Gaia: JOY SOULutions: Enjoy, Share & Inspire - JOY for JOY ITSELF - Tales of Passion & Humor ~ Isabel Allende & "Dangers of Blogging"

Re: The Joy of Ideas and Metaphors

http://joybringer.gaia.com — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:26:41 GMT

I invite you to find some Joy in Ideas worth sharing through the latest & most inspiring @TED2008 and also to find, create and share some simple and beautiful metaphors of your own or your favorite authors at MetaphorSky.com. I think/feel you may enJoy both.

A new and unique event and opportunity TODAY is the ability to join a global audience and watch online as the 2008 TED Prize winners, Dave Eggers, Neil Turok and Karen Armstrong, share their inspiring visions, followed by the moving and infectious music of Vusi Mahlasela. ("It will be an evening of big ideas, bold plans and audacious wishes -- and you'll hear ways to help grant their wishes right away!", the organizers believe)
Click here for the live feed, Thursday, February 28, starting at 5:15pm US/Pacific time, 8:15 EST

Watch also an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope --
a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and builds a comprehensive view of our universe. Download this TEDTalk in high-def >> (Recorded February 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 06:48.)
"Why do I believe that it is transformative? It enables you to experience the universe. You can tour it, with astronomers as your guides. It will enable a new generation of stories and storytellers." - Astronomer Roy Gould, while previewing Microsoft's World Wide Telescope (WWT). (The WWT is not live yet -- it's announced for sometimes later in the Spring
and will be free for downloading -- but a couple of promo videoclips and background information can be found here.)

The amazing series of photos of Chris Jordan examine the "Intolerable beauty"
of the vast amounts of stuff we make and consume, from mountains of discarded cell phones and electronic waste to skyscrapers of containers or crushed cars in a unique and provoking way. And his zoomable Womens' breasts images from Barbie dolls are one-of-a-kind...

For more live feeds and interesting perspectives - find out who else is blogging about TED beside ~C4, Albert, me and all of us Gaia's - WE...

And from all these innovative ideas - how about channeling the energy into our very own METAPHORS? Thanks to Jim who started this wonderful idea, vision & web site MetaphorSky.com. Feel free to submit your metaphor/s on any subject, theme or inspiration. Here are several that I submitted to get your creative juices flowing...

"We walk in beauty and we blossom in wisdom, we swim in truth and we fly in joy."
"Perfect heart storm during soul season. Best is yet to hit me."
Source: ~ Darina S., Surprise Inspirations

"In your light I learn how to love In your beauty how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest Where no one sees you, And that sight becomes this art."
Source: Essential Rumi

"I am your harp. You strike your plectrum on every part of my body."
Source: Forbidden Rumi

"When I stop speaking, this poem will close and open its silent wings."
Source: Rumi The Book of Love

"Love is a magician. Everything it touches turns into itself."
Source: Pamela Wilson

"Who speaks, sows; Who listens, reaps."
Source: Argentine Proverb

"The Soul should always stand ajar."
Source: Emily Dickinson

Off to Ask more Big Questions, add more metaphors,
run my TED Miro player & get ready for the inspired action.

Hope that you will join me virtually too.

Pronoic Inspired & Grateful
Metaphorian TEDster,
D a r i n a :)

TED2008 Time again, Encyclopedia of Life & more

http://joybringer.gaia.com — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:02:55 GMT

TOO much happening for GOOD these days - hence the need for attention AND action on several fronts, planes and sites of interaction.

Starting with the long awaited opening of the sold out TED 2008, co-hosted in Monteray & Aspen. As ~C4 shared in his blog: "thanks to the Net, I (we) could partake of the excitement and the ideas generated by conferences. TED 2008 holds a special place in my mind and heart because this conference will step beyond the realm of science and technology and plunge into the realm of philosophy."

Yes, it is one of the favorite virtual events of the year for me too and I also have a dream vision of being a presenter at one of the next iterations, so let's watch our dreams coming true on the strength of Pronoia soon :) It is good news that there are some members of Gaia & II like Robb S mith that will be there live, integrally present & hopefully sharing feedback, insights & behind the scenes ideas.

This year's program & format are changing & innovative as expected. The questions and presenters big and inspiring as always. And the excitement and buzz are deservedly rising each day, month & year. From the uniquely colored recycled gift bags to the cool IDEO little question-asking widget (that even we can donwload - I just did) - each detail & person brings & shares new ideas & ways to think, make & interact - that's why WE love TED, yes?

Some of the exciting events happening on the first day are unveiling of the Kluster.com (community intelligence in action) & Encyclopedia of LiFE (EOL.org)

Kluster.com, a startup in Burlington, Vermont, will unveil a site — now in beta — that encourages people to submit their problems, then encourages members of its community to offer up solutions. Each idea is discussed, refined, resubmitted, and reassessed. In the end, solutions are rated and ranked, with credit allocated accordingly. At some point, the founders promise, Kluster credits will be convertible to cash.

The first 30,000 pages of an online "Encyclopedia of Life" — what its designers hope will become the most comprehensive catalogue of all 1.8 million known species — is scheduled to be unveiled today and is expected to have "a profound and creative effect" on science.

On a related frequency and issue, let me remind us that today is the last day when we have a chance to VOTE for the final 10 BIG Questions to be discussed during Conversations Week (March 24-30, 2008)

Off to Ask more Big Questions, VOTE for the 10 Biggest Ones, run my TED Miro player & get ready for the inspired action,

Pronoic TEDster,
D a r i n a :)

Tales of Passion & Humor ~ Isabel Allende & "Dangers of Blogging"

http://joybringer.gaia.com — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:42:07 GMT

TED continues to inspire, delight & surprise in sooo many ways.

I want to share 2 Unmissable TED Talks & Tales of Passion AND Humor, each in their own unique moving, powerful and seriously funny way. Enjoy & share the tears, the laughter AND the impact...

In one of the most beloved talks from TED2007, novelist Isabel Allende talks about writing, women, passion, feminism. She tells the stories of powerful women she has known, some larger-than-life (listen for a beauty tip from Sophia Loren), and some simply living with grace, dignity and ingenuity in a world that, in too many ways, still treats women unjustly.

TALES OF PASSION ~ Isabel Allende Duration: 18:02

Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a careful lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, um, for men.

"DANGERS OF BLOGGING" ~ Yossi Vardi Duration: 6:15

NOW Take Joy, Passion AND Action a/st global AND local warming, not only at 4 am... :)