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Parade in Honor of Dalai Lama’s 76th Birthday in Washington, DC
Jul 07, 2011 11:30 am | Barbara Weibel
The first day of the Kalachakra for World peace event that began yesterday in Washington, DC fell on the 76th birthday of the Dalai Lama. After opening ceremonies, thousands of supporters streamed from the Verizon Center and paraded through the streets to the National Mall, where dances and celebrations were held to honor His Holiness. The Kalachakra, which the most important event of the year for Tibetans, is held in a different location around the world each year and this is the first time it has ever been held in Washington, DC. The event will last for eleven days, from July 6-16, and will feature teachings by the Dalai Lama, as well as a building of a magnificent sand mandala.
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A video Portrait of Artist Joe Mangrum creating a sand painting filmed by Repertorium Films
The Artist also has a book of images available at http://www.joemangrum.comA video Portrait of Artist Joe Mangrum creating a sand painting filmed by Repertorium... more
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A behind the scenes look at the making of RX Bandits highly anticipated new album, Mandala.
With Mandala, RX Bandits have truly struck the essence of their merging of genres into a complete and masterfully detailed mosaic.The follow-up to 2006’s ...And The Battle Begun jettisons ahead of where the band last left off, scaling back the use of horns and adding elements of Latin, prog-rock, punk, dub and blues; creating more focus on balance and powerful dynamics.
Tracking for Mandala took place at The Mouse House Studio in Northern Pasadena in March of 2009, and marked the return of producer Chris Fudurich to the fold.The dramatically hypnotic album artwork was designed by visual artist Sonny Kay.
Mandala is available everywhere on July 21st, and can currently be streamed in its entirety on Spinner.com. In support of the release, RX are currently on a full US co-headline tour with Dredg.A behind the scenes look at the making of RX Bandits highly anticipated new album,... more
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RX Bandits new album, Mandala, officially drops tomorrow July 21 (go pick it up)! You'll certainly be able to see how they've pushed their love of latin, prog, and soul to the next level. But how about late 90s R&B? Yeah, I guess they like that too. Enough to tease their fans with a little acoustic homage to former bad girl power trio TLC.
Watch as frontman guitarist Matt Embree tricks the audience who begins to call out the title of "Never Slept So Soundly" from the 2003 album The Resignation dueing this May 10th acoustic performance. Then he just switches it up on them. What a pro.RX Bandits new album, Mandala, officially drops tomorrow July 21 (go pick it up)!... more
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Come see me construct a giant mandala made out of cut yarn. I'll be building it from 12-7 Saturday 9/27 and 12-5 Sunday 9/28 in the lobby of 30 Washington Street. Come see me construct a giant mandala made out of cut yarn. I'll be building it... more
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about the artist
David J. Bookbinder was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1951. At age 6, inspired by the launching of Sputnik, he imagined himself a future space scientist. He started photographing in high school where, as yearbook editor, he took most of the candid pictures.
After college, he moved to New York City. There, for several years, he did black-and-white street photography, took pictures of musicians for a book he wrote on American folk music, shot an occasional record album cover, and worked part-time as a photojournalist.
In 2001, after a 20-year hiatus, Bookbinder bought a digital camera and started shooting again. The shift from straight black-and-white, wet-chemistry photography to shooting in color and manipulating images on a computer was literally an eye-opener. Bookbinder still takes pictures of street life, nature, and people, but his current preoccupation is with transforming photographs of flowers, stone, metal, wood, and the sky into mandala-like images.
Bookbinder's early influences included Walker Evans and Diane Arbus. The present work is inspired by the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, the nature photographs of Andreas Feininger, and the flower images of Harold Feinstein, with whom Bookbinder briefly studied.
Bookbinder lives north of Boston, MA. He works as a psychotherapist, primarily with artists and people with addictive behaviors. He is the author of four non-fiction books and is currently writing a memoir of the aftermath of a near-death experience.
artists' statement
My personal motivation in creating these images was to heal from a decade of physical and emotional trauma, the consequence of a near-fatal event in Albany, New York, in 1993. I began this project shortly after I bought my first digital camera and found myself shooting patterns of color and light, rather than the people and buildings I had shot in my black-and-white days. I learned to manipulate the images, hoping at first merely to improve them, but soon realizing that once an image file was on my hard drive, I could do anything I wanted with it. The experience of creating these mandalas is reminiscent of meditation.
My choice of the hexagram (the Star of David, "beloved" in Hebrew) as the organizing shape for these mandalas was subconscious, but I believe this choice was no accident. In many traditions, the Star of David, composed of two overlapping triangles, represents the reconciliation of opposites — male/female, fire/water, and so on. Their combination symbolizes unity and harmony. Listening to what the mandalas were telling me led me out of a dark place and, indirectly, to my decision to become a psychotherapist.
Carl Jung, one of the fathers of modern psychology, believed mandalas are a pathway to the essential Self and used them in his own personal transformation. In a small way, as both mandala artist and psychotherapist, I carry on Jung's tradition. I display several of the flower mandalas in my treatment room, and from time to time they become part of discussions with clients. The combination of natural elements and digital manipulation seems both to stimulate and to relax them.
The current selection is part of a book-in-progress that pairs images with inspirational quotations such that each image-and-quote pair resonates with a fundamental aspect of human experience.
I hope publication of these images will further the process of harnessing the power of the mandala to heal.about the artist
David J. Bookbinder was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1951. At age... more
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