When we strip you down to the most basic elements of what you’re all about, what do we have?
Which is not to say, that it is bad to have wants! On the contrary, it is great! It’s fun! Wants are the engine of the progress. But wants are not needs. One can drop them any time. You need nothing. So, be free 🙂
Interviewing myself
What are your values? What do you love? What do you hate? What are you insanely great at doing? What are you most proud of? What do you want to be? What is important and valuable to you? What do you want to be known for?
Le Roi et Mort, Vive le ROI!
What are you insanely great at doing? I am insanely good at analysing myself and applying it to a human behaviour in general, listening, comparing, analysing again, learning. And I can see now where all of that is leading me. I am a helper. A way-shower.
Being ridiculous is fun!
I am researching being ridiculous. Before I dive into actually being ridiculous. I know it is inevitable, but my mind needs some convincing in order to cooperate rather than sabotage. We’ll get there…
Art and Information
I have the ability to grasp the likeness. I guess, it is like a musical ear. One can be taught to draw people, as well as play music. Beyond the skill it’s down to some undefinable magic which makes the whole difference. What makes a portrait so appealing? Is it a thirst to know more […]
Mezzotint video. Artist Toru Iwaya
Found this video of a Japanese mezzotint artist. Curious, how a technique developed by a Eropean became so Eastern. It is slow, meditative, withdrawn, laborious, solitary. And that’s why I love it.
JR – Art to Change the World
Everyone must see this latest TED talk by French artist JR. He takes it further along the road which Banksy walks. Or used to walk. This is the art concept which touched me like no other art for the last couple of years. [ted id=1085]
My story-telling wall of honour.
I decided to start my story-telling wall of honour. That came to me while listening to Elif Shafak – a writer of Turkish origin – giving a talk on TED. Hence her name is the first one to put on the list, even though I didn’t read a single book of hers. I just loved […]
I am getting political.
Politics is getting exciting. And I am getting political.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQFwxw57NBI]
John G. Rives – the poet
Today I focus on a poet John G. Rives. I admire. I love. I amaze at. I want to share this person around, so that everyone can take a little or a lot of him, and that way add more joy, into their lives. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu_PQBmk-6c&hl=en_GB&fs=1&] This is what TED says about him: Flat pages can’t […]