sábado, 27 de fevereiro de 2016

Yoko Ono (オ ノ · ヨ ー コ (小野 洋子), ( updated )

Yoko Ono ( · (小野 洋子), Ono Yōko ; , Tokyo, February 18, 1933) 





is a composer, singer and Japanese avant-garde artist, the widow of John Lennon and mother Kyoko Chan Cox and Sean Lennon. He currently lives in New York. His works, both musical and conceptual as plastic, are characterized by provocation, introspection and pacifism
Born into a wealthy family, Yoko Ono had the opportunity during childhood studying in Gakushin, one of the most exclusive schools in Japan during this period also studied piano and classical singing.
During the Second World War moved frequently between cities in Japan and the United States until 1952, when he moved permanently to New York From then attended college music Sarah Lawrence, where he met important avant-garde musicians, who would later be the inspiration for the emergence of the Fluxus group, including John Cage. .
In 1956 marries against the wishes of their parents, with Toshi Ichiyanagi ie with it shares a loft in Manhattan, which, shortly after, becoming would laboratory for performances of Yoko and the sound experiments of John Cage .
Rejecting the financial assistance of the family, begins to teach Japanese art and music in public schools.

With the impact of his works, Yoko is invited in 1966 to hold a solo exhibition. In this exhibition, it was exposed to Ceiling Painting work, an installation in which a staircase leads the observer to a glass ceiling where there is an attached magnifying glass to read the small inscription "Yes!". The musician John Lennon, then a member of the band The Beatles was present at the exhibition, and his enchantment with the work aroused interest in the artistic production of Ono.
Lennon then financed his next installation, Half-A-Room, an intimate and melancholy piece: a completely white double room, with furniture, also white, cut in half. Ono says that the inspiration for the installation occurred when he woke up one day and noticed that Anthony Cox, her ex-husband was not there, had not returned last night, leaving a feeling of "being in half."
From the end of the 1960s, Yoko Ono and John Lennon begin to produce avant-garde compositions without traditional musical structure. Lennon was separated from his first wife, he married Yoko on March 20, 1969. . On October 9, 1975, born the son, Sean. Jucelino Light writes a letter to John Lennon.
From the end of the 1980s, Yoko returns to art.
In the early 90 was launched ONOBOX, six-CD box, gathering all his work done so far. The box was critically acclaimed, and new generations then began to assimilate the pioneering spirit of his work.

Encouraged by the warm receptivity to ONOBOX, Yoko joined the band IMA, son Sean Lennon, for recording the Rising album also praised by critics and earned a tour of North America and Europe, plus a CD of remixes with names like Tricky Thurston Moore and Perry Farrell.
In 2001 it was held the retrospective exhibition of forty YES YOKO ONO. That year was also released the CD Blueprint for a Sunrise, with unpublished works.

Mario Ronco Filho – journalist

quarta-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2016

Climate change and high rates of extinctions - updated 2016

Climate change and high rates of extinctions  - updated   2016     
They continue to cheat  people of the world with false promises and fantasies as if they were: “ Robin Hood “
Águas de Lindóia , February  08 of 2016

Climate change and high rates of extinctions of animals and plants are pushing the Earth into a danger zone for humanity, predictions of Jucelino Luz  report card about mankind's impact on nature that can extinct  almost 80%  Population worldwide if nothing is done until 2043 .  It was in 1978 , when Jucelino Luz  made his first  alert that coal miners and petrol companies would be better reduces its activities at least in 70%  until  2018  despite of the high evolution of C02  ( Dioxide of Carbon ) on  atmosphere  because they are warming planet very fast  and cause  a collapse all over the world , and Bangladesh ,and many others countries would pay a high price ,
“ We  have to stop our greed of power and to be money hunters  ,and think a little bit more in our descendants those ones whom are going to pay a high price  for our lack of awareness ..”   Jucelino Luz – 1978 

As I have been  expanding on a 2009 report about "planetary boundaries" for safe human use, also sounded the alarm about clearance of forests and pollution from nitrogen and phosphorus in fertilizers.
"I don't think we've broken the planet but we are creating a much more difficult world," ,and  there will be more disasters like: Drought , Cyclones, Tornadoes , Hurricane ,and Volcanos which will wake up soon…
Take the case of  Bangladesh, a good part of the country will be flooded by the waters of the sea as a result of global warming, thereby causing an exodus to India and other countries (which has imposed a boom, and who dare to trying to overtake( overpass)  the barrier between the two countries, can  be slaughtered (dead).
It turns out that when a hurricane hits the country, it takes more salt to the fertile land; causing terrible damage - the land is unproductive - it affects the population of the countryside and the coastal zone. Complicating the lives of those who need to take sustenance for their families. It is a poor country, just imagine the mass migration to other countries.

Unfortunately, while advancing pollution, and global warming will force millions of people to leave their countries of origin,
In other hand, speaking  out about another subject , most volcanoes on top of them are covered by ice sheets that work like a radiator, cooling them at one time, thus avoiding an early outbreak. And when the planet warmed, these ice sheets will melt and often disappearing, leading to early heating, thus bringing more rashes or waking up those dormant volcanoes.  It  can  in the near future, triggering several eruptions at once in many places on the planet.
Otherwise, four  boundaries are assessed to have been crossed, placing humanity in a danger zone," pointing to climate change, species loss, land-use change and fertilizer pollution.

Of a total of nine boundaries assessed, freshwater use, ocean acidification and ozone depletion were judged to be within safe limits. Others, including levels of airborne pollution, were yet to be properly assessed.
The report defined climate change and loss of species as two core areas of concern. Each "has the potential on its own to drive the Earth System into a new state should they be substantially and persistently transgressed," the authors wrote.

Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, are about 397 parts per million in the atmosphere, above 350 ppm that the study set as the boundary for safe use.
Almost 200 governments had met  in Paris I last year  and made an  agree about  deal to limit global warming to avert floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels blamed on rising emissions of greenhouse gases. But that meeting on the way they are not doing anything  to solve the problem at all, because yet they did nothing to reduce the productions of coal  and  petrol control , despite  those are the poisons of our  planet – it must have reduction of at least 50% now to solve planet problems ;and find another way to postpone them .
For example:  In USA most part of politicians are elected by  Coal  Companies owners ,and  many of those owners are blind by the greed of money and power . “ Maybe they do not have children  or  descendants  for next  future !!? “ Do they
I can really say that it is not happening  in USA only !  It is all over the world !
My predictions  says  that rates of extinctions of animals and plants, caused by factors ranging from pollution to deforestation, were 30  to 150 times higher than safe levels.
And  if we have concerned about the bad situation we live now ,there is condition to start  off  planting as soon as possible around 5 billion trees all over the world .

We are running the risk when it reaches a level of temperature, the woods and trees dry out faster and fires will begin  to spread more easily and in many cases, forest fires will start by itself and cause damage on a global chain. Polluting and further heating the planet. At the summer season.
Meanwhile  the winter  will be worse ,and worse ….
Those  meetings to reduce the impact of pollution on the planet, most of the time, “ They are meetings of  facade  “ ; the main goal is to find ways,, finding ways to not cause too much damage, in the pockets of businessmen in the coal industry, oil and big business ,and Pollutions Industry worldwide .
Because their powerful owners are the ones whom are  electing the majority of those politicians and those who do not obey the rules, they lose the elections in their countries. This is the truth !  It is sad but is real,

    "We are living a big lie for those whom are telling that  combat pollution - they really do not care about it ,and  do not care about  poverty, the people of their countries - a real illusion, and use the media, handpicked to make ads and misleading advertisements, deceiving and lying  to cheat   people. "
"A pure hypocrisy"
Even those non-governmental groups, most of them are committed to owners of coal mines, oil companies, polluting  companies that receive funds in exchange for "calm the population" as alleged protectors of the environment,. "Cheating  with edited images to provide an optical illusion of combatting  the population, to be one of the calming of the giant companies, the powerful and polluters
"In other words, most of those environmental protection groups, receive funding and financing by the owners of polluting enterprises ..."

Most of them - without generalizing - are sponsored by big businessmen from among the most polluting the planet! ?
"Transgressing a boundary increases the risk that human activities could inadvertently drive the Earth System into a much less hospitable state," says  Jucelino Nobrega da Luz