It's common knowledge that if someone wants a place in heaven in his next life, he should do good deeds in his current one. It's a stressful thought, and that's why I'm so relieved that I don't believe in heaven or in hell. Lucky me.

Today, I would like to tell you about 2 good things I've heard about. The kind of things that fools you to thinks that there are great men out there, and that humanity is good by its nature.

Project Opus is a community; dare I say a social network, that is so into good music that its entire purpose is to help new unknown musicians. If you register as an artist, project opus will provide you a free website where you can upload your music and photos, publish your upcoming shows and get people to know you and become your "fans". It's nice to know there are people who don't blindly count on music labels to sign all great musicians and actually doing something about it. In my moral standards, it's a non selfish, giving and wonderful idea and the people behind its execution should definitely go to heaven. If any of you like to discover new music for themselves, join the community and start tracking down music you like.

Arctic. Don't call them monkeys!

To show you that Project opus is worth checking out, I got Arctic to back me up. Arctic started as a solo project of Marcus Martin, and became a three man band when the other two members fell in love with Marcus's project and asked to take part in it. Marcus, Arctic's leader, comes from the arctic region of Canada as implied by the name of his project and you can almost feel the cold weather when listening to his music. I love listening to music that uncovers the circumstances in which it was written and I think this could be the main thing that makes Arctic's music as beautiful as it is.

Though the cold weather definitely influenced Martin, his relationship with the arctic region of the earth doesn't come down to influence. Martin is so attached to the land he grew up on that the Master CD of the EP was sold in an auction to the highest bidder and half of the income went to World Wildlife Fund, supporting their goal and helping the northern land. Did I or did I not say that I'll tell you two stories that will make you believe in humanity again?

Marcus Martin actually not once said "I think it's hard not to be an environmentalist, growing up on the land." Well, I did grow up on land, and I'm far from being an environmentalist, but if Marcus thinks it'll buy him a place in heaven, it's fine by me.

A.N.A represent: A new collective of artists, who wish to confront with the hierarchic structure of MySpace

Like in real life, social networks also contain activists and revolutionists that operates among MySpace and other social networks.

A lovely and inspiring profile is the A.N.A project, which is acting under the banner of collaboration structure as appose to the My My My structure (My Profile, My Videos, My Pictures, MySpace etc.). What the hell does that mean, you ask?

The A.N.A profile is a shared user and password page with a unique collection of random artists and musicians when everyone can add their Two cents to the profile. You can send photos, videos and songs.

There's also the "Contribution Window" – songs and music available for download at high quality (192 kbps mp3s), especially made for independent movie makers, animators, choreographers, performance-art, etc... (Approved by the artists of course).

The mp3 player is a mini radio station where everyone can join the playlist: "All music in our player has been approved by the artists themselves. Thanks to that we're playing most of it at 128kbps bit rate and sample rate of 44kHz (instead of 96kbps and 22kHz, - as at the regular 4 songs player)."

The open clip project is a one clip build out of random pictures that were sent to the profile.

Personally we find it very cool and inspiring. If you wish to join the project feel free to send an email to: art.net.activist (at) gmail.com

Good Luck!