Rebel poetry.

"Rebellion is perhaps among the deepest roots of science: the refusal to accept the present order of things."

"Perhaps poetry is another of science's deepest roots: the capacity to see beyond visible."

Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

Photo: Dejan

New learning and engagement.

"(...) we tend to feel awfully guilty about it, supposing that our time in front of our devices should be “constructive” and “productive” when it is, in reality, both productive and aimless. Since our lives have pretty much moved to the screen, we can expect our time on the Internet to be as varied as life itself. It’s a mistake to describe our online experience as monolithic: sometimes we need to work and other times we need to drift, to waste time, to fuck off. Learning and engagement continues as before, but it takes new and different forms. I think it’s time to drop the guilt about wasting time on the Internet, and move on. Surely we’re more complex than that."

Kenneth Goldsmith, Why I am Teaching A Course Called “Wasting Time on the Internet“

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/wasting-time-on-the-internet

Photo: Dejan

Books to recommend.

"It is really hard to say which books one should recommend. The best is if they are somehow intriguing, kind of not the obvious choices. Books that open a new way of thinking, a new culture, present a person´s world that one is not so familiar with."
Pekka Metso

http://metinalista.si/i-like-the-books-tell-a-good-story-that-stays-in-my-head-pekka-metso/

Photo: Dejan

Science-Fiction, Science-Passion.

"The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that makes life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living it is finite."

Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Photo: wikipedia.org

Too modern.

http://www.premoderno.com/
English: second picture.

Art strikes again.

Interesting step forward has been made concerning my older post Reason art if you can.

Slovenian IEDC-Bled School of Management has opened center for innovative learning. What is innovative there?

"Different learning methods, especially with art techniques, helping people become more reflective, responsible and creative because art inspires. (...) In last years school is seeking for parallels between science, art and philosophy, which should lead students to become more responsible leaders."

Too good to be true?
Photo: Dejan - Days of Poetry and Wine, Medana 2008

Reason art if you can.

Unaticipated* chicken-ginger-paprika insight was ignited today:

If we assume our mind is partly conscious and partly unconscious, then there are also two ways of human society education. Classical education speaks mostly to our conscious part. And unconscious? OK, there are some attempts of unconscious education. But there is another universe of possibilities out there...

Art talks to us mostly in unconscious/non-rational way. So - let's use it for this reason more. To teach and to learn without reason.

* the point here is in Slovene translation of the word "nenadejan" ;)
Photo: Dejan, East Side Gallery, Berlin Wall

Be free.

There are texts where you just can not change anything. Below is one of them from here.

“I go nowhere. Movies, theater, exhibitions–nothing. My only inspiration is my life. I am old. I have made every mistake possible. I have paid for everything. I am not very good to lead the daily life, to speak frankly. But I am very interested in high-quality literature and very, very interested in science, mathematics, biology, astrophysics, and things like that. I love the poetry of these things.

I live mainly on my oyster farm in the southwest of France, on a small island with 12 houses and without cars, electricity, or water. It’s a very rough life, a very basic life. The island is full of mud. I also have a house on a small island in Venice. If you are with the person you love, a good book, good music, and in front of you is the sea, the forest, the Venice bay, or 200 million oysters, that’s enough.

Every morning, take royal jelly and omega-3 oil, eat oysters, and have a good sexual life. Don’t care about anything, and never listen to anybody. Be free.”

Nothing could better describe myself, than this interview, one of the best I have read in a long time. Meet Philippe Starck, my personal hero, and maybe the most famous and prolific designer alive.

Read the interview with Starck for Fast Company.

Thanks, Andrej, for your description.

Paintings in the stall

"Because some museums and galleries exhibit manure, we decided to display paintings in our stall."
Vinči, farmer in the Museum of Too Modern Art

"Ker v nekaterih muzejih in galerijah razstavljajo gnoj, smo se pri nas odločili, da v štalo obesimo slike. "
Vinči, kmet v Muzeju premoderne umetnosti

Location by Dejan. Digged by Nena. Photo by Dejan.