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I woke up thinking about Wednesday this morning. As if Wednesday was a person I knew.

This last Wednesday was a chaotic morning and no amount of breathing was going to lift me out of the mushroom of frenzy.

Usually calm and steady, on Wednesday morning I was agitated and hyper sensitive to noise. I always try to see what is the longest amount of time I can go without plugging into music with my headphones. This time even music didn’t help. People rushing to some grand nowhere. I joined them to head to one of the most dilapidated parts of New York City. Poverty has a smell ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2012/02/still-sundays-71/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2012/01/still-sundays-shakti-and-ibn-sina/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2012/01/still-sundays-shakti-and-ibn-sina/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:57:49 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=2593 It is a new year after all.

Makes me wonder about all those other “new” years. I never felt they were new per se so it wasn’t that I got duped the last decade with the habitual hype at the end of the year. It is just that I couldn’t participate as authentically as I would have liked because I knew better in my bones. But this year is finally new.

new | n(y)oō |

adjective

1. not existing before; made, introduced, or discovered recently or now for the first time

2. already existing but seen, experienced, or acquired recently or now for the first time

3. just beginning and regarded as better than what went before

The word new ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2012/01/still-sundays-shakti-and-ibn-sina/feed/ 2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/12/still-sundays-68/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/12/still-sundays-68/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:07:18 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=2573 December 11, 2011.

What is art without vision, then?;  Symmetry Breaking; Darren K. Woods on his passion for opera; Music to My Ears.

I was immersed in life to my fullest capacity the last two Sundays. Every cell felt like a sponge for Stillness, joy, love, warmth, observations, growth…

There comes a point when living and experiencing catch a momentum faster than one can share through any medium. I believe that’s when the real challenge begins for one who has decided to undertake being an artist.

We are all creative (some more talented or innately gifted than others); however, not all are artists.

Art without vision is creative stimulation for pleasure. In order to have a vision you have ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/12/still-sundays-68/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/persistence-keep-drawing-writing/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/persistence-keep-drawing-writing/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:30:00 +0000 annie http://aqs.sellfastinternational.com/2011/11/17/persistence-keep-drawing-writing/ although that is marvelous given one needs it, however minimally, to exist in this physical space without anxiety) nor about fame or celebrity (celebrity is a choice and it comes and goes; fame may not be a choice and can be attributed for a variety of reasons one never intended) but about the fragrant, sweet gratification of having sewn our stitch or stitches in the Embroidery of what we saw and heard and what is Possible…for those of us, there is no alternative but persistence.

Mama says persistence means you believe [honestly] in the [realistic] value of what you have to offer regardless of however success may be defined ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/persistence-keep-drawing-writing/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/fartists-light-triumphs-growgrowgrow/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/fartists-light-triumphs-growgrowgrow/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:46:28 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=2552 Still Sundays.

November 13, 2011.

Stillness is a guardian angel.

That being said, on days where the frozen wind in New York City feels like the wrathy breathing of some evil gods, I do yell aloud, forgetting all I know about seasons, climate, and weather, “God you can’t be real! Because no one in his or her right mind would actually create a day this cold!”

Yet so far November feels like early spring. Will March then be like early winter? Maybe winter has never been that long after all? Climate change is changing.

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What do I know without a doubt this Sunday morning as this calendar year is almost over?

Light triumphs. Again and again ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/fartists-light-triumphs-growgrowgrow/feed/ 2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/to-really-understand-is-divine/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/to-really-understand-is-divine/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:37:50 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=2539 Still Sundays.

November 6th.

No matter how many times I write about New York City it is not enough. Not enough for me and not enough for those who just don’t see what I see.

Rage is a bull and I am a champion rider who neither tires easily nor plans on retiring. At best I can tame the beast with humor. But I find cynicism easy and eventually boring; therefore, I take whatever it is that I don’t understand by the horns: the spleen wants to spit.

That being said I never write when I am angry. I can create a fury of words that can dissolve the deads’ bones, but actually write?—never. I don’t even “journal” such thoughts ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/to-really-understand-is-divine/feed/ 3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/at-the-midnight-hour-to-talk-with-the-clock-vera-pavlova/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/at-the-midnight-hour-to-talk-with-the-clock-vera-pavlova/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:32:00 +0000 annie http://aqs.sellfastinternational.com/2011/11/02/at-the-midnight-hour-to-talk-with-the-clock-vera-pavlova/ “To Converse with the greats” by Vera Pavlova

To converse with the greats by trying their blindfolds on; to correspond with books by rewriting them; to edit holy edicts, and at the midnight hour to talk with the clock by tapping a wall in the solitary confinement of the universe.

Tashaki Miyaki – Somethin’ Is Better Than Nothin’ Link to video.

Great video, I say. Resonated with me for the writing process, along with the poem. The two came separately to me. I just seated them at the same table, made of resonance. 

On a personal note, I never have, and I never will, settle for something just because it is better than ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/at-the-midnight-hour-to-talk-with-the-clock-vera-pavlova/feed/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/the-marriage-of-storytelling-and-writing/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/the-marriage-of-storytelling-and-writing/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:48:08 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=2505 Before social media created the forum which allowed the hijacking of the word “storyteller” as a synonym for bloggers and marketers it was indeed a prestigious art form.

What I share below is from an excerpt to a dear friend and author, over 8 months ago.

I think I am ready to discuss this as I understand it. We are all storytellers. We live our lives in and through stories. At the lowest level of consciousness this is gossip and at another form it can be “motivational speaking,” although for the intellectually evolved such speaking may not yield many new results. We tell stories when we come home to our significant other ( if we have that kind of relationship ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/the-marriage-of-storytelling-and-writing/feed/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/bill-viola-is-a-mockingbird-out-to-rearrange-reality/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/bill-viola-is-a-mockingbird-out-to-rearrange-reality/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:41:00 +0000 annie http://aqs.sellfastinternational.com/2011/10/11/bill-viola-is-a-mockingbird-out-to-rearrange-reality/ “Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they’re born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of all ornithological expressions, mocking birds aren’t content to merely play the hand that is dealt them. Like all artists, they are out to rearrange reality. Innovative, willful, daring, not bound by the rules to which others may blindly adhere, the mockingbird collects snatches of birdsong from this tree and that field, appropriates them, places them in new and unexpected contexts, recreates the world from the world. For example, a mockingbird in South Carolina was heard to blend the songs of thirty-two different kinds of birds ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/bill-viola-is-a-mockingbird-out-to-rearrange-reality/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/%e2%80%9cself-existing-magic-of-things%e2%80%9d/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/%e2%80%9cself-existing-magic-of-things%e2%80%9d/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:49:44 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=2500 Still Sundays

October 9th.

Filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky on “self-existing magic of things” and more. Your talent is a body. Marc Jacobs on innovation. 

 

I find myself intellectually incapable to accept any of the etymologies offered behind “Indian Summer” and google’s curation of history doesn’t satisfy.

October is a solid indigo night, made for returning and leaving at the same time.

Autumn in New York is the muse for so many jazz compositions because only music can capture an indigo night.

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Yesterday I saw a film by Nathaniel Dorsky who has been making and exhibiting films within the avant-garde tradition since 1964. His works have bee shown internationally in museums and theatres and are in the ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/%e2%80%9cself-existing-magic-of-things%e2%80%9d/feed/ 6 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/novalis-wrote-our-bodies-are-molded-rivers/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/novalis-wrote-our-bodies-are-molded-rivers/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:56:00 +0000 annie http://aqs.sellfastinternational.com/2011/10/03/novalis-wrote-our-bodies-are-molded-rivers/ Fountain, 2011 by an amazingly inspiring artist Winn Rea. 

Plastic Strips Hanging Down

Value of Water Exhibition at St. John’s Cathedral.

There were lots of mediums through which artists participated. I thought this one was very cool given so much plastic is wasted for water bottles. There were others works by Winn Rea at the Cathedral but this was the best one I captured to share. You can read more about her here.

I will aslo be contacting Art for Water. They had some amazing art and words to share as well.

 

 

 

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