Beautiful Ink Splattered Animal Paintings |
| Talented Chinese artist Hua Tunan creates original art work using ink splattering. The beautiful animal paintings he produces are breathtaking. His chaotic style combines traditional painting techniques with a modern street art approach. This young artist has a studio in Foshan, China but is now exhibiting his first solo show at Chicago’s Galerie F. You can see more of his work on his website or Behance, or follow him on Facebook, Instagram or Tumblr.
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Message For the Day…” Infuse Every Moment of Life with Love…”
Twenty hammer strokes might not succeed in breaking a stone, but the twenty-first stroke might break it. Does this mean that the twenty blows were of no avail? No. The final success was a result of the cumulative effect of all the strokes. Your mind is constantly engaged in a struggle with the world, both internal and external. Needless to say, you may not succeed always. But by immersing yourself in good work and saturating your mind with the love of God, you will attain everlasting bliss. When your mind dwells on the Lord, you will be drawn only toward good deeds automatically. The object of all spiritual practices is to destroy the mind, and some day, just as the twenty-first blow broke the stone, one good deed will succeed in destroying your mind. So no good deed is a waste, every little act counts. Infuse every moment of life with love. Then evil tendencies dare not hamper your path.
” Serene Saturn….”
From a distance Saturn seems to exude an aura of serenity and peace.
In spite of this appearance, Saturn is an active and dynamic world. Its atmosphere is a fast-moving and turbulent place with wind speeds in excess of 1,100 miles per hour (1,800 km per hour) in places. The lack of a solid surface to create drag means that there are fewer features to slow down the wind than on a planet like Earth.
Mimas, to the upper-right of Saturn, has been brightened by a factor of 2 for visibility.
In this view, Cassini was at a subspacecraft latitude of 19 degrees North. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Feb. 4, 2015 using a spectral filter centered at 752 nanometers, in the near-infrared portion of the spectrum.
The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.6 million miles (2.5 million kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale is 96 miles (150 kilometers) per pixel.
The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Source….www.nasa.gov
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” Dropping Doves….”
Not only can illusionist Darcy make doves appear out of nowhere, he also has an even bigger trick up his sleeve.
Simon thinks the Judges have uncovered a star — see if you agree.
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” அகரத்தில் ஒரு ராமாயணம் …” !!!
ஒரே எழுத்தில் ஆரம்பிக்கும் வார்த்தைகளைக் கொண்டு கதை எழுத முடியுமா? அகரத்தில் ஓர் இராமாயணம் இராமாயண கதை முழுதும் ‘அ’ என்று ஆரம்பிக்கும் வார்த்தைகளால் வடிவமைக்கப் பட்டுள்ளது. ” இதுவே தமிழின் சிறப்பு..” ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ அனந்தனே அசுரர்களை அழித்து, அன்பர்களுக்கு அருளஅயோத்தி அரசனாக அவதரித்தான். அப்போது அரிக்கு அரணாக அரசனின் அம்சமாக அனுமனும் அவதரித்ததாக அறிகிறோம். அன்று அஞ்சனை அவனிக்கு அளித்த அன்பளிப்பு அல்லவா அனுமன்? அவனே அறிவழகன், அன்பழகன், அன்பர்களை அரவணைத்து அருளும் அருட்செல்வன்! அயோத்தி அடலேறு, அம்மிதிலை அரசவையில் அரசனின் அரியவில்லை அடக்கி, அன்பும் அடக்கமும் அங்கங்களாக அமைந்த அழகியை அடைந்தான் . அரியணையில் அமரும் அருகதை அண்ணனாகிய அனந்தராமனுக்கே! அப்படியிருக்க அந்தோ ! அக்கைகேயி அசூயையால் அயோத்தி அரசனுக்கும் அடங்காமல் அநியாயமாக அவனை அரண்யத்துக்கு அனுப்பினாள். அங்கேயும் அபாயம்! அரக்கர்களின் அரசன் , அன்னையின் அழகால் அறிவிழந்து அபலையை அபகரித்தான் .அந்த அடியார்களில் அருகதையுள்ள அன்பனை அரசனாக அரியணையில் அமர்த்தினர். அடுத்து அன்னைக்காக அவ்வானரர் அனைவரும் அவனியில் அங்குமிங்கும் அலைந்தனர், அலசினர். அனுமன், அலைகடலை அலட்சியமாக அடியெடுத்து அளந்து அக்கரையை அடைந்தான். அசோகமரத்தின் அடியில் , அரக்கிகள் அயர்ந்திருக்க அன்னையை அடிபணிந்து அண்ணலின் அடையாளமாகிய அக்கணையாழியை அவளிடம் அளித்தான் அன்னைஅனுபவித்த அளவற்ற அவதிகள் அநேகமாக அணைந்தன. அன்னையின் அன்பையும் அருளாசியையும் அக்கணமே அடைந்தான் அனுமன். அடுத்து, அரக்கர்களை அலறடித்து , அவர்களின் அரண்களை , அகந்தைகளை அடியோடு அக்கினியால் அழித்த அனுமனின் அட்டகாசம் , அசாத்தியமான அதிசாகசம்அனந்தராமன் அலைகடலின் அதிபதியை அடக்கி , அதிசயமான அணையை அமைத்து, அக்கரையை அடைந்தான். அரக்கன் அத்தசமுகனை அமரில் அயனின் அஸ்திரத்தால் அழித்தான். அக்கினியில் அயராமல் அர்பணித்த அன்னை அவள் அதி அற்புதமாய் அண்ணலை அடைந்தாள். அன்னையுடன்அயோத்தியை அடைந்து அரியணையில் அமர்ந்து அருளினான் அண்ணல் . அனந்தராமனின் அவதார அருங்கதை அகரத்திலேய அடுக்கடுக்காக அமைந்ததும் அனுமனின் அருளாலே. Source…..input from a friend of mine Natarajan
Image of the Day…” Sunset on Mars…” !!!
You are there! Sunset on Mars
A beautiful new timelapse showing sunset on Mars in mid-April, 2015, from the Mars Curiosity rover.
This new timelapse lets you experience a sunset on our neighboring planet, Mars. NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover captured the images to make this animated gif from the Gale Crater on Mars during Sol 956 – the 956th day of the rover’s activity on the Martian surface. By earthly calendars, it was Wednesday, April 15, 2015.
At the time, the planet Mercury was transiting the sun as seen from Mars. These observations were an attempt to observe Mercury passing in front of the sun, as well as to obtain a Martian sunset with Curiosity’s Mast Cameras.
NASA wrote:
The four images shown in sequence here were taken over a span of 6 minutes, 51 seconds.
This was the first sunset observed in color by Curiosity. The images come from the left-eye camera of the rover’s Mast Camera (Mastcam). The color has been calibrated and white-balanced to remove camera artifacts. Mastcam sees color very similarly to what human eyes see, although it is actually a little less sensitive to blue than people are.
Bottom line: Animated gif of a Martian sunset, April 15, 2015, acquired by the Mars Curiosity rover’s Mast Camera.
Source….www.earthskynews.org
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Message For the Day…” What is the Genuine Moment of Awakening…” ?
Life is eternally stalked by death. Yet people don’t tolerate the very mention of the word ‘death’. It is deemed inauspicious to hear that word. Anything maybe uncertain, death is certain. It is impossible to change that law. However insufferable it is, every living thing received a ticket to death at birth and every moment is proceeding nearer and nearer to it. The samsara (life) train you are journeying on is taking you to that destination, whether you sit quiet or lie down or read or meditate or sing in the journey. Recognise this truth and turn your mind over to good mental tendencies (samskaras). Everyone must examine themselves rigorously, spot defects, and endeavour to correct them. When people uncover and realise their own defects, it is like being reborn. People then start anew, from a new childhood. This is the genuine moment of awakening.
Message For the Day…”Use Your Hands and Feet to Perform Good Deeds…”
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When the rains pour on the mountain peaks and water hurries down the side, no river emerges. However, when the water flows in a single direction, first a brook, then a stream, a torrent, and finally a flooded river is formed, and the rains reach the sea. Water that runs in one direction reaches the sea; water that flows in four directions soaks in and is lost. Mental tendencies (samskaras) are like this. Of what use are they if they are all over the place? The holy stream of noble inborn desires must flow full and steady along the fields of holy thoughts and finally at the moment of death abide in the great ocean of bliss. Worthy indeed is the one who reaches such a goal! Hence from now on, use your hands and feet to perform good deeds selflessly and fix your mind on Him. Chant His name from within and practice your duty (swadharma) with utmost sincerity.
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Joke of the Day…” If Your Wife uses a Phone with Dual Sim…” !!!
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” A Mother is a Single Strongest Force in Nature and in Family…”
Happy Mother’s Day! |
| A mother is not just a word, it is, perhaps, the single strongest force in nature, and in family. There is always something special about the bond between a mother and child, the effortless love without condition, the interest they always show, the softness they get in their eyes sometimes as they look at their kids.Even in nature, few animals would survive without their mothers. As human we have so much to say in thanks to our mothers, these great quotes hardly do them justice.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
Proving I’m a good mother is the one achievement I’m most proud of. It’s brought out the best in me.
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.
For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother. Source….www.ba-bamail.com Natarajan |
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