Jay Gidwitz » Artists http://www.jaygidwitz.com Eveything is Mysterious & Always on the Periphery Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:50:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 First Dip: Kathy Honey's Painting aquired by David Lynch Foundation http://www.jaygidwitz.com/uncategorized/first-dip/ http://www.jaygidwitz.com/uncategorized/first-dip/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:05:21 +0000 Jay http://www.jaygidwitz.com/?p=397 A Child's First Exporation into Meditation

A Child's First Exporation into Meditation

My good friend Kathy Honey created a painting titled “First Dip” a while back.

It’s about a child’s first exploration into meditation. The painting is autobiographical: Kathy studied Transcendental Meditation with Maharishi from a young age. (The same man the Beatles studied with in India.)

The David Lynch Foundation promotes teaching meditation to kids in school to cope with stress and improve their lives. They provide scholarships for kids to learn transcendental meditation and to go to schools, colleges and universities that provide a consciousness-based education.

Kathy got in contact with the foundation because they would provide a great home for “First Dip.”

The foundation was happy to acquire the work.

Update: 6/16/09

They showed David the picture of Kathy’s painting, and here’s what he said:

PLEASE TELL KATHY HONEY THAT I LOVE HER NAME – AND PAINTING !!! ….. WE WOULD BE HONORED TO HAVE IT IN OUR COLLECTION OF ART INSPIRED BY MEDITATION …… THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT DLF.TV IS ALL ABOUT ….. SUPER COOL!!! ….. JAI GURU DEV ….. DAVID

Email ends:

Thank you very much for sending us your beautiful painting!
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I love David Lynch’s movies, so this makes me really happy for Kathy. (And a bit envious.)

Reminds me to see “Inland Empire” soon.

]]> http://www.jaygidwitz.com/uncategorized/first-dip/feed/ 0 List of web directories for artists sorted by pagerank http://www.jaygidwitz.com/marketing/list-of-web-directories-for-artists-sorted-by-pagerank/ http://www.jaygidwitz.com/marketing/list-of-web-directories-for-artists-sorted-by-pagerank/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:01:51 +0000 Jay http://www.jaygidwitz.com/2007/12/10/list-of-web-directories-for-artists-sorted-by-pagerank/     As website owners may know, sites with more high quality links pointing to them–that are from sites which themselves are ranked more highly by google–have higher listings in search results.
Website directories are sites whose listings are hand-picked and filtered by real people, as opposed to algorithms, so they are weighted as more trustworthy sources because they are expected to be good sites rather than sites that are designed to trick the search engines.
Wikipedia on web directories.
I compiled this list for myself and hope it comes in useful for others. Feel free to contact me if I am making any glaring omissions.

Below is a list of web directories specializing in art, roughly in order of pagerank by google:

Surrealist Directories:

General Directories:

(Homepage has a higher pagerank than all the directories listed above.)

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