I haven’t written an annual letter or sent those old school new year cards in last of couple of years. I sort of miss it already, and I’m continuing that tradition with 2012!
So welcome 2012, and bien adieu 2011!!
A year in perspective
December 31st, 2011 — holidays and special days
Rules in Art
October 28th, 2011 — art, hobbies
Recently I have been intrigued by having some higher order principles for composing art. Similar to my explorations in computer generated music using Lisp. As part of a graduate course I tried to implement a program which generated rendition of a raga using the principles on which a raga is based i.e it has a vadi (dominant note), it has a samvadi (second dominant note), a set of notes, a well defined pakaad (signature notes), an aroha (ascending scale) and avaroh (descending scale); and finally a bhav (mood) and rasa (emotion).
I’m trying to understand visual art, and two principle which have understood of late are -
Halloween Grover
October 27th, 2011 — costumes, holidays and special days
So by popular demand and my immaculate enactment of Grover’s near and far, I’m budged in to being Grover this Halloween! emm..hmm, in fact I’m going to show you how Grover looks emm..hmm
A year in life, and the next beginning..
October 12th, 2011 — life occasions
A glimpse at my past year. An awesome birthday gift turned awesomer!! Looking forward to an equally adventurous and fulfilling 2011-12. Continue reading →
Festival Of Forgiveness – 2011
September 2nd, 2011 — festivals
Over the past year, if I have hurt your feelings knowingly or un-knowingly in any way or form, please forgive me – Michammi Dukham, Khamat Khamana. I sincerely wish that you will also forgive my shortcomings.
So why ask for forgiveness?
Well, today is the “Shyamapana festival”. Shyamapana is a festival of forgiveness; its popular among folks of Jain faith. This day is a culmination of a weeklong fest of repentance called “Paryushan“. To quote an article : Continue reading →
