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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Man in the black long coat (Bob Dylan)

Man in the Long Black Coat Illustrated from Andrew Colunga on Vimeo.

Great song recommended by a grat man: David Hoyos!

Merzi mila!

@Eleder_BuM

Friday, August 10, 2012

FLOW CHART

Inidea sent a short message to introduce this to the CREA-CPS distribution list. Quite proper for the Flow&Show blog. Isn´t it?

Enjoy life :-)!

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Friday, June 22, 2012

The American Dream & theories. Who knows?

The video with Spanish subtitles here.

I received the film link from a good friend and, after viewing its start and appearence I was just going to post it with no comments.

Then, as the subject is quite far from me I started inquiring a bit,... Finally I´m publishing it after some big doubts, specially to help us think about the difficulty to really know...
Take a look to the lines below to know why I say it...

You can listen to an interview with its director, Tad Lumpkin here.
Here a comment on the film on RationalWiki -with my blackening some words-:

At first glance, the movie seems to explain rather accurately what concepts such as money and debt mean. At around half way through the film however, it deteriorates into a vast conspiracy theory, claiming, among other things, that the Rothschild family (called "Red-Shields" in the film) are controlling the Federal Reserve and that they were responsible for the Assassination of JFK. The film's official website contains a list of "Good Guys" who, according to the film's creators, try to fight the evil Rotschilds from taking over the world. The website Drudge Report and Alex Jones are listed among them. Jones himself has given a positive review of the film.[1]

Some comments by Tad Lumpkin -with my blackening some words- answering to people´s comments to the film on Ron Paul´s page (Wikipedia on Ron Paul. Take a look to Newsletters controversy.)

I took a look at the thread. First off, what people need to understand is that we made this as a way to start a conversation and explain the basics of the economic, banking and monetary system we have. The point is to expose that it is inherently a scam. The film is meant to drive people who are currently unengaged in this issue to become engaged. People within the movement need to look at this not as a competitor or replacement to a longer more in depth examination of the exact mechanics but as a gateway to it.
Think of this film more in the vein of South Park. Its a mix of exposing an issue using fact and storytelling with our commentary obviously laid in there.
On specific issues, like the Thomas Jefferson quote:
That quote is attributed to him over and over again and maybe he didn't say it but most people right or wrong believe he did. Regardless of the reality, it conveys the point we wanted to make. Thomas Jefferson spoke about all the issues and ideas covered in that quote many many times in 100% verifiable historical documents. The rivalry of ideas with Alexander Hamilton is one of the most famous political rivalries in American history. There isn't anything in that quote that is contradictory to the often expressed beliefs that Jefferson espoused. Its not like that quote is counter what he believed. Again, we aren't making a historical book of quotes, we are made a narrative cartoon. Whether the words were the exact way he said those ideas or not it doesn't change anything.
Its the same thing on "I killed the bank' being said by Andrew Jackson" that potentially could be lore, but again its totally consistent to who he was and what he did. If he didn't say it on his death bed, he should have and again, It doesn't change anything. We aren't trying to trick people, we are trying to motivate them to research the ideas in the film and get involved.
On the 10th century scene with the candy man. The point of that was to show the evolution from barter to currency and the move from coinage to paper and how that then provided the opportunity for fractional reserve banking and unintended consequences. The prices went up because the bank, a private bank increased the money supply because of the switch from a full reserve system to a fractional reserve system.
Beyond that, I'll make it clear for the record that we are not endorsing violence. Our website has more information on things people can go do to get involved. What we are endorsing is people to do something, question the system, take these people to task and be willing to be a patriot by risking something to refresh the tree of liberty. Protest, organizing and civil disobedience via many methods is hopefully sufficient to change things. We are not being polite about our point of view. Part of our style is an edgy satire that calls it likes it sees it. We were tame compared to something like South Park that is wildly popular.
Same on the conspiracy theory comment. Again "Its an animated satire" Its not a documentary. There are tons of very dry and straight forward presentations of these ideas, this is something different. Not in conflict with those but again as a gateway.
The biggest thing that people in the liberty movement need to understand is that everyone isn't like them and doesn't respond to the same generally academic methodology. Remember our current President won on what? not a real plan... He won on "hope and change". You have to market these ideas to people.This movement has by far the most superior concepts but it lacks the wide spread acknowledgment that having the best ideas is not enough. We need to present these in a way that can be summarized in words like 'hope and change", not just in 300 page Austrian economics book. If we only rely on that, we'll never hit critical mass to really change things back to a liberty based philosophy.
I have shown this film to lots of people who are everything but a libertarian oriented person and they love it and they get it.
The Pepsi Challenge I'll put forth to everyone, is to show this film to their friends and family that they have been trying to get to read Road to Serfdom for the last 10 years and see what happens. One, you can get most everyone to sit down and watch it because its short and easy to watch. Two, take a look at the impact rate. It is far higher because of the simplicity.
That is my diatribe. Hope that addresses some of the concerns.
best
Tad

Who really knows?

Best,

Eleder BuM (Bilbao underground Mayor :)
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

DRAW YOUR FUTURE, talk by Patti Dobrowolski

A nationally acclaimed comic performer, high-performance business consultant, speaker, strategic illustrator and newly minted author, Patti Dobrowolski spends her time focused on new neuroscience discoveries that leverage the power of imagination and visuals to actualize a vision of the future. Dobrowolski works with teams and leaders of Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits around the world to inspire them to create new and different strategies while literally capturing the organization's vision in a 4' x 8' illustration.

Briefing:

Maya Angelou: "a solitary fantasy can transform a million realities."

What dream or vision do you want to turn into reality?

I just know there´s more. You know it because you feel it. You lie awake at night. you talk about your dreams,... but more often than not, you continue with the same behaviour... You ask yourself: "How can I maek it happen?"

Research shows: just 1/10 success to change, even if facing a life threatening illness.

But you can lead the life you desire.Three steps

See it ---> Draw it as compelling as possible

Believe it

Act on it: graciously ask and train your brain to actually execute your vision.

Examples of pictures´power
Example of company vision (graphic facilitation): Roche pharmaq

Draw your current state and your desired new reality. Joe´s example.

Just three steps can transform one reality: yours.

Enjoy life!

Eleder BuM31 Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity

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www.bilbohiria.com/gaika/berbaz (radio interviews)

Thursday, September 29, 2011

SUNNI BROWN: "Doodlers, unite!"

Great Sunni Brown visited us in Bilbao these days to share her knowledge, experience and passion in a Gamestorming workshop. Now we can watch also this video in which she accurately and briefly makes us understand the need of Doodling. Smart woman, smart job! Thanks so much, Sunni!

Eleder BuM31 Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

GAMESTORMING+DOODLING WORKSHOP (SUNNI BROWN). BILBAO: 22+23 Spt

Some months ago we were inspired with taking Sunni Brown to Bilbao to share a bit of her knowledge and her originality. Next week it´s coming true: on 22nd + 23th September she´ll be offering a 2 day workshop in Bilbao (just this opportunity in South Europe)...

DESCRIPTION: Gamestorming your Workplace (A.k.a., How to Design and Run a Meeting using Words AND Pictures)

Since the vast majority of us have to either plan or attend meetings, why not become a Jedi at designing and running them? The simple but revolutionary techniques of visual thinking and gamestorming assure that your meeting not only doesn’t stink, but that you make the best use of everyone’s time and dramatically shorten the length of time in which you do it. The value of visual thinking and participatory design with a group is enormous and the benefits include...

Using a simple, shared visual language to increase understanding and information retention;
Applying improvisational discovery to keep participants engaged;
Mapping the big picture, solving problems and innovating as a team;
Creating visual meeting artifacts to drive decisions forward.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist or an artist of any caliber to learn how to design and lead better meetings. In this day-long workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of visual language, how to illuminate complexities by mapping the big picture and how to use improvisation and games to innovate and solve real problems. At the end of the workshop you’ll feel more confident about using visualization in meetings and you’ll recognize the power of doing so. So let the games begin!

OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this workshop, learners will be able to:

Recognize when to have a meeting (and when not to);
Design meeting agendas that move a group to a desired outcome;
Use games to support innovation and creative problem-solving;
Leverage techniques that lead to co-creation and team solutions;
Lead meetings, workshops, and group sessions comfortably using visual thinking and basic office supplies.
...

WHO IS @Sunnibrown?

.. a business owner, creative director, speaker and co-author of one of Amazon’s Top 100 Business Books titled GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers. She’s best known for her large-scale live content visualizations, and she is also the leader of The Doodle Revolution – a growing effort to debunk the myth that doodling is a distraction.
Sunni’s work was recently featured on the Boing Boing, BBC, CNN, The Washington Post, Fast Company (coming in at #56 on the 100 Most Creative People in Business List and #5 on the 10 Most Creative People on Twitter list),...

+ INFO on Sunni Brown; VIDEOS: Gamestorming +The Doodle Revolution
and lots in the web,...

Language:
Sunni Brown will be speaking English and organization will be helping with Basque and Spanish

When? September 22nd + 23r, 2011
Where? in EUTOKIA (Bilbao)

Registrations: info@eutokia.org

Time: 09:00-14:00 eta 16:00-18:00 (14 hours)
Price: 250,00€ (professionals, unemployed, sutdents,...) – 400,00€ (organizations)

Exclusice Workshop in South Europe,

take profit and spread the word!

Eleder BuM31 Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity

www.burumapak.blogspot.com (eus) @Eleder_BuM (Twitter)
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM

Eleder BuM31 Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Sormena

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Thursday, January 6, 2011

SUNNI BROWN (Gamestorming): Visual Thinking and Facilitation. Course(s) in Bilbao (and near) soon

Do you want to collaborate in the organization of this great meet-up?

Sunni Brown, author of Gamestorming will be spending some months in Paris and we are organizaing a workshop on her expertise. Some thoughts regarding it...

1. A 4 morning or evening course could be good. Incubating time in between meet-ups is usually helpful. Maybe Tu, Th, Fr, Sa ; maybe better Fr-eve, Sa, Su, Th or so,... we'll see. We could arrange the accomodations in homes of the organizing time, quite sure.

2. First it'll be to find some support and people interested in it. It's my first time in this kind of mediation business... As Sunni says, where there is a will there is a way. Good!

3. Potential attendees we´re thinking about...

Consultants
Facilitators

People in these fields:

Creativity
Innovation
Media & Publishing
Education
Art (people looking for other business opportunities)
...

Are we right? Any other suggestions?

4. We asked Sunni a short note on the kind of workshop she would offer. Any other suggestions from anyone reading this post will also be so welcome, sure!

5. Collaboration: we could ourselves run a part of the workshop regarding mind mapping (we have some expertise in it). We could also translate parts, but I think it best having it for English speaking/understanding people -not so usual here-. It would be a pity losing Sunni´s humour and the momentum through translations,...

We´ll keep on with this dream-idea and let you know if sth flourishes...

Enjoy life :-)!

Eleder BM31_Bilbao

http://flowandshow.blogspot.com

http://burumapak.blogspot.com

@Eleder_BM (+0034) 638.733.223

eleder.aurtenetxe@gmail.com

Thursday, December 9, 2010

TRIP TO NEW YORK: OS Learning Experience and NYLBAO project

Harrison Owen wrote recently to the OSLIST to announce an OS learning session in NY:

Karen Davis, Ralph Copleman and Harrison Owen will be hosting an OS Learning Experience in New York between January the 14th and the 17th. It will be a good place to learn about Open Space, but that is just the beginning, the appetizer so to speak. The Main Course takes us into the world of application – and more specifically – How to enable Peace and High Performance for ourselves and our organizations. For all the details check out here...

I´m a long follower and starting facilitator of Open Space facilitator and after several events, the most recent of which I informed about here, and having taken part in Wosonos Berlin 2010, it´s a good moment for me for learning from the most experienced. So I bought my plane tickets and reserved a place to sleep (here, about a mile from the venue, in International House).

Last news (Jan 3): Today I contacted through Sunni Brown with New York City VizThink people and we are planning to gather in one of their regular meet-ups, good news, really :-)!

I plan staying in NY January 11-18 and we´ll have some free days before the OS Learning Experience.As it´ll be my first time in the US and I´d like to know a bit about NYC through local people. I thought to try something that ensembles my passions and the people of the place. It could be an experiment called "NYC: passion, people and places".

It is not so long since I met my friend Greg Rivera in Bilbao and after having quite quickly felt him as a near-minded guy, we started to kid about NYLBAO project in our playful minds. A link between New York, the big and so admired city and Bilbao, our small city in South Europe through experiments involving community, education, art and the likes. Is fate making it real? We just enjoy keeping dreaming and playing...

Now I´d like you to think about any connections you have to NYC and involve you in this game: "NYC: passion, people and places". I love knowing new places and I love meeting new people and chatting and mainly listening to people´s stories (specially in my no so fluent English ;-).

So, I´m looking for some people who will be in NYC between January 11-18 and would like to meet just to conversate for a while in a place they love in NYC... Simple plan that, as OS itself, can open interesting and healing space for great emergence.

Be prepared to get surprised ;-)!

Those are some of the subjects I´m most interested in: work that matters/unjobbing; Open Space (sure!) and its apliccation to life; creativity; simple living; humour; community art; urban permaculture; city byking.... but I like overall listening to people that talk from their heart, about their hot topics/subects...

This trip to NYC invites me also to try again some singing in the street, in a similar way as we did in Bilbao some months ago. Want to watch the v-card we made?

Can you identify friends or acquaintances in NYC who would probably enjoy a long talk with someone sharing interests? If so, let me know, please, and let´s open a bit of space...

Enjoy life,

Eleder

BM31_Bilbao: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity

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