noochi

just saw david shrigley, artist from glasgow, on tv - what a sweet, modest guy! he makes things that are so awesome that people have tattoos made of them. sounded like he has a problem getting paid (but he might very well be totally loaded), and it isn’t easy to buy the things you can buy from him - will get back and check with him once noochi is up and running.

added nov 4: ok, ok.. so i am realizing this guy is a complete megastar… i will still contact him once i have an offer. sometimes megastars don’t mind average joes… you never know unless you give it a shot, right!?

tags:art, daydreams, hairbrush

i have a very dear friend in minneapolis. william aka will. we met 5-6 years ago when attending msib-training at microsoft in mountain view. neither of us gave a damn about msib, but we had an almost instant connection and quickly became friends. it makes me feel very blessed that we have stayed in touch and that our friendship has grown although we innate in different continents. this summer, william visited denmark for the first time (+ we had a laugh in amsterdam), and we had a jolly good time. once back home, he made a package for me with lovely photos and excellent music, which happened to arrive on what would otherwise have been a really low day!

i almost think william and i have some kind of spiritual connection - because once again he sent me a present with a timing that couldn’t have been better; 2 delicious books - one of them the four agreements which worked like medicine.

living these agreements will make you truly free:

1.	Be Impeccable With Your Word (say only what you mean - use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love)
2.	Don’t Take Anything Personally (what others say and do is a projection of their own reality… or as deepak puts it: forgive idiots - they can’t help it everyone is doing the best they can from their own level of consciousness…)
3.	Don’t Make Assumptions
4.	Always Do Your Best (amen to that!)

the other book, the secret has a good and complimenting concept, namely that you have to think positive thoughts to attract positive energies. so far, i have found the style of it to be a tit bit condescending… however my friend louise and i tried an exercise from it: close your eyes and smile for one minute, while focusing on feeling good. within 30 secs we were actually laughing and so concluded that the secret worked!

when your mouth smiles, you are more likely to feel happy (try it for instant results). william is someone whose bare existence will always remind of this fact. thank you for sharing your power!

tags:enlightment, freedom, friendship, gift, smile, will

I had have a truly excellent mentor – mr. lee - who is one of my inspirations for coming up with and realising noochi. he is gifted with an ability to ask the right questions and to spread his words of wisdom when needed. yesterday, we chatted about Kōan practice. there are different views on how to practice kōan, and even of how to define it, but i liked what he said:

Meditate on a question (or simply pose a question to yourself, unless you happen to be a friggin’ cool zen master) such as: 2 hands clap and make a sound; what is the sound of just one hand? Every time you answer, the response (from yourself or from your “master”) is that your answer is a good answer, but not the right one. Not until this has been repeated between 7-15 times you are allowed to end your train of thoughts. This will challenge your way of thinking and furthen your ability to broaden your horizon.

being pragmatic, one could ask any question, not necessarily a deeply philosophical one: what makes me happy? or how can i contribute to make this world a better one? or even just how do i make the most out of the coming weekend? the method is likely to ensure that you get around any issue in a way that adds to your insights. that is a good thing. thanks for sharing, mr. lee!

p.s. when i checked with mr. lee if i could post the above, he commented that my noochi blog leaves an after taste like that of eating a caramel with really nice glossy paper on it! I totally get the point and am working on it… Promise…

tags:caramel, koan, mentor, share, zen

love and food remain of steady interest to the crowds, whereas the interest for art and business decline (or these areas embraced the long tail and made folks more specific)… freedom doesn’t seem to be as popular as i would have expected. Perhaps it is more sought-after offline? crowd wisdom does not always rule.

tags:crowdwisdom, food, freedom, love, trends

what i love about the noochi concept is that business networking becomes pure pleasure - or vise versa (although my concept evolves around it, formal “networking activities” can be quite a drag… sipping luke warm white wine and pretending you give a shit care when you don’t is a complete pain). but today, i attended a very sweet 6-year birthday at my most lovely friends’, and came home with 2 kinda’ wins.

first, i have my eye on a very cool woman whom i want in noochi’s board of directors and she was quite open to the concept. she confirmed that she knows a lot about building a business - in particular she knows what NOT to do (extremely valuable when you are driven by enthusiasm more so than by practical experience!)… i hope my blog will soon have a more lengthy follow-up to my involvement of her!

second, another extremely good-karma-powerwoman had a bright export idea. She is a flea market expert (amongst many other more acknowledged expertises) and had identified a fruitful way to utilize this particular talent. i told her that she could consider noochi one of her channels for sales and marketing, once noochi is up and running. i am sure that if noochi had already been functional, her product portfolio could have been showcased here within the coming week. i can’t wait to have a fully functional shop and a fully functional programme.

tags:board, business concept, networking

I really am full of admiration! Take a look at Matthias Wivels blog - metabunker… that grew out of rackham.dk - a site that has been run by matthias and my very talented brother for years and years. I am sure that many Danish comic book nerds enthusiasts miss it a lot, as nothing quite resembles the debate forums and huge archives of interviews, reviews and know-how that were accumulated there (at least not non-commercial and in danish). If you sign up for rackham newsletters (not sure how - but get metabunker feeds, email matthias wivel or figure it out) you receive quite interesting transmissions from the metabunker concerning comic books and graphic novels - all very, very cool and inspiring. and even if you are not into this genre you will be amazed with the enthusiasm, wit and intellect that drive all these activities. This is true passion. This is true love of an art form.

Further, the most recent transmission says that if you want Blæk you better hurry. If the rumour is true, noochi will not be up and running with exclusive rights and a special bargain on Blæk (Danish for ink) before this very fantastic publication that collects the best from the Danish comic book scene (broadly defined) is sold out. You can still buy it online from Fantask. I highly recommend it (also for people who don’t read danish - there are hardly any words… in one of my favorite contributions by simon bukhave there are no words at all).

tags:art, comics, enthusiasm, family, graphic novels

i met lars, my previous boss, for coffee the other day. Besides being an awesome team leader (a complete role model in this area), he makes paintings (and many other things for that matter) - and i have often thought of him as part of the very lovely talent cloud that surrounds me.

his response to my ideas concerning noochi was very positive and insightful. Before finishing the latte he even agreed to sell his paintings through noochi. The answer: “why not?” is the one i am hoping for from all the talents noochi puts a zoom on.

the dark image says it all makes a difference. And my happiness in agreeing to this point is great. I feel very fortunate, privileged and almost blessed that I cling on to so many very good, talented, generous people. all really does make a difference. and who knows? - noochi might turn lars into a millionaire billionaire in a not too far future.

tags:art, contributor, support

the ab fab o sent me this picture of a truly awesome piece of art. made by maurizio cattelan in 2000. in addition to being #1 on google for its title, it was sold at christies, new york in 2004 for the sum of $2,751,500 (noochi would range this “excessive” - but you may get a discount if you buy more?)

i trust that cattelan is a very good guy, who shares his greens wisely.

tags:art, daydreams, love, notafraid