Baudelaire

I made this drawing one afternoon almost five years ago. I was just browsing through some of Dad's old books and found this artwork on one of the book-cover. It struck me somehow and I decided to make my own version of it.

Belle

This is a song by Jack Johnson titled 'Belle'. I really like how he uses 5 different languages in this remarkably short lyric.Below are the original lyric as well as the translation, which I believe is faithful to the best of my knowledge.

Oi Lienda

Bella que fa?

Bonita, bonita que tal?

But belle

Je ne comprends pas français

So you'll have to speak to me

Some other way

1: Hello, beautiful. (portuguese)

2: Beautiful, what are you doing? (italian)

3: Beautiful, beautiful, how are you? (spanish)

4: I do not understand French (french)

5: So you'll have to speak to me (english)

6: In some other way. (english)

Divine Comedy

Blake's depiction of Dante's Divine Comedy. Another masterpiece.

Keep Smiling

I couldn't fall asleep and so here I am, again. I feel I have changed a bit lately. I've become a manic insomniac and I can't think  positively anymore. At the moment I'm frustrated with the whole system around which my life revolves.

Every night no matter how tired I am the moment I hit the pillow my journey to my future life begins and I would become wide awake again. Just like tonight. Future life?? With the situation I'm in right now future seems to be nothing but EMPTINESS.

It seems like everyone's moving on except me. But no mater how frustrated I am inside, the moment I meet someone I smile, it is involuntary and it bothers a lot of people because they always ask,"Why are you always smiling?" and I just smile back to their question.

I Can Change The World, With My Own Two Hands

 

The biggest man made catastrophe of the modern world 'deforestation' has taken a huge toll on the environment. Statistics have revealed that by year  2030 only 10% of the the present forest will be left. The following shows the irreparable changes that has happened all over the world:

• In Nigeria 81% of its original forest cover is now permanently lost.
  
  
• The tropical rainforests of Brazil are less by 90-95%.
  
  
• The forests of Central America are down by two-thirds lowlands, since 1950.
  
  
• Countries like India, Mexico, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Sri Lanka, the Congo and Ghana have lost much more than 50% of their rainforest cover.
  
  
• Harvesting of forest cover has left Afghanistan with a little over 25% forests throughout the country

In countries like Haiti this deforestation is having a really adverse effect on the people and the economy .

So let us all take a moment and think to ourselves what we can do to contribute to tackle this issue.

After all our arms are for hugging, and not cutting down trees.