https://youtu.be/rJq9QOo8Ak0?si=_95C8dEJmzjghrW7

I like the OK Go music videos that are made as single takes and feature all kinds of strange visuals and choreographies

https://youtu.be/m86ae_e_ptU?si=Br87wqFSNWHspW4E

On Valentine's Day I participated in an English Country Dance performance (in Jane Austen film spirit) in a beautiful old wooden villa with seven dances from England and Sweden from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

While the company was great and the event turned out well from the part of logistics and so on, the thing that struck me the most afterwards was how overcome I was and am over the reactions in the audience, how genuinely delighted people were by us, and receiving thank yous afterwards was the best reward (and of course as an amateur performer, probably realistically the best reward you can get x) - knowing you'd made someone's day a little brighter with a little dance.

It was such a lovely afternoon.

I've been listening to Alan Watts perhaps too much, but I love listening to his lectures, he always presents his arguments in funny and insightful ways. He has a lovely one on identity, and how even if a human changes and can change quite a lot in physical appearance, they remain themselves through the actions they do, the pattern of their doing is the personality. He also talks a lot about the doing and not-doing in relation to his experiences in Japan.

My mother has a remarkable ability to empty her mind, that she didn't learn from any meditation course or anything, it's an interesting thing that is inherent to herself, and I suppose to some degree, myself as well. She can still her whole being so much, that the most recognizable part of her is her complete ability to empty her mind. And it's an expansive mind! I once told her, I know no one like her at all. Spending time with her is like being alone in a large and empty room, that's the best I could describe her personality of "doing." (At one point I found it even frightful as a young adult, now in my midlife I appreciate it as a very unique way of patterning the doing of her person.)

I can empty my mind as well, although it is perhaps a different effect. Instead of an empty room, I think I'm a still pond, which is not as observable as the room is. The trouble with the pond is that the surface reflects, unlike the air in the room, and people tend to see something entirely different on the surface than what the pond is made of (very often something they brought there themselves.)

(Oh but the moon and the stars touch the surface so beautifully.)

I often have a lovely time browsing through Pixelfed. People take pictures of not just everyday life, but of art they make, or art they see, or nature. There’s still so much beauty in the world, not the kind of manufactured and hyper-produced corporate kind that permeates The Other Image Social Media, but transcendentally ordinary and holy at the same time that gets caught easier in a fleeting moment, but that kind of picture also would become lost in the algorithm game.

I sat in my union’s webinar yesterday evening listening about neurodivergency in work life. A couple of things I kept thinking about:

- I wondered about how sad in a way it is that there was no aspect of history, I think (and have heard from seniors) that before extremely massive media that created illusions on the bounds of normalcy it was more common that people behaved differently, and that was ”the normal”, whereas now it’s a situation of shame, diagnosis, and much more homogenetic work cultures (dang I wish there was more early 20th c working class literature on this for me to read on now) although ofc some things were probably worse, but even further down in history Everyone Was Needed so people just had to get things done with all kinds of people.

- It’s very possible that I sometimes get lost in games for hours because they provide me with cognitive offloading space, and I hadn’t thought of the space or service that kind of experience gives me from a design standpoint before yesterday, prompting me to wonder if these systems are created by designers with similar tendencies, or if this is a coincidence (especially thinking about my Crusader Kings 30 hour marathon over a Christmas holiday in order to rinse work out of my mind which was the most extreme case of it.) (Also there is a line between functional cognitive offloading and then just effing off into fairyland without a second thought.)

- It’s only late capitalistic work life that is hostile to everyone’s brain hygiene with cognitively harmful spaces, routines, practices, etc. It’s hard to be an advocate for good and healthy work practices when The Line Goes Up means saving on mental health.

@SamiMaatta @jnazarene Jotkut asiat Linuxilla on aivan tajuttoman helppoja. Ei ehkä ihan kaikki, mutta siis sellaset asiat, joista luulis, että Windows olis ottanu kiinni vuosia sitten. Mun ohjelmat pysyy ajantasalla puoliautomaattisesti ja mun ei tarvi manageroida käsipelillä kaikkea yksi kerrallaan.

Ja siis tietty ihan tärkeintä on vanhanajan pasianssit, jotka hain ilmaiseksi. Spider ja Klondike. Ei mainoksia, eikä mitään turhaa.

@jnazarene Jee!

Mä asensin Auroran lokakuussa ja olin varannu koko operaatiolle siis jotain 8h säätämisen pelossani, ja sit siihen meni jotain 45 min.

@jnazarene Uu. Siistii.

@jnazarene Kuuntelen jatsia, Youtube-käyttäjä @nouboudy 'n valmislistoja, joskus klasarilevyjä

Dillejen juttujen tekemiseen menee aikaa ja energiaa

@lindenshieldarts Oh no, my weakness! I noticed today I have three magnet notepads hanging from my fridge door, but am I even tempted to get this one ... maybe if I didn't have the other three :')

@joyousjoyness These actually look pretty fun! Aside from all the realities of paints & pigments & hardcore paper, one aspect of watercolor is that you will either learn to play with it, or you you can paint it dry to manage it more, and it's a lot of experimentation, which can be I guess a little horrifying, but it also can be very delightful and surprising!

Some seven hundred year old poetry with new tunes:

Death upon your world too shall pass,
The glory of your age too shall pass.

O you whose blade, like a spear, is stretched for oppression—
Even the sharpness of your spearhead shall pass.

In this realm, the roar of lions came and went;
So too shall the barking of your dogs pass.

He who rode a true horse—his dust has settled;
The dust from the hooves of your donkeys too shall pass.

Against the arrows of your tyranny we raise the shield of endurance,
Until even the strain of your bow shall pass.

The autumn wind of ruin and misfortune will suddenly
Sweep over your garden and your orchard as well.

From this caravanserai, many caravans have passed;
Inevitably, your caravan too shall pass.

The wind that in its time extinguished many candles
Will pass over your lampstand as well.

This turn of power has fallen to you—unworthy men;
The turn of you unworthy men, too, shall pass.

- Saif Farghani

#Iran #SaifFarghani #FaryaFaraji

https://youtu.be/YFJ5qCFQ7Qg?si=uX6rtkuvflR5sEg-

Juurakon Huldassa ensimmäisen kolmen minuutin aika ehditään alkutekstien lisäksi mainita kasvava työttömyysongelma automatisaation lisääntyessä, maailmalle leviävä sota, koulutuksen ja kulttuurin tuen tärkeys yhteiskunnallisesti ja päihdeongelmat.

Niin siis tämä on kohta satavuotias tämä elokuva.

Hella Wuolijoki 5/5.

https://areena.yle.fi/1-273471

Hey btw The End of Capitalism by Ulrike Herrman is a really good book about capitalism, circular economies and economy itself and an idea on how to restructure society

https://scribepublications.com/books/the-end-of-capitalism

So incredibly sad all the time about the state of the world. Nature and human societal psyche. Grief, grief is an ocean and the water rises every day. Every morning I use art as means to find a higher ground, lest I drown in the dark waters of apathy and lose connection to meaning and my own humanity.

And by afternoon I am ready to scream my rage at the smarmy psychopaths who enjoy all this and relish it visibly.

And on and on it goes.

@la_souris Oui, mais un petit petit peu x)

It was Snow Moon on Sunday night and I was in a rent-a-sauna by the sea when the sun set, and walking home under the full moon when I left. The twenty minutes to the bus stop me and these friends I was with we kept admiring the moon with full gusto, I occasionally marked the historical cultural importance of the North Star, and we'd be serious for almost a minute and then go back to gushing about how beautiful the moon is, and that twenty minutes felt so intense, drunk on the frozen sea and the moon, happier than I remember being in a long time.

Frosted trees, white snowy branches against white cloudy skies

#Helsinki #Frost