Reflections: Culture

Life vs. Afterlife Part 1

ebakst — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:53:33 -0700

This much delayed episode comes to you all the way from China, where I am now, invited here as a Professor & KoGuan Chair of Digital Arts & Design @ Peking University.

The Promised Land: Part 5

ebakst — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:16:14 -0800

Edward's final post on his travels and search for artistic and spiritual enlightenment in Israel.

The Promised Land: Part 4

ebakst — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:25:07 -0800

Israel's demand for its neighbors’ recognition of its right to existence as an independent state is essential. Which country would not seek it or fight for it, if need to? But there is another facet to this, one which came to my focus while there, Israel's right to existence as the Jewish state. This is an all together other, vastly more complex an issue.

The Promised Land: Part 3

ebakst — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:33:47 -0800

To join all of the walls of the past, a yet another, vast and enormously tall wall, has recently been constructed by Israel to protect itself against terrorist attacks and suicidal bombers.

The Promised Land: Part 2

ebakst — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:47:35 -0800

Unquestionably controversial for its relationship with its neighbors, for numerous other economic reasons, and for its so compelling history and stamina, this petite state has become an envy of so many others.

The Promised Land: Part 1

ebakst — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:26:10 -0800

The issuing reflections are probably the most complex of all of those I have written until now, difficult and troublesome for me to reflect upon and even more so verbalize. Nonetheless, I feel a deep need to face a challenge of distilling and then sharing my personal thoughts and observations on this perplexing topics.

Netherlands

ebakst — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 09:32:10 -0800

Should current technologies motivate and dictate new innovative designs or can concept designs inspire novel technologies? Which one is better, wiser, more advantageous in a long run?

Crash Landing – Encounter with Reality Part 2

ebakst — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:50:03 -0700

And so it seems that humanity is loosing appreciation and benefits of simple and pure nothingness, of silence and calm, which come with not being under pressure to talk, to respond, to converse, react, but instead to think and feel, digest and reflect. Why?

The New World

ebakst — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:53:32 -0700

This reflection is devoted to the spirit of imagination, innovation, ideation and invention: how these precious values are reflected through the architectural realizations of the country called the “New World”. In my humble perception, something has gotten lost in translation. Are we slipping, losing it?

Imagination Part 5

ebakst — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:48:23 -0700

From our very origin humanity has been striving to unravel and unveil the grand design, the very scheme by which this vast Universe, and all within it, works, and the ingenuity by which it all begun, as well as where it is all evolving to. In this pursuit, as history has shown, we have wasted a lot of time seeing ourselves as unique, the center of it all, the ones around whom everything revolves.