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A tip from Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever.
Billy Wilder’s “Tips for screenwriters”
STORYTYMES The shaman of Unreality: The balancing apprentice
1 shaman apprentice narrowly escaped death of apprentice trial designed to kill 1 lazy dove 2 spiders in a hole 1 world portal 1 army of gigantic proportions is reported 1 bicycle 1 lost love 1 mountain 1 fox with two tails 1 snake with one tongue sheep up a tree a lot of persuasion going unrewarded 1 normal person with lots of power many other persons claiming they are normal, but not in that way 1 grandmother (seemingly) without baking (or any other social) skills great emotions, distict feelings great fear, no angst long and hard speculations about the no angst 1 minister who cannot fly 1 who can 1 expecting brown bear 1 tricycle 1 happy ending for some several unhappy endings for others
will + free
will is an aspect of living. consider will pre-fixed by free and meet life.
living is a result of will. consider living pre-fixed by free and find control.
Major Investments
Read Quote of James Walker's answer to Life: What are the top 10 things that we should be informed about, in life? on Quora
- You spend a third of your life asleep, nearly as long on your feet, and are constantly digesting food. As such invest in a good bed, good shoes, and good quality food.
Auto-Upload to FTP folder with Cyberduck
[Don't know, if Windows users will have any use of this. Sorry.)
I use this on a Mac OSX.4.11 installation, and it should work all the way up to OSX.8.
The Cyberduck FTP upload AppleScript, which chrispie.com had modified, I have further modified and now very flattering call AutoUpload2FTPwCyberduck. This means it does not sync - it simply auto-uploads things, which are added to a designated folder.
Once you have placed the script in (HD)/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts, and attached the script to a folder of your choice via Folder Actions (Ctrl+Folder Actions), AU2FTPwC goes to work.
WHAT IT DOES
X-MAS HEART GENERATOR
Personalize your cut-out and braid X-mas hearts with a message of your own. Generator page is in Danish, but give it at try anyway; it's straight forward.
http://www.cs.au.dk/~gerth/julehjerter/
Start easy with one letter on one side and none on the other. Some letters become like barbs, which make the heart hard to braid... :-)
. and : creates a one-character space and line shift, respectively
Grey area in the template indicates cut-out. Full lines indicate where to cut. Fold between the dottet lines, so the full lines are folded inwards. The two parts of the heart are placed with the two x's on top of each other, with the circled x not visible inside the heart. (It is important to begin in the right way, due to the holes in the letters "A", "B", "D" etc.).
Remember: Have fun.
PS: You need a browser with SVG capabilities to see the final design.
Don't let them do the watching for you. [Fwd: They want to ██████ the Internet]
Since my ISP will not let me protect my email friends by sending this BBC, I will make it public here:
Kære gode menneske på nettet,
Dear good person on the net,
In two days international powers convene to try and put a central control mechanism on the Internet.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/hands_off_our_internet_i/?bdOyaab&v=20018
Reality is who you are.
Kenneth Krabat, Poet, Denmark.
KK Is working with a concept of consciousness also followed by Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, Ram Dass and a host of oriental philosophers:
Reality is both perceived and projected by the individual.
Reality is a plural consisting of all and everything an individual perceives as real.
Shared reality is an agreement.
The concept of consensus is therefore either one person's reality or an agreement.
Fear vs. Angst
In today's ListServe Claire wrote of dealing with fear in her life.
Lately I’ve been digging into some deeply rooted fears and thought patterns that were established long before I can remember. It’s been a terrifying, humbling, hilarious and enlightening process. I’d like to encourage you to notice your fears when they arise and spend some time thinking about what fears and fear mean to you. Do your fears inspire you, challenge you or leave you feeling stuck? Is fear something to be conquered, managed, ignored or befriended? How does fear impact your relationships, goals and health?
Her advice for looking at fear rang a bell, an old bell, which inspired me to write her back:
Would you ignore, conquer or manage a person in your life, who has always been there for you; who knows what you are good and bad at; who has protected you and helped you survive ordeals physically, emotionally and mentally, to give you pause, so you could return stronger and more aware, better rehearsed, better prepared, better balanced, more in tune with yourself?
Don't make the mistake of confusing fear with angst - Fear is the sum of your ambitions, desires, needs, dreams and their fulfillment in the world, which you (continously) grow up in. Angst is the result of never having had the space to pull back from danger.
Fear you listen to as you would to a dear friend - as an adult you need not take your friend's advice - but to deal with Angst you need to break down age-old walls and set a trapped younger version of yourself free to follow her fear's advice.
Fear is your friend; it shows you which world CAN protect you, based on your mutual experience. Angst is your cage, a fixed world, which fear cannot help you escape.
Your Fear is always there with advice. You can regard Angst as Fear plus Desperation, but as it is often without voice or reason, there is rarely a chance to communicate directly with your Angst. Diminishing Angst relies on your whole being being comforted and shown and entrusted with personal power to help yourself. Diminishing Fear you just have to take responsibility for your actions, respect what you do and have done, and need to do in order to survive - at present.
You can always learn. You can always grow stronger and more in tune with your ideals. But first you must reside in the present; this is what Fear provokes and is provoked by, and which Angst prevents.
In 20+ tiny videos you will see the reactions of the people, who are subjected to "Emily's video".
"Emily's video" itself escapes finding. By and by that is enough. Which is cool. Humanity and empathy outshines curiosity. In order to see the whole series, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGatMdAIQqQ&feature=relmfu
For me this proves that ART means "being alive in the world of people" - for who makes ART, when you really look at it?
Will he fall, will he jump, is that dastardly hero not... yet done for?
[Any seeming similarity to modern day politics is probably either un-intended or just a thought.]
The West subsidize industries (f.ex. cotton) with more than they earn - in order to maintain standards of living in their respective populations - in simultaneous and total disregard of the effects of these subsidies on developing countries and the people depending on these industries.
It's ever more "OUR cuture and the culture of those NOT like us".
The Indian journalist P. Sainath is struggling to - among many other causes - create awareness about the thousands of Indian farmers since 1995 committing suicide from desperation with their inability to provide for their families by (unsubsidized) farming, the only work for millions of illiterate people in India - while the Indian government pays the already rich millions to create jobs for the educated in the big cities.
Like HE says, WE could mime: Our western capitalism has maintained a standard in our way of life for almost 80 years, but the cost is a growing divide between us and the immobile illiterate poor. Basically we are killing them by being a bad example to our selves, because we want to live at least as well as our neighbours, if not better.
The thing is we are growing to be neighbours with everyone on this planet. The 80-year old habits may soon need to die hard - if not by voluntary action on an individual basis, then by proxy from inequality adjusting itself the way all imbalances adjust themselves in Nature. The survival-ready will be the favoured ones.
Rich people in all the countries of the world are taking steps to be those favoured ones. Not the middle-class. Not the intelligentsia. Not the creatives. Not the business builders. But the rich in money and influence. Those, who can buy you, because you have no influence.
Can you see it coming? Will you let it happen? Will you be the poor?
Time Travel - notes of a present, not a prediction
When reading this:
Have you noticed an increased focus in written medias on both science and fiction relating to the concept of Time Travel?
What say ye? Are we approaching an, as yet, unvoiced collective desire to travel in time, in the guise of a meme?
Quotes of importance to History, the dear.
IF you, like me, are without a History, you must make one up, in order to have a Future. -- Kenneth Krabat
IF you don't care about a Future, don't care about your History.
-- Kenneth Krabat
IF your Present is really your Present, and not an intermediate state of loss and gain, you have no need of advice.
-- Kenneth Krabat
THE SECRET HISTORY OF CULT MOVIES - a Biblical tale of the Holy Unlikely
Based in Copenhagen since the early 90's Jack Stevenson among other subjects from the weird and wonderful world of people abusing celluloid to it's finest has written an unusual book about Danish Lars von Trier. But before Jack Stevenson came to notoriety, he wrote a lot of very personal and intense essays on film, which are dead links today. Due to the verisimilitude of thewaybackmachine most of these essays are preserved for posterity.
For example
THE SECRET HISTORY OF CULT MOVIES
- a Biblical tale of the Holy Unlikely
can be located at wayback.archive.org/web [still in Beta] - where you can also locate all of his other brilliant essays on seldom seen aspects of films and film genres - or by clicking here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000823071310/http://hjem.get2net.dk/jack_stevenson/cult.htm
If an URL comes up empty, try searching for that specific URL directly at the archive homepage. It's possible you have arrived at a link page, after the site has been shut down, but before waybackmachine has stopped coming by.
The World Council of 12.12.21*
On an internet page in a forum-like environment make a Claim of concern affecting everyone, as you see it. Then pin-point your cause for alarm with your choice of evidence, give advice as to a solution and have the rest of the world contest or support it.
This is a World Council.
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IF you are interested in developing this idea, or you want to use the idea, please pool your energies with your peers. I will gladly work with you, if the frame stays as simple as below: "A Body of Advice", nothing more, nothing less. If you want to just develop the idea as a National Body of Advice, or a local, company, or institutional BoA, be my guest.
krabat at menneske dot dk
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TWC, The World Council of 12.12.21
TWC is not a World Government, it is a Council. A Body of Advice consisting of all the people in the world interested in arguing the importance and relevance of a specific conflict, occurrence, plan or methodology to the World as a whole - a CLAIM pin-pointed to and argued by a named individual.
Location: Web server
Access: All
Participant Claim [in a forum like over-view, but very easy to get the gist of every single-line entry]:
- Name the essence of your claim [eg. Palo Alto dam, Locust, AIDS, Child Soldiers, Fascism, Internet LockDown, X-country, Education, US Security Policy, Crude Oil etc.] Be very precise.
Keith Kenniff writes music for movies. He is also a major mix-master making sample laws obviously redundant in all their stiffling idiocracy. Listen to this mix and tell me if it wasn't worth it. Then go and seek out each individual composer and live their bodies of work.
Here as well as there is art, here as well as there is heart.
0 - 0:30 Henry Purcell - Suite en sol majeur (Z 660) - Prelude
0:30 - 4:22 Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach, Knee Play 1
4:22 - 12:14 Lou Harrison - Symphony No. 2, i. Tears of the Angel Israfel
12:14 - 15:06 Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel 3
15:06 - 16:40 Howard Skempton (perf. John Tilbury) - Toccata
16:40 - 20:19 Henryk Gorecki - 3 olden style pieces, iii.
20:19 - 23:01 George Crumb - Music for a Summer Evening: Music of the Starry Night
23:01 - 30:13 Henry Purcell - When I am Laid in Earth (from Dido and Aeneas)
30:13 - 35:42 John Adams - Grand Pianola Music: Part 1b
35:42 - 38:37 Gyorgy Ligeti - Atmospheres, for Large Orchestra
38:37 - 40:16 Avet Terterian - Symphony no 1, ii.
40:16 - 44:15 Steve Reich - You Are (variations): Ehmore M'Aht, V'Ahsay Harbay (Say Little and Do Much)
44:15 - 45:03 Dimitri Shostakovich - Prelude no. 2 in A minor (op.27)
45:03 - 48:24 Igor Stravinsky - Mass for Chorus and Double Wind Quintet - Sanctus - Benedictus
48:24 - 52:05 Gabriel Faure - Requiem: In Paradisum