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19-09-2013
Strangers are Friends You Haven't Met Yet
"What a beautiful, inspiring story. Photographer Richard Renaldi takes two random strangers on the street and has them pose together in a photograph as if they were intimate family members. Almost instantly, the "strangers" feel connected to each other. This only shows how close the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible is to being a reality if only we can shift our perception. This amazing photographer is helping us do just that." Sustainable Man
The Scarecrow
"The Scarecrow" is a 3 minute short film / commercial from the Mexican themed Chipotle Restaurant chain that beautifully illustrates the horrors of industrial raised animals for food. The restaurant chain has a made a big push to support humanely raised, locally grown food and vows to eliminate as much GMO food from their menu as possible...
14-09-2013
Gateway to the world
The documentary film Gateway to the world takes place in Namibias capital city Windhoek, Katutura suburban area. In the film, two young library users are followed around the poor Greenwell Matongo area, where the local library functions as the peoples gateway to better life. Trevelin, 20 years, did not pass the 10th grade of schooling and ended up as one of the many out-of school youths in the area. Persuaded by a friend, he found his way to the nearby library, got interested in studying computers and is nowadays giving basic computer classes as a volunteer teacher in the library. Anna, 13 years, is a schoolgirl at the Olof Palme primary school. Every day after school she heads her way up to the Greenwell library. Anna is one of the library prefects: she helps other schoolkids with their homework and library customers in computer usage; and plays with children, for whom the library is one of the few safe havens around. All the hours spent at the library have also reflected positively to Annas school results, and in the future she intends to continue studying to become an engineer.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.
If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh
26-08-2013
freedom
One of the greatest challenges is
being yourself
in a world that's trying to make you like everyone else.
Truth
"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
25-08-2013
Strange
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, its true Im here, and Im just as strange as you.
Frida Kahlo
06-08-2013
The lighthouse
The lighthouse stands alone off the beaten path, transmitting a message out across the ocean. Sometimes, musicians seem to play a similar role: a message is being projected out into the environment, without any guarantee that it will reach its destination. It is impossible to say who will receive it, or to which uses it will be put. Still, the only option is to keep on transmitting the message.
"Prachtige uitvinding alweer," zei Ruskin, "het draadloze internet. Maar het brengt wel de verzadiging van de lucht met informatiestromen met zich mee: op een dag zal de atmosfeer vol zitten, vol met mails, telefoongesprekken, concerten die worden binnengehaald door melomanen, pornografisch materiaal... We zullen een aversie moeten kweken voor deze gegevens, een nu nog onbevattelijk soort mutatie, waardoor we de stromen zullen herkennen en kunnen toe-eigenen. Dat wordt het wat ons van elkaar zal onderscheiden, dat wordt onze nieuwe strijd: wie hoort de nieuwe sferenmuziek - en wie is in staat om er mee aan de haal te gaan?"
Uit: Ruskin. Een reisverhaal... ./ Christophe Van Gerrewey. p.41.
22-06-2013
hart
Wie kan er hopen op hartsverbindingen
als openhartigheid niet langer een optie is?
Uit: Ruskin. Een reisverhaal... ./ Christophe Van Gerrewey. p.43.
17-06-2013
spelen met afval om te leren
Arvind Gupta: spelen met afval om te leren
Tijdens de INK-conferentie deelt Arvind Gupta eenvoudige maar verbluffende plannen om afval te gebruiken tot onderhoudend, goed ontworpen speelgoed dat kinderen zelf kunnen maken -- terwijl ze de basisprincipes van wetenschap en design leren.
16-06-2013
choosing to be positive
15-06-2013
There is a story
10-06-2013
chains
We are all born in chains.
There are those who forget about them, and there are those who have them gilded or silvered.
But we, we want to break them. Not with brutal, savage violence;
we want to grow out of them little by little.
R.M.Rilke
geciteerd in "Architecture is (as) a gesture./ Bart Verschaffel
