Don't like to work under stress and pressure? Think life is rushing you and you want some more rests, relaxation, and recreation? Join the International Institute of Not Doing Much. Here's their manifesto. We shall not flag or fail. We shall slow down in the office, and on the roads. We shall slow down with growing confidence when all those around us are in a shrill state of hyperactivity. We shall defend our state of calm, whatever the cost may be. We shall slow down in the fields and in the streets, we shall slow down in the hills, we shall never surrender! If you can slow down when all around you are speeding up, then you're one of us. Be proud that you are one of us and not one of them. For they are fast, and we are slow. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly. Some are born to slowness - others have it thrust upon them. And still others know that lying in bed with a morning cup of tea is the supreme state for mankind. Meer verstrooiing bij The Presurfer.
American designer Gwen Murphy makes shoe sculptures. She’s a brilliant artist who collects pairs of old shoes and transforms them into wonderful works of art. By using acrylic paint and clay each pair of shoes gets a personality of its own.
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Tot het eind van de Koude Oorlog heeft de BVD de CPN in de gaten gehouden. Maar de dienst deed veel meer dan spioneren. Op basis van nieuw archiefmateriaal van de AIVD laat dit boek zien hoe de geheime dienst in de jaren vijftig en zestig het communisme in Nederland probeerde te ondermijnen. De BVD zette tot tweemaal toe personeel en financiële middelen in voor een concurrerende communistische partij. BVD-agenten hielpen actief mee met geld inzamelen voor de verkiezingscampagne. De regering liet deze operaties oogluikend toe. Het parlement wist van niets.
Man Church is a church for men in Chandler, Arizona, USA. Women are not allowed in.
Man Church is church the way a man expects it to be done. No singing, short sermon, time to talk with other guys, no women present, and coffee and donuts. That’s the way men want to do church.
The topics of discussion will have a definite manly focus – being the best possible husband, father, employee, leader – being a real man. In fact, every aspect of Man Church is geared for men – not like any other church you have seen. This ain’t your mama’s church!
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A lot of men say they don’t understand women. They have difficulties communicating with their partner. I’m not one of those men because I know what to do. I listen. In order to listen you need to pay attention. And you have to make eye contact. You will be surprised how well you remember what she tells you when you pay attention.
But for those who still think that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, there’s the Manslater, a device that tells them exactly what a woman means.
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Op een vroege zomerochtend loopt de negentienjarige Simone naakt weg van haar vaders boerderij. Ze overtuigt een passerende automobiliste ervan om haar mee te nemen naar een afgelegen vakantiehuis in het zuiden van Frankrijk. Daar ontwikkelt zich een fragiele verstandhouding tussen de twee vrouwen.
Wat een fijne roman is Venus in het gras! Nog nooit kon ik zoveel scènes tijdens het lezen bijna ruiken: de Franse tuin vol kruiden, de schapen in de stal, het versgemaaide gras. – Ionica Smeets, voorzitter Libris Literatuurprijs 2020.
Performance by Danish artist Christian Falsnaes. He says: I make my body available for the creative output of the audience (I am the brush, the audience is the painter). Then we leave the gallery and take the street to dance. Everybody sings ‘Lose yourself’ by Eminem.
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The Open, by Mattia Casalegno, is a mask that wraps around your face and forces you to smell a fresh patch of grass and listen to your own breath.
Equipped with fresh sod and headphones, this mask inhibit the visual system while enhancing the olfactory by the proximity with soil. The device defines also a sensory territory constructed by the rhytm of the breath, which is diffused from the headphones with a 1.5 sec. delay.
The space defined by the sound of breathing is in a state of costant imbalance between the physical act and its sensory perception and traces an unstable relationship with the intimate environment the garment reproduces.
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Once television was the modern sensation that held our undivided attention for decades. Technology evolved and the first personal computers were released to public in 1977. Thereafter the World Wide Web was launched in 1990. Today there are over 2 billion internet users around the world.
Present day we can watch our favorite television episodes on the internet while connecting to our friends and family via social networks. We can also arrange dates online, play games online or converse with complete strangers in chat rooms or through private messages online. We are now all connected, but should we be?
15 People Killed By The Internet.
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De redactie van Sargasso bestaat uit een club vrijwilligers. Naast zelf artikelen schrijven struinen we het internet af om interessante artikelen en nieuwswaardige inhoud met lezers te delen. We onderhouden zelf de site en houden als moderator een oogje op de discussies. Je kunt op Sargasso terecht voor artikelen over privacy, klimaat, biodiversiteit, duurzaamheid, politiek, buitenland, religie, economie, wetenschap en het leven van alle dag.
Om Sargasso in stand te houden hebben we wel wat geld nodig. Zodat we de site in de lucht kunnen houden, we af en toe kunnen vergaderen (en borrelen) en om nieuwe dingen te kunnen proberen.
Muralists and street artists bring gallery-worthy art to the streets where they can be enjoyed by all. Sometimes the murals are commissioned and sometimes they’re done guerrilla-style under cloak of night, but splashed across the surface of a bare concrete wall or the unadorned face of an abandoned building, they’re a welcome touch of color and character.
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Dai Haifei, a 24-year-old architect from Beijing, China, found an ingenious solution to live rent-free. He built himself a mobile egg-shaped house that is powered by the sun. The 6-foot-high structure, which is small enough to fit on a sidewalk, is made of bamboo strips, wood chippings, sack bags, and grass seed that’s expected to grow in the spring.
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Brazilian artist Fernando Volken Togni created this series of illustrations for Oryx Magazine depicting 24 hours in various cities like New York, Moscow, Melbourne, Phuket and Shanghai. On his website Fernando also shows the cities of Barcelona, Madrid, Zurich, Casablanca, and Beirut.
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