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Post by mossie on May 18, 2014 9:39:08 GMT
Very very true. I am so glad I grew up without the distraction of all the fancy gadgets now available. Yes, I know they are extremely useful but there is a great danger that they completely take over our lives.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2014 12:01:24 GMT
This completely oversimplifies the situation because it makes no mention of the people who are unable to make friends in the physical world due to handicaps, physical isolation, confinement or just pathological timidity. And the thought of selling a computer to buy an engagement ring is pure pipe dream!  It is nevertheless true that if often appears that certain limits should be set for the majority of people -- if it were at all possible, which I doubt. I am personally thrilled whenever a mobile phone network goes down for a few hours, but that is too rare of an occurrence. In the meantime, I just fantasize about all of the kicks in the arse that I would love to distribute when people are weaving on the footpath ahead of me because they are texting rather than looking where they are going. |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2014 12:51:59 GMT
I Must admit the last part of the Poem was too sugary sweet for my likes  But most of what he has to say, makes sense. I think generally those that spend a lot of time on the internet/computers are the housebound, the retired, the disabled, those that have too much time on their hands at work, and those that find it difficult to make friends in real life for whatever reason, location or just their personality. I can understand this and know that this is what makes up the bulk of the users on social networks and social sites. Personally I feel so much better when I walk away from my computer and just do every day real life things, with real life people. Sometimes it's hard to come back to it, truth be known. If someone took my internet or computer away, I think they would be doing me a great service. Although I have trained myself and set my mind to being on social sites and forums like this one for just a small fraction of my day, if that. Maybe that is the attraction of travel to far off places? Where it's more difficult, (although of course not always impossible), to connect to cyberspace? More and more I am finding it empty, soulless and meaningless. Mossie, I can see where you are coming from. As a parent I worry and have worried in the past, if I thought that my kids were spending too much time connected to cyberspace, in one form or another. And we do all we can to get them away from that to real life events, activities and people. ha, yeah selling a computer to buy a ring? I doubt that. Although years back. before computers were the norm, a guy sold his brand new Hitachi stereo system to buy me a ring, so maybe it can happen?  |
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Post by mossie on May 18, 2014 16:30:13 GMT
"Because I'm worth it"
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2014 21:04:04 GMT
lol Of course you are mossie  and "Don't hate me just because I'm beautiful"  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2014 15:44:14 GMT
Oh my goodness, I love this. This has been everywhere in the last few days but I just had to put it here. The sheer discipline to make this work is astounding. This group came in 2nd at the VIBE dance competition this year, but many people believe they should have won.
Watch on full screen mode and be impressed.
I'm adding the same performance shot from the back of the house. You get a much better idea of the look of the whole thing. It truly is astounding.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2014 16:38:20 GMT
That is really remarkable. I don't know what it is that fascinates us so much about synchronised choreography, but whether it is Soviet troops marching in Red Square, card sections in stadiums in North Korea, those weird Olympic swimming groups, or the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, we are always spellbound when we see a large number of people doing exactly the same thing at exactly the same time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2014 17:02:36 GMT
It's even more impressive when witnessed in person. There is something about that number of people breathing in unison (believe me, they are) as they move. The audience is breathing right along with them and experiencing the emotions the same way.
What I love in this performance are the moments of stillness and the micro moves in the midst of all that energy.
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Post by htmb on Jun 1, 2014 22:55:27 GMT
Fantastic!!!! Amazing synchronicity. I love seeing performances like this and amazed at the work that must go into creating this type of perfection in movement.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2014 23:06:46 GMT
They could never perform in Paris, though, because I've heard that you are not allowed to wear sneakers there.
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Post by htmb on Jun 1, 2014 23:15:24 GMT
Correct. There are fashion police stationed outside all the "attractions." Since I have visited Paris numerous times I should know that to be a fact.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2014 1:46:55 GMT
But they do have jackets and ties, so perhaps dinner at Jules Verne?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2014 4:59:41 GMT
Fireworks filmed from the inside by a drone
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Post by htmb on Jul 5, 2014 5:22:40 GMT
Mesmerizing!!!
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Post by tod2 on Jul 5, 2014 15:04:52 GMT
That was just wonderful! One of my favourite singers and melodies seemed to fit just right with the exploding fireworks. Flying through the explosions was awesome! Thank you Kerouac.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2014 18:13:41 GMT
I thought the humour, artistry and irony of this video would appeal to Anyporters.
I never thought of Andy Williams as malevolent before.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2014 19:23:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 11:32:34 GMT
Here is the fireworks show from the 14th of July this year in Paris. I commemorated the wars of the 20th century and the peace that followed.
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Post by lola on Aug 5, 2014 21:33:07 GMT
Quirky satire of the privileged classes. Written and starring Jim Broadbent, directed by Mike Leigh. Starts out conventional, accent and all, and quickly goes darkly unpredictable. "I was a solitary, unlovable boy."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 22:19:10 GMT
A nice deconstruction of the Downton Abbey mythos. Very funny. My favourite part: the hairy mole! Thanks, lola!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 21:03:20 GMT
Music can still calm the savage beast.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 16:05:52 GMT
Since childhood, I've been fascinated with the recreation and restoration of historical places. It comes, I suppose, from my deep disappointment at having been born sometime after the 19th century and finding most modernity ugly and jarring. I ran across this today, a video of a 3D tour of London before the Great Fire in the 17th century. Not dazzling (it's a student effort), but it makes me appreciate the lack of "civic planning" and the cheek-by-jowl juxtaposition of beauty and degradation.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 17:55:14 GMT
Very nice pictures, but it certainly makes one understand how entire cities could burn down back in those days.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 31, 2014 12:57:55 GMT
Quite crazy. You'd never catch me doing anything like that. Especially not in a truck and trailer where you can't back up, rather than a minibus, and especially not in the wet either. Now that would cause some arse puckering moments. Hang on a minute............ I seem to remember a photo (a bit shaky) out the back of my truck, over the trailer, on a similar track. I take it all back. I must have been crazy - ![[IMG]http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/onlyMark/Encounter%202/scan0201_zpse3a70f1f.jpg[/IMG]]() |
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 31, 2014 12:59:57 GMT
Ooops, can't seem to post a photo as a guest(?)
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 31, 2014 13:25:49 GMT
I think that might be better -  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 13:26:44 GMT
I guess that means to have to sign back up Mark.
(Actually, I can't for the life of me figured out how to post pics with this new fangled system.)
In any event, good to see you Mark.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 13:30:06 GMT
Ah!!! You got it!!! We must have simulposted.
Cool pic but, a little scary for me to experience. Mossie is right, you are
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 31, 2014 14:27:40 GMT
I'm a bit less crazy now but the old dog still has his moments.
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Post by lola on Nov 1, 2014 0:38:03 GMT
Oh, yay! I was just thinking about you the other day, oM. My finger and toenails would all be sunk into that truckbed.
Lizzyfaire, that was fun. A couple of times I thought I was on the verge of recognizing something.
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