A trailer from The Musical Genius, produced by A FOCUS PRODUCTIOn for FIVE & Discovery Health. Distributed by Channel 4 International
TV’s musical genius Derek Paravicini, the world famous musical savant, makes his London debut with the Emerald Ensemble Chamber Orchestra playing classical, blues and jazz compositions plus some sensational improvisations. Although blind and severely learning impaired Derek can play any piece of music after hearing it only once.
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Brian Eno’s condensed thoughts on the essence of culture. From a seminar about long term thinking given with Will Wright: “Playing with Time” for the Long Now Foundation in San Fransisco, June 26, 2006.
Kevin Kelly (Feb 2011): the future is about 6 verbs:
- Screening – we are moving from being “people of the book” to “people of the screen”
- Interacting
- Sharing
- Accessing — not owning
- Flowing – streams/flows of data and information, tags, clouds, not pages, real time, always on (24x7x3765), everywhere, no sense of being completed, feeds, flows of data, books will operate in this same environment
- Generating – not copying; pressure on things to become free; value is in things that cannot be copied (easily or cheaply). We want “easy to pay for but hard to copy”; things such as:
Part 1 of a documentary, shot by two young artists this documentary will take you on a vision quest that bridges many cultures together at their core. This qausi-spiritual, hedonistic, and new-media documentary dares to reach towards the fringes of reality.
Personally I disagree with 2012. No mayan evidence of this. It’s more likely to be 2011. This is scientifically proven by Carl Calleman.
