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  • A video: 10/3 = Infinity

    Detlef 1:46 am on July 8, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    If you divide 10 by 3 you encounter infinity. This video was inspired by Andrew Crane’s picture 0.333*.

    Mathematics meets spirituality.

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    • Henie 11:09 am on July 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      As always, this leaves my mind screaming for knowledge and my soul reaching to hug the moon! WOW!

    • CK 9:51 am on July 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      i really enjoyed that!

  • What would you write on that billboard?

    Detlef 12:34 am on July 5, 2009 | 5 Permalink | Reply
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    Marketing is not easy. That’s why it’s so expensive. Could you write anything on that billboard that would be worth the billboard and the paint? For me, that would be difficult.

    If we drop the assumption that the text on the billboard should be able to monetize: could we write something interesting or beautiful? Could we paint a picture up there?

    Or would the best solution be to tear the billboard down?

    I honestly don’t know.

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    • ilona 7:35 am on July 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      given that freedom…i am stumped…what can i say that would be worth being there?

    • Fragezeichner 1:03 am on July 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Nice idea. Finally, leaving it empty – or even better: take it away – would make this place a little nicer…

    • Henie 11:13 am on July 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I would simply write: SMILE!

    • Andrew Crane 12:17 am on July 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Maybe ~ ‘Out-breath…in-breath…’

  • The Janitor of Cosmos

    Detlef 2:59 am on June 28, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Filing a complaint at the janitor of cosmos might be hazardous.

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    • Jeb 8:27 pm on June 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      DC, you are a master of many mediums. I love it. A teacher yet again…

    • Henie 9:05 pm on June 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Amazingly creative you are! I love it! I second Jeb! :~) You are awesome!

  • Video: Your Life

    Detlef 10:30 pm on June 27, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Your life is not on a track like a train. It sails through the air like a bird.

    May you all sail with ease in the winds of the world!

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  • Letters and meaning

    Detlef 1:48 am on June 27, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    What’s the meaning of a letter or a number? We are so fixed on the meaning of writing that we tend to forget the lettering over it. Knowing the letters we forget about them. Not knowing them – we see them very clearly, as in this picture. We see the message “loves you”, which doesn’t make any “sense” as such – so we are able to concentrate on the appearance of the letters, on their “gestalt”:

    writing
    By Detlef.

    This photograph of a graffiti on a wall leaves room for the contemplator’s mind to resonate according to its own pattern – not necessarily the pattern of the meaning of letters or numbers:

    Graffiti_3
    By Detlef.

    The inverse function of this approach would be to try to find meaning in nature. These drops on a blade of grass could signify a punch-card code or a Morse alphabet:

    Wet Grass
    By Detlef.

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    • perpetualspiral 2:23 am on October 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I read in a science magazine about a system of writing that consisted of knots tied in reeds in particular patterns. I was reminded of thus by your thoughts on the drops of water. Perhaps the universe is trying to tell us something with these seemingly random patterns?

  • Sun of dignity in the cancer ward

    Detlef 2:59 am on June 26, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Reply
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    Sunset and Storm, Skiveren, North Sea
    By “Detlef.
    Sitting in the corridor of the cancer ward I watched a woman in a bathrobe arduously moving to the window with a walker. She remained there in silence looking at the sunset. Suddenly she straightened up in her walker and said: “Ah, the sun, the sun. The beautiful sun!”

    I was deeply moved to witness so much dignity.

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    • Jeb 9:17 am on June 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Perspective is a curious thing. I suppose learning it the easy way is preferred, but I’m finding it rarely works that way.

      • Detlef 10:01 am on June 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

        Jeb, what is easy, what is hard? Sometimes the “easy” life is the really hard one. When you know you won’t see the sun that often any more – you might look at it in a more appreciative way. I don’t know.

        What impressed me was how this woman, whose body was so beaten down, had such an amazingly stong spirit. Not concentrating on her misery, which was evident – but on the beauty in front of her.

        • ilona 11:13 pm on July 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply

          to bear witness to dignity in a hospital, where dignity is stripped from you, is unforgetable and life changing . i’ve seen it in children there who have the dignity of an old soul.

    • perpetualspiral 2:32 am on October 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Oh. My. That is a beautiful photo, truly! And a great story of spirit!

  • Nothing to say

    Detlef 4:50 am on June 25, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    I’m glad I found a way to embed my videos via YouTube. I hope all problems are solved now and so I’ll use YouTube as a publishing platform for videos henceforth. If I have anything to publish or to say.

    Although not having anything to say doesn’t necessarily mean you have to remain silent:

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    • Jeb 1:54 pm on June 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      You’re a better man than I, DC…I’ve not had much at all to say lately. And the result, for me, is silence. Thanks for the reminder that it’s not necessary to take things so seriously, and that I needn’t say something deep or remarkable every time I speak.

      • Detlef 10:15 pm on June 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

        Come on, no one is a better man in your shoes than you are – and in most other shoes, too ;) You groove. You could talk about the Z section of the Denver phonebook – would be grooving still.

  • The Next Level

    Detlef 12:16 am on June 25, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Rakshith Rao tweets the question wether or not to believe in a supreme being controlling our lives. I wonder whether such a being would know or even need the category “control”? What is there to control if you are a – or even THE – supreme being?
    Above The Clouds
    By Detlef.

    Ryan writes about us human beings “blending in and standing out”.  I like Ryans perspective because it makes me wonder:  would we really be standing out regarded from the level of a supreme being? We are the same biological concept as the zebra, the frog, the fly. Do we really act that differently? OK: we have technology, we use artefacts we transform our environment. So do beavers. Homo Sapiens is more successful in the sense that we transform our whole planet – in the brief moment of our blossoming as a species.

    Could we even recognize a superior being? Superior regarding what? Intelligence? Knowledge? Those are all human concepts that wouldn’t necessarily apply to a superior being. From the point of view of the chimpanzee Homo Sapiens is an inferior chimp. Man is a very inferior zebra, an inferior dog.  No wonder all other life forms seem to be inferior to us – we seem inferior to them, too.

    Homo Sapiens stands out in one regard: we can kill all chimpanzees, all zebras, all whales – if it pleases us. But if there would be a virus able to kill our species – would we regard that as a superior being?

    So there remains technological superiority, like in the science fiction novels. A  species able to travel to earth from their planet would necessarily be superior to Homo Sapiens. A species able to build a noiseless car that’s powered by sunlight.

    But “technology” is a very human concept, too. I believe – and I hope – the next level will have to do with the universal concepts of love and kindness.

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  • Ways to happiness are galore

    Detlef 9:51 am on June 23, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    A video about the many ways to happiness.

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  • Made by Homo Sapiens

    Detlef 10:43 pm on June 22, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
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    Sometimes I feel like the whole universe might be drawn into the abyss created by Homo Sapiens and our use of technology. – But then again I like to look at human artifacts as being part of creation. We never stand opposite to nature. We are always a part of it. We never step out of creation.

    Made by Man
    By Detlef.

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    • Ryan 8:40 am on June 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I like that image–it blends but doesn’t. And that’s how I feel about our relationship to nature… blending in but standing out just enough.

      • Detlef 10:00 pm on June 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply

        Hi Ryan,
        from a human perspective we are standing out. Do we stand out from the zebra perspective? Just one more predator. Do we stand out from the perspective of an alien higher intelligence? Would we be able to recognize a higher intelligence, “intelligence” being a human concept?

        Thank you for making me wonder :)

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