Jason Nelson at Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities

The first ten minutes of digital artist and poet, Jason Nelson, discussing his work at the Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities (MITH) in College Park, MD. More from Jason at http://www.heliozoa.com/

Copyright Criminals: This is a Sampling Sport

Although this 10-minute work-in-progress draws from interviews used in the documentary Copyright Criminals: This is a Sampling Sport, it does not reflect the overall look, feel, and narrative of the full-length documentary.

Copyright Criminals will be completed in Spring 2007 and submitted to film festivals, to be followed by a DVD release.
http://copyrightcriminals.com/

Psychoactivity: the Fountain of Culture

Christian Raetsch on the ethnology of psychoactivity. The first of Friday morning's presenters was Christian Rätsch, who gave a talk entitled, "Psychoactivity: the Fountain of Culture." A Multidisciplinary Conference on Plants, Shamanism & States of Consciousness, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 1-4, 1998.

Indigenous Rights and Universal Peace - Rigoberta Menchu

Indigenous Rights and Universal Peace - Rigoberta Menchu

Look Under the Board

Dr. John Lilly from "ECCO: Earth Coincidence Control Office"

"These experiences illustrate the thesis that one can protect one's self by maintaining one's ignorance by belittling disturbing experiences? Or one can newly recapture sensitivity and be openminded (even painfully so) and discover new facts. Discovery, in my experience, requires disillusionment first, as well as later. One must be shaken in one's basic beliefs before the discovery can penetrate one's mind sufficiently above threshold to be detected A certain willingness to face censure, to be a maverick? To question one's beliefs, to revise them, is obviously necessary. But what is not obvious is how to prepare one's own mind to receive the transmissions from the far side of the protective transparent wall separating each of us from the dark gulf of the unknown Maybe we must realize that we are still babies in the universe taking steps never before taken. Sometimes we reach out from our aloneness for someone else who may or may not exist. But at least we reach out, and it is gratifying to see our dolphins reach also, however primitively. They reach toward those of us who are willing to reach toward them. It may be that some day not toa far distant we both can draw to an end the 'long loneliness,' as Loren Eiseley called it." John C. Lilly

Boredoms

Boredoms of Osaka. Sound for the soul.

Bush Iraq Bullshit

Magical Power Mako and Friends live

Magical Power Mako and Friends live at roppongi superdeluxe 2006.04.08

We continue our trawl through the most beautiful music every made. Magical Power Mako whose 1973 debut album Magical Power he made at home, is a musical alchemist who will lead you into a flower stewn glade that lies just behind your eyes. More film of Mako HERE.

Captain Beefheart Live 1971

"If you want to be a different fishy you gotta jump out of the school"
Don van Vliet (1982)

This is Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band led by Don van Vliet (b.1941). Live in Detroit in 1971. It may take some time to orientate yourself to such sound but believe me, it is worth it. From my first hearing the band in the late 1980's I became a fan because of the scope, freedom, pliability, liberation, originality, space, challenge, atmosphere, education, expanse, poetry, and experience of non time that they give and keep giving every fractal time. The Captain is not well these days but he still follows his hairs each day. When he goes the clouds are gonna sigh. I ganna play now...godnight.