Weblog and Playground of Gord FynesAs mentioned in the current issue of Wired magazine, the videos collected over at MIT World. Get your Real Player updated, put on a fresh pot of coffee and unplug the phone. I just started watching the Steven Pinker farewell session, but decided to bail for the time being as it clocks in at over two hours.
Not this late on a Sunday evening.
Holy shit! Did you see Hodgman on the Daily Show this week?The fuckin’ funniest five minutes of TV in a long, long time. Get those lighters ready.
The month of May in Toronto brings about the usual seasonal elements; one of the most interesting being the Contact Photography Festival. This year, my friend, and one of my favourite photographers, Stephen Burnie, is taking part in a small group show, Triofoto.
Happy Birthday, m’babe!
For a couple of years now, I’ve been studying photography/art/dharma in the style known as Miksang. My wife had first told me about it a few years ago, though, at the time, I didn’t really have an interest in things Buddhist. After seeing a CBC piece on Michael Wood, the gentleman that co-founded this approach, I nearly leapt out of my chair, pointing at the TV exclaiming “I wanna take pictures like that!”
The overall concept is to synchronize the eye and the mind. Some have called it “meditation with a camera”. I’ve jokingly commented to my teacher that Miksang was my gateway to sitting meditation in the Shambhala tradition.
Although years late to the table with this one, I’ve recently launched a daily photoblog-styled site, Fynesight.com, to showcase previous, current and future photographs of mine taken in the Miksang spirit.
Do stop by and have a look around.