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Posted by rocksea on 27 Aug 2008 | Category: life
Celebrating our first wedding anniversary (27 August)
Watercolor painting reminiscent of our basketball games and a snapshot of the photograph from Riola.
At Riola, near Bologna, Italy.
Posted by sarah on 07 Aug 2008 | Category: prakriti
Watercolor painting of an Indian Treepie, also known as Rufous Treepie, dendrocitta vagabunda.
The head, neck and breast of Indian Treepie are a deep slate-grey colour, sometimes slightly brownish. The underparts and lower back are a warm tawny-brown to orange-brown in colour with white wing coverts and black primaries. The tail is a light bluish-grey with a thick black band on the tip.
The Indian Treepie is extremely agile while searching for food, clinging and clambering through the branches. Its acrobatic dances on the coconut palm leaf (ola) has given it the name olenjali in Malayalam.
Original photograph of the Indian Treepie, by rocksea, used for the painting :
Posted by rocksea on 18 Feb 2006 | Category: india, japan, life, photography, prakriti
Last weekend we had the Sapporo International Night and along with it a lot of group discussions on world heritage sites, nature etc. Our group discussed on nature, culture and civilization and how they can co-exist. I am not getting into all details of coexistence but just a single point.
Technology & happiness. Human civilization and technology has grown in a fast pace but are we happy? Some of the members said they feel life is more comfortable. Nobody said that life has become happier. We found that technology which has been developed to make life easier has in fact made life complicated and busier. One of the members said that unlike the past, now he can travel from place to place in few minutes/hours but life has become busier. Communication has improved, internet, mobile phones, have taken place in our lives but effective communication between people have decreased. We were all alarmed to face this fact that better technology doesn’t mean happiness. So is technology, instead of liberating us, holding us back?
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Does it look like a painting? I like the overall tone. A bit far from earth, it doesn’t show much of human intervention other than the dam. but may be a dam is enough? Anyways the picture shows a lot of geographical features.. Took it on my flight from Delhi to Sapporo a few months before. So it must be somewhere close to the east coast of India.
Anyways, am happy about the warm hi-fi japanese toilets mentioned in the pervious post 
More on it later!
ammu on nest raiders at our backyardammu on Intimacy with Insects: common mormon butterfly
rocksea on about this website
hary shetty on India; Unity in Diversityrocksea on nest raiders at our backyard
sarah on nest raiders at our backyardrocksea on the great papaya fight