"Here is a new spiritual path for you: Don't take your thoughts too seriously." Eckhart Tolle

let's build tree houses

"One result of re-examining human society from a gender-holistic perspective has been a new theory of cultural evolution. This theory, which I have called Cultural Transformation theory, proposes that underlying the great surface diversity of human culture are two basic models of society.

The first, which I call the dominator  model, is what is popularly termed either patriarchy or matriarchy - the ranking  of one half of humanity over the other. The second, in which social relations are primarily based on the principle of  linking rather than ranking, may best be described as the partnership model. In this model - beginning with the most fundamental difference in our species, between male and female - diversity is not equated with either inferiority or superiority."

Riane Eisler in the "The Chalice & the Blade"

http://www.rianeeisler.com/chalice.htm

Under Desert Sun Trailer from Kevin Voegtlin on Vimeo.

watch the whole film here

Grand Designs - Woodsman Cottage (Ben Law) from Nebruks on Vimeo.

♥  http://www.ben-law.co.uk
http://www.the-roundwood-timber-framing-co.ltd.uk

let's build houses

http://www.halfcuttea.com/videos/nick-olson-lilah-horwitz/

Patti Smith: "Rock ‘n’ roll belongs to the people. When I started playing I couldn’t sing very well and I couldn’t play an instrument. I didn’t know anything, but I did know rock ‘n’ roll and I did believe that it was mine."

"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

Thomas Paine 1737-1809

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The Ocean is broken

The ocean is broken

IT was the silence that made this voyage different from all of those before it. Not the absence of sound, exactly. The wind still whipped the sails and whistled in the rigging. The waves still sloshed against the fibreglass hull. And there were plenty of other noises: muffled thuds and bumps and scrapes as the boat knocked against pieces of debris. What was missing was the cries of the seabirds which, on all previous similar voyages, had surrounded the boat. The birds were missing because the fish were missing. Exactly 10 years before, when Newcastle yachtsman Ivan Macfadyen had sailed exactly the same course from Melbourne to Osaka, all he'd had to do to catch a fish from the ocean between Brisbane and Japan was throw out a baited line. "There was not one of the 28 days on that portion of the trip when we didn't catch a good-sized fish to cook up and eat with some rice," Macfadyen recalled. But this time, on that whole long leg of sea journey, the total catch was two.No fish. No birds. Hardly a sign of life at all. "In years gone by I'd gotten used to all the birds and their noises," he said. "They'd be following the boat, sometimes resting on the mast before taking off again. You'd see flocks of them wheeling over the surface of the sea in the distance, feeding on pilchards." But in March and April this year, only silence and desolation surrounded his boat, Funnel Web, as it sped across the surface of a haunted ocean. North of the equator, up above New Guinea, the ocean-racers saw a big fishing boat working a reef in the distance. "All day it was there, trawling back and forth. It was a big ship, like a mother-ship," he said. And all night it worked too, under bright floodlights. And in the morning Macfadyen was awoken by his crewman calling out, urgently, that the ship had launched a speedboat. "Obviously I was worried. We were unarmed and pirates are a real worry in those waters. I thought, if these guys had weapons then we were in deep trouble." But they weren't pirates, not in the conventional sense, at least. The speedboat came alongside and the Melanesian men aboard offered gifts of fruit and jars of jam and preserves. "And they gave us five big sugar-bags full of fish," he said. "They were good, big fish, of all kinds. Some were fresh, but others had obviously been in the sun for a while. "We told them there was no way we could possibly use all those fish. There were just two of us, with no real place to store or keep them. They just shrugged and told us to tip them overboard. That's what they would have done with them anyway, they said. "They told us that his was just a small fraction of one day's by-catch. That they were only interested in tuna and to them, everything else was rubbish. It was all killed, all dumped. They just trawled that reef day and night and stripped it of every living thing." Macfadyen felt sick to his heart. That was one fishing boat among countless more working unseen beyond the horizon, many of them doing exactly the same thing. No wonder the sea was dead. No wonder his baited lines caught nothing. There was nothing to catch. If that sounds depressing, it only got worse. The next leg of the long voyage was from Osaka to San Francisco and for most of that trip the desolation was tinged with nauseous horror and a degree of fear. "After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead," Macfadyen said. "We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its head. It was pretty sickening. "I've done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I'm used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen." In place of the missing life was garbage in astounding volumes. "Part of it was the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan a couple of years ago. The wave came in over the land, picked up an unbelievable load of stuff and carried it out to sea. And it's still out there, everywhere you look." Ivan's brother, Glenn, who boarded at Hawaii for the run into the United States, marvelled at the "thousands on thousands" of yellow plastic buoys. The huge tangles of synthetic rope, fishing lines and nets. Pieces of polystyrene foam by the million. And slicks of oil and petrol, everywhere. Countless hundreds of wooden power poles are out there, snapped off by the killer wave and still trailing their wires in the middle of the sea. "In years gone by, when you were becalmed by lack of wind, you'd just start your engine and motor on," Ivan said. Not this time. "In a lot of places we couldn't start our motor for fear of entangling the propeller in the mass of pieces of rope and cable. That's an unheard of situation, out in the ocean. "If we did decide to motor we couldn't do it at night, only in the daytime with a lookout on the bow, watching for rubbish. "On the bow, in the waters above Hawaii, you could see right down into the depths. I could see that the debris isn't just on the surface, it's all the way down. And it's all sizes, from a soft-drink bottle to pieces the size of a big car or truck. "We saw a factory chimney sticking out of the water, with some kind of boiler thing still attached below the surface. We saw a big container-type thing, just rolling over and over on the waves. "We were weaving around these pieces of debris. It was like sailing through a garbage tip. "Below decks you were constantly hearing things hitting against the hull, and you were constantly afraid of hitting something really big. As it was, the hull was scratched and dented all over the place from bits and pieces we never saw." Plastic was ubiquitous. Bottles, bags and every kind of throwaway domestic item you can imagine, from broken chairs to dustpans, toys and utensils. And something else. The boat's vivid yellow paint job, never faded by sun or sea in years gone past, reacted with something in the water off Japan, losing its sheen in a strange and unprecedented way. BACK in Newcastle, Ivan Macfadyen is still coming to terms with the shock and horror of the voyage. "The ocean is broken," he said, shaking his head in stunned disbelief. Recognising the problem is vast, and that no organisations or governments appear to have a particular interest in doing anything about it, Macfadyen is looking for ideas. He plans to lobby government ministers, hoping they might help. More immediately, he will approach the organisers of Australia's major ocean races, trying to enlist yachties into an international scheme that uses volunteer yachtsmen to monitor debris and marine life. Macfadyen signed up to this scheme while he was in the US, responding to an approach by US academics who asked yachties to fill in daily survey forms and collect samples for radiation testing - a significant concern in the wake of the tsunami and consequent nuclear power station failure in Japan. "I asked them why don't we push for a fleet to go and clean up the mess," he said. "But they said they'd calculated that the environmental damage from burning the fuel to do that job would be worse than just leaving the debris there."

THE WES ANDERSON COLLECTION CHAPTER 1: BOTTLE ROCKET from RogerEbert.com on Vimeo.

THE WES ANDERSON COLLECTION CHAPTER 2: RUSHMORE from RogerEbert.com on Vimeo.

. LOVE it

Il pleut à Paris

OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo.

Pudovkin's 5 Editing Techniques from Evan Richards on Vimeo.

“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy.

 And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”

Oscar Wild, The Importance of Being Earnest

I feel like a sell out posting a Go Pro video , but I met the guy who filmed the hugging lions tonight. And oh my god, this footage is amazing! Not to mention swimming with a great white shark. Oh and the Orang Utangs! They climb the tree with a Go Pro! Go Go Pro I guess .... or rather go wild animals, I don't know, just enjoy those 4 minutes. Good night

Coco

Go Russell, tell 'em all!

History lesson and legend of the day : Busby Berkeley

Monte Hellman at his finest, I love that film

The Broken Circle Breakdown

Oh Lauren, oh Humphrey

Lauren Bacall Interview 1994

" People don't understand the elegance of simplicity .. "

 " What is it you wanne see, and when do you want to see it ?"

 Gordon Willis

that's interesting, don't let the title fool you!




http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/29/world/meast/syria-iran-china-russia-supporters/

               
                                      http://htwins.net/scale2/

Top of the Lake

“Television is the new frontier. Film is conservative. I’m sick of it” Jane Campion

paint it black

“In the Same Way Painters Used Their Paint…”: D.P. Bradford Young on Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Mother of George

JOHN

A Dance with Death

http://spiritualityhealth.com/articles/dance-death

"It’s really a very beautiful exchange of values when women put their clothes on in the morning and she is brand-new and you’ve never seen her put her clothes on before.

            You’ve been lovers and you’ve slept together and there’s nothing more you can do about that, so it’s time for her to put her clothes on.

Maybe you’ve already had breakfast and she’s slipped her sweater on to cook a nice bare-assed breakfast for you, padding in sweet flesh around the kitchen, and you both discussed in length the poetry of Rilke which she knew a great deal about, surprising you.

But now it’s time for her to put her clothes on because you’ve both had so much coffee that you can’t drink any more and it’s time for her to go home and it’s time for her to go to work and you want to stay there alone because you’ve got some things to do around the house and you’re going outside together for a nice walk and it’s time for you to go home and it’s time for you to go to work and she’s got some things that she wants to do around the house.

Or…maybe it’s even love.

But anyway: It’s time for her to put her clothes on and it’s so beautiful when she does it. Her body slowly disappears and comes out quite nicely all in clothes. There’s a virginal quality to it. She’s got her clothes on, and the beginning is over."

'Women When They Put Their Clothes On in the Morning' by Richard Brautigan

they don't make them like that anymore...

l'amour à 20 ans - Antoine Doinel

Biarritz

Summer days and a little beach with an old history. Port Vieux, 43° 29' 0'' North, 1° 34' 0''

Charlie

Paris

could be true

 

CY TWOMBLY POLAROIDS 

a light inspiration

"Sich fallen lassen! Hatte man das einmal getan, hatte man einmal auf alle Stützen und jeden festen Boden unter sich verzichtet, hörte man ganz und gar nur noch auf den Führer im eigenen Herzen, dann war alles gewonnen, dann war alles gut, keine Angst mehr, keine Gefahr mehr"

Hermann Hesse " Kein und Wagner"

D'où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ?

an old man, his bathroom and a life lived fully

we've got 2Pac, we've got Biggie, we've got Louise Bourgeois... Peace

Thoughts from within - Woody Harrelson

Lover of the Light

walk with me, shine your light 

the power of vulnerability

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Losing Nemo from mrlee.tv on Vimeo.

hola Wayno

 om ami dewa hri

Farewell Wayne Bodhisattva! We love you **** IV Super love and light power

“A human being is part of a whole called by us ‘the universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ∞ Albert Einstein

" The world because of you will still be beautiful. Your heart - real in place of the one they took from us will still beat and a gratitude from the trees you touched will canopy us" Odysseus Elytis

WAYNE

http://johnfrusciante.com

there are no words that can express how much we will miss you my sweetest friend IV ♥♥♥♥

16.4.61 - 7.4.2013 ♥ 

Mike Giant - Philosophy on life from sidewalktalk.dk on Vimeo.

  vision

Earth from Michael König on Vimeo.

midsummer fishing

Trout is all from Rolf Nylinder

my coffee making, fly fishing and rhythm shredding friend from Sweden

This film is brilliant, if you have the time or not, watch it

go and watch this wonderful film, where ever you are in this world

we are our own creators

"In the light of the new moon in capricorn tonight, we send a little love out there and become very clear about what we'd like to see come into our lives. Allow the mind body, emotional body, physical body and spirit body to be recharged, rejuvenated and refreshed.. "

“BE HUMBLE FOR YOU ARE MADE OF EARTH.

BE NOBLE FOR YOU ARE MADE OF STARS.” 

                Serbian proverb in courtesy of http://heldemuetig.tumblr.com/

a new year full of love and light and adventures and creation and beauty and good music and friends and oceans and mountains *

If I was what I would be ...

If I was what I would be
Then I'd be what I am not
Here I am, where I must be
Where I would be, I cannot