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On a whim, I decided to attend a lecture yesterday with Emory Douglas at The Museum of Contemporary Art.
A graphic artist and member of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Douglas' political posters imprinted the covers of the BPP newspaper during it's run, leaving deep impressions on those who saw them. His lecture was fascinating, eye opening and included impromptu side commentating by none other than Bobby Seale himself.
Unjust is the negative perspective Americans have been marketed which deflects focus from the positive impact The Black Panthers have had on the community and the nation: working with local grocers to feed children impacted by poverty, transportation for the elderly, youth dances to keep kids off the streets, and supporting of other causes such as the boycott of lettuce being farmed with now illegal chemicals/pesticides.
They promoted forward-thinking concepts such as community policing rather than recruiting officers from outside neighborhoods, with no concept or empathy for the conditions and issues of those sectors.
They protested against funding of police helicopters for the patrol of problem areas in San Francisco and asked why that money not be invested into those very communities to rehabilitate them.
For all their hard work and waging of a justified revolution for black America to rise up against suppression, J. Edgar Hoover deemed them a threat to national security; "He was correct in a sense. The Panthers' message was a direct and serious threat to the capitalist status quo. The danger was not that the group would manage an armed coup and take over the government. Empowering people to stop facilitating their own oppression was far more frightening". *
Some members still face trials at 70 + years old for conspiracy and murder. Most of their arrests are allegedly the result of being framed by Federal level agents. (See The San Francisco 8).
* More from Colette Gaiter:
http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2004/65/gaiter.html
For more images and info on 'The San Francisco 8 '
http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/index.html
A graphic artist and member of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Douglas' political posters imprinted the covers of the BPP newspaper during it's run, leaving deep impressions on those who saw them. His lecture was fascinating, eye opening and included impromptu side commentating by none other than Bobby Seale himself.
Unjust is the negative perspective Americans have been marketed which deflects focus from the positive impact The Black Panthers have had on the community and the nation: working with local grocers to feed children impacted by poverty, transportation for the elderly, youth dances to keep kids off the streets, and supporting of other causes such as the boycott of lettuce being farmed with now illegal chemicals/pesticides.
They promoted forward-thinking concepts such as community policing rather than recruiting officers from outside neighborhoods, with no concept or empathy for the conditions and issues of those sectors.
They protested against funding of police helicopters for the patrol of problem areas in San Francisco and asked why that money not be invested into those very communities to rehabilitate them.
For all their hard work and waging of a justified revolution for black America to rise up against suppression, J. Edgar Hoover deemed them a threat to national security; "He was correct in a sense. The Panthers' message was a direct and serious threat to the capitalist status quo. The danger was not that the group would manage an armed coup and take over the government. Empowering people to stop facilitating their own oppression was far more frightening". *
Some members still face trials at 70 + years old for conspiracy and murder. Most of their arrests are allegedly the result of being framed by Federal level agents. (See The San Francisco 8).
* More from Colette Gaiter:
http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2004/65/gaiter.html
For more images and info on 'The San Francisco 8 '
http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/index.html
Milky Way- R. Bell
Worm in Rotterdam is a night club built from 80-90% recycled materials. I love the Dutch.
Rico Gagliano's NPR interview with Worm's CFO, Mike Van Gaasbeek:
The club's toilets are made of old oil barrels. The door handles are re-used bike handlebars. Even the ventilation pipes were salvaged from a demolished office building. The club's walls are made of recycled real estate signs. Van Gaasbeek refers the materials used to build Worm as "upcycled, because it's having a better life. It was in a dull office building, and now it's in a cool club."
Mike Van Gaasbeek spent 300 euro per square meter building the space. "Normally you spend 1,500 euros a square meter. But the idea wasn't just to save money. Worm is Rotterdam's most vivid example of an idea called "sustainable clubbing" — night spots minimizing waste and energy use."
Michel Smit works for a startup company called De Sustainable Dance Club; "An average club uses 150 times the energy that a normal family of three people uses a year. If you look at water, it's 170 times. If you add those things up, there's a lot to gain in clubbing."
Michel's goal: to open a Rotterdam club that uses every energy-saving resource available, including the clubgoers themselves. "Certain materials produce electricity when squeezed. So a dance floor can become one big generator. We've called it "harvest your energy." With the electricity-generating dance floor, we're trying to use that power that you've got to power the lights."
Rico Gagliano's NPR interview with Worm's CFO, Mike Van Gaasbeek:
The club's toilets are made of old oil barrels. The door handles are re-used bike handlebars. Even the ventilation pipes were salvaged from a demolished office building. The club's walls are made of recycled real estate signs. Van Gaasbeek refers the materials used to build Worm as "upcycled, because it's having a better life. It was in a dull office building, and now it's in a cool club."
Mike Van Gaasbeek spent 300 euro per square meter building the space. "Normally you spend 1,500 euros a square meter. But the idea wasn't just to save money. Worm is Rotterdam's most vivid example of an idea called "sustainable clubbing" — night spots minimizing waste and energy use."
Michel Smit works for a startup company called De Sustainable Dance Club; "An average club uses 150 times the energy that a normal family of three people uses a year. If you look at water, it's 170 times. If you add those things up, there's a lot to gain in clubbing."
Michel's goal: to open a Rotterdam club that uses every energy-saving resource available, including the clubgoers themselves. "Certain materials produce electricity when squeezed. So a dance floor can become one big generator. We've called it "harvest your energy." With the electricity-generating dance floor, we're trying to use that power that you've got to power the lights."
I've been studying my dreams for quite a few years now.
For me the world of dreams presents word play and symbolism in an attempt to convey information about myself...to myself. It's fascinating to speculate that there is another language between my subconscious and conscious while I sleep which requires the cracking of code to just scrape the surface of goodies in there.
I've established a method of interpreting my own dreams.
Writing down each detail is helpful in triggering memories, but also in analyzing words and themes. A message may not necessarily be encrypted in the imagery of a dream. It could be the literal definitions of those images that hint at, or produce a solution. I'll sometimes marvel that something has just been "spelled out" for me.
I find that I’m much more receptive in the thick of night when my mind is still floating half between slumber and a coherent state. The most odd symbols are punctuated with a clarity that during the day would just seem surreal and unexplainable.
A friend suggested maintaining a journal as if trying to explain your dreams to someone from a different planet that has no concept of this world. For example, if in your dream you are in a car, you could explain that you are in a vehicle that transports you from one place to another. Depending on your own personal experiences, the description of a dog could be a companion that depends on you and that you have loving bond with or it could be an unpredictable animal capable of doing harm. My theories fluctuate here but it would seem that symbolism in dreams would be specific to the individual. Jung's theory of collective archetypes, however, seem to infiltrate my dream world. The age-old symbol of a snake is a repetitive theme in my dreams since I was very young. If I don't consider myself to be religious in the traditional sense does that eliminate The Garden of Eden's serpent from the symbolic possibilities of interpretation? Or is that a universal image that transcends personal beliefs?
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Assuming that their purpose is to process thoughts, feelings, and experiences, make sense of problems, or guide us with premonitions, do our dreams still go to work for us attaining the same therapeutic results if left to their own devices? Or without acknowledgement and interpretation are they washed aside and their message lost?
Are we even remotely close to utilizing our dreamtime in the fullest to work out issues?
It will be exciting to see where technology can advance to further help us illustrate our dreams and better interpret them. I'm imagining miniature suction cups hooked up to our temples transmitting thought waves to a high def screen projecting the most Dahli-esque images from the utterly strange and beautiful world of our sub conscious.
My dream state has provided me with juicy bits of information about myself that have been helpful in understanding why I am what I am, and why things affect me the way they do, and how I develop my relationships with the people close and far from me.
For me the world of dreams presents word play and symbolism in an attempt to convey information about myself...to myself. It's fascinating to speculate that there is another language between my subconscious and conscious while I sleep which requires the cracking of code to just scrape the surface of goodies in there.
I've established a method of interpreting my own dreams.
Writing down each detail is helpful in triggering memories, but also in analyzing words and themes. A message may not necessarily be encrypted in the imagery of a dream. It could be the literal definitions of those images that hint at, or produce a solution. I'll sometimes marvel that something has just been "spelled out" for me.
I find that I’m much more receptive in the thick of night when my mind is still floating half between slumber and a coherent state. The most odd symbols are punctuated with a clarity that during the day would just seem surreal and unexplainable.
A friend suggested maintaining a journal as if trying to explain your dreams to someone from a different planet that has no concept of this world. For example, if in your dream you are in a car, you could explain that you are in a vehicle that transports you from one place to another. Depending on your own personal experiences, the description of a dog could be a companion that depends on you and that you have loving bond with or it could be an unpredictable animal capable of doing harm. My theories fluctuate here but it would seem that symbolism in dreams would be specific to the individual. Jung's theory of collective archetypes, however, seem to infiltrate my dream world. The age-old symbol of a snake is a repetitive theme in my dreams since I was very young. If I don't consider myself to be religious in the traditional sense does that eliminate The Garden of Eden's serpent from the symbolic possibilities of interpretation? Or is that a universal image that transcends personal beliefs?
Assuming that their purpose is to process thoughts, feelings, and experiences, make sense of problems, or guide us with premonitions, do our dreams still go to work for us attaining the same therapeutic results if left to their own devices? Or without acknowledgement and interpretation are they washed aside and their message lost?
Are we even remotely close to utilizing our dreamtime in the fullest to work out issues?
It will be exciting to see where technology can advance to further help us illustrate our dreams and better interpret them. I'm imagining miniature suction cups hooked up to our temples transmitting thought waves to a high def screen projecting the most Dahli-esque images from the utterly strange and beautiful world of our sub conscious.
My dream state has provided me with juicy bits of information about myself that have been helpful in understanding why I am what I am, and why things affect me the way they do, and how I develop my relationships with the people close and far from me.
Connected to
Aphex Twin's 'Ventolin Probus Mix'. Perfect soundtrack for surveying the city from a distance:
"instead of the mind having to conform to what can be known, what can be known must conform to the mind." Immanual Kant
I am an impression.
From a massive field of energy far away from the physical world where no emotion, identity, ego or individuality are assigned- I am conceived. Let's call this collective gathering of currents The Whole.
Perhaps creation arises out of a need for balance. A greater sub-conscious fulfills the need to express through physical form, where consciousness is born.
Our world imposes limitations on spatial surroundings, communication, emotion, and ultimately our mortality. These limitations provide a platform for the human condition in perfect contrast to the objective realm of counter existence.
My essence is ignited by an idea which is perpetually regenerated in a sublime cycle.
From a massive field of energy far away from the physical world where no emotion, identity, ego or individuality are assigned- I am conceived. Let's call this collective gathering of currents The Whole.
Perhaps creation arises out of a need for balance. A greater sub-conscious fulfills the need to express through physical form, where consciousness is born.
Our world imposes limitations on spatial surroundings, communication, emotion, and ultimately our mortality. These limitations provide a platform for the human condition in perfect contrast to the objective realm of counter existence.
My essence is ignited by an idea which is perpetually regenerated in a sublime cycle.
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