Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 490
May 19, 2015
AN ASTRONAUT’S POINT OF VIEW
Here is a very interesting video of Earth, as seen by astronauts. This external point of view has changed their “point of view” about life on Earth.
May 16, 2015
SNARKY PUPPY
It’s Saturday Night everywhere at least once a week…. it’s my turn tonight. Jazz and Mozart are my preferred non-toxic escape from reality when I need a Jolt of Joy you can only get from artistic perfection…… In this masterpiece of jazz perfection, the Grammy Award winnering group Snarky Puppy performs. Cory Henry – keyboards (solo) – demonstrates why electronic keyboards were invented in a solo performance that is beyond genius! We are not worthy of such sounds on this planet……
Snarky Puppy is a Brooklyn, New York-based instrumental fusion band led by Grammy Award-winning bassist, composer and producer Michael League.
This video is from the DVD “We Like It Here” (available at http://snarkypuppy.ropeadope.com) Recorded and filmed live (free of overdubs) from October 7-10 at Kytopia Studios in Utrecht, the Netherlands, for GroundUP Music. For more information and upcoming tour dates, please visit http://groundup.ropeadope.com or http://www.snarkypuppy.com. Written, arranged, and produced by Michael League.
Personnel:
Michael League – bass
Shaun Martin – keyboards
Bill Laurance – keyboards
Cory Henry – keyboards (solo)
Justin Stanton – Fender Rhodes
Mark Lettieri – guitar
Bob Lanzetti – guitar
Chris McQueen – guitar
Nate Werth – percussion
Larnell Lewis – drums
Mike Maher – trumpet (solo)
Chris Bullock – sax (solo)
Bob Reynolds – sax
Jay Jennings – trumpet
Engineered by Eric Hartman, Roy Van Rosendaal, Mike Harrison, & Colin Benders.
Filmed by Andy LaViolette, Brad Holt, Emily Schwarting, Joseph Lafond, and Christi LaViolette.
Mixed by Eric Hartman in Dallas, Texas.
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk New York, NY.
May 14, 2015
CERES ASTEROID PHOTOS: HAS NASA DISCOVERED A DOMAIN BASE?
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It is composed of rock and ice, is 950 kilometers (590 miles) in diameter, and comprises approximately one third of the mass of the asteroid belt.This animation shows a sequence of images taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on May 4, 2015, from a distance of 8,400 miles (13,600 kilometers), in its RC3 mapping orbit. The image resolution is 0.8 mile (1.3 kilometers) per pixel. In this closest-yet view, the brightest spots within a crater in the northern hemisphere are revealed to be composed of many smaller spots. However, their exact nature remains unknown. (Wikipedia.org)
Dawn’s mission is managed by JPL for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate’s Discovery Program, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK, Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team. For a complete list of acknowledgements, visit http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission.
Ceres photographed on May 3 and 4 by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft show multiple white spots inside the 57-mile-wide crater located in the asteroid’s northern hemisphere. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA / montage by Tom Ruen
May 13, 2015
PAINTING LOVE AND LIGHT
This documentary film (below), narrated by Meryl Streep, is a academic analysis of many of the paintings of the Dutch master artist, Johannes Vermeer. Throughout the film the question is asked of the “expert” commentators, all of whom are technical experts in the mechanics of oil painting, “What makes a Vermeer painting a Vermeer painting?” Ironically, none of the “experts” know the answer to this simple question. In my book Vermeer: Portraits of a Lifetime“, I reveal the simple, yet profound answer to this question. 
Vermeer and his wife, Catharina, had 15 children. All but one were daughters. The subjects of Vermeer’s paintings are almost entirely of his wife, and daughters. Nearly all of his paintings were created in his own house, owned by and shared with his mother-in-law, Maria Thins. The male subject of many of his paintings is his best friend and neighbor in Deft, Holland — inventor of the microscope and the camera obscura — Anthony van Leeuwenhoek. (seen in the paintings The Geographer and The Astronomer, et. al.)
Technical analysis notwithstanding, what the “experts” fail to comprehend is that Vermeer painted his beloved family members and dearest friends in his own home. In addition to technical expertise, the visual aid of the camera obscura — which revealed the hidden patterns of light in objects — Vermeer painted love of his family, his home, his life, his personal universe. What makes “a Vermeer a Vermeer”? Love and Light.
I will be traveling to visit the home of Vermeer in Delft for the first time in a few weeks. I am very much looking forward to seeing and feeling his love and light.
May 9, 2015
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May 6, 2015
NESTLE: PRIVATE WATER PIRATE
(Visit website for the film “Bottled Life” http://www.bottledlifefilm.com/index.php/home-en.html )
A typical American uses 80 to 100 gallons of water a day, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The entire country consumes about 323 billion gallons per day of surface water and another 84.5 billion gallons of ground water. Do you have any questions about why Criminal Corporations like Nestle want to PRIVATIZE water distribution?
Perhaps the most incredible number: at an average cost of $1.22 per gallon, consumers are spending 300 times the cost of tap water to drink bottled water.
In fact, that number could be even higher, writes Colas in a note to clients.
“The [bottled water] industry grossed a total of $11.8 billion on those 9.7 billion gallons in 2012, making bottled water about $1.22/gallon nationwide and 300x the cost of a gallon of tap water,” Colas says. “If we take into account the fact that almost 2/3 of all bottled water sales are single 16.9oz (500 mL) bottles, though, this cost is much, much higher: about $7.50 per gallon, according to the American Water Works Association. That’s almost 2,000x the cost of a gallon of tap water and twice the cost of a gallon of regular gasoline.”
Do the math: 323 billion gallons surface water PLUS 84.5 billions gallons of ground water EQUALS 407.5 billion gallons TIMES $1.22 per gallon EQUALS $497.15 billion per day. Now, multiply this number by 300 for the price of Nestle bottled water!
ANY QUESTIONS?
Get yourself educated about the subject of “Water Privatization” before NESTLE STEALS OUR WATER. Here are a few excellent articles:
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/private-vs-public/facts-and-figures/
http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/vanovedr/
