I just heard some guy say that he was particularly annoyed that Amy Whitehouse failed to sort herself out "because she had so much help" - the record company paying for expensive rehab, her loving family, her management dot dot dot

This immediately reminded me of a diatribe I wrote in 2003, The Artist's Diatribe, which addresses exactly that issue - but from the viewpoint of The Artist. Well worth reading and if you happen to be an artist, to take note, learn the lesson and don't go down the same rabbithole Amy and Alex went ...

I've been writing for a while about the energizing effect of real visions - it is a side effect of working with visions that is both surprising and truly delightful. 

Today was a lovely example of that in action on my latest SpaceNode, http://1-art.eu and here is how it works.

I'd like to officially welcome http://1-poem.com - to my network of websites - poems and poetry the StarFields way.

As you know, a lot of what I do has to with getting the energy back in sync with the conscious mind, getting the two operating systems of the human hardware to co-operate and in so doing, allow us to process information in a different way, learn new things and also invent new things along the way.

Poetry and writing poems is one of the ways in which this magical re-unification can be established, and practiced. It helps, of course, if ...

Ever wondered, "What is art?" Ever wondered how "the establishment" defines what is art and what isn't art in the second decade of the twentyfirst century?

Well, when I woke up this morning, I asked myself those questions and did a web search to find out what the current definition of art might be. But I was in for a shock ...

A lot of people are in personal development to avoid failure - the idea being that if you're "good" and you do "all the right things" then you'll be immune from adversity, accident, incident, illness and death, one must presume. I have always thought that it's more like increasing one's abilities to cope with whatever life might throw in one's direction. As the old quote goes, "Don't pray for an easier life, pray for a stronger back."

There are all sorts of things one can do in personal development to prepare for the future. One of the things that I have always rated above all else is the power of meditation, or Project Sanctuary to be precise, and to learn to be GOOD AT IT. It's a fun game when all is well, but it isn't until life strikes that the real value and worth of esoteric personal development really becomes revealed. Here's a case in point.

It is extraordinary.

Just when the day seems filled up with annoying muppet nonsense yet again, and I'm jjjjust about to forget how cool the real world really is - up comes the perfect rainbow to cheer me up.

Not just that.

But the rainbow turns up at the very second as I'm standing in the garden, with the camera in my hand, switched on, and ready to go.

It only lasted for a few seconds but I was there, and there it was. Life is fabulous :-) Click the More link to see the whole amazing rainbow.

Chill with these cool fantasy snowflake and snowflakes seamless repeating background fills from WonderWorlds.

4 new backgrounds galleries with black snowflakes, traditional snowflake backgrounds, beautiful fantasy snowflake backgrounds and snowflake papers for writing tables.

After a long wait, it has arrived - a rock collection of over 200 different rocks, crystals, minerals and some things I haven't even heard of!

That's going to be a whole lot of photographing rock :-)

Update: The mineral photo gallery is live now on WonderWorlds Mineral Gallery

Here is a 2009 update of the 2005 EmoTrance Emotions, Colors, Art & Energy experience. If you haven't done this before, you're in for a real treat - this is a fascinating exercise indeed and a great energy practice piece. If you have done this already in 2005, what an opportunity to find out how far you've come since then. Works also with EFT and with EmoTrance, it rocks.

Fabulous images of glass, water, ice, crystal, rock - in extreme close up. Each one is a work of art in and of itself, truly beautiful. You can feel stress drain away just by looking at these photos; if you are ET or PS enabled, you can do a whole lot more with them. Take a look for yourself at http://wonderworlds.org. There is also an interesting article there, 7 Reasons Why Looking At The WonderWorld Images is Good For Your Mind, Body and Spirit which might explain a thing, or two ...

To celebrate the arrival of my new computer, a Dell laptop this time, and the ceremonial re-installation and test of my various art programmes, here is a new virtual abstract painting "Springtime On Darius 6" - :-)