The blog of Michael Cabon

Joshua Bell is not a bell. This is a talented cellist. Tickets for his concertos snapped at 100 dollars each. Yet when it moves in the subway and began to play classical music such as Bach for 47 minutes in a subway station in Washington DC, no one listens, no one applauded, it is an FPS without fixed public. Result: 1097 passers are over, and he recovered a total of $ 32.17.

Here is an extract video and audio tape is full available here .

The experiment conducted in 2007 by the Washington Post was whether the place, the context of the experience influence our behavior. Are we able to recognize the beautiful outside a predefined context? Or the notion of beauty is too social?

The answer is undoubtedly yes. We know for example that broadcast classical music in a fancy restaurant (the experiment was conducted in a scientific way to New York) increases the average bottle price of wine purchased at a meal.

The situational component, where one is, but also the psychological context of the person interferes greatly studied in the perceptions they may have.

Anyone can experience it. It may very well feel like Deed Purple and at certain times of the day, it is not sound appropriate according to our mood.

Here, the experience takes place in a particular context, that of round trips to the workplace. In their most personal thoughts or business, people go to the sealed environment that is theirs. This is especially true in large cities, and Washington, although modest in its dimensions, is one. The opera that surrounds the musicians make their music more beautiful, the cover of Eva Mendes and Aishwarya Rai most attractive (but not you're super pretty girls. You tonight. Kisses)

ties and dress and look serious credibility of a politician than a Bermuda-sandals and head of Carlos. The clothes would then the monk, and place a portion of the perception of talent. Since then it is easy to fool the human mind. We put people on television, the movies are, by saying that it's really important, even essential, is showing their lives, focusing on the dramas that rattle in the brains silicone, and it gives "The Incredible Kardashians ", broadcast on a dark chain of the hilarious French TNT.

"Ladies and gentlemen, viscounts and viscountesses, my name is Jean-Sebastien and I have 20 children that I have to feed every day without having the means. I lost my job at the court since I went blind "

It is difficult to empathize with its environment. Stimuli are numerous, even endless. A form of fatigue is taking place. The capacity for wonder, indignation also sometimes deteriorates. It is the triumph of selfishness is selfishness, self-absorption, on which is reassuring. "What worries me is foreign." Intelligence, wit, social, emotional, is a struggle. This is not a definitive figure. Laziness, boredom, habit, convenience, lack of humility and perseverance are the enemies in the most absolute. The civilizational aspect is probably its importance, he should have done the same experience in the subway in Leipzig in the 18th century. Ottoman, ottoman. As a city becomes cleaner if everyone sweeps his doorstep, it is first of all to re-enchant the world for the world to be re-enchanted.

Noted. This is a mild chronic, assaissonnée dressing, no salt, no oil, no vinegar. If it is good to tell his gratitude for being happy, it is necessary also to express negative opinions. No Morini-Bosc was killed during the writing of this text.

It lies to us, we are consuming, it robs us, we cover everything, we are told nothing.

Each Friday, with the newspaper Ouest-France, I get in my mailbox. I mean mailbox. LOL. Rip WTF! The long sobs of the violins of autumn wound my heart with a monotonous languor.

So I get a copy of the magazine TV programs, TV Magazine. Biggest draw of the French press with over six million copies and read by a French four. Telegram also proposed in its Saturday edition, and much of the regional dailies.

We have the politicians we deserve. The saying is also true for television magazines. And as many say that in France, we do not deserve much. The stakes are high, however, when one learns that on average 3 h 47 French spend a day behind their television sets to scratch the bottom and eat chips.

TV Magazine is the press that the white pages are to literature. From a distance it looks vaguely like, almost beyond doubt is possible. Generally, we read it in the toilet.

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Brigitte Bardot popularized as a person, in France the Harley Davidson with the song written for her by Serge Gainsbourg. The appearances of the motorized vehicle in the movies, we think first course in Easy Rider, reflect the character of this cult bike that is more than a motorized vehicle, an art form. It is now possible to approach this cult object in the building itself, in miniature of course.

The company Altaya offers a new collection through the construction of the Harley-Davidson FLSTF Fat Boy ® 1:4 scale , which is not bad, let's face it. Some details can be closer to the myth: Indicators, brake lights and turn signal lights, Speedometer backlit; Ignition with controls on the dashboard; Accelerator with throttles on the handlebars, and especially the sound of Harley Davidson motor home, giving any hearing its rationale.

The pieces are already colored, and their installation is relatively easy to allow the philistine model to find shoes, motorcycles, at its foot. A fine bijour to put at the foot of his tree, if not already gone through the compost, or in the living room at home for a few good breaks come in the rainy winter.