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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...

The Interrupters

by Pier Marton | Feb 13, 2012 | Afri, Care, Death, Film, Health, Human Rights, Native, Politics, Racism, Sci/Nat, STL, Wars, Women

To Javon Thompson A Promising Student of mine (at Carnegie Mellon) – shot and killed at age 18 – THE INTERRUPTERS played on Frontline (PBS) Tuesday February 13 This interview on Fresh Air (NPR) with its director, Steve James (of “Hoop Dreams” fame) and the great...

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...

Greti Herman does what she can…

by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Ego, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Magyar, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

My friend Pini’s mother in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal: Greti was soon banned from school. Some nights, Nazis pounded on the family’s apartment door, forcing them outside, on hands and knees, with a bucket and brush… … Greti dashed across the street… A half-hour...

Leni Riefenstahl – “Pretty as a Swastika”

by Pier Marton | Feb 2, 2012 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Books, Cam, Death, Doc, Jewish, Magyar, Native, Photo, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Shoah, Wars, Women

New Yorker Magazine: Where There’s a Will – The rise of Leni Riefenstahl by Judith Thurman … Riefenstahl appeals to her friend and admirer Julius Streicher, the editor of Der Stürmer and the most fanatic anti-Semite in a crowded field (he was hanged for his war crimes...

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,...

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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