Radiohead reveals key inspiration on new video:

“When I was 5 years old, ...

...  my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.””

– John Lennon

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Perspective Matters by The Visions of Kai | Now That's Some Kind of Magic

“Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.”

Stephen R. Covey

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

http://www.flickr.com/photos/syrl93/3807747636/in/set-72157621752139473/

http://www.kitelife.com/

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

"Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours."

—Hermann Hesse

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity

Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness,
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people,
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry,
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day,
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."

— Audrey Hepburn

Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn

Once upon a time, we awoke with a new question on our mind. We didn’t quite know what the buzz and bustle of a Brooklyn afternoon would bring. In search of nothing more than some fresh answers, we found a few dreams instead.

It’s a simple question and the answers can lead us anywhere. So go ahead, ask yourself…

YesYesNo

night lights from thesystemis on Vimeo.

http://yesyesno.com/night-lights

In this installation YesYesNo teamed up with The Church, Inside Out Productions and Electric Canvas to turn the Auckland Ferry Building into an interactive playground. Our job was to create an installation that would go beyond merely projection on buildings and allow viewers to become performers, by taking their body movements and amplifying them 5 stories tall.

We used 3 different types of interaction - body interaction on the two stages, hand interaction above a light table, and phone interaction with the tracking of waving phones. There were 6 scenes, cycled every hour for the public.

We had a great deal of fun making this, hope you enjoy it too.

Thanks to NZ Telecom and the Auckland City Council for supporting this, Peter Milne and all the Team, Simon Velvin and all at the Church, Mike Mizrahi, Marie Adams and all at Inside Out Productions, and Takayuki Ito.

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement on Vimeo

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

Let's go fly kite!

With tuppence for paper and strings,
You can have your own set of wings!
With your feet on the ground, you’re a bird in flight
With your fist holding tight
To the string of your kite!
Ohhhh, let’s go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere,
Up where the air is clear!
Oh, let’s go fly a kite!
When you send it flyin’ up there,
All at once you’re lighter than air!
You can dance on the breeze
Over alpses and trees
With your fist holdin’ tight
To the string of your kite!
Ohhhh, let’s go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let’s go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere,
Up where the air is clear!
Oh, let’s go fly a kite!

Revolution Kites & More

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Important Symbols on "The Kite Runner"

• Assef (symbolizes Amir's past and the event that caused everything to change...)
• Assef's Brass Knuckles (symbolizes fear)
• Breast (symbolizes brotherhood since Amir and Hassan were fed at the same breast)
• Dreams (symbolizes Amir and Hassan's friendship, and so on...)
• Ford Car (symbolizes Amir and Baba's changing relationship)
• Kite (symbolizes love, joy, happiness, friendship, peace, freedom, hope, youth, the culture of Afghanistan, Baba's attention to Amir, betrayal, union, the beginning and ending of the book, and bounding of Amir and Hassan)
• Hotel Lobby (symbolizes falseness of Western affluence and modernity)
• Pigeons (symbolize faithfulness and trust, flocking to the peace and safety offered by Islam)
• Pomegranate Tree (symbolizes Amir and Hassan's friendship)
• Rape (symbolizes loss of innocence - it leads Hassan and Amir to loose their childhood friendship, for Amir to create a world of guilt for himself, and Sohrab to loose his father and attempt suicide)
• Shahnamah (the stories about Rostan and Sohrab in this book symbolize the goodness and heroic qualities of Hassan and the characteristics to which Amir aspires)
• Slingshot (symbolizes devotion - in the beginning, Hassan used it to stand up to Assef in the alley, and then at the end, Hassan's son Sohrab used it to protect Amir against Assef after returning to Afghanistan)
• Snow (symbolizes innocence)
• Sohrab (symbolizes redemption to Amir, reincarnation of Hassan in the son, and the innocent children of Afghanistan)
• Television (symbolizes Western influence as well as fulfillment of a promise Amir made to Hassan)