I watched a fascinating TV program, the other day, about illusions, the inner workings of the brain and perceptual psychology. I've seen plenty of optical illusions before but presented here were also auditory and touch illusions too. There was even something about the development of wholy new senses.
Sound is really bad, but the video has some good advice.
video by siebertwalter
Quick introduction for beginners
Sofia Smith سهى I have a strong belief in social justice and human rights. Outside of that I live, laugh, read, think... http://todaysblogal.blogspot.com/
video by MrPaulbalance
Live demonstration at BAWI (Balance Art International Intermeeting). www.paulbalance.com Concentration, patience, harmony and restraint meet themselves in equilibrium, which challenges against gravity creating new composition
This week we taught building rock sculptures to children in our martial arts classes. The theme of the class was balance so students obviously practiced stances & kicks which pertain to balancing oneself physically in the martial arts. We also had segments of the class where students creatively stacked stones to feel, experience, sense balance & self control.
One student just took the rocks and instead of delicately stacking them with balance, she crudely clumped them up into a stout pile. I observed closely as her tense fingertips failed to adequately feel & sense the nature of balancing the stones gently one on top of the other. She was confused each time the stones would avalanche down as her pile collapsed. Her undeveloped sense of balance in stacking stones was a reflection of her undeveloped sense of balance emotionally. She was manifesting externally what was happening to her internally. Her patience fled along with her focus, interest & self control. Her face & body language clearly displayed her emotional loss of balance. I smiled and without a word artfully arranged the stones, vicariously stacked one upon the other. She became curious & I prompted her to try again. This time upon sensing her tension she relaxed, connected her mind with her hand, settled her emotions & gracefully accomplished creating a beautiful rock sculpture. In fact she was so surprised of her success her smile was at first cautious. This caution quickly switched to serenity as she sat back, took a deep breathe, relaxed, & smiled with calmness. She had discovered balance both inside & out.
In the Martial Arts we teach balance by standing on one leg and kicking. This ability however is useless unless we learn how to apply it into our everyday life. In my minds eye I like to imagine that one day this child will take this lesson of learning the ability to balance her emotions & use it to make a difference in the our world. To learn to balance ones emotions is a valuable tool for anyone to posses. This ability to balance ourselves through self control and focus is what we teach in our Martial Arts Education of Intelligent Curriculum at TheDOJO. Balance is the alternative to taking a gun to school, cyber bullying, war & other forms of conflict that begin in our hearts & minds before manifesting themselves externally in negative & harmful ways. It takes a village to raise a child…we are part of that village. Another week of Sensei Dan Teaching at TheDOJO, Learn more at TheDOJO.org
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Rock Balancing – My “New Black” for Meditation….I’m sorry – I just can’t sit still long enough to meditate in the traditional sense. I try. I’ve tried for years. I believe in the benefits of meditation. Reduced stress, connecting to your inner knowing, getting to that still small voice, raising your vibration, raising your consciousness – getting connected and plugged into the matrix – the All That Is. Basically getting to that centered happy place where everything is right and ripe with possibility. The best I’ve been able to do though is about 5 minutes – and then - I just get squirmy. And then I’d get sad…..or mad. Are all the bennies of meditating going to be lost for me just because I’m hopeless at it? I mean – how fair is that?? There had to be another form of meditation that would garner the same results but allow me to be Me.
Ahhhhh….I rediscovered Rock Balancing. Years ago I did it for fun. I thought it was the height of cool and awe to look inbetween the two balanced rocks and see one maybe two pinpoints of connection and a whole lot of light streaming through. That the seemingly impossible was possible – I mean – doesn’t that look impossible? Yet – it is…
It dawned on me that it was a perfect analogy for seeking divine connection and light. That what I percieve to be impossible in my life was actually quite possible… With the added bonus of not having to sit still - I can use my whole mind/body/spirit, I am out in nature and I get a piece of incredible art to ponder when I’m done – and leave for someone else’s enjoyment. The meditative aspect for me is that unless I am absolutely present when balancing rock upon rock – it’s just not going to happen. I’m not going to find that sweet spot of equalibrium. Rock Balancing forces me in a delightful way to be completely in the moment. And isn’t that really the goal of any meditative practice?
Give it a go – get out in nature, find a few rocks and see what happens. I have small ones I use inside when it rains. What can I say – I know myself and my limits….
If rock balancing doesn’t work and you know you can’t sit still either - golf accomplishes the same thing – you have to “Be Here Now” or it ain’t gonna happen – just ask my brothers…..
It’s all about the Journey, Baby…
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Could this be the ultimate form of active meditation?
WHEN I WAS in Malaysia last June for the Borneo International Jazz Festival I went on a jungle trek with my fellow travel journalists. I broke away from the group at one point, waded down the river to a rocky bank, and proceeded to leave a bit of Canadiana: an inukshuk.
On numerous hikes and travels I’ve also come across many balanced rocks like those seen in the video above. I’ve tried balancing rocks like that. It’s bloody hard. The focus, awareness, and attention required is definitely a meditative state. All else must be silenced; stillness is mandatory.
The founder of the website, Gravity Glue, and creator of the art, is Michael Grab. As he states on his page,
For Me, it is very much a meditative art, but also a display of Nature’s beauty. When I started, I found it a perfect way to bring ordinary objects in nature to life. Leaning into the rushing water of the creek, they acted as a reference for meditation. Balanced spirit inspired balanced spirit.
Another lesson he learns from his art of rock balancing surrounds death and impermanence. He says, “many people become easily attached to the rock formations, and the fact that I photograph most of my creations can attest to my own struggle with letting go.”
I know what I’m going to be trying the next time I find myself on a rocky river bank.
Michael Grab is a veteran at doing the “impossible.”
[Editor's note: After first posting about Gravity Glue here, I was so inspired by the video that I headed out to a creek days later and tried rock balancing myself. It's strangely addictive and very internal. Everything else becomes still and the focus is intense. When I'd snap out of it, I had the same feeling I get after a session of yoga or meditation. I recommend the next time you find yourself with the opportunity, to take advantage. - Carlo Alcos]
I BALANCE ROCKS for a number of reasons. My initial attraction was the good feeling it gave me; the meditative aspect is relaxing. That is the fundamental basis for my continued practice. As I did it more, I noticed that small crowds would start gathering to watch.
There is a mutual creation that begins once people are watching. What I do next is often influenced by spectators. It’s almost as if they feed off the energy surrounding the gardens, but simultaneously my creative flow feeds off of people’s interest in the activity.
It’s also a great way to spend time without consuming, the excess of which I believe to be the basis of many of the economic troubles facing this country and the world. The practice is something very spiritual to me. It has turned into a relationship with the Earth. If the wind blows them over, I view that as the Earth’s will, though most of the time I think she welcomes the practice for the effect it has on people that see it.
I sometimes like to think that the gravitational threads keeping the rocks in balance are beacons that radiate and collect positive energy to and from people, into Mother Earth. Perhaps that theory might be a bit farfetched. Who knows…
I’ve been doing this about four years now, mostly in Boulder Creek during the summers. I’ve also started my own “rock garden” in my backyard. Perhaps it can be classified as an addiction? The biggest challenge I face when balancing rocks is overcoming the will to stop. Some of the balance points are rather challenging and can take a mental and physical toll on the body to the point where my mind tells me to stop.
I approach this challenge with what i believe is a yoga technique where one “leans” into the discomfort by exercising mind over matter. Ultimately, I have the choice whether I stop or not. A balance point is very rarely, if at all, impossible; patience, discipline, and stamina are required.
When looking at these, the mind often tries its hardest to tell you this impossible, but the eyes contradict the mind.
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Last Saturday at the Highland Center, I had the pleasure of taking a Rock Balancing Class with Lila Higgins, Rockbalancer. Lila presented a slide-show on the subject to an enthusiastic but skeptical group of amateurs. We were stunned at some of the photos she had taken of her work and the work of others. We suspected that super-glue or some other adhesive had been involved in the shenanigans. How could you balance rocks like that?
Rock balancing goes way back. We saw photographic examples of cairns, stacks, and other balancing sculptures, from England, Hawaii, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, Korea, New England and elsewhere. The Inuit people are known for their inukshuk stone figures representing human forms. Many of these stone constructions are sacred.
It takes practice, as we would learn. After the slide show, Lila led us to the brook behind the lodge. She had already constructed some examples for us. We started with stacking and then proceeded to the more difficult, balancing. As she said, even the roundest rocks have little nooks and crannies. Her advice was to concentrate on creating three points of connection–a triangle.
Some folks were more successful than others and it didn’t take long to get the hang of it. Each creation is unique. She explained the ethics of rock balancing. Use Leave No Trace tenets. Return the rocks to where you got them. Don’t move rocks that might impact wildlife.
Lila’s photo page displays much of her work. Bill Dan is a rock balancing luminary and one of the sources of Lila’s inspiration. Also, she spoke of Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist who works with site specific sculpture and “land art.”
Rock balancing is fun, meditative, and challenging. Lila was enthusiastic and did a great job explaining why she has a passion for it, as demonstrated through her own creations. I was so happy that I opted not to go on the hike up Mt. Willard (again). I’ve been there and done that. The rockbalancing was a blast. I might have to just take her course again at Kripalu Center in Lenox, the same place where Debbie goes for her yoga certification and inspiration. Of course, you don’t need Lila’s help. All you need is a couple of rocks. Go on, try it.
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World wide News here - London : "Daily Telegraph"- www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/60... and "Daily Mail" www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1060827/A-stone-ishing-T... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1060827/A-stone-ishing-T... No 1 on FUJI TV - Japan www.metacafe.com/watch/2164940/bill_dan_balancing_rocks_o... BBC World News [ Brazil - Portuguese ] www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/cultura/2009/08/090821_fotosequi... CCTV.Com - China english.cctv.com/20090821/101960.shtml i have lots of requests from flickr's friends "more birds please" . . .
video by SierraFilmWorks
Rock Sculpture & Balance Artist in Sausalito, CA. Go to the shore downtown and watch his creative genius at work.
video by johnmcusack
Documentary of Rock Balancing by artist Kent Avery in Stanley Park, Vancouver.
video by champaR
A short film that is played entirely in reverse and involves the "reverse destruction" of balanced rock sculptures. There is one character in the movie that appears to magically create these sculptures. Although the film is played in reverse it appears as the man who is doing his magic is going forwards in time.
Rock balancing is an art, discipline, or hobby (depending upon the intent of the practitioner) in which rocks are balanced on top of one another in various positions. There are no tricks involved to aid in the balancing, such as adhesives, wires, supports, or rings.
[edit] Modes of rock balancing
Rock balancing can be a performance art, a spectacle, or a devotion, depending upon the interpretation by its audience. Essentially, it involves placing some combination of rock or stone in arrangements which require patience and sensitivity to generate, and which appear to be physically impossible while actually being only highly improbable. The rock balancer may work for free or for pay, as an individual or in a group, and their intents and the audiences' interpretations may vary given the situation or the venue.
[edit] Styles of rock balancing
- Pure balance - each rock in near-point balance
- Counterbalance - lower rocks depend on the weight of upper rocks to maintain balance
- Balanced stacking - rocks lain flat upon each other to great height
- Free style - mixture of the two above; may include arches and sandstone.
[edit] Notable rock balance artists
- Bill Dan, a San Francisco immigrant artist who is helping popularize the art in the U.S. (and around the world).
- Andy Goldsworthy, an influential artist working in the field, for whom rock balancing is a minor subset of his "Collaborations With Nature".
- Dave Gorman, British TV and radio comedian took up rock balancing after meeting Bill Dan in San Francisco.
[edit] Opposition to rock balancing in natural areas
Many visitors to natural areas who wish to experience nature in its undisturbed state object to this practice, especially when it intrudes on public spaces such as national parks, national forests and state parks.[1] The practice of rock balancing is claimed to be able to be made without changes to nature; reputed environmental artist Lila Higgings defended it as compatible with Leave-no-trace ideals if rocks are used without impacting wildlife and are later returned to their original places,[2][3] and some styles of rock balancing are claimed to be short lived.[4] However, "Disturbing or collecting natural features (plants, rocks, etc.) is prohibited" in National Parks, as these very acts may harm the flora and fauna dependant on them.[5]
[edit] References
- "Rock Balancing is both art and advocacy". By Reuters . Philippines. August 2011.
- "The Art of Rock Balancing". By Jeff Zapanta. Philippines. May 2011.
- "Care-join-different-kind-rock-group". By KC Santos. Philippines. April 2011.
- "Rock-balancing-promotes-environmentalism". By KC Santos. Philippines. April 2011.
- "Stuart Finch - Rock Balancing Act". By Sarah Phelan. Metro Santa Cruz. March 2001.
- "Lila Higgins' gravity-defying cairns become ephemeral art at Riverside's Division 9 Gallery". The Press-Enterprise. July 21, 2008.
- "Rock mystery solved". By Sven Herselman. 29 May 2008.
- "OK, really, how does he do it?" By David Holmstrom. The Christian Science Monitor. December 2, 1999.
- "It’s Not Easy Picking a Path to Enlightenment". By Andy Newman. New York Times. July 3, 2008.
- "Man sets 'em up, physics does the rest". By Gary Warth North. (San Diego) County Times. September 29, 1996.
- "Partners' Beach Works Strike a Balance Between Art, Nature". By Len Hall. Los Angeles Times. November 18, 1994.
- "Gilles Charrot - L'homme qui murmure a l'oreille des pierres" Martine Schnoering. September 15, 2009.
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On My Travels I travel on overland rail maybe a dozen times a year. Filter that for sober trips with a charged camera and I have more chance of winning the lottery than I do spotting graff on rolling steel. So it was with delight on my way to Gatwick that I spotted this beauty heading South somewhere near Croydon.
video by BrainzIOW
We first saw these a few years ago, but since then there are loads more. In fact there aren't too many spare stones around now that haven't been put into piles. All very odd.
Stack polished semiprecious gemstones in small decorative cairns or use larger stones from the garden to make balanced towers. Cairns can be small enough to set on a desk or tabletop or large enough to keep outdoors. Some of the fun of a cairn is balancing the stones on top of one another in interesting configurations.
Sliiiiiightly different angle to the last. Okay. I've given up coming up with creative titles. I saw two of these piles on the beach at Brora, and could...
Cairn is a term used mainly in the English-speaking world for a man-made pile (or stack) of stones. It comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn (plural càirn). Cairns are found all over the world in uplands, on moorland, on mountaintops, near waterways and on sea cliffs, and also in barren desert and tundra areas. They vary in size from small stone markers to entire artificial hills, and in complexity from loose, conical rock piles to delicately balanced sculptures and elaborate feats of megalithic engineering. Cairns may be painted or otherwise decorated, e.g. for increased visibility or for religious reasons.
In modern times, cairns are often erected as landmarks, a use they have had since ancient times. Since prehistory, they have also been built as sepulchral monuments, or used for defensive, hunting, ceremonial, astronomical and other purposes.
[edit] Modern cairns
Today, cairns are built for many purposes. The most common use in North America and Northern Europe is to mark mountain bike and hiking trails and other cross-country trail blazing, especially in mountain regions at or above the tree line. For example, the extensive trail network maintained by the DNT, the Norwegian Trekking Association, extensively uses cairns in conjunction with T-painted rock faces to mark trails. Other examples of these can be seen in the lava fields of Volcanoes National Park in Hawaiʻi to mark several hikes.[1] Placed at regular intervals, a series of cairns can be used to indicate a path across stony or barren terrain, even across glaciers. Such cairns are often placed at junctions or in places where the trail direction is not obvious, and may also be used to indicate an obscured danger, such as a sudden drop, or a noteworthy point such as the summit of a mountain. Most trail cairns are small, a foot or less in height, but may be built taller so as to protrude through a layer of snow. Hikers passing by often add a stone, as a small bit of maintenance to counteract the erosive effects of severe weather. North American trail marks are sometimes called "ducks" or "duckies", because they sometimes have a "beak" pointing in the direction of the route. The expression "two rocks do not make a duck" reminds hikers that just one rock resting upon another could be the result of accident or nature rather than intentional trail marking.
Coastal cairns, or "sea marks", are also common in the northern latitudes, especially in the island-strewn waters of Scandinavia and eastern Canada. Often indicated on navigation charts, they may be painted white or lit as beacons for greater visibility offshore.
Modern cairns may also be erected for historical or memorial commemoration or simply for decorative or artistic reasons. One example is a series of many cairns marking British soldiers' mass graves at the site of the Battle of Isandlwana, South Africa. Another is the Matthew Flinders Cairn on the side of Arthur's Seat, a small mountain on the shores of Port Phillip Bay, Australia. A large cairn, commonly referred to as "the igloo" by the locals, was built atop a hill next to the I-476 highway in Radnor, Pennsylvania and is a part of a series of large rock sculptures initiated in 1988 to symbolize the township's Welsh heritage and to beautify the visual imagery along the highway.[2] Some are merely places where farmers have collected stones removed from a field. These can be seen in the Catskill Mountains, North America where there is a strong Scottish heritage, and may also represent places where livestock were lost. In locales exhibiting fantastic rock formations, such as the Grand Canyon, tourists often construct simple cairns in reverence of the larger counterparts.[citation needed]. By contrast, cairns may have a strong aesthetic purpose, for example in the art of Andy Goldsworthy.
[edit] History
[edit] Europe
The building of cairns for various purposes goes back into prehistory in Eurasia, ranging in size from small rock sculptures to substantial man-made hills of stone (some built on top of larger, natural hills). The latter are often relatively massive Bronze Age or earlier structures which, like kistvaens and dolmens, frequently contain burials; they are comparable to tumuli (kurgans), but of stone construction instead of earthworks. Cairn originally could more broadly refer to various types of hills and natural stone piles, but today is used exclusively of artificial ones.
The word cairn derives from Scots cairn (with the same meaning), in turn from Scottish Gaelic càrn, which is essentially the same as the corresponding words in other native Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland, including Welsh carn (and carnedd), Irish carn, and Cornish karn or carn. Cornwall (Kernow) itself may actually be named after the cairns that dot its landscape, such as Cornwall's highest point, Brown Willy Summit Cairn, a 5 m (16 ft) high and 24 m (79 ft) diameter mound atop Brown Willy hill in Bodmin Moor, an area with many ancient cairns. Burial cairns and other megaliths are the subject of a variety of legends and folklore throughout Britain and Ireland. In Scotland, it is traditional to carry a stone up from the bottom of a hill to place on a cairn at its top. In such a fashion, cairns would grow ever larger. An old Scottish Gaelic blessing is Cuiridh mi clach air do chàrn, "I'll put a stone on your cairn". Cairns in the region were also put to vital practical use. For example, Dún Aonghasa, an all-stone Iron Age Irish hill fort on Inishmore in the Aran Islands, is still surrounded by small cairns and strategically placed jutting rocks, used collectively as an alternative to defensive earthworks because of the karst landscape's lack of soil.
In Scandinavia, cairns have been used for centuries as trail and sea marks, among other purposes. In Iceland, cairns were often used as markers along the numerous single-file roads or paths that crisscrossed the island; many of these ancient cairns are still standing, although the paths have disappeared. In Norse Greenland, cairns were used as a hunting implement, a game-driving "lane", used to direct reindeer towards a game jump.[3]
In the mythology of ancient Greece, cairns were associated with Hermes, the god of overland travel. According to one legend, Hermes was put on trial by Hera for slaying her favorite servant, the monster Argus. All of the other gods acted as a jury, and as a way of declaring their verdict they were given pebbles, and told to throw them at whichever person they deemed to be in the right, Hermes or Hera. Hermes argued so skillfully that he ended up buried under a heap of pebbles, and this was the first cairn. In Croatia, in areas of ancient Dalmatia, such as Herzegovina and the Krajina, they are known as gromila.
In a legend of Portugal, a cairn is called a moledro, the stones of which are enchanted soldiers, and if one stone is taken from the pile and put under a pillow, in the morning a soldier will appear for a brief moment, then will change back to a stone and magically return to the pile.[4]
Cairns are also common on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.,[clarification needed]
[edit] North and Northeast Africa
Cairns (taalo) are a common feature at Elaayo, Haylaan, Qa’ableh and Qombo'ul, among other places. Northern Somalia in general is home to a lot of such historical settlements and archaeological sites wherein are found numerous ancient ruins and buildings, many of obscure origins. However, many of these old structures have yet to be properly explored, a process which would help shed further light on local history and facilitate their preservation for posterity.[5]
Since Neolithic times, the climate of North Africa has become drier. A reminder of the desertification of the area is provided by megalithic remains, which occur in a great variety of forms and in vast numbers in presently arid and uninhabitable wastelands: cairns (kerkour), dolmens and circles like Stonehenge, underground cells excavated in rock, barrows topped with huge slabs, and step pyramid-like mounds.
[edit] Asia and the Pacific
Starting in the Bronze Age,[clarification needed] burial cists were sometimes interred into cairns, which would be situated in conspicuous positions, often on the skyline above the village of the deceased. The stones may have been thought to deter grave robbers and scavengers. A more sinister explanation is that they were to stop the dead from rising. There remains a Jewish tradition of placing small stones on a person's grave as a token of respect. Stupas in India and Tibet probably started out in a similar fashion, although they now generally contain the ashes of a Buddhist saint or lama.
A traditional and often decorated, heap-formed cairn called an ovoo is made in Mongolia. It primarily serves religious purposes, and finds use in both Tengriist and Buddhist ceremonies.
In Hawaii, cairns are called by the Hawaiian word ahu.[clarification needed]
[edit] The Americas
Throughout what today are the continental United States and Canada, cairns still mark indigenous peoples' game-driving "lanes" leading to buffalo jumps, some of which may date to 12,000 years ago.
Natives of arctic North America (i.e. northern Canada, Alaska and indigenous Greenland) have built carefully constructed cairns and stone sculptures, called by names such as inuksuit and inunnguat, as landmarks and directional markers since before contact with Europeans. They are iconic of the region (an inuksuk even features on the flag of the Canadian far-northeastern territory, Nunavut), and are increasingly used as a symbol of Canadian national identity.
In North America, cairns are often petroforms in the shapes of turtles or other animals.[citation needed]
Cairns have been used since pre-Columbian times throughout Latin America to mark trails. Even today in the Andes of South America, the Quechuan peoples use cairns as religious shrines to the indigenous Inca goddess Pachamama, often as part of a synchretic form of Roman Catholicism.
[edit] Cairns and anthropomorphism
Although the practice is not common in English, cairns are sometimes referred to by their anthropomorphic qualities. In German and Dutch, a cairn is known as steinmann and steenman respectively, meaning literally "stone man". A form of the Inuit inuksuk is also meant to represent a human figure, and is called an inunguak ("imitation of a person"). In Italy, especially the Italian Alps, a cairn is an ometto, or a "small man".
[edit] Chambered cairns
[edit] Clava cairns
Main article: Clava cairn[edit] Court cairns
Main article: Court cairn[edit] Sea cairns
Coastal cairns called sea marks are also common in the northern latitudes, and are placed along shores and on islands and islets. Usually painted white for improved offshore visibility, they serve as navigation aids. In Scandinavia they are called kummel in Swedish and kummeli in Finnish, and are indicated in navigation charts and maintained as part of the nautical marking system.[6] Inversely, they are used on land as sea cliff warnings in rugged and hilly terrain in the foggy Faroe Islands. In the Canadian Maritimes, cairns have been used as beacons like small lighthouses to guide boats, as depicted in the novel The Shipping News.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
[edit] External links
- Notes on Building a Cairn (pdf), by Dave Goulder for the DSWA, Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain. Practical notes to help those embarking on a cairn-building project.