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LE HAVRE – Recent Cinema Récent

by Pier Marton | Jan 30, 2012 | Art, Film, France, Humor, Poet, STL

Ses couleurs & ses toits plats. Its colors & its flat roofs. & La @&!# de la vie normale. Normal life’s @&!#. La Fée (The Fairy) par Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy – on its way to St. Louis http://youtu.be/m95ZxcEKeK0...

Le Grand Prévert (& une petite citation)

by Pier Marton | Jan 25, 2012 | Care, Ego, France, Humor, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Spectacle, Theater

L’humour et l’amour, c’est comme la mer et la mort, ça marche ensemble. (Does not work in English but here we go: Humor and love, like the ocean and death, go hand in hand). Prévert et la Télévision: before J.C. Averty, the first French video/performance artist. Click...

Flipping the Pages of Tomorrow: The Future “Books”

by Pier Marton | Jan 23, 2012 | Books, Ego, France, Future Tech, Humor, Ideas, Idées, iOS, Mac, Now, Quotes, Spectacle, Tech, Time

To paraphrase Eco: a newer technology does not replace an older one, they co-exist… but at first it mimics the old one: photographs that look like paintings, filmed theater, etc… It takes time to find your own identity. “Smart phones” – we can’t name what we use, but...

Le Rire Médecin – The Healing Laughter (& Clown Care)

by Pier Marton | Jan 22, 2012 | Art, Books, Care, Dance, Death, Doc, France, Health, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Media, Music, Mystery, Now, Poet, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Site, Sound, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Women

Le Site Rire Médecin + Expo 20ème Anniversaire/20th Anniversary Exhibit à l’/at the Hotel de Ville de Paris 18 janvier – 18 février Tous les jours (sauf Dimanche)/Every day (except Sunday) 10h – 19h (7 p.m.) & entrée libre Caroline Simonds, la fondatrice du Rire...

Culture Unplugged

by Pier Marton | Jan 18, 2012 | Afri, Art, Asia, Care, Dance, Doc, Eco, Film, Food, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Music, Mystery, Native, Now, Poet, Politics, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Site, Travel, Women

Watching certain films… Culture Unplugged Philosophy: What we do matters, but why we do matters more. Individuality matters, but universality matters more. Idealism matters, but humanity matters more. Past & post matters, but present matters more. Product matters,...

Eli Siegel (tabula rasa) Quotes

by Pier Marton | Jan 18, 2012 | Art, Books, Care, Eco, Ego, Humor, Jewish, Mystery, Poet, Quotes, Teach

substance is what remains when everything you can think of has gone the shortest poem in the English language (1925) One Question I — Why? Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit...

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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