Street art

We made a fire and a braai on sunday to celebrate the coming spring, and while i busied myself with the cooking and enjoyed the company of our friends, i had a little girl sitting very quietly with her chalk on the paving. Humble beginnings, but i really do like her style, and really enjoy watching her be free and creative.

Shameless begging

Everybody else does it (sorta) so now it's my turn.

I've highlighted Theo Jansen's "Strandbeeste" on this blog before, and i watch the videos over and over, truly remarkable. And then i find this:

http://webshop.strandbeest.com/index.php?route=common/home

 

If there is ever another model that i build (i made many as a kid) i want it to be one of these. There is nothing else that would be even remotely as satisfying on my wall.

I look really good on my knees hey ;-)

Life is a question ...

Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play… I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
~
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Consciousness means living with a witness; unconsciousness means living without a witness. When you are walking on the road, you can walk consciously — that’s what Buddha says one should do — you are alert, deep down you are aware that you are walking; you are conscious of each movement. You are conscious of the birds singing in the trees, the early morning sun coming through the trees, the rays touching you, the warmth, the fresh air, the fragrance of newly opening flowers. A dog starts barking, a train passes by, you are breathing… you are watching everything. You are not excluding anything out of your alertness; you are taking everything in. The breath goes in, the breath goes out… you are watching everything that is happening.
 ~
Osho

Thank you nemebatocabe.tumblr

Eat these words slowly, and chew them well. Let the flavour linger and fill your hunger. Drink in deep the fresh dew mist in the air, and smell the sweetness of spring. Then time for a slow walk perhaps, alongside a river.

Biker RANT

I typed stuff and in a fit of sanity deleted it. Let me try again.

FUCK YOU think bike
FUCK YOU jmpd

And if you're some retarded car driver who thinks riding to work is a good idea and you should try it too, DON'T. Stay in your fucking car please.

My motivations were twofold,

1) to educate those who were ignorant
2) to do something before jmpd started trolling that stretch

Thanks hey. Ignorance wins again.

Life

Click on it so it's full page, leaves a really good feeling.

Death Self, 1977

Marina Abramovic and Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen)

This performance consisted of the two artists seated in front of each other, connected at the mouth. They took in each other’s breaths until all of their available oxygen had been used up. The performance lasted only 17 minutes, resulting in both artists collapsing unconscious to the floor, having filled their lungs with carbon dioxide. This personal piece explored the idea of an individual’s ability to absorb the life of another person, exchanging and destroying it.

Wikipedia

Welcome Mr Armstrong

No words needed

Flying bikes

Not as pretty as the Malloy Hoverbike, but fully functional, which is better !

www.livescience.com

The big problem is "rollover" which is a self evident problem, they claim to have made a simple advance which helps prevent that, simple in the sense of not overly electronic. This is great because it means that if it can work conceptually, any tech added on will only improve a good idea, and not replace it.

For the children

Maybe this is appropriate:

Peace and love

Weep

IOL


IOL


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I can't breathe ... i can't feel ... can't even think about this.



i had quotes from the stories here, i had to delete it.

Lonmin

Why is the rape of rock and men easier to achieve than say, small scale farming?

Those miners don't need that 4000 rand per month. They need food, transport, shelter, education, and a means of production, by which they can fill up their days and provide extra for themselves and their families.

But it's actually easier to die for a salary than to live with your family.

Bowie cigarettes

*sigh* 

http://bowiescigarette.tumblr.com/

Ladybird books

When i received this last night, the first thing my mind came up with was the smell of ladybird books in the library at Timour Hall Primary, where i later became a library helper. That smell and the excitement inside when a new book was opened to explore ... always new stories, so many stories, i marveled even then.

Thank you K

Growing Gold

“Without weed, we would be starving,”

“If you grow corn or cabbages, the baboons steal them,”

“I put the seeds in the ground, watered them, and it grew,” she said of her first crop. “I was able to feed my children.”

“Weeds are very bad for weed,”

A good harvest can yield as much as 25 pounds of marijuana. But they sell to middlemen who come through the villages at harvest time, and have little bargaining power. Most make less than $400 per crop.

School fees for her two remaining grandchildren at home would be nearly $400 next school year, she said, and she had no other way to earn the money.

“The men come from South Africa to buy, but they cheat us,” Ms. Nkosi said. “What can we do? If you sit with it the police can come and arrest you.”

New York Times

Supercop needs help

A note from Andre Snyman, the founder of eblockwatch

Do you remember our Super Cop Stroppie Groblerlaar? The guy who helped look for Leigh Matthews, The guy who caught the person who murdered the girl from Britz, the guy who got into his own car and drove to Durban to find a missing child. The guy who made us build a house for an old lady in Soweto. Well now he needs us.

This guy Stroppie is the most amazing human being. In the ten years that I have known him, he has done so much to keep many South Africans safe. Take a look at our Facebook page see what I mean. Now he needs our help.

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/groups/333412310083983/permalink/333847493373798/?notif_t=like

EBlockwatch members were shocked to learn of the misfortune of Super Cop Stroppie who lost his house and belongings in a fire recently. Several members have offered their assistance by donating items and money. We are still in need of help with the following and members who can assist must please advise us how they can assist.
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Go see, maybe you know of a way to help.

It is estimated that it will take about six months for the house to be rebuild. Please advise us on ebwinformation@mweb.co.za should you be able to assist in any way.

Hesse-ism

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” — Herman Hesse

Sea blue

TT

I had embedded the video, but it's playing automatically each time i refresh, which is annoying, i thing you'd agree. So please click the link, and enjoy something that really got my pulse racing.


Axis of Oversteer

The warmongers