Can bigger be cleaner?

A question, that is or at least, should be always posed when dealing with people, (companies & corporations, above all) should be:
for whose benefit is it? (... For the benefit of the "little people"? Living (ie, dying) species around the globe? Slaughtered raccoons, dolphins, dogs, ... Ya, right!)
"Oh, look, mummy, but there are still good .. croporatoins out there!" And he/she points to ... Google?

"No, Johnny. It's t h e c o r p o r a t i o n, and they always act for their own good."

[please click on the clink, pardon, link]

So ... if you're really tired of all of this ... let me tell you that yeah, they are doing it for their own good, (ie, increase of profits), but also, it is a bigger drop of water into the ... glass of the world.
For the moment, it is important to halt the global climate crisis. So if one company goes green and people say: "oh, I like this. Clean energy, carbon neutral ... I'm buying!" ... then other companies will follow the exapmle.
But - to what expense? And how soon?! Everybody should act. You know, think globally, act locally. Cause:

it isn't just about the raccoons or frogs anymore.

Every morning, when you look at yourself in the mirror, people see an extinct species.

Let's make sure that won't be true, shall we? Because I tend to quite like life, thankyouverymuch.

orto .. kinky;)

Hojla!
Verjetno opažate, da se oglaševalci poslužujejo različnih metod, da bi njihov oglas in beseda njih naročnika priplavala na površje vsakodnevne medijske nasičenosti. (Mlace FDV-jevski stavek, ampak tema je tudi, tako da - vse štima;)
Zadeva je preprosta: klikni na tale link, počakajte, da se zloada in ... vauuu, noro!:)

1. IZZIV: ORTO SMART PREOBRAZBA!

Ne bom povedal za kaj gre, ker je že tole dovolj velika reklama za njih:)

Backstreet boys parrot

To see if I can make it with an imbeded you-tube video (this I wanna do so much;)

Skoči na video na youtube.com
and since I should be studying, THIS comes to mind

(click on the link).

NAOMI KLINE no logo oz. boycott DAN POTROŠNITVA

Čedalje več ljudi ugotavlja, da je POTROŠNIŠTVO preseglo vse meje.

V poštne nabiralnike dobivamo oglase, ko se vozimo po cesti vidimo le oglase, ni medija brez oglasa, v mestih so oglasi na vsakem koraku,.. skratka, BOMBANDIRANI smo z oglasnimi sporočili. Vse z namenom, da nam bodo podjetja končno omogočila izdelek, ki nam bo prinesel "dolgoročno srečo". Le izdelek ali dva ali tri rabimo in bomo srečni na veke vekov, kako prijazna so podjetja.

Seveda mi temu nasedemo, dopustimo da oglaševalska industrija razmišlja namesto nas in kupujemo čedalje več in več, po večini stvari, ki jih čez 1 mesec ne rabimo več! Na ta račun pa izginevajo gozdovi, število rib se zmanjšuje, tretji svet dela za preživetje, onesnaženost se veča, naravni viri se drastično kršijo, podjetja kruto tekmujejo med seboj za tržni delež, tudi na račun domače delovne sile in umazanega marketinga.

Kontrast:

A mi nekako ne vidimo te POVEZAVE, ne znamo povezat vseh teh dogodkov, smo le nemočna lutka v rokah oglaševalske industrije. V resnici pa je to omogočeno zgolj zaradi nas samih, v resnici pa mi držimo ves ta sistem po konci. Mi smo tisti, ki to dopuščamo, vsak posameznik zase. ... Se še spomnite sporočila Bratovsščine sinjega galeba, Malega princa, ... in podobnih?

Nakupuj manj, ŽIVI več-Eden od sloganov akcije.
Upam da nam počasi postaja jasno, da nam ti izdelki, pa naj si bodo kakršni koli že, ne bodo prinesli trajnega zadovoljstva, trajne sreče. Da bomo ravno tako živeli, kot sedaj, z ali brez določenega izdelka.

sobota, 24. november 2007
Če se vsega tega vsaj približno zavedate, potem vas pozivam k akciji DAN BREZ NAKUPOV ali Buy nothing day, ki že 15 let poteka po svetu, sedaj že v 65ih državah, v Sloveniji prvič leta 2004. Letos bo akcija potekala 24. novembra in upajmo, da bo vsaj toliko odmevna, kot takrat, ko smo izključili luči za 5 minut. Se še spomnite?

Kako sodelujem? Sodelujete tako, da v soboto, 24. novembra 2007, NIČ NE KUPITE, da se ta dan vzdržite vsakršnih nakupov, vseh 24 ur.

Namen? To je dan, ko lahko pošljemo jasno sporočilo, da nam le ni vseeno, kaj se s svetom dogaja, to je dan, ko lahko pokažemo, da se znamo združit, to je dan, ko lahko z malo gesto prispevamo velik korak k boljšemu svetu.
Naj bo torej 24. november dan, ko ne bomo ničesar kupili. Prav ničesar, en dan. Se lahko vzdržimo?
* Uradna Stran - adbuster.org
* prvič zasledil na POZITIVKE.NET

Argumenti, kot so: "Nas je premalo" VS "moč interneta":
1. Predpostavimo, da nas začne le 10, in vsak pošlje 100tim ljudem, je že 1000 ljudi obveščenih.
2. Vsakemu od prvotnih 10ih uspe, da le 10% ljudi pošlje, je to 10*10=100 novih pošiljateljev. Torej novih 10,000 obveščenih ljudi, skupaj okoli 11,000.
3. 100 pošiljateljev doseže 10,000 ljudi, 10% uspešnost, dobimo 1000 novih pošiljateljev. Tej dosežejo 100,000 novih ljudi, skupno že okoli 111,000.
4. Še en korak ponovimo in smo čez milijon.

JAZ SEM ZA!
In vse to, my dears, connects nicely with - global ... things. Kajti: Ko bi vsaj vsi na svetu razmišljali indijansko. Wikipedia: Cree prophecy.

Free running a.k.a. parkour

Parkour, who hasn't heard about it?
Well, here you can get "home-blog" from one of the people who started it all, David Belle.
Description: (WIKI)

Free running is a physical art, in which participants (freerunners) attempt to pass all obstacles in their path in a smooth and fluid way. Free runners interact with their environment using movements such as vaulting, jumping, somersaults and other acrobatic movements, creating an athletic and aesthetically pleasing way of moving. It is commonly practised at skate parks.

Now practised world-wide, even in Slovenia, it has become quite a hit in last decade; coming from urban areas, subcultural style of running freely, without limits, without any thought to what the people would think and how silly landing like a mokey this may look (although it usually looks awesome, mind yeh), has struck, so to say, the cord with modern youth.
To be brief (lol), here's the photograph, with which Free running became a the talk:

Sebastien Foucan - The London jump;)

Will talk about it again, now just a link to one of the reasons a modern man should do this extra-agile extra-curricular activity; David Belle, BBC Rushhour commercial.

Improvisational arts

Heyyy!
It'll be in English, for it is much easier, even for me, and for about 99,8 percent of the world's population as well, if I don't publish in Slovenian.
What's it about? The word is out, the heat is on ... improvisational theatre.

It's a little something I've been engaged with for the past .. 7 years ... (hm - Egypt, here I come;) When I start seeing images of skinny and well-fed cows, trust me, I'll call a doctor;)
This would sort of be it, in a nut-shell:

Improvisational theatre allows an interactive relationship with the audience. Improv groups frequently solicit suggestions from the audience as a source of inspiration, a way of getting the audience involved, and as a means of proving that the performance is not scripted. That charge is sometimes aimed at the masters of the art, whose performances can seem so detailed that viewers may suspect the scenes were planned.

cited from Wikipedia.

So - if ever you have the guts, try it! It takes a bit of time to get started, but if you have somebody to "spake unto", 's no problemman! But the same pattern shows itself to us: it takes years and a lot of painstaking effort to truly master it. If ever you can, my young padawan.
Over and out.

go wild ... literally;)

Yup - everybody's doing ... it, so why not you?

"Biti zelen, je postala pomembna tržna niša oz. dodana vrednost podjetja. Dejansko, če sledite spodnjemu linku, sem naredil BANKI HSBC reklamo --- zakaj? Ker so bolj zeleni in ker sem tudi jaz bolj "zelen" in je meni to npr. pomembno + še en razlog več, da ostanem pri njih.

To be green has become a major market niche, ie, added value in the sense that if a company can offer me, as their customer, a viable option of "being green" thorugh them, to me, they have gone up a scale. Take a look at the bank HSBC's Go green option.

Funny, though, how things coincide - hm... "you're green - wau! So are we! Come and spend money with us!!!":))) So do not be hoodwinked by these .. modernday-dirtycapitalism-hipocrisy. The bigger wave has yet to come. Unfortunately.

But still: this week's special: GO WILD with BBC, which is supporting BTVC and the Wildlife Trusts across the lands.

Have fun, kids:)

Siddharta.

Najuspešnejši slovenski bend,(edini zapolnili stadium, poleg Kelly Family ... še Iron Maidni so imeli manj ljudi, btw.) Siddharta have pulled the biggest one.
Pink Floyd would have probably called it "The Great Gig in the Sky" ... er, Hala Tivoli.

I also went to a concert - of the most sucessful slovenian band of the last 10 years ... Siddharta ... and they again, did what NO ONE else has ever done, ever:
they played, on a 4,5 (perhaps 5) hour-long concert, ALL of their songs. ALL 53 so far. Out of those, they played every production they had with other bands ... Vlado Kreslin, the Legend. Dan D; instrumentals with Godalika, ...
It was magical and inspiring. Given that you rarely go home really thoroughly satisfied with what you've received for your money, this probably was - the best concert of my life.

Oh, And - the LINK TO THE INTERVIEW - in Slovenian, v Slovenščini!

hola e viva Mehiko!

Meksicani. Mexicans. Mehicanos.

After quite a few personal encounters (one of those VERY personal, If you catch my drift;) I have come to know them as polite, friendly, crazy, out-going, extrovertial (in general more than, say, north and Scandinavic Europeans;) and lovely people that, once they get to know you, would give their arm and leg for you, should It prove necessary and useful (they're quite sharp, mind you).
A random thought, when I saw the photograph of Nancy (from the World Scout Jamboree), was that how peculiar it is the notion and perception of life and death ... across the globe.

Slovenia-ns largely, whilst being predominantly morbid and thus catholic (or is it vice-versa?;), believe and practise the solemn, grim-reaper-is-on-my-back...-or-will-be-if-I-don't-honour-my-cousins'-great-grandmother's death-anniversary sort of "worship". You can get a better idea of what I'm talking about by google-ing France Prešeren - acknowledged by many to be Slov. biggest (em. greatest as well:) poet ... WE CELEBRATE THE DAY OF HIS DEATH! Um .. why?

Mexicans and few others (nuba, aborigini, mayas, ....) celebrate death as a point in the lifes of the living and as a conclusion of one circle of the life of the deceased. They have the holiday of the dead, dia de los muertos, upon which they give each-other chocolate skulls, they dress up and, in all, celebrate the lives the deceased had been living and thus honouring them. I believe they, at the same time, cherish and praise the life as such and the fact that they are still part of the living + to drive death or better, The Grim Reapers away from the ones they care about.

Now ... where would you rather live? Or better - which philosophy would you choose to govern your own life?
I've chosen, via my dad, the latter philosophy ... which somehow doesn't tie in well with all the mourning (and moaning) and melting-the-rock-and-steel-church-at-the-cemetary-down-with-the-blaze-of-as-many-candles-one-could-still-afford.