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First of all I’m sorry for not discovering this movie earlier. This is the internet: a vast chaos in which we try to figure out some order. Anyways, … what you’re about to see (in case you haven’t yet) is- in my opinion-the most beautiful visual-poetry I have ever seen. It’s a documentary directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand talking about the irreversible damage made by humans to this planet. I’m not going to refer to the message it sends or to it’s editorial content, although those are really powerful also.

What amazed me was the way it combines the image with the music and the story. There are only one or two moments in the entire 1 hour and 22 minutes when the camera isn’t moving. The rest of the movie is moving continuously, everything is fluid, the pictures are taken from above as if you are God itself, witnessing the human show.

The music is by far highly emotional, primitive yet noble. Armand Amar, the composer, made several journeys to record with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Percussion Ensemble. He move into his score chants and instruments from several continents (Mongolia, Armenia, Iran, etc).

Despite it’s terrible truth, the movie is told like a dream story, like a majestic symphony. If you pause the movie at a random minute, for instance, you could very well use the still picture as a wallpaper or as a frame to remember.

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InRumor.com – that’s the website I’m talking about – published recently a rumor regarding Christina Aguilera’s car accident. They say that “despite the accident, Christina seemed to be in a cheery Christmas spirit, laughing and smiling while she waited for another car to take her home“. That’s a nice thing about Christina; she always takes the hard moments in her life with a smile on her face.

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so far …

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Creatives:

Andy DiLallo (Executive Creative Director)
Jay Benjamin (Executive Creative Director)
Gary Dawson (Creative)
Adrian Shapiro (Exec Agency Producer)
Michael Ritchie (Executive Producer)
Georgina Wilson (Producer)
Greig Fraser (DoP)
Leoni Willis for Animal Logic (Post production)
Alexandre de Franceschi for Guillotine (Editor)

Other Credits:

Production Designer: Steven Jones-Evans
Sound: Simon Kane for Song Zu
Muisc: Soundtree, UK
General Manager: Peter Fitzhardinge
Business Director: Tamara Klemich

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The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

6 minutes:

A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

10 minutes:

A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.

45 minutes:

The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.

1 hour:

He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

About Joshua BellJoshua Bell made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1985 with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. He has since performed with almost all of the world’s major orchestras and conductors. As well as the standard concerto repertoire, Bell has performed new works — Nicholas Maw’s violin concerto is dedicated to him, the recording of which won Bell a Grammy and gave the world premiere of the work in 1993. He performed the solo part on John Corigliano’s Oscar-winning soundtrack for the film The Red Violin and was also featured in Ladies in Lavender. Bell also made an appearance in the movie Music of the Heart, a story about the power of music, with other notable violinists.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written (“Chaconne” from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D Minor), with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars (a Gibson ex Huberman Strad handcrafted in 1731 by Antonio Stradivari). Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities.

The questions raised:

In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?
Do we stop to appreciate it?
Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made.

How many other things are we missing?

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Hardware and software made to work together.

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About Michael SandelMichael Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980. His books include Democracy’s Discontent, Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics, The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, and, most recently, Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? His writings have been translated into eleven foreign languages and have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, and the New York Times.

First I wanted to name this article “What you loose if you’re not a student at Harvard University”. Though it could be a right title because they have truly some of the greatest teachers in the world, I’ve decided to name it “to the point”.

This is a twelve part series in which Sandel challenges us with difficult moral dilemmas and asks our opinion about the right thing to do. He then asks us to examine our answers in the light of new scenarios. The results are often surprising, revealing that important moral questions are never black and white.

This course also addresses the hot topics of our day – affirmative action, same-sex marriage, patriotism and rights – and Sandel shows us that we can revisit familiar controversies with a fresh perspective.

Visual Things will show you once per week an episode of the Justice Course by Michael Sandel along with the invitation to comment and debate the issues presented.

What’s the right thing to do?

“I am very surprised and still can not believe it,” Mueller said in a statement released by her publisher in Germany, where she is widely renowned. “I can’t say anything more at the moment.”

Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, told The Associated Press this week that the secretive Swedish Academy had been too “eurocentric” in picking winners.His predecessor, Horace Engdahl, stirred up heated emotions across the Atlantic when he told the AP in 2008 that “Europe still is the center of the literary world” and the quality of U.S. writing was dragged down because authors were “too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture.”

After Mueller was announced, Englund told AP that “If you are European (it is) easier to relate to European literature. It’s the result of psychological bias that we really try to be aware of. It’s not the result of any program.”

Mueller, 56, made her debut in 1982 with a collection of short stories titled “Niederungen,” or “Nadirs,” depicting the harshness of life in a small, German-speaking village in Romania. It was promptly censored by the communist government. In 1984 an uncensored version was smuggled to Germany, where it was published and devoured by readers. That work was followed by “Oppressive Tango” in Romania but she was eventually prohibited from publishing inside her country for her criticism of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s rule and its feared secret police, the Securitate. “The Romanian national press was very critical of these works while, outside of Romania, the German press received them very positively,” the Academy said. Emilia Marta, a 55-year-old teacher who moved into the house in Romania’s Transylvania Banat region where Mueller was born, said the author has yet to return. But the mayor of the 1,600-person village of Nichtidorf said she is welcome anytime and would be greeted with honors. “If she will accept this, of course,” Ioan Mascovescu said.

Mueller, whose father served in the Waffen SS during World War II and whose mother spent five years in a Soviet work camp, is the third European to win the prize in a row and the 10th German, joining Guenter Grass in 1999 and Heinrich Boell in 1972.

Though Englund said the award was not timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism, that’s how it was perceived by many observers. “By giving the award to Herta Mueller, who grew up in a German-speaking minority in Romania, (the committee) has recognized an author who refuses to let the inhumane side of life under communism be forgotten,” said Michael Krueger, head of Mueller’s publisher Hanser Verlag.

Mueller emigrated to Germany with her husband in 1987, two years before Ceausescu was toppled from power amid the widening communist collapse across eastern Europe.

“This prize is the international recognition of the oppression of what happened in Romania and Eastern Europe,” said Romanian actor Ion Caramitru, an anti-communist who rode atop a tank to the television station in Bucharest during the 1989 revolt and now heads the country’s national theater.

Most of Mueller’s work is in German, but some works have been translated into English, French and Spanish, including “The Passport,” “The Land of Green Plums,” “Traveling on One Leg” and “The Appointment.”

Mueller’s latest novel, “Atemschaukel,” or “Swinging Breath” is up for this year’s German Book Prize, which will be announced Monday.

Mueller is the 12th woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Recent female winners include Austria’s Elfriede Jelinek in 2004 and British writer Doris Lessing in 2007.

It’s the first time four women have won Nobel Prizes in the same year. U.S.-based researchers Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider were among the medicine winners and the chemistry prize included Israel’s Ada Yonath.

The prize includes a 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) prize and will be handed out Dec. 10 in the Swedish capital.

Courtesy of 1x.com

The Dark Side Of The Moon – Part 2

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