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A great video breaking down Jean-Michel Jarre’s awesome album Equinoxe! It’d be great just from this person’s excitement alone, but having the various music theories and techniques and tidbits highlighted by someone in the know just makes me appreciate and love the album even more. Plus it’s cool to see how what JMJ pioneered in the late 70s continues to inspire and influence in the music being produced today. Well worth a watch!
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lynxmuse · 2 days
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Delightfully peaceful.
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lynxmuse · 2 days
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So I’ve heard that story/statistic about how “one in four/five young people want to become social media influencers” and my first thought was to reactively roll my eyes.  Which even on the face of it is kind of a weird reaction on my part, as it’s not like “being famous” is all that new of a desire, even as a profession.  (I mean certainly, especially given my flair for the dramatic, becoming a well known and loved actor or statesman or whatever would not be something I would shun at all.)
But beyond that, I caught part of an interview with Taylor Lorenz who said something that I was totally not expecting and that really shredded my preconceived (eye-rolling-inducing) notions and expanded my context.  When she asked young people why they wanted to become a social media influencer, many of their responses were along the lines of “so I can get help when something goes wrong.”  As in, “if my parents lose their house, I will be able to ask my followers to help,” or “if someone in my family needs medical care, I can ask my followers to donate to ensure they can get care.” *
Which… again, was not something I had considered.  But with the growing economic precarity that has been set up as the status quo through wealth extraction and income inequality, it’s actually a rather astute strategy.  They are simply seeking security for their adult life that is not available in the “ordinary” and often-called “proper” channels.  In the absence of fair, reliable, and institutional social care, your social circles are all you have left and therefore online attention becomes a very valuable form of currency.
Their influencer desires aren’t (entirely) coming from a place of vanity – they are coming from a place of disquiet and uncertain existence.
* I should point out that she was talking to people in the USA, where healthcare is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy, even for those who are fortunate enough to have some form of health insurance.  Thus the concern for a health emergency to cause financial ruin, and/or the concern that a family member will suffer without proper treatment due to an inability to afford it.
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lynxmuse · 3 days
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Nick wants you to know that he does, indeed, have a lovely and fluffy belly.
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lynxmuse · 3 days
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The Convent of Saint-François, rebirthed by studio Amelia Travella Architectes.
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lynxmuse · 9 days
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Here comes the lynx superhero, flying in to save the day! :)
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lynxmuse · 9 days
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This one is a bit interesting and worth a read (and I think would lose a lot in trying to summarize, so I will encourage reading it in full) about traditional Inuit parenting:
The article does occasionally frame things as “teaching rational thinking”, which I’d say might be missing the point a bit – it’s less about “rational thinking” (vs non-rational thinking?) and more about teaching both mindfulness and something I’ve advocated here before, that of integration.  Because it isn’t about ignoring your anger (or any emotion) or about making your feelings and emotions bad and wrong and then trying to stuff them far away and be some pure logic being.  Rather, it’s about being with those emotions and allowing them to be, without also becoming them.  You are being whole and complete and experiencing it all… and then you choose.  Choose what your authentic self wants, choose what will be the most productive in the moment, or choose any which way.
And choice is great, as often a lot of the frustration/anger/etc we feel rush forward in any given moment might well not be proportional to what’s really required in that given moment.
Beyond all that, the whole different perspective on teaching and upbringing from the article was cool to read and a neat angle on things.  I love it.
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lynxmuse · 10 days
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Gotta watch where you're stepping there Mr fox, else you'll go for a wilde ride!
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lynxmuse · 10 days
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The adaptive reuse of Pyramid of Tirana, from its old dictator roots to a new community oriented use. Complete with slide that recalls its use by the local kids during its abandoned days!
The Pyramid of Tirana by MVRDV and iRI
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lynxmuse · 16 days
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Lynx tush! Nubby tails and floofy paws all on display!
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lynxmuse · 16 days
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“I don’t need you to love football [soccer], I only need you to love something that brings you together with others whose love is pointing in the same direction.
For me, that’s football, but for you, it could be crochet, or Jane Austen, or distance running, but to be bound up with friends and strangers alike is the human condition, and to be in community is to be, for me, anyway, more fully alive.”
— John Green
(And as the welcome line on my blog reminds me, “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”)
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lynxmuse · 17 days
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Oh this is a crossover that might be quite obscure these days... Jenny from Bucky O'Hare.
another fun one by powree!
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Cabin Nordmarka by Rever & Drage Architects
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lynxmuse · 22 days
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Happy 35th anniversary Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers!
Here's to many more years of capers and adventures. :)
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lynxmuse · 23 days
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Watching you...
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lynxmuse · 23 days
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“It’s said that while Regan was being escorted around the grounds, he had one particular request:  he wanted to see the war room.
You can probably conjure up an image of the war room in your head… but here’s the thing.  That war room simply does not exist.  … Not one room remotely resembles the one Regan had in mind.  But Regan believed it must have existed, because he had seen it, somewhere.  And that somewhere, was the 1964 Stanly Kubrick film, Dr Strangelove.”
“We conceive media sometimes as just a thing that’s just kind of rolling or ambient noise in our lives, things we do to distract ourselves or turn our brains off.  And what I contend, and what the evidence largely backs up, is that this stuff is actually really meaningful.”
“How much fictional stories shape us as individuals and as a society, far beyond what we give them credit for.  You are what you watch.”
— From the 99% Invisible Episode “You are what you watch.”
As I’ve waxed poetically both here and in my storytelling panels/courses, stories and storytelling is one of the things, if not THE thing, that makes us human.  It is through story that we codify our lives.  If I were to ask each and every one of you to tell me the story of your life, you could.  And they would be rich stories, full of triumphs and tribulations, of twists and turns, of action and inaction, and they would be rife with meaning.  Through these stories we come to know about ourselves, about others, and about the world.  We create it all through story, and then we act out our lives in accordance with those stories.
It’s no wonder then why storytelling is so darn compelling for us as humans.  It’s who we are.
And because of this wonderous thing, the stories that we hear (or read, or watch, or…) can often be just as powerful as the stories we make up ourselves.  They seamlessly slot into the grand story that makes up our experience and view of the world, and they impact how we view, interact, and treat the real world and others within it.  They are not separate.
Which, to be clear, is not an automatically bad thing!  Great stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give each other.  And for that reason they are something that should be honoured.    To that end, we can strive to do two things:
The first is to craft and share the best stories we can tell.
The second is to treat stories in accordance with the power they wield, and to remain forever mindful of how they shape our memories, our reality, our feelings, and thus our actions and outcomes.  Remaining present to what’s so versus the context we believe is so that comes from stories, both those told to us (including by ourselves) and those that come from the world of entertainment.
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lynxmuse · 24 days
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An amusing crossover! :D
by powree
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