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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingK-Heads & K-Cramps”The K-hole has been described as an endless dimension to explore, and that’s exactly what it is. Space, time and language either have no meaning or become ridiculously distorted. It can seem as if you are travelling through time …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Humans have always migrated and travelled, without necessarily living nomadic lives. The nomadism now emerging is different from, and involves much more than, merely making journeys. A modern nomad is as likely to be a teenager in Oslo, Tokyo or subur…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Science is becoming ever more specialized; technology is increasingly a series of black boxes, impenetrable to but a few. Americans’ poor science literacy means that science and technology exist in a walled garden, a geek ghetto. We are a technocracy …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe Helsinki Complaints ChoirFinnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen collected the pet peeves and angst-ridden pleas of people in Helsinki and then composed this choral work around the list of complaints. Music composed by Esko G…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“[I]f there is anything more boring than minute detail about miscreants capitalizing on bugs in the system or terrorists whose “bombs,” at worst, shut down servers, I don’t know what it is. Even Second Life resident Anshe Chung, who parlayed her virtua…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“To say that I am a patient man would be an understatement. Seventeen years sat watching and waiting on the shores of Loch Ness for one decent sighting of the monster has to be considered dedication in anybody’s eyes. To me, however, it is more a dream…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingA strange thing the flu is. The eeriest aspect of it was when the fever ran over 39 degrees and I ceased dreaming. I never realized that to cook up dreams, an optimum temperature is required. I didn’t dream for several days, while I slept or was in bed…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“I see this tendency to ignore the social and political struggle in the works of wildly popular writers such as Eckhart Tolle, who has repackaged Vedanta for the masses. In Tolle’s recent book, A New Earth, he writes: “We are coming to the end not …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Jeremy Bailenson and Nick Yee of Stanford University had this and other classic studies in mind when they started wondering about the effect of being able to alter one’s appearance. They weren’t going to study wardrobe choices, however. Their quarry i…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Just before sleep, the brain “replays” recent events, producing dreamlike sensations and “crazy” thoughts, says Dr Stickgold. He suggests that this could explain the benefit of the power nap.This short period of “thought marshalling” rather than prolo…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Between snowflakes and leaves there are resemblances. At the sight of snow falling one thinks that one is seeing small flowers that are falling from the sky. Why is foliage dying in the autumn secretly golden, and why does one think of springtime flow…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingFor J.YouTube: Beach Boys God Only Knows (1966) [2.43 min]”The song broke new ground in many ways. It was one of the first pop songs to use the word ‘God’ in its title. The song was also far more technically sophisticated than anything the Beach Boys, …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Even a 90-minute nap can significantly improve our ability to master new motor skills and strengthen our memories of what we learn, researchers at the University of Haifa in Israel reported last month in Nature Neuroscience. “Napping is as effective a…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“In a series of studies, Laura A. King, a psychologist at the University of Missouri, has had people write down a description of their future as they imagined it before a life-altering event, like divorce. She has found that those who are able to talk …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingAnd when I found the door was locked,I pulled and pushed and knocked.And when I found the door was shut,I tried to turn the handle, but — ‘ There was a long pause.`Is that all?’ Alice timidly asked.`That’s all,’ said Humpty Dumpty. Good-bye.’AliceI…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingWe come from beyond,and we go from whence we came,courting the hands of time.We are bound by nothing so much as our imagination. Time Travelers, Surrational Images by Scott MutterTheAmericanMuseumofPhotography: Scott Mutter: A More Perfect WorldWikiped…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“The title Lonh, meaning far away or distant, comes from the old Provençal language, in which the text is sung. The text itself, a poem about love from afar, famous among scholars of mediaeval poetry, is attributed to the mediaeval troubadour Jaufré …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThis is the quintessential polder: green, moist, fragrant - though not all pleasant to urban noses perhaps - and hazy, with low horizons and, in this time of year, pale gray skies. Walking in a large party, I am the only one who leads a horse on a leas…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingShow Your Hope”There’s a rumour that there were 15 commandments. Anyway this image tells about something between Big Bang and Paradise. From Eve to catherine de Medici, from Caesar to Clinton, from Caligula to Hitler, from Maria Callas to Britney Spear…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingBanana SplitNear the royal palace a one-way shopping street called Prince’s Street meanders into The Hague’s center. At dawn the street is still a place of abandonment and lost thoughts. I wander through it in a mood of resigned happiness, a state, it …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingImagine PeaceVidey Island, Reykjavik, IcelandOctober 9, 2007
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingWe meet up at a crowded French sidewalk café, my mother and I. It is early in the day, and I’ve arrived earlier than her. When she comes walking up to me, she carries a bunch of fancy shopping bags in both hands. You should know that she isn’t a shopp…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“AMONG the many reasons to suspect that Europeans are more gifted than Americans at enjoying urban life is this: they eat outdoors because it’s pretty. We eat outdoors even though it’s not. By we I mean New Yorkers, and I specifically mean the New …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingCathedral (2x)I was watching a breathtaking spectacle of, literally, cosmic proportions. An giganormous space ship, shaped exactly like a cathedral tried to land on a red planet: therefor it must’ve been Mars, or maybe it was Pluto. This feat was never…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingI was a monkey and lived in a Zoo. Somehow I had entered the wrong premises - with lions and tigers. I had to jump the predators like a speedy Gonzales on poppers, even though they were all lying about listless and lazily in the warm sand. I jumped th…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe mood is grim - a black dog preying on my thoughts, restless, irritable, hungry. I should’ve had some hot chocolate with freshly whipped cream today. It is about the only thing that satisfies my black dog; which I think is an old, expelled circus po…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingCelebrating LuckAn Arcadian landscape in midsummer. I’m on a bike that flies just above the grass-is-high. Some broccoli-like shrubs float in the air, too. They are Linden-green and somehow seem, paradoxically, like humongous airborne illnesses. Yet I …
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