This morning, after dropping girls off at school, I caught this song on the radio, which hit me like no other song did for a while. This is totally powerful. Rushed home to look up lyrics on youtube – even better! Then found a video clip – blew my mind away! See this: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZLUa8JUR18%5D […]
Shape what’s to come!
Came upon a Youtube channel by Levi Strauss. Like it! First of, a clip about an artist making paper out of denim. And what she does doesn’t matter as much as her life outlook. Find it very helpful, especially for me with my impatience, which is actually subsiding somewhat lately… [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLmiT50KHAY&w=560&h=349%5D
Portrait Party Exchange. Favourites: #1
An extract from the PortraitParty sharing page. Like it (I mean, me like it. You can too if you want! my heart is made of gravy said… Hey Rama, I realised tonight, probably whilst emptying my bladder of a large quantity of Californian Chardonnay, that there is a form of portraiture which hasn’t yet been […]
One of the most powerful inspiring TED talks
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Compassionate leadership TED talk. Google Rocks!
Wonderful TED talk on leadership. New type of leadership on the example of Google company. This is a great brief and concise instruction manual on how to bring up new type of leaders or become one with least effort and most effectively! Very inspiring. [ted id=1113]
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 […]
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 […]
Dogon tribe
Don’t you wish you were a little plasticine person who gets to live in this enchanting plasticine village when you look at this picture? A trail of YouTube clips, starting from Australian whales, brought me eventually to an article on Dogon people in Wikipedia. It is extremely interesting. A few brief facts: – Dogon people are […]
Art and God
Like it! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-h8milUSoQ] This here is my kind of humor. In general, and in particular the way I feel at the moment… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdhSs3b6lSg]