Paul Kalkbrenner | About Time | Life in a Day

"Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace(...)"

Imagine - John Lennon



Tyler Durden from Fight Club:
"Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."

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"Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around."

- Sofia Serrano
in Vanilla Sky


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"What is Bad? I've told you already: everything that has in it's foundation, weakness, jealusy and revenge."

Chapter LVII
THE ANTICHRIST  
NIETZSCHE

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Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei - www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1gmgP…

The Voices of the Great Spirit.

When we say the right thing, when we do the right thing, we are working for the Great Spirit.
The Great Spirit is the best of the Mankind can do.

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Building with Light - Robert Elwall

Suggested by cyrus-inc, a very good book that explains the history of architectural photography from it's beginning till today.


The Eyes of the Skin - Juhani Pallasmaa

Suggested by stkennedy it was one of the best books I've read about architecture.

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"What is architectural quality? It's easy, it doesn't mean to appear on architecture guides or in architecture history neither being published. Architectural quality can mean only one thing, that a building touches me"


                                                             -Peter Zumthor

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I think these movies can prepare people to know what life is all about, some talk about good things, others not really.


Peacefull Warrior
Koyaanisqatsi
V for Vendetta
Inception
Into the Wild
Cloud Atlas
Zeitgeist
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
Fight Club
Die Welle
Match Point
Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei - The Edukators
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Das Leben der Anderen
American Beauty
La Vita e Bela
About Time
Donnie Darko
Good Will Hunting
Hero
In Time
Matrix
Animatrix
Vanilla Sky
Habla con Ella
Love Actually
Dead Poets Society
Butterfly Effect
Schindler's List
12 Monkeys
Green Mile
Crash
Rubin "Huricane" Carter
Trainspotting
Collateral
The Hours
Lost in Translation
Alice
Saw
Saw II
Cube Zero
Cube
HyperCube
Snatch
American History X
La Pianiste
Meet Joe Black
Sweet November
Der Himmel uber Berlin
Shawshank Redemption
Elephant
Paranoid Park
Forrest Gump
Cidade de Deus
Monster's Ball
An Inconvenient Truth
The Departed
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Oldboy
Blood Diamond
Babel
Bowling for Columbine
Fahrenheit 9/11
Manhattan
Kingdom of Heaven
Cinema Paraiso
The Notebook
Blindness
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ein Freund von Mir
The Ugly Truth
Malcom X
Equilibrium
Limitless
Moon
Avatar
Wall E
Juno
Mr. Nobody
The Tree of Life
Shutter Island
Das Weiss Band
500 days of Summer
Life in a Day


these movies are all related, they fit in the blanks of each other.
if you wanna say something, just tell me.


MUSIC
here are my favourites...

Air
Apparat
Bat For Lashes
Bernardo Sassetti
Bonobo
Carlos Paredes
DeadcanDance
Ellen Allien
Faithless
Fat Boy Slim
Felix Mendelssohn
Hans Zimmer
James Horner
Jeff Buckley
Jonsi and Alex
Madonna
Madredeus
Mark Isham
Massive Attack
Moby
Moderat
Nelly Furtado
Nitin Sawhney
Nina Simone
Paul Kalkbrenner
Pavarotti
Philip Glass
Pink Floyd
Portishead
Prodigy
Radiohead
Samuel Barber
Susumu Yokota
Sigur Ros
Schiller
Swod
Tan Dun
The XX
Yann Tiersen


BOOKS

The Twilight of the Idols - Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy - Nietzsche
The Antichrist - Nietzsche
Zaratustra - Nietzsche
Portugal, Hoje - O medo de Existir - Jose Gil
Architecture: choice or fatality - Leon Krier
Ornament and Crime - Adolf Loos
La Modernidad Superada - Josep Maria Montaner
Thinking Architecture - Peter Zumthor
Conversacoes ( Chats ) - Gilles Deleuze
Atmospheres - Peter Zumthor
Rethinking Architecture - Edited by Neil Leach
The Non-Places - Marc Auge
The Eyes of the Skin - Juhani Pallasmaa
Building with Light - Robert Elwall
Letters to a Young Poet- Rainer Maria von Rilke
Candide, ou l'Optimisme - Voltaire
1984 - Orwell
The Anaesthetics of Architecture - Neil Leach