This story points out the detailed connections between the Mother Tongue and Suzuki Method.  The discovery of how Mother Tongue, or the natural process of learning of one's native language, is at the core of the Suzuki Method.  It was an astonishing discovery made by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki which allowed his entire educational movement to begin.  

This story can help parents and teachers gain greater insight into the Mother Tongue Suzuki Method.  

Although the Mother Tongue discovery is the foundation of Suzuki Method, or Talent Education, many parents and teachers don't quite "get it." Therefore, this story could be quite helpful.  Suzuki Parents and Teachers who don't understand the crux of the Mother Tongue Method could very well be missing out on some natural, simple and effective rearrangements that could have extraordinary results for their teaching and parenting when done properly.  Some of the tools or instruments of this Mother Tongue Method are plainly revealed in this short story about a boy, and a girl.  

Labels: Mother Tongue, podcast, Suzuki Philosophy, Suzuki Violin

FANTASTIC!!!

Chis Zenger's Art is insightful, rife with emotion and lovely.
Please check out his work.
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Simon Warmer has been a photographer since 1988. He got his education at the School of Photography The Hague. Although classified as a still photographer by advertising agencies, quite a lot of his work is shot on location. Warmer works for all major Dutch agencies and abroad. He won the Silver AOP 2005 as well as seven PANL Awards.

I found Rudy Ruckers via Boingboing and I really like his work. He's weird and cool! You can see more of his work at http://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings/. This is no highbrow artiste... he is down to earth, painting his dog and characters from Flatland amoung others. Enjoy!

Tony Fitzpatrick spins magical tales from his own history and that of his beloved city Chicago via drawing-collages, vivid combinations of drawing, text and applied elements like matchbooks, postcards, gambling slips and ballgame stubs. In this gorgeous book created with Alex Kotlowitz, Fitzpatrick introduces the first set of drawing-collages as chapters in an ongoing project that is both personal diary and chronicle of Chicago.

Alex Kotlowitz is author of There are no Children Here, The Other Side of the River, and Never a City so Real. He also writes for the New Yorker and the New York Times.

A World Apart
Dimensions, HxW: 23.7x40"
Total Edition: 135
Daniel Merriam

My favorite escape was climbing trees. I'd search for the tallest tree' could find, pull myself up into its branches, and begin to climb. I pushed upward from limb to limb until the voices of children playing below faded into the rustling of leaves. I ventured higher and higher, testing my faith as the branches grew progressively thinner. Once near the top, I perched precariously on a limb, braced against the trunk as it swayed in the wind. This was my own world, and from here I could see forever.

Queen of Technical Nonsense Oil painting on canvas - 46x55 cm (18x22 inch)

Michaël Zancan has some very interesting and beautiful work. He was born in south west France in 1976. As far as he remembers, he has always been doodling on my schoolbooks margins or on the class tables, which cost him a fair number of punishments. Attracted to any form of creation, he mostly devoted his teenage years to computer creation and was passionate about programming. He had to wait until the age of eighteen before he got involved into painting, thanks to his exciting street art (not to say graffiti) period. In parallel he has tried a lot of painting techniques, such as airbrushing which sounded like the natural tool for switching from walls to paper.

When he was about 22 , he tired of the ephemeral nature of graffiti, and he really started to get involved into drawing. He practiced a lot thanks to various crafts for his engineering school's gazette, party posters or t-shirts. Thanks to the final discovery of oil painting, he finally felt what painting meant.

The serious decision to become a painter came after his sterile, inartistic, one-year long experience of engineer's work.

Copyright Mark Tucker 2007

This is fun!

Jean Michel Garczynski
2007 Pastel
50 cm x 32 cm

Horizon de Lumiere

Found through La Passerelle.

Will Wilson paints still life, portrait, figure, illustration,trompe l'oeil and various self portraits. His work is extraordinary. Have a look.

Asolutely Nothing is a photography site that makes one want to continue to explore. Says the author of the site, "this website is where i post my own attempts at taking pictures and it also aims to keep cyril campbell's memory and photography alive." I love the layout. Most images were taken with a canon eos 20d, 5d, eos 1n, nikon f601, or a rolleiflex.
(This must mean something to some of you) I heartily recommend a glace at this varied and beautiful site!