Casper Hobbes

Casper Nyvang Rask throws his compositions into the hands of some of the most original and recognised musicians on the always vibrant Copenhagen improv scene. The result is flabbergasting! Improvisation and composition melt together and the acoustic soundscapes are challenged by the usage of various midi synths. Storytelling, freedom, chaos and intuition form the foundation of this release. The result is noisy and lyrical, searching and ”in your face”.
This album is also kind of a good bye letter to Casper's father, who suffered brain damage after a stroke and later passed away.

È il dicembre 2002, quando Susan Finden, amante dei gatti e già con diversi felini in famiglia, decide di adottarne un altro e si rivolge alla Protezione animali di Plymouth, la cittadina inglese dove vive con il marito Chris. Il gatto che le viene affidato è uno splendido siberiano, anche se non purissimo. Il suo nome è Casper e ha 12 anni. Non certo di «primo pelo»… ma che gatto! Casper, infatti, ha una passione molto speciale: viaggiare…

Description for Casper :
--Steven Spielberg produced this live-action feature starring the friendly ghost created in 1940 by Joe Orolio. In it, greedy heiress Carrigan Crittenden inherits the haunted Whipstaff Manor and discovers that the house contains a treasure, which is closely guarded by three nasty ghosts. She invites ghost therapist Dr. James Harvey, and his daughter Kat, to move into the eerie mansion and get rid of the supernatural creatures.

The nephew of the three spirits is Casper, a friendly ghost who becomes Kat's pal. Casper takes Kat to his father's secret lab where he once attempted to bring Casper back to life with a special machine. Carrigan eavesdrops on their conversation and decides to become a ghost herself, in the hope that she will get the booty more easily. Then she can use the machine to change back to a human. However, Carrigan doesn't realize that you can't flirt with the afterlife.

Kibosh, supreme ruler of all ghosts, decrees that casper must scare at least one person before Christmas Day so Casper visits Kriss, Massachusetts where he meets the Jollimore family and sets out to complete his mission. As usual, kindhearted Casper has a ghastly time trying to scare anyone; so The Ghostly Trio, fed up with his goody-boo-shoes behavior, secretly hires Casper's look-alike cousin Spooky to do the job-with hilarious results.

State of Nature or Eden? Thomas Hobbes and his Contemporaries on the Natural Condition of Human Beings aims to explain how Hobbes's state of nature was understood by a contemporary readership, whose most important reference point for such a condition was the original condition of human beings at the creation, in other words in Eden.