FREE HUGS AROUND THE WORLD

I just watched this video again. I posted it to my facebook page last week because it made me cry when I watched it. This Italian account has 2,742,411 views and was uploaded in May of 2010. This leads me to believe that a lot of other people like hugging too! There are many versions of this, done over the years in different locations around the world which can be seen on YouTube. I'd love to try this sometime.

This second video is from September of 2006 and has 67,013,976 views. I think it is pretty good too. Which one do you like better and why?

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Discover the cosmos through A.P.O.D.! "Each day a different photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer." I just love these images. The awesome colors, designs and mystery really gets my creative juices flowing. This photo is one of my favorites from NASA's Hubble Heritage Collection. Yesterday I made a slideshow using iPhoto and some of these images. With music from Pink Floyd, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", my new 27" iMac monitor can now take me away on a "Magical Mystery Tour". See my 2008 Astronomy Favorites From APOD video set to the music of Cusco on YouTube here. Oh, and be sure to watch it in full screen mode and turn up your speakers! Enjoy!!

Cat Herding Ain't Easy!

I found this just now on a blog I follow. I think it's hilarious! I guess you'd have to call these guys catboys!

Doesn't the "God" in all Life Matter?

Have you ever heard of aerial hunting? It's a brutal practice. Wolves are shot from low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion, then killed at point-blank range.

Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, promotes this barbaric practice, exploiting a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to allow private wolf killers to shoot down wolves using aircraft. To encourage the killing, she even proposed a $150 bounty for the left foreleg of each dead wolf!

We have to get the word out about this! Please watch this powerful new television ad by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, and then share it with every wildlife lover you know:

http://actionfund.defenders.org/palintvwolf

MY NEWEST YOUTUBE VIDEO

Happy Hummingbirds

Things are really hopping here in NJ right now. I've got 6 feeders out and they're all as busy as this one featured here in my first video. I filmed this last week on the first day of summer. It will only get busier as the season progresses.
I am LOVIN" IT!



For more information on how to attract and care for hummingbirds,
go to my FIVE STEPS TO HAPPY HUMMERS page!

ARE YOU RIGHT OR LEFT BRAINED?

Watch this video and see if the dancer moves clockwise or counter clockwise. If she moves clockwise, you're probably more right brain dominated. You use more of your NON VERBAL, intuative, creative side. If you see her move counter clockwise, you are in the majority and are more of a left brain dominated, VERBAL, analytical individual. See "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" here.

New Sketching Lens On Squidoo

I put together a new lens on Squidoo today called
Sensational Sketches In Six Simple Steps.
Of course I used one of my favorite subjects for the demo!

Hummingbird Spirit Paintings Inspired By Cusco

This slide show is set to the New Age music of Cusco because it is the music I often paint to. This music takes me to a place of ancient knowledge and connects me to spiritual power. This one is from their Ancient Journeys CD and is titled, The Journeys of Marco Polo. I think it's very fitting for our little feathered friends who can travel as much as 6,000 miles in a single year!

Shacks and Fishing Boats Have Spirit!

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 at Tuckerton Seaport

I'm getting ready for my painting demonstration this Sunday at the Tuckerton Seaport Museum, Tuckerton, NJ. Learn how I go from photo to drawing to painting from 2:00 - 4:00 pm. Admission to the museum is only $3.00. The demo is free and will be loaded with insights and information. (Now is your chance to see me in action, artists! I'm not sure if or when it will ever happen again.)

Learn how I go from here:

To here:
To here:
A small collection of my originals and prints will be available for sale.

Also, view the Tuckerton Seaport 2008 Art Show "Come See, Come Sea”
in the Lighthouse Gallery - 10am -5pm.

See my newest shack and fishing boat video here:

My New YouTube Slideshow

Images From The 2006
Spirit Art Blog

I have sent my twice-weekly Spirit Art letter out to Google Group Members since December 2005. My writing is accompanied with a new painting twice a week and is based on art, life and philosophy. The content is motivational, inspirational and uplifting. This slide show of all the images from my 2006 letters is set to the New Age music of Cusco. I encourage you to check out their wonderful music on their official web site. This song is titled Kokopelli's Dream - on Apurimac III - by Cusco.

The Living Camera

Stephen Wiltshire from London is a young savant who can draw aerial views of cities with amazing accuracy. Stephen is autistic and did not speak his first words, "pencil" and "paper", until he was five years old. When he was eleven, he drew a perfect aerial view of London after only one helicopter ride. This film tests the "Living camera" in Rome. After a brief helicopter ride, Stephen drew an almost perfect blueprint of the historic city on five and a half yards of paper in only three days. His gift is simply astonishing. After watching this video, a friend, Carol Anderson writes, "God doesn't make mistakes. His mind is as God wanted it to be. It is up to the rest of us to accept who he is and learn from his presence among us. Thanks for sharing this amazing video." Watch this and eight other inspiring videos of Stephen using his gift here on YouTube: Stephen Wiltshire, The Living Camera.