ARTISTS ROUND-UP

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THE POSSIBILITES ARE INFINTE! The purpose of this group is dual. First: to literally round-up all artists in the PP Army. Second: to establish a single location where artists can make themselves known to each other and to all on this site.

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Latest Activity: Jul 12

The word “ART” is derived from the Latin word ARS, ARTIS, which means TO JOIN TOGETHER

There is a particular manner of communicating (an incredibly powerful one) that can be, and is, used as a two-way bridge between the coarse suppressive brutalities of life and the higher more expansive universes from where one can experience vistas of freedom, aesthetics and action never before imagined. This way of communicating can actually circumvent blind ignorance and disintegrate such lower based emotions like antagonism, anger, hate, resentment, fear, grief, despair, hopelessness and even apathy. Communicating in this manner can instantly turn a hard time into a good time and on occasion even raise the dead. In this way of communicating bridges are built upon which we travel from despair to hope and from old realities into the new and, as yet, uncharted ones. The manner of communicating that I am referring to is what we know as ART. Art is incredibly fluid throughout the entire range of human emotions and it can reach in to caress, sooth and revive even the darkest pockets of almost completely solidified emotion. With adroit execution art can instantly place you into the bowels of a particular unthinkable and painful brutality then rescue you with a single note, a lyric, a word, a touch, a taste or an image.

Art, if correctly used, is a wonderful tool to be used in the process of education. Using art one can by-pass many of the fundamental barriers to learning thus achieving rapid duplication and elevated understanding resulting in a higher order of civilization. The point is art is one hell of an effective tool but it is just a tool. It is the intention behind how the tool is being used which is key.

Many years ago I heard a guy put it like this: Life can be like an uncovered wooden box on two iron bars being rapidly dragged across frozen ground by a four-legged hairy beast. . . or . . . life can be like a one horse open sleigh dashing through the snow. Which expression (wavelength) of life would you prefer to reside in? Hence, it is suggested that art is not just a manner of communicating; it is also the quality of the communication.

The knowing use of art toward the attainment of the Pickens Plan goal is critical to the success of the game. The artist that resides within each and every one of us has at hand the means by which to seek out and reveal the infinite aspects of our goal for all to see as it sits there in the future waiting for our arrival. Truly, the artists have at their disposal the means by which to greatly expedite this movement into a new paradigm of energy and much more.

Artists are recognized and acknowledged as being the senior and most key players in the game Pickens Plan. That's my truth. You may or may not agree with it. -Monte

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Start your "page" here. Just start a discussion and title it your name and whatever else. Then tell us about yourself and what you do.

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Please promote this resource to others. If anyone is looking for multi-talented creative people this group is a good place to start the search. Also, please tell other artists (regardless of what their art is) to come and sign in.

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Comment by Marie Wise on July 12, 2009 at 10:31am: Announcing my New Book: Power of the Wind. Experience one artist's journey to paint the wind!

Power of the Wind

~ Yes wind has a color and it is the rainbow! ~

Comment by Aram Grigoryan on April 12, 2009 at 5:02am

Comment by Jeffrey Michael Paganini on April 6, 2009 at 12:54am: I would be pleased to become a member of your group as being very much into the arts I just been working with The Bread Art Project- where I have over 50 of my entrys accepted,As an artist, photographer producer in the music industry seems you have a nice site to relax in..surferpags, PS you may go to any search engine and find that name.

Comment by R.Jonathan Taylor on March 28, 2009 at 11:03am: http://itsamediathing.ning.com/profiles/blogs/wind-powerBuy This Image

Comment by William "Leland" Luster on March 28, 2009 at 10:40am: Dear Monte; I will start a discussion and post any of my stuff there, didn't mean to step on your title page. Sorry, your friend and fan Leland.

Comment by William "Leland" Luster on March 5, 2009 at 1:50pm: Thank you for creating this artist page; I have nothing to sell but please enjoy this musical intro-lude, of my original acoustic guitar. Leland. leland4acstream.mp3

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Comment by Marie Wise on November 14, 2008 at 9:34pm

An invitation to the Opening Reception for my Power of the Wind exhibit at Lower Columbia College. January 8, 4:30 - 7 pm.

If you can't make the opening reception, gallery exhibit will remain open through the month of January.

Paint the Wind!

Comment by Bill Tucker on October 29, 2008 at 6:30am: All Scientists, Engineers, Designers, Teachers, Educators, and others,

Over the course of the past few months I have found myself embroiled in debates that range from politics to the best type of heat exchangers. I will say now that I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer especially when compared to people such as your selves.
The Pickens Plan has provided a place for us all to come together, to voice our opinions, push our ideas, argue for a better future, and pool our collective talents.
My talents are a long story but my story is necessary to a theme, so I would ask you to listen. When I was young like many children I had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. I grew up on Florida’s Space Coast in the midst of monumental human achievement in technology and science. My parents encouraged me to take “the hard subjects” in school, calculus, physics, and chemistry. I did well in my studies, but was unfulfilled something was lacking. Eventually I would leave my studies and join the Army. I traveled the world, was exposed to many different ideas, peoples, and philosophies. After a decade plus of serving King and country I came home and decided to return to my studies. I listened to opinion of family and friends and decided on Electrical Engineering as the course I would pursue. Once again I did well, and thoroughly enjoyed my studies. Alas I found myself once again unfulfilled and left college just short of completing my senior year and obtaining my degree. I opted to enter the construction industry where I have worn many hats over the years.
Now that I have completely bored you allow me to come to the point. My life’s experiences have given me (at least in some small ways) the tools I need to understand at least at basic levels what you are putting forth on the forums in terms of technology and the mechanics there of. In my humble opinion I am one of the few that can follow (even if it takes a lot of work on my part) what it is you are proposing and why that it might be the way to go. My talent has always been in the form of leadership to make a failing system work as intended. Systems not made of technology but of people. I do not do well with all people, but I have had over thirty years of experience in leading people to do all kinds of things. But that is my talent. Your talents are something that you understand.
But here on the Pickens Plan where people of all walks of life and all experience and educational levels want to affect change and want to understand, are your arguments really having the effect that you want?
I would propose to the Scientists, Engineers, and Designers, that collectively you all get together and develop a basic guide line of terms and processes that speak at a level that everyone can understand. I am not talking about educating everyone to your level, but providing a basic set of tools that allow everyone to fully grasp those things that are the most important. Facts, figures, base loads, graphs, infrastructures that can not handle significant increase to the grids, ammonia generation, and rising sea levels are all well and good but if they do not reach the lay person what good are they? News papers write at 8th grade levels so that they reach far more people with the news than if they were written at advanced degree level.
If many of the things that the Scientists, Engineers, and Designers discuss on the forums here were broken down like “science fair projects” more people would actively embrace these things and more pressure could be brought to bear to expedite change.
I do not profess to have all the answers and I certainly do not have you all’s background or expertise, but I do know that knowledge is power. If you want broader base support more people have to understand (at least at basic levels) what you are talking about.
Here on the Pickens plan there are many teachers and public speakers and such that could help. I just jumped way out on a limb there. We should consider as part of the plan,
Forums that discuss and teach in as non technical as possible how solar power works, how the electrical grid works, where natural gas comes from, how ocean thermal power is turned into electricity, how hydrogen is produced, how fuel cells work, and such.
I am not saying that the people here are uneducated, but if you look at many profiles you will find a recurring theme, “I don’t know much about renewable energy but I am trying to learn”. Many of you have been involved in your various areas for several decades; please allow the rest of us to benefit from your experience and knowledge.