belinha fernandes: Alive and floating

WEEK6_DAY1_ IT'S ALIVE

1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY

All along the watchtower - (Hendrix singing Dylan’s)

2. PLACES TO KNOW

San Francisco, Sausalito

A guy making a living on selling houses made a nice video about Sausalito

3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER

Stewart Brand

Mirene tugboat:why a boat? The Mirene is a working, 64-foot-long tugboat built in 1912. Sometimes he takes the boat out cruising. He turned the wheelhouse and skipper’s cabin into a bedroom, with two rooms and a bath below.

Interview 1

Conference Whole Earth Discipline at RSA

4. QUESTION OF THE DAY

5. INSPIRATION

Stewart Brand says: “We are as gods and might as well get good at it.”

“Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive... It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!... ...Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!”

Hydroponics

Windowfarms - building your own little vertical garden in your window. It’s an open source project + big community attached to it.

How to window farm

The amazing String Gardens!

Stewart Brand - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

- In 1968, he created the Whole Earth Catalog’s - reading about it here.

Here’s what Steve Jobs had to say about it: “...one of the bibles of my generation… It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.”

An article on The Guardian - The book that changed the world.

A compass.

All along the watchtower

There must be some kind of way out of here,

Said the joker to the thief,

“There’s too much confusion,

I can’t get no relief.

Businessman they drink my wine,

Plowman dig my earth

None will level on the line,

nobody offered his word...

(Hendrix singing Dylan’s)

6. Some more links to check