Started a series of photoslideshows on Youtube, aiming for the cultivation of respect and love to nature. First is “Water supply”, shot in Middle European Locations in 2009.
Water supply
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Grumpy, shy, hidden, complicated, broken…
Amazing, the many conditions of wood, aren’t they? Like ourselves a bunch of living beings.
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Beeing ill – and really slow
In German public-law radio stations broadcasts about the “Slow Movement” (here called “Entschleunigung”) are common. I want to share my thoughts and some incomplete information on that movement in connection to a certain awareness of life.
There is a strong sense for contemplation and slowlynes in Germany (even if not as much as in Switzerland…). As elsewhere in Europe, people complain about the pressure and the accelaration since the beginning of the real globalisation after Cold War.
The author Michael Ende, father of “Momo” and the “Neverending Story” is a popular West German post war writer. “Momo” is an exponent and a protagonist of the Slow Movement. If you don’t know the book or the film, it’s worth the time.
The informational soil in which that book arose traces back to the economic miracle of the 1950′s. The new pecuniary power created the leisure, the products and the social wealth to let the nation spend lots of time round the romantic places in Italy, Greece, France and Spain. The recent historical trauma advantaged the affinity for ‘other realities’ (in a wide understanding). And this yearning found it’s characteristic in the transfiguration of ancient southern landscapes and the awareness of life. Before the two world wars the humanistic education in Germany aimed at the classical works canon. Lots of pupil spoke Latin fluidly. After the war, the classical tales remained but the (Apollonian) strictness was gone.
The Slow Movement in globalisation
Everything rational, effective, a the time, at your service – the human world after globalisation consists of products. Quality is the ultimate meassure. And this round-up-ready package seems to make a perfect sense. For in the moment you feel tired and fall out of this, you are told from within the system: that you are just tired and out of balance and that you should take a rest. The TV movie and your daily schedule settin’ you back on trail. It goes always this way, it’s a robust construction. The critics of the untamed globalisation argue amongst others with a natural limit for things like speed of innovation and flow of information. – The measure of all things has to be men.
Sickness helped me understand
When I was ill the last week, I discovered that such feverish days may guide you outside. Because I had to suspend every business apart from sleeping. Not even active thinking suits you well if you have to get rid of a infulenza. In sleep you think, that means, you clear the unsolved riddles – but always in a passive manner. So you wake up with a brand new idear in you head – granted as a gift of sleep. That is incompatible with the world of products, because there are no gifts without a price and a barter trade.
But there were and there are people who trust the powers of unconscious natural processing more than sole rationality. The Slow Movement is a good deal on their side.
So what do we learn for every day life? – Stay out of the global suck by trusting natural flow – live with the tides.
(want more? – see the links list)
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Unbenannt
Alles öffnet sich zur Weite /
Der enge Blick / Mein Atemzug und Gang /
Einladungsvoll verwandelt sich der Wald zu Hallen /
Geheimnis, Nachtwind, Mondgeruch und Vogelsang.
Der enge Blick / Mein Atemzug und Gang /
Einladungsvoll verwandelt sich der Wald zu Hallen /
Geheimnis, Nachtwind, Mondgeruch und Vogelsang.
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German ebook animosity
I am friend of paperless information exchange. I think that most germans familiar with e-mail refuse to read whole books at the screen however. The reason seems to me a traditional thing, but although I am German too, I cannot share the motivation of my fellow countrymen. I think they just haven’t thought about it yet. Why they should choose the electronical solution instead of the traditional. The relevant thing about a book, article or shopping list is not a material thing.
At present day, the animosity against the paperless information exchange is antiquated. We waste chances.
The ebook of present day is restricted by copyright and by the wrong industrial standards. The commercial ebook is bound to a certain platform, which means that you are not able to access it on readers of different providers. Plus you are not able to print it. Ebooks are only slightly cheaper than printed books.
That makes the ebook clearly less worth than a printed book. I can digitize printed pages and use the digital information freely for personal purposed.
As an iPad user, my only access to an ebook I own, because I bought it at libri.de, is via desktop computer. The DRM the Sony PSR 505 Reader. I didn’t recognize not the slightest word of warning about that, when I bought the product. It’s ironic: I bought “Empört euch” (“Outrage Yourselfs”), which is beyond the Top 10 in Germany at the time. – Political thoughts about the impositions the postmodern individual faces and accepts.
The given state is by far the worst. The consumers have a minimum, the industry a maximum of what is in for them.
Link-Tipp: http://derfisch.de/node/233
Last winter loads of snow
I’m not a friend of below zero degree. When I took my forest pictures, I waded 50 cm snow. Later had to argue with a skier about using the only possible path. You are not allowed to walk the ski trail, man!
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