The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. —Alvin Toffler
listening to the Anima Eterna Brugge Orchestra performing Beethoven’s 5th symphony and watching
them play together, to a silent and attentive audience, a thought occured. since music is invisible,
every single person in the audience was experiencing his/her very own “piece”, call it imagination,
visuals, ideas. even stronger so than looking at a visual work of art, which [...]
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Ramon can eat Jamon, but Jamon can’t eat Ramon.
I was walking along dam square when I saw a young guy approaching a man sitting on a bench and just when I passed them bye I heard him say: “I give you 20 euros if you give me nothing in return. right now.”
TRADITION IST NICHT DIE VEREHRUNG DER ASCHE SONDERN DIE WEITERGABE DES FEUERS.
(Gustav Mahler)
(ca. = tradition is not about worshiping the ashes but passing on the fire)
Or: The Creation Of The Myth Of The Lemming Suicide As A Metaphor For How I Work And Don’t
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… Following on from its 1953 success The Living Desert, Walt Disney Studios released White Wilderness in 1958, a film which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. Among the many spectacular nature scenes is a sequence [...]