This is a great example of someone doing it right. Wish I could have been in LA for this. First, if you don’t know what El Sistema is, watch the video. Okay, so now imagine how this concept, all the good will and constructive energy, could be expanded. And then the reporter said: “You are [...]
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Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema
Posted in HEH, MUSIC, PEEPS, POLITICS, tagged MUSIC on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Elusive Bottom
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, PEEPS, POLITICS on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Outside The Box‘s John Mauldin just published an insightful summary called The Elusive Bottom. Take the time to read the entire piece, here’s his bit on the new frugality that you might find sufficiently amusing to click over and read the entire piece: Frugality is going to set in As far as I know, there are [...]
EU Carbon Targets
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, HEH, POLITICS on January 23, 2008 | Comments Off
The European Union’s original carbon targets are history. The new EU climate-change scheme was revealed today, power companies and other emitters will have to ratchet up their use of renewable energy. Country by country these targets will be sorted into directives, industry will have to pay for the right to pollute. Carbon trading schemes (cap-and-trade) [...]
Mark Mothersbaugh Interview
Posted in HEH, MUSIC, PEEPS, POLITICS on January 12, 2008 | Comments Off
Enjoyed reading this Andreas Trolf interview with Mark Mothersbaugh. Trolf begins: We got to the Scion Installation gallery late in the afternoon after getting seriously lost in the maze of Southern California industrial backwaters. The gallery sits inconspicuously on a residential street in Culver City, itself another in the list of inconspicuous Los Angeles sub-divisions, [...]
No Cause For Concern
Posted in HEH, POLITICS, SECURITY & PRIVACY, WTF? on November 27, 2007 | Comments Off
Better than the usual tube announcements:
Movies This Week
Posted in FILM, HEH, MUSIC, POLITICS on October 5, 2007 | Comments Off
Am back in NYC and managed to hit the movies twice in the past week – a total luxury – and recommend both films highly. First, headed up to the Walter Reade for MacunaÃma. Brazilian Cinema Novo director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade completed this politically charged flick in 1968. The negative was recently restored (Andrade’s [...]
Kids And Democracy
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, HEH, PEEPS, POLITICS on January 7, 2007 | Comments Off
Over the holidays Martin Varsavsky posted an idea on his blog, one with potential to harness the power behind a lot of the buzzwords in a way that makes a lot of sense to me. Most of you know who Martin Varsavsky is, if not here’s a few links, he’s the guy with several several [...]
Errol Morris Does Abu Ghraib
Posted in FILM, HEH, POLITICS on November 8, 2006 | Comments Off
IMHO, Errol Morris’ Fog of War was profoundly insightful. I read today Morris is doing an Abu Ghraib doc. Am curious re what he has in mind for this production. Go rent Fog of War if you haven’t seen it, I’m pretty sure that despite the fact you read my extremely boring blog you will [...]
Campaigns Wikia
Posted in POLITICS on July 5, 2006 | Comments Off
Jimmy Wales is on to something interesting, he’s announced Campaigns Wikia: It’s time for politics to become more intelligent, and for democracy to really involve the people. Broadcast media tells you what to think and doesn’t let you get involved. It’s time to focus on what you need, what you care about, and the messages [...]
Science and Democracy
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, POLITICS, VIDEO DU JOUR on June 4, 2006 | Comments Off
Today is 4 June 2006, 17 years post the Tiananmen Square protests. The unknown rebel lives on in our collective mind, in the collective memory assembling at Youtube there’s a clip courtesy of a bit of basic science: From Wikipedia: Although the initial protests were made by students and intellectuals who believed that the Deng [...]
Inconvenient Truths
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, FILM, GEEKDOM, POLITICS on June 3, 2006 | Comments Off
Haven’t been posting much lately due to a busy calendar and I apologise for that. I did have time a few nights ago to hike over to the Sunshine to finally see Davis Guggenheim‘s An Inconvenient Truth, which I was going to review here the following morning. Needless to say, the free time to scribble [...]
As you know, the Tribeca Film Festival is in full swing. I’ve had a chance to catch a few screenings, the one I hit this afternoon is a must see: Who Killed The Electric Car Chris Paine was there for a Q&A afterwards. The film is not only a great story it’s a story well [...]
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