Fantastic beach art - view here.
Watch a free diver spend four minutes holding his breath and diving into an abyss.
Watch the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy's film Enough is Enough here. It is the based on the book 'Enough is Enough' by Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill. It is a book about the need for a new kind of economy. Due to the overuse of the earth's finite resources and excessive consumption failing to improve our lives Dietz and O'Neill give us a realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth. "They explore specific strategies to conserve natural resources, stabilize population, reduce inequality, fix the financial system, create jobs, and more – all with the aim of maximizing long-term well-being instead of short-term profits."
Silliness that resulted in 3 men being charged with removing food due for landfill from an Iceland skip. Read here. Luckily after much petition signing the case was dropped by the CPS.
Ashton Kutcher's Teen Choice Awards sppech - watch here or read the good bits here -
"I wanted to share [some] things [which] I think helped me be here today. So, it’s really 3 things. The first thing is about opportunity. The second thing is about being sexy. And the third thing is about living life.
So first opportunity. I believe that opportunity looks a lot
like hard work. When I was 13 I had my first job with my Dad carrying shingles
up to the roof, and then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant, and then I
got a job in a grocery store deli, and then I got a job in a factory sweeping
Cheerio dust off the ground. And I’ve never had a job in my life that I was
better than. I was always just lucky to have a job, and every job I had was a
stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job.
And so opportunities look a lot like work.
Number two. Being sexy. The sexiest thing in the entire
world, is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous.
Everything else is crap, I promise you. It’s just crap that people try to sell
to you to make you feel like less, so don’t buy it. Be smart, be thoughtful,
and be generous.
The third thing is something that I just re-learned when I was making this movie about Steve Jobs. And Steve Jobs said when you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way that it is, and that your life is to live your life inside the world and try not to get in too much trouble, and maybe get an education and get a job and make some money and have a family.
But life can be a lot broader than that when you realize one simple thing, and that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who are no smarter than you, and you can build your own things, you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don’t live one, build one. Find your opportunities, and always be sexy."
Scary music video where a woman gets photo-shopped throughout the video. Watch here.
An interesting article about why phonics don't work - read here.
Five foods that are costing the earth - read here but if you don't want to, they are bluefin tuna (bluefin populations don't stand up to heavy fishing pressure), conventional coffee (substantial use of herbicides, pesticides, etc.), factory-farmed beef (replacing tropical forest for corn and soy to feed the cows), genetically modified corn (violates many sustainable boundaries) and palm oil (rainforest destruction).
Great fake underground signs - see here.
Fantastic artist - she does charcoal with her whole body - see here - it's amazing.
Fab acrobatic gymnastic routine - see here.
Look at the state of the world through pictures of where different children around the world sleep.
Mapping emotions of the body - see here - happiness and love look pretty good.
"He doesn't wear shoes, doesn't wear shoes and brushes his teeth with a pine cone" - read about Mike Dodge who lives in a rainforest here.
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