Nictoe - about eye yoga?

[Jaga]

Nictoe,

did you try to post some info about eye yoga some time ago? It was quite interesting. I looked at your forum picture with a helmet - in such outfut eye yoga should be really recommended!

[Nictoshek]

Meir Schneider is an intriguing person with a fascinating eye story.

[Jaga]

Nictoe, it looks like something we should try

[Nictoshek]

"What happens if we stop and take the time to look more carefully? Then the
world unfolds like a flower, full of colors and shapes that we had never suspected."--James Elkins

Meir Schneider's issue with today's hectic world, is that few people will take the time to LOOK at the natural world's DETAILS...like the bark of a tree, the veins in a leaf...or even the cracks on street. He also emphasis paying attention to contrasts, shadows and edges. Many of Meir Schneider's arguments are also validated with this author's work:

How does one read an X-ray? What do the markings on a butterfly's wings mean? Why do the colors in a sunset always come in a certain order? Elkins (What Painting Is) answers these and other questions in this engaging guide to little-noticed and little-understood elements of the natural and technological worlds. "It's about stopping and taking the time to simply look," explains Elkins. If you learn to look at things in the right way, Elkins believes, the world around you "will gather before your eyes and become thick with meaning."

Much of his book focuses on such "universally unnoticed" objects as twigs and stamps; in one chapter he demonstrates how to identify trees in winter by the leaf scars on their twigs, while in another he shows how stamp artistry reveals crucial details about the time and place of its use. Elkins also probes more esoteric subjects such as mandalas and Chinese characters (which are vastly more complicated than popularly thought in the West). This variety of topic seems intended to catch a wide array of reader interests, but it eventually feels like a thin pretext for discussing wildly dissimilar material. Still, most of the topics are interesting especially the chapter on "ice halos" (magical rainbow-like rings that form around the sun during the winter) Dand Elkins proves himself an enthusiastic, fun guide. With dozens of full-color photographs, this is a great book for the coffee table.

www.amazon.com/How-Your-Eyes-James-Elkins/dp/0415993636