technology entertainment and design (ted) is a conference, they gather world greatest thinkers and doers let them talk and make it available for us to watch.
all at ted.com

I’ve watched many many of them, and i really deeply moved virtually by all of them. their motto is “ideas that worth spreading” and it is very true.
some of them really moved me and changed the way i see the world and my place in it.



go to ted.com, you can watch all their videos (usually speakers given 18 minutes),
conference is happening once a year, in march in california, and 2008 one is just over and i realized that i should have written about it a long time ago.

i think you should explore things there your self, but here’s some of my favorite talks

youtube.com/watch?v=VO6XEQIsCoM - about choices
youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY - about education
youtube.com/watch?v=r1RsfRHU0uU - about new life
ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/39 - about avoiding aging
blog.ted.com/2008/03/jill_bolte_tayl.php - about brain
ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129 - about images

just explore it

wong kar-wai is my favorite director. and almost a year ago he made a new movie - my blueberry nights. i still have not seen it. and not because i don’t want to. i actually real do. but all those greedy, stupid, retarded, narrow minded studios don’t really want to let people just watch movies legally and reasonably convenient in the same time. they want me to wait few more month before they get their act together and let it finally run in movie theater across the usa and even longer before they release it on dvd and maybe years before i will be able to just download it and watch it the way i want it. and the thing is that i do not mind paying. i do want to pay a reasonable price, that is a bit lower than the price of one ticket in theaters. let’s say $6-7 would be reasonable. but what the fuss, even $10 is ok. and i want it available when it actually is made, not years later. and i want it in the format of my choice. i do strongly believe that if it was all done in a user friendly manner people would be happy to pay and get it legally. maybe not all the people, but many enough so that all the people who actually was making movie would make more money than they do now. when radiohead tried it they made twice as much btw.
but of course that is not happening. and it is not happening because they are greedy, stupid, retarded and narrow minded.
yet, i can watch it now.

it is available online, and it is available in divx and the price is great - it is free to watch.
it am not even sure if it is legal or not.
i found it accidentally because they use an image from my previous entry about it. so people who host it are really cheap bustards. they still the movie, and they even still the bandwidth for the movie poster. yet they are making it available for people - this is controversial part. some might say that it is stilling and it is bad. yet we might look at it as un-excapable result of studios being greedy, stupid and blah blah blah. so in a way the owners of content twist the hand of potential viewers so bad that the only way they can do it is not the way everyone benefits from. think who is a bad party here.
the second twist in it is that movie is available on a russian site. oh, those bad russian hackers (hello leo, give me a call one day! you are not such a bad cow after all). and the movie is dubbed. what an irony. after watching all the kar-wai’s films in cantonese that i don’t speak yet, finally came the one in english, but it is dubbed in russian. yack, the quality of translation and dubbing makes me want to puke. i could not stand it more than 5 minutes. i had to stop. why can’t they just do subtitles? what’s wrong with subtitles? they think that people who like his movies don’t know how to read or what?
so the whole situation is a big parade of stupidity, including me doing all that.
and please don’t ask me for the links please.

all of us are capable, smart, artistic, talented and beautiful. we can get anything, be anyone, do anything and the only limiting thing is the box that limits our imagination and that box is constructed by us.
be free and get out of that box, just do.

happy new year!


couple days ago we had a little photo-shoot,
that’s me by zhuchkin

question everything!
yes indeed, question everything including this very appeal. but then maybe you should question everything, but not everything or not all the time, or not in a certain conditions. i noticed that question everything is very very different from denying everything, yet many people often treat them equally. anyway, there are many nuances even in this very saying.

science is advancing, sadly most of the people do not really pay attention to the fundamental science. and that is in the period of really big discoveries. so big that would change the way we understand everything. big changes happening in mathematics, with e8. but even bigger things happening in physics - one of the key areas of our understanding of the world.

So, there is modern physics - that is what we study in schools (perhaps) and that is what written in books, and scientific community is supporting it. and there is a lot of research is being done, but mostly it falls within the current system, just refining detail. but science is science and it is full of people who are trying to understand missing pieces. and there are tons of missing or inconsistent or assumed topics all over the place. one of the really big ones is lack of link between quantum theory (that has to do with tiny things) and general relativity (that deals with mostly huge things, speed of light etc). Plus there is gravity, time, dimensions, origin of big bang, dark matter and all sorts of things that are not really well explained. thus there are lots of efforts to explain and combine all that - those called unified theories. Usually they are very complex and constantly found wrong.

but, there is one new unified theory that i strongly believe is drastically better. and not just better - it is one giant step forward in our understanding of things.
one of the differences is that it can be explained in a simple, easy to understand terms to an average educated person.
they call it “the resonance project”. and they have a video presentation on 4 dvds, where Nassim Haramein explains it all.
naturally it sound really long, but it is not because it is so sophisticated, but because it is presented an a very basic level and it covers huge part of physics and it is called Crossing the Event Horizon.



obviously you are not gonna run and buy those dvds after reading this, let’s be realistic. what i am suggesting is just watch a shorter presentation by nassim haramein, he is an amazing speaker. and if you get interested you might what to dig dipper. i actually think that this is revolutionary and it is huge. unfortunately there is very little information about it on the web.
so here’s what i found for you:
theresonanceproject.org - this is the their official site. it has tons of info and a couple of video clips.
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4907540922643918266 - this is short presentation at google video

this is truly fascinating

a guy (who goes by name Peter Joseph, but I am not really sure that it is his real name) made a movie - zeitgeist, it is a 2007 non-profit web documentary film hosted at google video, it is 116 minutes long and it is free.
he is not a professional movie maker, not a professional historian, as far as i understand he is just a guy, who decided to do something about things that he cares.

I first heard about it in july, and it was a lot of discussions at the time, but I never got to write about it then, yet recently I was talking about it a lot and thus I decided to make an entry.
according google’s statistics it was watched more that 6 million times, but you can watch it in parts and on youtube as well, yet there is very little talk about it in the mainstream media.



the film has 3 parts, and for me they look really related, yet many people claim that those are three separate subjects. maybe.
nevertheless, it has lots of facts, and even if you do not believe in their accuracy, it still has a lot to make you think and reevaluate your believes. not that many films can claim that.

i do not want to force you to watch the entire 116 minutes, but if you care to talk about it you should, and if not, i can suggest you to watch just the first part
the greatest story ever told

part 1

the entire movie can be watched at the official website zeitgeistmovie.com
or at google video video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331&hl=en

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happy to know that there are some reasonable people with good common sense on this planet
and jacque fresco is one of them. he develops very beautiful futuristic architectural and technological projects, but i really salute his philosophy and the way he talks about world and its future. as the main point he suggests to use scientific methods for social issues.

i strongly recommend to listen to what he got to say

he even has myspace, and also there is a recent movie about him future by design, wikipedia article, venus project and following youtubes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc7x79kJ1S0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt8HkCWW2Yk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTQXgVb8V9M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVOPkGAtt48

recent interview with forbes

via centralasian

there are many ways to sort things out. some folks make lists, some apply labels or find metaphors or correlations to everything they see. it is all fine, but i realized that for me the most visually presentable tool is scale and thus i arrange everything to to some various scales.
and it does not really mean to put thinks on one line in a special order, no. it's really important to to figure out what belong to some scale and what to a completely different one. but in the same time it got some perceivable unrelated things on one scale and it makes a lot of sense now.

it works for general thoughts and theories as well as for a wide range of things from politics to sex, from exact sciences to associations.

maybe you use something else, but because i am a really detail oriented person and pay attention to even smallest things, gravitate to systematics and rooting the causes - i came to the scales as the best working model

but it is all a nonsense in a way, listening to music and drawing is way more appealing

my most expensive weakness is my desire not to count money

unrelated picture.
i saw something similar once, but could not find it later, so i made one myself