“Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand? And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth. The same rule holds for us now, of course; we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome…”
Peace to your pieces.
Amsterdam early 2005.
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Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein
Unknowingly prisoners of [our] own egotism, [we] feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.
PARK(ing)
An investigation into reprogramming a typical unit of private vehicular space by leasing a metered parking spot for public recreational activity.
growabrain linked to my framed photoset on the 15th. I always like to return the favour.
I’ve Flickr’d our 2004 photos from Portugal, Germany, and the Czech Republic. I also added a few photos to the Spanish photoset.
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We are animals.
We are energy.
We are capable of much more.
A Video Reminder:
Warning; what you are about to see may kick-start your sense of wonder.
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Le Parkour is a physical discipline of French origin, in which participants attempt to pass obstacles in a smooth and rapid manner.
Parkour is said to be L’art du Deplacement, consisting of uninterrupted forward motion over, under, around and through obstacles (both man-made and natural) in one’s environment. Such movement may come in the form of running, jumping, climbing and other more complicated techniques. The goal of the practice of parkour is to be able to adapt one’s movement to any given situation so that any obstacle can be overcome with the human body’s abilities.
Flipping, and other acrobatics, isn’t part of pure Parkour. We’ll call it FreeStyle Parkour.
More (FreeStyle) Parkour videos:
If your ready to bounce off buildings, or to spin spin spin:
Or, you can remain in front of your computer, and play this Parkour video game from the CBC.
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Some more links:
