The High - Albatross - High
… been listening to this song all day. Fits well with the calm, seaside mood I have lately. It is the liberation provided by your mind being able to grasp what it was running for, the peace of not running, the vastness it opens …
Rats on Cocaine
Since Cris brought up the subject of cocaine, here's a comical approach.. sort of
Kids, don't use drugs. Hard drugs at least, if you still want to go on the illegal side :)
The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
At some point I had this song on repeat. At some point I needed it (what I wanted) so much, it hurt. At some point I stopped wanting it and started living the moment and taking life as it is..
A Deep Breath
… During these times, I’ve done great work. I’ve taken teams from “We’re fucked” to “We made it”. Yeah, we had to cancel Christmas that one time and there was that other time I didn’t leave the building for three days straight, but it was worth it because there’s no more exhilarating place to hang than the edge of chaos. We’re wired to escape danger…
I discovered I work best when the sky is falling and the sh*t is about to hit the fan. It is as if I become another being, another entity: productive, detached and devoid of everything and focused on the task, tackling the issues one by one at a phenomenal rate and efficiency.
Michael Lopp's article takes the idea and concept of this efficiency and places it in the context of management, team building and all around great practice.
Added to the queue of things to implement.
— via stopdesign
Alarm
Sometimes I feel that way in the morning. I don't do mornings almost under no circumstances. And I have an average of 4 alarm clocks set at different times, just in case.
I loove to sleep and it seems I have a screwed up circadian rhythm (or at least I want to believe so)
Red Rabbit
A man lives alone in a small apartment. The little contact he had with other people has dropped to zero since the rabbit appeared. Every attempt to get the rabbit out of his apartment has failed and since he is not sure whether or not pets are allowed in the building, he does not let anybody enter his apartment..
— via swissmiss
Benjamin Zander: Classical music with shining eyes
Absolutely brilliant talk at TED about classical music and the difference in thought and approach of different matter.
Oh, and the "shopping" piece is extremely moving.
Flickermood 2.0
Flickermood2.0 by Sebastian Lange. This is what Juanma Teixidó of Ten Thousand Things calls a typographic orgy :-)
More-Honors 9 - Coolest Non-Student (aka Funky Professor Jackson)
Today is filled with a piece of news seemingly bigger than the Iran elections and protests. Michael Jackson, "the King of Pop" is dead.. Although not a big fan, here's a clip by the brilliant Agon 'Il Presidente' Maliqi for the More-Honors 9 show, featuring AUBG Prof. Cohen and his wonderful assistants — Lura and Esa.
The clip is a spoof music video in which Cohen
expresses his views on the tragic fate of the real Michael Jackson — "the child prodigy who became grotesque because he loved us and wanted to be loved".
The More-Honors Ceremony is an annual fun and creative awards show at the American University in Bulgaria that "celebrates" moronic achievements.