Monday, December 31, 2012

First_Great_Awakening

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Great_Awakening

The First Awakening (or The Great Awakening) was a Christian revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American religion. It resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of deep personal revelation of their need of salvation by Jesus Christ. Pulling away from ritual and ceremony, the Great Awakening made Christianity intensely personal to the average person by fostering a deep sense of spiritual conviction and redemption, and by encouraging introspection and a commitment to a new standard of personal morality.
It brought Christianity to African slaves and was a monumental event in New England that challenged established authority. It incited rancor and division between old traditionalists who insisted on the continuing importance of ritual and doctrine, and the new revivalists, who encouraged emotional involvement and personal commitment. It had a major impact in reshaping the Congregational church, the Presbyterian church, the Dutch Reformed Church, and the German Reformed denomination, and strengthened the small Baptist and Methodist denominations. It had little impact on Anglicans and Quakers.
Unlike the Second Great Awakening, that began about 1800 and which reached out to the unchurched, the First Great Awakening focused on people who were already church members. It changed their rituals, their piety and their self-awareness. To the evangelical imperatives of Reformation Protestantism, 18th century American Christians added emphases on divine outpourings of the Holy Spirit and conversions that implanted within new believers an intense love for God. Revivals encapsulated those hallmarks and forwarded the newly created evangelicalism into the early republic.

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Primitive - the forces that reason could not control (sexual desire, religious fervor, brute strength)

Artists work reflected their ambivalence about the modern, as represented by the railroad, the big city, and the factory.

While the impressionists and realists of the mid-nineteenth century had largely celebrated progress, the painters and novelists of the century's end took a darker view. They turned away from enlightened clarity and descriptive prose, searching for more instinctual truths.

Now the primitive came to symbolize both Europe's lost innocence and the forces that reason could not control, such as sexual desires, religious fervor, or brute strength. The painter who led the way in incorporating these themes into modern art was Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), who found in African art forms a radically new way of expressing human sentiments that was shocking to most European and American observers. Against conservative criticism, Picasso and his contemporaries claimed that African and Oceanic forms were both beautiful and more instinctual than overly refined western forms.

Pablo_Picasso

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso


Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture,[2][3] the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are commonly regarded as the three artists who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.[4][5][6][7]
Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortune, making him one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.

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Early life

Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad, a series of names honoring various saints and relatives.[8] Added to these were Ruiz and Picasso, for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish law. Born in the city of Málaga in the Andalusian region of Spain, he was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco (1838–1913) and María Picasso y López.[9] Picasso’s family was middle-class. His father was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game. For most of his life Ruiz was a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum. Ruiz’s ancestors were minor aristocrats.



Innovation and 'Cultural Modernism'

"Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should," Picasso said. "Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it."

Pablo Picasso

http://www.biography.com/people/pablo-picasso-9440021

Synopsis

Born October 25, 1881, Malaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso, became one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. A Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, Picasso was considered radical in his work. After a long prolific career, he died April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France.
The enormous body of Picasso's work remains,

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Quotes

"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
– Pablo Picasso
and the legend lives on—a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombrepiercing” eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive. For nearly 80 of his 91 years Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to and paralleled the whole development of modern art in the 20th century.

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Artist. Born October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain. Picasso's gargantuan full name, which honors a variety of relatives and saints, is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso. Picasso's mother was Doña Maria Picasso y Lopez and his father was Don José Ruiz Blasco, a painter and art teacher. A serious and prematurely world-weary child, the young Pablo Picasso possessed a pair of piercing, watchful black eyes that seemed to mark him out for greatness. He remembered, "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
Although he was a relatively poor student, Picasso displayed a prodigious talent for drawing from a very young age. According to legend, his first words were "piz, piz," his childish attempt at lápiz, the Spanish word for pencil. Picasso's father began teaching him to draw and paint from early childhood, and by the time he was 13 years old his paintings were already better executed than his father's. He lost all desire to do any schoolwork and instead spent the school days doodling in his notebook. Picasso recalled, "for being a bad student, they would send me to the 'cells'& I loved it when they sent me there, because I could take a pad of paper and draw nonstop."
In 1895, when Picasso was fourteen years old, his family moved to Barcelona and he immediately applied to the city's prestigious School of Fine Arts. Although the school typically only accepted students several years his senior, Picasso's entrance exam was so extraordinary that the school made an exception and admitted him immediately. Nevertheless, Picasso chafed at the strict rules and formalities and began skipping class to roam the streets of Barcelona, sketching the city scenes he observed.
In 1897, a 16-year-old Picasso moved to Madrid to attend the Royal Academy of San Fernando. However, he again grew frustrated at the school's singular focus on classical subjects and techniques. He wrote to a friend, "They just go and on& about the same old stuff: Velazquez for painting, Michelangelo for sculpture." Again he started skipping class to wander the city and paint what he observed: gypsies, beggars, prostitutes.

Cultural Modernism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I, were among the factors that shaped Modernism. Related terms are modern, modernist, contemporary, and postmodern.
In art, Modernism explicitly rejects the ideology of realism[2][3][4] and makes use of the works of the past, through the application of reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody in new forms.[5][6][7] Modernism also rejects the lingering certainty of Enlightenment thinking, as well as the idea of a compassionate, all-powerful Creator.[8][9]
In general, the term modernism encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the "traditional" forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social, and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it new!" was paradigmatic of the movement's approach towards the obsolete. Another paradigmatic exhortation was articulated by philosopher and composer Theodor Adorno, who, in the 1940s, challenged conventional surface coherence, and appearance of harmony typical of the rationality of Enlightenment thinking.[10] A salient characteristic of modernism is self-consciousness. This self-consciousness often led to experiments with form and work that draws attention to the processes and materials used (and to the further tendency of abstraction).[11]
The modernist movement, at the beginning of the 20th century, marked the first time that the term avant-garde, with which the movement was labeled until the word "modernism" prevailed, was used for the arts (rather than in its original military and political context).[12]

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Present-day perspectives

Some commentators define Modernism as a socially progressive trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve and reshape their environment with the aid of practical experimentation, scientific knowledge, or technology.[13] From this perspective, Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence, from commerce to philosophy, with the goal of finding that which was 'holding back' progress, and replacing it with new ways of reaching the same end. Others focus on Modernism as an aesthetic introspection. This facilitates consideration of specific reactions to the use of technology in the First World War, and anti-technological and nihilistic aspects of the works of diverse thinkers and artists spanning the period from Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) to Samuel Beckett (1906–1989).[14]

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Marriage - as a legal (and social) institution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage

Marriage (also called matrimony or wedlock) is a social union or legal contract between people called spouses that establishes rights and obligations between the spouses, between the spouses and their children, and between the spouses and their in-laws.[1] The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures, but it is usually an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged. When defined broadly, marriage is considered a cultural universal. In many cultures, marriage is formalized via a wedding ceremony. In terms of legal recognition, most sovereign states and other jurisdictions limit marriage to opposite sex couples or two persons of opposite gender in the gender binary, and some of these allow polygynous marriage. Since 2000, several countries and some other jurisdictions have legalized same-sex marriage. In some cultures, marriage is recommended or compulsory before pursuing any sexual activity.
People marry for many reasons, including: legal, social, libidinal, emotional, financial, spiritual, and religious. Marriages can be performed in a secular civil ceremony or in a religious setting. The act of marriage usually creates normative or legal obligations between the individuals involved. Some cultures allow the dissolution of marriage through divorce or annulment. Polygamous marriages may also occur in spite of national laws.
Marriage can be recognized by a state, an organization, a religious authority, a tribal group, a local community or peers. It is often viewed as a contract. Civil marriage is the legal concept of marriage as a governmental institution irrespective of religious affiliation, in accordance with marriage laws of the jurisdiction. Forced marriages are illegal in some jurisdictions.[2]

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Little Black Dress Main Trailer w/ English subs


A WEREWOLF BOY Official Main Trailer w/ English Subs


Waveya 웨이브야 ★SECRET-POISON 시크릿-포이즌 k-pop cover dance


Monday, December 10, 2012

BoomBoomPow - 2pm.wmv




Kanye West - Stronger


2PM - I'll Be Back (army version)


[HD] I Can't - 2PM Live


[HD] I Can't - 2PM Live 

The walk, and the kiss.
Unforgettable. 

2PM - I'll Be Back (Rock ver.) Live [SBS Gayo Daejun]


2PM


2PM(투피엠)은 대한민국음악 그룹으로, 2008년 9월, 《Hottest Time of the Day》의 수록곡인 '10점 만점에 10점'으로 데뷔하였으며, 소속사는 JYP 엔터테인먼트이다. 멤버는 준수, 닉쿤, 택연, 우영, 준호, 찬성 6명으로 구성되어 있다. 팬클럽 이름은 "HOTTEST"이며, 색상은 펄 블랙을 사용하고 있다.

Hyun Bin (Korean: 현빈)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyun_Bin

Hyun Bin (Korean: 현빈) (born Kim Tae-pyung on September 25, 1982) is a South Korean actor and singer. He is best known for his lead roles in the TV dramas My Name is Kim Sam-soon in 2005, and Secret Garden in 2010.


Secret Garden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Garden_%28TV_series%29

Secret Garden (Hangul: 시크릿 가든; Hanja: 秘密花園) is a 2010 South Korean television drama, starring Ha Ji-won, Hyun Bin, Yoon Sang-hyun, Kim Sa-rang, Lee Jong-suk and Yoo In-na. It was broadcasted on SBS from 13 November 2010 to 16 January 2011. It won a number of awards at both the 2010 SBS Drama Awards and the Baeksang Arts Awards in 2011.

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7777 - Lucky Sevens. 4Sevens.

Angel Numbers - Number Sequences - Repeating 7's 7 77 777 7777

Number 7 resonates with the vibrations and energies of the ‘Collective Consciousness’, spirituality, wisdom, solitary, the inner-self, the inner-life, independence, birth, re-birth, individuality, life purpose, the specialist, inventor, loner, eccentric, thoughtfulness, natural healer, inner-strength, intuition and inner-wisdom, quick-wit, discernment, an understanding of others, philosophy, endurance, perfection, stability, dignity, deep contemplation, the mystic and mysticism, psychic abilities, a keen mind, determination, knowledge-seeking, non-conformist, persistence of purpose, perfection, the path of solitude, analysis, contemplation, sacred vows, spiritual awareness and awakeningspiritual enlightenment and development, manifesting your desires and good fortune.



Number 7 is a mystical number symbolizing wisdom, the seven charkas, and the seven heavens. The number 7 symbolizes humanity's deep inner need to find depth, purpose, meaning and spiritual connection.


The repeating Angel Number 7 indicates for you to keep up the great work you’ve been doing of late. Your angels are telling you that you are on the right life path and that you will find that things of a positive nature will flow freely for you.  Your job is to maintain your momentum and enthusiasm, with the highest outcomes for all in focus.


Repeating 7’s tell of a beneficial time to learn and succeed in self-mastery and self-control, and implies that with enough strength of purpose, ambitions can be realized and obstacles overcome.


A 77 recurring number sequence is a message from your angels reassuring that you are on the right path.  You have been working diligently and rewards are coming your way.  Angel Number 77 asks you to ‘keep up the great work’.


The Angel Number 777 informs you that you have listened to Divine Guidance and are now putting that wisdom to work in your life.  It is time to reap the rewards for your hard work and efforts. Well done!  Your success is inspiring, helping and teaching others by positive example.  Repeating 777 informs you that you are to be commended and congratulated and your efforts have been well noted.  Know that your wishes are coming to fruition in your life as a result of your concerted efforts and positive attitude to life.  


Angel Number 777 is a positive sign and means that you should expect miracles to occur in your life.


The 7777 number sequence is a message from your angels that you are on the right path and doing well.  The Universe is happy with your progress and due to your positive attitude, positive efforts and hard work you have earned your rewards. Your wishes and desires are manifesting and coming to fruition in your life.  The Angel Number 7777 is an extremely positive sign and means that you should also expect more miracles to occur for you.

[M/V] miss A "Love Again" from Samsung Anycall Campaign(Korean)


[M/V] miss A(미쓰에이) "Love Alone"(러브얼론)


Miss A

Miss A (미쓰에이), commonly stylized as miss A, is a four member Chinese-Korean girl group based in South Korea. They were formed by JYP Entertainment and are managed by AQ Entertainment. The group consists of: Fei, Jia, Min and Suzy.