paolettazza:

insights~n~outbursts of a buddhist witch on We Heart It - http://weheartit.com/entry/10146841

Chakra meditation.

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This is one of my inspirations for the year: to combine elements of dance, performance art, music, technology, light, music and more, to create pure magic.
Japanese troupe ‘Enra’.

Performamce & Choreography :Saya Watatani , Maki Yokoyama Dir… — This is one of my inspirations for the year: to combine elements of dance, performance art, music, technology, light, music and more, to create pure magic.

Japanese troupe ‘Enra’.

Performamce & Choreography :Saya Watatani , Maki Yokoyama Director : Nobuyuki Hanabusa Animator : Seiya Ishii , Nobuyuki Hanabusa Music

Sueños para este año que viene. De la emperatriz que dirige la obra de múltiples personajes camaleónicos.

Quiero ver oportunidad en la incertidumbre, y no miedo.

Quiero ser libre de manifestar mi potencial creativo y sanador y tener una vida digna a raíz de mi servicio a los cuerpos, mentes y almas de otros.

Quiero hacer arte y sanación con sonido. Con la voz, el instrumento divino que reside calladito y paciente. Quiero bailar y sudar mis rezos.

Quiero escribir el análisis de cómo veo nuestra cultura transformarse para dejar rastro y mapas a las generaciones que vienen.

Quiero crear tecnología que ayude al cuerpo a estar más alineado y compasivo.

Y quiero encontrar la manera de fluir sin depender de nadie. Hasta ahora siempre he sido la mujer camaleónica que se adapta a la pareja o trabajo en turno. Hoy me doy cuenta que quiero cambiar ese vicio de derretirme por completo en el amor o profesión, y de cuidar con dignidad la flama que me impulsa hacia adelante.

Hoy me siento en proceso de: - encontrar la claridad y la fuerza para vivir mi camino como sanadora y artista (propósito de vida) - limpiarme de la culpa y el miedo de un futuro incierto (profesión y pareja) - enfocarme en construir una sensación de entereza individual y conexión con la fuerza divina (fe)

I feel instagram is our modern version of the japanese verse Haiku. ’Impressions whose brevity would guarantee their perfection, whose simplicity would attest to their profundity. While being quite intelligible, a haiku means nothing, and it … — I feel instagram is our modern version of the japanese verse Haiku. ’Impressions whose brevity would guarantee their perfection, whose simplicity would attest to their profundity. While being quite intelligible, a haiku means nothing, and it is by this double condition that it seems open to meaning.’ wrote Roland Barthes, french philosopher, linguist, critic and semiotician, who lived in Japan studying its culture through its symbols.

'You are entitled says the 'haiku', to be trivial, short, ordinary; enclose what you see, what you feel, in a slender horizon of words, and you will be interesting; you yourself (and starting from yourself) are entitled to establish your own notability; your sentence, whatever it may be, will enunciate a moral, will liberate a symbol, you will be profound: at the least possible cost, your writing will be filled.' from The Breach of Meaning, by Roland Barthes, in the magnificent book Empire of Signs.

On the image, a historical photography showing the process of the Golden Gate bridge being built. When photography was used as a registry of urban transformation and the clash that modernization brought to the world. I wonder how it will be to see our instagrams as haikus in 100 years?

(via Golden Gate Bridge being built with temporary … | Fluid Future thin…)

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jesuisperdu:

[In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound that came to be called Minimalism. These early works, characterized by a relentless pulse and static harmony, focused single-mindedly on… — jesuisperdu:

[In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound that came to be called Minimalism. These early works, characterized by a relentless pulse and static harmony, focused single-mindedly on the process of gradual rhythmic change. Throughout his career, Reich has continued to reinvigorate the music world, drawing from a wide array of classical, popular, sacred, and non-western idioms. His works reflect the steady evolution of an original musical mind.

*Writings on Music* documents the creative journey of this thoughtful, groundbreaking composer. These 64 short pieces include Reich’s 1968 essay “Music as a Gradual Process,” widely considered one of the most influential pieces of music theory in the second half of the 20th century. Subsequent essays, articles, and interviews treat Reich’s early work with tape and phase shifting, showing its development into more recent work with speech melody and instrumental music. Other essays recount his exposure to non-western music — African drumming, Balinese gamelan, Hebrew cantillation — and the influence of these musics as structures and not as sounds. The writings include Reich’s reactions to and appreciations of the works of his contemporaries (John Cage, Luciano Berio, Morton Feldman, Gyorgy Ligeti) and older influences (Kurt Weill, Schoenberg). Each major work of the composer’s career is also explored through notes written for performances and recordings.

Paul Hillier, himself a respected figure in the early music and new music worlds, has revisited these texts, working with the author to clarify their central narrative: the aesthetic and intellectual development of an influential composer. For long-time listeners and young musicians recently introduced to his work, this book provides an opportunity to get to know Reich’s music in greater depth and perspective.]

[Edited and with an Introduction by Paul Hillier
Publisher Oxford University Press, 2002
ISBN 0195354788, 9780195354782
272 pages

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catrinachaos:

Insides. — via @brainpickings

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See The Invention That Just Changed Biking Forever →

Meet the invention that’s going to change all of that. Developed by researchers at MIT, this device snaps onto your bike and helps you conserve energy. And it does it in an ingenuous, remarkable way.

via Patrick Lord, by sharepowered.

The idea of God, for example, cannot be explained without the Goddess. They embody not masculinity and femininity as is popularly imagined, but rather the mind and the world outside the mind – in other words, humanity and nature. Each complements th… — The idea of God, for example, cannot be explained without the Goddess. They embody not masculinity and femininity as is popularly imagined, but rather the mind and the world outside the mind – in other words, humanity and nature. Each complements the other. Every character and plot is a metaphor, and this web of metaphors creates a narrative fabric that reveals what we call today Vedic or Hindu or Indic thought.

**Hearing Sita’s Silence** via Annu Yadav, by Davdutt

Are You Looking for me?

Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine
rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals:
not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding
around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but
vegetables.
When you really look for me, you will see me
instantly --
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says:Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.
by Kabir

Source: http://www.allspirit.co.uk/kabir.html

thatkindofwoman:

I haven’t held hands sincerely in a very long time.

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Open up your posture, stand tall, talk strong, gesticulate – act “as if” you are in control – and your wishful thinking may just become reality.

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deliciousdimension:

Damien Hirst + Alexander McQueen Scarf Collection
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Damien Hirst + Alexander McQueen Scarf Collection

via Synaptic Stimuli

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Brain-vagina: one single system →

"I now know how powerfully the vagina affects female consciousness, confidence, risk-taking and autonomy. These insights answer so many questions. Rather that asking "why the vagina? Why now?", I am now more inclined to ask: why the repressive patriarchal silence about such important information? And why tolerate it any longer?" Naomi Klein, shares her neuroscientific research to help women to liberate their bodies from patriarchy’s social control and culture of shame.

Today I started using 750words.com as a commitment to improve my writing skills. I will write 750 words every morning for the next 360 days. Amazingly, the service analyzes some of your writing patterns after you finish. On my first entry, I mostly … — Today I started using 750words.com as a commitment to improve my writing skills. I will write 750 words every morning for the next 360 days. Amazingly, the service analyzes some of your writing patterns after you finish. On my first entry, I mostly wrote about the past and the sense of touch. I’m not sure how they get the extrovert, positive, certain and thinking qualities. Perhaps by the kind of words I used? Anyway, find it really awesome!

(via maricarmen wrote 806 words on Monday December 02, 2013 on 750 Words)

“…brands and branding are fundamental to the way we experience modern life- and the way we give ‘meaning’ to it.” He goes on to describe how brands represent the world to us, “..they quite literally ‘label’ for us what might otherwise be a chaotic array of messages. Brands and branding are a feature of the way the modern (western) mind thinks. It is impossible for the modern mind to think without recourse to the sorts of models we commonly refer to as brands.”

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The Role of Brands in Human Culture | Thought Economics

Thom Braun writes in his 2004 book ’The Philosophy of Branding' how branding has become an intrinsic part of human culture.

Fascinating pictures of 100 indigenous tribes that have not embraced technology and progress as the rest of the world. The photographer Jimmy Nelson traveled the world to spend time in the most remote areas and capture the mystical and magical manifestations that humanity has all across the globe.

via United Explanations.

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love this! a cricket to measure tension in the muscles while you’re in front of the computer and avoid carpal tunnel syndrome in the wrist due to mediocre ergonomic position. Can’t wait to try it!

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“But if you want meaning, you have to think like an anthropologist. You have to understand that social-listening data is inherently qualitative. That means learning to appreciate the value of the stray remark and synthesizing bits of information into a higher-order sense of what’s going on. That’s how you make the most of social media as a tool for peering inside people’s lives as they’re being lived and discovering what consumers are really thinking and doing.”

— To Understand Consumer Data, Think Like an Anthropologist - Susan Fournier , and Bob Rietveld - Harvard Business Review