Music, orchestras, open space & self organization

Michael Pannwitz shares on the Oslist this video during an interesting conversation started with this other one. Some hours after this comment, we got the trailer of the film "El sistema".



Fine! I would just liked it much more if the orchestra people would be wearing more beautiful clothes in the last seconds scene,... Even if they were naked :-)! I realize now thta I would indeed feel more at home with a more tribal, spontaneous, self-organized,... way lof enjoying and playing (with) music.

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How to cook your life

 93´ film. Spanish subtitles.  Overview+Synopsis, from . http://dogwoof.com/films/how-to-cook-your-life .Esker mila Joli!

Overview: 

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook (Edward Espe Brown ) author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.

Synopsis:

HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE is a cheerful documentary about the art of cooking and the art of cooking your life without burning it, putting too much salt in, or overcooking it.

Doris Dörrie and the cooking Zen priest Edward Espe Brown demonstrate that eating is more than just the intake of food. Cooking is a festival of senses, and an act of love and generosity. During the summer of 2006 Doris Dörrie and her crew filmed Edward Brown at his cooking classes at the Buddhist center Scheibbs in Austria and the two Californian Buddhist centers, the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Center in San Francisco, where he teaches people of all generations.

His recipes are simple but rich in taste and aroma. HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE refrains from using any commentary. The camera is like a participant of the cooking courses. It captures the flour-covered wooden table, the dough, the radishes, oranges and carrots. One learns to understand the anatomy and liveliness of yeast as cakes, pizza, and bread are baked. The camera joins the lectures of Edward Espe Brown, which are based on the ancient tradition of Zen master Dogen, the founder of the Soto Zen School. Already in 1283 Dogen wrote a cookbook in which he encourages his readers to discover Buddha in simple kitchen chores, like washing the rice or kneading dough.

Practical and entertaining, Edward Espe Brown knows how to translate those philosophical thoughts into today’s zeitgeist.

What is the meaning of cooking and eating for the community and the individual?

Is cooking a political act?

How does cooking reflect our attitude toward life and the world? 

Edward Espe Brown is a happy priest, but for sure no saint; to him, the whole world can be found in a watermelon. In his pots, rivers and mountains are cooked.

HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE can change your view on cooking, eating and your own life. You will never again cut your vegetables the way you used to.

Love,

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Starlings in Otmoor

And it happens everyday,...

Great video by dylanwinter1 recommended by Harrison Owen-2012-12-06 -on the Oslist:

"I think the most beautiful – and for your group, perhaps most powerful – is the flocking behavior of Starlings (birds). Check out www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE  If the birds can do it, so can you! Or something."

Data honetan kargatu da: 2007 ots 21

www.keepturningleft.co.uk for more bird films. The starlings are an astonishing thing to see - Near Oxford - England. This was filmed at an RSPB reserve called Otmoor. It is the most remarkable thing I have ever seen - and as a video camerman I have seen some pretty amazing things.

The music is from a companny called CSS Music. The track is "soaring with the sun" - .

I have just received this

Hi, Dylan. I got your contact information from your beautiful YouTube video published in February 2007.

Audubon Magazine published a wonderful article about starling flock behavior earlier this year: http://www.audubonmagazine.org/features0903/truenature.html
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My favorite segment from the article:

Like drivers on a freeway, starlings dont appear to mind having neighbors nearby on their sides—or above and below, for that matter—as long as they have open space ahead. That makes sense, since the presence of a clear path in the direction of travel minimizes the likelihood of collisions should the birds need to shift their course abruptly, as is likely when a falcon attacks. But whats really nifty about this spatial asymmetry is that the researchers have been able to use it to calculate the number of neighbors to which each starling pays close attention—a quantified elaboration of Pottss chorus line idea. By looking at correlations between the movements of neighboring starlings, they can show that each bird always pays attention to the same number of neighbors, whether they´re closer or farther away. How many neighbors is that? Six or seven, says Cavagna, who points out that starlings in flocks can almost always see many more nearby birds— but the number may be closely tied to birds cognitive ability.

The direction of the flock can be coordinated by each birds tracking six or seven other birds. Remarkable. This is a very different kind of cognitive skill.

if you want to know more about the science try this

http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Flocking

Dylan

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Thomas Herman opening space in Sweeden

 The Swedish Transport Administration hired Thomas Herrmann, Open Space Consulting to facilitate an Open Space Techonology meeting in January 2011. A diverse group worked together to find ways to enhance the effects of implementing Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). This film gives a good view of the whole process during the day from "opening of space" until convergence and action teams forming. English subtitles. (text from the YouTube site)

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Wosonos 2012

See here a 4´30´´ video shot and edited by Jeppe Lajer on his iphone. Great job! You can get a taste on the following video of what the World Open Space on Open Space was like in London 2012. Like the music? "The Sound of Swing (Oh Na Na)" (The Kenneth Bager Experience)



People liked this visual summary much and some of them expressed it on the oslist... Christy Lee-Engel, for example: "I have the odd sensation of nostalgia for a time and place I haven't been - except I guess that maybe all Open Space (and Time) is just one space and place and time, even though of course unique and never to be repeated ;-)"

We also had the pleassure to take part in it and in Lisa Heft´s previous training workshop. Feel free to ask for the materials generated in both (eleder-dot-aurtenetxe-at-gmail-dot-com).


And, thanks to Karl Royle, we can also see in the following 19´ video how Phelim McDermott opened the space in Stoke Newington. One can learn much watching other experienced colleagues...



Enjoy life!

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I´m new here (Gil Sott-Heron)

Yaari Pannwitz plays with the words of this great song to announce his coming back to the oslist... (Oct 2012)

[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/g/gil_scott_heron/im_new_here.html]

I did not become someone different
That I did not want to be
But I'm new here
Will you show me around

No matter how far wrong you've gone
You can always turn around

Met a woman in a bar
Told her I was hard to get to know
And near impossible to forget
She said I had an ego on me
The size of Texas

Well I'm new here and I forget
Does that mean big or small

No matter how far wrong you've gone You can always turnaround

And I'm shedding plates like a snake
And it may be crazy but I'm
The closest thing I have
To a voice of reason

Turnaround turnaround turnaround
And you may come full circle
And be new here again

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Moneyless Manifesto (Mark Boyle)

Mark Boyle's new book, The Moneyless Manifesto explores in-depth the social, personal, ecological and economic reasons why we may want to transition beyond money into a localised, gift-based economic model. In it he also provides a vast toolkit of ways you can thrive with little (or no) money.
For more information (and to read the book) go to: http://www.moneylessmanifesto.org.

Film produced by James Light the Gorilla Film Maker
http://www.jameslight.tv/
http://www.youtube.com/user/gorillafilmmakernow

Thank you to The Sustainability Center for there hospitality.
http://www.sustainability-centre.org

(Text above from the YouTube page).

Enjoy this great day!

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