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 Lundoxia Presents (1 of 10): A video about stoicism A 5-minute video about the ancient Greek philosophy of stoicism, which also bears similarities with ancient Chinese taoism. |
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Lundoxia Presents (2 of 10): Analysis of the film BEING THERE (Symbolism, esoteric paradigms and the creation of reality) An excellent film analysis by YouTuber Jcrash, of the 1979 film BEING THERE by Hal Ashby (1929-1988) starring Peter Sellers (1925-1980, who created inspector Jacques Clouseau in the Pink Panther films by Blake Edwards 1922-2010) in one of Hollywood's most memorable film characters, Chauncey (Chance) Gardener. It was based on the 1970 satirical novel of the same name by the Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski, who killed himself in 1991 aged 57. The title of this 13-minute piece is BEING THERE: Symbolism, esoteric paradigms and the creation of reality. Favourite moment in the narration (12:35): "we can transcend [the] material world by reaching higher consciousness, we can transcend this physical world liberating ourselves from those who seek to control our reality in the physical world". |
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Lundoxia Presents (3 of 10): English photographer Muybridge (1830-1904) and his nude photographs of men and women in motion (mini doc) A 5-minute mini doc on the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), important for pioneering motion studies. For many years he lived in New York City and San Francisco. A few years before cinema or the motion picture was invented*, between 1884 and 1887 Muybridge photographed nude people walking, demonstrating that the Victorian era (1819-1901) was not as nudity-phobic as is popularly assumed. *The invention of cinema, movies, films or the motion picture is usually attributed to the Lumière Brothers' "Cinématographe" in Paris, famous for their film of a train arriving and its passengers disembarking. When it first screened in Paris on 22 March 1895, spectators were so stunned with this new visual invention that they screamed, thinking the train on the screen was going to leap out to them and crash in their faces! on 1 November 1895 in Berlin the Skladanowsky brothers displayed the first moving picture show to a paying audience, the "Bioscop", called a "Kinetoscope" or "Kinetograph" by Thomas Edison in the U.S. and later a "movie projector." "Roundhay Garden Scene" is an 1888 short silent actuality film recorded by French inventor Louis Le Prince. Shot at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds in the north of England, it is believed to be the oldest surviving film in existence, as noted by the Guinness Book of Records [copied from Wikipedia] |
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Lundoxia Presents (4 of 10): Live Art classics "Tableau Vivant" A live art event held in Brooklyn, New York in 2011. How I would have loved to be present at such an event, which to me communicates pure existence. Anyone who digs the abstract will definitely dig this in a big way. P.S.: Notice the graffiti or mosaic on the wall in this clip at 14:06 and seen at other various points, it reads "Breukelen" and this event happened in Brooklyn. Do the math. Later at 21:23 you also see "Amersfoort" as well. |
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Lundoxia Presents (5 of 10): NaaktopStraat.nl pamflet video Het 5e Element, Update 6 Oktober 2017 De nieuwste video voor mijn petitie (naakt in het openbaar) gericht naar de tweede kamer.2 minuten. Ga na www.NaaktopStraat.nl en teken de petitie als u mee eens bent dat andere mensen mogen zelf bepalen of ze gekleed of ongekleed op straat gaan! Ik heb een pers bericht verstuurd naar De Wereld Draait Door op 29 augustus 2017. Meer dan een maand later, 06 Oktober 2017 update: geen reactie van niemand, ook geen antwoord van mijn persberichten aan de 3 tijdschriften Psychologie, Sociologie en Filosofie. Hartstikke teleurstellend allemaal. Niemand wil de tijd nemen om de echte betekenis van deze petitie goed te begrijpen en goed door te lezen. Het wordt moeilijk hiermee vooruit te gaan zonder sympathisanten qua media. |
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Lundoxia Presents (6 of 10): What would happen if humans disappeared from Earth What would happen If humans disappeared from Earth? A 2-minute video by Tech Insider |
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Lundoxia Presents (7 of 10): Nude Woman Walking (short film) Short film (1 minute and 40 seconds) of a nude woman walking. Nudism is a a niche, esoteric lifestyle, no question. There are only about 40 countries that have organized nudist federations and 27 of them are in Europe. Nowhere is the nudity question as polarized as in the U.S., yet the most enthusiastic nudists are in the U.S., with all sorts of body-positive activists there, concentrated along both that country's coastlines from north to south. In Europe the countries with the most nudist holiday resorts are France, Spain and Croatia, that is why I slapped on some Yugoslavian music on this track. Even during the time of Yugoslavia there was lots of nudism. How nostalgic! Last summer I started a national Dutch petition to try and legalize public nudity here. This petition - its domain forward is NaaktopStraat.nl - has not picked up steam which I anticipated. This is a large topic indeed, one I could easily write a book about tackling every conceivable argument. However in my heart of hearts I believe this initiative could succeed, but the biggest problem is all the unpacking and explaining it initially needs. So it is getting over this initial hump. Once the proverbial floodgates were broken open, like tolerated soft drugs in Coffeeshops and legalized euthanasia, prostitution and same-sex marriage, non-sexual ordinary nudity in public could be normalized in The Netherlands. Humans tend to be adaptive rather than adoptive, this is the Catch 22 "Kip of het ei" snag. And yet, the Dutch psyche is such that most people here would not care in the slightest. |
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Lundoxia Presents (8 of 10): Why is Pornography Demonized? Mini documentary Why is Pornography Demonized? A mini-documentary (duration: 4 minutes, 44 seconds.) Camera or no camera, sex is essential to the survival of the human species. Pornography or erotica is the oldest artistic genre, or it is at least ancient. So why do so many people call it immoral and demonize it, when it is sex that caused them to be born in the first place? |
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Lundoxia Presents (9 of 10): The Extraordinary Story of George Lazenby (The Australian 007) A 13-minute video by me of George Lazenby in his own words of how he landed the coveted role of James Bond, in the 1969 film ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE. Clips in this video are taken from the original 1969 film and the 2012 documentary EVERYTHING OR NOTHING (which stands for "EON", the name of the company that produces and owns the rights to the fictional character called James Bond.) Exceptionally, 3 other non-EON James Bond films were produced, the short film for television CASINO ROYALE (1954), and again a comedy version of CASINO ROYALE (1967) and a remake of THUNDERBALL called NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN (1983.) As well, there is a clip from 2016 of Lazenby on Norwegian television, doing one of his recent PR gigs. Lazenby's story is remarkable because he went from a No-Lister directly to an A-Lister, albeit short-lived. Eventually he became a B-Lister. Some consider the term "B-List" pejorative but I certainly don't, me being a C-Lister. A C-Lister is basically an unknown who has a checkered career and takes whatever bits and pieces he can get and nothing adds up; a C-Lister is seldom paid and when he is it is peanuts. A List and B List is standard Hollywood - also called Tinseltown - terminology, whereas C List much less as that category has no clout. Although Bollywood (in India) and Nollywood (in Nigeria) boasts lots of film productions, and Europe with its coproductions (especially France with its prolific state-financed films), none surpass Hollywood for its global distribution easily worth trillions (or at least billions) of dollars, one of the U.S.'s biggest export industries. But Hollywood as we know it may well collapse before the end of this century, as the next generation of computer technology goes quantum or molecular. Stardom is being dissipated ever more as a construct because with the advent of such platforms as YouTube, people are constructing their own followings. They no longer need the Hollywood apparatus. We will see more and more of such self-made constructions as the worldwide web penetrates deeper and deeper in the coming decades. Eventually, the internet will duplicate microscopic organisms and absolutely each living person will be online 24/7 whether they like it or not! B Listers are notable figures who get decent sums of money for periodic gigs of all sorts. B Listers are not superstars nor stars but have featured biographical listings on wikipedia for example, and also make money by appearing at conventions, festivals and giving interviews. A-Listers are superstars or stars who are multimillionaires in a hard currency. Technically George Lazenby might be classified as an A Lister because he was married to, and subsequently divorced from the Tennis star pro Pam Shriver in the state of California. In California law when a man or woman is divorced from a wealthy spouse, that wealth is generously divided (California is well known for this.) And being a former James Bond is not unlike the post presidential office! The experts in Tinseltown who understand human psychology know its profit potentialities. The so-called Reptilian Brain (fear and desire) drives human instinct. You are going to go on a fantastic adventure and make love to beautiful women, or be saved from a heroic gallant gentleman. It's this age old mythology that speaks to the root of human existence and its need for a "feel good" factor fantasy. You might even say it is basic chemistry for the human mind. You would never be able to pull off Lazenby's stunt as he did it back then, today in 2017. The security has tightened dramatically and you would most likely be arrested. Approaching tycoons such as the James Bond producers out of nowhere would likely lead to a negative outcome. This is the Catch 22 scenario most C-Listers face (resulting from nepotism and/or protectionism), how do you move up that proverbial ladder? It's not unlike wooing a woman. If the woman likes the man from the get-go and a context is given then it facilitates an upward transition, and women pay more attention to men already with other women, seldom single men. But cold approaches out of the blue are awkward as hell and the person being approached usually feels harassed. "Naar" as the Dutch word aptly puts it. Wanting, and being wanted, are two radically different positions, the latter being far more potent than the former, to the wanted person in question. |
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Lundoxia Presents (10 of 10): Brexit & Top 10 Reasons to Pick Amsterdam Brexit & Top 10 Reasons to pick Amsterdam. Other EU Cities are now competing as options to London after the United Kingdom (UK) of Great Britain (GB) exits the European Union (EU.) |
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Lundoxia Presents (addendum/elf): Robert Lundy, governor of Derry during its siege of 1689 and Brexit juxtaposed against the united Ireland question A brief video by me (less than 4 minutes) about Robert Lundy, governor of Derry during its siege of 1689, and the united Ireland question vis-a-vis Brexit. |
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Lundoxia Presents (The Dirty Dozen): Riders on the Storm (Lundy vs Amsterdam, Part I) A summary of the case called Lundy vs Amsterdam concerning my revoked rickshaw licence for Solar Rickshaw. |
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