JMdW

The internet is a fascinating place for information hunter-gathers like me. (Maybe in Dutch sometimes) #History | #Spoken Word | #Photography | #Music | #Reading | #Language | #Quotes On Life | #Buddhism

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Hoe Julien een tafelvoetbalspel kreeg from Mike Spaans on Vimeo.

De verjaardag van JP moest natuurlijk bijzondere aandacht krijgen. And so it did.

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@elsekramer vertelt op #omho over goede beelden met je smartphone , gemaakt door studenten (bij TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering)

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Mike in india | week 3 : the mountain top from Mike Spaans on Vimeo.

From the comfort of my home I give the last reflection on my journey trough India. This week my stay in Dharamshala / Dharamkot and its great surroundings

Music: Follow the Sun by Xavier Rudd, in the Talul remix. Used in the end is Lady Jesaja Violin Bootleg of this remix. Xavier Rudd : xavierrudd.com Talul : soundcloud.com/talul

INDIA WEEK 3 Welcome to this Himalayan hobbit land Where roads are roads if you want them to Leading up And down again Through foothills where Shiva and Buddha Have been teaching To lay down your ego for as long as the mountains can remember

Where valleys end And snow begins Where India’s steam reaches The ceiling .. And has to let go Allowing for your heart to do the same Rain with melting snow Forming streams Leading into falls

Where yoga is not a class but a life – with a view Where we all can be strangers On a visit, Or in exile, farming your farm, be an Israeli and live like the sixties never died

[befitzgeraldwriting]

I swear to every heaven ever imagined, if I hear one more dead-eyed hipster tell me that art is dead, I will personally summon Shakespeare from the grave so he can tell them every reason why he wishes he were born in a time where he could have a damn Gmail account. The day after I taught my mother how to send pictures over Iphone she texted me a blurry image of our cocker spaniel ten times in a row. Don’t you dare try to tell me that that is not beautiful. But whatever, go ahead and choose to stay in your backwards-hoping-all-inclusive club while the rest of us fall in love over Skype. Send angry letters to state representatives, as we record the years first sunrise so we can remember what beginning feels like when we are inches away from the trigger. Lock yourself away in your Antoinette castle while we eat cake and tweet to the whole universe that we did. Hashtag you’re a pretentious ass hole. Van Gogh would have taken 20 selflies a day. Sylvia Plath would have texted her lovers nothing but heart eyed emojis when she ran out of words. Andy Warhol would have had the worlds weirdest Vine account, and we all would have checked it every morning while we Snap Chat our coffee orders to the people we wish were pressed against our lips instead of lattes. This life is spilling over with 85 year olds rewatching JFK’s assassination and 7 year olds teaching themselves guitar over Youtube videos. Never again do I have to be afraid of forgetting what my fathers voice sounds like. No longer must we sneak into our families phonebook to look up an eating disorder hotline for our best friend. No more must I wonder what people in Australia sound like or how grasshoppers procreate. I will gleefully continue to take pictures of tulips in public parks on my cellphone and you will continue to scoff and that is okay. But I hope, I pray, that one day you will realize how blessed you are to be alive in a moment where you can google search how to say I love you in 164 different languages.

b.e.fitzgerald (Art is a Facebook status about your winter break.)

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Mike in India : week 2 - Holy Towns from Mike Spaans on Vimeo.

Time seed to be expanding this week in India. It seems like I've been away for a long time. This week holy places: from Amritsar to Rishikesh, and my audience with a guru in the woods. And some great new friends.

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old Delhi motortaxi experience from Mike Spaans on Vimeo.

respect to the motortaxi drivers of Delhi. a clip op the madness this older man took me trough.

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March Days

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You are a sentence and I am a semicolon begging you to go on.

We will be a novel one day - Meghan Lynn (via akachristiannaa)

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Op de grens van land en zee #strand Scheveningen #Holland #light #clouds #Netherlands #mist #fog #coast #kust (bij Vuurtoren van Scheveningen)

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Lately, I have been taken a growing interest in India and the eastern cyclic view at life. In this persuasive talk, Devdutt Pattanaik takes an eye-opening look at the myths of India and of the West. He shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs about God, death and heaven help us consistently misunderstand one another.

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Being a 35 year old single woman, who has seen all here friend get married, Paula wonders on the goals and direction of her life.

More at the The New York Times.

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'Happiness is not a limited resource'

This is the motto of Chris Aiff, a young South African who is dying of osteosarcoma. Despite all his tribulations, he chooses to focus on the good and on happiness.

In this video his friends show the inspiration he is in their life's. Now that he really is at the end of his journey, they are raising funds to support his last days and to let his message live on, even after he will have passed.

[thelandofmaps]

Where does Christmas come from? Translations and etymologies of holidays in Europe [3065x2460] CLICK HERE FOR MORE MAPS! thelandofmaps.tumblr.com

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Great to so many different words for one and the same feast.

Who said this is one mono-culture continent?

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Bristlecone pines are the oldest trees on earth. The oldest, Methuselah, has lived more than 4,800 years.

From their perch atop the White Mountains at California’s eastern edge, the bristlecones have survived as entire human civilizations have arisen and disappeared.

But there’s a new threat to the bristlecone’s existence, a globe-spanning emanation more menacing than anything they’ve faced in thousands of years.

Learn more on KPCC’s AudioVision.

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Amazing trees that give a glimpse of the time passing on.

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ALBERT CAMUS: In the middle of winter

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Winter solstice is here! In these dark days we can all use some hope. Here you go: "In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer" Beautiful Zen Pencils drawing about the Albert Camus quote from 'The Stranger'.

[theatlantic]

The Real Reason the Humanities Are ‘in Crisis’

Multiple articles over the last few months have proclaimed that “humanities fall from favor,” “interest fades in the humanities,” or that the humanities are “under strain around the globe.” Commentators tend to attribute the decline to two major developments: significant funding cuts to history, literature, and arts programs at public universities and political criticism of the humanities. Republican governors have proposed cuts to humanities departments at state universities to rebalance funding towards more obviously “practical” subjects. North Carolina’s governor Patrick McCrory stated in January 2013 that he planned to change the state’s legislation on higher education funding so that “it’s not based on butts in seats but on how many of those butts can get jobs.” Like other critics, McCrory did not want taxpayers to subsidize subjects that did not seem to lead directly to students securing a job.

In the United States, the debate continues about massive budget cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2014, while some state universities in Pennsylvania even plan to close music and language departments. The problem extends beyond American borders. Since 2009, funding for arts and humanities has decreased around the world.

Read more. [Image: Columbia Pictures]

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What was last time your said what you where truly thinking?