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Stillness In Motion >>> Olga Ziemska’s Willow Branch Sculpture
Olga Ziemska is known for her nature manipulations. Here is her most recent work Stillness In Motion. Her inspiration, creative process, and her statement on life are clear from the words of her artist’s statement that reads like a poem: Art as a tool for understanding life. Helping us to discover how our minds create all these visions of reality. Art allows us to question values, morals, philosophies, religions, science, physics, and our selves. Giving us the tools to help understand and ...
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Snoop Dogg’s ‘Rolling Words’ >>> Smokable Songbook of His Greatest Hits
Saundra Jones Combining a smattering of eco-friendliness and the two things Snoop Dogg does best, smokin’ weed and makin’ music, is his new venture, a book of lyrics from classic Snoop songs called Rolling Words: A Smokable Songbook. Just as the name suggests, within this hemp covered stoner treat are pages made of rolling papers that after be rolled can be struck up with a match lit off the spine of the book. A brilliant marketing ploy to promote his new ...
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‘Death Camp’ >>> Experimental Art Film From SHOWstudio Creates Vision Of Humankind’s Failures
On a darker note, SHOWstudio and director Joseph Lally recently made a sullen yet beautiful, violent yet elegant, abstract yet grossly realistic short film that is almost a scrapbook of footage, new and old, of some of humankinds lesser moments. Nevertheless, mistakes to learn from and visoionary filmmaking to admire: About ‘Death Camp’ The history of our planet is one of a death camp. The planet history is one of violence, corruption and conspiracy.’ Photographer and filmmaker Joseph Lally’s film Death Camptakes ...
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The Rise of the New Spiritual Counterculture >>> Article
Jonathan Talat Phillips, author of The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic, turns a spotlight on the flourishing spiritual counterculture in an article from the Huffington Post: It’s Feb. 17 and I’m standing in front of a full room at Gatsby Books in Long Beach, Calif. Once again, we’ve filled up the seats and people are standing in the back as I deliver my opening line, “If you told me several years ago I’d be here talking about Jesus ...
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How Does One Live Simply? >>> Film & Podcast Exploring Connectedness and Simplicity In Urban Settings
Brianna Pearce Why did Ken Lum stand on a highway for 5 days and not cross the road? This is not a knock-knock joke. Living simply. This is such an attractive notion. But the ideals of the simple life seem not so simple to achieve. In this age of technology and urbanization, how does one live simply? Do we move out of the hustle and bustle of the city? Perhaps. The suburbs are a popular answer to this question. “Radiant City” is a ...
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Life In Death >>> Optical Illusion Skull Paitings by Tom French
A preview of artist Tom French’s latest optical illusion skull paintings for his upcoming exhibition ‘Don’t Look Back’ in London next month at Zero Cool Gallery. These paintings remind me that death awaits us all and how beautiful the cycle of life and death really is and can be:
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Live In An Authentic Native American Teepee by Little Joe
Little Joe’s earth lodges are the are real deal. From the Pocomoke Indian People, the knowledge of creating high quality native american teepees is not being passed on to anyone with atleast $470 which can buy you a complete teepee package that comes with a five year warranty, surviving in the cold climates of Northern Canada. These beautiful specimens can be used to live in (one customer hooked up theirs with solar panels), for Powwows, or just a kids play house. Another ...
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The God Spots Revealed >>> Scientists Find Areas Of The Brain Responsible For Greater Spirituality
The Daily Mail UK reports new research has indicated that there is no one God-spot in the human brain and that in fact spirituality is stimulated across all lobes in the brain. What’s particularly interesting is that one study of Bhuddist meditators shows that people can learn to minimize the functioning of the right side of their brains (spiritual transcendence is associated with decreased right parietal lobe functioning) to increase their spiritual connections during meditation and prayer. Learn more here: Scientists ...
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Holi Festival Of Colors >>> World’s Biggest Color Party Captured In Brilliant Image and Video
If I was told I was going to die in a year, I would say the one thing I wanted to do was go to the Holi Festival of Colors. A religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus where people hurl brightly coloured, scented powder and perfume at each other. Come to think of it, once I died, this is exactly how I would want my funeral to be as well. Thankfully, due to the increasing quality of high definition cameras we can experience the ...
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5 Great Spots For Dropping Off The Grid >>> Article
CNN features some perfect places to leave behind the rat race, set up some solar panels, and take in a the beauty of life without illusions: Now is your chance to flee society. Drop off the grid. Pull a Thoreau. Be you a survivalist, an environmentalist or a cheapskate-ist, you can join the growing movement of Americans embracing off-grid living. “There’s a desire to step out of the rat race, and in America, that goes very deep in the national psyche,” ...
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Free The Network >>> Motherboard’s Documentary on Occupy Wall Street, Hacktivism, and the Hackers Trying to Build a Corporate and Government Free Internet
A new feature documentary from Motherboard TV was recently released called Free the Network, which focuses on just that, how young hacktivists from the Free Network Foundation stationed at the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti Park work to replace the corporate-controlled internet with a new, uncensorable, user-controlled network. Watch the full 30-minute documentary and read Motherboard’s full article on the film below. >>> You’re on the Internet. What does that mean? Most likely, it means one of a handful of telecommunications providers is middlemanning your ...
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Scientist Says Humans Can Transcend War
On the Last Word On Nothing, Scientist John Horgan explains by looking at evidence of human behaviours more than 10,000 years ago one can concude war is only a recent cultural phenomenon. Just as culture creates war, culture can help us transcend war. Only reaffirming my belief that a psychoactive culture would eliminate violence by humans. Here is an excerpt from the debate: There is no evidence of hominid or human group violence (as opposed to isolated acts of violence) dating ...