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Twitter Weekly Updates for Breaktimers
Posted by breaktimer on Dec 20, 2009 in BreakTimers Philosophy
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Twitter Weekly Updates for Breaktimers
Posted by breaktimer on Dec 20, 2009 in BreakTimers Philosophy
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Twitter Weekly Updates for Breaktimers
Posted by breaktimer on Dec 13, 2009 in BreakTimers Philosophy
- Are we wishing you a Happy Christmas? | Free to use low-carbon message | The Hunting Dynasty http://bit.ly/8EQ2Dp via @AddToAny #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for Breaktimers
Posted by breaktimer on Dec 13, 2009 in BreakTimers Philosophy
- Are we wishing you a Happy Christmas? | Free to use low-carbon message | The Hunting Dynasty http://bit.ly/8EQ2Dp via @AddToAny #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for Breaktimers
Posted by breaktimer on Nov 22, 2009 in BreakTimers Philosophy
- Whats is the best social media to create traffic rapidly for a young brand? http://bit.ly/IwPru #
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Commercial Breakers
Posted by CarloBoutwell67 on Oct 26, 2009 in Break Time Currency, BreakTimers Philosophy, Breaktime Stories, Breaktimers Manifesto
Commercial Breakers from Douglas Haddow on Vimeo.
Twitter Weekly Updates for Breaktimers
Posted by breaktimer on Oct 18, 2009 in BreakTimers Philosophy, Breaktime Stories
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Do you frequently try to do everything yourself? http://www.breaktimers.com/philosophy/test.html #
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Posted by breaktimer on Oct 11, 2009 in BreakTimers Philosophy, Breaktime Stories
SLOW DOWN LONDON IN AUTUMN
Posted by CarloBoutwell67 on Oct 8, 2009 in Breaktime Stories, Events
SLOW DOWN LONDON on 21 November
Foyles Bookshop will be the home of Slow Down London this Autumn, serving up several wonderful reminders that fast isn’t always best. Shift down a gear with events including slow yoga, letter-writing workshops and a fully fledged Slow Down Day.
Following the success of the inaugural Snail Mail workshop during the Festival in April, poet Miriam Nash returns to Foyles with a series of opportunities for you to rediscover the creative potential of picking up a pen. Sign up for one, two or all three of these Saturday sessions to explore what happens when you stop texting and start thinking.
Lunchtime Yoga is also making a triumphant return to Foyles with a six-week course of Wednesday classes to help you release morning tension and re-energise for the afternoon ahead. No experience is necessary for these gentle, but dynamic, classes which will be led by Tessa Watt, co-director of Slow Down London.
And Tessa will be joined by her fellow directors, Deepa Patel and Amanda Stone, to ease you through a full day’s worth of slowing down on Saturday 21st November. Come along to Slow Down London Day and immerse yourself in slowness by, amongst other things, introductions to deep breathing and the pleasure of eating slowly enough to taste.
Further information can be found by scrolling down on the Foyles website, along with details of how to book your place for any and all of these mellow events.
Twitter Weekly Updates for Breaktimers
Posted by breaktimer on Oct 4, 2009 in BreakTimers Philosophy
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wasting time and doing nothing
Posted by breaktimer on Oct 1, 2009 in BreakTimers Philosophy
wasting time and doing nothing
is it too early for a break? D…
Posted by breaktimer on Sep 1, 2009 in BreakTimers Philosophy
is it too early for a break? Dont think so (9:00 am in Barcelona)
BreakTimers @ Montreal Biennal with Shopdropping 1-31 May 2009
Posted by breaktimer on May 8, 2009 in Break Time Currency, BreakTimers Philosophy, Breaktime Stories, Events
BreakTimers currency was used for the fantastic exhibition of SHOPDROPPING MONTREAL at the 2009 Biennale de Montréal during May 2009, curated by Vanda Daftari & Natalie Reis.
SHOPDROP > to covertly place merchandise on display in a store. A form of ‘culture jamming’as defined by Ryan Watkins-Hughes, creator of shopdropping.net
BreakTimers is doing some shopdropping in major European cities, if you would like to participate please contact us!
Society at a Glance Reports how we spend our time in the 18 OECD Countries
Posted by breaktimer on May 6, 2009 in Breaktime Stories
From ” Society at a glance ”
The French spend more time sleeping than anyone else in OECD countries. They also devote more time to eating than anyone else and nearly double that of Americans, Canadians or Mexicans. The Japanese sleep nearly an hour less every night than the French and also spend longer at work and commuting than they do indulging in leisure activities.
These are some of the insights into the differing ways in which OECD countries use that most fundamental of resources, time, in the latest edition of Society at a Glance.
Society at a Glance gives an overview of social trends and policy developments in OECD countries using indicators taken from OECD studies and other sources. It attempts to help people see how their societies have changed, particularly in comparison with other countries.
A special chapter in the report investigates leisure time in the 18 OECD countries for which up-to-date time-use surveys are available. The time-use surveys included in this report are from 2006 and based on nationally representative samples of between 4000 and 200000 people.
The report reveals big differences in the amount of time men and women have for leisure. Italian men have nearly 80 minutes a day of leisure more than women. Much of the additional work of Italian women is apparently spent cleaning the house. Norway is the most equal society, with men having only a few more minutes of leisure than women.
Norwegians spend just over a quarter of their time on leisure, the highest among OECD countries, while Mexicans spend just 16%, the lowest.
So what are we doing with our leisure time? Watching TV absorbs nearly half of all leisure time in Mexico and Japan and falls to a low of 25% in New Zealand. Turkey is the most sociable nation, spending 35% of leisure time entertaining friends, more than triple the OECD average of 11%. But OECD countries are not very physically active: Spain reports the highest proportion of leisure time spent doing regular physical activities. Even there, exercise accounts for a mere 13% of leisure time.
Slowdown London 24 April to 4th of May 2009
Posted by breaktimer on Apr 24, 2009 in Breaktime Stories
Today starts the Slowdown London festival, the Festival includes events such as readings of poems, wine tasting, meditation laboratories. It starts today with a walk through London Breidge during rush hours and a debate at Greenwich Observatory. Its a must go for any BreakTimer!
Minute Moments Festival and Breaktimer Distribution
Posted by breaktimer on Apr 3, 2009 in Breaktime Stories
Minute Moments in Montreal Canada celebrated their 5th year anniversary with time voyage celebration!!
Artists sent their 1 minute videos on the theme Time Voyage. The best films were screened during the festival.
They will have a jury giving out their Coup de Coeur. Also, as the opening program, there were one minute videos from the artist collective CityPulse from Santiago, Chile. and a BreakTime Currency distribution cashier….
5 filmmakers were awarded a prize from 5 jury members, and they received an autographed clock and Breaktimers currency.
You can check the best videos @ minutesmoments
BreakTimers @ Minute Moments Montreal 31/03/2009
For the month of March, we are pleased to do something with our friends at Minute Moments in Montreal Canada. So that we can celebrate their 5th year anniversary!! (Happy Birthday).
If you are in Montreal or have friends there please forward the invite…
Everybody can participate to the festival by sending 1 minute videos on the theme Time Voyage.
Minutes Moments is a festival of 1 minute movies!
This month’s theme is time travel. The best films will be screened during the festival.
They will have a jury giving out their Coup de Coeur. Also, as the opening program, they will screen one minute videos from the artist collective CityPulse from Santiago, Chile. and there will be a BreakTime Currency distribution cashier….
The theme of the festival is:
Les voyageurs du temps / Time travellers
You can already get your creative juices flowing.
Minute Moments
Send videos or links to: breaktimer{at}breaktimers.com
Location:
Moment Factory
Street:
6250 Hutchison 200
City/Town:
Montreal, QC
TUESDAY MARCH 31, 8 pm
Collapse Barcelona 19-20-21 of March 2009
Collapse in Barcelona: this week end 19-20-21 of March 2009:
we’ll be there!!
Collapse
Collapse is a festival where artists, students and professionals of architecture and other disciplines meet up to discuss, experiment and debate on the new scenarios arising from the collapse!
Collapse
eme3 COLLAPSE es un festival que reunirá durante tres días a pensadores, artistas, estudiantes y profesionales de la arquitectura y otras disciplinas, para que reflexionen, experimenten y debatan sobre los nuevos escenarios surgidos del colapso.
Time spent loughing is time sp…
Posted by breaktimer on Mar 16, 2009 in Breaktime Stories
Time spent loughing is time spent with the Gods (Old BreakTimer proverb) http://www.breaktimers.com/philosophy/great.html
BreakTime Currency
Posted by breaktimer on Mar 5, 2009 in Break Time Currency
As part of the international negotiations following the current financial and spiritual crisis, BreakTimers is pleased to announce that “we have all the time in the world”!
The BreakTimer Central Bank is therefore the first and currently only bank that can issue the new Break Time Currency that allows you guilt free and fully enjoyable Breaks.
Banknotes are distributed free at our events, you can also download it free here or order through our shop
for a better preview go
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BreakTime Banknotes
Crisolart & BreakTimers event: Avant-garde & BreakTime Distribution
Posted by breaktimer on Feb 18, 2009 in Break Time Currency, Events
A nice arty break: Download and Print the free 10 minutes picture to exchange it for a real one and get free drinks at FREE BREAKTIME BANKNOTE DOWNLOAD Time and Place Start Time: Friday, February 20, 2009 at 7:30pm till 1:00 am Location: Barcelona. Spain. from 19:30 CrisolArt: Calle Mallorca 284 bajo; after 22: Coctum Bar Calle Mallorca 308 you can let us know if you attend on facebook Avant-Garde & BreakTimers event Crisolart Galleries and BreakTimers are proud to present the first exhibition of artist from the historic Avant-garde and folllowing BreakTimer chill out party. History and vanguard are like prisms. They do not give us a panoramic view of the real world. Rather, they allow the richness and polymorphism of experiences in the past to be reflected when viewed from different angles. Memory does not become art until it is translated into a proper artistic language. . Included in this exhibition is a selection of graphic works by: MIRÓ- VALDES- TAPIES- PLENSA- CLAVÉ- CHILLIDA- RAFOLS CASAMADA- LUCIO MUÑOZ- GUINOVART- CASTILLO- SAURA- LAM- HERNÁNDEZ PIJUAN-PONÇ- MATTA. After the exhibition we will move to the BreakTimers chill out evening at the Coctum bar across the road where we will distribute free BreakTime banknotes.
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Monopoli Money Exchange
Posted by Alain on Jan 28, 2009 in Break Time Currency, Breaktime Stories
OSLO, Incredible! A lady went to a bank and exchanged Monopoli money for Euros 190! Double Incredible! Happy with the result she goes back and tries to exchange more Monopoli money for the value of Euros 750!! Well this time the bank employee was a little smarter than the first one and called the police who arrested her….. does this show us that the value of money is only a matter of trust (or stupidity some may say)?
See more on the history of money and why the economy is collapsing at http://www.breaktimers.com/bank/history.html. In any case please dont try to exchange BreakTime Banknotes in banks, nevertheless you may try to swiftly barter them for people’s time.
Sleep well…… and the economy will take off!
Posted by breaktimer on Jan 20, 2009 in Breaktime Stories, Breaktimers Manifesto
AMSTERDAM (Holland). This is the result of a research on the cerebral mechanism during sleep, conducted by the Dutch neurologist Ysbrand Van der Werf, at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) in la Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.
They demonstrated that good sleep is beneficial not only to the individuals but also to the economy! This is because people who sleep well are more productive and perform better.
Sleeping nearby a motorway, a railway or an airport causes problems with remembering information and learning and organising new ones.
We already knew that a bad sleep made us very grumpy to say the least, but what Van der Werf demonstrated is that we will also have productivity problems.
Apparently (according to the professor’s study):
“Sleep before learning benefits memory encoding through unknown mechanisms. We found that even a mild sleep disruption that suppressed slow-wave activity and induced shallow sleep, but did not reduce total sleep time, was sufficient to affect subsequent successful encoding-related hippocampal activation and memory performance in healthy human subjects. Implicit learning was not affected. Our results suggest that the hippocampus is particularly sensitive to shallow, but intact, sleep.”
The hippocampus affects the way we remember old memories and store new ones.
Van der Werf discoveries question the current trends of sleeping in noisy cities and fewer and fewer hours.
As BreakTimers, we feel it’s part of our mission to encourage people to sleep more and better!
Professor Van der Werf provide us with a strong scientific argument that will help winning the argument for more rest: it’s good for the economy (your company and general) too! So in a period of crisis it should be our duty to make sure we sleep enough and well.
Van der Werf’s results are published in the internet magazine Nature Neuroscience. We propose Professor Van der Werf and his team as Great BreakTimers!
sleep well
Horace
Where would you like to go?
Posted by breaktimer on Nov 11, 2008 in Breaktime Stories
10 minutes, 1 hour, 1 day what would be your choice for a break?
What is money worth nowadays?
Posted by breaktimer on Oct 7, 2008 in Break Time Currency
Since the end of the Gold Standard, Money has no intrinsic or material value! If the shit hits the fan you won’t be able to go to a central bank and claim Gold or anything else for it. Too bad eh!
So money is only worth the trust we put in it, what happens now that banks don’t trust each other?
Is it okay to laugh about the credit crunch BBC article and Videos
The BreakTimers Manifesto
Posted by breaktimer on Oct 1, 2008 in Breaktimers Manifesto
We need to take a break and to do it now…. its’ later than we think!
BreakTimers believe that
“Wasting time is investing time in yourself”
Happiness and success also depend on the ability to waste time.
As a matter of fact, people must take enough breaks to be able to live a happy life and deliver some smart thinking.
So:
– Waste some time….. you know you want to!
– Carpe Diem…, seize the moment, do it now, its later than you think!
– Change the world!?
Our philosophy is based on an analysis of the great philosophers and thinkers from the past and presents. (The Great BreakTimers)
Who is the BreakTimer?
A real BreakTimer is somebody who knows how to enjoy wasting time….
A Breaktimer is also able to do things that could change the world!
Please contribute to shaping our philosophy by writing on this blog!
Here is an inspiring video for you breaktimerzzzz
Philosophy of Life
