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Blu’s All-seeing Mural in Rome
•November 30, 2014 • Leave a Comment
Italian street artist, Blu, recently finished transforming two sides of this building in Rome into a beautifully intricate, 27 multicolour-faced mural, utilizing nearly 50 windows on the outer face of the building walls to create their surreal eyes:
Cooking with Chevy Chase
•November 28, 2014 • Leave a Comment“…French Roast Turkey. Très français! To spice up your family sit-down, cut a lemon in half and stuff both halves under the skin. It’ll look and taste juicier than ever, and the lemon makes it a bit nipply… I mean NIPPY. What am I saying — nipple? Why would I say that? Whew! It is warm in here, isn’t it?” ~ Chevy Chase
“Be water” ~ Bruce Lee’s Famous Metaphor for Resilience (1940-1973)
•November 27, 2014 • Leave a CommentTaken from the short-lived 1971 TV Series Longstreet, in which Lee starred in four episodes and delivered his most oft-cited metaphor for the philosophy of Gung Fu:
With his singular blend of physical prowess and metaphysical wisdom, coupled with his tragic untimely death, legendary Chinese-American martial artist, philosopher, and filmmaker Bruce Lee (1940-1973) is one of those rare cultural icons whose ethos and appeal remain timeless, attracting generation after generation of devotees. Inspired by the core principles of Wing Chun, the ancient Chinese conceptual martial art, which he learned from his only formal martial arts teacher, Yip Man, between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. When he left Hong Kong in 1959, Lee adapted Wing Chun into his own version, Jun Fan Gung Fu — literal translation: Bruce Lee’s Kung Fu — and popularized it in America.
Bruce Lee (right) with his only formal martial art instructor, Yip Man
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself
by going with and not against my nature.”
Andy Stott “Faith In Strangers” [♬]
•November 26, 2014 • Leave a CommentFootage is from the short films “Grim” (1985) “Ghost” (1984) and “Thunder” (1982) by Takashi Ito.
“Beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. ” ~ Oscar Wilde
•November 26, 2014 • Leave a CommentThe Importance of Kindness (a reminder for us all)
•November 26, 2014 • Leave a CommentThis short is an animated adaptation of a commencement speech given by George Saunders at Syracuse University, May 2013. It’s meant to serve as a promotional trailer for his book, ‘Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness’, but it’s a wonderful teaser that adds a dimension of warmth to the author’s enlightened words:
Produced By: Above Average // Adapted By: Tim Bierbaum // Video Created by Serious Lunch // Narration by George Saunders // Illustrated by Tim Bierbaum // Above Average Producer: Celeste Ballard // Music by Michael Camenti provided by The Music Bed
With his gentle wisdom and disarming warmth, Saunders manages to dissolve some of our most deeply engrained culturally conditioned cynicism into a soft and expansive awareness of the greatest gift one human being can give another — those sacred exchanges that take place in a moment of time, often mundane and fleeting, but echo across a lifetime with inextinguishable luminosity.
“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.” ~ George Saunders
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Violence Flares in St. Louis Suburb After Grand Jury Declines to Indict Darren Wilson in Michael Brown’s Death #FergusonDecision #WTF
•November 25, 2014 • Leave a Comment
What is there left to say when the people who need to listen ignore you — the good, common interests of a nation fighting for the value of a human life — in favour of pathetic policing, jurisprudence and corrupt and unnecessary bureaucracy? I woke up this morning to endless stories and graphic images of Ferguson’s ongoing nightmare. I do not agree with the verdict at all, and an exception should have at least been considered for such an exceptional/unexceptional case despite the jury’s decision, if not only to quench the hatred towards law officials and policy makers that they themselves exacerbated from the start. How stupid can they be not to acknowledge that people DON’T want to be harmed OR killed, and that if it happens, that human desire will vindicate itself in recognition of truth and will be expressed through those that feel it the most until the message is given its due respect and justice is served. I hope the justice system receives severe backlash from the people whom its meant to serve. Race is a strong issue that permeates through this case, but it is so much more than ethnicity and socioeconomic differences now. Mike Brown was a fellow human being, and a teenager at that. What gives any man the right to end a person’s life, and worse, get away with it? A contract, to serve the government it seems, and not people. Let it out Ferguson — Be seen and give voice to the inarticulate fiery soul of humanity.
Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in August, will not be indicted on any charges, a St. Louis County grand jury decided Monday.
The grand jury had the option to indict Wilson on a variety of charges, ranging from first-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter. The grand jury, which was made up of 12 jurors who were selected in May, deliberated from Aug. 20 through Nov. 24. In the end, they found that the evidence did not support an indictment for Wilson.
Im going to leave it at this #Ferguson http://t.co/Zw5M9d82Ie—
Kevin Hart (@ItsKevinHart) November 25, 2014
Those Wilson injuries in full #Ferguson http://t.co/x0wLmlCWTg—
Graham Linehan (@Glinner) November 25, 2014
Malcolm X said it best #Ferguson http://t.co/hjDxendkeQ—
Will Ferrell (@WillyFerrell) November 25, 2014
realist sign I've ever seen #Ferguson http://t.co/wQpCCkkrXg—
Common Desi Dude (@CommonDesiDude) November 25, 2014
Brown family statement: "Let's not just make noise. Let's make a difference." #Ferguson http://t.co/f8eAQ4AEM2—
Only In Boston (@OnlyInBOS) November 25, 2014
I stand with the innocent. Here’s part of Darren Wilson’s testimony for any interested parties: [Darren-wilson-testimony-snippet.pdf]
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