Monday, March 15, 2010

Day Sixty Nine

I turned on my camera today to get some more shots of my work in progress and it looks like the spirit of Jimi Hendrix invaded and made everything all purple and hazy. Must be the warranty has run out. I'm really sick of this planned obsolescence stuff. Why can't things last? It reminds me of a perfect blacksmith joke.
How many Blacksmiths does it take to change a light bulb?
101.
1 to change the bulb, and 100 to stand around shaking their heads, complaining about how the new light bulb will never be as good as the old one.
Since I can't post anything original, I thought I'd share this little video with you. I'm not sure how I found it, but I just love the silly song. If any of you know what language this is and what the lyrics are, I'm really excited to find out.
Enjoy!

2 comments:

Telpo LendolotoprojMarch 16, 2010 at 12:51 AM
this is a great song! I can't translate, but I think the language might be Vulgarian.... (or not).
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AnonymousMarch 16, 2010 at 11:40 AM
You just have to wonder what the words mean. Love the tune. Funny!
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Rilke said...

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again.

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

Flow (psychology)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the positive psychology concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.^[1]

According to Csíkszentmihályi, flow is completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing and learning. In flow the emotions are not just contained and channeled, but positive, energized, and aligned with the task at hand. To be caught in the ennui of depression or the agitation of anxiety is to be barred from flow. The hallmark of flow is a feeling of spontaneous joy, even rapture, while performing a task.^[2]

Colloquial terms for this or similar mental states include: to be on the ball, in the zone, in the groove, or keeping your head in the game.