The Endless Bummer: Today's Thought

Monday, January 22, 2018

Today's Thought : Naomi Kazama!

And if you don't speak Japanese... turn down the sound on this one, click here, turn up the sound of that one, and switch back over!

Anyhow, Naomi is one great special dedicated artist type and is due a little extra love. This video was found here (Chrome will translate the page for you.)

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Today's Thought

Will "Slightly Sad Surf Porn" be the next thing to hit surf filmmaking? I hope so. Rebecca Olive threw this one our way via her blog, and it is so engaging and perfect in many ways. The next entry into the poetic-realism school of surf filmmaking. What a beauty. Sit down, cut that raw cranberry juice with some seltzer and set aside ten quiet minutes to engage in thoughtfulness, perspective and life.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Todays Thought : 42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller

The wonders do not cease. Available here.

"In January 1975, Fuller sat down to deliver the twelve lectures that make up Everything I Know, all captured on video and enhanced with the most exciting bluescreen technology of the day. Props and background graphics illustrate the many concepts he visits and revisits, which include, according to the Buckminster Fuller Institute, “all of Fuller’s major inventions and discoveries,” “his own personal history in the context of the history of science and industrialization,” and no narrower a range of subjects than “architecture, design, philosophy, education, mathematics, geometry, cartography, economics, history, structure, industry, housing and engineering.” In his time as a passenger on what he called Spaceship Earth, Fuller realized that human progress need not separate the “natural” from the “unnatural”: “When people say something is natural,” he explains in the first lecture, “‘natural’ is the way they found it when they checked into the picture.” In these 42 hours, you’ll learn all about how he arrived at this observation — and all the interesting work that resulted from it." - Open Culture

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Today's Thought

It has now been half a month since I've been in the water. I'm pretty sure Antonio hasn't fared much better as I've not gotten the obligatory gloating and/or admonishing text message. This will all change, I'm pretty sure anyhow, with the imminent holiday trip to North County where the warm sun shines, hear the wind blown chimes...