Making Sense of Things

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It aims is to provide miscellaneous elements of thought – please feel free to share with us any mind-boggling piece of thought!

• 05 January 2012 - Dear readers… thank you!!!

  

  Dear readers,

  To kick off the new year, we’d like to warmly thank you for your continuous reading and support throughout 2011…   Indeed, Making Sense of Things is growing, and was viewed more than 53,000 times in 2011! The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people, so if it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 20 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

   

  Here are some more crunchy numbers for you:

  • Most visitors came from Australia. The United States & The United Kingdom were not far behind.
  • We also had visitors from New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Israel/Palestine, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, Chile, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco, Zambia, among others… We’d love to visit you!
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• 11 July 2011 - Update your playlist thanks to the Worldwide Festival…

  I have to admit, after five days dancing at the sixth Worldwide Festival, I struggle writing this post… Yet, I’m putting the effort as I do think you should consider attending the next one, either in Singapore or Sète (South of France – see the pic). The Worldwide Festival is organised by the über famous DJ Gilles Peterson and the styles of music are as eclectic as the name of the festival suggests. We’ve seen and heard artists from the UK, France, US, but also from the Congo, Japan, Iceland, Germany, Singapore, Kenya… etc with artists such as LeFtO, Simbad, Raphael Saadiq, Konono Number One, Gilles Peterson, Brandt Brauer Frick, Flying Lotus, Cut Chemist, DJ Harvey, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Ghostpoet, etc… As for the styles, there really was a bit of everything: house, electronic, hip-hop, dubstep, acid-jazz, trip-hop, blues, drum and bass, and even (sadly) a bit of pop.… Read the rest

• 28 February 2011 - Coming out – or more about who we are…

  Dear readers,

  First of all, let us thank you for you interest in Making Sense of Things. We are in particular grateful for the comments you leave us, as they inevitably stir further thinking and exchanges. Balancing openess with privacy is always tricky on the Web, but given your overwhelming welcoming, positive and constructive response, CJG and I have decided to be a bit more open about ourselves. So in reality our names are Carly and Jean. We’ve just moved out from Brisbane (Australia) where we’ve stayed for the last 10 months and have flown back to London UK, where we’ll be staying for a couple of months.

  Carly is 31, has worked as engineer in the private sector until leaving the company last year. She has taken some time off to be able to transition towards a way of life that allows her (and us!) to live veritably in accordance to her/our values. This … Read the rest

• 08 November 2010 - Listen to our new radio station – soundsory – while browsing the blog!

  We’re happy to announce that we’ve created a new webradio station – soundsory – so that you can listen and, perhaps, discover some new sounds while reading the blog. You can also listen directly to the webradio station itself while browsing the web.

  The aim of the radio is to broadcast quality, eclectic and twisted tunes. Feel free to let us know what sounds you (dis)like but also to share anything that you believe should be aired.

  You can naturally pause the radioplayer (on the right of the screen) if you prefer to read in silence… but you can also spread the word and play it out loud!

  UPDATE: Follow soundsory on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Soundsory/177996258879533?v=wall

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• 07 September 2010 - So, what is the ‘Uncategorized’ Category about?

  It aims is to provide miscellaneous elements of thought – please feel free to share with us any mind-boggling piece of thought!… Read the rest