inspirational stuff

a fascinating TEDx talk about how humans create music from their environment.  What I found totally inspiring was the idea that we don't necessarily create otherworldly idylls to escape an environment that we do not like, but that we create in symbiosis, we embrace our environment and humanly mimic it and in doing so we transform it into something else (music, dance, art) and by that we escape the mundanity.  I just love how those ladies created a dance from the machines they worked with.  Check it out.

Oh and here's another one.  This chap set up the Hanover Zocalo which was a really really cool idea.... here's to setting the example....