Richard Wagner

Parsifal

- Act 1- Prelude 1: Conducted by Baremboin



Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods):

Siegfried Funeral March - by Solti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkOiKy6sXfM

by Arthur Rackham

Leonardo Da Vinci

Drawing by Peter Paul Rubens in the Louvre, Paris, based on a lost painting by Leonardo.

Lena

Study of Figure for the Battle of Anghiari

Self-portrait

Pale Blue Dot: Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot from Human Synergy Project on Vimeo.

Sigmund Freud: The Unconscious Mind

Defence Mechanisms

Flower Duet - Lakmé - Léo Delibes

Venus by Botticelli (detail)




Natalie Dessay



Sous le dôme épais où le blanc jasmin/ À la rose s'assemble/ Sur la rive en fleurs riant au matin//

Doucement glissons de son flot charmant/ Suivons le courant fuyant/ Dans l'onde frémissante/ D'une main nonchalante/ Viens, gagnons le bord,/ Où la source dort et/ L'oiseau, l'oiseau chante.//

Sous le dôme épais où le blanc jasmin,/ Ah! descendons/ Ensemble!//

Sous le dôme épais où le blanc jasmin/ À la rose s'assemble/ Sur la rive en fleurs riant au matin/ Viens, descendons ensemble//

Doucement glissons de son flot charmant,/ Suivons le courant fuyant/ Dans l'onde frémissante/ D'une main nonchalante/ Viens, gagnons le bord/ Où la source dort et/ L'oiseau, l'oiseau chante.//

Sous le dôme épais où le blanc jasmin,/ Ah! descendons/ Ensemble!//

Charles Darwin: Evolution

Daniel Dennett interviewed by Richard Dawkins about evolution.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Lacrimosa. Requiem in D Minor (KV 626)




Lacrimosa dies illa
Qua resurget ex favilla
Judicandus homo reus.
Huic ergo parce, Deus:
Pie Jesu Domine,
Dona eis requiem. Amen.

Tearful will be that day
on which from the ashes will rise
the guilty man for judgment.
So have mercy, O Lord, on this man.
Compassionate Lord Jesus,
grant them rest. Amen.

Día de lágrimas aquél
en que resurja del polvo
para ser juzgado el hombre reo (culpable).
Perdónale pues, Dios.
Piadoso Jesús, Señor,
dales el descanso. Amén.

Rumi: Sufism

Only Breath



Read and translated by Coleman Barks

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu
Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion


or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up


from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,


am not an entity in this world or in the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any


origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.


I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,


first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.

The Golden Ratio = Number Phi

Sam Cooke: "A change is gonna come"

by Banksy





I was born by the river
In a little tent
Oh
And just like the river I been running ever since
It's been a long
A long time coming but I know a change gon' come
Oh
Yes it will

It's been too hard a living but I'm afraid to die
'Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky
It's been a long
A long time coming but I know a change gon' come
Oh
Yes it will

I go to the movie and I go downtown
Somebody keep telling me, "Don't hang around"
It's been a long
A long time coming but I know a change gon' come
Oh
Yes it will

Then I go to my brother and I say, "Brother help me please"
But he winds up knocking me back down on my knees
Oh

There've been times that I thought I couldn't last for long
Now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long
A long time coming but I know a change gon' come
Oh
Yes it will

Perfection= Simplicity, Nakedness

Have you ever thought, not only about the airplane but whatever man builds, that all of man's industrial efforts, all his computations and calculations, all the nights spent working over draughts and blueprints, invariably culminate in the production of a thing whose sole and guiding principle is the ultimate principle of simplicity?

It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elementary purity of the curve of the human breast or shoulder, there must be experimentation of several generations of craftsmen. In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Miles Davis

(c) Dennis Stock, Miles Davis performing at Birdland in New York. 1958

So What (Kind of Blue)

Will vs Desire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation


http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Motivation


http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation

Carl Sagan's Last Interview

min 3:50 "Science is more than a body of knowledge it's a way of thinking. A way of sceptically interrogating the Universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility.If we are not able to ask sceptical questions to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be sceptical of those in authority, then we are up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along" Carl Sagan

min 6:40 "Science is after the way the world really is, not about what makes us feel good" Carl Sagan

"(skepticism and wonder)... two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method."

The Peaceful Warrior Way

Pass The Bucket with Tony Alva from Off The Wall TV on Vimeo.

Considered to be one of the the most influential skateboarders of all time, Tony Alva, an original Z-Boy, hit a bottom 4 years ago battling drug addiction and alcoholism. There, at his lowest point, his reliance on successes and ego came into perspective for the first time. Tony's fight for sobriety and truth has recently lead him to a new perspective on life and direction moving forward. Dedicated to giving back Tony now see's passing the bucket as the only way out.

Solomon Burke: "Cry to Me"

"I have a dream..." Martin Luther King Jr.

Click on the image to read the famous speech.

Danny Torres House Remix



Hans zimmer ft MLK I have a dream. Remix by Heavens fear

Macaco: Puerto Presente (2009)

"El Son de la Vida"



"Mundo Roto"

Muchachito Bombo Infierno: "Sin Vigilancia"

Against Pessimism: Born of risen apes, not fallen angels

"But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses."
— Robert Ardrey

Vera Hall "Trouble so hard" (1937)

"Spirituals and work songs, rooted in both the slavery era and the West African societies ...provided cultural sustenance to African Americans in the midst of intense racial oppression" (http://historymatters.gmu.edu)

Afroamerican Prison song - Alan Lomax: "Lomax the Songhunter"

Terrence Malick

The Thin Red Line (1998)

Blade Runner

"Living in fear that's what is it to be an slave."

.........

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)

Trio op 100 in E-flat/mov.2(Schubert)

Sarabande (Handel)

Cat Power: The Greatest

on Jools Holland



My Blueberry Nights



Lost in Translation

Free Software and Copyright

Richard Stallman lecturing on free software and copyright laws

The actual lecture starts at 1:35s

A Tribute to Euler

by professor William Dunham


video: Clay Public Lecture

Actual lecture starting at 1min25.

The Known Universe

Dave Brody as narrator.

Size of the Universe

Malcolm X & Cee-lo

"The slave master put his last name on us to denote that we were his property. So that when you see a negro today whose name is Johnson, when you go back in history he was once, his grandfather or one of his forefathers was owned by a white man who was named Johnson".

Cee-lo "freestyle"

--In the beginning there was none,other than the original people, skin blackened from the sun.But somewhere along the line I broke the laws of the divineAnd a curse was placed on this soul of minePale became the color of my faceFeelin out of place amongst the people of my raceFilled with hate, I moved to a colder climateIntercourse with animals and raw flesh was ateFilth and disease, sub zero degreesWith satan's blood in my veins didn't freezeThis hatred that I have for you, it runs deeper than your skinI hate the one that put me in this position that im inUntil I realize the powers of evilAnything I have to do I willI still kill and destroyWent home to Africa looking for slaves to employBlue eyes, lies and a smile was my only decoySnatch you up from your RootsWhat good is a spear when I have this new invention that shootsBrought you here then deceived youI changed and rearranged everything that you have ever believed trueMy soul is cold as ice isI sold you for pricesYou were hung from trees for sacrificesBut through the blood sweat tears and painGod's spirit in yall still remainedWhich is actually more than I gotBut I have a mansion and a yachtThe plot is makin you think that it's about what its notWith precision, I tell you lies through televisionDistort your religion, wrap you up in materialismHow could you kill your own?Don't you see, you're learning to act just like meBut be more aware, that the truth is thereI tell you all the time but you niggas don't dareBut not all of you, there a few, that get into themselves and books on shelvesand learn something newand once they knowthey become so powerful,but many don't have the means nor the inspiration to goTo school and I know they hate itBut you can't get a decent job unless you're properly educatedBut educated about what?It seems to me that thus far, you've only learned about who we areIsn't that funny? You'll give a school all your moneyFor what you thank you need but it's never guaranteedThe misled mislead youYour faith has been broken, provoking you to do whatever will feed youWell ill front you some cooked cocaine, in plain plastic sacks,to sell to your fellow blacksAnd while the foundation of your people cracksYou tried to resistBut I wont stop until you niggas don't existYou niggas strong though, I'll give you thatBut you must stupid be as hell to be that strong and still be where you atAnd you still don't have a clueI am who I am because of niggas like youpeace

Nina Simone:

 "Ain't Got No...I've Got Life"

Original song composed by Galt MacDermot, James Rado & Gerome Ragni, for the musical HAIR in 1967.

We've got a World to discover.

"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"

I'm just a soul whose intentions are good.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_simone