Tag: Mark

End of 2023, I had a chance to revisit the National Gallery of Art in D.C. after my initial visit more than ten years ago. With more art education in the past decade, I felt more free to roam around the museum and find artworks I could connect with. This time, I found Mark Rothko’s work v...

While it would be fun to write about the different accents of languages in general, I am going to focus instead on accents among speakers of the English Language, and the assumptions we hold with regard to what constitute as the ‘native’ speech. As someone who was brought up with Engl...

I was walking through my neighborhood in Venice, California, while speaking to an investor on the phone. As I looked down, I noticed the grass pulsating and moving. I had been having these visual distortions for months at this point, and they seemed to be getting more frequent. I wasn’t sure w...

The process of fossilization is a patient work of nature, slowly transforming living beings into fossilized stones, preserving their unique characteristics. It begins with the death of an organism in an environment conducive to fossilization, such as sediments of a lake, ...

OnDecember 18, 2003, Mark Fregia was driving his ex-girlfriend Erin Weaver and her two young children — one, his biological son, Daelen — from the Bay Area suburb of Vallejo to San Francisco, ostensibly to buy them Christmas presents. As they passed the exit to Pinole, still twenty miles...

I’ve lost my way from time to time. In life more often than on the trails. It’s usually part of the process. Things happen, and regardless of stress and anxiety, it seems to bring me to the edge of my ability. Nothing else matters at that moment. It’s mindfulness outside of the yog...

Well, that is what happened to one family who was under the protection of the Hong Kong police. Gunned down set on fire and blown to pieces. Jason Chan (Yuen Biao- Mr. Vampire II & Dragons Forever) witnessing the attack on his mentor plus the above-mentioned atrocities is driven to take matters ...

Mark Rothko’s artistic journey was a route to the genesis of Expressionism, in an almost existential quest that wanted to go further than anyone else. The Latvian-born American painter was a product of his time, a 20th century characterized by the avant-garde of its first decades and the most ...