Thought
for the day
" Today is a wonderful and amazing day bursting with
opportunity. Such is every day that is blessed by the light of day. Treat is as
such, and you will see that the opportunities are innumerable and possibilities
infinite. - Savannah Brodeur
Take home
– Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain is best known for his culinary and cultural
knowledge, as well as his often biting observations of the world's most exotic
dishes as host of No Reservations. Currently in the 7th season of his
popular Travel Channel series, Tony visits several off the grid locations that
have deep seeded political history such as Haiti, Nicaragua and Cambodia.
Exploring cultures and lifestyles that challenge him with a greater understanding
of human existence, this season Tony experiences the underlying stories behind
a locale's traditional cuisine.
Bourdain is not your typical celebrity chef. He is the
Chef-at-large at New York's famed bistro, Les Halles, and is also an
accomplished author, having written three crime novels, a cookbook, and several
bestsellers. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,
is Bourdain’s candid, hysterical and sometimes shocking portrait of life in
restaurant kitchens that has been translated into over 28 languages. His
book, A Cook's Tour, was published in conjunction with a popular series on
the Food Network and became a bestseller both in the U.S. and the U.K. His
recently released, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of
Food and the People Who Cook, is the long-awaited follow-up
to Kitchen Confidential, and is an insider's perspective on the changes in
the restaurant business. His other books include Anthony Bourdain's Les
Halles Cookbook, The Nasty Bits, the crime novels Bone in the
Throat and The Bobby Gold Stories, and No Reservations: Around
the World on an Empty Stomach, an illustrated journal of Bourdain’s travels and
companion to his Travel Channel series.
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations is a 5-time Emmy nominated
series and in 2009 it won a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding
Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming.
Photography
tips – Shooting with Available light
Available-light photography has always held the allure of
intimacy. Other genres reach for grandeur and beauty or the brutal impact of
graphic truth. Available light offers something else: the exotic possibility of
going beneath the surface and into the shadows to reveal what is hidden.
Wisdom
Messages
Take the five elements, the components of this Prapancha
(Universe). Of these, water has movement and coldness as its Dharma; combustion
and light are the Dharma of fire. Each of the five elements have their unique
Dharma. Humanity for man and animality for animals - these guard them from
decline. How can fire be fire, if it has no power of combustion and light? It
must manifest the Dharma to be itself. When it loses that, it becomes as
lifeless as a piece of charcoal. Similarly man too has some natural characteristics
that are his very life-breath; one can be identified as 'human' only when these
abilities are present. To preserve and foster such qualities and abilities,
certain modes of behaviour and lines of thought are laid down. This is called
Dharma. These qualities are not imported from somewhere outside, nor can it be
removed. It is your own genuine nature, your uniqueness. - Sri Sathya Sai
Baba
Pic of
the day – Iguazu Falls
