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Kris

I am here for Friends

About Me

How to describe myself in a little box? Well, I prefer to live outside the box. I love to play with ideas. I believe there has to be a better way. And I can't imagine a world without wind and trees.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Truth-tellers, optimists, architects, and dreamers.

SONG CYCLE:
Always Returning - Brian Eno
Ecstacy of Gold - Ennio Morricone
das Wecken - Daecaunt
Divenire - Ludovico Einaudi
Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Todosim - Ekova
Comtine D'un Autre Ete: L'apres Midi - Yann Tiersen
Dancing with The Moonlit Knight - Genesis (w/ Peter Gabriel)
Loure pour les Pecheurs - Jean-Baptiste Lully
Never After - Justin Hines
Towards the Sun - Julian Scott Band
Old Man - Neil Young
The Flower Company - Banabila / Asid
Moving Mountains - Stereognosis
Twisted's Lullaby - Tim MacRoberts aka Twistedtechnology

SERENDIPITY:
On my desk - find a place to create
Woodblock dreams - watch it unfold
Babelfish - translate something new
Project Gutenberg - read something old
Sounddogs - listen around you
Seamless pictures - free your mind
Tell me what to draw - get the picture
Four word film review - get the gist
brigink's photos - span the world
freelancevirtuoso's photos - span the block
43 things - want it
Life lists - plan it
One sentence - get a random slice of life

YOU SAID IT:
"We move through negative spaces and dwell in positive spaces." - Matthew Frederick: 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
"To say yes to one instant...is to say yes to all of existence." - Richard Linklater: Waking Life
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten." - Neil Gaiman
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." - Shunryu Suzuki
"You are what you love, not what loves you." - Charlie Kaufman
"I walk by her side and the darkness lifts from my soul. I walk with her, and I hear the gentle beating of mighty wings." - Neil Gaiman
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
"Dream is destiny." - Richard Linklater: Waking Life

My Blog

Mosaic...


Posted by on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:09:00 GMT

Zen mindful...

Excerpts from "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" (Shunryu Suzuki): In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought o...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:36:00 GMT

Descent...

A heavy clap of thunder! I awoke... from the deep sleep that drugged my mindstartled... the way one is when shaken out of sleep... I turned my...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:47:00 GMT

Other people's spaces

I'm mildly obsessed with this site: on-my-desk.blogspot.com. Here are my current favorite entries: Leonardo and me :) Windows onto the world Solitary thoughts Artifacts and workspaces offer glimpse...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:50:00 GMT

What if...

What if those awkward, painful or frightening episodes in your life had a greater purpose? What if you shared the lessons you learned from those best-forgotten times with someone asking for help? An...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:13:00 GMT

Classical guitar, memories past...

Cavatina ~ Peo Kindgren (3:53)Bach, Prelude in D ~ Peo Kindgren (2:33)Albeniz, Leyenda (Asturias) ~ Andres Segovia (7:00)
Posted by on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:27:00 GMT

Gaiman and Buffy: Things that go bump in the night...

I do not seek the Dark. At least I don't think I do. For years I couldn't watch horror films; they still don't appeal to me. But I just finished reading Neil Gaiman's first Sandman book Preludes and ...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:55:00 GMT

Guess who's coming to dinner...

Once in a while I arrange a virtual dinner party with MySpace friends. That is, I start to click-and-drag my friends around trying to imagine who would like to be seated next to who. Sometimes my Ra...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:10:00 GMT

One- to three-click psychology...

A picture tells a thousand words. But can a picture speak one truthful word about you? Your Personality Profile You are dependable, popular, and observant.Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to ...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:43:00 GMT

NaBloPoMo? No just reflections on the act of blogging...

November is National Blog Posting Month? At first I wondered if this is just a marketing campaign by Google or Six Apart. But I see it's an offshoot of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Fort...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:11:00 GMT