Sticky Sweet Madonna Tour Santiago

Madonna in Santiago 2008, Artwork: wilbau (wT)
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Beat goes on En Santiago De Chile on Madonnas Sticky and Sweet Tour. Amazing number of female fans in Santiago.
Some clergy man needs to express: "Lustful Madonna offends god".

Aids Arts BloggersUnite

Arts and Aids

First, some words about this action:
December 1st, is World Aids Day. ( #WAD08 ). Worldwide, an estimated 33 million people are living with HIV. In the United States an estimated one million Americans are living with HIV. AIDS.gov is partnering with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and Blog Catalog for Bloggers Unite on World AIDS Day 2008. This event encourages bloggers from around the world to dedicate their blog posts on December 1, 2008 (World AIDS Day) to issues related to HIV/AIDS.

Queen Life Aid Concert Freddie Mercury
13.07.1985, London (Wembley Stadium), England

Another reason for this post was a comment of Michael Buitron at DontCall that led my attention to his BlogPost: Day without Arts

There he says:
"Almost twenty years ago, the first "Day Without Art" took place as a way to remember those who have died of AIDS--and the impact the virus has had on the arts community.
A New York Times article from that era captures a sampling of some 800 events that happened in museums, galleries and symphony halls across the nation.

Today, looking at the on-line calendars for MOCA, The Getty, LACMA, and The Hammer, only the Getty lists events that mark the day. Does silence still equal death?"

Well, to break this silence ;) I dedicate this Blog Post to the great musician and artist Freddie Mercury.

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For more Info on Aids check:

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BlackBird

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Grace Jones Hurricane

Today November 7th 2008 is the time of the official release of Grace Jones new album 'Hurricane'.

Photo: Video 'Demolitian Man'.

The powerful Lady (born sometime around 1950 in Kingston Jamaica) is far from stepping back into the unknown. No, she's stepping forward, carrying some needed messages and from her recent shows and performances one can say, that she's in best bodily and spiritual condition.

Demolitian Man ...

Outstanding in her new album is the song 'Corporate Cannibal':

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Grace Jones got her own Video channel on YouTube: GraceJonesTV

And on last.fm you can find more of her songs: Grace Jones

If you want to dig more into this great artist you can check:

The World of Grace Jones.

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Early next year 2009 she will start a Tour so ... stay in touch ;)

Election Results Memory Dance

The 2008 race for the White House comes to an end.

The 44th President:

The Election Memory Dance:

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Monitor Election Results

The latest news on the 2008 election from around the USA.

  CNN    FOXNEWS     WASHINGTONPOST      NYTIMES

On the electoral maps you can check the latest breakdowns of which states are considered to be in play in the presidental election. SnapShots in time ... Ratings are usually based on a variety of factors like polling, previous election results ... political landscape etc. 

You can send in your election coverage and share your opinion at http://election.socialmedian.com and connect your Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, NowPublic, your blog, etc. and share your election day experiences.

Tonight (Nov. 4th) there is  a special podcast on Twit.tv:  http://live.twit.tv/.  Leo Laporte and Jason Goldberg will be talking all things technology and the election with a number of guests from media organizations, the campaigns, the victory parties, and more.  they'll get started at 7:30 p.m. eastern / 4:30 p.m. pacific and continue throughout the night.

Maybe see also post: US elections a comedy?

Dia de los Muertos

Dia de los Muertos es uno de los días de fiesta mexicanos más importantes al principio de noviembre. Recuerdan a los muertos. La muerte no es que algo uno tiene que temer, él puede visto sobre con ironía. Muerte como parte de vida. Una vez al año (un viejo aspecto mexicano) la vuelta muerta para hacer un banquete con la vida. Muerte también vista sobre como el comienzo a una nueva vida, una transición a otra forma de ser. Vea quizá a esta procesión de Tucson Arizona, mi amigo Ketogah enviado esto a mí.

TotenKopfPflaster EysselsBerg GruftKapelle, Austria

(Dia de los Muertos is one of the most important Mexican holidays at the beginning of November. The dead are remembered.
Death is not something one has to fear, it can seen upon with irony. Death as a part of life. Once a year (an old Mexican aspect) the dead return to make a feast with the living. Death also seen upon as the start to a new life, a transition to another form of being.
Maybe see this procession from Tucson Arizona, my friend Ketogah sent this to me).

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Harder Better Faster Stronger

The song was released by Daft Punk in October 2001

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groovy girl - Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
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Financial Crisis George Katrina

Yes, you can take it for granted that people would talk behind your back about you if you had told them that the upcoming financial crisis had or has or will have something to do with a kind of unhappy love story of a certain George with a certain Katrina, oh yes, you bet.

Politicians are responsible people, well, at least should be. Or they are made responsible for ... kind of everything that happens in the time of their 'popularity'.

Proper and exact science (whatever that is) tells us, that the ongoings in the sky, in the weather, the way how the birds fly, how bowels look like (ehem, remember the ancient greeks etc.) have nothing to do with the practical happenings on our earth. Hm, the idea of the 'butterfly effect' teaches us something different. Nevertheless ...

Once we experience to be in the middle of a 'turmoil', when things get turned upside down and/or inside out ... minds can tell us something completely different.

On the other side (which side?): Some things don't change: The poor stay poor. And more and more people become poor. Who cares? You tell!

Are we flooded with paper money that's actually not worth ANYTHING? Does this money just live by the power we give it through believing in it?

Project BlueBird produced a video on 'George and Katrina'. A video in the spiritual tradition of the late 60ies when people DID GO unto the streets and to Washinton to PROTEST against the war in Vietnam. Are wars so easy to forget, Napalm etc.?

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Butterfly Effect CaterPillar

The song 'Stop crying your heart out' of Oasis offers some kind of reflections on the 'BUTTERFLY EFFECT'. I've assembled a playlist here where you can see some videos on this subject.

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In the fall of 1976 two couples got married at a town in Germany: Osnabrück. The one couple was me and my wife and the names of the other couple were Zach & Priscilla (both Americans).
Zach and Priscilla soon drifted apart. Zach had a car accident in the States, with some heavy injuries. In the happy days of this fall of 1976 Zach was often singing a song of which he said that he had composed it: 'The CaterPillar'.

Here now the words of this poem. I have the song sung by him somewhere and when I find it some days I might upload it to this place. He sang it very simple, it sounded pretty Indian (like a chant) and he was clapping his hands to it.

Caterpillar
A song of William Christiansen (Zach)
1976

Once was a Caterpillar that shivered in the grass.
Hiding from the big birds, made my time go past.
Little did I know, above me far and wide,
was the great and unknown sky of the other side.

While I had thoughts now and then of climbing to the top
of one big reed, one big reed that grew along my way.
But eating leaves and hiding out, took up most of my day.

Then one fateful afternoon, I mounted up that reed
so long I waited to ascend, but now my plan was deed.
The thrill of seeing my dream come true almost made me weep,
but time was late and pretty soon, I had to go to sleep.

So I began to spin and spin, did you ever spin a bed?
If you never seen it done, you must not be well read.
Time past by, another day, another afternoon
and I zipped up my sleeping bag known as a cacoon.

In that dark and lonely place I had so many dreams
and soon was quite forgot the past and fearful thoughts it seems.
Far above the grass below that blew below me green
and farmers planting seeds in spring the underpassing scenes.

Then a voice inside me spoke: "You must be born again"
and then this time I really woke from my cacoon I sprang
to see the sun that dried my wings, was smiling back at me.

So far above the grass below I glide within the sky
for now my home is on the wind, a bright new butterfly.

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Global Dimming

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Lady Rubber Band

The following pics give you some glimpses into the video down below. I don't know what to exactly call this kind of art. Is it gymnastics, break dance, ballet or some kind of extreme aerobic? You might know. Last time I saw such a performance was in the Circus, hm, China something ... NO, now I remember Africa, Africa of Andre Heller in Munic last November or December (2007) or so. Yes, was kind of phantastic, like this performance here.














And in the following picture you might give me pardon for doing a little trick. Hehe.

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Comedy US elections

Are the US elections a comedy?
"It has become depressingly apparent that no leadership, no guidance, no inspiration will be forthcoming from any of the traditional sources in our society. Our politicians are locked in partisan bickering with each other, fighting like junkyard dogs over scraps. Our financial leaders are in a tailspin. Our heroes are largely fictional now at best".
(From War against Despair of Christopher Spenn).

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Sorry, the embed video of the daily show com doesn't work.

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"The prospect of hyperinflation is now becoming a REAL possibility - trillions of dollars are being pumped and nothing is happening in the credit markets - FEAR is enveloping world markets. We now think there may be another concerted effort to engage in socialist methods of the State buying up everything, guaranteeing loans, etc. as in Iceland, UK, etc. Welcome to October 2008. We would not be surprised to see more civil unrest as people realize they have been cheated out of their lifetime savings and pensions".
(From Rense: The Party is just beginning).

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Funny Kids The Evil Look

It really pays to pay attention to our kids, to spend time with them. It IS rewarding. The rewards of our love-pouring into them might not show up immediately, however one day they will show up.
So get inspired for having children. Yes, they scream too sometimes and can get nervy. Well, to have children and to bring them up is one of the most exciting experiences one can have.

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Blogging Blogs What Is Are

What is blogging? What are blogs? Here is a video which does some explanation. Setting up a blog is not difficult nowadays. Get a Gmail account and start blogging at blogger.com. The fun part after you have done this is to connect with other people (make friends worldwide) in the various networks. Feel free to ask! Welcome to the blogger community!

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Stars Artists play Harmonica Music

There are three things my ears do remember from their earliest childhood: a tube radio ('RöhrenRadio') and the singing and harmonica playing of my mother. She taught me how to play the harmonica and pretty soon I learned the hits from the twenties and thirties.

Here now, Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you some artists ('stars') of the harmonica (it's a playlist of videos which I will continuall feed). If you have suggestions on how to increase this list, please leave a comment.
Thank you.
And now, make yourself comfortable and enjoy.
Your ears may bless you. :)

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US Bailout China Space

In sticking to the topic 'Ergasmus' (Erasmus + Orgasmus), this fall of 2008 we are facing two big (giant, huge) nations, one facing a 'CLIMAX', a victory, the other one a huge frustration.

After years of hard work, after a successfully organized and realized olympic game the Socialist Peoples Republic of China managed to send their first Astronauts into space.

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Also after years of hard work, the US have (finally) managed to stumble into a solid financial crisis ('FRUSTRATION') and right now there is a lot of talking about a 700 Billion Bailout which is an act of giving money to (please insert names) that has/have serious financial problems.

In this conext I found it interesting (after following ongoing discussions) that a lot of people still want to stick to 'liberalistic' traditions and show a great FEAR of a monster called 'socialism'.
However, as there are elections ongoing, there are still hopes on the rise and people think that they have a choice. Well whatever, we'll sooner or later see what happens despite (or because of) what (some) people say.

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There might be a soon Consensus on the Wall Street Rescue Plan

UFO EXPO Santa Clara

I'd like to share with you this video. Actually I'm not much into the UFO stuff, however I personally had some 'sightings' that I could and can not explain. Family members and friends too. I usually explain it to myself with some military experiments going on around the world and doubt the origin of these phenomenons being some kind of visits from another star, or so.
So I consider the following video to be just 'entertaining'. Thanks to the makers thereoff.

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Pretty soon there will be the UFO EXPO in Santa Clara. Some experts also do give tips on ten things you should do, if you encounter a UFO.
Please share a comment here if you had some personal experiences on this subject.

Indian Music Playing Sitar

In order to get more feeling for the 'ergasmus-expressions' of our souls, here's a hint to certain Indian music. Just like photos, music can paint a better picture or tell a better story than just words.

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Some more technical informations on Sitar and Tabla.

Sitar musicians:
Chakrabarti

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If you are engagend in Indian music or if you are a Sitar musician and want a link to your site from this blog here, please leave your name and link in a comment.
Also anyone else is welcome to leave a comment and to tell what he/she especially is fond of in Indian (Sitar) Music.

DayLight comes Banana Boat Song

Thanks Rhongo for sending this video. Well we had a short discussion concerning this video which led to philosophies about ... hm, power ... ehem, to be ecact 'definition power' in German: 'DefinitionsMacht' which I ran across at Ulrich Beck the German sociologist ...

Like the previous video, my advice for this one is also:
"If ye know these things, happy are ye, if ye do them".
(It sounds like it's supposed to sound: a bit King James English :)

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Carlton Dance

Just for the case that you might feel a little bit stiff at the moment, take this practical advice to ... maybe ... dance a bit, even just for yourselves.

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Delivery of Till Nowak

The short film 'Delivery' of Till Nowak
8.44 minutes of your future or some kind of animosity against industrialism?
How to plant (substitute) a new kind of world / earth, maybe?
Is the box maybe something like our heart?
Delivered by whom?
Who is the postman?

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Dougie MacLean - Eternity

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One Man Band Ein Mann

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Grateful Dead Box of Rain

Friends Foes History

One man's / woman's history might be anothers fiction. And reverse.

You hold unto the things you want to hold on to. And the so called 'rational mind', which should be responsible for such things like scientific approaches ... tends to be just a slave of your more or less conscious will and faith (belief).

In trying to approach myself to the subject (trying to find access to): 'the great arcanum' I made the following slide show, which will be the first one of a series on this blog.
Enjoy.

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100acorns yoko ono interview blog

Beginning on June 15th 2008 Lady Yoko Ono will publish a daily 'acorn' for 100 days at her newly opened 100acorns - Blog.

40 years ago, on June 15th of this magical year 1968, she and John Lennon planted two acorns for peace at Coventry Cathedral ('Acorn event').

Picture from Yoko Ono on myspace

On her blog, Lady Yoko Ono will share instructions, which can be questioned, discussed and commented.

Maybe see also the Promotion/Discussion of 100acorns on BlogCatalog.

Yoko Ono meets Coventry's official Lady Godiva, Pru Poretta, at Coventry Cathedral

Coventry Cathedral

Some recent promotion of Yoko Ono:



Interview with Yoko Ono, 'face to face':

Women Activism Peace Iraq Violence

The inspiration to make this post came from the following video: STAND UP



The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) condemns the killings of women in Basra and Umara and calls for women's protection services.


A portal on women, peace and security
Here it is one aim to provide information to encourage researchers, policy makers, analysts and NGOs so they can routinely include, seek and contribute more information and analysis on women, war and peace.
Some subjects are:
* Peace-building and conflict resolution initiatives
* Reconciliation mechanisms
* Increasing access to justice
* Access to support services
* Conflict monitoring systems

Women are relevant to negotiating peace agreements, planning refugee camps and peacekeeping operations and reconstructing war-torn societies.

Resolution 1325 (2000) holds out a promise to women across the globe that their rights will be protected and that barriers to their equal participation and full involvement in the maintenance and promotion of sustainable peace will be removed. We must uphold this promise. See the UN Security Council Documents

"By establishing the Commission, Member States of the United Nations have created an important new structure to support fragile societies recovering from the devastation of war."
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 27 June 2007
United Nations Peacebuilding Commission

Women worked and work in the peacebuilding process
Division for the Advancement of Women.

There is not a single country in the world that is free from violence against women. The vision of the Gender, Peace and Security Programme is to promote gender equality and women’s full and equal participation in the realms of peacekeeping, peace processes, post-conflict reconstruction and the reform of security institutions.

The International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation covering over 60 crisis-affected countries and territories across four continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. Crisis Group, working to prevent conflict worldwide.

Watch out when 'people' got a big mouth.
The probability for the best information
to be wrong, might be 50 % :)

Concerning armaments, disarmament and international security you might check SIPRI that is the 'Stockholm International Peace Research Institute'.
For your research you find here subjects like: armed conflicts and conflict management, arms transfers, surveys, databases as well as information on chemical and biological warfare etc.

A lot of open documents on subjects like conflict resolution, education in emergencies, securtiy, missing women, forced migration etc. etc. (have a look at it, it's a long list on the subject 'gender'.

Eldis is one of a family of knowledge services from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research. To have your event or announcement listed fill out the announcements submission form. There is no charge for this service for non-profit development organisations and NGOs although we reserve the right to not include postings if we do not think they are relevant to our readers.

And if you have a little spare time and need a short relaxation, have a look at some funny animal pictures ... like the following one:

Sexual Abuse Violence Human Rights

There are particular human rights for children:
According to The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF): "Human rights are those rights which are essential to live as human beings – basic standards without which people cannot survive and develop in dignity. They are inherent to the human person, inalienable and universal."



Sexual violence, thus meaning violent acts against the sexual integrity of a person, encompasses the following: rape, sexual advances, sexual harassment, demanding sex for favors, forced cohabitation, marriage of children ...
Sexual violence is rooted in discrimination. A discrimination that denies persons equal rights and involves the denial of basic social rights. Sexual violence uses other persons just for individual gratification or profits.
Sexual violence violates itself human rights standards and can be considered a crime against humanity. Child Sexual Abuse IS a Human Rights Issue.

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The social awareness campaign of BlogCatalog and Amnesty International 'Bloggers Unite for Human Rights' challenges bloggers to expose injustice and abuse and mobilize their readers to take simple online actions.

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Technical Minds - Robots

Yes, robots are coming and some are here already. Oh joyful engineering.



Will humans be 'left overs'? Just imitating machines?



A short history timeline of Robots and a visual journal concerning the history of Robotics.

Can you be 100 % sure, that this blog isn't done by a robot?
A hint: just scan for foolishness.

A Robot and a Lady

when the going gets tough

When the going gets tough, the tough get ... what?


Rough or enough or ... maybe they quit?
OR ...

When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Ergasmus.

Enter a word for your own slogan:

Generated by the Advertising Slogan Generator. Get more ergasmus slogans.

Joni Mitchell - Interview & FlashBacks

Here, a recent interview with Joni Mitchell, representing some of her work. You might like to listen to 'A case of you'?

Joni Mitchell - A case of you

A case of you. Was this song a milestone for Joni Mitchell?

Incredible String Band, First Girl I loved

Well, before the time, that, people would continually look at screens, there were some, that would take time to watch the ducks on a pond, for example. Or their mind would be free enough to remember ... some good things, some good people, ... some nice woman or man.

Ok, put on your magic boots and let's take a step into a world, thats out or in somewhere.
Still, it can be discovered.

Green Anarchy Environment Activism

If you are somehow critical of civilisation (especially the western one) and are not too fond of new hype technologies (that we need so badly), you must not consider yourself as being a person who some might call 'GREEN ANARCHIST'.

However it might be worth a look to see what 'green anarchism' or 'GREEN ANARCHY' is and how it is defined, so that you won't end up as an entry (as a prisoner) in the ANARCHOPEDIA :-)

In the following video you can get the point of both sides:

--- Brutal industrialisation, civilisation
for the wealth and health of all

OR / AND

--- Activism (green anarchy) to preserve, and conserve the environment
for the wealth and health of all.



Please feel free to comment and share your insights. Please do also stumble and bookmark this post. Thank you!

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Buddhist Women Dance Buddhism Buddha

Looking for Tantra? Hm, hm. Well, there are challenges and implications for contemporary Buddhist Women to transmit the Buddha Dharma across time and place. Across the cultures Buddist Women achieve new roles and opportunities. In the dance of the Yogini you find images of aggression in Tantric Buddhism.

You might be interested to get more information on living and dying in Buddhism, but maybe see this video in before, because it will give you a taste for life.



Concerning the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Educational Systems, Tibetan Buddhism and Dharma Teachers, further in finding the right meditation center, and deeper infos on various traditions you might need some help.

Women practising Buddhism can do this in workshops or reflect in feminist interpretations of Buddhist philosophy and practise, for example in honour of the dakini.

Dakini was/is an important image of Female Power in Buddhism, kind of an advanced spirit or spiritual being. Dakini moves in a fundamental freedom which is so spacious in its emptiness, that it is like space or sky.

The video above is worth a second look. It's one of the best videos on buddhist dance on youtube.
If you know other great stuff that connects to this subject, please be free to share them in the comments.

And please stumble and/or bookmark this post. Thanks.

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A fish and a cat

RIBA the movie animation 3d
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Women Arts

Fergie: Delicious - World of Warcraft