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Respira el Momento

A celebration of the artist the man and Borinqueño, Lee Quiñones. A select study of his paintings, drawings, graffiti. Track: “La Vida (Respira el Momento)” from MultiViral by Calle 13

“In the end, tagging my name not only underscored that “I did exist” in a town that didn’t value or even consider my existence, but that I existed outside of my very own masterpieces.” -Lee

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Ode To Juno

Images from: “The Juno spacecraft, which entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016, is the first explorer to peer below the planet’s dense clouds to answer questions about the gas giant itself and the origins of our solar system.”
Track: Symphony No. 41 (the Jupiter Symphony) in C major, K. 551, Movement Andante cantabile, 3/4 in F major. By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Birth and Death Selfsame

Visuals: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center: Animation of a star too close to a monster black hole, gravitational forces create intense tides that break the star apart into a stream of gas. Eventually, the stellar debris settles into an accretion disk around the black hole.
Audio: Forest Whitaker reads from the Samurai Code, “Ghost Dog” (OST )
Track: Explosions in the Sky, “The Birth and Death of the Day.” “All of a sudden I Miss Everyone”
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Plausible Deniability

Visuals: Credit NASA. First: Progression of changing global surface temperature (1880-2015). Second: NASA climate spiral (1880-2022). Scales in Celsius.
Audio: Neil deGrasse Tyson from “Cosmos” season 1. Ep. 12 “The World Set Free”
Track: “Do as Thou Will.” “Only God Forgives” (OST). Cliff Martinez
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Sea Ice Waxes, See Ice Wane

Track: Pink Floyd “Thin Ice” off “The Wall”

“On occasions when many various conceptions are generated, it is not necessary to rely on exertion and apply antidotes to them one by one. Rather, recognize the wisdom truth body … and pay attention to it.  As the great Tibetan yogi Milarepa says in song, “Clouds, whether arising, arise from the sky itself, or dissolving, dissolve into the sky itself.” Or, it is like a piece of ice melting into water.”

H.H. The Dalai Lama in “The Heart of Meditation’