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Natural Fashion

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:56:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The art of the people of the Omo Valley

"This unique art (shot by Hans Silvester) of the African Surma and Mursi tribes of the Omo Valley. These nomadic people have no architecture or crafts with which to express their innate artistic sense. Instead, they use their bodies as canvases and adorning themselves with materials obtained from their surroundings such as flowers, leaves, grasses, berries and branches which seems endlessly inventive, and above all, fun"

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Hans Silvester
biographie

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Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa (Hardcover)

by Hans Silvester (Author)

£12.97 & eligible for Free UK delivery on orders over £15 with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

Sailing to Byzantium

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:34:36 GMT

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An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

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O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.

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an Olympic pic

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:35:57 GMT

clipped by: syncopath

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A volunteer takes pictures in front of a giant poster of Michael Phelps near the National Aquatics Center Olympic swimming venue ahead of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, August 3, 2008.

Digital Blasphemy

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:32:13 GMT

clipped by: ChaosSyren
clipper's remarks: Amazing Art

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Welcome to Digital Blasphemy!

Inside: Hi-res original 3d rendered computer desktop wallpapers and links to some of the best computer art sites on the web.

Enter Here

digital blasphemy

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Tropical Moon (2007) (2007)

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Fluorescence [6] (2000)

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Planitia (2007)

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Tropic of Capricorn (2006) (2006)

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Reverie (2006)

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white magic

gotham garden

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free gallery

Tags: digital, art, graphics

TV interview with Aldous Huxley (1958)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:47:39 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

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Aldous Huxley: Mike Wallace 1958 Video Interview

Mike Wallace interviewed a wide ranging selection of the most important people of his times in the Mike Wallace Show broadcast 50 years ago on CBS. Aldous Huxley was one of those important people and the warnings and cautions he discusses with Wallace seems prescient.

Video Aldous Huxley: The Mike Wallace Interview.

Did Neanderthals Share the "Language Gene" with Homo Sapiens?

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:41:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting Read.

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In a surprising discovery, scientists believe they have found modern man's language gene in the DNA of the extinct race of Neanderthals, raising the possibility that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, Neanderthals may have whiled away the winter with conversation, gossip and debate.

The language gene is shared with only one other species, Homo Sapiens. If true, the Neanderthals may have had their own distinct culture, customs and history.

Professor Svante Paabo, who has been leading the Neanderthal genome project at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, said the presence of the language gene would change the way people view Neanderthals.

The discovery of the gene, called FOXP2, have provided the strongest evidence yet that these heavily built species were capable of speech, although the researchers are unable to say what extent their linguistic ability would have been.

Tags: evolution, language, neanderthals

A Quote (by deeply religious nonbeliever)

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:27:42 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: beware it`s not just a flower !!

it`s the most beautiful rose i ever saw ... -)

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TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME

by: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

ED Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate,

I find under the boughs of love and hate,

In all poor foolish things that live a day,

Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

Come near, come near, come near -- Ah, leave me still

A little space for the rose-breath to fill!

And learn to chaunt a tongue men do not know

Come near; I would, before my time to go,

Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:

Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

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Tags: quotes, images, yeats

A Hamas leader's son converted to Christianity & seeks refuge in USA

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:13:49 GMT

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Haaretz's Avi Issacharaoff traveled to California to tell the unique tale of Masad Yousef, the 30-year-old son of Hamas leader Sheik Hassan Yousef, who has converted to Christianity and is seeking refuge in the United States.

In an extended interview, Yousef, who now calls himself Joseph, castigates Hamas as morally and politically bankrupt.

"They are blind and ignorant," Yousef says in the interview. "It's true, there are good and bad people everywhere, but Hamas supporters don't understand that they are led by a wicked and cruel group that brainwashes the children and gets them to believe that if they carry out a suicide attack they'll get to Paradise."

Yousef says that his father is part of the pragmatic wing of Hamas leaders that quietly opposed suicide bombings and seeks compromise with Israel.

Committing Poetry in Times of War !!

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:11:36 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: Committing Poetry in Times of War, based on a story developed by Stavros and Eric Sirotkin, documents many dynamic slam poetry and musical performances with select performances from Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and New York City Poetic Justice concerts.

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Committing Poetry is a poetic glance at events that defined the struggle of a nation at war abroad, and with its people. When the bombs began to fall on Iraq, Humanities Teacher and Youth Poetry Coach, Bill Nevins, was suspended and later, fired, from his teaching job after standing up for student freedom of expression.

His outspoken Rio Rancho High School Poetry Slam Team was forcibly disbanded and silenced. Nevins was the last of seven New Mexico educators removed by fearful administrators seeking to quell the questions, thoughts, debates, and artwork of students.

Just days after Nevins' removal, hundreds of peaceful protestors were brutally assaulted by police. Demonstrators were continuously corralled into "Free Speech Zones" away from traffic and public view.

Yet, out of this fire arose a diverse community of artisans, poets, & musicians whose courageous words could not be silenced.

They came together in a series of unifying events

it was called, Poetic Justice.

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Tags: freedomofspeech, poetry, america

candle4tibet

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:30:00 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: The world's greatest LIGHT PROTEST will take place on August 7th 2008 - one day before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. At least 100 million people from all over the world will light a candle and say YES for freedom in Tibet!

The Campaign started on facebook from the desktop of David Califa, 52, a retired private individual with an investment banking background, from Ramat Hasharon, Israel. Mr. Califa has been financing it with his own private funds. "Candle for Tibet" has quickly developed into a global movement which operates from a multilingual (25 languages, all translated by volunteers) web site with its own social network alongside.

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Join the Greatest Light Protest on Earth

CANDLE FOR TIBET

Only

4 Days 22 Hours 36 Minutes

are Left to the GREATEST LIGHT PROTEST ON EARTH

FREEDOM IS NOT JUST ANOTHER WORD
TAKE PART IN SOMETHING HUGE FOR IT

Light a Candle for Tibet at Your Home, With Friends or in Public.

Watch Skyscrapers and Mountain Tops Flare with Red Smoke
Join Other Special Light Actions All Over The World
Drive Your Car With Lights On for 24 Hours
Light Up Any Source of Light for Tibet

Unite with more than 100,000,000 people in
THE GREATEST LIGHT PROTEST ON EARTH

H.H. the Dalai Lama Offers His Blessing to
Candle for Tibet

Tibetan diva, Yungchen Lhamo, has joined "Candle for Tibet" campaign for freedom.

She will lead our campaign with her divine voice, music and spirit.

Happiness Is... by Yungchen Lhamo

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Make a VIDEO! We Might Feature It Here!

Now The
WORLD'S GREATEST LIGHT PROTEST
Get's Even Greater
With
Sad Smoky Mountains & Skyscrapers
And Other Light Actions

United,
Nothing Can Stop
Our Light
from Shining

Tags: tibet, freedom, olympics, china

Where people write with Pictures !!

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:41:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: at the beginning there was an image .... ?!!

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SOME 8500 years ago, people in what is now China started using written symbols to communicate and store knowledge. At first they used pictures to represent words and ideas - a characteristic shared by other early scripts such as cuneiform and hieroglyphs. These pictographic scripts have since fallen into disuse, superseded by more abstract writing systems such as the one you are reading now. All except one, that is.

In the mountains of south-west China, a dwindling number of priests practising an animist religion still read and write with pictures. Theirs is the last living pictographic script anywhere in the world.

The writing system is called Dongba and it has been used for about 1000 years to record and guide the religious traditions of the Naxi, a 300,000-strong people living in Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet. The Dongba script has more than 2000 pictographs,

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Manuscrit dongba (détail). Centre du patrimoine Naxi Dongba, Parc de l'étang du dragon noir.

Tags: dongba, pictographic, animism, tradition

Can we learn to love uncertainty?

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:25:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "... Yet they are all defined in terms of the unsettling lack of something positive or better. It is perhaps for that reason that the stories of those who discovered these uncertainties have been largely overlooked. This is why I made Dangerous Knowledge for BBC television: to champion the incomplete, the uncomputable and the uncertain."

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Here's a newish New Scientist article, by David Malone, it's titled:

Can we learn to love uncertainty?

(Also titled, Are we addicted to certainty?

You might think that no one could argue with the value of certainty. It has the air of one of those indisputably good things, like world peace or motherhood. But I would argue that the pursuit of certainty has become a dangerous addiction.

Few notions have become as deeply embedded in our culture as the belief that there is a perfect certainty to be had - and the desire to have it.

Even as science squeezed out belief in God and scriptural certainties, a perfect law-governed creation remained; it was just under new management

Science has become, in the minds of many, the new guarantor that there is certainty and that we can attain it.

The very word "uncertainty", along with "incompleteness" and "uncomputability", encapsulates one of the three of the most profound theories in 20th-century science and mathematics.

Tags: uncertainty, incompleteness, uncomputability

Heartbreaking Nature Story

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:41:50 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: We know that whales are intelligent. Whether they are self aware is another matter. Yet, there is something very poignant about this story.

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The Loneliest Mystery of the Deep

For the last 12 years, a single solitary whale whose vocalizations match no known living species has been tracked across the Northeast Pacific. Its wanderings match no known migratory patterns of any living whale species. Its vocalizations have also subtly deepened over the years, indicating that the whale is maturing and ageing. And, during the entire 12 year span that it has been tracked, it has been calling out for contact from others of its own kind.

It has received no answer. Nor will it ever.

Whatever the identity of this strange unidentified alien whale, it is, for now, the very definition of poetic, existential loneliness, in both time and space. The whale is somewhere wandering the Northeast Pacific, right now, in a rudderless, aimless track. And right now the lonely beast could be calling out for others of its kind, and finding none, for over 12 years and counting.

Tags: nature, whale, lonely, sad

Snag Films -The Documentary Widget

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:05:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Many of the most prominent documentary filmmakers are participating not only by having their films distributed via SnagFilms, but by engaging with their audience through blogs and offering special “bonus” material, as well as suggesting nonprofit organizations that viewers motivated by these films can link to and support via charitable contributions, volunteering or spreading the word.

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Snag Films lanuches in beta today with 250 films available for immediate streamed playback, requiring no software downloads. Snag's founders hope that it will spawn millions of virtual movie theaters streaming documentaries. Independent documentary films are experiencing a creative boom, yet theatrical distribution channels have gone bust, Snag may solve the bottleneck in distribution for quality documentaries that has left many great films unable to reach their potential audience or to provide a viable financial return. It also offers established media companies with deep libraries a way of getting “long-tail” documentaries out of the vaults and before a worldwide, on-demand audience.

The new service features award-winning titles from some of the greatest names in documentary film production and distribution, including PBS, National Geographic, United Nations, Sundance Preserve, IndiePix, Peter Jennings Productions, Arts Alliance America, ITVS, Koch Lorber Films, and many others.

Tags: films, documentary, web, internet, streaming

Bach on any weather ...

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:15:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: other excellent versions of Bach's cello suites:
Paul Tortelier
Mastislav Rostropovich
Pablo Casals

recommended to end video when music end so to skip the talking .. -)

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Yo-Yo Ma plays the prelude from Bach´s Cello Suite No. 1

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Clipmarks | syncopath's clips

Natural Fashion

Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa (Hardcover)

Sailing to Byzantium

an Olympic pic

Digital Blasphemy

Enter Here

TV interview with Aldous Huxley (1958)

Aldous Huxley: Mike Wallace 1958 Video Interview

Did Neanderthals Share the "Language Gene" with Homo Sapiens?

A Quote (by deeply religious nonbeliever)

A Hamas leader's son converted to Christianity & seeks refuge in USA

Committing Poetry in Times of War !!

candle4tibet

Join the Greatest Light Protest on Earth

CANDLE FOR TIBET

FREEDOM IS NOT JUST ANOTHER WORDTAKE PART IN SOMETHING HUGE FOR IT

Light a Candle for Tibet at Your Home, With Friends or in Public. Watch Skyscrapers and Mountain Tops Flare with Red Smoke Join Other Special Light Actions All Over The World Drive Your Car With Lights On for 24 Hours Light Up Any Source of Light for Tibet

Unite with more than 100,000,000 people in THE GREATEST LIGHT PROTEST ON EARTH H.H. the Dalai Lama Offers His Blessing to Candle for Tibet

Where people write with Pictures !!

Can we learn to love uncertainty?

Heartbreaking Nature Story

Snag Films -The Documentary Widget

Bach on any weather ...

FREEDOM IS NOT JUST ANOTHER WORD
TAKE PART IN SOMETHING HUGE FOR IT

Light a Candle for Tibet at Your Home, With Friends or in Public.

Watch Skyscrapers and Mountain Tops Flare with Red Smoke
Join Other Special Light Actions All Over The World
Drive Your Car With Lights On for 24 Hours
Light Up Any Source of Light for Tibet

Unite with more than 100,000,000 people in
THE GREATEST LIGHT PROTEST ON EARTH

H.H. the Dalai Lama Offers His Blessing to
Candle for Tibet