Butterfly: TED

Okay okay. The last post was pretty damn emo. But I won't apologize. I do sincerely believe in everything I said. But I think that anyone who ever met me will agree that I'm not a very brooding person. How come?

I think this might have to do an awful lot with TED. TED is a conference that is held yearly in America. The name stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design and people from these fields gather to tell each other about their work. And it is AMAZING. Trust me: describing TED is the most appropriate use for that word I know, just above the fact that porcupines can piss 2 meters far and use this as a mating ritual.

Every TEDtalk (as they're called) takes about 18 minutes, but never really much more. Famous people like Jane Goodall, Al Gore and Malcolm Gladwell have speeched at TED. But no-one will be able to deny the jaw-dropping brilliance, wit and charm of people like Hans Rosling or Steven Pinker once they've seen them.

These are the people that make me confident that we can make it.

See for yourself:







And these are just three of them, picked more or less at random. This is what keeps me from suicide.

Keep up the amazingly good work, TEDsters.

Alias

Butterfly: Fantastig Toch by Eva de Roovere

Just got back from a wonderful weekend in Paris with my father. I will definitely talk a lot about it in the next few days, but right now I'm going to sleep a lot because I'm pretty tired (my dad snores like a sawmill, which cost me some sleeping hours).

For now, here is simply a very very sweet love song. In Dutch. With a text that doesn't even make sense in Dutch. And here is a dylanfan speaking.

Anyway:


Keep up the good work, Eva.

Alias

Butterfly: I'm Not There

This is my pet movie. I think The Shawshank Redemption might be a better film, but everyone knows that one. This one is fairly obscure, but nevertheless brilliant. For those who have never heard of it: it's about Bob Dylan. Or at least, I think it is. Yes, it is that vague.

I saw this film for the first time in a small theater in Bern, Switzerland, with French and German subtitles. It blew me away. I KNEW Dylan, of course, but after this I really started to develop my current obsession with the man. The film really puts him down like he is: so easy too listen to, so hard to define (injoke). The music, the acting and the camera are all top-notch, and especially the music is used in ways I never thought possible. No, that is not an overstatement.

Not everyone likes it, I know, but if you can appreciate "artsy" movies and are willing to love a film without understanding it, you owe it to your inner intellectual to check it out.

Trailer:


The most beautiful love scene of all time, IMHO:


Keep up the good work, Todd.

Alias

Butterfly: Kurt Halsey

Man, I have been posting some long stories these past days. I would apologize if anyone would actually read them.

Aaaaanyway, I promise to keep this one short. Kurt Halsey is an artists who makes stuff that makes my socks fly off on the one hand and the sweetness sensor in my brain overload on the other.

His art is incredibly sweet and really sad at the same time, like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or Belle and Sebastian songs, or Asofterworld.com.

But enough of the references or spoiling of future butterflies, check it out:
http://www.kurthalsey.com/category/work/

Keep up the good work, Kurt.

Alias

Butterfly: Guaranteed by Eddie Vedder

So, dear imaginary readers, I decided to share something with you. My collection of butterflies.

Just to clarify: in ancient Greece, the word for "soul" and "butterfly" was the same (psyche). To honor this amazing fact, I decided to label all the rare and beautiful things you sometimes stumble upon "butterflies". They can be songs, paintings, movies, anything really. Even people, sometimes.

So here the first: a song from a man with a guitar about a boy who wandered too far. Taken from the soundtrack of the great film "Into the Wild".

Keep up the good work, Eddie.

Alias