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#26 Re-Evaluate The Error
He woke up that morning with the clear resolve of wanting to do something good, or at least something that would unequivocally outstrip all the rest. He had a quick breakfast, all the time looking in admiration upon the marvellous achievements of his handiwork over the last five days. Dawn and sunset, he had to admit were perfect; the light and sta...
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Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: amen, birds, breath, conscience, creation, creator, creature, doing, earth, fragrant, god, handiwork, hell, ice, judgement | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
Silence creates room for the mind, and the mind can create visions. Yoko Ono described how the hypnotic effect of a flame would help to do this: “You could tell someone to look into the fire for 10 days just to create a vision in someone’s mind” she write in her first, epic work, a book of instructions for performances entitled Grapefruit (a ...
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Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: the other rooms, yoko ono, 1952, 1964, 2003, artist, biennale, birds, bodies, east, emotion, emptiness, feel, forever, grapefruit | Leave A Comment »
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#22 Kaizen
«Waste […] will always follow the economic path of least resistance». Jim Puckett, committed environmentalist
The methodology designed to cut down on processes that do not create added value for a product is based on marginalising waste. This concept is summed up by the Japanese word muda, which means rubbish. for Italian-speakers among us,...
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Nov 25, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: birds, chiara valerio, count ugolino, economic path, gualandi tower, human being, hunger, interno, japanese, jim puckett, muda, nature, profits, thirty third canto, unease | Leave A Comment »
The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.