It is never just a game.

The Agony of Winning: Steve Friedman's collection of powerful, surprising and heart-breaking tales of athletes beyond the realm of winning and losing.


If sport is a metaphor for life, 50% of the time your team looses. How you deal with loss, and how you achieve victory, defines who you are and that is more important than winning.

Fire Fly, Serenity: Those Left Behind - Joss Whedon is my Hero

Since I was a kid watching the original Star Trek in the early 1970's, I have loved Science Fiction Space Opera. I'm glad that I am not the only one. Joss Whedon, a genius at making the kind of deeply moving drama that makes any good story a classic, crated a truly original space western for this wonderful new millenium. I'm sure that one day I'll have to pick these apart, analise, and critique them. For now I just enjoy.

FireFly - Joss Whedon


Those Left Behind


Serenity = The Firefly Movie

The Rachel L. CARSON

The Sense of Wonder - by Rachel Carson


The Edge of the Sea - Rachel Carson


The Sea Around Us - by Rachel Carson


Silent Spring - By Rachel Carson


Under the Sea - Wind, By Rachel Carson

Hegel on Liberty

Hegel's method in philosophy consists in following out the triadic development (Entwicklung) in each concept and in each thing. Thus, he hopes, philosophy will not contradict experience, but will give to the data of experience the philosophical, that is, the ultimately true, explanation. If, for instance, we wish to know what liberty is, we take that concept where we first find it, in the unrestrained action of the savage, who does not feel the need of repressing any thought, feeling, or tendency to act. Next, we find that the savage has given up this freedom in exchange for its opposite, the restraint, or, as he considers it, the tyranny, of civilization and law. Thirdly, in the citizen under the rule of law, we find the third stage of development, namely liberty in a higher and a fuller sense than that in which the savage possessed it, the liberty to do and to say and to think many things which were beyond the power of the savage. In this triadic process we remark that the second stage is the direct opposite, the annihilation, or at least the sublation, of the first. We remark also that the third stage is the first returned to itself in a higher, truer, richer, and fuller form. The three stages are, therefore, styled:
in itself (An-sich)
out of itself (Anderssein)
in and for itself (An-und-für-sich).
These three stages are found succeeding one another throughout the whole realm of thought and being, from the most abstract logical process up to the most complicated concrete activity of organized mind in the succession of states or the production of systems of philosophy.

Time And Space

Time and Space, Philosophy of Physics

Koyaanisqatsi - Movie 1978, a work of true genius

Director, Godfrey Reggio
Cinematography by Ron Fricke
Score by Philip Glass

From the Hopi word meaning
1 crazy life
2 life in turmoil
3 life out of balance
4 life disintegrating
5 a state of life that calls for another way of living

Translation of the Hopi Prophecies sung in the film.
"If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster."
"Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky."
"A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans."

Art is about the journey, not a destination.
Meditate, pray, discipline your mind.
Rats race a maze, motivated by basic need.
Have we lost control of our technology, our lives?

Are we looking at a cityscape or a circuit board?
Corporate Religion is feeding our unquestioned life.
Our language is in a state of vast humiliation.
It no longer describes the world in which we live.

Everything that they call normal,
we call abnormal.
Everything that they call sane,
we call insane.

The day of purification will return the balance.
Earth, Air, Water, Fire.
Rockets flying to the sky.
Mathematical perfection, E = mc2.

This is an interactive film where the audience creates the meaning.
The music is edited to the feeling, not the structure.
There is no place for us in the commercial image.
The transaction between the music and the image requires the viewer.

Time is expressed not as we see it, but at the speed of terrible beauty.
We are most proud of our shining beast.
Realize the struggle toward resolution.
Of this thing we have all helped to create.

Also see
Powaqqatsi - life in transformation :
Naqoyqatsi - life as war : . 1. a life of killing each other. 2. war as a way of life. 3. (interpretation) civilized violence. (note: KPBS TV show Full Focus uses the Philip Glass Soundtrack to Naqoyqatsi for their theme song. Making a statement that they intellectually cover the life of killing each other. I prefer to think of this existence as a mired in conflict, not necessarily killing or war, but I'm an idealist.)

There is no more nature,
There is only technology,
Everyday life is war.

Koyaanisqatsi


Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi


Powaqqatsi


Naqoyqatsi

Media Library 2/17/07

Jumping into Plyometrics - by Donald A. Chu, Ph.D.


An Inconvenient Truth - By Al Gore



Robert S. McNamara
Vietnam Lessons

Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century (Paperback)


This American Life - Ira Glass
Hope and Fear


Michael Moore (American Hero) Collection
Fahrenheit 9/11

Will they ever trust us again?

Stupid White Men

The Awful Truth

The Big One

Bowling for Columbine


Fog of War - 11 Lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara


An Inconvenient Truth - From Vice President, Al Gore


James Bamford
The Puzzle Palace


Body of Secrets


Koyaanisqatsi


Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi


Powaqqatsi


Naqoyqatsi


Philosophy Matrix






Teach like your hair is on fire - by Rafe Esquith


Why We Fight - a film by Eugene Jarecki


The most important film of 2005.