As we move closer to the complete assimilation of the organic with the digital, things start to get kinda wierd…You thought pop-ups were bad? Look at whats coming…
I am at the same time hopeful, and worried about where this is headed, but don’t forget, all technology is neutral, it’s the application of said technology that determines if it’s negative or positively influencing the world.
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.
Howdy friends! Been super busy with so many crazy things! Wanted to drop a quick update and let you all know I was still alive and kicking.
Packing my bags right now to leave tomorrow morning for the Gem & Jam Music Festival in Tucson, AZ! Very excited for this, but one of my band-mates bags was left at the airport during a connecting flight! Hope it makes it.
Anyways, I’ve been up to tons of stuff, a brief overview follows:
Needless to say, LOTS of great times, which unfortunately makes me unable to post as much as I would like on the blog. As time opens up though, expect some cool new stuff here!
Until next time, blessings & love to you and your flow.
Well, as you all can see, I have been extremely slow with posts…I think it’s been almost a month since my last! I apologize, but unfortunately, I am so busy with my current projects, I haven’t had a spare second to write anything!
I am in the middle of a bunch of really fun personal and professional projects that are taking up most of my time over the next few months. Some of the highlights include:
As you can see, I’m nearly overwhelmed on time, but I’m making it work! Most of my focus is on univerSOUL, my interactive visual toy! Basically, its a new way for fans to interact with the music at concerts…It’s being built in Adobe AIR 2.0, with full support for WiiMote & some motion detection action.
So, my blog will have to suffer. I would LOVE to have lots of free time to write good articles for everyone, but I just don’t right now. Someday, hopefully soon, I will be able to spend time on the blog again, but the old 5-10 posts a week is definitely over for now.
Check back for updates on the current projects & demos soon!
Since I’m not one to normally follow blindly and be all into the holidays that were made up for us by people we don’t know, celebrating things we don’t know, I decided to post a little blurb about the origins of halloween!
Here is a blip of text from History.com, but you can also check this out other places online.
Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).
The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities.
During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.
We don’t own the planet, we’re just renting it from our kids.
This documentary looks like it is going to be really good! The Breathe Foundation seems like some conscious folks. Can’t wait for it’s release in November.
Zen Master Ryokan lived a simple and frugal life – all by himself in a small hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening, a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing in it to steal. When Ryokan returned, he was ‘caught’ red-handed. Instead of being angry or alerting the authorities, Ryokan said, ’As you must have come a long way to visit me, you should not leave empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift.‘Stunned and bewildered, the thief nevertheless took the clothes before sheepishly hurrying off. As Ryokan sat naked while watching the moon, he exclaimed, ‘Poor fellow, I wish I could have given him the beautiful moon!‘
Never heard of an Energy Vampire? Well, let me try and bring you up to speed. Vampires go around taking peoples blood, giving nothing in return but a sore spot or two on the neck.
An Energy Vampire is very similar, except, instead of taking your blood, they take your energy and give nothing in return. They can take the form of a habit or a job, or something similar, but the most common Energy Vampire, is an unhappy, unfulfilled human being.
You have to be extremely careful, because even someone who was not an Energy Vampire, can easily become one in a split nano-second. They can contract Energy Vampirism from another EV, this is the more prevalent method, or they can spontaneously contract it because of low energy levels.
If this is the first time you’ve heard the term energy levels, and it did not refer to your laptop battery, ill explain. Everyone know they are full of energies of all types. When you have been running around all day, or working out for a few hours, you feel like you are out of energy. You feel tired. This is physical energy, one of the main types of energy you have in your body, and it is mostly produced by the foods you eat, the sunlight that bathes your body and sleeping.
The other main form of energy in your body, is the etheric, or dream energy. This is the energy that powers your thoughts and consciousness, as well as your intuition and dreams.
This is the kinda that Energy Vampires are after, most of the time.
An EV will come along in your life when you are feeling an extreme abundance of internal energy. This doesn’t stop them from trying to take your energy even when you have very low levels, they are just drawn to those with high levels because it works out better for them in the long run.
I’m sure you can remember at least one time in your life, where someone took and took and took, but gave nothing in return. I’m not even talking about physical objects, I’m talking about energy.
Sometimes, its a passive-aggressive energy exchange, where they aren’t obviously just taking and taking & giving nothing in return. Sometimes its like they are undercover. They infiltrate your trust, your inner circle, and they begin to chip away at your source of happiness & contentment. Not that they specifically want you to not be happy, or out of dream energy, they just NEED that type of energy, and they have no other way of getting it.
Most of the time, they don’t even know that they are taking and not giving anything back, they are just doing it out of necessity, because they have been conditioned to forget how to replenish the dream energy within. This can be done a variety of ways, and I will go into quite a bit of depth in another article later.
Some examples of things that replenish my dream energy, for example, are:
There are plenty of other ways to bring your dream energy back to a good level. You can tell that the activity you are doing replenishes that energy, if it makes you happy on a Soul level. I’m not talking that superficial, fake-plastic-smile happy. I’m talking about the kind of happy that makes you unconcerned about what comes next. The happy that makes you feel as if nothing in the world can stop you from achieving your dreams.
Once you have noticed that someone in your life is an Energy Vampire, you have a few options. You can ignore the fact, and hope that they just stop what they are doing. This never works out, in my opinion, because I notice that EV’s will always take and take and take until you stop giving up your energy.
You can also try to bring it to their attention, and try to remedy the situation through words & interaction. This works more in situations where the EV is a close friend or family member more than with a casual friend or acquaintance.
The other method of removing an EV from your life, is to do just that. Remove them from your life. You do not HAVE to spend time with anyone. That includes people who take control over you or manipulate themselves into your life.
Sometimes it can take some practice to tactfully remove an EV from your “psychic neck”, but don’t be discouraged. You are in control of your destiny, and all it takes to spark change in your existence, is intention. Once you decide to take action, stick with it, and make it happen. Things will change.
Now, I’m not saying that you shouldn’t give your energy out for free. On the contrary, this is the main reason you can’t afford to give all of your energy to one or two people. If you are constantly drained of your dream energy, you will have none to share with everyone else.
Another method of filling up your dream energy, is to receive some from another person. However, this particular energy is very fickle. It does not like attachment, or “clinging” (greed). So when you are stealing away peoples dream energy, and are thus “attatched” to getting or “clinging” to the energy, it just disappears as it gets into your field.
The world is in such a negative spot today because of this. Because of TV, Music, and overall social conditioning, the people of the world have learned to be greedy with their energies, this includes money (they call it currency for a reason, its an energy-form), dream energy, and physical energy, among others.
Over a few decades, everyone has become low dream energy fields, unable to achieve their dreams, unable to find true contentment, or happiness. They all keep striving to get that new car, or that new house, or job, that will bring them what they think is missing…and they horde their energy (money & others), thinking this is the way to abundance.
In actuality, the route to abundance is through abundantly giving. The universe works only if it goes on forever and ever. What would be the point of working towards this time for billions of years, just to fall apart into nothing-ness? The universe likes it when you succeed, and we succeed when the world is happy. That’s why Karma works out. It will give you a taste of what you dish out, in hopes that you see what you are doing to the world, be it helping, or hurting.
Most people don’t understand how it works, and they just think they are unlucky, or the world isn’t fair, when in all actuality, they are creating an unhappy existence through their actions.
Are you an Energy Vampire? Are you the victim of one? Take a good, deep look at your actions and intentions, and at those around you. Do they make you and everyone else feel “full” of energy & life? Or drained and dis-eased?
You can watch it live on NASA TV, or you can find a 10″+ telescope and see it for yourself!
Another super awesome perfect idea from the government, they always seem to come up with the best ideas!
From their site:
NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission will come to a dramatic conclusion at approximately 4:30 a.m. PDT (7:30 a.m. EDT) on Friday, Oct 9, 2009, with the impact of the LCROSS Centaur upper stage rocket and four minutes later, the impact of the LCROSS Shepherding Spacecraft into Cabeus crater near the moon’s south pole. To mark the event, NASA Ames Research Center is hosting ‘LCROSS Impact Night.’ News media are invited to cover the three-part event that is open to the public and free of charge.
This commercial “subvertisement” made by AdBusters really brings it home!
According to their post:
We’re continuing our campaign for media democracy with a series of subvertisements aimed at disrupting the promotion of overconsumption and attacking the legitimacy of advertising. We want the right to broadcast these subverts and we’re willing to pay, but the major networks aren’t willing to air them. So far FOX has officially rejected our first spot, COMMERCIAL BREAKERS, and MTV has cut off communication entirely.
The idea behind COMMERCIAL BREAKERS is simply to sabotage the meaning of advertising and undermine the power of brands. The average TV ad presents the consumer with a crisis: a crisis of identity, a crisis of hunger, a messy floor, an unsightly blemish or erectile dysfunction. The crisis is always a crisis of choice, but there is only one choice: the product being advertised. Each ad expresses an individual brand’s vision of utopia; a perfect world constructed around a singular message: if you buy the product being advertised, you will be happy and content … if only for a moment.
This consumer utopia – beamed into our consciousness 24/7 – is a distraction from our real crisis, be it existential, spiritual, environmental, economic or political. And so rather than interpret advertising as a choice between colas or a choice between brands, we seek to reinterpret it as a choice between the real and the artificial. It’s not Pepsi vs. Coke, it’s Cool Diet Cola vs. Climate Doom.
Some revolutionary hip-hop for the family! It’s man vs. machine!
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