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Even with his most famous performance The Köln Concert Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett remains a relative unknown artist to the big audience. And that is a shame. Jarrett trained as a classical pianist has developed himself into the master of improvisation. His ability to improvise has been the inspiration for the documentary called The Art of Inspiration. It provides a backdrop for the person behind the music. But also the toll his playing has brought him. Last but not least is a reference to his inspiration by philosophy. His talks about when on the age of 19 years old he discovered the writings of Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff a Greek-Armenian modern mystic is most known for his Fourth Way — a method to train inner-development by treating body, mind and emotions as one rather than as separate elements. A full review of the documentary can be found on AllAboutJazz and below I´ve embedded the introduction of the documentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHfRjvpPxQ
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Read MoreJust watched this documentary on dolphin killing in Japan called The Cove. I’m not a particular animal freak but this movie present a true horrid story. The most striking of all in my point of view is the notion of heavy metals being consumed by us humans daily. Guess this may proof a much bigger problem in the coming years.
This quote at the end of the documentary is striking:
Read MoreRight now I’m focusing
on that one little body of water
where that slaughter takes place.
If we can’t stop that,
if we can’t fix that,
forget about the bigger issues.
The documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto has won many awards and has recently been aired on national television (the Netherlands). But since I don’t own a television I’ve missed it. Luckily for me (and you) I’ve found it on the Internet.
Read MoreA short documentary (~10 min) made by Jack Oatmon on a hardware hacking space in Montreal called Foulab. Great spirit and a nice quote too:
Shape your tools, or you will be shaped by them
Which according to this post originates from Marshall McLuhan:
Read MoreWe become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us.
