By Michael Claridge On October 20, 2009No Comments
Now this is an amazing creation. I have watched this more than a dozen times and it never gets old. Fast forward to a day when all city skylines are layered with amazing visuals like this.
I applaud NuFormer Digital media and their high-skilled 3D video mapping projections. These 3D projections can be custom-made to fit any specific building by a battery of powerful projectors that display amazing 3d video.
By Michael Claridge On October 13, 2009No Comments
The .mp3 is to music what .dos was to Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs took the ball and ran with it. My hats off to the creators of the entire iPod family. This new design for the iPiano is crazy cool.
My older brother had the dream of becoming a concert pianist. One of my fondest memories of growing up was the countless hours of fine piano music that I heard as he practiced in our living room. There is nothing like live piano music.
Take the iPiano that can display your music, turn your pages, and if your not a concert pianist it will even teach you how to play! If that’s not cool enough the iPiano stores and displays your electronic music scores – no more fumbling for sheetmusic under your piano bench. It’s all displayed on the center screen, and it’s even a touch screen at that. And if you’re into composing music, this little beauty can record what you play as well!
By Michael Claridge On October 10, 2009No Comments
In this video, author and speaker Neale Donald Walsch discusses fear. Instead of being overcome by your fears, learn to harness fear and make it an adventure.
If you are anything like me then this information is going to change your life forever – read on.
It wasn’t long ago that day-to-day living was horrible.
I hated life.
I hated everything.
I know the word “hate” is a pretty strong word, but that is exactly how I felt. I hated everything.
I didn’t end it all because I was just too chicken; besides I had two sons and they depended on me. Suicide is the ultimate selfish act and I hadn’t stooped that far – thankfully. But hate – that I could do. And I did it well.
I was angry. My fuse was short and my emotions were always on the surface. I frightened my sons – which would one day (when I stopped being so stupid selfish) turn out to break my heart.
Needless to say, life was far from amazing.
So what happened? What got me out of the depression?
Let me say right now that what I am about to say may not be your answer. It worked for me. It changed my life forever. But I categorically admit that it may not work for you. But by all means try it on, wear it for a while – it won’t cost you anything but a little time and effort.
I promise it won’t hurt. Heck, you may even have more success with what I am about to share than I ever dreamed possible. So don’t discount it till you’ve at least given it a chance to germinate within you.
I can say that I was depressed. I may have even been clinically depressed. I don’t know – again, I was too chicken – so I never gave that avenue a try. But I knew I was depressed. Looking at life through the lens of hate is pretty powerful depression. Yes, I know I was depressed.
Maybe pills would have helped – maybe not. I don’t know. That’s not my story. That wasn’t my path. It may be yours, but friend, that I am not qualified to say one way or the other.
How do you create an amazing life, especially starting from such a deep depressing hole?
First I have to tell you about one of the ugliest days of my life:
I came home from work early, because my wife was going to take her son (my stepson) away for the weekend. We’d been having a really hard time. I was stupid. She was stupid. We were playing relationship games. And the most destructive one of them all was the “blame game.” In my eyes it was all her fault and in her eyes it was all mine.
Been there? Then I’m sure you know what I am talking about. If you haven’t, then let me illustrate: find a brick wall and pound your head against it a few times as hard as you possibly can all the while trying to convince the brick wall that it’s not a brick wall but something else – when the brick wall doesn’t respond (which it won’t) pound your head against it a few more times. Repeat this until you have completely and utterly figured out that the brick wall will never change and that the only thing that can and should change is you.
That, my friend is what it’s like to play the “blame game” – no one wins.
We fought that day. We were both pounding our heads against the wall. We both lost.
She left me. And to my everlasting sadness it was too late to ever get her to come back.
But …
In that depth of sadness I learned something. I am going to call this step one.
Step One: Awareness
When I stopped pounding my head against the wall long enough to be aware of what was happening in my life I realized some powerful truths.
I realized that she wasn’t really all that bad, and that much of the blame fell squarely on my shoulders (which is step two, but we’ll get to that later), I also learned that I was a terribly reactive fool (which leads to step three), and that no matter how out of control it all seemed it was just the way I had created it (step four).
So step one is to stop. Stop in your tracks. Don’t think one more ugly thought. Don’t blame anyone. Don’t do one more thing – stop! Open your eyes and be aware of you.
Yes, focus on you – not on anyone else, just you. Be aware of what makes you feel the feelings you are feeling. Be aware of what triggers you have in place. Be aware of all the causes in your life, and all the effects they have caused. Just stop and be aware.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but chill out! Don’t move in any direction until you are aware of where you are.
Would you start on a long trip if you didn’t first know where you were currently? Sounds like a pretty stupid question doesn’t it?
Imagine wanting to take a trip to a neighboring state but you don’t know where you are to begin with; you wouldn’t know if you should go north, south, east, or west.
Isn’t it funny though, that many of us hate how things are but aren’t aware of where we really are.
I was depressed. I hated life. And if you asked me then I probably would have told you that I hated being married. But when I stopped and really began to be aware I realized that I loved my wife, I loved being married to her, and I loved my home. What I hated was really something else entirely.
You see, not knowing where I was caused me to create an even bigger problem. I caused damage to my marriage, to my relationship with my beautiful wife, and destroyed the thing I loved most. I went south when I should have gone north.
Before you do another thing – stop and be aware of where you are, who you are being, why you are behaving the way you are behaving, and what is causing you to feel the way you are feeling. Stop and be aware before you cause even more damage.
In the next article we will delve deeper into Step Two which has everything to do with you, and only you.
Am I aware of the big fat elephant on my blog? Absolutely.
I’ve actually been aware of it for quite some time. You see, most people that drop by my blog don’t stay for very long – never have. It’s been a big concern of mine.
Heck, I want them to stay and I want them to enjoy what I have to share with them. But I can’t seem to convince them that what I have to offer is of any value.
Now, I’m a big boy, so I can handle the truth. Most of what I have to say may not be of interest to the masses. I get it, I really do. But I also believe that the subject of Creation is powerful and that I have some pretty valuable things to say about it that are not being given any attention either.
Years ago Robert Fritz wrote a tremendous book called “The Path of Least Resistance” which is all about the subject of Creation. Many of today’s most popular Gurus (Eben Pagan, Bob Proctor, Anthony Robbins) have quoted from the book. Like I said, it’s all about Creation. Why is it that this subject so rarely gets the attention it deserves?
I have thought about it. I have researched. I have studied. I have tried new things. I want the subject of Creation to get some attention. And after all that I have done I have come to conclude:
The subject I have such a passion for (creation) is a HUGE subject that very few people really understand.Are you familiar with “The Secret?” The Law of Attraction had the same plight as the subject of creation – it’s HUGE. Nobody understood it; that was until Rhonda Byrne figured out a way to present it to the masses. Now there are literally millions of people who are studying, writing about, talking about, and marketing Law of Attraction information.
Until I can figure out a way to present the subject of Creation for mass appeal the subject is going to stay in the obscured, uninteresting, quiet and very lonely place it has been in for centuries.
The subject of Creation is bigger, more amazing and vastly more powerful than the Law of Attraction. Everything – I mean absolutely everything you read, you view, you experience, absolutely every facet of your life can and is influenced by creation. Did I emphasize that enough? Everything in your life can and is influenced by creation – EVERYTHING!
The truth is: You cannot not create. So my contention is: If you are going to be creating anyways why not learn to create amazing, valuable, and important creations that make your life amazing, valuable, and important – and therefore happy and abundant?
So the elephant that has been staring me in the face for some 12 years now is still saying to me that I’m onto something very powerful here – I just need to figure out how to present it in a way that the masses will actually take interest in – in a way that will get attention.
That’s where I need your help. I’m stuck. How can I get this powerful subject the attention that it deserves? How can I help people begin to see that this is a subject worth studying?
I would appreciate your comments, suggestions, and advice. How can the subject get as much, if not more – even way more attention that the Law of Attraction?
I am so freaking bored of this Blog. I just spent the better part of the last hour going over the archives and found that my writing is about as drab and lifeless as a crusty piece of old bread, but then I might be too kind.
No really. I can’t stand reading my stuff. How in the heck can I expect anybody else to read it?
Here’s the deal. I promise to put some life into my writing to get this Blog some constant readers, if you will promise to come back more regularly to read what I have written. Sound good?
Alright then, let’s begin.
Just the other day I was sitting at the kitchen table and saw billowing smoke rise into the air from just outside my home. I thought my neighbor’s house was on fire it was so close.
Turned out to be a fire at a recycling plant just a half block away. I grabbed my keys and got in my car. Yep, I’m an ambulance chaser.
Two mischievous boys (ages 11 and 13) wanted to make their mark on social landscape and lit the bundles of compressed cardboard and newspapers on fire while they recorded it on their cell phones.
The blaze was incredible. Within the hour more than several hundred people were crowded around this huge fire.
Which brings me to what I would like to talk about today. Why do we gravitate towards spectacle?
Just recently millions of people were drawn to the spectacle of the death of Michael Jackson. Not that he wasn’t talented and all. But I think the whole thing was a bit over the top.
It was the only thing on the news for weeks – still is. Why?
Farrah Fawcett died on the same day and she barely got a mention. But MJ wa practically lauded as a God.
Come now, back in the day, I bet there were just as many Farrah posters hanging on teenage boys walls compared to MJ posters on teenage girls walls. And hands down her posters were tons more appealing – to me anyways.
But do you think she got nearly as much press? No way close. Not enough spectacle I suppose.
So why is it that we do that? There must be a human gene that gravitates towards spectacle.
P.T. Barnum had it figured out. He could gather large crowds, hoards of people, to gawk over his spectacles. I wonder how he did it. He was a wonderful creator of spectacle.
I’ve got some ideas why I think people are drawn like magnets to spectacle, but I’d really like to hear your thoughts on the matter.
Leave me a comment and tell me what you think. And also chime in on how you think creation, creators, and creating have anything to do with it.
Oh, and the fire burned all night long. The smoke was atrocious. I came very close to getting a hotel room far away. I almost couldn’t breathe that night.
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