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Gloria Steinem Supports Obama (+ More)

by Pier Marton | Mar 29, 2012 | Afri, Asia, Care, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, iOS, iPhone, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Software, Spectacle, Wars, Women

From the Obama YouTube Channel which includes “The Road We’ve Traveled” + Indecision Forever an iOS App from Comedy Central Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Meditation (Without Magic/Sans Magie)

by Pier Marton | Mar 21, 2012 | Asia, Books, Care, Death, Ego, Exp, France, Health, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Mystery, Now, Quotes, Time

To meditate has meaning only if you have the same attitude towards it as you have towards going to the toilet in the morning. You don’t do it to get enlightened. You do it because it is natural, like when you wake up, you go to the toilet, you brush your teeth, you...

Alexander Sokurov

by Pier Marton | Mar 12, 2012 | Art, Asia, Death, Doc, Film, Health, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Media, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Shoah, Sounds, Time, Wars, Women

Sokurov’s Website- Sokurov/English Extraits d’une interview sur Hors-Champs: (English translation may appear some day…) Il n’y a rien dans un paysage, même pas de beauté. Elle existe dans nous… La nature vit sa vie, un homme vit sa vie. L’homme déifie la nature quand...

EVERYTHING depends on YOU…

by Pier Marton | Feb 10, 2012 | Asia, Books, Care, Death, Ego, France, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Mystery, Poet, Racism, Software, Spectacle, Teach

… the good and the bad. You are in charge, even if you are dying. To be remembered till the end… – Samuel Beckett ” Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” “I can’t go on, I will go on.” – Don Miguel “Don’t Take Anything Personally....

My Reincarnation – The Film

by Pier Marton | Feb 9, 2012 | Asia, Care, Death, Eco, Health, Humor, Ideas, Mystery, Native, Now, Time, Travel, Women

(was at) Webster University Film Series My review: Neo-realism from Italy? No, but overflowing with what is “real” for Tibetan exiles – across time and space. “I am not afraid of dying, I am afraid of living.” – Yeshi Silvano Namkhai Everybody would like to be...

Thierry Marx: de l’Affiche Rouge à Miyamoto Musashi

by Pier Marton | Feb 7, 2012 | Antisemitism, Asia, Dance, Food, France, Humor, Idées, Juif, Podcasts(F), Politics, Sci/Nat

Updated below to reflect an Israeli visit. Podcast interview avec le Top Chef sur France Culture (L’Affiche Rouge, Ordre/Désordre, France/Japon, Tradition/Nouveauté…) Élu en 2006 par le Gault et Millau chef de l’année. – Chef au Mandarin Oriental à Paris – From...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus