Another beautiful initiative from Giving Is All We Have, a movement to revolve the world around the contagious power of giving: Last weekend at Lowlands 2012, our Giving is All we Have crew have been working their asses off to help people remember what it is like to give & receive unconditionally. Results were mind boggling. Read all about it here. Background. So last year, I gave away my ticket to Lowlands Festival. A lot of beautiful stuff has happened ...
As oral histories like these increasingly leave us with the passing of elders the world over, the Tibet Oral History Project signifies both triumph and sadness. In one sense we gain a time capsule of their stories and knowledge, in another sense it is a warning sign that these cultures are endangered. Ever more reason to donate to help fund this cause and thus fund the preservation of TIbetan culture. Here’s more: The Tibet Oral History Project aims to preserve the true ...
I guess you could say the solution to our air pollution problems has been right under…or right in our noses this whole time! Thankfully, over the last decade or so, Guy and Cyril Negre have been working to use the invisible life force we breathe every day to fuel cars. The result is the Airpod, a truly revolutionary design that appears to be on the road (No pun intended!) to filling our cities streets with everything we need to get ...
With the stroke of his brush, Nick Mann channels cosmic visions onto bare walls in America’s urban metropolises and native reservations. When he is not looking up at a wall, he is looking down upon paper illuminating its fibres with his paint and can be found on his Flickr:
I remember when I finished my four-year undergraduate university program in North America and starting looking for a masters program to attend to and was only to find that what I was interested in, shamanism and spirituality, hardly existed as a full program offering or even as a half-semester course. As you might imagine, I never went for my masters. Now, it’s promising to know that opportunities for future knowledge seekers to explore what I wish I had in an ...
Original Post >>> Sott.net This information about hair has been hidden from the public since the Viet Nam War . Our culture leads people to believe that hair style is a matter of personal preference, that hair style is a matter of fashion and/or convenience, and that how people wear their hair is simply a cosmetic issue. Back in the Vietnam war however, an entirely different picture emerged, one that has been carefully covered up and hidden from public view. ...
Randal Robert believes that when he paints there is a energetic co-creating force painting with him, as such he does not even sign his work. From looking at his psychedelic dreamscapes, I imagine this to be nothing but the truth: “My name’s Randal, and I am an artist.” In 2004, around the time I turned 30, I started introducing myself with that. I’d met and been deeply inspired by the great visionary artist Alex Grey, quit the factory job, and began ...
Canada.com features a secret treehouse in the woods of Whistler is exposed by it’s owner for the first time to the awe of architects and nature lovers alike >>> Joel Allen is getting a lot of attention for his grown-up treehouse nestled in the branches atop Whistler Mountain in B.C. Allen, a 31-year-old unemployed software developer, started building the egg-shaped structure, dubbed the HemLoft, in 2008. He wrote on his website: The driving force behind the whole thing was a ...
New Orleans resident and artist Candy Chang did what many people wish to do before they die, to make a positive impact on people’s lives…not to mention leave behind a piece that defined our times like a monument or statue. Her ‘Before I Die’ community chalkboard art project is just that having now spread from it’s origins in New Orleans to cities around the world. On it’s walls are chalk declarations, wishes, and dreams of passersby packed with humility and ...
“The Superior human?” is the first documentary to systematically challenge the common human belief that humans are superior to other life forms. The documentary reveals the absurdity of this belief while exploding human bias. Featuring Dr Bernard Rollin, Gary Yourofsky Dr Richard Ryder, Dr Steven Best. Narrated by Dr Nick Gylaw. “The Superior human?” is dedicated to 2012 Earth April (EA) which includes Earth Day and World Lab Animal Day. EA official website : http://EarthApril.GoodEasy.info
Brianna Pearce the unlikely duo : 1970′s surrealist film Fantastic Planet, and Jason Schwartzmen shopping for records. Have you ever watched the video series “What’s in my Bag?”. It’s incredible. Watching creatives shop for records while maintaining a running dialogue is really quite entertaining. And who better to source music and film from than people who are extremely passionate about it? Enter Jason Schwartzman. Super entertaining as an actor, and luckily just as entertaining in real life. One of ...
Co.Exist provides a glimpse at humankind’s impact on the earth in a powerful animated globe video and some scientific research to explain what you see: This tour of our glowing transportation and communication networks shows the majesty–and horror–of how mankind has altered the planet. According to scientists, we’re currently in the geological epoch known as theHolocene, which has lasted for the last 12,000 years. The Holocene encompasses the rise of humanity since the last ice age. But some scientists think we ...