Selecting the works of art for the birth of Planet Earth 2.0 was not an easy task mainly because they would be the first works ever to appear in the context of art at the beginning of a new world.These final selections are going to be the subject of my blog entries throughout this week as we countdown to August 29, 2009 and record the birth of Planet Earth 2.0.
The first one is "A Calendar of Dreams." When you think about it a bit, it seems funny to realize that we could never schedule our dreams before in Planet Earth 1.0. We could talk about them, we could wish for a dream but we could never schedule one. Perhaps that was because humanity never before had a calendar of dreams.
Well, now we do. Right from the start the first scheduled dream to come true is the birth of a new world. I dreamed that dream and was joined by thousands of people over decades in dreaming it. For those like you who are with me now, we will all see it come true.
I selected "A Calendar of Dreams" to be at the birth of of Planet Earth 2.0 because I wanted to share with you, the people of the new world, the fact that you can also schedule your own dreams now that we have a calendar of dreams to do so.
There is another dream that is scheduled in our calendar of dreams. It is a dream that has been around for thousands of years.
It is a dream to which millions of lives have been sacrificed in the search of it. It is a dream that we have almost stopped dreaming since "peace" seems more and more like an impossible dream. At least, it seemed so in Planet Earth 1.0.
Peace may very well be humanity's longest running dream.
The Worldwide Peace Marker Project is represented by another one of the works at the Birth of Planet Earth 2.0 event by the title of "First Step." It shows how close we are from crossing out "world peace" from the calendar of dreams as it becomes a dream that came true. World peace can now be said to be taking its fitting first steps into a new world.
For a copy of "A Calendar of Dreams" click on the image above. It will take you to a site where you may download a copy of the image of your own.
Schedule a dream (or several) of your own. Anything can happen in Planet Earth 2.0. We already know that dreams do.
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Hi! It's Kalon. Very nice, perfect for the first blog entry. I love the piece and the advancements it represents. The implications of being able to schedule moments of time in which to realize our dreams are so far reaching it's tough to not be excited! With such a calendar, we can begin to organize our dreams and also the actions that will allow us to reach them... of course my favorite thought is of the many many more dreams that will be dreamt, now that dreaming can be transformed from an act of futility to one of proactivity. :)
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