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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...

Music(a)/Musique Indigenous Tradition Indigène/Avant-Garde/Tradicíon Indígena

by Pier Marton | Mar 24, 2012 | Art, Care, Dance, France, Future Tech, Hispanic, Humor, Music, Mystery, Native, Now, Poet, Quotes, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Travel

PLUS ÇA CHANGE, PLUS C’EST LA MÊME CHOSE. – Alphonse Karr The more things change, the more they stay the same/Cuanto más cambia algo, más se parece a lo mismo. A small sampling/des petits exemples/pequeños ejemplos: Los Gaiteros De San Jacinto (Colombia), Alejandro...

Footnote: DNA Methylation, Cancer and the Cedars’ Deep Connection

by Pier Marton | Mar 23, 2012 | Death, Film, Health, History, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, KeyText, Middle-East, Mystery, Sci/Nat, Software, Time

Prof. Haim/Howard Cedar and his son, Yossef/Joseph Cedar, the filmmaker (by Nir Hasson in Haaretz) “There’s no connection between the father and the son in ‘Footnote’ and the relationship between us. I think there’s something special in our relationship. Each of us...

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...

(some of) the Baron Cohen Gene(ous)

by Pier Marton | Mar 10, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Dance, Health, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, Media, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Wars

“Zero Degrees of Empathy” by Dr. Simon Bar Cohen, professor of Developmental Psychopathology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is the Director of the University’s Autism Research Centre. “The role of art...

Picasso à/et la Télévision

by Pier Marton | Mar 6, 2012 | Art, Doc, France, Hispanic, Humor, Music

Des archives de l’INA 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...

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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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