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Cultural Traditions Passed Down a French Street

by Sheron Long on October 8, 2012

The French village, where I live part-time, opened my eyes last week to the importance in France of passing along culture and heritage, or patrimoine. For French people, patrimoine has to do first with realizing that French arts, history, culture, language, and traditions are the property of everyone French and then with making the commitment to pass that “property” along to the next generation.

French family in a parade celebrating French cultural heritage and traditions

Multiple generations of a French family get set for the parade
© Sheron Long

Cultural Traditions on Parade

Passing along cultural heritage and traditions—that’s just what was happening last week on the streets of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, a pretty village in the south of France between Avignon and Marseille.  Read more...

 

Cultural Heritage & Traditions/France

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Oct

Imaginative Pictures Play with Your Senses

by Sheron Long on October 4, 2012

Portraits by photographer Giuseppe Mastromatteo showing imaginative pictures that play with your senses

© Giuseppe Mastromatteo with appreciation to
the photographer’s representatives at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York

How Fast Did You Say “Oh, I See”?

It took me a minute to see how Giuseppe Mastromatteo’s imagination had played with my senses and caused a double-take in my perceptions. These imaginative pictures are surreal photographs, part of  his series “Indepensense.” In the photographer’s words, the series is “about senses and the way we can use them.”

I hope Mastromatteo was talking about the viewer’s senses as well. As I studied these photographs, I was first appreciative of the visual surprise, the feeling I always have when I experience someone else’s creative ideas. “How clever,” I thought, “that our senses could be represented in these illusory ways.”  Read more...

 

The World's Photography

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Oct

The Awe Inspiring “Aha Moment” Defined

by Sheron Long on October 1, 2012

Awe inspiring cartoon about having an aha moment

Watch out! Someone’s having an aha moment!
© xkcd.com

Mathematically, Aha Moments Happen Daily

If I follow the numbers above, it sounds like everyone can learn something new everyday. That’s awe inspiring!

Hey, I’m over 30 and, like the girl in the cartoon, didn’t know about the “diet Coke and mentos thing.” I tried a quick experiment, and it all erupted into an aha moment for me.

Then I found out that not everyone knows what an “aha moment” is. Really? At least, it wasn’t in the dictionary until last August.  Read more...

 

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