12 years ago
Saturday Morning Me
saturday morning me//
sipping:Folger's #2/yielding:Gauloises Blondes #2/
Mickey Mouse tee/pajama pants/
chopstick holding up hair/barefoot/
hot pink toes frame my treefrog tat/
husband cranky/i'm feeling skanky/better call franky/
listening: Avec Laudenum by Stars of the Lid/
so how about you?/
sipping:Folger's #2/yielding:Gauloises Blondes #2/
Mickey Mouse tee/pajama pants/
chopstick holding up hair/barefoot/
hot pink toes frame my treefrog tat/
husband cranky/i'm feeling skanky/better call franky/
listening: Avec Laudenum by Stars of the Lid/
so how about you?/
Which Revolutionary Are You?
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I'm Lijit, Baby! | SICKO in Asheville
Thursday, June 28, 2007
I'm Lijit, Baby!I'm trying out a search widget called Lijit. It is on the right sidebar of this website (for all of you feed readers). It not only searches this website, but you can add other sites and bookmarks and favorites of yours that you also want it to search. It helps me locate something and it helps readers find something quickly.
I have it set up to search my del.icio.us bookmarks, my flickr photos, my stumbleupon page, my youtube, myspace, and any other website I write or contribute to. I've just started using it so I can't totally endorse it yet, but so far, so good.
And the best thing is that it keeps stats for you. It helps me know what the readers are looking for and what they expect to find here. **For instance, someone was searching for the Michael Moore documentary, Sicko, to see if it was playing in Asheville soon and I'm off to find that out for the reader and for myself.
My Lijit
SICKO PREMIERE IN ASHEVILLE TODAY
**The Asheville premiere of Michael Moore's SICKO is today, Friday, June 29. So far Regal Hollywood Cinemas 14 is the first place announcing that they are showing the movie.
*Syntax tells us that SiCKO is also playing @ the Fine Arts Theater downtown as well.
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Regal Hollywood Cinemas 14
1640 Hendersonville Road, Asheville
828.274.9500
SICKO
Rated PG-13, 2 hr 0 min
Showtimes: (1:00), (4:00), 7:30, 10:25
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Fine Arts - CASH ONLY
16 Biltmore Avenue
Downtown Asheville
828.232.1536
SICKO (PG-13)
Showtimes: 1:00 | 4:00 | 7:00 | 9:30 (Daily)
Movie Schedules For Asheville
Validate The Spirits Within
Dancin' With Mr P
Plain talk by Daniel Pinchbeck and how he rediscovered his sense of wonder. Knowledge of spirit is a gift and a responsibility to take it seriously. What are we waiting for? Embrace the spirits and validate them. No matter the context or culture.
"...if frenzied spirits and sneaky demons are attacking us from beyond the margins of our interpreted world, we may require a revival of shamanic practices to reveal and release them. "
link
Plain talk by Daniel Pinchbeck and how he rediscovered his sense of wonder. Knowledge of spirit is a gift and a responsibility to take it seriously. What are we waiting for? Embrace the spirits and validate them. No matter the context or culture.
"...if frenzied spirits and sneaky demons are attacking us from beyond the margins of our interpreted world, we may require a revival of shamanic practices to reveal and release them. "
link
Save Net Radio
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Save Net Radio
The Day the Music Dies
Internet radio stations like SomaFM have launched bands and influenced what mainstream DJs play. On July 15, they could be gone forever. By David Downs
Currently capturing 72 million listeners per month — versus 280 million for terrestrial radio — Net radio has hijacked the authority of terrestrial radio with one-billionth the resources over the last 15 years.
"Big radio's least-common-denominator approach creates playlists that the least amount of people will ever turn off. There's no personality, no edge," says Hodge. "The challenge here is to do a lot with a little."
Webcasters like Seattle's KEXP and San Francisco's SomaFM are the de facto curators of America's most avant-garde electric art galleries. Their playlists read like Next Big Thing cheat sheets for mainstream DJs, college radio stations, marketers, and advertisers. What was once a cult of hobbyists now encompasses major players like Clear Channel, which simulcasts existing holdings and compete against offerings from National Public Radio, AOL, and Yahoo.
Now this weird radio empire could all come crashing down in less than a month on what people in the industry are calling D-Day, or "the day the music dies."
On July 15, the bill comes due for a whole new set of royalties that will wipe out Net radio as we know it. No more KEXP, no more SomaFM, you name it.
A ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board back in March hiked SomaFM's royalty bill from $10,000 in 2006 to $600,000, retroactively — even though the little radio company's gross revenues were only $125,000 last year.
But SomaFM and other Webcasters are fighting back. David Downs has a good article on SFWeekly and explains the situation very well.
Read More »
What You Can Do:
Visit Save Net Radio for tips about calling your political representatives.
Sign "Save Net Radio" Petition
Spread the word. We ARE the media. Don't fuck with our internet radio.
Sweet, flavored cocaine now in U.S.
Sweet, Flavored Cocaine Now In U.S.
SACRAMENTO, June 26 (UPI) -- Police in California report a growing trend in cocaine traffickers adding flavors to the powder and charging 40 percent more for it.
The most recent arrests were in Yolo County where deputies arrested six people and seized three pounds of sweetened cocaine flavored with strawberry or coconut, the Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday.
Yolo Narcotic Enforcement Team Cmdr. Roy Giorgi told the newspaper the street price of the flavored varieties is about 40 percent higher than unflavored.
"They (users) said regular cocaine gives a medicine taste in the back of the throat when snorted," Giorgi said. "With the flavored, you get a strawberry taste."
He said there have been reports nationally of cocaine also being flavored with vanilla, banana and chocolate, and that other drugs such as Ecstasy and methamphetamines are also popping up with flavors.
Drugs that taste good? That'll bring the whole family together for some quality time.
link
SACRAMENTO, June 26 (UPI) -- Police in California report a growing trend in cocaine traffickers adding flavors to the powder and charging 40 percent more for it.
The most recent arrests were in Yolo County where deputies arrested six people and seized three pounds of sweetened cocaine flavored with strawberry or coconut, the Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday.
Yolo Narcotic Enforcement Team Cmdr. Roy Giorgi told the newspaper the street price of the flavored varieties is about 40 percent higher than unflavored.
"They (users) said regular cocaine gives a medicine taste in the back of the throat when snorted," Giorgi said. "With the flavored, you get a strawberry taste."
He said there have been reports nationally of cocaine also being flavored with vanilla, banana and chocolate, and that other drugs such as Ecstasy and methamphetamines are also popping up with flavors.
Drugs that taste good? That'll bring the whole family together for some quality time.
link
Every Corner Of The World
Monday, June 25, 2007
A dj friend sent me an email and closed with this:
"I'm off to Bosnia tomorrow to DJ at the Neofest Peace Festival in Banja Luka."Amazing... there is a party going on in every freaking corner of the world.
Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence
June 24 to September 30, 2007
Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence, the artist’s first major retrospective and solo museum exhibition, opens on June 24, 2007. A cult figure that set the iconographic terrain for the 1960s and 1970s counterculture, in his art Griffin expressed idealism and hope along with a darker side that perfectly embodied the contradictions of the era with its mixture of hedonism, politics, and avant-garde expression.
The exhibition, which includes some 140 paintings, drawings, posters, album covers, and artifacts, surveys thirty years of Griffin’s work from the 1960s until his death in 1991. The accompanying 156-page catalogue, published in association with Gingko Press, is the first publication to address Griffin’s impact on the surf, psychedelic rock, and born-again Christian movements.
Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 1:00 p.m. Psychedelic Moment: The Big Five and Zap Comix in the 1960s
Griffin Lecture Series - This first panel on Griffin and San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury features the artist’s widow and internationally respected artists who initiated the psychedelic art and underground comix movements. With Ida Griffin, Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse, Spain Rodriguez, and Robert Williams. Moderated by Jacaeber Kastor, founder of Psychedelic Solution Gallery, New York.
Related:
Read More» Laguna Art Musuem
Visit Griffin's MySpace site
Order Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence
Rick Grifin: Wikipedia
(Rick Griffin | 1944-1991)
June 24 to September 30, 2007
Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence, the artist’s first major retrospective and solo museum exhibition, opens on June 24, 2007. A cult figure that set the iconographic terrain for the 1960s and 1970s counterculture, in his art Griffin expressed idealism and hope along with a darker side that perfectly embodied the contradictions of the era with its mixture of hedonism, politics, and avant-garde expression.
The exhibition, which includes some 140 paintings, drawings, posters, album covers, and artifacts, surveys thirty years of Griffin’s work from the 1960s until his death in 1991. The accompanying 156-page catalogue, published in association with Gingko Press, is the first publication to address Griffin’s impact on the surf, psychedelic rock, and born-again Christian movements.Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 1:00 p.m. Psychedelic Moment: The Big Five and Zap Comix in the 1960s
Griffin Lecture Series - This first panel on Griffin and San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury features the artist’s widow and internationally respected artists who initiated the psychedelic art and underground comix movements. With Ida Griffin, Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse, Spain Rodriguez, and Robert Williams. Moderated by Jacaeber Kastor, founder of Psychedelic Solution Gallery, New York.
Related:
Read More» Laguna Art Musuem
Visit Griffin's MySpace site
Order Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence
Rick Grifin: Wikipedia
(Rick Griffin | 1944-1991)
Extra Action Marching Band
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Extra Action Marching Band
A 30 member musical performance group from Oakland/San Francisco recently left on a European tour leaving admirers and unwitting witnesses in their sequin-spewing wake.
Manifesto:
We, the EXTRA ACTION MARCHING BAND, shuffle, loiter, charge, and crawl around embracing our environment and quite frequently our audience. Defying categorization, this mutant lovechild of traditional peripatetic music and ecstatic turmoil consists of a hypnotic and driving drum section, a "smoking" horn line (w/a touch of sound effects), and is lead by a brutally sexy and provocative flag team. An Extra Action performance is a celebratory, transcendent spectacle that entices, amuses, arouses, and intoxicates the audience.
Another Stumbleupon link | via: mateo
Michael Stipe, Photographer
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
tagged: frightening experiment in north carolina
"Now Michael Stipe is a photo-blogger. At FuturePicEnter, Mr. Stipe is putting one or a few photos up per day..."
He's always been quite the photographer and is currently posting daily photos providing us an interesting peak into his world.
link | via
The Bridge
Monday, June 18, 2007
A scene from Eric Steel's "The Bridge." Copyright Rich Waters, courtesy of First Stripe Productions. via: indieWIRE
"One of the most moving and brutally honest films about suicide ever made... remarkably free of religious cant and of cozy New Age bromides. Eerie and indelible." Stephen Holden, New York Times
"a haunting work of unquestionable power, full of moments that are bound to linger in the memory, whether we want them to or not."****Financial Times
THE BRIDGE
THE BRIDGE offers glimpses into the darkest, and possibly most impenetrable corners of the human mind. The fates of the 24 people who died at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004 are linked together by a 4 second fall, but their lives had been moving on parallel tracks and similar arcs all along.
Looming behind these stories is the Golden Gate Bridge itself, a monument that mirrors our highest aspirations and our lowest natures. We are uncomfortable with the grim realities suicide forces us to confront. We'd rather not see the mentally ill; we'd prefer suicides to be invisible -- or at least to take place quietly in hotel bathrooms, barns, dorm rooms and closets.
Available this week on DVD. link
Rising Appalachia
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Rising AppalachiaThis ain't #@&$%*! bluegrass music..."
Sisters Chloe and Leah each play some odd combination of vocals, the fiddle, banjo, jaw harp, kalimba, and some killer spoons. With their newest band member, Forrest Kelly, on a fine array of hand percussion, their tunes just got kicked up a big handful of knotches. With many a fine guest appearence from such madd musical magicians as the incredible Jan Smith, Larkin Grimm, Maurice Tunner (play that trumpet!), the ferocious Cailen Campbell, Barbara Panter (Hair of the Dog), and Witt Connah (the most bad-ass blues harmonica player around)...and a conglomeration of other fantastic and fine-tuned additives- their sweet sounds are bound to delight, sooth, or mystify.
Rising Appalachia are now living in Asheville and their new cd can be found at CDBaby.
via | link | myspace | x-posted
I CAN SEE FOR MILESThe Who's Pete Townsend is sharpening his writing skills online for his upcoming autobiography. I'm enjoying the details of his early years. Below is an excerpt.
"On March 20th 1966 an Observer magazine story about The Who phenomenon was published; on its front page was Colin Jones’ unflattering iconic portrait of the band. The story inside was a puff by their buddy John Heilpern for Kit and Chris; we were represented as lightweight braggarts, spendthrifts, vain Dandies and ugly scumbags. My depression deepened. I began to drive to the Scotch of St James nightclub whenever I had free time, to drink Scotch and Coke, and hang out with stars like P.J. Proby, Brian Jones, John Walker and Gary Leeds of the Walker brothers and others. It was not like me at all, but I was pleased to be feted, and built up a friendship with Brian Jones that meant a lot to me. Together we saw one of Stevie Wonder’s first London shows there; Stevie got so excited he fell off the stage."
"May 1966. Car crashes, several. A fight with Keith Moon on stage (he was threatening to leave and form a band with the stupid name of Led Zeppelin, such a stupid name would never have caught on)..."
"Keith Moon had been through something even more powerful in his early relationship with his wife Kim, who had been a professional photographer’s model once pursued all the way down to her home in Bournemouth by Rod Stewart. It was this kind of paranoid, unhinged thinking that spurred me to write I Can See For Miles, one of the best songs I produced in the period... About the sick and viciously jealous intuitions of a cuckolded partner."
Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Because all the while
I can see for miles and miles
A perfect "fuck you" to a broken love affair.
Pete Townsend
Virato Live with Steven Halpern
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Sound and Healing and ConsciousnessThe topic on Virato Live today was Sound & Healing. His radio program runs each Saturday from 10A to 1P.
Steven Halpern was a return guest today. Halpern's website is Inner Peace Music, where you can buy his music and listen to the samples. Nurture your soul and spirit.
Listen live or download the podcast at 880 The Revolution.
SICKO
Thursday, June 14, 2007
From the trailer of SICKONARRATOR: When Michael Moore decided to make a movie on the health care industry, top-level executives were on the defensive. What were they hiding?
EXECUTIVE: That's not on, right?
MICHAEL MOORE: No.
EXECUTIVE: Okay.
EXECUTIVE: The intent is to maximize profits.
MICHAEL MOORE: If you denied more people health care you got a bonus?
WOMAN: When you don't spend money on somebody, it is a savings to the company.
HEALTH CARE WORKER: I denied a necessary a man a necessary operation and thus caused his death. This secured my reputation and it ensured my continued advancement in the health care field.
POLITICIAN: I want America to have the finest health care in the world.
MICHAEL MOORE: Four health care lobbyists for every member of Congress. Here's what is what it costs to buy these men, and this woman, and this guy, and this guy. And the United States slipped to 37 in healthcare around the world - just slightly ahead of Slovenia.
[laughter]
WOMAN: I get a bill from my insurance company telling me that the ambulance ride wasn't pre-approved. I don't know when I was supposed to pre-approve it. After I gained consciousness in the car? Before I got in the ambulance?
MICHAEL MOORE: There's actually one place on American soil that had free universal health care.
MICHAEL MOORE: Which way to Guantanamo Bay?
GOVT OFFICIAL: Detainees representing a threat to our national security are given access to top-notch medical facilities.
MICHAEL MOORE: Permission to enter. I have three 9/11 rescue workers. They just want some medical attention - the same kind the evildoers are getting...Hello?
If you missed Michael Moore on Democracy Now today you can get caught up at the website and listen, read, or watch the Sicko trailer. And do NOT miss the transcripts of his California Assembly speech half way down the page. Out-fucking-standing.
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Bogus Science - The LSD-Chromosome Scare
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Bogus Science - The LSD-Chromosome Scare
Fraser Clark reminds us of the 1967 scare that Science Magazine published about LSD causing chromosome damage.
"THE HIDDEN EVILS OF LSD", screamed the Saturday Evening Post, Aug 12, 1967.
But the entire story was basically a government-funded scam based on the examination of a single patient!
When I had my first child, my Mother was mortified that my previous lsd use (not while pregnant) would produce a deformed baby because of the bogus stories that started in 1967. It didn't.
Somebody wanted a whole generation to be scared straight. It worked about as good as those warnings on a pack of cigarettes do.
link
Fraser Clark reminds us of the 1967 scare that Science Magazine published about LSD causing chromosome damage.
"THE HIDDEN EVILS OF LSD", screamed the Saturday Evening Post, Aug 12, 1967.
"By evening, the charge that LSD could break chromosomes was in all the nation's media." Peter Stafford: ‘Psychedelics Encyclopedia.’
But the entire story was basically a government-funded scam based on the examination of a single patient!
When I had my first child, my Mother was mortified that my previous lsd use (not while pregnant) would produce a deformed baby because of the bogus stories that started in 1967. It didn't.
Somebody wanted a whole generation to be scared straight. It worked about as good as those warnings on a pack of cigarettes do.
link
FREAK SHOW
FREAK SHOWby James St. James
Billy Bloom is gay, but it's mostly theoretical, as he hasn't had much experience. When he has to move to Florida, he can't believe his bad luck. His new school is a mix of Bible Belles, Aberzombies, and Football Heroes, none of which are exactly his type. Billy's efforts to fit in and stand out at the same time are both hilarious and heartrending. In this novel from adult author and media personality James St. James, readers are in for a wild ride as he tells Billy's fascinating story of bravado, pain, and unexpected love, inspired by his own experiences. - Penguin Publishing
The very fabulous James St. James rose to popularity in the late 80s/early 90s Manhattan club scene. One of the dynamic socialites who defined the underground scene and inspired the Club Kids movement, he also penned the book Party Monster, which told the story of the scene's premier event promoter Michael Alig who was convicted of murdering fellow scenester, Angel Melendez. A documentary was made about the events, followed by the feature film Party Monster which starred Seth Green as St. James and as Macauley Culkin as Alig.Gus Van Sant Drinks The Koolaid
Monday, June 11, 2007
Van Sant on AcidGus Van Sant will direct a film of Tom Wolfe's seminal New Journalism tome The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters driving cross-country in 1964. Lance Black (Big Love) will write.
link
Mrs Morrison's Hotel
Mrs Morrison's HotelThe 100% personal official blog for Patricia Kennealy Morrison, author, Celtic priestess, retired rock critic, wife of Jim.
I was born..no, wait, that's David Copperfield. Anyway, I was born in Brooklyn, grew up on Long Island, went to school in upstate NY and came straight back to Manhattan to live. Never lived anywhere else. Never wanted to. Got a job as a rock journalist, in the course of which I met and married a rock star (yeah, yeah, conflict of interest, who cares). Became a priestess in a Celtic Pagan tradition, and (based on sheer longevity) one of the most senior Witches around. Began writing my Keltiad series. Wrote a memoir of my time with my beloved consort (Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison).
Curiosity will have you visit her and being a prolific writer with a beautiful spirit will assure your return.
link
Asheville Naked Bike Ride
Saturday, June 9, 2007
I keep forgetting to post this...Asheville Naked Bike Ride, part of the global World Naked Bike Ride began today in Asheville at 1:00 PM at the French Broad Food Co-Op on Biltmore Avenue. Ride as bare as you dare.
There is an Asheville Yahoo Group. There wasn't a bike ride last year, but 2004 and 2005 held them.
PHOTO: Asheville Yahoo Group.
Global photos on Flickr of World Naked Bike Ride.
x-posted to Around Asheville
Electric Grandbaby
Electric GrandbabyMy daughter prefers that my impending grandson have more fun clothes to wear. Nothing "yuppie-fied" is what she said so I'm having a blast getting ready for his arrival in September. This is a recent purchase from Baby Wit. There are many original designs by exceptional artists for Mom, Dad, home, dog, toys.
Asheville Cyclists Confront Bank of America
Asheville Cyclists Confront Bank of America for Investments in Coal IndustryToday dozens of cyclists paid a surprise visit to Bank of America to protest their financial backing of coal companies as a part of the International Day of Action Against Climate Change and G8. After tying up downtown traffic, the 30-strong bike ride descended on the downtown Asheville headquarters of Bank of America.
Once there, a number of people dumped coal in front of the main entrance, while another person spontaneously sacrificed their bike lock and locked the front doors shut. With police still not in sight, the bike ride continued on to another Bank of America branch, where participants plastered the bank in stickers, handed out flyers to customers, and held banners reading, "Stop Banking on Climate Change" and "Climate Chaos: Brought to you by Bank of America."
Outstanding!!
link | via | photos
The Hippie Narrators
Friday, June 8, 2007
The Hippie Narrative:
A Literary Perspective On The Counterculture
Mount Vernon’s Scott MacFarlane examines the key works of prose of the hippie movement of the 1960s and early 1970s and how the works are reflective of the counterculture.
He mentions that "Siddhartha," written in 1922, and "Stranger in a Strange Land," published in 1961, were very instrumental because these narratives shaped the formation of a hippie counterculture and were written before the sixties movement.
And he covers Kesey, Brautigan and Wolfe. Nationally influential. link
That leads me to the Foxfire Books, which is one of my favorite books of all time.
Regionally influential in the South were the Foxfire Books. Especially to those of us living on communes and/or outdoors.
Firefox has branched off to teaching and workshops now, but originally it was the communer's bible here in the South, where you could find sections on hog dressing, log cabin building, basket weaving, preserving foods, making butter, planting by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, and moonshining, which we left to the pros. We made blackberry wine.
Read FOXFIRE Series 1 - 6 (PDF)
**UPDATED: JUNE 22, 2007 - Caution: Not all of these are working links, but these are the only online FOXFIRE books I could find and for the links that ARE working you will almost certainly be able to get a feel for what the FOXFIRE series were about. Thanks. --Editor
A Literary Perspective On The Counterculture
Mount Vernon’s Scott MacFarlane examines the key works of prose of the hippie movement of the 1960s and early 1970s and how the works are reflective of the counterculture.
He mentions that "Siddhartha," written in 1922, and "Stranger in a Strange Land," published in 1961, were very instrumental because these narratives shaped the formation of a hippie counterculture and were written before the sixties movement.
And he covers Kesey, Brautigan and Wolfe. Nationally influential. link
That leads me to the Foxfire Books, which is one of my favorite books of all time.
Regionally influential in the South were the Foxfire Books. Especially to those of us living on communes and/or outdoors. Firefox has branched off to teaching and workshops now, but originally it was the communer's bible here in the South, where you could find sections on hog dressing, log cabin building, basket weaving, preserving foods, making butter, planting by the signs, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, and moonshining, which we left to the pros. We made blackberry wine.
Read FOXFIRE Series 1 - 6 (PDF)
**UPDATED: JUNE 22, 2007 - Caution: Not all of these are working links, but these are the only online FOXFIRE books I could find and for the links that ARE working you will almost certainly be able to get a feel for what the FOXFIRE series were about. Thanks. --Editor
Friday Random Ten
FRIDAY RANDOM 10 - Shuffle 'em up and show us your ten. link
1. Nobody Knows My Name - Rickie Lee Jones
2. It Takes A Lot To Laugh - Bob Dylan
3. No Cars Go - Arcade Fire
4. Bear Pitch - Panda Bear
5. If Gravity Lulls - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
6. The Boho Dance - Bjork
7. Welcome To My Room - Vietnam
8. #1 - Animal Collective
9. SOS - Earl Greyhound
10. Sisters Of Mercy - Serena Ryder
Thursday, June 7, 2007
The Asheville-based Applied Visualization Lab is premiering its climate and visualization expertise on the global stage at the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth in Berkeley, CA, June 5 - 9, 2007. Digital Earth is a visionary concept for "spaceship Earth" sparked by R. Buckminster Fuller, grokked by the Apollo astronauts returning from their moon missions, and popularized by Vice President Al Gore.
Inside the portable GeoDome™ (developed by The Elumenati from Asheville), Digital Earth attendees will experience a unique animation of the effects of weather, development and land use through the story of how a storm moves through Western North Carolina.
Imagine sitting in dark domed room where a sky overhead suddenly reveals ominous thunderstorms forming. There's a steady sound of rain, and then thunder reverberates as lightning flashes all around you. This dramatic, engaging display sets the tone for the animated visualization, "Water in Western North Carolina." The story unfolds as audience members fly high over the Earth, learning about the qualities and importance of the water that covers two-thirds of the planet.
The Elumenati's dome theaters, exhibits and installations are delightfully innovative with some of their clients including Hewlett-Packard, NASA, Disney, Burning Man, Circe de Solei.
Paris Hilton freed after serving 5 days? What the fuck is that about? So she was freaking out and stressing about being in jail so they wrapped that up in a neat little cash filled bow and set her free to Malibu house arrest for 40 days. Ooo, how will she ever hold up?
Usually I don't comment on pop culture people, but this is a case with a girl driving drunk and basically getting away with it. Let me go one step further and say that it may concern me because in my younger days I was also convicted of DUI and was sentenced to 45 days in jail.
How many days do you think I had to stay in a funky old jail cell? If you guessed all 45 of them, go to the head of the class.
link
Usually I don't comment on pop culture people, but this is a case with a girl driving drunk and basically getting away with it. Let me go one step further and say that it may concern me because in my younger days I was also convicted of DUI and was sentenced to 45 days in jail.
How many days do you think I had to stay in a funky old jail cell? If you guessed all 45 of them, go to the head of the class.
link
Transformus And More Burns
Sunday, June 3, 2007
T R A N S F O R M U S The 4th Southeast Regional Burn is coming soon to Deerfields near Asheville, NC. Tickets may already be sold out, but you might check first on Tribe.net. Transformus promises "one long, crazy weekend of imagination and buffoonery … a music jam, a costume party, a reunion," and the burning of "The Bamboozler," a 25 ft tall human effigy.
Know Your Burns - They are all LNT (leave no trace) events and are organized in the spirit of Burning Man, conforming to the 10 Principles made famous by that big daddy of events.#1 - Burning Man
GA - Alchemy
NC - Transformus
DE - Playa del Fuego
SC - eleMent
TX - Flipside
TX - ntxb
VT - Firefly
AZ - Toast-Town
CN - Ontario Burn
from di.onys.us
2007 North American Summer Psy Festival Guide
Rainbow Serpent Festival
Over The Rainbow by Rak Razam
"I'm here with my friends Matty from Byron and Kaptain Khaos from Paris and a slew of aging dancers that have come out of retirement to celebrate the 10th anniversary Rainbow Serpent Festival, a four day celebration of "soul and technology", according to the organizers. Here in Australia the outdoor party scene has been flourishing for over a decade at bush 'doofs' (named after the bass beat of the electronic music), where 'doofers' revel in Trance music, community and enhanced states of mind. "Since the first gathering in 1998, Rainbow has become a popular annual get-together for thousands of like minded people," says Frank Venuto, one of the festival's founders. Rainbow Serpent is a landmark of the Global Trance music calendar, where semi-retired doofers like myself mix it up with the young turks of the dancefloor and the old hippies that can still shake it."
Nice piece features the 4 day account in Australia with photos.
link
Surrealien's warping wallpaper
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Surrealien's warping wallpaper technology is custom designed and printed on fleece wallpaper rolls at 190 dot per inch on professional wallpaper stripes made of fleece which can be papered as usual.
These optical illusions warp around doors, fixtures and walls to an effect that Dali would approve of. Go ahead--- warp your room.
link | via Read more...
Musicovery
Musicovery - Interactive web radio. Pick the year. Pick the mood. And GO! Musicovery
G8 Summit Protests
More On The G8 Summit Protests
700 anti-war activists started a new settlement in two places on the planned bombing range at the Kyritz-Ruppiner Heide. The former command tower was painted in anti-militaristic pink, accompanied by a performance by musicians from "Lebenslaute" and over 100 clowns. Tons of accommodations for protesters. link
Here you can see underreported videos on g8tv, g8 radio transmissions, and get updates from the g8 protest timeline, see the anti-g8 camps, etc.
Links:
Dissent!-Network
G8 Podcast
G8 Protests Timeline
G8-TV
G8 Radio
Indymedia - Germany
700 anti-war activists started a new settlement in two places on the planned bombing range at the Kyritz-Ruppiner Heide. The former command tower was painted in anti-militaristic pink, accompanied by a performance by musicians from "Lebenslaute" and over 100 clowns. Tons of accommodations for protesters. linkHere you can see underreported videos on g8tv, g8 radio transmissions, and get updates from the g8 protest timeline, see the anti-g8 camps, etc.
Links:
Dissent!-Network
G8 Podcast
G8 Protests Timeline
G8-TV
G8 Radio
Indymedia - Germany
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