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This is a fascinating art, but beware it is addictive. In order to get good results you need at least 700 of your own original artworks carefully arranged in galleries - theme, type, genre - that sort of thing.

Then it is easy with Picasa 3. As soon as you have collaged you can send the pic instantaneously by email, or upload it to a gallery with Google and Mozilla Firefox in tandem. The gallery is a SmugMug creation and it is a never-filling vault. It's pretty cool, as in one experiment I got 20,000 images on one collage. When you zoom in the clarity of the pixellated paintings is mind-blowing. If you want one send a photo and I will centre it in paintings. And like butterflies, that is free.

Hogproductions gallery was initially created to sell originals only. Just lately I got 100,000 easily viewable images of my paintings on a collage - it's too much!

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Life Mastery Consulting Day Out - Topanga Canyon and Self-Realization Fellowship Center Lake Shrine, Los Angeles

The people who chase their dreams are the people whom the marvellous raconteur Les Brown would describe as 'hungry'. These are the people who put down the book or turn off a computer when the page or screen turns blank. The hungry don't try to read empty pages, nor do they stare at blank screens. The dream chasers write their own book, fiddle on-line with computer magic, until they realize they have gone far enough. All that they have written or developed has served its purpose on the journey that is a dream. When the actual pages they wrote appear blank they look elsewhere for answers. They know it is the container, not the content, that is important. For the chaser of the dream searches elsewhere for answers, until they realize that the answer lies within themselves.

In the movie 'Beyond the Secret' Paul Martinelli describes a pivotal conversation between the then wealthiest man in the world, Andrew Carnegie, and Napoleon Hill, author of 'Think and Grow Rich'. It is a consideration of the requirements to accumulate a fortune, not only in matters of wealth but also in terms of spiritual wisdom and understanding.

Carnegie considers and responds:

'The accumulation of a fortune calls for power and power is acquired through highly organized, intelligently directed specialized knowledge.' 

Hill's careful analysis, gained from a study of 500 of the wealthiest people on earth at that time, forms the basis of a whole new science of the way we look at ourselves. It is the attitude of flexibility. And Paul highlights at the end of the quote that the person who accumulates the power can go to specialists for the knowledge ie shake several containers. The dream chasers mould their dreams using the tools other knowledgeable people can provide. 

The dream chaser must be flexible - never should those in pursuit of their dreams, all the best of which are ultimately spiritual, exhibit traits of inflexibility. Examine the alternatives, and when their pages or screens become blank to you, pursue your never-ending dreams in another direction. Be flexible!

You are the container and in yourself you prepare the content. When you look for the answers sought in your dreams take all the best options to the table of the court of all religions. The journey of the dream chaser is, I repeat, a path of flexibility. The perfection of the Holy Koran, the wisdom of the Pentateuch, the magnificence of the Bhagavad Gita, the Noble Eightfold part of all Buddhi, the Beatitudes, Psalm 119 and the mythographical mastery of the ancients are all pages of books that add to the container and embellish the content of the dream chaser.

The Life Mastery Consultants each pondered their container as they wandered through Lake Shrine and imbibed the gardens of a Christian/Buddhist/Hindu/And whoever you wish to Be Shrine. In the courts of religion suggested by Sri Paramahansa Yogananda they pondered these words, suggestive of flexibility:

'We must recognize the unity of mankind, remembering that we are all made in the image of God. There must be world brotherhood [and sisterhood] if we are to be able to practice the true art of living.This shrine is dedicated to all religions that all may feel the unity of a common faith in the Fatherhood [or Motherhood] of God.'

The 'Lake Shrine Visitors' Guide' continues:

'...while dogmas may differ, the goal of every religion is the same - direct experience of God. And in that universal experience one beholds the underlying harmony of all religious faiths and understands the divine kinship that unites all people as God's children.'

To Mary Manin Morrissey and her team - thanks for letting this container absorb this content at Lake Shrine. i now understand Les Brown's 'be hungry!' - in my case for flexibility.

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

inanga
Collages on Screen

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

screen dump

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Somehow I think that this is the centre of it All - Aotearoa

See my Aotearoa I and Aotearoa II galleries. Please comment - it's a nice part of the world here.

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

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Phi Swirl

Part of an on-line article on the Phi/Golden Mean/Bliss research of Dan Winter is used with my paintings in the background. Both Dan and I are deep into technological alchemy. 'wwwsangalganocom' in the bottom right hand corner, conforms as best as a shaky hand can get it, to Phi.

Here is what i wrote in my Plog about my embryonic on-line collaging (for those who are remotely interested):

The Moment of Collage Collage

Wow! If this is doing what I think it is doing as I write this, I enter into one of the most magnificent realms I could ever hope to enter. Picasa has become one of the great art tools. I am cruising through one of my old Picasa photo galleries, before I uploaded a deal of my art work on line to SmugMug, and I see this button at the base of my screen - Collage.

Now, talk about putting a carrot in front of a wide-eyed donkey. You are joking are you not? I love the sound of that term - Collage.

I click into a gallery in Picasa and then click Collage. And Picasa offers me more options of randomlessness, thinglessness and nothingness. In particular do I want my Collage as:

Picture Pile: Looks like a pile of scattered pictures

Mosaic: Automatically fit pictures in the page

Frame Mosaic: A mosaic with a prominent centre picture

Grid: Arrange pictures in regular rows and columns

Contact Sheet: Thumbnails with an informative header

Multiple Exposure: Superimpose pictures over one another

Come on - choices, choices - this is starting to sound like 'The Dice Man'.

I navigate the Mouse to the Collage button and press. Random chaos of that instant takes hold and I am presented with a collage of my paintings from one of my on-line galleries. Spooky. I imagine Matisse and fellow collagers thinking all those years ago - there must be something better than scissors no doubt. Hey, do not get me wrong, most of the images included in the collage above were created with paint, paper and careful use of scissors. And all this is happening instantaneously, on line and in real time. Definitely some sort of spooky action at a distance. And boy, oh boy they are still offering Options such as Scramble Collage and Shuffle Pictures.

I have this image in the back of my mind of Michelangelo screening laser images on the roof of a chapel as he shuffles and scrambles before pressing Paint on the Button of his ink-jet paint laser. It may sound ridiculous but that is what we humble artists are being allowed to do in a nanosecond now. I am sure that the speed of light is not a constant.

And all the while a video of Zorba the Greek is pumping out bazouki as Anthony Quinn teaches Alan Bates to dance. Tire of the movie then flick to some music videos of The Twelve Girls Band or 'Ayisha' in French. Certainly the harmonic mix thickens.

So I go into multiple galleries and collage the lot instantaneously. It is sort of like the Show Off feature available on SmugMug. Anyway the very clever process was all available on-line for virtually free. The secret is letting yourself go, leap faithfully into the abyss of technology with the realisation that none of your actions - eg mosaic collaging on line - hurt anybody. Do it for the good and there will be no bad repercussions.

I have a url feed at the base of my Blog - it has a painting of the day (someone else's choice in a land who knows where), some on-line ads (not my choice) and a quote by Michelangelo -

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

In that moment amidst all this blaringly glaring technology I am humbled to think that similar acts of digital sleight-of-hand, good old-fashioned prestidigitation (there is such a word!) are taking place in millions of offices and living rooms throughout the entire world-wide-web connected world at any one time. And all this can be shared in an instant with others in what is a mere speck of the divine grace of God.

And are we not all brought kicking and screaming back into reality. I rush to the kitchen and my toast is well and truly burnt on one side. i remember my cooking days on the Coromandel - if you burnt it, eat it. It is all part of the creation of something. I eat burnt toast, margarine and peanut butter in self-imposed silence (no You-tube music) as I contemplate suitable mea culpa.

Anyway, I just noticed some more buttons at the base of Picasa... and today's art piece in the url feed at the base of my Blog is that famous 1932 (?) blue woman by Matisse - cleverly collaged of course.

Oops. forgot to mention that the megapixel magic of Picasa's Collage can best be seen by on-line magnification of the image above - either by mouse click or on-screen magnifier. Best of luck.

courtesy of mfnw, inanga, Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

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Salvation Carrot: Ohakune Rocks in Winter

or: Miles from Nowhere's Business Card.

Again, a mix of Dan Winter article and my paintings.

courtesy of mfnw, inanga, Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

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Renoir Cloud Collage

This piece on cardboard - see the full story in Faces of Earth Gallery - is dedicated to Ms P. She seems to have even randomly signed it below the picture. The original Renoir Cloud is colour but sepia toned here - such are the marvels of this nanosec-tech artist's brush.

courtesy mfnw, inanga, Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

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Wizard's Vault: wwwsangalganocom

Thanx to Dan Winter article for combined background. Dan is breaking new ground in Phi research. Please check this feed:

http://www.goldenmean.info/

for more information. 

And realise there is a rather pathetic group chasing Dan called the Meru Foundation. Why don't they get it into their thick heads that flame letters belong to everyone. Money, that's why...

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

inanga
Sufi Magic, Raetihi

See the gallery in hogproductions entitled 'Sufi Magic'. Again a collage using all the power of modern technology to organise myriad paintings prepared in the old-fashioned way.

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

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From Man to God to Man

Another collaged expression of Bliss physics, the Golden Mean (Phi) and heaps of other iconoclastic stuff. In the centre is the full panel of my 'Man to God to Man', a huge collage.

YOGA OF THE SIDDHAS

'8 - Siddha Yoga takes no interest in the differences. It does not argue about bigotry or cults. In Siddha Yoga, there is no room for cultism. Siddha Yoga is the same as it was thousands of years ago at the creation of the universe. Then there were yogis and great sages who had transcended their minds, and Siddha Yoga was born from their arduous 'sadhana' and ultimate perfection.

Siddha Yoga is the teaching of those great beings who had fully attained the Truth and who had become one with Paramshiva, the all-pervasive Consciousness and Supreme Guru.

This field of knowledge is beyond human ambition, beyond the mind and imagination. It is a venerable path to the realization of Truth. we follow it seeking the supreme love of our own inner Consciousness.'

Yoga of the Siddhas: 'Heart of Siddha Yoga'

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

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Life Mastery Consulting Day Out - Topanga Canyon and Self-Realization Fellowship Center Lake Shrine, Los Angeles

The people who chase their dreams are the people whom the marvellous raconteur Les Brown would describe as 'hungry'. These are the people who put down the book or turn off a computer when the page or screen turns blank. The hungry don't try to read empty pages, nor do they stare at blank screens. The dream chasers write their own book, fiddle on-line with computer magic, until they realize they have gone far enough. All that they have written or developed has served its purpose on the journey that is a dream. When the actual pages they wrote appear blank they look elsewhere for answers. They know it is the container, not the content, that is important. For the chaser of the dream searches elsewhere for answers, until they realize that the answer lies within themselves.

In the movie 'Beyond the Secret' Paul Martinelli describes a pivotal conversation between the then wealthiest man in the world, Andrew Carnegie, and Napoleon Hill, author of 'Think and Grow Rich'. It is a consideration of the requirements to accumulate a fortune, not only in matters of wealth but also in terms of spiritual wisdom and understanding.

Carnegie considers and responds:

'The accumulation of a fortune calls for power and power is acquired through highly organized, intelligently directed specialized knowledge.'

Hill's careful analysis, gained from a study of 500 of the wealthiest people on earth at that time, forms the basis of a whole new science of the way we look at ourselves. It is the attitude of flexibility. And Paul highlights at the end of the quote that the person who accumulates the power can go to specialists for the knowledge ie shake several containers. The dream chasers mould their dreams using the tools other knowledgeable people can provide.

The dream chaser must be flexible - never should those in pursuit of their dreams, all the best of which are ultimately spiritual, exhibit traits of inflexibility. Examine the alternatives, and when their pages or screens become blank to you, pursue your never-ending dreams in another direction. Be flexible!

You are the container and in yourself you prepare the content. When you look for the answers sought in your dreams take all the best options to the table of the court of all religions. The journey of the dream chaser is, I repeat, a path of flexibility. The perfection of the Holy Koran, the wisdom of the Pentateuch, the magnificence of the Bhagavad Gita, the Noble Eightfold part of all Buddhi, the Beatitudes, Psalm 119 and the mythographical mastery of the ancients are all pages of books that add to the container and embellish the content of the dream chaser.

The Life Mastery Consultants each pondered their container as they wandered through Lake Shrine and imbibed the gardens of a Christian/Buddhist/Hindu/And whoever you wish to Be Shrine. In the courts of religion suggested by Sri Paramahansa Yogananda they pondered these words, suggestive of flexibility:

'We must recognize the unity of mankind, remembering that we are all made in the image of God. There must be world brotherhood [and sisterhood] if we are to be able to practice the true art of living.This shrine is dedicated to all religions that all may feel the unity of a common faith in the Fatherhood [or Motherhood] of God.'

The 'Lake Shrine Visitors' Guide' continues:

'...while dogmas may differ, the goal of every religion is the same - direct experience of God. And in that universal experience one beholds the underlying harmony of all religious faiths and understands the divine kinship that unites all people as God's children.'

To Mary Manin Morrissey and her team - thanks for letting this container absorb this content at Lake Shrine. i now understand Les Brown's 'be hungry!' - in my case for flexibility.

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

inanga
Life Mastery Consulting Day Out - Topanga Canyon and Self-Realization Fellowship Center Lake Shrine, Los Angeles

The people who chase their dreams are the people whom the marvellous raconteur Les Brown would describe as 'hungry'. These are the people who put down the book or turn off a computer when the page or screen turns blank. The hungry don't try to read empty pages, nor do they stare at blank screens. The dream chasers write their own book, fiddle on-line with computer magic, until they realize they have gone far enough. All that they have written or developed has served its purpose on the journey that is a dream. When the actual pages they wrote appear blank they look elsewhere for answers. They know it is the container, not the content, that is important. For the chaser of the dream searches elsewhere for answers, until they realize that the answer lies within themselves.

In the movie 'Beyond the Secret' Paul Martinelli describes a pivotal conversation between the then wealthiest man in the world, Andrew Carnegie, and Napoleon Hill, author of 'Think and Grow Rich'. It is a consideration of the requirements to accumulate a fortune, not only in matters of wealth but also in terms of spiritual wisdom and understanding.

Carnegie considers and responds:

'The accumulation of a fortune calls for power and power is acquired through highly organized, intelligently directed specialized knowledge.' 

Hill's careful analysis, gained from a study of 500 of the wealthiest people on earth at that time, forms the basis of a whole new science of the way we look at ourselves. It is the attitude of flexibility. And Paul highlights at the end of the quote that the person who accumulates the power can go to specialists for the knowledge ie shake several containers. The dream chasers mould their dreams using the tools other knowledgeable people can provide. 

The dream chaser must be flexible - never should those in pursuit of their dreams, all the best of which are ultimately spiritual, exhibit traits of inflexibility. Examine the alternatives, and when their pages or screens become blank to you, pursue your never-ending dreams in another direction. Be flexible!

You are the container and in yourself you prepare the content. When you look for the answers sought in your dreams take all the best options to the table of the court of all religions. The journey of the dream chaser is, I repeat, a path of flexibility. The perfection of the Holy Koran, the wisdom of the Pentateuch, the magnificence of the Bhagavad Gita, the Noble Eightfold part of all Buddhi, the Beatitudes, Psalm 119 and the mythographical mastery of the ancients are all pages of books that add to the container and embellish the content of the dream chaser.

The Life Mastery Consultants each pondered their container as they wandered through Lake Shrine and imbibed the gardens of a Christian/Buddhist/Hindu/And whoever you wish to Be Shrine. In the courts of religion suggested by Sri Paramahansa Yogananda they pondered these words, suggestive of flexibility:

'We must recognize the unity of mankind, remembering that we are all made in the image of God. There must be world brotherhood [and sisterhood] if we are to be able to practice the true art of living.This shrine is dedicated to all religions that all may feel the unity of a common faith in the Fatherhood [or Motherhood] of God.'

The 'Lake Shrine Visitors' Guide' continues:

'...while dogmas may differ, the goal of every religion is the same - direct experience of God. And in that universal experience one beholds the underlying harmony of all religious faiths and understands the divine kinship that unites all people as God's children.'

To Mary Manin Morrissey and her team - thanks for letting this container absorb this content at Lake Shrine. i now understand Les Brown's 'be hungry!' - in my case for flexibility.

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

inanga
Life Mastery Consulting Day Out - Topanga Canyon and Self-Realization Fellowship Center Lake Shrine, Los Angeles

The people who chase their dreams are the people whom the marvellous raconteur Les Brown would describe as 'hungry'. These are the people who put down the book or turn off a computer when the page or screen turns blank. The hungry don't try to read empty pages, nor do they stare at blank screens. The dream chasers write their own book, fiddle on-line with computer magic, until they realize they have gone far enough. All that they have written or developed has served its purpose on the journey that is a dream. When the actual pages they wrote appear blank they look elsewhere for answers. They know it is the container, not the content, that is important. For the chaser of the dream searches elsewhere for answers, until they realize that the answer lies within themselves.

In the movie 'Beyond the Secret' Paul Martinelli describes a pivotal conversation between the then wealthiest man in the world, Andrew Carnegie, and Napoleon Hill, author of 'Think and Grow Rich'. It is a consideration of the requirements to accumulate a fortune, not only in matters of wealth but also in terms of spiritual wisdom and understanding.

Carnegie considers and responds:

'The accumulation of a fortune calls for power and power is acquired through highly organized, intelligently directed specialized knowledge.'

Hill's careful analysis, gained from a study of 500 of the wealthiest people on earth at that time, forms the basis of a whole new science of the way we look at ourselves. It is the attitude of flexibility. And Paul highlights at the end of the quote that the person who accumulates the power can go to specialists for the knowledge ie shake several containers. The dream chasers mould their dreams using the tools other knowledgeable people can provide.

The dream chaser must be flexible - never should those in pursuit of their dreams, all the best of which are ultimately spiritual, exhibit traits of inflexibility. Examine the alternatives, and when their pages or screens become blank to you, pursue your never-ending dreams in another direction. Be flexible!

You are the container and in yourself you prepare the content. When you look for the answers sought in your dreams take all the best options to the table of the court of all religions. The journey of the dream chaser is, I repeat, a path of flexibility. The perfection of the Holy Koran, the wisdom of the Pentateuch, the magnificence of the Bhagavad Gita, the Noble Eightfold part of all Buddhi, the Beatitudes, Psalm 119 and the mythographical mastery of the ancients are all pages of books that add to the container and embellish the content of the dream chaser.

The Life Mastery Consultants each pondered their container as they wandered through Lake Shrine and imbibed the gardens of a Christian/Buddhist/Hindu/And whoever you wish to Be Shrine. In the courts of religion suggested by Sri Paramahansa Yogananda they pondered these words, suggestive of flexibility:

'We must recognize the unity of mankind, remembering that we are all made in the image of God. There must be world brotherhood [and sisterhood] if we are to be able to practice the true art of living.This shrine is dedicated to all religions that all may feel the unity of a common faith in the Fatherhood [or Motherhood] of God.'

The 'Lake Shrine Visitors' Guide' continues:

'...while dogmas may differ, the goal of every religion is the same - direct experience of God. And in that universal experience one beholds the underlying harmony of all religious faiths and understands the divine kinship that unites all people as God's children.'

To Mary Manin Morrissey and her team - thanks for letting this container absorb this content at Lake Shrine. i now understand Les Brown's 'be hungry!' - in my case for flexibility.

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

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