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On what do you most enjoy spending money?

Posted on Aug 3rd, 2008 by Diana : EGOhunter Diana
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for August 03, 2008:

On something I have wanted for a long time and on helping others get on with their lifes. I joined Kiva since they started advertising on Gaia and I am really happy that such organisations exist. Micro-financing with Kiva is easy and it is a joy to watch your friends grow on the other side of the planet. I also love to give extra tips for good work. If I believe that what I am paying for is not enough to a certain work done I tend to give a little bit more to the worker :)
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What has been your relationship to awareness and activism?

Posted on Aug 5th, 2008 by Diana : EGOhunter Diana
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for August 05, 2008:

Be the change you want to see in the world! - Mahatma Gandhi - is one of my favorite quotes. Awareness and activism are therefore both extremely important and one cannot live without the other. To raise awareness is the job of the aware who on his side has to focus on "being the change" in his own life. 
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What do you prefer to do with others?

Posted on Aug 13th, 2008 by Diana : EGOhunter Diana
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for August 13, 2008:

Talk! Talk, talk, talk ... exchange ideas, meditate on a theme. I love to hear other's opinions, especially if they don't agree with me (more interesting). Not that I like to argue or start the kind of "but I will convince you that I am right" conversation. I like to try to understand other's points of view to enrich my own.

Sharing great moments together, a movie a walk a diner is always interesting too.
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Running the numbers VS Drowning by numbers?

Posted on Aug 14th, 2008 by Diana : EGOhunter Diana

Just got this article via email from wie.org (Online Magazine from What is enlightenment). They just renewed their website ... looks really good by the way!
OK now, back to this amazing subject:

Chris Jordan's (art)work seeks to expose the alarming degree of consumption and waste in America. While such concerns may not be new, Jordan's distinctive method of conveying them certainly seems to be. His "Running the Numbers" series of digitally composited photographs takes abstract statistics about American society and translates them into stark and shocking visual images. "My hope," he says, "is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone." Given how hard it is for human beings to conceptualize massive numerical quantities in a meaningful way-be it the number of stars in the Milky Way or the number of plastic cups used by airlines every day-it seems that Jordan may be pioneering a medium that can finally get such messages across...

Have a look at this amazing photographic art about an american self-portrait !

This emediately made me think about an old movie title: Drowning by numbers ... would fit this art exhibition as well ...

Hope it doesn't frustrate you too much ... even if it should in fact ;-)
People like to be shoked? So let's shock them ... I am affraid to say that those images are almost beautiful again ...

 Depicts 115,000 mail order catalogs, the number mailed in the U.S. every minute!!!

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