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
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
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
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.
“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
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Peace,
Melissa
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.
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 love,
Melissa
Please join us for a preview screening of “The Art of Love & Struggle”, hosted by CineWomen NY.
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
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 to him. I pause, wait for him to move, instantly wary.
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”, with Jessica Habie.
Smokifantastic
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.
Michael Evans/The New York Times
The King Center
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 sky
with those anonymous lights
Rumi
Peace, Respect and Much Love,
Melissa
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 love. The fiercer I love, the more fierce I find the love coming back to me. Its not a quid pro quo, its symbiotic - sharing because we naturally love to share.
The work this week includes another music video. We are prepping DVDs for gift bag inclusion during fashion week. Much love to Liza for the hook up!
Peace,
Melissa
