The Other Side of Everything

The Wisdom of Krauts

Dean — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:58:46 PST

Images towards session at http://mcl3.eventbrite.com/ Media Camp London 3, Thursday, December 17, 2009 Posted via email from Preposterous Guru

Share the Errors

Dean — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:02:39 PST

Tiles – blue, shiny and even, in rows from the rim of the bathtub, halfway up to the ceiling. I stepped back to admire the finished results. “Share the errors,” Jon H. Wright had explained, as I had earlier wondered how to get long straight lines in a room whose walls were a long way [...]

Super-Dense Baby Neutron

Dean — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:35:39 PST

The 12.4 mile-wide object has been cloaked in mystery since it was identified as a powerful X-ray source in 1999. Astronomers now know the source is a neutron star 11,000 light years from Earth at the centre of the supernova Cassiopeia A. It is the youngest object of its kind ever discovered, [...]

Art Toilet

Dean — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:02:25 PST

A ten year art project reaches completion… Posted via email from Dean Whitbread

Burgers and Bacon – How Depressing!

Dean — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:23:25 PST

British Journal of Psychiatry reports that a diet high in processed food tends to make you depressed, while a diet of vegetables, fruit and fish is, surprise surprise, better for your mental as well as your physical health. Those who ate the most whole foods had a 26% lower risk of future depression than those who [...]

Meditation

Dean — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:06:39 PDT

I meditate every day. Consequently I find an increase in clarity and a lessening of stress. Six days a week, I follow the simple and effective meditation called ‘the mindfulness of breathing’, which takes about twenty to thirty minutes. You don’t need to follow a religion, chant a mantra, believe in God, or disbelieve in God [...]

Kenwood Lake Colours and Textures

Dean — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:00:05 PDT

I like to give myself reasons for keeping the planet a liveable habitat.

Save The Planet? Hit Them In The Wallet

Dean — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:24:35 PDT

First published 30th October 2006 and re-published 15th October 2009 as part of Blog Action Day 2009. It took me a long time to get the Simpsons. I didn’t even get the Homer Simpson / Homo Sapiens pun. I didn’t like crass Bart or sensitive Lisa, or Marge with her blue hair, or her croaky, [...]

Fun With Sparks

Dean — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:40:58 PDT

Angle-grinding in a small toilet with adequate protection. Not very macho at all. I am doing it myself.

The Millennium Post

Dean — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:02:14 PDT

It has really been an amazing five years. In the sixty fourth month of this blog – June 2004 to October 2009 – I have reached post number 1,000, which makes it by a long way the largest work I have ever constructed. I started writing under my nom-de-internet, Deek Deekster, as Blog of Funk, [...]

Noise

Dean — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:58:21 PDT

Woke up this morning rested after a night’s sleep. That might seem like an obvious thing to say, but I still vividly recall the effects of my then over-active thyroid which reduced my physical health and took a toll on my emotional health, and this is perhaps why I value sleep, real, deep, blissful sleep [...]

Curses

Dean — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:25:04 PDT

Now that I have expertly masterminded the diminishing of my own public presence – an 18 month process of careful non-action, locked accounts, moved blogs, paused podcasts and private conversations – I feel once again able to relax into a non-aggressive, celebratory mode of being, which I recognise as much truer to myself. It has been [...]

Here Comes Trouble

Dean — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:13:07 PDT

Since the exit of Blair, Brown’s takeover at the top of the Labour party, making him Prime Minister without an election has rankled with the British population. His virtues – and there are some – have been masked by dissatisfaction based on the length of Labour’s incumbency, as much as a general dislike and mistrust [...]

Think Decimal

Dean — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:23:17 PDT

Are you confused? We were. Years of calculations out of the window, mental arithmetic and judgement of distance, weight and volume up the spout. Away went inches, yards, fathoms, furlongs, but confusingly we kept ounces, pounds and stones, for a while. Why did we have a 12 times table anyway? What was the relevance of [...]

Only Six More To One Thousand

Dean — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:47:10 PDT

I don’t really care whether people read this blog or not, and that is the big difference between The Other Side of Everything and Blog of Funk, which preceded it. Previously I cared passionately about my readers, and was exploring both inner worlds and outer worlds which we seem to share in the torrent of [...]