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For anyone interested, basically just start reading D.T. Suzuki and never ever stop. That should be a genuine place to start.
Also, for anyone interested, I found a really lovely sumi-e flickr page a while back from a really talented artist. I'm not slagging Drue, she does her thing and that's great. But I don't like her work very much.
[www.flickr.com]
10/03/09
To me, Zen is a "STFU, stop believing, stop thinking, stop judging, stop acting, stop, stop, JUST STOP!" kind of ideological plan. At first it seems like it TAKES everything away from you, but if you go along with it, it actually gives you the world. =)
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10/04/09
I guess Zen can be seen as a positive force. But it always seemed to me to be fairly amoral actually. It embraced life as nature, with human morality maybe secondary? I mean, that's why it was so fervently embraced by the Samurai caste. It gave them a path to shed their fear of dying, thus making them great swordsmen, and let them also shed their reluctance to kill, thus making them unbeatable swordsmen.
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Does Meg Tilly still do movies?
10/02/09
10/02/09
That girl is definitely, um, special. I can't believe you actually wrote that many words about her.
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Plus, those red lips at H-O-T without looking over pumped with a bunch of cow fat or whatever they're using these days!
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10/02/09
Granted, Drue is no Sophie Calle + some of these projects are way too nerdy for me to get excited about + the "corporate Zen" tomfoolery is so wrong it's almost right. But overall she comes across as a charming and interesting chick. Way more multi-faceted than Julia. (Whom I also like, sort of.) Cute personal style, too.
There is btw, some exceptionally powerful art being made out there at the intersection of digital and visual media. Am a huge fan of Ryoji Ikeda, among others [www.ryojiikeda.com]
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[www.culturelick.com]
10/02/09
Thank you for your in-depth feature.
I believe that Silicon Valley is a great place to create things of artistic value and of meaning while at the same time (in SV style not take yourself too seriously). We feel passionate about net neutrality as I'm sure Gawker and a lot of its readers do. We want to rally the troops and send a strong message to Washington. I invite Gawker's readers to post their video responses in support of net neutrality on youtube, and we would gladly add them to this virtual video petition.
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Let's stick it to the telecoms!
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(Seriously!)
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10/03/09
I can only add that there seems to be some sort of subliminal message here about out of control eyebrows (which I have so it's OK for me to make fun of them).
On the substance (such as it is): to the extent that Network Neutrality is ever implemented it will kill most of what made the Internet revolutionary and make it a lot more like our overtaxed and monopoly controlled telephone and cable systems.
Netroots: you've made your bed.
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