Awesomeness and randomness :)

Nadiyka — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:19:33 +0000

Books and movies speak to people in many different ways. What it says to you, it might not say to anyone. And the other way around. I think its wrong to expect you’ll hear/see/think of same as someone who has seen it previously. Why do we blindly follow someone’s recommendations then? Why don’t we just go to cinema/gallery/new city with an open mind?

Why don’t people listen. Isn’t there always something you’d hear? Even if its your self speaking back to you.

Nadiyka — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:51:18 +0000

Dont care. Dont care what you think, what you feel like judging or ignoring, what you’d think is cool or lame, beautiful or ugly. Couldnt care less :)

Feeling, living, planning and dreaming, dancing and sleeping, inventing and drawing, writing and smiling, being what my mind n heart feel like being - thats what i’m gonna do :)

back?

Nadiyka — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:36:10 +0000

I should get back to writing. I think. Well, i hope i will. Reason being i started writing in my head again, so it needs to be out. Out of my head it is. I feel like there’s this girl inside my head. Red hair tight in a pony tail, wearing sweat pants and a t-shirt, with a typing machine in front of her on the table. And sometimes she just starts typing. Choosing words, deleting, re-writing, re-thinking. No stress or pressure. Just keeps typing small notes. Quite distracting, really. Since she is ME. So that keeps me often busy for no particular reason. I’ll need to find the way to get it out at some point. (oh, and i do know i don’t need to explain myself, thanks)

Happier body, happier mind

Nadiyka — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:23:31 +0000

Found a Yoga studio in Brussels. Cant believe i am so lucky! ..Took my first two classes. And i love it. Feeling every muscle of my body. And i love the teacher. She just makes me so happy’, its everything i’ve been looking for :)

The right approach, the right attitude, the right support, the right set up, the right person, – makes it all an inspiring story. And that’s what people should do – follow passion, using space to make other people happy, and becoming happier themselves.

There’s so much more we can do. So much more limits we can cross. So many challenges we can overcome. So much more loving and giving we can be. Make your heart smile. Do what makes you happy :)

Tagged: happy, inspiration, myself

JR. makes photographs that can be seen from the space

Nadiyka — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:35:00 +0000

..or at least from the plane. .. or from the tallest building in town. ..or will be looking at you from the street wall you walk past every day.

The guy takes pictures of real people, and places them on still objects around us. That’s my favourite part of it. Last year i saw exhibition “women are heroes” in Brussels streets: http://senseslost.com/2008/06/03/jr-graffiti-art/ - faces out of another reality, placed in the city, smiling at you, knowing you have no idea what this faces ‘ve been through. And there are many stories behind.

For inspiration – see portfolio at: http://jr-art.net/

Tagged: art, inspiration

Nadiyka — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:08:47 +0000

I believe in Beauty. I believe that when colours come together, they create energy unlike any other. I believe some combinations of light, shades and reflections, can give us feeling of inner peace and happiness, a call for action or urge to sing and dance, feel the love for the whole world and every single person. In faces, in nature, in architecture, in the sky, in the plain brick wall. I believe that our eye can see more than there is. Or maybe exactly as much, while every other day we just see objects, sceneries, labels and perceptions, and we fail to see *it*. The beauty that is everywhere around us at every single moment of time.

http://alltogether.tumblr.com/

Tagged: art, inspiration, myself

Mood

Nadiyka — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:56:28 +0000

Be yourself, whatever you think is true to be. Follow your values. Even if they dont give same back to you. Care, help, support people who might not even appreciate. Because if you stop – it’ll be against what you believe in. Because doing something only for people who will say Thank you is not even a point. Even if sometimes the world will give you nothing you expect in return. Self respect, piece with yourself in a long run is so much more important than feeling appreciated. Appreciation is totally overrated. As long as you appreciate yourself. And yeah. I dont really care if you think differently ;)

Tagged: myself, self

I am artfriendly

Nadiyka — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:14:27 +0000

Now i discovered the word for my relationship with art:

I am artfriendly!

Artfriendly – adj/n

1) An attitude, a positive mindset towards art and artists

2) People you might have come across in a museum or in art exhibition. A circle of people with an affinity for art, for creativity, who don’t claim to be experts. Their relation to art is open, with no prejudgment. Many of them would be happy to buy an artwork, but never, or rarely, get round to it. (Does this sound like you?)

3) Places open to creativity (Maybe the place where you are at the moment?)

4) An art label promoting inspiring visual artists and spreading their work as widely as possible at a democratic price

http://www.artfriendly.net/en/

Great project i came across. Making art accessible, contributing to positive economy and fighting climate change at the same time. Sustainable art. Inspired by urban life, the planet and the nature. Putting together passion, responsibility and entrepreneurship. I love the idea. (And its based in Brussels.)

“Art is valuable for itspoetry and for the emotional response and inspiration it stimulates.”

Tagged: art, inspiration

What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years

Nadiyka — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:17:02 +0000

An attempt to look into the future of the web by a person who knows what he are talking about: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Full story: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_web_in_five_years.php?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_term=social+media

Highlighted comments include:

Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content.
Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years – they jump from app to app to app seamlessly.
Five years is a factor of ten in Moore’s Law, meaning that computers will be capable of far more by that time than they are today.
Within five years there will be broadband well above 100MB in performance – and distribution distinctions between TV, radio and the web will go away.
“We’re starting to make signifigant money off of Youtube”, content will move towards more video.
“Real time information is just as valuable as all the other information, we want it included in our search results.”
There are many companies beyond Twitter and Facebook doing real time.
“We can index real-time info now – but how do we rank it?”
It’s because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources. Learning how to rank that “is the great challenge of the age.” Schmidt believes Google can solve that problem.

and full 45min with Eric Schmidt here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHxub_yQfig

Tagged: future, web 2.0

Strange maps

Nadiyka — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:55:16 +0000

I am fascinated by maps. The always remind me of places i wanted to go. I love maps. There is so much logic in them, and yet its so easy to get lost even with the map in your hands. Reading a map and using one appeared to be a skill not everyone has. Maps are amazing.

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

And sometimes i look at maps as a joke. Map of the world? WHOLE world on one piece of paper? All its beauty on PAPER? All its DIVERSITY in the range of green-brown-blue colours? how pathetic to try to transmit something so beautiful, so endless, so breath-taking in the simplified version of the birds’ view that noone except the birds is looking at anyway…

Yet while the birds didn’t tell us that the world looks different from high above, people could see it in a whole different way. We see what we want to see.

Mixing countries around, trying to divide, draw borders with a pencil, colouring them in different colours. I wish people would see the world for what it really is, and not t what they want it to be.

But for now, follow the Strange Maps link, and enjoy the different perspectives on the same squire metres.

And remember:

Tagged: wondering, world