A bold venture
‘It is my hope that people will not take what is said in the film as the truth, but find out for themselves, for truth is not told, it is realized.’ - P. Joseph
Zeitgeist, produced by Peter Joseph, was created as a nonprofit expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are.
The Sound Earth Foundation is a not-for-profit information network first and foremost dedicated to promoting sound art, environmental art and the field of acoustic ecology.
Our other goal is to teach everyone to bring their state of being back into balance with nature, and help themselves make decisions on how to lessen their impact on the world around them.
Check it out!
Enjoy…some say it’s an artform, you know.
Check also other linked videos. The Scythe is coming back!
Erdbeerjoghurt 150g ist ein zeitbasiertes Kunstprojekt, von Jekaterina Anzupowa, PerformancekĂĽnstlerin aus Berlin, das aus zwei Reisen besteht.
Die Reiseroute ist jeweils ein Nachvollziehen der Transportwege der einzelnen Zutaten eines handelsĂĽblichen Erdbeerjoghurts.
Die erste Reise basiert auf den Daten aus einer Studie von Dr. Stefanie Böge aus dem Jahr 1992 und deckt grob gesehen das Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ab.
Die zweite Reise orientiert sich an Daten aus dem Jahr 2008 und wird weltumspannend sein…..
And so for sunday we continue with some music. To be exact: with the liner notes from Bill Evans for Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’, Comunbia Records, 1959:
There is a Japanese visual art in which the artist is forced to be spontaneous. He must paint on a thin stretched parchment with a special brush and black water paint in such a way that an unnatural or interrupted stroke will destroy the line or break through the parchment. Erasures or changes are impossible. These artists must practice a particular discipline, that of allowing the idea to express itself in communication with their hands in such a direct way that deliberation cannot interfere.
The resulting pictures lack the complex composition and textures of ordinary painting, but it is said that those who will see will find something captured that escapes explanation.
This conviction that direct deed is the most meaningful reflection, I believe, has prompted the evolution of the extremely severe and unique disciplines of the jazz or improvising musician. …
Get the link to Systems Thinking and the basis of understanding for sustainable living?…‘The universe self-organises and evoles. It creates diversity, not uniformity. It is dynamic, spending its time in transient behaviour…’ (check out ‘Dancing with Systems’, Donella Meadows)
So whenever you are spontaneously improvising, you might just be quite in tune with the whole thing in these moments… Please enjoy how Bird and Dizzy argue about that!
‘The elements of nature and the lizards are connected in many different ways, and we are part of nature’s element mix. Thinking we are the center of everything we will be left alone.’
watch the video: Caguayo
by Jenifer Galvin - scientist, filmmaker, writer and educator. She uses her background in public health and environmental science to inform her work as a filmmaker.
Jennifer Galvin is a founder of reelblue, LLC (www.reelblue.net) and also a Trustee and Selection Committee Member of the Henry David Thoreau Foundation (www.thoreauscholar.org).
‘Art, Ecology & Education provides pathways to an integrated and sustainable way of living. We participate in the development and integration of an ecologically conscious and systemic worldview.
Using a holistic and transformative approach in our work, we support individuals and groups in the process of transition towards a life sustaining society.’
Upcoming workshops (in german and english):
12+13 July CHANGE - a different worldview for sustainable living
20-24 August ‘EFTERFESTEN Gathering for Sustainability’, Sweden
3-7 September SHIFTING TERRAIN - dancing new ways of perceiving
20+21 September PERMACULTURE - the Basics
Next AEE Evening at the HUB, Berlin:
9 July, 8pm, CSA / Community Supported Agriculture - Conscious consumption one step ahead
Art, Ecology & Education (www.art-ecology-education.org) works as international, intercultural consortium based in Berlin.
Participate in shifting the paradigm / feel free to get in touch!
David Rothenberg is a writer, musician, and professor of environmental philosophy. This video was made by Gari Saarimaki while David was jamming live with white beluga whales in the White Sea, Karelia, Russia.
www.thousandmilesong.com
www.whybirdssing.com
www.whaleofatime.org
Check them out!
The Global Oneness Project is a web-based video initiative exploring how the simple notion of oneness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.
We’re traveling the globe interviewing creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the fundamental understanding that we are all connected and thus bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world. Our living library of films is available for free from our website or on DVD for events and educational use.
We are committed to documenting what is being born during this time of planetwide transformation. While we are confronted with unmistakable signs that our current way of life is no longer sustainable, inspiring and innovative people and programs are blossoming in all areas of our collective society. From a pay-it-forward café in Ahmedabad, to a youth program that brings African wisdom to Los Angeles, from the General Secretary of the Andean Nations, to the spiritual guardian of Ayers Rock, our film subjects live and work with many of the following values, attitudes, and beliefs:
* We are responsible to each other, the earth, and future generations.
* There are enough resources for us all, if we share.
* Free exchanges of information allow for greater, collective creative potential.
* Love, care and compassion have the power to transform the fabric of society.We hope that by showing the diverse ways oneness is expressed—in the fields of sustainability, conflict resolution, spirituality, art, economics, indigenous culture, and social justice—others will be inspired to create solutions to personal and community challenges from their own lived understanding of oneness.
“On April 15, 2008 in San Francisco, Green Works brought together an English reverse graffiti artist and a critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker, to create an environmentally friendly work of art and a film about a philosophy of clean.”
“San Francisco’s Broadway tunnel is a highly traveled thoroughfare in the heart of the city. Over 20,000 cars, trucks, and motorized vehicles pass through it per day. Its walls are caked with dirt and soot, and lined with patches of paint covered graffiti from days gone by. It set the perfect canvas to create a beautiful work of art showcasing the talents of reverse graffiti artist “Moose”, and the power of Green Works plant based cleaner.”
via: s2k - Reverse Graffiti Project
update: keep in mind that this just a campaign for an us major brand! A nice one though…
Most of the so called “street-art” pieces are so boring and overused, but sometimes some guys like Dan Witz from NYC hit it so perfectly that we can’t get arround…
About his gentrification-critical series “Ugly New Buildings” he says:
“This year’s series, “Ugly New Buildings”, addresses how in the past few years much of my neighborhood in Brooklyn has been torn down to make way for luxury housing. Personally, I can’t say I like the new modern architecture very much. For the most part it’s sterile and alienating and so arrogantly disconnected with its surroundings sometimes it seems like giant alien space ships have landed in the night. But resenting gentrification in New York City is futile, like complaining about the weather or other forces of (urban) nature. For this year’s project I decided to work with it.
These are photo-based, heavily re-painted stickers, mounted on plastic and glued to the walls of the Ugly New Buildings. In May I put up around 30 and about half are still there.”
Please refer also to The Wall
They are aware and that’s why we like them! Wonder when others dealing with masses of people search for alternatives…
This is from their website, entry of the 2nd of may (www.radiohead.com)
Radiohead take to the road on Monday (via a plane, unfortunately) to start in Florida with the first show of their 2008 tour.
Following on from their posting on the 19th December and the commissioned report (pdf on the site) on touring and CO2 generation, we’ve developed a new section of the site that gig goers can visit: the most gigantic flying mouth for some time.
Here you can try out our carbon calculator and compare different transport methods for getting to and from the venue. The list of tour dates will give you public transport information where available, and where not, there may be venue incentives for car sharing. There will also be weekly postings from Radiohead’s production team on how the band has addressed their own touring carbon footprint and made it easier for fans to reduce theirs. You can discuss our successes and more importantly, our failings at waste-central, post up more local travel information where we haven’t and make friends with other people going to your show.
Hopefully see you on the tour!
I also found a quote of an ‘Wired’ - interview with Thom Yorke:
“At the moment we make money principally from touring. Which is hard for me to reconcile because I don’t like all the energy consumption, the travel. It’s an ecological disaster, traveling and touring… We did one of those carbon footprint things recently where they assessed the last period of touring we did and tried to work out where the biggest problems were. And it was obviously everybody traveling to the shows…
“Especially in the US. Everybody drives. So how the hell are we going to address that? The idea is that we play in municipal places with some transport system alternative to cars. And minimizing flying equipment, shipping everything. We can’t be shipped though.”
They are in Berlin on July 8th. We’ll bike there, I guess…
Find the songs of their new album here.
