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udistam
 

Photovideos  with Patrick Leonard and Shenkar’s  soulful, healing, music from their collaboration “udistam”   (music can be purchased from i-tunes).    One of my all time favorite albums!

I’ve spaced the videos below to create room between them so they will be easier on the eye to view.   This may vary with different computers.

About The Music from Udistam: Patrick Leonard and Shenkar "The recording was done almost entirely live. Very little, in fact in most cases nothing was done afterwards except mixing. This was important, as we wanted the work to feel like a meditation. We quickly realized that in order to achieve this it needed to be performed while in as calm a state as we could reach together, and with as much done in the moment as possible. It was often a great challenge in the discipline it required for us to remain still in the midst of our storms. We want to thank everyone who listened and God for the calm that always follows. We would like to dedicate this to our children as a prayer for their futures."

The videos can also be seen on my youtube channel:
   http://www.youtube.com/user/itsalovelydaytoday

All images copyright caroline davies © 2010    Music copyright Leonard/Shenkar 2010http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Leonardhttp://www.shenkarworld.com/page.php?5http://www.youtube.com/user/itsalovelydaytodayshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2


About the videos:   


In Search of Camelot:  Part One and Two  A collection of photographs  of “sacred, mythical, and mysterious” places in Britain - re connecting with the soul  (it was there all the time....)    

udistam track:   out takes from udistam...


"And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of the Hero's Journey." Joseph Campbell.



Mexico: Dawn, Dusk, Ritual and the Afterlife:   udistam track:  “sons and daughters”

Mexico's ancient archeological and sacred sites and rituals: Teotihuacan (City of the Gods) and the sun rise ceremony of the Sun during the Vernal Equinox, carvings of the legendary Quetzalcoatl who promises return very soon, Chichen Itza, the sacred tomb of Chac Mool, magnificent Uxmal, Oxkintok, Sayil, Dzibilchaltun, Kabah, Labna. Then, a significant cultural shift - a remote church also in ruins (and still used by the local people) in Yucatan, and onto Izamal Convento built on top of an ancient pyramid and a blending of cultures - pre columbian elements of worship can still be found, the Pope and the Goddess, Day of the Dead and Night of the Dead (Dia de Muertos, Noches de Muertos) and the Festival of Guadalupe celebrated in the weeks before Christmas.


The Sphinx:   Wether the weather be....? :       udistam track "pudusu"

A collection of unusual aerial photographs of the Sphinx on the Giza Plateau in Egypt .  The Sphinx is classic in its structure and form. Its body is a beautifully proportioned carving out of one piece of limestone bedrock on the edge of the Giza Plateau. The Sphinx of Giza is about 240' long and 66' high. John Anthony West and Dr. Robert Schoch, a geologist/geophysicist, from Boston University, presented the idea that the weathering on the body of the Sphinx and walls of the Sphinx enclosure had been created by precipitation - over a long enough period of time to create the deep fissures and smooth rounded shapes you can see, particularly on the west and south walls of the Sphinx enclosure. Detective Frank Domingo, a senior forensic officer with the NYPD applied his expertise of identification techniques to compare the facial structure between the Sphinx, and the Pharoah Chephren from a statue in the Cairo Museum. The attribution of Chephren being the builder of the Sphinx is partly because of this discovery and dedication given by proxy, reports suggesting they look similar.   Frank Domingo’s forensic techniques showed differently....  


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