Day 17 - A lesson in life

The other day I had an idea about a post that I was thinking of entitling "Do you live a flat or rollercoaster life?".

The world is crowded with people that choose to have an average life day in day out (remember Bill Murray in Groundhog Day?). Others choose to reach for the peaks, even if that means occasionally facing difficult times, downsides. I am one of those people, are you?

Today I received a video from a great friend, a video that is a lesson in life. Enjoy!

Day 16 - Keep talking Ted

Some time ago a friend introduced me to something wonderful: TedTalks. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

Here are some fantastic speeches that I found either extremely inspiring or scarely eye opening. Hope you too enjoy them. One thing is for sure, they will make you think. Can you handle that?

Day 15 - Innovation on films

Do you remember those books were you got to choose what happened next and then jump from one page to the other? I used to love those books as a kid, the name of those type of books in Spain was literally "choose your own adventure", quite appropriate! It was like having 100 books in one and YOU got to decide what happened next: slay the dragon? save the princes? steal from a beggar? God they were brilliant... (I wander if they still publish them, I might get some for my niece).

The mix of these memories with the memory of a fantastic fiction movie: Brazil spawned this idea. Brazil is a terrific movie by Terry Gilliam from the Monty Python´s. One of the things that makes this movie special is that it has many endings... quite a few endings which are shown consecutively to the viewer, one after the other.

Now the idea: Why not have 100 stories in one on a film and either A) Let the viewer choose what happens next, or B) Randomly select the sequence that would follow.

Wouldn´t it be radical to go to the cinema to see a movie recommended by a friend and end up seeing something totally different?

I hope the guys at Paramount or Metro are not following my blog... They might steal (yet another) brilliant idea.

Enjoy life!