A fascinating approach, which hopefully will soon be adapted all over the world:
The Japanese company Blest has developed one of the smallest and safest plastic-to-oil conversion machines out on the market today. It’s founder and CEO, Akinori Ito is passionate about using this machine to change the way people around the world think about their plastic trash. Read the article.

With the Aquarian age the boundaries between the physical and the subtle are becoming more and more fluid. Art and laser technology are used in this outstanding “Hyper Facade” projection show in Berlin. Enjoy:

A friend sent me the link to the website of a new film, ALUNA, which is being made by and with the KOGI, “a genuine lost civilization hidden on an isolated triangular pyramid mountain in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, nearly five miles high, on the Colombian-Caribbean coast. The Kogi are profoundly frightened by what we are doing to the world, but also well aware that we have no understanding of the forces which we are unleashing. They believe that the only hope of survival for mankind is if we can learn why they are so scared, and they know that we will only believe what we can see.”

The movie is not a work of fiction. It will be released end of 2011. Very impressive.

My friend sent a second link to another film: Connected. An Autobiography about Love, Death and Technology. The synopsis of the film says (extract):

“Between texts and tweets, memes and microchips, we’ve become great at breaking the world down into byte-sized bits. In the process we’ve stopped seeing the forest for the trees, never mind the root system that connects them all.

For centuries we’ve been declaring independence. With insight, curiosity, and humor, this film asks if it’s time to declare our interdependence instead. Connected is a journey through the interconnectedness of humankind, nature, progress and morality at the dawn of the 21st century.”

BBC has done a series on “Human Planet” with a number of trailers- though not visible everywhere, so in Switzerland all the videos are blocked with a remark “Not available in your area” … There is only the trailer of the official channel visible, but if you go to YouTube and search for Human Planet, you can see these videos, like “Girls Judge Boys in Desert Sex Factor“. It is, however, reminding the same curiosity of exoticism which made Westerners import indigenous people from other parts of the world and exhibiting them in shows some decennies ago. But you find also other videos…

The trailer is worthwhile seeing:

A friend sent today the link to a video of the Global Oneness Project about Elements:” Elemental – Three stories on three continents connected by water”, see below. Water is the basic element of life, it represents the etheric on the physical plane. There are cosmic planes of the Waters of Life, the vast ocean of creation.

Here are some beautiful animated movies by the Spanish artist Cristóbal Vila. The first one, Nature by Number, is inspired by numbers, geometry and nature . You find more information about it on his website of Etereastudios. There he writes:

“Artists and architects have used since ancient times many geometrical and mathematical properties: we could take some examples simply by observing the refined use of the proportions by architects from Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome or other Renaissance artists like Michelangelo, Da Vinci or Raphael.
But what is more surprising for me is that many of these properties and mathematical developments are also present in Nature. We could find countless cases, but I wanted to refer only three of them on this short animation: The Fibonacci Series and Spiral / The Golden and Angle Rations / The Delaunay Triangulation and Voronoi Tesselations.”

Cristobál Vila has realised other fantastic videos, for example Isfahan, an animated film inspired by Persian architecture:

or “Snakes“, an animated film based on a woodcut of M. C. Escher

or the video “Fallingwater“, an animated film about a house designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. The construction began in 1936 and was completed in 1939.

In Cristobál Vila’s blog I found the link to another artist, Todd McLellan. Please go to the page >> New Work. It is about “Disassembling” machines like computers and rearranging the details to an aesthetic ensemble. Enjoy!

Picture from the movie “Disassembling” by Todd McLellan

A friend from Canada sent me the link to this inspiring video of a flash-mob singing a Hallelujah. It was a surprise for the shopper having their lunch in an Ontario shopping mall food court. The recording was arranged by a photo agency to wish a Merry Christmas.

A beautiful video by “Iran Hope” – floral images arranged with human bodies – obviously done by Iranians in exile, using for their channel the old Persian flag with the Lion. One blog says: “…fantastic visual garden where the flowers are people.”

A beautiful video from an experimentalist dance company called “Philobolus” about: “Shadow”. Here is the interesting website of the dance company, with quite some layers of impressions to discover. By the way, the shadow is a symbol of what is not – we see something we only imagine it is. The reality is the light, the shadow gives us the impression of an illusionary existence. Thus it is a very profound symbol for creation and its background of existence.

Yesterday a friend from Sweden wrote to me:

“Me and some friends visited a private, small music festival during the summer solstice. One of the artists was Davide Swarup, who plays on a new acoustic instrument, invented year 2000. It combines rhythm and melody in a sublime way, and it goes straight to the heart. Listen!”

You can just open the site and listen, it goes on for a long time. It is a very beautiful, lightful, flying music.

There are also beautiful videos in his YouTube-channel. Look for example this video with Avi Adir and Davide Swarup “Live at Angsbacka Efterfesten” in Sweden.

From the video