sami's crystal express train tracks

barcelona to paris:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx6B5n3_NH4&feature=fvwrel

berlin to gyoma:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCD99jMMuh0

istanbul to tel aviv:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwBkLgLZz1k

how to make a wish come true, or- what is the price for fulfilling a phantasy

Aren´t we all just play a role in life? Who do you want to be?
I think, it is all just about pretending.
Claim something you want to be. Say it out loud and then  climb up all the steps it takes to be it.
Herewith I say, that I am a singer from now on.
I am, so I will be.
And I take seven steps. Seven stops.

Thats what I always liked about travelling. People keep on asking you the same questions:
Whats your name, where are you from, where are you going and WHY? To find yourself? To lose yourself? What is your job, do you have kids?

I always liked to play with that. I have already been an astronaut, a clerk, a politician and a housewife.
In wonderland I will be a singer.

Who are you? ... It just hopped into my head, but "In just seven days, I can make you a man". ???  Did Frank n Further  as well went on a trip into seven countries? Don´t dream it- be it?

I don´t believe in coincidences anymore, only in essence.

Wonderland becomes a Theme Park. Let the adventures become reality.

Get ready to adjust to the themes of each city.

Barcelona: The beginning of something big.

Paris: Decadence en France

Berlin: Mingle with strangers, go with the flow

Hungary: Grounding and Cleaning

Bukarest: Going deeper underground and political.

Istanbul: Multikontinental Art.

Tel Aviv: Unite, let go and digest.

i've been wondering why sometimes we invite strangers in our lives..

and why sometimes we walk in as a stranger in someone else's life..

So from Clearly I became Clarity, and upon this quest I want all the stones and crystals to be clear.

In this journey lets look through the stones and crystals through the materials and objects. And as we pass through space and place, think of the different stories we have learnt about these materials. 

I want to specifically question the coins! The coins and their symbol. The coins which were once a natural material and we learned to accept them as symbols of value.  what are these values?  can we clear them? can we make our own? 

Once upon a time we were trapped in the world of coins, once upon before then we did not know them....

CLARITY

there is magic in every moment, as long as we sharpen our eyes...crystalwise...

Carrot Alert #3: what about those crystals?

CARROT ALERT: 3 

my fascination with crystals began with its very close metaphoric articulation of something that manifests light and transformations.
 
as i personally struggle with the absurdity of form to essence,  and then the articulation of essence to form, a rotation of existentialism and reconstructivism, the crystal has been a marvelous symbol for a projection of these philosophies. clarity to confusion and back again. a little las fernandez conversation lead to this drawing: 

aesthetically speaking there's something spectacular about the light tectonics that whizzes through a crystal. transmittors of light, expressing light through a myriad of angles, and colors. crystals are transmittors of essence, capturing light and translating it into form.

when the essence of a crystal transmits its ray, it goes through layers of purification - processes of transformation. each transformation perhaps could be a different facet of the prism, sparking different colors before it arrives at this ultimate clarity.

i see the crystals as us embarking on  a 7 stop journey of transformation. connecting the theme of carrot 2 - 7 transformations of connectivity, within oneself, culminating into this complete connectivity with oneself and with others. sooo idealistic:)

the crystal show is the 7th act. each one's own kaleidoscopic transformation of colors and lights. the ultimate clarity. for anna, the song, the symphony. for gandja- the short film.
 
how interesting that our new traveller, clarity, also comes from our 7th stop - tel aviv.

i started reading a little about this and found some rather interesting quotes:

"the crystals that have 7 sides, 7 points - supposedly that's the channeling crystal. the one that symbolizes the 7 qualities human consciousness must master to access the wisdom of the Total Self.
the mystics student. the number 7 symbolizes perfect order, the normal cycle of growth"

"why rock crystal? because of its translucency, its multiple planes, and the fascination of its colours – all of which present themselves differently as light moves around them. the hues of rock crystal are subtle, striking and widely varied – for they can be clear or milky, white, or rose coloured, or smoky, or golden, or black." - written by a mystic.

rather sparky and magical i thought and reflected on this:


how the ego's dust settles on the crystal's luminosity. collecting a puppetry of shadows in the light. a stormy night, the ego disperses in the cleanse. and there a symphony of sliding mirrors and light mazes awaits. calling all stations to wonderland....from the cave to cava.....let the journey begin...

Time is ticking in Berlin. They have even created a parc just for us. 

Mörchenpark (Mörchen means the perfect mix between a carrot and a fairy tale) 

I think we should go there and bring them some Cava from Barcelona.

See much better with the eyes closed.

Who of you have never been to Berlin? Or: which city of the journey is new for you?
I would like to try a little experiment.
We all have different associations to places.
In Berlin my heart got broken, in Tel Aviv I found my inner piece. What would happen if you could see your city with the eyes of someone else?
For me, Berlin is full of memories, every corner has a story to tell, and I always wish, I could see it with virgin eyes.
If one of you has never been here, I would ask this person to show me around with eyes bonded, explaining me, what he or she sees and feels.
Volunteers?
As well I have never been to Bucharest and Istanbul, so I would be more than happy to lend you my eyes which are quite good linked to my heart.
Let us show us, what we see, and create innocent first impressions and common experiences.

Love and curiosity from the Queen of Hearts. See you soon. Or don´t see you, but hear you. 

The magic has already entered Berlin. Can´t wait to spread it. 

I am Clearly, and I am writing on behalf of Nir Segal. 

I like clearing things as much as I like things when they are clear. Most of the time though, I am not clear myself. 

I am wondering with thoughts of a journey, the journey we are all so excited to start. I am starting the journey as the wonder of text but will be very clear on the train. So clear I won't be seen on it.

However, I will contribute by thoughts and ideas, trying to share this wonder journey with you and write our story. A story to make sense of the clear, which is exactly what we don't know. I have wished for this ride for so long and ended up taking a path with its own track hoping it will meet the train at some point. 

It is clear we will meet!

It is clear I am trapped in with you.

clear me up clearly I am in. 

7 carrots.

7. 7 songs in 7 languages, in 7 countries, with 7 bands, found on the way.

Music, as a key to peoples creativity.

1 song written on the journey, sung by 1 girl, who is going back into her childhood, where she dreamt of becoming a singer. 1 song, brought to 7 countries, with 7 melodies but only one meaning: how many steps you need to take, to make anything happen. In this case: 7! 

Hello to everyone....I am really looking forward to meeting you soon. 
When the White Rabbit sent us the first telegram, I responded with the following message:


You know what's simply so crazy!!! This happens to be the most gypsy time of my life so far. I haven't stopped in a single place for more than 3 weeks or so for almost a year. AND, the time we will be going on our journey will mark exactly a year of this amazing hopping around. Exactly a year. Will tell you more when I see you. 

I am so excited. This is sparking something really amazing inside -- something I haven't felt since my high school years when I was super inspired by the mystical....somehow real worldness (working, filming, hustling to make a living) took that out of me. Now it's back!!!

CARROT ALERT #2: connectivity as 7 states of internal transformation

CARROT ALERT: 2

i wonder about connectivity as an internal investigation, as an internal process. 

a process which involves 7 states of transformation.

7 cities, 7 doors, 7 openings, 7 states, 7 transformations.

a chain from city to city, door to door, opening to opening, state to state, transformation to transformation. arriving at connectivity with oneself, with one's 7 shakras, and therefore with others. 

the process of connectivity then becomes an evolution. 

alchemy is the process of transformation from one state to another. 7 alchemic process, the cleaning of a crystal  one side at a time.

"the traveler begins to undergo a process of inward transformation. is he is among those destined to reach perfection, he will climb the ascending rungs of a ladder stretching to heaven and beyond; the alchemy of the way will transmute the base copper of his substance into pure and noble gold" - rumi 

link to cool book

7 Crystal Doors: The Sliding Door (Motion)

CARROT ALERT RESPONSE #1: Pilgrims and Stop the clock.

Dear White Rabbit:

I often question myself, why the people stopped beeing nomads and became still.
Traveling means moving, movement means change, change means life. It does for me.
Maybe we have all these problems in our society, because we are waiting too much, staying too much on the same place.
After a while we think the place becomes us, we get used to this feeling and habits bring us expectations that don´t have anything to do with the reality.
We unlearn to adapt, we are not in the rhythm of nature, we are not linked with us and each other anymore.
And life starts to get interesting, when you leave the track, discover the beauty of something you have never seen before or tase a fruit, which lets your heart explode. Forget patterns and expectations, get ready to be taken away with the waves!


Traveling means finding back our instincts, finding our what it actual means, to be a human being. Maybe travelling is the only possibility to answer this big question, everyone keeps asking: WHY ARE WE HERE?
Travelling as a meditation. Stillness in Movement.

If you decide to go on a journey, you have to kill your ego, and find it again on the way. Once you have it, lose it again, and find it again. Act instinctively and help others to do so, too. Find your instinct, to find yourself. And what connects you with everyone else.

The present is endless so use it whenever you can. Don´t get distracted by habits, boredom or the thoughts of past and future. If time doesn't exist, then the connection you make with someone or yourself becomes real reality.
The present is all we have. The present is the present of life.

I hope this answer will make you stop looking at your watch.
Sincerely,
The Queen of Hearts

CARROT ALERT #1: PILGRIMS

CARROT ALERT #1: PILGRIMS

pilgrims - on the edge of perception. gypsies - travelers - a non identity, or rather an identity undefined. searching for a reality that encompasses a glorious non-reality. 


as travelers usually do, journeying, searching for some sort of wonderland - delusioning in the fact that it's a said reality, yet knowing all the well that it's simply a magical shimmering lining across reality. ...perhaps..a skimming of reality. filtering merely the most magical points. 


are pilgrims restless then? by very nature. are they the center of their thirst to discover something by movement? or have time and distance become one in their eyes, resulting in an open field of space that loops and connects us without reference to context, past, present, or future. ..?

a labyrinth of mystical mirror awaits

step into wonderland

whatever could it mean

whatever could it be

footsteps through wonderland

a symphony of the spirits

pathways, adaptations, rotations,

is magic the intention or the outcome?

it stands at the point of transformation of the former into the latter.

the plot is set....tick tock tick tock

the crystal method

2011 was a bubble bursting bonanza. loads of magic, but too much hot air....gonee with the wind....

we said 2012 would be epic. so now the rabbit has gone mad, mad scientist mad, looking for the science behind crystallization. something like alchemy.

what were all those bubbles about anyway, maybe those bubbles in berlin were really crystal circles.....

the mirror was there. she saw it all.....