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Sharing your precious memories
Andrewwwthinks: Here's the correct link to 'Mia's own song' at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guu9vF17y0c
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Sharing your precious memories
Andrewwwthinks: Old school sharing versus New school sharing resulting in mass creativity >The internet, mobile phones and digital camera’s have dramatically changed the way and the frequency we capture and share our daily doings and interests.
Capturing and sharing experiences is so cheap and easy to do now a days that we seem to overload each other with it. Has this explosion in quantity has countered quality?
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Take YouTube, Flickr, Delicious, Myspace and other examples of ‘broadcast yourself’ platforms. Any- and everybody is broadcasting experiences. The snapshotting culture has resulted in a new form of ‘mass creativity’ there are some pretty wild things going on online at this moment.
One of my favourites`examples is ‘Mia’s own song’. A young girl films herself playing guitar and singing a song in her at home in her bedroom. The movie is posted on YouTube. Several days later a drummer has recorded a drumriff and merged this in to Mia original video and posted the result on YouTube. After a while other musicians do the same and soon a full pledge composition is co-created online.
Andrewwwthinks: You make an interesting point JBonnin. There is a lot of (inner)wisdom to be found in oriental philosophies. The western culture also brings a lot of benefits to the table. I would like to ask my fellow bloggers the following:
If we can 'pick and mix' what would be the ideal mix of western and eastern 'best practices' to embrace?
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For example:
Pro's West: Assertiveness
Pro's East: Balance of body and mind
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Relaxation, the cure to a hard days work
Andrewwwthinks: I find the relaxation often isn't the best remedy. To achieve true well being there are other "secret ingredients".... Social interaction, Creative distraction and physical effort.
It is often said that a healthy diet and sports help balance out a stressed job.
>I don't do sports and I don't maintain a specifically healthy diet, but I feel great.
What I do is make sure that I prepare tasty a slowfood meal at least 5 days a week. My girlfriend and I always eat together which is a great moment to catch up and reflect on the day.
Sports where never for me, I find it a waste of time to spend an hour running after a ball or idly stare at myself while pumping weights.... pfewwww.
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Next to my creatively and intellectually challenging job I tend to do a lot of heavy D.I.Y. manual labor in my spare time. The thing I love about working on my house or outside is that you actually get stuff done. At the end of the effort there's a concrete result which give me a sense of achievement.
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I would love to hear other people 'alternative' secrets to a balanced life.
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Light, the secret to good health?
Andrewwwthinks: I must admit I'm a sucker for sunlight. Europe is starting to warm up and the positive effect clear.
- I'm waking up earlier and clearer in the morning.
There are a lot more people out and about and the atmosphere seems much more friendly
- Lunchtimes I make an effort to go for a short walk to enjoy the weather
- I also love the fact that it's still light out when I get home. It seems that there's much more time to enjoy my evening and this gives me a much better feeling about my work/private time balance
I'm not clear on the fact if this positive effect is physical and/or mental.
My positive frame of mind urges me to undertake more physical activities, which makes me feel better about well being in return.
So yes, (sun) light certainly effects my overall well being. Has there been any testing by Philips if these effect can be triggered by man-made light?
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