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Simulation CGI of Theo Jansen 's Mechanism:
One thing is for sure in our lifes: you are going to die some day. And another thing is for sure: you don't know when
your time's up. Maybe you will not see the sun rising anymore tomorrow. Would you change some basic things in your life
if you had «only» seven days left? Yes? Well, what are you waiting for?
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Furuike ya Old pond,
kawazu tobikomu Mr. Frog leaps in –
mizu no oto Water plop!
Matsuo Basho
This is a Haiku by the old Master Matsuo Basho. And the following text is one of the – so far – best interpretations of this Haiku I have ever read. It is from Robin Fujikawa and I found it on this website.
«This can be appreciated as a nice poem about pond, frog, and sound of water that describe a pretty scene. Viewed in this way, we can correctly understand that Basho is a Japanese or Asian thinker who is typically nature-loving, enigmatic, and deep. This confirms our stereotype of the Japanese as inscrutable and contemplative. This way of reading the poem is reassuring, but when we bring stereotypes of frog, pond, and the Japanese to an experience, we only confirm our set of images and miss Mr. Frog and the living world entirely.
However, there is another way. Rather than as an arrangement of images about stereotyped things, this might be read as a poem that expresses a mind that is clear of stereotypes. Becoming clear of stereotypes is not easy, for words are stereotypes and it is difficult to think without words or to write poetry without words. Here, Basho's haiku is helpful, for it demonstrates how the world looks when mind is clear, and once we see this, we can see how his words are not functioning as ordinary words and how his resulting haiku is indeed creative.
First, let us meet Mr. Frog. Mr. Frog is not merely a frog, for being a frog does not make someone Mr. Frog. Even the name Mr. Frog is misleading, for though the name may remain the same in appearance, the real face of Mr. Frog is always changing, unique to the moment, and always revealing a boundary-less identity with the world of pond and summertime events. Mr. Frog is this very frog, unique and very quick. We thus need to think of all names and words as unique to each moment even though they may have the appearance of being the same.
Back to the haiku, see how old pond is not any old pond, it is Mr.-Frog-disappearing-plop old pond. Catch this living old pond, and you will have mind clear of stereotypes and words. So what happens when the mind is clear? This is Basho's answer: you meet the living world with its vivacity, elusive uniqueness, leaping freshness, and playful mischief. Look for this answer in his haiku. It is worth remembering that his living world is not the nature that is made into a thing by our mind that wants to understand and love it. Look for the Asian mind in the living world, not in our stereotypes of it. In doing so, you will find your own clear mind.
By Robin Fujikawa»
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«Hello,
My name is Valentin. I'm 26 years old and I live with my mother in Russia. My mother is disabled and she receive indemnity from goverment which is not enough even for food. I work very hard, but due to the financial crisis in our country my salary was reduced and our situation became very difficult. (full text with header at the end of this mail) [...]»
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Hello,
My name is Valentin. I'm 26 years old and I live with my mother in Russia.
My mother is disabled and she receive indemnity from goverment which is not enough even for food.
I work very hard, but due to the financial crisis in our country my salary was reduced and our situation became very difficult.
The price for heating our home is very high and we cannot afford it anymore.
We worried and don't know what to do. I finded several e-mail addreses and thanks to free internet access in our local library I decided to appeal to you for help.
If you have two old sleeping bags, warm blankets, warm clothes and shoes, electric water-boiler, canned and dried food, vitamins, medicines from cold, any hygiene-products, I will be very grateful to you if you can send it to our address:
Valentin V. Mikhailin,
Ryleeva Ulica, 6-45.
Kaluga. 248030,
Russia.
We also need portable stove which heat with burning wood. We have many wood in our region, but we can't buy this stove in local market because it expensive for us. If you have any old portable stove which work with burning wood, we will be happy if you can donate it to us and organize transport of it to our address or help us to buy it in our local market. This ovens made from cast iron and weight about 150kg.
I hope to receive your answer. I also hope that this hard situation will get better very soon in our country.
Valentin.
P.S. I want to send you picture of us, but I don't have digital picture which can be sended in email. Please excuse me for that.
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Ambition, fighting, war, courage. Destruction, danger, fall, ruin.
The Tower represents war, destruction, but also spiritual renewal. Plans are disrupted. Your views and ideas will change as a result.
The Tower is a card about war, a war between the structures of lies and the lightning flash of truth. The Tower stands for "false concepts and institutions that we take for real." You have been shaken up; blinded by a shocking revelation. It sometimes takes that to see a truth that one refuses to see. Or to bring down beliefs that are so well constructed. What's most important to remember is that the tearing down of this structure, however painful, makes room for something new to be built.
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Isn't she hot? Let me be your Monica! ;)
Isn't she cute?
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Oh yeah!!! She's sooo cute! And I would be her Lawinsky right away!! ;)
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And this, this is making me insane in the midbrain... ;)
But for all you women out there, here the good news: Men are able to make the difference between a sexy woman and a heap of meat. Between just sex and a deep relationship, between a short one night stand and a deep, sensual, intime sexlife, between a cheap whore and a classy lady.
But it's impossible for us men to turn off the most important part of our brain. Take it as a compliment, ladies: we were made to love you and we are made to go crazy about what we find sexy about you (And YES, apart of your sexyness we do like very much women that are also adorable, intelligent, wicked, classy and humorous).
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Yeah, I think she's right. At least my cortex thinks she's a 100% right AND a very natural, likeable, lovely woman (I'm not being sarcastic here, I really do!)
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Über den Selbstversuch «Max besucht Kölliken – Eine gigantische Konstruktion im Aargau ist kein UFO, sondern eine Sondermülldeponie.» schreibt der Leser Giorgio V. Girardet:
«Der wohl erste «Selbstversuch», der dem vom Verlag zur Werbung verliehene Titel «grösster Schweizer Journalist» im entferntesten rechtfertigt.
Das Thema war wohl eine Einflüsterung vom Freund Klumpen! Ich hoffe Klumpen steht inzwischen auf der Lohnliste der Tamedia: denn ohne Klumpen, küngt Küng nur so vor sich hin. Es lebe Klumpen! Und die Fleischbällchen in der Ikea!»
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An increased American military and political effort in Afghanistan is making the conflict there part of a new dynamic of global confrontation, says Paul Rogers.
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