This is cool :: fifty people, one question

Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn from Crush + Lovely on Vimeo.

I saw this on shape+colour... loved it and wanted to share it with you all. I think I've viewed one of their previous videos on swissmiss or something before.



I'm excited that the folks behind the vids [ Crush+Lovely ] have created a standalone-goto-site for these vids called fiftypeopleonequestion.com. Its going into my bookmark folder.

Check it out.

A visitor to "Green Gables"...

My good friend Robert popped round to visit me today. He is my first "official" visitor (my folks and Roscoe don't count... they are family!!!) and I was glad he stopped by on his way to work.

We had a real deep blether about visiting folks... which was really inspiring.

The thing is... I have a degree of empathy just now for "house bound" people because I am technically "house bound". I can't do what I am accustomed to doing... and have a new routine based on Olly and how I feel.

I see visitation as being vital to any physical community for 2 reasons:

1. Connectivity - keeping in contact... keeping connected with the community.
2. Participation - keeping actively part of the community.

I think we only see visitation as the first part - we visit with folks to keep them connected with the physical community. We share what's going on... spend time together... enjoy a coffee or tea... we catch up. More importantly... we break the monotony and rhythm of the day. Trust me... there is only so much TV to watch and Internet to consume in any given day. A visit is a healthy distraction from all that and more. It breaks any sense of loneliness too.

Whats more though is the sense of participation. I no longer associate community with something solely "physical". I am part of online communities that consist of people I haven't ever met. The something beautiful podcast started as a conversation between two folks who have never physically met... and yet it is a thriving expression of community.

I see community as being about a shared something... about connectivity and about participation. Visitation allows people to participate in the community. Robert prayed with me for healing... this deeply humbled me but also show me a means in which I could participate. I could join Robert in prayer. Visitation will provide other opportunities for participation... the house bound individual is given the opportunity to contribute their thoughts and ideas... they are enabled to pass on their experience, their prophetic inspiration, and even their physical "stuff" if it may be used help others.

I think we miss this opportunity to enable participation. We see visitation as coffee and a catch up when it has the potential to be so much more. It has the potential to become a relationship of real meaning... one that we may lose out on because of other priorities being deemed to be more important.

Any thoughts?

My sincere thanks to Robert for his visit!


Picture posted with LifeCast... thoughts added later.

Loving... "Merriweather Post Pavillion" By ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

I'm loving this album and I not really able to explain why. Its a total all-encompassing-electracoustic-phsycadelicambient-headtrip that seeps into the soul. Its something that just gets better and better with each play.

It reminds me of Pet Sounds with a wee hint of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots... but these are just brief flavours within something so breathtakingly new and original.

Best I can do is to suggest you check it out... I love it and would go so far as to say this album gives me hope for music in 2009.

Screendump posted with LifeCast... thoughts added later.

5) star wars #4 -C3PO (27/365)

5) star wars #4 -C3PO (27/365), originally uploaded by Headphonaught.

In the same set as the Gamorean Guard... Picked this tee up for £5 at Urban Outfitters. It is one of my faves... Threepio rawks!!!

This is cool :: " Combat Recordings" pod on Current_TV

Admit it... you want the kit to make your own records too?!? I knew it. Nice.

This is cool :: " PowerPoint Blackbelts" pod from Current_TV

I must be starting to miss my work...

Tubby Tuesday :: Week 17...

I probably shouldn't have posted this... but I felt like the need for continuity was important. You would have thought that my gallbladder would have weighed *something*!?!

Its not like I'm snacking... apart from the odd wee chocolate. Its more about not doing anything... and I am so sick of not doing anything.

Picture posted with LifeCast... thoughts added later.

More wisdom from Bob...

Taken from News Roundup by Bob Lefsetz.

There is a real wisdom here... that can and should be taken and applied to pretty much all elements of our lives.

Bob talks about honesty, trust, value, and quality... as values essential in a relationship. In this case between the consumer and the producer... but I believe them to be values essential in all relationships.

When it comes to church and our expression of faith... I think Bob makes an extremely strong point.

/..The music business focuses on explosions. Arena shows are spectaculars. They’re like all those unusable features in Vista, or the craplets loaded on to a Dell machine. The purveyor says they’re added value, to the end user, they’re a headache../

We are all about seeking to be noticed... we demand attention (even though we don't deserve attention). We expect more and more... bigger and better... louder and grander. Thing is... this is all for us and not for the people we are seeking to attract! We are the producers who have loaded the "craplets" onto Dell machines... that no one has any use for.

When the music fades... when the event is over... what is left? The relationships we have built up. The sizzle has sizzles and the artifice has been pulled down... but the connections we have made... together... will last.

Truth is... I don't remember the sermon from the last time I gathered with my physical church... but I do remember the well-wishes. In fact I am surrounded by the relationships I have built up in the form of cards and the regular *ping* of tweets. I have been bowled over and seriously humbled by all I have received. This will encourage me to play a more significant role when I get back on my feet... because I know I am part of this greater whole.

So then... how should we seek to get attention? By deserving it... by living the values of trust, honesty, value and quality... by living authentic lives... by seeking to lift people up instead of weighing them down with the "craplets" that we add on.

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This is cool :: Death Cab For Cutie's "Open Windows" pod

Thought this was a great pod from Current_TV and Death Cab For Cutie. Been loving their 2008 album Narrow Stairs for a wee while now. Enjoy.

rest up a' while...

rest up a' while..., originally uploaded by Headphonaught.

I remember seeing this chair when I was walking in Greenwich Village... and just loved it.

Its for when a park bench is just not classy enough. All this sitting on my bum reminded me of it. Sweet memories... nearly 1 year ago.