Detlef Cordes

A video: 10/3 = Infinity

Detlef — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:46:54 +0000

If you divide 10 by 3 you encounter infinity. This video was inspired by Andrew Crane’s picture 0.333*.

Mathematics meets spirituality.

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What would you write on that billboard?

Detlef — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:34:37 +0000

Marketing is not easy. That’s why it’s so expensive. Could you write anything on that billboard that would be worth the billboard and the paint? For me, that would be difficult.

If we drop the assumption that the text on the billboard should be able to monetize: could we write something interesting or beautiful? Could we paint a picture up there?

Or would the best solution be to tear the billboard down?

I honestly don’t know.

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The Janitor of Cosmos

Detlef — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:59:10 +0000

Filing a complaint at the janitor of cosmos might be hazardous.

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Video: Your Life

Detlef — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:30:33 +0000

Your life is not on a track like a train. It sails through the air like a bird.

May you all sail with ease in the winds of the world!

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Letters and meaning

Detlef — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:48:27 +0000

What’s the meaning of a letter or a number? We are so fixed on the meaning of writing that we tend to forget the lettering over it. Knowing the letters we forget about them. Not knowing them – we see them very clearly, as in this picture. We see the message “loves you”, which doesn’t make any “sense” as such – so we are able to concentrate on the appearance of the letters, on their “gestalt”:

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This photograph of a graffiti on a wall leaves room for the contemplator’s mind to resonate according to its own pattern – not necessarily the pattern of the meaning of letters or numbers:

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The inverse function of this approach would be to try to find meaning in nature. These drops on a blade of grass could signify a punch-card code or a Morse alphabet:

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Sun of dignity in the cancer ward

Detlef — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:59:36 +0000

By “Detlef.Sitting in the corridor of the cancer ward I watched a woman in a bathrobe arduously moving to the window with a walker. She remained there in silence looking at the sunset. Suddenly she straightened up in her walker and said: “Ah, the sun, the sun. The beautiful sun!”

I was deeply moved to witness so much dignity.

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Nothing to say

Detlef — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:50:47 +0000

I’m glad I found a way to embed my videos via YouTube. I hope all problems are solved now and so I’ll use YouTube as a publishing platform for videos henceforth. If I have anything to publish or to say.

Although not having anything to say doesn’t necessarily mean you have to remain silent:

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The Next Level

Detlef — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:16:58 +0000

Rakshith Rao tweets the question wether or not to believe in a supreme being controlling our lives. I wonder whether such a being would know or even need the category “control”? What is there to control if you are a – or even THE – supreme being?

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Ryan writes about us human beings “blending in and standing out”. I like Ryans perspective because it makes me wonder: would we really be standing out regarded from the level of a supreme being? We are the same biological concept as the zebra, the frog, the fly. Do we really act that differently? OK: we have technology, we use artefacts we transform our environment. So do beavers. Homo Sapiens is more successful in the sense that we transform our whole planet – in the brief moment of our blossoming as a species.

Could we even recognize a superior being? Superior regarding what? Intelligence? Knowledge? Those are all human concepts that wouldn’t necessarily apply to a superior being. From the point of view of the chimpanzee Homo Sapiens is an inferior chimp. Man is a very inferior zebra, an inferior dog. No wonder all other life forms seem to be inferior to us – we seem inferior to them, too.

Homo Sapiens stands out in one regard: we can kill all chimpanzees, all zebras, all whales – if it pleases us. But if there would be a virus able to kill our species – would we regard that as a superior being?

So there remains technological superiority, like in the science fiction novels. A species able to travel to earth from their planet would necessarily be superior to Homo Sapiens. A species able to build a noiseless car that’s powered by sunlight.

But “technology” is a very human concept, too. I believe – and I hope – the next level will have to do with the universal concepts of love and kindness.

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Ways to happiness are galore

Detlef — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:51:17 +0000

A video about the many ways to happiness.

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Made by Homo Sapiens

Detlef — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:43:59 +0000

Sometimes I feel like the whole universe might be drawn into the abyss created by Homo Sapiens and our use of technology. – But then again I like to look at human artifacts as being part of creation. We never stand opposite to nature. We are always a part of it. We never step out of creation.

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