Chicago Theater Dome

We were at landmark Chicago Theater for a break dancing show. The dancing ,"Flying Bach", was set to Bach's music. It was an hour and a quarter of incessant flow of music and energy.  

We have seen many films in this theater when it was just a movie projection theater. This is the first time we attended a performing arts show here. It allowed me some time to take in the scenery of the interior as the show was late to start.

The Theater was originally built in 1921 but named historic site only in 1979. Now it stages performing arts only,  I believe.

Here is a quadrant of the entire dome.

Chicago Theater Dome

Great Expectations

........cobwebbed and havishamed.......

cobwebbed and havishamed

Rabindra Sangeet

I found this sublime combination of Rabindranath Tagore's lyrics,  music and voice of Srikanto Acharya. It sounds thousand times better with headphones. The video gives translation after each verse is sung.

"Amar Kono Naam Diyo Naa"

Rose-One More

Rose

Pins and Needles

Pins and Needles

Pinwheels

Pinwheels

Willowey Willow

Willowey Willow

Light and Lines

Light and Lines

Sun in Miniature

http://www.cnn.com/videos/bestoftv/2014/12/22/exp-gps-moonshots-iter-sot.cnn

Last Sunday we listened to Fareed Zakaria's special on "GPS Moonshots: Creating a star on earth". The collaborative project is named 'Iter', Roman for 'The Way'. The intent, I believe, is to harness the solar energy by artificially creating the sun on the earth.  As fascinating as the talk is/was, I have/had reservation.  

Science does and will continue unhindered often to the detriment of humanity. 

I will not be on the face of this earth, when this materializes, if at all it does.

Sun in Miniature

A physicist in a white robe

in a costly sterile select lab

splits an atom in fission

releasing pent-up energy

He forces two atoms to collide

and merge them in fusion

unleashing extreme energy

momentarily recreating

a sun in miniature

Awed and blinded by

his brilliant feat,

I wondered,

"Can an ephemeral sun of lab

ever afford, among other things,

the wonderment

of the real sun?"

              charu(from thoughts I thought)

A Rose

A Rose

R.I.P.

R.I.P.

Jealous lover

Buried me alive

Under weighty

Allegations

Lest I raise my head

He sealed me with

Hefty headstone

Carved on it was RIP

He meant Rise If Possible

                            -charu

R.I.P.

Nature

Nature

Bewajah-Without Cause

Bewajah

Singer/Composer: Nabeel Shaukat Ali

Lyrics: Babar Shakeel Hashmi

Music arranged by: Nabeel and Shakeel

Sunrise on Michigan

                                Sunrise            Photo by: Bhupen Gandhi

Temple of Bel-Palmyra

Temple of Bel

Ruins yet ruined

History turned history

Repeats once again  

                                  charu

                       Temple of Bel, Palmyra   Source: wikipedia