Think and Explain: February 2007

12.2.07

Pirates Ahoy!

So downloading movies and music without paying fo rit is piracy, and so major conglomerations and captains of legal industries are on the hunt to torrent spreaders and p2p-users. They may as well keep hunting as the economy of digital media is not on their side.

Insightfull and interesting aspect here.

5.2.07

Yet Another Spike Lee Joints

Never mind the regular joints, Spike Lee Joints always open my eyes. Last nights we watched Inside Man with Clive Owen and Denzel Washington starring a very unusual bank-robbery vs. NYPD story. I won't go into the details but this movie, mostly due to its soundtrack puts you in the position i as viewer enjoy most: thinking and consuming.

Not your average stampeding police action, or criminally violent masterminds, this movie is a multi-layered (whatever that may mean) excellent Spike Lee joint. Light, Dark, Heavy and Light again. Not to mention complex.

Time for me to rewatch Do the Right Thing, Mo Better Blues, Malcolm X and 25th Hour.

3.2.07

Say Cheese!

Still puzzling for me: what's wrong with a female face?

About Me

Name: jonathan even-zohar

Location: Leiden, South-Holland, Netherlands

A strange compilation of genes, sensors, motological movement and traces of soul-emulation exists within my biosphere of bacteria, virusses, phenotypes, memes and pumping blood. I intend to survive in way that increases existential harmony, as it is recognised by I & I. I listen to music that depicts happyness, violence, love, hatred, compassion, depression, complexity, honesty, silence and shock.

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Jonathan Even-Zohar was born in 1982 in a hospital just outside of Tel-Aviv, the dune of spring. Already an intellectual at the age of five he amazed his mother and friends by pondering the meaning of life and death. However, being drawn towards Playmobil, television and computers he soon lost interest in these matters.

It was after the Gulf War that his mother and boyfriend at the time decided to 'descend' from the Holy land and set sail towards The Hague, being the birthplace of Even-Zohars mother. Jonathan managed well in Grade school and High school, so the next logical step was the University, the infinite source of knowledge. After speculating on Industrial Design, Social Geography and Journalism it was the study of History at Leiden that turned out to be his decision.

Now, four years into the study, matters have only become more complicated as this student advances towards World History; meaning the complete array of fields a historian may implement in explaining the entire past of the entire world to fellow men. It is especially the philosophical character of World History that attracted Jonathan.

For him there is only one question that stands above all others like a lonely chuchtower in some Flemish village, which asks the cause of the Western Rise and the Industrial Revolution. Furthermore, the role of the European self- and worldimage throughout its history may explain the role of Europe in the Eurasian Human Web. Thus, the direct contact between Islam and Christianity is to be investigated. Were Muslims constantly on the verge of invading Europe? How did Arab people perceive the 'barbaric' Christians? How was Science spread and how did the West pick up knowledge form the Arabs or from further East? Europe and the Islam are still not at peace, certainly not in the mind.

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