“Three Questions” is a song by the Kentucky based musician Bonnie “Prince” Billy from his “Master and Everyone” album. This haunting and beautiful song has been with me since winter 2004 and today I would like to incorporate the idea of “three questions” into The Eyeslit-Crypt. It is really quite simple. I choose one person [...]
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Posted in Communication Studies, Creative Expression, Japanicity
| Tags: 20th Century Boys, Adam Green, Blues, Bonnie Prince Billy, California, Folk, Gantz, Helpmefindparents, Hiro Nakamura, Interview, Japan, Ken Tanaka, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Los Angeles, Manga, Onsen, Questions, Society and Culture, Yakiimo, Youtube |
Baltasar Gracian, in his book “The Art of Worldly Wisdom” writes, “Keep your imagination under control. You must sometimes correct it, sometimes assist it. For it is all important for our happiness and balances reason. The imagination can tyrannize, not being content with looking on, but influences and even often dominates our life (Gracian 15).” [...]
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Posted in Communication Studies, Constructive Living, Social Media
| Tags: Art of Worldly Wisdom, Balance, Baltasar Gracian, Constructive Living, Control, Haunted, Imagination, Psychology, Social network, Social Sciences, Twitter, Virtual community |
Blogging from the mobile device allows one the freedom of interacting with your environment in a different way.The pathway to the network of the rural via bluetooth existentialism.Now the bus with its chattering and silent passengers.The invisible side of faceless communication and seamless connectivity surrounded by trees.
There are no piles of books around,only the evening [...]
Fennesz Video (Made w/Permission)
I’m testing out the eyeVio site for no particular reason. I uploaded an old Fennesz video that I made. The video is very simple and amateurish, but the song is gorgeous.
I’ve been obsessing over Carl Rogers these days and would like to briefly outline techniques for enacting and engaging in “the good life” as drawn out in his piece “A Therapist’s View of the Good Life.”
THE GOOD LIFE: A Process
1. An Increasing Openness to Experience: Your armor has disintegrated and you are more at [...]
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Posted in Communication Studies, Person-Centered Therapy, Uncategorized
| Tags: Carl R. Rogers, Carl Rogers, Client-Centered, Constructive, empathy, Experience, Humanism, life, Lifehack, Living, Personality, Process, Self, The Good Life, Therapy, Transparency |
April 23, 2008 – 10:45 am
“Constructive Living” is the result of two Japanese systems of thought (ways of living) as synthesized by Dr. David K. Reynolds. The two systems used are “Morita therapy” and “Naikan.”
“Morita Therapy” is a realistic action-oriented approach to daily life; “doing what needs to be done” and “holding to one’s purpose.” For example, If the [...]
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Posted in Communication Studies, Constructive Living
| Tags: Acheive, Balance, Constructive Living, David K. Reynolds, Fatigue, Gratitude, improve, Japan, life, Lifehack, Morita, Naikan, Organize, Procrastination, Productivity, Strategy, Therapy, Web |
Communications theorist Lee Thayer once wrote, “We ‘dilute’ the world by having an idea of it; and the intent of our words is, more often than not, to eliminate the world as resistance (Thayer 190).” As languaging creatures, our comprehension of the world is at once in direct contact with it (with certain spatial areas, [...]
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Posted in Communication Studies, Interface Humanities, Social Media
| Tags: Arts, Beauty, Communication, Communications, Computers, Efficiency, Facebook, Isolation, Language, Lee Thayer, life, microblogging, Mobile phone, Social Hybrid, Social Media, Social network, Society, technology, Telecommunication, Twitter, Web 3.0 |
Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s live album “Wilding in the West” will be my soundtrack to this spring. The satisfaction gleamed from listening to new live recordings of a familiar artist is beyond words. Songs that one has heard over and over heard again through the live context, altered slightly come to life in a new way, [...]
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