Poetically Tuned Minds

Meta Journey – Vladimir Kush A couple of years ago, a friend of mine sent me this image in email. I was feeling hopeless at the time and this image brought a sense of spring back into my soul. To Say Hello Is To Say Goodbye Buddhist Saying Read More Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Minx Short Film

I just finished up a short film for MINX, a comic book being released this week at ComiCon. The film stars Andrea Grant as MINX, the hero of the comic. View the trialer for it at the above link. Please check out more about the comic at minxcomic.com. Peace, Melissa Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Dollhouse DVD

Production this past week was intense. With a film festival and several projects coming due, I’m happy to knock another successful piece off my to-do list! I created a 30 minute commercial/VJ mix for the Dollhouse pavillion at MAGIC 2006 (fashion week in Las Vegas). View the trialer for it at the above link. This clip and others will be featured on the Dollhouse site! Peace, Melissa Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Anticipation and Preparation

What is rooted is easy to nourish. What is recent is easy to correct. What is brittle is easy to break. What is small is easy to scatter. Prevent trouble before it arises. Put things in order before they exist. The giant pine tree grows from a tiny sprout. The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet. Read More Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Miixxy.com Re-launched!

“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” Miixxy.com has been completely re-designed and re-launched with incredible new functionality, driven by Eventmail.com technology. Content includes video and photo galleries, a blog and vodcast, event listings. Users can subscribe to the newsletter and RSVP for events. Peace, Melissa Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Happy Valentine’s Day

If you want to be a great leader, you must learn to follow the Tao. Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself. The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be. The more subsidies you have, the less self-reliant people will be. Read More Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Sunday Love

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. Rumi Valentine’s Day is coming up very soon. Love is like water on the brain sometimes. Faith, trust in the benevolence of the universe, patience, until the time is right. Be still, listen, know yourself, and in that knowing, know the one you love. Peace and much... Read More

Screening March 28

Please join us for a preview screening of “The Art of Love & Struggle”, hosted by CineWomen NY. Read More Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Light

Light… If you close your mind in judgments and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren’t led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity. The Daily Tao Peace, Melissa Share on FacebookTweet Read More

Gender vs. Race?

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. Richard Bach It just happened. I question my reaction, first as a woman, then as a white woman, finally, as a human being on the path to enlightenment. Its 12:45 AM, I’m walking down my street. Nearing a corner, there’s a guy pausing on the corner, while a van is parked near... Read More

Ladies Shoot

Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve … you only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. Richard Avedon Shooting is service and essential. More footage/stills for “The Art of Love & Struggle”,... Read More

Anxious/Happy?

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness… Dalai Lama When I think of happiness, I used to think of a stress free, poverty free, bullshit free world where creation was effortless, opportunity was everywhere.... Read More

Coretta Scott King 1927-2006

Michael Evans/The New York Times The King Center NY Times Article NPR Article Chicago Tribune Article A Star Without a Name When a baby is taken from the wet nurse, it easily forgets her and starts eating solid food. Seeds feed awhile on ground, then lift up into the sun. So you should taste the filtered light and work your way toward wisdom with no personal covering. That’s how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night... Read More

Another Music Video & Fashion Week

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. Gloria Steinem In creating good work, I’ve met wonderful women, who have become my sisters, my community. Their support is invaluable, precisely because its not measured by time or money. Its connection, joy, respect and... Read More