: the most essential thing in the world to any individual is to understand himself. The next is to understand the other fellow.

Old dog

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: to support someone without agreeing with their cause.

Pandas!!

: success comes before work in the dictionary.. But that may be the only place.

: it's ok to fall but it's not ok to stay there...

: eating for pleasure, eating for pain

: when pride is at stake, the provocation is all in ones own court.

: Dance first. Think later.

: "those who say it can't be done should stay out of the way of those making it happen."

Sam B, 32 ~ America's Got Talent 2011, New York Auditions

: The flute was invented before the wheel!

: most of us spend most of our lives in environments built specifically for our species.

: the bass word of healthy being heal.

Legs on the wall

Symptoms

: "reflect on everything, regret nothing."

cool mouse

: "when you are doing something different, you are alone a lot of the time."

: "Being different is often to appear to reject being with everyone else, but it isn't rejecting their way - it's looking for your own." Sèbastien Foucan

: "spending time like it's counterfeit"

: perfection doesn't exist. The only way is to find harmony: harmony with ones self and ones environment.

: energy is contagious.

: It's not about having done, it's about doing and it must ultimately satisfy you because there is no guarantee that it will matter to anyone else.

: "they longed for nothing more than to be proudly and unimaginatively derivative."

: But new traditions can be made if the old ones aren’t working

: "It is part of our vanity as humans that we tend to think of evolution as a process that, in effect, was programmed to produce us."

: if the doers didn't do, the talkers would have nothing to talk about.

: "the conscious mind is achieved by persons and other animals thanks to their dynamic exchange with the world around them."

star trek from waveforms

: "follow your instincts, not other people" - Sèbastien Foucan

Wonder

: "It is one of the known eternal truths of comic creation that a good idea has a dozen parents while a duff one remains an orphan." Stephen Fry

The Beatles had it first

: "With time I've realized that fear is just my brain telling me that I have to be careful, and no more than that. Once I've calmed down, I can go on to achieve what I was afraid even to try."

: equality vs indifference

Commonwealth

: "It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverer.”

: Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plant thought to exist on earth, just eleven - corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats - account for 93 per cent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.

: when we all think alike, no one thinks very much. - Einstein.

: there are three stages in scientific discovery: first, people deny that it is true; then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

: "it is thrilling to look at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before."

Eat the rich

: in situations where the only point of contention is personal preference, arguments can quickly turn into absurdist plays.

: "no less interesting, or odd, just more explicable."

Pie

: data classification has been replaced by pattern recognition.

: ‘A Man Is Not Old Until Regrets Take The Place Of Dreams’

: with an enthusiasm that is more endearing than fathomable.

: "Sea level, incidentally, is an almost entirely notional concept. Seas are not level at all."

German Shepard

: it was, as Eugene Shoemaker noted, “against their scientific religion.”

: as Lederman put it: “There is a deep feeling that the picture is not beautiful.”

: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Albert Einstein

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Albert Einstein

Goodbye Paris. Hello Berlin!

: energy is liberated matter; matter is energy waiting to happen.

: knowledge of the parts and wisdom of the whole.

6 weeks of dance touring

and tonight is our last night..

: could be a pseudonym.

: being kind to people on my way up, looking forward to meeting them on my way back down.

: the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals.. with an exuberant embrace of the present moment! -- Tom Morris

: caring about vs caring for..

It's cool,

i'm just a panda

: we keep our insignificant blemishes so that we may blame them for our larger defects.

: off to photo shoot at Manchester United.

: thanks Sadler's Wells! You were great!!

: it only needed the withering attacks on it's pet theories from the canons of orthodoxy to send the majority of practitioners bolting for academic cover.

: “to have a good and meaningful life, one may need to overcome their insatiability”.

defeated

: we need pre-bottled water like we need plastic bags.

: all people are created equally. And then...

success - what it really looks like

: take your imaginings seriously.

: "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." Steven Weinberg

: the naked eye can only see around two thousand stars from any one point on earth.

: pain & practice

Compliment

Religion = penis

Matt Cornell - TEDx Darwin "The power of movement and it's affect on our state of being."

Menu items!

: artist are not apart from the world.

: "something happened a love ago".

: it started in New York then the world caught the fever hypnotized by the sound from the speaker! crews go for hours without taking breathers, and battle 'till there's no tread left on their sneakers. There it is!!

: if you find a prediction reasonable, than it is probably wrong, because the future is not reasonable; it is fantastic!

: "Is this how it has to be? In a word, no. Human beings are clever, adaptable and innovative but human beings often forget how to properly care for themselves"

: "The creative and the curious are never truly happy unless they have entered a "flow-state": a rapturous state of consciousness in which we "loose ourselves and find ourselves" exploring our unending curiosity. This is a state of enhanced lucidity and increased pattern recognition that feeds upon itself. For those of us with that itch, that splinter in our mind that never wavers, our lack of complacency feeds a hunger to always know more..... Curiosity is bliss!" -Jason Silva

: of all the worlds possibilities, as a species, this is what we've chosen...

on Tècha's fridge

NFSA gallery

Australia's frontier culture on a bed of beats and rhymes

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: an hour of work before noon is worth two.

: Perhaps the only thing better than knowing you can leave whenever you want is wanting to be exactly where you are - Bravo Child

At a Darwin restaurant

: "if you're going through hell, keep going" - Churchill

: "The street finds its own use for things." W.Gibson via Josh Howard

Strength to strength

= lots of climbing

: maybe not everyone is a poet but we can all agree on the benefit of literacy

: One is cut off from Being as long as their mind takes up most of their attention. When this happens — and it happens continuously for most people — we are not in our body.
the mind absorbs all our consciousness and transforms it into mind stuff. We cannot stop thinking. Compulsive
thinking has become a collective disease. Ones whole sense
of who they are is then derived from mind activity.
Self identity, as it is no longer rooted in Being, becomes a vulnerable and ever-needy mental construct, which creates fear as the predominant underlying emotion. The one thing that
truly matters is then missing from life: awareness of ones deeper self— our invisible and indestructible reality.

: all we really need is, enough.

- first NT TEDx speaker. ever.

: the power of movement and its affect on our state of being.

: celebrating life

: if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”- Hardy D. Jackson

: artist or advocate?

: every now and then I make some art - beth sometimes.

: Finally, what could any
person do to any average
home to make it a better
place to live?
Throw away some of the
furniture, paint everything
white, clean the windows
and see if you can make them
wider. It's about luminosity.
-BELINDA LUSCOMBE

Whales don't need religion...

Whales don't need religion and neither do we.

loves dancing!

Remember Me - DanceNorth - 2008

: If You’re Not Making Mistakes, Then You’re Not Doing Anything...

: a bunch of humans being.

: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/science/19tierney.html?_r=3

: If ideas (like hanging from a string) can generate movement then movement can generate and process ideas. Concepts, theories, wonderments, all catalyzed by or understood through movement.

: Interactivity with only half of the bodies senses is only half an experience.

is refining and rehearsing his TEDx talk.

: The earth's resources are finite; that's a fact, not rhetoric.

: Movement of fluids around the body keeps our cells alive. Even slight constriction over time will cause damage. Macro movement encourages this micro transference and awareness ensures we are privy to our own bodies blockages and concerns.

: There's a very big difference between not having learned to do something and being incapable. There's a point where most people can't drive cars, but they don't think that they're incapable of it. I can't play the piano but I'm not incapable of it; I just haven't done it.

: Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

: In a culture that so highly champions literacy and numeracy it is a neglected truth that we leave a vast majority of our society disempowered by chronic unfamiliarity with their own somatic domain.

: This deeply grounded corporeal perspective presents a refuge from a mind that while inarguably useful, tends to devour itself as an empty stomach when lacking a problem-solving task.

: I'm talking about an enlightened approach to movement practises and their function within our societies.

: The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued. So it's much more about creating climates.

There is pseudo hope in the form of interactive interfaces (as opposed to the last 60yrs of one way TV & print) but this disregards tactile feedback and it's importance in our experience. And with the level of OCD in this country for risk elimination and public liability, more and more experiences at festivals, events even play grounds, are this kind of "safe" pseudo interaction. Of course we want the best, safest world for our kids but to quote Marlin from the movie Nemo- "I promised I'd never let anything happen to him" (referring to Nemo) to which Dory responds- “that's a weird thing to promise because then nothing could ever happen.” We've been led to a point of paranoia where faux experience is chosen over genuine experiences with managed risks.

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State of being

State of being

's grand unification theory - movement.

: tension masks sensation

: Be wary of false
dichotomies. The human cultural
jungle should be as varied and plural
as the Amazonian rainforest. We are
all richer for biodiversity. We may
decide that a puma is worth more to
us than a caterpillar, but surely we
can agree that the habitat is all the
better for being able to sustain each.
Monocultures are uninhabitably dull
and end as deserts.- The Fry Chronicals

: finally, what could any
person do to any average
home to make it a better
place to live?
Throw away some of the
furniture, paint everything
white, clean the windows
and see if you can make them
wider. It's about luminosity.
-BELINDA LUSCOMBE

: the maps they gave us are out of date, by years.

: And, finally, I began to notice the difference between pain and discomfort.

: “Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighbouring brains, and thanks to global communication, in far distant, foreign brains.” ~ Roger Sperry

: one planet, many worlds

: smile more. I promise you'll enjoy it!

: Question your approach to media usage.

: 38 days until TEDxDarwin

: It's not a question of authorities; it's a question of priorities.

: And most importantly, empathy. Because collaboration is the most important thing we do, and it doesn’t matter how smart you are if you can’t relate to how other people think.

: Time spent learning about [write passion here] is often more effective than money spent on equipment.

: “The single story creates stereotypes. And the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

: “The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.” – Francis Crick

: no need to condemn. Just observe.

: A little bit of self-doubt is healthy. It gives you an open mind.

: planning is guessing.

: One is a mashup of what one chooses to let into their life.

: misplaced charity can defeat.

: consumer devices disempower.

: with a little practice, one begins to see small things hiding in plain sight behind ones assumptions - Claudia

: with a little practice, one begins to see small things hiding in plain sight behind ones assumptions - Claudia

: identity is a fragile, volatile beast.

: I'm white! what does that mean? no cultural back bone? heritage bleeding through the seems? can't jump! no funk! speak three languages or mathamatese, my culture is sold to me! I'm white, what does that mean.

We create our own room of requirement.

: is not taking it personally.

: you wanted me to be a mountain. I'd rather be a river!!

: en(able)joy

: when preparation meets opportunity

: allowing the body to speak for itself at its most articulate.

: set your mind wandering and follow it.

: to make ones outer purpose subservient to ones inner purpose.

: doesn't matter if you can, only matters if you do.

: one gets good at what one does, not what one thinks one does.

Civilization is four meals from barbarism.

Civilization is four meals from barbarism.

: you can go your own way.

robo-rainbow on Vimeo

robo-rainbow on Vimeo

: gotta have faith

: Civilization is four meals away from barbarism.

: ones limit is where they set it.

: to strike while the iron is hot but the temper is not.

: the past devouring the future

: dances

Art Project, powered by Google

Art Project, powered by Google

Live and Kicking.

Click here for Liveandkickin-Panorama-CanberraTimes-29Jan2011.pdf

Canberra Times article of Matt Cornell's NFSA residency.

: Rather than trying to adjust the wind, adjust your sails.

Population: not many // National Film and Sound Archive, Australia

Population: not many // National Film and Sound Archive, Australia

This Genius Music Video Gets Animated As You Watch It | Gizmodo Australia

This Genius Music Video Gets Animated As You Watch It | Gizmodo Australia

NYC’s Subway System Has Never Sounded So Sweet

NYC’s Subway System Has Never Sounded So Sweet: "

Using HTML5 and a copy of the NYC subway map, Google engineer Alexander Chen created an internet-instrument, where the crossing trail-lines pluck one another like guitar-strings. Have a go yourself, and try and find the easter eggs! (more…)

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: Stridulation

: the "why" changes over time.

we become enemies of the state

"Everyone is cool and groovy except me"

Great sketch of our times

The circle of life

An exciting time ahead

: Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

: the sentiment is widely shared, yet that doesn't make it true.

: closer but not yet close.

: what's in an emotion.

: no existence without resistance.

What doesn't make you stronger kills you.

Distraction techniques

gaining perspective...

To work for free or not to work for free, that is the question...

this info graffic says it all.

: nothing is a sure thing.

: at a point, obesity becomes a disability.

: one cannot be an expert without experience.