philosophy, ideas, raves and rants
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda
Heres a book I have been looking for for sometime. Written by Amy Wallace who thought she knew him well, its probably the last of the eyewitness accounts of Carlos, who I just find incredibly funny. Doesnt really matter if the people recording liked him or not, he was having a good time and his [...]
Superfreaky Whores
Seems the freakonmics guys have written a new book and its controversial if nothing else. They cover global warming, it seems they are ignorant on the subject and say nothing your standard denialist wouldnt say, and they cover prostitutes. I dont get their drift but its winding a few people up. I know hundreds of [...]
The Secret
I found this review on Amazon in the comments on a blog I came accross. The blog is Locklin on science and you can read the other reviews by Ari Brouillette here. I very much like this style of writting. The Secret saved my life!, December 4, 2007 Please allow me to share with you how [...]
Carlos Castaneda
Carlos, of course, found great pleasure in obscuring his trail but he was up against infinity herself so theres plenty to be found by energy seekers. One is the book by Amy Wallace, people whose assemblage points are stick in the mud cling to her like a bible, and she does a great job of [...]
Tensegrity
“All of us here are bound together by our struggle, by our deep affection for one another, and by the realization that without one another nothing is possible.” Some things allude me and some come naturally, like for instance magical passes: positions and movements of body and breath. The human body turns out to be [...]
Noam Chomsky and John Pilger
The universe is a chaotic dog-eat-dog hierarchical structure and human society is a case in point. Those in power have the power and they steal from the rest. Theres not much that can be done about it, altho at times a chance arises, such as when the French cut off all the aristocrats heads, of [...]
The Oil Age is Over
There was a time when I was into this sort of thing, until I had an erotic dream involving a motorbike (the end of the video with the dog is almost as disturbing now that Ive noticed it). Now I have little interest in technology in general. The reason I posted this tho, is that [...]
Home
Shot mostly from helicopter by Yann Arthus-Bertrand the photography is spectacular, I recommend checking out the full movie at Home. The commentary seems to wind up a few people altho it doesnt seem too outrageous to me.
Tokyo, Time-Lapsed
I first became aware of time lapse photography in Baraka, from memory (incidentally I like to keep the hard drive clear so my memory certainly isnt to be relied upon). This is a great example of it. Never been to Tokyo but my feeling is that its at the forefront of the arts, possibly because [...]
More sex please, you’re artists
From Jonathan Jones On Art Blog in The Guardian. There isn’t enough sex in the arts today. Look back at the 20th century and the whole point of modernism was to liberate the carnal. DH Lawrence, priest of love, competed to shock the last survivors of the Victorian age with James Joyce, who rambled uninhibited [...]
