5th day
afternoon
watch
go to the nearest fountain
and watch the water dance
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100 Acorns
It's been 44 years since my book of conceptual instructions, GRAPEFRUIT was first published in 1964.
On 15 June 1968, John Lennon & I planted two acorns for peace at Coventry Cathedral. It was the first of our many Peace 'Events'.
In the summer of 1996, I picked up from where I left off, and wrote 100 ACORNS.
Starting on the 40th anniversary of the Acorn Peace Event on 15 June 2008, I will publish here an 'Acorn' every day for 100 days.
After each day of sharing the instructions, you should feel free to question, discuss, and/or report what your mind tells you.
I'm just planting the seeds.
Have fun.
Love, yoko
June 2008
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- When I count what's wrong with my life, I get totally depressed. When I count the good things, I feel like smiling and I do. Then I think, "well, it's not all that bad." Life is just a bowl of cherries. But when I see myself smiling in the mirror, I like myself more. Well, life is a roller-coaster. That's what I now think. Recently, I got a message that I was a king, and I should stop the battle, and appreciate my victory. Well, I should listen to this one. And you, too, my friend. We are all kings. The battle is the battle of goodness winning WORLD PEACE. At all times, find something that makes you laugh. Laughter is the best workout! Chimpanzees are wise to it. Are you?
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22 comments:
my favourite fountain is outside wembley arena.
I saw it the night i went to see Robert PLant and Alison Krauss. A good gig. Recommended.
Before the concert i was sitting on the steps waiting for some friends. Pat and thelma who were having a real bad time. I was nervous to be meeting with them.
A fountain is laid out below the steps and it has all these interactive buttons that kids were jumping on to change the way the water cascaded and to put lights on to the water.
So, yeah, ok. The water was dancing but the kids were too and it just got better as some of them tried to guess which way the water would go and ran between the fountain, hoping to stay dry but getting wet. A great summer dance.
Inside the concert hall. Real great music from the likes of t bone burnett and buddy miller, a real dapper bassist and a magnificent drummer but a reverential audience not prone to dancing. I looked away from the stage and there a couple on a small dias dancing a love dance, together.
I watched them for a while. the dance being greater than an amazing music. At least for a while.
Pat was too angry to stick it out. Thelma suffered the music that sang sings about where she was and what she had done. It was a tense night. But the prevailing memory, the real happy time, was the kids dancing in the water dance, and the parents who would get involved too. Thanks for the dance.
There’s a fountain in my computer.
I’m at the office.
In the area called The Fish Tank.
On Ground Zero.
Into the Red Zone.
Tres Cantos
Madrid
Spain
I like this Acorn.
A fountain that dances,
brings to life,
your changing emotions.
A fountain that I love to visit,
is @ "Somerset House"
London.
"If u have the chance, go and watch this special dancing fountain......."
I watch in mind.
Looking for the Wembley Arena fountain and the Somerset House fountain I have found this WATER PLAY. Nice and funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEZzmISm5Go&feature=related
Hey! I've just found this other video called "Appearing Rooms". A bird's eye view of the very same fountain I posted before. It's wonderful to see people moving along by the dance of the water.
A metaphor of life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKnO3HPeuEs
This is some aditional information offered with the video:
This fountain installation by Jeppe Hein is currently by the newly reopened Royal Festival Hall on the south bank of the river Thames, London... (and will be there until september 2007 I think)
Each day the program is different, I took this video on june 20th...
I have put it alongside my piano improvisation of 3rd june and messed with the speed of the video x
Yesterday, I made my sky-circle twice in the morning , for practice, and because it was on my mind.
The first time, the sky was near dark because it wasn't even sunrise -- that was about a minute.
The second was about an hour later, with the sun peeking over the mountains, but I didn't do much more than rotate once around for maybe 15 seconds -- these were BIG sky circles, about 1.7 meters in diameter.
In the afternoon, when it was time, wouldn't you know I almost forgot, and made a quick roundabout under a cloudless early-Autumn dome of blue before walking on to finish my work.
Today's is a roll downhill!
I live in a small town and the only fountain (besides a new one in the park for kids) is one at a bank downtown. It is only about 2 ft. deep and has two basic fountains that only go up a few feet with some colored lights that they have on at night to make it joyful. The reason I mention it, and the reason I love it so much is because of the memories. I remember taking my oldest daughter down to it in the summer and sitting on the edge and looking in. Then, slowly and without trying to alert her I pushed her in, and then laughed hystarically! I don't know what came over me! It was so funny, the look on her face was priceless! I have ritualistacally done the same with each of my other children. One more to go, but he is only two. Maybe I will let him get a little older, but I wait for the day!
I wish I was in Europe looking at the fountains that you can find there.
Off to watch your videos Jorge.
Good day everyone.
Love to you Yoko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRn-YMQrwOo
This looks like just as much fun, lol!
I feel hermit-like today, so I haven't gone to the nearest fountain - but I may do so. In the meantime, my thanks to Jorge and Lavinialuna for bringing fountains and splashes onto my screen.
Here's another one named "Moon Pool". The title seemed very Yoko-esque to me, although the sculpture does not. It's still nice, though!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yaNRSZRfWg
The magical and mechanical William's "Moon Pool" fountain have made me think about the fascinating "Mercury Fountain" by Alexander Calder. It's not water but mercury running and it's very poisonous. The exposure to its toxic compounds may cause sensory impairment (vision, hearing, speech), disturbed sensation and a lack of coordination.
Frightening beautiful strange fountain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1FnF5zUPEE
Ha! ha! ha! What a funny ritual lavinialuna! You have created a new kind of baptism!
"Nobody needs to baptize me
Anytime I laugh I got religion."
(This is a wink to William I'm sure that he knows this song)
Oh my Jamie! I am thinking about your little one, unaware of everything. Yes please let him get a little older, so he can really enjoy the joke.
Lavinialuna's story have brougt me to my own childhood and have made me realize that in fact my nearest fountain is the one I keep in my Memory Box: The fountain of the little village where I was born.
It is a very old one, about 500 years old, all made of stone: A huge tall wall with a vaulted niche at the top, where the statue of a Virgin Mary is placed, and two stairs on the sides that lead down to the water.
When I was a child, not all the houses in the village had running water, so most of the women go there with pitchers and botijos (drinking jugs). Young men used to gather around the fountain to look at them from above and to exchange glances, winks and whispers.
Sometimes, life around the fountain wasn't so idilyc, I remember that one day a maiden was arrested, because she broke a kind of earthenware jar in the head of a boy that addressed to her in an improper way.
I used to go there and spend a lot of time watching the water flowing from the five metal spouts shaped as snake heads, sitting in the wet and cold stone bench in front of them.
Luckily the fountain still exits, and there is a pic in here:
http://www.galeon.com/sadaba/fotos/fuente.jpg
earlier today
(before reading "5th day")
watched wildly dancing water fountain
in the pouring rain
smiling
I just had to include this link. To me it briefly but beautifully combines Yoko's 4th day and 5th day instructions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqv7vnzqlvA
We have a fountain in the park where I walk, it was hot and children were splashing water and having fun. I so wanted to jump in....I danced in my head instead. Thanks for the links to the fountains online.
I ride my bicycle past Lovejoy fountain every day in Portland, Oregon
and this is the Lovejoy fountain...
one day I saw a piano sitting in the pool, but I had missed the orchestra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CWEbzM1coo
All beautiful fountains! Thanks so much for taking me around the world today. It lifted my spirits. The rising circle really did make me think of the circle in the sky!
What a beautiful memory of the fountain Jorge (except that poor girl insulted!)
Yes, as Lavinialuma has said; All beautiful fountains! so I also want to thank you for all the moments of fresh happines you brought to me yesterday.
Yes William that rising circle combines Yoko's 4th day and 5th day instructions, and many other works in which she made an equivalent between sky and water.
It seems that her Bronze Age has passed, but I would love to see how she could represent this rising circle or circle draw in the sky in bronze;-)
Thank you Yoko for this wonder and joyful journey you are taking us to.
I don't want this to end!!!!!;-O
I really wish I could!
I love water and hearing it rush and splash!
Just the thought is beautiful!
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