the picture. The other difficult thing was make books stand. It was not easy. But nevertheless I'm glad that this picture done)
Photograph for project malstra.ru
The idea here is about the advance of knowledge.
The spines are the various disciplines which must necessarily diverge as we attempt to understand a universe where the unknown always exceeds the known. Each spine has a path forward, an advance into the unknown.
The horizontal weaving strands are the threads we weave as we attempt to connect the various disciplines. We find language and weave the disciplines together to make the knowledge useful and meaningful.
The spines must always precede the horizontal weave, because they are the frame the weave is built on. You can't weave together threads of knowledge that don't yet exist.
Without the weaving the spines just lay flat on the ground and radiate out. And without the spines the basket is just a coiled garden hose on the ground. But together they hold each other up and create structure.
It's the spines and connections together that give the basket its utility, that makes it able to hold things and so on. And the continuing journey makes the basket bigger and bigger. Over time it holds more and more meaning, life, knowledge and goodness. It's a cornucopia! :)
seen in botswana, near maun while we filled up our water tanks. i love this spirit and voice in this photograph ...