Somewhere on Earth - part 3

A forgotten cove in Porto Vecchio bay. Awakening by a long swim across the channel in a warm, clear water. Life is beautiful!

Somewhere on Earth - part 2

I landed on this place at night. This is a view of my little "craft" at the morning. An island in an ocean of peaks.

Alone ? During the night I heard some dance music. Was it a sound hallucination? I walked for 3h30 to join this place! After taking this picture, I met a young shepherdess who told me she had a party somewhere down below in a hut ! No, no fairy tales ...

Somewhere on Earth - part 1

Somewhere on Earth, a place where I wake up. Time to enjoy the morning without thinking of nothing better than the present moment.

Moonwalkers about Earth

It seems that Apollo’s astronauts hadn't been frightened by their flight to the moon but by the Moon herself. She shines under the sun like a diamond but on it: it is a place of nothingness and dust. A sterile and silent place. A dead celestial body. So terrific!

- Aldrin: "Okay. Now I want to back up and partially close the hatch. (Long Pause) Making sure not to lock it on my way out."

- Armstrong: (Laughs) "A particularly good thought."

Jim LOWELL (Apollo 13)

We learned a lot about the Moon but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you could put your thumb up, and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you have ever known... Your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself, all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are. But then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy living here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.

David SCOTT

It truly is an oasis and we don't take very good care of it. And I think the elevation of that awareness is a real contribution to, you know, saving the Earth, if you will.

John YOUNG (Apollo 10 & 16)

Earth has changed a lot since we started flying in Gemini. There's a lot of things like urban pollution and you can see that when you hit orbit now. You can see the big cities all have their own set of unique atmospheres, They really do.

We ought to be looking out for our kids and our grandkids and what are we worried about?

The price of a gallon of gasoline, you know, in the United States, they're worried about $3 a gallon gas. I said, that's awful, you know?

Alan BEAN (Apollo 12)

Since that time, I have not complained about the weather one single time. I'm glad there is weather. I've not complained about traffic, I'm glad there's people around.

One of the things that I did when I got home, I went down to shopping centres and I'd just go around there, get an ice cream cone or something and just watch the people go by and think, "Boy, we're lucky to be here, why do people complain about the Earth?" We are living in the Garden of Eden!

I Will Possess Your Heart

Death Cab for Cutie : I love this track, the sound is bigger on this last album : "Narrow Stairs"

I always like these studio sessions, so athentic...

An very insistent bass, join by a trippy guitar and a galloping drum then a crystallin piano, and finally the voice.

The Light

I am the man in the mountain

I stand alone - I've been downed

In a sea of loveless illusion

So many lost - so many drowned

Got no church - got no steeple

Got no time for you people

I live the life of a shadow

The only chance that I have now

Is there

In the LIGHT

About Life (still another silly questionnaire)

1. Are you really interested in the preservation of the human race once you and all the people you know are no longer alive?

Sure but only if the human race could be more ... human.

2. State briefly why.

Between humans and ants, I choose humans

3. How many of your children do not owe their existence to deliberate intention?

15 or 20 I don't remember because I don't know them all.

4. Whom would you rather never have met?

Jesus Christ ...

5. Are you conscious of being in the wrong in relation to some other person (who need not necessarily be aware of it)? If so, does this make you hate yourself — or the other person?

Not at all

6. Would you like to have perfect memory?

Yes but I don't remember why.

7. Give the name of a politician whose death through illness, accident, etc. would fill you with hope. Or do you consider none of them indispensible?

None of them are indispensible but ... Gandhi !

8. Which person or persons, now dead, would you like to see again?

Stop it, it's repugnant.

9. Which not?

J.C. He will recognise himself

10. Would you rather have belonged to a different nation (or civilization)? If so, which?

Yes : Inuit, but I would had migrate to Europe because of the climate.

11. To what age do you wish to live?

30 years max

12. If you had the power to put into effect things you consider right, would you do so against the wishes of the majority? (Yes or no)

Yes of course !

13. Why not, if you think they are right?

I think they are wrong !

14. Which do you find it easier to hate, a group or an individual? And do you prefer to hate individually or as part of a group?

Hate & Love are close ; so I prefer hate or love one person at time ... or it's orgying!

15. When did you stop believing you could become wiser–or do you still believe it? Give your age.

It was 30 years ago. I am ten. Stupid question

16. Are you convinced by your own self-criticism?

I succeed convincing myself I am wrong but I do it still and all, 'cause I'm desobedient.

17. What in your opinion do others dislike about you, and what do you dislike about yourself? If not the same thing, which do you find it easier to excuse?

Others dislike about me when I tell what I really think about them and I dislike myself when I don't tell them the truth.

18. Do you find the thought that you might never have been born (if it ever occurs to you) disturbing?

The one who can proof it is not yet born.

19. When you think of someone dead, would you like him to speak to you, or would you rather say something more to him?

When someone is dead, we use to digg or burn his body, so the communication is more difficult. I would like he talk to me. I could only say : “Where are you?” as if he was online on a cell phone!

20. Do you love anybody ?

I’m dried

21. How do you know?

When I'm in Love, It’s hurt just right there! And it’s a delightful hurt!

22. Let us assume that you have never killed another human being. How do you account for it?

He or she had escape before

23. What do you need in order to be happy?

1 - Love

2 - Music

3 – Work (More accurately: the after work, we can let it go, breathing, it’s a real happiness)

24. What are you grateful for?

The inventor of all the above

25. Which would you rather do: die or live on as a healthy animal? Which animal?

I am already an animal ... otherwise a more graceful one ...as a dolphin.

Massive Attack Tour 2009 announced

No less than 50 dates for the Massive Attack 2009 tour. We're spoiled. Don't miss 'em!

How describe ? An innovating music : trippy, intense, darkly sensual, hypnotic, complexe, ethereal.

This is a must see for all eclectic music lovers.

They play in middle size concert halls, so you can listen to AND see this large range of musicians joined as a collectiv around Robert "3D" del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall.

The "orgasmic" ANGEL sung by Horace Andy

My Mom said I Could

Origins of Water

I’m somehow on the edge. A black bird is spinning around above my head.
So I need to take off to calm down. A caring friend says that water is the thread of this blog.
So let’s take some height to follow the thread.

From where comes Water?
From the montains ? - Good.
From the clouds ? - Nice.
It’s a cycle ? - Great!

And farther?

What has existed first Earth or Water?

Elements of Water (oxygen, hydrogen) have been created by stars.
Each star is an atom plant. Our sun products helium from hydrogen.

When stars die, many elements are spread in the space, and it forms these fabulous nebulous, these luminous clouds of interstellar matter.

Forces of the universe (gravity, electromagnetic force, nuclear force) join some of them to constitute molecules as water (and many others) with both oxygen and hydrogen.

Then these molecules join interstellar dust which will join by gravity a planetary system in creation around a new born star.

So primary matter came from initial universe but stars create more complex elements up to give birth to water and then the conditions for birth of life matter.

Some kind of stars – few- are able to product oxygen. In fact these kind of blue stars are created following a collision between 2 galaxies!

SO IT MEANS THAT WE LIVE IN SUCH A HUGE AND LARGE UNIVERSE BECAUSE IT NEEDS THIS SCALE OF SPACE AND TIME TO PRODUCT OXYGEN, TO PRODUCT WATER AND TO PRODUCT LIFE!

Are we high enough now?