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Interesting South; A Conference of Interestingness

With under a week until Interesting South ‘08, it’s time to get excited. I was totally blown away by the range and quality of presentations at last year’s event.
What is Interesting South?
The experience of clicking from one really good blog to another, ranging across sciences, arts, music, jokes and whatever. A ‘theatre of ideas’ – [...]


Ben Frost @ Semi-Permanent Sydney ‘08

Ben Frost is an artist who spoke at SP’08 about his works and inspiration. I found his insight interesting, as well as entertaining. A free-style talker, with free-flowing ideas to discuss. I started taking a few notes on his talk. Ben’s work takes place in the realm of social commentary, and it was great to [...]


Living

“Living is a form of not being sure,
not knowing what next or how.
The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
The artist never entirely knows, We guess.
We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” — Agnes de Mile”
Found in this fantastic mashup of Alan Watts’s God’s [...]


The Sizzle of Personal Trainers

A pivotal function of sustainability is Balance. This concept applies to all system; ecological, business, and humans. Balance is required between opposites for survival; if scales are tipped too far either direction, “bad things” happen. A balance is need between the number of Flies and Spiders, Security and Complexity, holistic living/integral holons/The [...]


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