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Ik vind Thom Yorke leuk. Als ik een kaartje koop voor een van zijn concerten, kost dat zo'n 100/120 euro. Als ik een Indiestadpas koop bij Paradiso betaal ik 50 of 100 euro, waarmee ik in een jaar naar ruim 52 concerten kan gaan. Voor mij ligt de keuze voor de hand. Waarom naar een muzikant/band gaan die je al kent...veel geld voor 1 artiest.

Ik ga vaak naar dingen die ik niet ken. Soms is het slecht, soms hilarisch, soms vertrek ik in de pauze (als die er is). Ik heb er geen spijt van dat ik ze heb bezocht. Het is 'brain food'.

Ergo: Waarom zoeken mensen altijd dingen op die zij kennen? Voor mij is het logischer om juist dingen op te zoeken die ik niet ken. Maar ja, wie ben ik?!

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I like Thom Yorke. If I buy a ticket to one of his concerts it's about 100/120 euro. If I buy an Indiestadpas from Paradiso I pay 50 or 100 euro. With the latter I can go to over 52 concerts in a year. For me the choice is obvious. Why go to a musician / band you already know ... a lot of money for 1 artist.

I often visit concerts, artists, theatre that I don't know. Sometimes it's bad, often hilarious, sometimes I leave in the break (when there is one). I don't regret visiting them. It's brain food.

Ergo: Why do people always look up things they know? For me it makes more sense to look up things I don't know. But hey, who am I?!

Introduction to Dr. Carl Jung 'thoughts' in this 3 hour interview [1957]

 3 hours ... yes ... but it's worth it.

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Interactive map of vocalizations

The emotional vocal map: 24 Sounds used by humans to communicate without words.

Each dot is a person (from the US). If you move your mouse you hear them all.

Go move around.

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You owe it to yourself … To stop, right now

Very true. By Alex Mathers.

You owe it to yourself…
To stop, right now.
To get off the phone for a second.
To drop thought.
To pay attention to sensation.
It might not be your heart, but it is a feeling. It is there.
Are you aware of it?
Can you feel that?

It might take a while to unfold the layers, but you will find it.
You may have lost it, but it can be recovered.
To sense what matters to you.
But you’re still doing those things which do not.
These things that cloud the spirit.

Life is short. Every moment is significant.
Let’s quit wasting it.
Answer those important questions.
What is vital to you?
What will you bring into existence?
For whom does it matter the most?
Be specific.
But aim big.
Now go gargantuan.

And then let go of planning. Just move.
Your spirit will respond to movement.
Apply relentless force with time to breathe.
Show the doubt that it was unfounded.
Now you return more frequently to your flow.
With patience and intensity, that thing will become more defined.
They that matter will begin to respond.
And you will be glad you paid attention.

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Use Your Ideas Before They Expire

Exactly!

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Nowadays we call assholes 'narcissists'

Narcissism is the new bipolar. Is it? Nice documentary about Narcissism from Vice.

Stop lying to yourself

So true.

Lying doesn't make any sense anyway, but lying to ourselves is being our own worst enemy. And admit it, we all do it.

What is your 'capture'?

A very interesting and clear animation: 'Are All Mental Illnesses Related?'.

"David Kessler, the former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, argues that all mental health issues, including addiction, depression, and overeating, can be explained by “capture”—a process where focusing on selective stimuli results in adverse behaviors. In opposition to current research, Kessler argues against the notion of chemical imbalances and offers capture as a common mechanism which accounts for all forms of mental illness."

Are All Mental Illnesses Related? from The Atlantic on Vimeo.

Dealing With A Self-Harm Addiction

Photographer Zhe Chen deals in 'The Bearable' with her years long self-harm addiction. The photo's are detached and intimate at the same time.

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Are You A Visual Thinker? Are You?

If you are, than you might be the next genius inventor of our time. For the people who are interested ... yes, I am a visual thinker.

Oh I like the part of the messy or organized space. After I organized everything in my house (happens tops once a year) I can't find anything anymore.

"It's Hard To Be Bored Almost Anywhere"

An old one, 2011, but still a good one. A TED talk about boredom "The value of boredom" by Genevieve Bell. What a boring? Like me ... boring and bored. I must be ueber creative. She's right with one thing, my brains won't stop working, like a hamster in a wheel.

A Long ... Long ... Time Ago ...

Believe it or not but a long long time ago I was in a shell too. Painfully shy. As Frank Ze says sometimes it's necessary. Perhaps. But perhaps it will never disappear. You find a way to deal with it. My shyness was (is) a combination between very low self esteem and not understanding 'others'. I walked around constantly asking myself 'WTF am I doing here'? The moment I realized that I couldn't go on like that, I think I was about 13 or 14, I thought by myself: Okay I'm never ever going to be a model, so I need to be smart and funny. I started reading ... a lot. Up will now I have a ridiculous huge level of curiosity. Curiosity killed the cat? Perhaps.

Empathy - Sympathy

The power of empathy. Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.

Video Psychotherapy

"VideoPsychotherapy will guide you through your nightmares." I like. VideoPsychotherapy is a nightmare in itself. Very good. Difficult to pick a couple of video's.

The Doctor

Asylum from VideoPsychotherapy on Vimeo.


Murder and Mayhem from VideoPsychotherapy on Vimeo.


All Mad from VideoPsychotherapy on Vimeo.

Symptom Of Big Cities

This one is about New York City, feeling lonely in a city of 8,336,615 inhabitants. But this works in every big city in the (Western) world.

"The paradox of feeling lonely in a city of 8 million. A visual monologue."

Directed by Paul Riccio.

8,336,615 (New York) from Paul Riccio on Vimeo.

The Friend Zone

The science of the friend zone by Vsauce. It happens to everyone.

Stop Multitasking!!!!!

The science of productivity.

In today's crazy world, productivity is on the minds of many. So what can science tell us about the human brain and productive work? How do we become more efficient at working, and spend less time working overall?

Feeling vs Thinking

In this episode of Epiphany, Maira Kalman finds inspiration while walking the city streets and veering off the prescribed path.

Disfunction & Imperfection

Want! Fail to win.

What is the IS? 223 pages of brutal truths.
• No really, actually, authentically live your life as art?
• Is engineering failure effective? Fun? Interesting? Profitable?
• What is: Severe Comedy? Does it hurt? • How can you eliminate hope? Isn't hope a kind of fear?
• What happens if you live your life as art?
Here is a guy who crashed his Showboat into his grandstand while wielding his street cred like a +5 sword against the idea that a show has to be fiction. It doesn't. A show can be real. Should be real. Has to be real if it's any good. He turned writing a book into a show.

Heinz Dilemma

Heinz Dilemma: A hand-drawn interactive animation to test your moral development (interactive video).

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