Saying#2 Gunda

Saying#1 Richard Jochum

Instructions

The images below are only example images (screen shots). They serve as place holders, i.e. are not linked yet. The plan is to ask a variety of people from different cultures, generations, professions, and diverse ethnic and social backgrounds individually about their favorite saying. Each person's saying will create a little video blog entry.

To make it easy for you to navigate I will create additional screen shots with each saying (as you can see in the examples). Every visitor will be able to click on them. The images will be linked with the short video. Thus we get to know a real person in the context of his/her favorite saying.

This project is part of a competition. The plan is to start posting beginning of 2008. If you came onto this site by accident and feel intrigued to participate, please send me your favorite saying and a little video in which you speak it out loud (watch out for the audio to be audible). Thanks!

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Description

Every culture comprises big reservoirs of sayings and proverbs. They often help us to struggle with events that ask us either to change our attitude or to develop a new approach. The purpose of this site is to collect them by asking a diversity of people to tell their favorite saying and the short story of it: when and how the phrase first entered his/her life. The result will be a series of short video blog entries which are posted on this site. Sharing these gems of personal wisdom and stories of human resilience with each other will teach us about each others cultural heritage; and it will also bring some culture into an often quite impersonal web.