July 31, 2005
PBS Launches NerdTV
the First Downloadable Web-Exclusive Series From a Major Broadcaster
Beginning Sept. 6, PBS will make available - exclusively over the Internet - broadcast television's first entirely downloadable series, featuring PBS technology columnist and industry insider Robert X. Cringely's interviews with personalities from the ever-changing world of technology. NerdTV will be available for download from www.pbs.org/nerdtv .
Said Cringely, "NerdTV will have an uninterrupted hour with the smartest, funniest and sometimes nerdiest people in high tech. These are people who have changed our lives whether we know it or not. MORE...
via mmeiser
Beginning Sept. 6, PBS will make available - exclusively over the Internet - broadcast television's first entirely downloadable series, featuring PBS technology columnist and industry insider Robert X. Cringely's interviews with personalities from the ever-changing world of technology. NerdTV will be available for download from www.pbs.org/nerdtv .
Said Cringely, "NerdTV will have an uninterrupted hour with the smartest, funniest and sometimes nerdiest people in high tech. These are people who have changed our lives whether we know it or not. MORE...
via mmeiser
Why do you stay up so late?
Why Do You Stay Up So Late?
(geepers, 3:24am and still ticking...)
zoney little Flash animation/poem via born magazine
(geepers, 3:24am and still ticking...)
zoney little Flash animation/poem via born magazine
July 30, 2005
Kalvos & Damian Archived Shows
K&D Broadcast Archives in RealAudio/MP3
Vast selection to listen to here, great essays and pics throughout-- really excellent group whoever these folks are and nice to see more interesting radio show archives becoming available.
INFO:
The Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar is a radio show and website bringing composers to the wider world through their music, interviews, pictures, photos, artwork, essays, biographies, attitudes, catalogs and ideas. The Bazaar was begun in 1995 solely to present the eclectic world of newly composed music in a try-it-you'll-like-it format, and to connect composers with each other and with audiences. The Bazaar is sponsored by grassroots organizations in our Vermont home -- WGDR-FM, the Consortium of Vermont Composers, the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Goddard College, and is produced by Malted/Media Productions -- but lives to hear music from around the world.
Vast selection to listen to here, great essays and pics throughout-- really excellent group whoever these folks are and nice to see more interesting radio show archives becoming available.
INFO:
The Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar is a radio show and website bringing composers to the wider world through their music, interviews, pictures, photos, artwork, essays, biographies, attitudes, catalogs and ideas. The Bazaar was begun in 1995 solely to present the eclectic world of newly composed music in a try-it-you'll-like-it format, and to connect composers with each other and with audiences. The Bazaar is sponsored by grassroots organizations in our Vermont home -- WGDR-FM, the Consortium of Vermont Composers, the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Goddard College, and is produced by Malted/Media Productions -- but lives to hear music from around the world.
July 28, 2005
July 27, 2005
The Icelandic Love Corporation
The women enter the white space with a black briefcase.
It contains the ocean silver, the heart and the intestines,
the natural system of the slimy silver mine.
They are dressed in the glittery glitz of the rich.
They repair the victim of a hundred years with their
sharp blades.
WATCH VIDEO (title: "Thank You")
ILC is a group of three artists:
Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir (1973),
Jóní Jónsdóttir (1972) and
Eirún Sigurðardóttir (1971).
They have been working together since they graduated from The Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts in 1996. Since then they have lived and studied in New York, Berlin, Copenhagen and are currently based in Reykjavík.
They work in all possible media: performance, video, installation, etc. believing in the power of collaboration.
Why Are We Here?
FAST FOCUS TV: ON THE ENVIRONMENT
Why are we here?
It is the most difficult question we’ve ever asked and the most difficult to answer. Every species has a part to play. Of all the species that share this world, humans are the only ones that can protect every species on earth – including ourselves.
WATCH VIDEO (1:55 clip only):
Windows Media (Broadband)
Windows Media (Dial-Up)
I would very much like to see this entire program so I'll be checking my local PBS station to see if it will be aired. I have to say I don't agree that we have the power to "save" the planet at this point in the game but the questions "why are we here?" and "what is our purpose?" are interesting to ponder, nevertheless.
Morph Lab
Above are 16 artificial organisms called BioMorphs. Like all organisms, morphs have a genotype and a phenotype. The genotype of a BioMorph is an array of values that describe how its development should be carried out while the phenotype is its visual appearance.
Clicking on a morph will select it for asexual reproduction. This morph and its mutant progeny become the next generation - the ancestor morph is outlined in orange. Its offspring are all very similar to it, except for slight differences in the genotype and hence, differences in the phenotype. By selecting morphs for certain qualities in their phenotype, you can evolve a morph to resemble almost anything.
Clicking on a morph will select it for asexual reproduction. This morph and its mutant progeny become the next generation - the ancestor morph is outlined in orange. Its offspring are all very similar to it, except for slight differences in the genotype and hence, differences in the phenotype. By selecting morphs for certain qualities in their phenotype, you can evolve a morph to resemble almost anything.
Evolve-o-Matic
The Evolve-O-Matic demonstrates some principles of evolution. The table above contains a bunch of gibberish words. Click the "word" that looks most like a real word. The Evolve-O-Matic will then display a new page of words which are mutated versions of the word you selected. Mutations are shown in uppercase.
With the Evolve-O-Matic, you are the selecting force. In real evolution, various natural forces do the selecting. Another way to look at it is that the organism themselves do the selecting, by either dying before they reproduce, or reproducing before they die.
With the Evolve-O-Matic, you are the selecting force. In real evolution, various natural forces do the selecting. Another way to look at it is that the organism themselves do the selecting, by either dying before they reproduce, or reproducing before they die.
July 26, 2005
NEW BCO Release (THINGS FALL DOWN)
Brand-new FREE mp3-release on Tokyo's Lost Frog ProductionsDownload the full album and artwork (or individual mp3's)
BIG CITY ORCHESTRA - Things Fall Down (LF064MP3) - Newest full length album from the Big City Orchestra. Lots of very interesting collage of various electronic patterns and other samples, and a general avant electronic atmosphere.
Performers : Ninah Pixie, Rob Wortman, Mark Gunderson, Jesse Burson, Cheryl Leonard, Werner Slack, Mike Dringenberg, Melissa Margolis, Mr.Hate, dAS
Other artists released by Lost Frog Productions: Animals Within Animals, Atsushi Tsuyama (Omoidehatoba), Autopsy Protocol, Avarus, Big City Orchestra, Boy In Love, Colon On The Cob, Cotton Museum, Crossbred, Death Karaokes, Decaer Pinga, Edith Bunker's Demonized Vomit Insurance, Empty Head, ENE, Ethnic Cowboyz, Eye Yamatsuka (Boredoms), Five Starcle Men, Fossil Fuel, Glands Of External Secretion, Hard Core Dude, Jud Jud, Kamp Chaos, Kingdom Scum, Kwik Way, Le Gun, Masahiko Ohno (Solmania), Monastat 7, MU, Panicsville, Pete Missing (Missing Foundation), Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, Punku Boi, R. Stevie Moore, Schlitzkrieg, Scream Club, Slop Cake, Smack Music 7 , Sockeye, Surfers Of Romantica, Terror At The Opera, That One Band, T.R.O.Y., Ultra Fuckers, Volkswhale, Wonwons, World Targets In Megadeaths, and many more.
July 23, 2005
Metaversal Airweek (July 21-26)
We interrupt this broadcast to bring you another special Metaversal report from our friend in the field (and orbiting the stars) Johannes Ayres...
THE METAVERSAL LIGHTCRAFT
HYPER-ABYSSIC ASTROLOGY FORECAST
AND LIGHT SPECIFIC YOGA PLATFORM
THIRD QUARTER MOON
-AIRWEEK-
July 21st to July 26th
We are the I, A, O. We are the central shaft and we are here to let you take advantage of our little craft: Certain streets have certain corners Sooner or later, we'll turn yours We are the 801, We are the central shaft And thus throughout two years we've crossed the ocean in our little craft (Row! Row! Row) Now we're on the telephone, Making final arrangements (Ding! Ding!) We are the 801, we are the central shaft. Looking for a certain ratio where we utilize the powers of active Air, in the kabbalistic World of Yetzirah. Airweek represents the formative period of the elemental Lunar cycle. Mars remains the war engine. And now Mars is featured at the top of the chart, where the whole world sees it fighting. It is at 26 Aries, right on Bush's 25 Aries midheaven, ready to act/(re) act out the image of the Texan cowboy which Georgie likes to project. This chart has an almost identical wheel to Bush's chart, and five of the ten major planets are even in the same houses as they are in Georgie's chart. This is a major new projection of Bush.There is one notable difference now. Saturn is back in the 12th, but now instead of in the timid sign of Cancer, it is in the bold sign of Leo. Perhaps he feels more his own person.Go forth into the World and actively create the visions obtained last week in the World of the Mind.
THURSDAY, JULY 21
Full Moon at 29 Capricorn occurs at 4:00 a.m. PDT. Moon goes VOC after it's luminousness reachs fullness, and enters Aquarius at 6:55 a.m. Strict Capricorn Moon sets boundaries to Cancer' Sun's limitless emotions. Together they can manage business, government, family, or any institution which promotes security.This year, we experience a second Full Moon in Capricorn-Cancer, which squares Mars again, too - another opportunity to choose between making a living and making a life. If we've initiated meta changes in the last few weeks, we feel more stable and content now. If not, the issues have become clearer, the warning signs larger and louder. What's bleeping in your life? Is that inner child still tugging at your pant leg? Is your inner parent still working joylessly, too long, and too hard? Mars has been keeping pace with the last three lunations, pushing us to face the music and to compose our own. Once more, dilemmas come to the surface. Full Moons bring lux to the now - what has been in the shadow (the unconscious) - and thus offer us a potent opportunity to balance, integrate, and ascend in consciousness. The biggest event in the sky today is Saturn opposing Chiron, which is exact three hours before the Full Moon. This means structural change, in this case with the Leo-Aquarius polarity, which combines creative self-command with the welfare of society. This is the first of three such oppositions.Leo-Aquarius is the polarity of the U.S. Nodes, and this process means very big change indeed in the nation.
The next opposition is in February 2006, and the third and last one is the following June. Our stance in the world will be truly changed by then. Will the state crackdown, which has been increasing during these intervening years, be successful in finally stamping out democracy? Or will the people assert their right to democracy, justice, and equal rights for all? The government hopes that fear is on their side. Can we prevent ourselves from letting fear run us? We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Truly, this is a momentous time. Interesting that it's the great grand finale of our Cancer solar energy field influence. Tomorrow Sun enters Leo, still with Saturn and Chiron in very close (4 minutes) opposition.And tomorrow Mercury turns retrograde. We need to think about what's happening. In general, this is a serious day.
FRIDAY, JULY 22
51 tsuguA ot seered emas eht revo sdrawkcassab sesrevart dna edargorter snryut yrucreM (Mercury turns retrograde and traverses bassackwards over the same degrees to August 15.)
We should not start new projects, nor buy important articles, nor start relationships during this period. Any of these could turn out to be lemons. Even if we buy something great for a great price, we'll later wonder why we did, like that exercise bike sitting lonely in your basement. Mail, documents, legal matters - and, because Mercury's in Leo - romance and theatrical ventures could be delayed. Patience! Sun enters Leo with a blast, and immediately runs into Saturn, who says, "Golden Boy, you've got a lot to account for." Chiron in opposition will really shake up this Leo sun. Insecurity will be rampant, and proud Leo can do very foolish things to show he still has a grip on himself-like start a war, the tried-and-true U.S. way to gain confidence But this is the Day we traded in War in exchange for a wide-open Heart. This is the birthday of the Day when we took off our diapers and entangled our lives with the Wild. We are the diners, the final diners Let's get it understood, let's get it understood. Most of us tinkers, some of us tailors, and we've got candlesticks, and lots of cocktail sticks.
The top of the chart exactly conjoins the U.S. North Node in Leo, and Bush's Ascendant. Sun and Saturn are in the 9th house of foreign affairs. Two degrees of Scorpio is rising, and squaring the gang of three-Sun, Saturn, and Chiron. Moon in Aquarius conjoins Neptune in the 4th, full of the flowery visions which underpin the intense action now.Juno in Taurus conjoins the U.S. Vesta (securing one's turf, money), and they are both squared by Mercury in Leo, a greedy, determined and stubborn combination.When Leo energy is healthy it comes from a place of great confidence, courage, and strength trusting that all is in divine order and knowing we are all loved and cherished by the creative life force from whence we emerged into this life. Avatars of chaos act as spies, saboteurs, criminals of amour fou, neither selfless nor selfish, accessible as children, mannered as barbarians, chafed with obsessions, unemployed, sensually deranged, wolfangels, mirrors for contemplation, eyes like flowers, pirates of all signs & meanings.
The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden cord that connects us: illegal dancing in the corridors of Aumland Security. This is an active day, with much transformational energy available. Tonight Venus enters Virgo, to begin emphasizing service, and problem-solving in general. Just afterwards Mercury turns retrograde at 21 Leo, with Taurus interests on its mind, illegal dancing in the corridors of Aumland Security. If I were to kiss you here they'd call it an act of terrorism--so let's take our pistols to bed & wake up the city at midnight like drunken bandits celebrating with a fusillade, the message of the taste of chaos... Sleep may be difficult, for the aspects continue through early morning.
SATURDAY, JULY 23
Yesterday's significant energetic changes continue throughout the night, and well into this day. At 5:11 a.m. PDT, Moon enters a thunderstorm which is scheduled to take place inside my pants. Really gets my donkeys up onstage. I love the way you play with my expectations, my thoughts skirting, my desires panting, my yin yanging in the clanging din. You needn't dress in any but the most perfunctory manner as I myself will be wearing a military camisole from the pelvic region upwards. You Pisces, you the sign which is now home to Uranus. During this whole major time, Moon has moved from Neptune to Uranus, two of the outer planets which are associated with deep changes in consciousness. In particular, Moon represents myself in a neurasthenic frenzy just contemplating the notion that you and I might get together beneath those same bolts of lightning which are sure to set the Sugar silos aflame again. And when I say private, I mean private: you'll be shocked by what you discover about yourself. I'm shocked - when Moon encounters Uranus at midnight-the midnight rendezvous. Our day is dominated by the Sun-Saturn meeting. This is w hen Saturn gets its script for the next year from Director Sun. Saturn is authority, responsibility, proper discipline and proper hierarchy. He helps us focus on the real world, and how to make something kleiglit by lamps affixed to the underside of the bridge. You will be naked. I'll put you inside a transparent gyroscope roving the Carnival of the Torture Demons. For all intents and purposes, I could have put you in the shark tank diving-bell - but you'll get a hell of a lot more out of this experience, I guarantee you. You'll be safe with Saturn in Leo - it's like a magic carpet with an impermeable aura - and the Carnival itself is the ultimate spectacle of sheer menacing horror and pranksterish delirium.
In Leo, we focus on our central command systems, and how we can use them to develop our own authority. With Saturn in Leo, our self-authority does get called to account. Adolph Hitler was born with Saturn in Leo; so was Bill Clinton. Chiron dominates now, as he opposes Sun and Saturn. He is certain to disrupt Saturn's path of propriety during this next year. The U.S. people will be the instrument. War is part of the picture, for Vesta now is on the U.S. Mars, opposing Pluto, the powers that be, who is now squaring the U.S. Neptune, as well as opposing the U.S. Mars. Sounds like a lot of force opposing the U.S. Mars-as we see in fact on the ground. And more Mars. Will we be proactive or reactive?
Use this time of increased light to envision and step into your future, giving yourself and others plenty of elbow room and being tolerant towards the full spectrum of humanity's eccentricity... we reconnect here to generate terrific monuments made of coloured sound and we storm the edifices of a dream more incredible than the blooming of a thousand hearts amplified through vacufazers at at the degree of Black Hole Persephone, one of the underworld goddesses. (So, then, is the U.S. Stock Exchange Saturn.) Black Holes have an affinity for high energy, and they can suck energy endlessly. Persephone was the daughter who was gone into the underworld with Pluto. It was grief over her loss that caused Demeter (Ceres) to make the Lightcraft analagous to the active aspect of the psychological body, or for simplicities sake, let's call it Psyche. In the physical body (in Assiah) there are infinite sub-divisions down to the frontier of the physical world, where the particles of matter and impulses of energy are interchangeable* In the same way, the Psyche interpenetrates the body so that the upper part of the physical world percolates and influences the lower part of the psyche, and vice versa. In the macrodimensions of the Metaverse, a crisis can generate a direct contact with the Sun in Yetzirah (Psyche) but after the crisis, the connection fades, and the watcher in oneself fades back into the subconscious. The Lightpilot seeks to consciously make permanent connection with the Sun in Yetzirah. This is done by constant observation of actions, emotions and intellect, to perceive impartially the way those functions operate, and to correct and perfect their performance so as to become a true see-thing. To be the big picture, complete in all it's parts. Saturn, Sun, Chiron, Mars, planets that mean business. All of them are very prominent on the East Coast. All of them are at significant degrees, and all of them are in stressful relation to one another. This is Saturn's program for her two-year trip through Leo.
The Sabian Symbol for Saturn at 1 Leo is:
"BLOOD RUSHES TO A MAN'S HEAD AS HIS VITAL ENERGIES ARE MOBILIZED UNDER THE SPUR OF AMBITION. An irruption of bio-psychic energies into the ego-controlled field of consciousness. Leo represents Solar Fire, the energy which is released from an integrated person, either through spontaneous radiations of apparently nuclear forms of energy or, at the conscious level, through conscious emanations. The key symbol for Leo depicts a rising of energy from the heart to the head, a 'mentalization' process. However, this process is a potentially dangerous one. The sun can destroy as well as vivify. For the realization of atman, the spiritual self, the ego needs to be formed and steady so that it can become a lens of pure crystal focusing the all-pervasive cosmic light of the Brahman without introducing the shadows of pride, possessiveness, and showmanship. This transmutation of 'life' into 'mind' is a difficult process. CONFLAGRATION."
SUNDAY, JULY 24
The Day of the Sun in Yetzirah, the World of Air. The Lightcraft's interactive membrane is informed directly from the E.M.F's of the Sun, which in turn is affected by the transits of it's satellites (each representing a level of vibrational resonance.) Inside each monkeysuit is another Sun, emanating its rays into the solar plexus and reflecting off the Moon below, which in turn informs and records both the earth and the sky. The Light Pilot, the H.G.A, the Egyptian Ka, is the fourth dimensional electromagnetick driver of the third dimensional Lightcraft, the Ba. But there is a Sixth dimensional metaversal solar mind which interacts with all levels and is purely an electromagnetick harmonic, a harmony based on all the other levels coming together around a center. It is eternally now and therefore timeless. The Sun never sets.
The evolution of the Metaversal song, what some refer to as the Great Work, or the Will, has as it's core the purpose of resonating this harmonic through your individual interactive Lightcraft. The earth's ionosphere (about 70 miles up) is the key. It's in direct resonance with the solar and lunar currents and it oscillates at 7.8 cycles a second. The human brain oscillates at 7.8 cycles per second when it is in a state of samadhi or meditational absorption, experiencing bliss, receiving and sending out E M waves, to be absorbed or re-radiated, and this creates all the tones, pitches, octaves, wave-lengths, colours, and hues in nature. Goethe called this ....'the Deeds and Sufferings of Light'. We are surrounded by these 'Deeds and Sufferings' of radiation, extending through the whole seventy-plus E M octaves beyond the single known octave we call visible light. From light to matter and back again.
MONDAY, JULY 25 and TUESDAY, JULY 26
Let's relax-hah! Just you try and relax with an Aries moon for the next two and one-half days, you crafty luxpert! The aspects are terrific, and we can move right along with our projects. More fire, though. Is the heat getting to you? The lunar orb being receptive and reflective, focuses the qualities of the signs and other planets to our Lightcraft. The Lunar center, and it's intimate connection with the Holographic Image Projection System, is not only the foundation for the astral plane, but is the fiery aspect of astral energy itself. According to occult science, the angels are the guardians of the seed atoms, or photons. The activities of the angels are directed to the maintenance of plant, animal, and human life on earth. To this end, their forces are focused by the wandering Moon through the twelve signs of the zodiac. Thus as the Moon measures the tides of the earth (physically and astrally), so also does she measure the soul's passage from the shores of the dream realm in eternity through the waters of the womb to the world of time, to the door of the tomb, the sasquatch stumbles upon the missile silo at dusk may overreact by becoming defensive. But a more productive response to hurt feelings is to examine them so they can be healed, rather than allowing resentment to build up. Otherwise, you may be willing to do something to make the world a better place, but only if it entails using fire.
THE METAVERSAL LIGHTCRAFTHYPER-ABYSSIC ASTROLOGY FORECAST
AND LIGHT SPECIFIC YOGA PLATFORM
THIRD QUARTER MOON
-AIRWEEK-
July 21st to July 26th
We are the I, A, O. We are the central shaft and we are here to let you take advantage of our little craft: Certain streets have certain corners Sooner or later, we'll turn yours We are the 801, We are the central shaft And thus throughout two years we've crossed the ocean in our little craft (Row! Row! Row) Now we're on the telephone, Making final arrangements (Ding! Ding!) We are the 801, we are the central shaft. Looking for a certain ratio where we utilize the powers of active Air, in the kabbalistic World of Yetzirah. Airweek represents the formative period of the elemental Lunar cycle. Mars remains the war engine. And now Mars is featured at the top of the chart, where the whole world sees it fighting. It is at 26 Aries, right on Bush's 25 Aries midheaven, ready to act/(re) act out the image of the Texan cowboy which Georgie likes to project. This chart has an almost identical wheel to Bush's chart, and five of the ten major planets are even in the same houses as they are in Georgie's chart. This is a major new projection of Bush.There is one notable difference now. Saturn is back in the 12th, but now instead of in the timid sign of Cancer, it is in the bold sign of Leo. Perhaps he feels more his own person.Go forth into the World and actively create the visions obtained last week in the World of the Mind.
THURSDAY, JULY 21
Full Moon at 29 Capricorn occurs at 4:00 a.m. PDT. Moon goes VOC after it's luminousness reachs fullness, and enters Aquarius at 6:55 a.m. Strict Capricorn Moon sets boundaries to Cancer' Sun's limitless emotions. Together they can manage business, government, family, or any institution which promotes security.This year, we experience a second Full Moon in Capricorn-Cancer, which squares Mars again, too - another opportunity to choose between making a living and making a life. If we've initiated meta changes in the last few weeks, we feel more stable and content now. If not, the issues have become clearer, the warning signs larger and louder. What's bleeping in your life? Is that inner child still tugging at your pant leg? Is your inner parent still working joylessly, too long, and too hard? Mars has been keeping pace with the last three lunations, pushing us to face the music and to compose our own. Once more, dilemmas come to the surface. Full Moons bring lux to the now - what has been in the shadow (the unconscious) - and thus offer us a potent opportunity to balance, integrate, and ascend in consciousness. The biggest event in the sky today is Saturn opposing Chiron, which is exact three hours before the Full Moon. This means structural change, in this case with the Leo-Aquarius polarity, which combines creative self-command with the welfare of society. This is the first of three such oppositions.Leo-Aquarius is the polarity of the U.S. Nodes, and this process means very big change indeed in the nation.
The next opposition is in February 2006, and the third and last one is the following June. Our stance in the world will be truly changed by then. Will the state crackdown, which has been increasing during these intervening years, be successful in finally stamping out democracy? Or will the people assert their right to democracy, justice, and equal rights for all? The government hopes that fear is on their side. Can we prevent ourselves from letting fear run us? We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Truly, this is a momentous time. Interesting that it's the great grand finale of our Cancer solar energy field influence. Tomorrow Sun enters Leo, still with Saturn and Chiron in very close (4 minutes) opposition.And tomorrow Mercury turns retrograde. We need to think about what's happening. In general, this is a serious day.
FRIDAY, JULY 22
51 tsuguA ot seered emas eht revo sdrawkcassab sesrevart dna edargorter snryut yrucreM (Mercury turns retrograde and traverses bassackwards over the same degrees to August 15.)
We should not start new projects, nor buy important articles, nor start relationships during this period. Any of these could turn out to be lemons. Even if we buy something great for a great price, we'll later wonder why we did, like that exercise bike sitting lonely in your basement. Mail, documents, legal matters - and, because Mercury's in Leo - romance and theatrical ventures could be delayed. Patience! Sun enters Leo with a blast, and immediately runs into Saturn, who says, "Golden Boy, you've got a lot to account for." Chiron in opposition will really shake up this Leo sun. Insecurity will be rampant, and proud Leo can do very foolish things to show he still has a grip on himself-like start a war, the tried-and-true U.S. way to gain confidence But this is the Day we traded in War in exchange for a wide-open Heart. This is the birthday of the Day when we took off our diapers and entangled our lives with the Wild. We are the diners, the final diners Let's get it understood, let's get it understood. Most of us tinkers, some of us tailors, and we've got candlesticks, and lots of cocktail sticks.
The top of the chart exactly conjoins the U.S. North Node in Leo, and Bush's Ascendant. Sun and Saturn are in the 9th house of foreign affairs. Two degrees of Scorpio is rising, and squaring the gang of three-Sun, Saturn, and Chiron. Moon in Aquarius conjoins Neptune in the 4th, full of the flowery visions which underpin the intense action now.Juno in Taurus conjoins the U.S. Vesta (securing one's turf, money), and they are both squared by Mercury in Leo, a greedy, determined and stubborn combination.When Leo energy is healthy it comes from a place of great confidence, courage, and strength trusting that all is in divine order and knowing we are all loved and cherished by the creative life force from whence we emerged into this life. Avatars of chaos act as spies, saboteurs, criminals of amour fou, neither selfless nor selfish, accessible as children, mannered as barbarians, chafed with obsessions, unemployed, sensually deranged, wolfangels, mirrors for contemplation, eyes like flowers, pirates of all signs & meanings.
The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden cord that connects us: illegal dancing in the corridors of Aumland Security. This is an active day, with much transformational energy available. Tonight Venus enters Virgo, to begin emphasizing service, and problem-solving in general. Just afterwards Mercury turns retrograde at 21 Leo, with Taurus interests on its mind, illegal dancing in the corridors of Aumland Security. If I were to kiss you here they'd call it an act of terrorism--so let's take our pistols to bed & wake up the city at midnight like drunken bandits celebrating with a fusillade, the message of the taste of chaos... Sleep may be difficult, for the aspects continue through early morning.
SATURDAY, JULY 23
Yesterday's significant energetic changes continue throughout the night, and well into this day. At 5:11 a.m. PDT, Moon enters a thunderstorm which is scheduled to take place inside my pants. Really gets my donkeys up onstage. I love the way you play with my expectations, my thoughts skirting, my desires panting, my yin yanging in the clanging din. You needn't dress in any but the most perfunctory manner as I myself will be wearing a military camisole from the pelvic region upwards. You Pisces, you the sign which is now home to Uranus. During this whole major time, Moon has moved from Neptune to Uranus, two of the outer planets which are associated with deep changes in consciousness. In particular, Moon represents myself in a neurasthenic frenzy just contemplating the notion that you and I might get together beneath those same bolts of lightning which are sure to set the Sugar silos aflame again. And when I say private, I mean private: you'll be shocked by what you discover about yourself. I'm shocked - when Moon encounters Uranus at midnight-the midnight rendezvous. Our day is dominated by the Sun-Saturn meeting. This is w hen Saturn gets its script for the next year from Director Sun. Saturn is authority, responsibility, proper discipline and proper hierarchy. He helps us focus on the real world, and how to make something kleiglit by lamps affixed to the underside of the bridge. You will be naked. I'll put you inside a transparent gyroscope roving the Carnival of the Torture Demons. For all intents and purposes, I could have put you in the shark tank diving-bell - but you'll get a hell of a lot more out of this experience, I guarantee you. You'll be safe with Saturn in Leo - it's like a magic carpet with an impermeable aura - and the Carnival itself is the ultimate spectacle of sheer menacing horror and pranksterish delirium.
In Leo, we focus on our central command systems, and how we can use them to develop our own authority. With Saturn in Leo, our self-authority does get called to account. Adolph Hitler was born with Saturn in Leo; so was Bill Clinton. Chiron dominates now, as he opposes Sun and Saturn. He is certain to disrupt Saturn's path of propriety during this next year. The U.S. people will be the instrument. War is part of the picture, for Vesta now is on the U.S. Mars, opposing Pluto, the powers that be, who is now squaring the U.S. Neptune, as well as opposing the U.S. Mars. Sounds like a lot of force opposing the U.S. Mars-as we see in fact on the ground. And more Mars. Will we be proactive or reactive?
Use this time of increased light to envision and step into your future, giving yourself and others plenty of elbow room and being tolerant towards the full spectrum of humanity's eccentricity... we reconnect here to generate terrific monuments made of coloured sound and we storm the edifices of a dream more incredible than the blooming of a thousand hearts amplified through vacufazers at at the degree of Black Hole Persephone, one of the underworld goddesses. (So, then, is the U.S. Stock Exchange Saturn.) Black Holes have an affinity for high energy, and they can suck energy endlessly. Persephone was the daughter who was gone into the underworld with Pluto. It was grief over her loss that caused Demeter (Ceres) to make the Lightcraft analagous to the active aspect of the psychological body, or for simplicities sake, let's call it Psyche. In the physical body (in Assiah) there are infinite sub-divisions down to the frontier of the physical world, where the particles of matter and impulses of energy are interchangeable* In the same way, the Psyche interpenetrates the body so that the upper part of the physical world percolates and influences the lower part of the psyche, and vice versa. In the macrodimensions of the Metaverse, a crisis can generate a direct contact with the Sun in Yetzirah (Psyche) but after the crisis, the connection fades, and the watcher in oneself fades back into the subconscious. The Lightpilot seeks to consciously make permanent connection with the Sun in Yetzirah. This is done by constant observation of actions, emotions and intellect, to perceive impartially the way those functions operate, and to correct and perfect their performance so as to become a true see-thing. To be the big picture, complete in all it's parts. Saturn, Sun, Chiron, Mars, planets that mean business. All of them are very prominent on the East Coast. All of them are at significant degrees, and all of them are in stressful relation to one another. This is Saturn's program for her two-year trip through Leo.
The Sabian Symbol for Saturn at 1 Leo is:
"BLOOD RUSHES TO A MAN'S HEAD AS HIS VITAL ENERGIES ARE MOBILIZED UNDER THE SPUR OF AMBITION. An irruption of bio-psychic energies into the ego-controlled field of consciousness. Leo represents Solar Fire, the energy which is released from an integrated person, either through spontaneous radiations of apparently nuclear forms of energy or, at the conscious level, through conscious emanations. The key symbol for Leo depicts a rising of energy from the heart to the head, a 'mentalization' process. However, this process is a potentially dangerous one. The sun can destroy as well as vivify. For the realization of atman, the spiritual self, the ego needs to be formed and steady so that it can become a lens of pure crystal focusing the all-pervasive cosmic light of the Brahman without introducing the shadows of pride, possessiveness, and showmanship. This transmutation of 'life' into 'mind' is a difficult process. CONFLAGRATION."
SUNDAY, JULY 24
The Day of the Sun in Yetzirah, the World of Air. The Lightcraft's interactive membrane is informed directly from the E.M.F's of the Sun, which in turn is affected by the transits of it's satellites (each representing a level of vibrational resonance.) Inside each monkeysuit is another Sun, emanating its rays into the solar plexus and reflecting off the Moon below, which in turn informs and records both the earth and the sky. The Light Pilot, the H.G.A, the Egyptian Ka, is the fourth dimensional electromagnetick driver of the third dimensional Lightcraft, the Ba. But there is a Sixth dimensional metaversal solar mind which interacts with all levels and is purely an electromagnetick harmonic, a harmony based on all the other levels coming together around a center. It is eternally now and therefore timeless. The Sun never sets.
The evolution of the Metaversal song, what some refer to as the Great Work, or the Will, has as it's core the purpose of resonating this harmonic through your individual interactive Lightcraft. The earth's ionosphere (about 70 miles up) is the key. It's in direct resonance with the solar and lunar currents and it oscillates at 7.8 cycles a second. The human brain oscillates at 7.8 cycles per second when it is in a state of samadhi or meditational absorption, experiencing bliss, receiving and sending out E M waves, to be absorbed or re-radiated, and this creates all the tones, pitches, octaves, wave-lengths, colours, and hues in nature. Goethe called this ....'the Deeds and Sufferings of Light'. We are surrounded by these 'Deeds and Sufferings' of radiation, extending through the whole seventy-plus E M octaves beyond the single known octave we call visible light. From light to matter and back again.
MONDAY, JULY 25 and TUESDAY, JULY 26
Let's relax-hah! Just you try and relax with an Aries moon for the next two and one-half days, you crafty luxpert! The aspects are terrific, and we can move right along with our projects. More fire, though. Is the heat getting to you? The lunar orb being receptive and reflective, focuses the qualities of the signs and other planets to our Lightcraft. The Lunar center, and it's intimate connection with the Holographic Image Projection System, is not only the foundation for the astral plane, but is the fiery aspect of astral energy itself. According to occult science, the angels are the guardians of the seed atoms, or photons. The activities of the angels are directed to the maintenance of plant, animal, and human life on earth. To this end, their forces are focused by the wandering Moon through the twelve signs of the zodiac. Thus as the Moon measures the tides of the earth (physically and astrally), so also does she measure the soul's passage from the shores of the dream realm in eternity through the waters of the womb to the world of time, to the door of the tomb, the sasquatch stumbles upon the missile silo at dusk may overreact by becoming defensive. But a more productive response to hurt feelings is to examine them so they can be healed, rather than allowing resentment to build up. Otherwise, you may be willing to do something to make the world a better place, but only if it entails using fire.
July 22, 2005
Is that a vegetable I hear?
or maybe I just have carrots in my ears...
The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra (MUSIC WITH TASTE)
the first vienna vegetable orchestra plays music exclusively on vegetable instruments: carrots and cucumbers instead of guitars and drums. or, with their new cd automate, a cuke-o-phon and radish-marimba instead of laptop and sampler. the music presents a transfer of electronic music pieces and structures to the instruments of the vegetable garden.
LISTEN TO EXCERPTS
This is the most adorable music I have ever heard... (well, almost...)
The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra (MUSIC WITH TASTE)
the first vienna vegetable orchestra plays music exclusively on vegetable instruments: carrots and cucumbers instead of guitars and drums. or, with their new cd automate, a cuke-o-phon and radish-marimba instead of laptop and sampler. the music presents a transfer of electronic music pieces and structures to the instruments of the vegetable garden.
LISTEN TO EXCERPTS
This is the most adorable music I have ever heard... (well, almost...)
Bjork: All Is Full Of Love (video)
Thought it might be about time to watch this video again. It really is an exquisitely beautiful piece of craftsmanship that seems to be holding up rather well through time...
WATCH VIDEO
Infos: Bjork's multi award winning video "All is Full of Love" was directed by Chris Cunningham who put all the digital effects work through Glassworks as he had done with his previous work with Aphex Twin. 3D artist James Mann used Avid SOFTIMAGE|3D to build movement into twin interacting androids, modelled to look like Björk. He also created robotic arms to complement live action arms that had been built for an assembly scene in the video. Pasi Johansson carried out the warping of Björk's face onto the robotic models, restoring her features to the surfaces using Discreet Logic's Flame.
Glassworks picked up the MTV 2000 Best Special Effects award for their work on the Björk video. This tops a long list of awards for the hugely successful video, which also won twice at the ITS Monitor awards (2000) as well as Best Music Video at the 1999 London Effects and Animation (LEAF) awards. The "All is Full of Love" promo also received a screening at Siggraph 1999 and was featured at the Art Futura Festival in Spain, Digital Images in Italy, the Tokyo ACM Siggraph CG Film Show in Japan, the Australian Effects and Animation Show and on Imagine TV and the Sci Fi channel in the US. Glassworks also received an award for Björk at the British Design and Art Direction Awards in 1999.
WATCH VIDEO
Infos: Bjork's multi award winning video "All is Full of Love" was directed by Chris Cunningham who put all the digital effects work through Glassworks as he had done with his previous work with Aphex Twin. 3D artist James Mann used Avid SOFTIMAGE|3D to build movement into twin interacting androids, modelled to look like Björk. He also created robotic arms to complement live action arms that had been built for an assembly scene in the video. Pasi Johansson carried out the warping of Björk's face onto the robotic models, restoring her features to the surfaces using Discreet Logic's Flame.
Glassworks picked up the MTV 2000 Best Special Effects award for their work on the Björk video. This tops a long list of awards for the hugely successful video, which also won twice at the ITS Monitor awards (2000) as well as Best Music Video at the 1999 London Effects and Animation (LEAF) awards. The "All is Full of Love" promo also received a screening at Siggraph 1999 and was featured at the Art Futura Festival in Spain, Digital Images in Italy, the Tokyo ACM Siggraph CG Film Show in Japan, the Australian Effects and Animation Show and on Imagine TV and the Sci Fi channel in the US. Glassworks also received an award for Björk at the British Design and Art Direction Awards in 1999.
July 21, 2005
Turkish coffee inspiration
Drinking my second round of the rich dark brew, ala turca (the cardamom with a nip of honey is simply divine). Somehow this particular beverage and the bit of greensmoke inhaled earlier are just the perfect combo as I sit through yet another listen-through of WTBTN tracks. To the side I was pooshking around with photoshop and had some fun with the cloning tool and a page of Islamic art and a recent mugshot:
No Other Radio audio archives (7/19)
NOR host dAS + special guests from the 2005 Edgetone Music Summit (Tri-Cornered Tent Show and Big City Oerckhestrae)
Check out the archived audio from the show (7/19/05)
http://157.22.130.4/data/20050720-Wed0000.mp3
Playlist is available at the No Other Radio blog
More photos are available here.
July 19, 2005
Tonite: KPFA 'No Other Radio'
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TONITE'S SPOTLIGHT
will feature some of the artists/musicians involved in the upcoming bay area 2005 Edgetone New Music Summit JULY 21-24, 2005. This spotlight showcases on-air live performances, interviews and info about the summit.
the 2005 EDGETONE NEW MUSIC SUMMIT
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July 17, 2005
Life and all that goes on...
Been a bit preoccupied with projects over these last couple of weeks, so haven't had too much time on the box to post anywhere. Thought the least I could do around here is to update with a few photos of some of the latest...
First, I don't know if any of you remember a few months back when I discovered a peach tree had sprouted up in my backyard---well, here's what we've ended up with so far--- wow they are sweet, delicious and dripping with juice! I ate two of them today! Just look at these beauties:
Second, the packaging materials arrived yesterday for the Women Take Back the Noise project. Very excited about it, as you will probably see from the photos. Thanks to my extremely organized hubby and his sorting talents, all 1050 pieces have been stacked neatly into smaller containers and await our assembly-line of assorted band members and friends to add all of the elements into them. This will inevitably be a ton of work but I will probably document some of it here and then eventually on the soon-to-be-updated WTBTN page. Sorry I've been so sporatic with my updates on this project here but there has really been so much going on between getting the tracks in the right order and working on artwork and finding the resources (not to mention working a full-time job in between!) that I just try to do updates whenever possible-- like now.
Number three-- remember those mischevious little pishkies and their adventures? Seems they've been experimenting with a bit of rockclimbing lately. One of their little friends unfortunately fell to an untimely end by sliding off the edge of the rock and landing head-first into the bottom of a very deep cobalt flask. It was too dark down there to photograph, poor thing...
Last but not least-- how come the older I get the more I smile and laugh? With any luck by the time I'm 80 (if I live so long) my entire vocabulary will consist of nothing more than smiles and laughter. This is a weird life, indeed...
First, I don't know if any of you remember a few months back when I discovered a peach tree had sprouted up in my backyard---well, here's what we've ended up with so far--- wow they are sweet, delicious and dripping with juice! I ate two of them today! Just look at these beauties:
Second, the packaging materials arrived yesterday for the Women Take Back the Noise project. Very excited about it, as you will probably see from the photos. Thanks to my extremely organized hubby and his sorting talents, all 1050 pieces have been stacked neatly into smaller containers and await our assembly-line of assorted band members and friends to add all of the elements into them. This will inevitably be a ton of work but I will probably document some of it here and then eventually on the soon-to-be-updated WTBTN page. Sorry I've been so sporatic with my updates on this project here but there has really been so much going on between getting the tracks in the right order and working on artwork and finding the resources (not to mention working a full-time job in between!) that I just try to do updates whenever possible-- like now.
Number three-- remember those mischevious little pishkies and their adventures? Seems they've been experimenting with a bit of rockclimbing lately. One of their little friends unfortunately fell to an untimely end by sliding off the edge of the rock and landing head-first into the bottom of a very deep cobalt flask. It was too dark down there to photograph, poor thing...
Last but not least-- how come the older I get the more I smile and laugh? With any luck by the time I'm 80 (if I live so long) my entire vocabulary will consist of nothing more than smiles and laughter. This is a weird life, indeed...