Guy Kawasaki is surely an inspiring speaker who demonstrates a high standard of ethic in business. Guy can be seen as an utopian man who wants to change the world but his speeches are certainly worth listening for they remind us the importance of meaning in business. According to him in business as in your personal life fundamentals should be set right starting with having a true meaning in what you do and the willingness to make a difference…not money!

Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász) (September 9, 1899 – July 8, 84) was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker who rose to fame in France.

Brassai emigrated in 1920 to Berlin, where he studied at the Academy of Art in Charlottenburg and got to know artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Kokoschka and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. In 1924 he moved to Paris, where he began his career not as a photographer but as a journalist working mainly for German-language magazines. His friend Andre Kertesz took photos to accompany his articles. This eventually led him to photography.

The Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival (SICAF) is an annual showcase festival of animation, cartoon and related art genres held in Seoul, South Korea since 1995.

Among the most notable SICAF events was a 2003 performance by Ferenc Cakó, a Hungarian sand animation artist, which has been widely distributed online. Cakó uses fluid, economical movements to express the creation myth.

(source: Wikipedia)

“In war, truth is the first casualty”

Aeschylus

Like the politics implicit in these photographs, we first glimpse patterns that demand our scrutiny if we are to gain deeper understanding. Armed forces fighting, frenzied and jagged, shadowed, merging with the muddy earth, fading into ashes. The names of thousands of American soldiers dead in Iraq, crumpled, torn, hung out to dry. The faces of the dead haunting the memories of those left at home. The wasting away of vibrant young lives, the destruction of American values.

War Shock is a protest: a protest against governmental deceptions; against the reckless loss of American soldiers; against the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians. It is a protest against the desecration of the Constitution; against the dismantling of American freedoms, the disrespect for our law; against the toleration of torture.

Read the names of the dead, see their faces. As Americans we are all responsible, we are all complicit. In a democracy, the country’s policy is the policy of the people; our government acts in our name. Can we sit idle, constructing excuses about how powerless we are to initiate change?

There is no alibi to standing by in silence. As a country, we voted for the people who started this. Volunteer. Protest. Write a politician. Vote! We must care enough to exercise rightful influence on our government’s actions. We cannot become numb as more lives are tossed along this ill-considered path. Please honor these men and women by demanding a path to change. Cry the names of the dead until everyone sees our tears.

Bill West

The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.

General Westmoreland

(source: http://www.photoarts.com/gallery/billwest/statement.htm)

Thomas Heatherwick (born 1 March 1970) is an English designer, often mislabelled as a sculptor or artist. He is known for innovative use of engineering and materials in public monuments.

Thomas Heatherwick describes himself as a three-dimensional designer. His projects are diverse, innovative and breathtaking each in their own individual way. Just have a look for yourself!

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The eagle owl, nicknamed “Bubi”, has been living around the Helsinki Olympic Stadium for quite some time.  Last Wednesday he interrupted Finland-Belgium Euro qualifier and by chance I happened to be there with my camera. Check out my pics!

Check also the video of Bubi’s 15 minutes of Fame!

Finland’s monsters Lordi made probably the best opening ever! Visually at least! I am among those who don’t like hardrock but that opening show rocked as HELL!!

Like many I have been deeply touched by the 9/11 terrorist attack and I feel truly sorry for those who have suffered a loss in this tragedy. Recently I’ve seen the the documentary of the Falling Man made by American filmmaker Henry Singer. The Falling Man is the story about a photograph taken by Richard Drew at 9:41:15 a.m., on September 11, 2001. This photograph symbolizes for many the drama of those trapped on the upper floors of the twin towers who jumpped to certain death rather than die from the fire and smoke. These people are often reffered to as the”jumpers”. Henry Singers in his search for the identity of the falling man discovered the difficulty for many of the victims relatives to accept the fact that their parent may have jumpped. The controversy about whether or not these people had volontarily jumpped resides in the belief by many that the jumpers committed suicide as they jumpped to a certain death. To me, this view is absolutely wrong! On the contrary, in a last and desperate try to prolonge their lives by a few seconds these people jumpped with the hope they might survive. The falling men represent to me the will to live and survival instinct embedded in each and every one of us.