In digital world, these records are called contents. In cultural context, they are called history. We often talk about how our history is filled with violence, sadness, wars and stories of pain. Well… why not help those who have done otherwise, filling history with inspirations? Or even a simple beauty?
I’m sure there are plenty of beauties around the world, even in the countries where we only heard about violence and wars in the news. I think this is where the digital world can help to outweigh the negativities by providing more actual positive contents. And we can help to write the next history of humankind.
Belarus
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Good Health & Bad Memory
Only if we are light that we can fly.
http://goodhealthbadmemory.wordpress.com/category/nature/
Write. Draw. Take photos. Film. Make music. Sing. Sew. Cook. Paint. Or even just pick up stuffs and make a performance. Art done with heart is never bad. And even if we haven’t seen the result today, we’ll never know, a simple writing or drawing can be very meaningful one day… for art products are records that will give future people a picture of what has happened in this era. And not just simply what has happened, it also comes with a feeling—or at least a perspective—of the creator.
ReplyDeleteIn digital world, these records are called contents. In cultural context, they are called history. We often talk about how our history is filled with violence, sadness, wars and stories of pain. Well… why not help those who have done otherwise, filling history with inspirations? Or even a simple beauty?
I just read a news about Maria Sharapova, which as often with me and the other news, I took my online journey to Google and Wikipedia. Apparently I found out that her parents originated from Gomel, Belarus, a city I happened to be familiar of the past few weeks since my favorite football team, Liverpool, were visiting there for a Europa League qualifying match against the home team, FC Gomel. I kept reading, and I also found out that her parents fled the family to Russia, to the city of Nyagan, where Sharapova was born in 1987, in the wake of 1986 Chernobyl disaster at the neighboring country of Ukraine—from which some areas in Belarus suffered the most contamination.
So I kept reading, and I found out that it was actually a very beautiful country. There are some very interesting architectures, including some UNESCO World Heritage castles and a beautiful church, with domes like the ones at St. Petersburg, that can accommodate 5,000 people. There are also a UNESCO World Heritage forest (shared with Poland) and this beautiful countryside picture that I reblogged from Wikipedia…
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Maybe Belarus means the most beautiful of Russia (it was part of Soviet Union until 1991).
This little virtual visit really enriched my knowledge on the country, and who knows if I have a chance to visit Eastern Europe I may have considered a few days visit here to take some pictures and try their Draniki.
Now I’m sure there are plenty of other beauties around the world, even in the countries where we only heard about violence and wars in the news. I think this is where the digital world can help to outweigh the negativities by providing more actual positive contents. And we can help to write the next history of humankind.
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ReplyDelete芸術家は、自分たちが作り出すものこそが歴史だといって、せっせと製作に励む。
ほとんどの芸術は、顧みられることもなく、すべての人の記憶から消えていく。
情報の消費者たちは、あとから見るのだといって、ありとあらゆるものを録画する。
時間がないからという理由で見ることの出来ない映像を見る時間は永遠に訪れない。
愛に溢れた人たちは、その愛の対象を写真や映像といった形で記録する。
記録は時に整理され、それを見させられるという苦痛を、多くの人に強いる。
棄てられることのない、溜まりに溜まった写真、映像、そして芸術といわれるものたち。
それは、歴史なんかではない。人間というエゴの塊が残した排泄物の一部なのだ。