Ecopoetry

Every Tree
a brother
Every hill
a pyramid
a holy spot

Every valley
a poem
in xochitl
in cuicatl
flower and song

Every cloud
a prayer
Every rain
drop
a miracle

Every body
a seashore
a memory
at once lost
and found

we all together:
fireflies
in the night
dreaming up
the cosmos.


Chicano poem from the book Original Instructions, by Melissa K. Nelson

Sun, Feb 5, 2012  Permanent link

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Anthropomorphized Dawn

Anthropomorphized Dawn from leilistan on Vimeo.

Sat, Aug 21, 2010  Permanent link

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To Live Is To Love!

Lyrics, say something like:
'With each breath,
We fall into that love.
Let's not struggle,
When falling into that love.

We held breath!
Since with each breath, we are burnt!

-Many times we've put up with fire of despair.
-Many times we've been burnt by fire of despair.

Look into that fire that comes from Love.
Look into that Love!'

Holger Czukay - Persian Love from Patrick Dobeson on Vimeo.

Tue, Jun 22, 2010  Permanent link

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A Serenade To The Inspirational Fire

The Holy Evolution





Image:
The Tree of Intoxication
"Gonds make liquor from the flowers of the Mahua tree. If you take small amounts, and mix it with good herbs, it is a medicine for many ailments. If you drink a little more, it is pleasant. But if you drink too much, your very form can change, and depending on your character, you may become a mouse or a tiger, a pig or pigeon."

Thu, Feb 4, 2010  Permanent link

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a trajectory

Mind inhabits body,
body inhabits space,
space inhabits time,
time inhabits memory,
memory inhabits mind.

Thu, Jan 7, 2010  Permanent link

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epitaph

We are all breaths
that run from the source
as rays from the Sun-
making thought an entity.

Tue, Jun 16, 2009  Permanent link

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'Sending words, music or memorabilia into space is becoming a tradition.'

1974
>The Arecibo radio telescope message:
a ceremony for making the telescope
aimed at distant M13 stellar cluster
(25,000 light years away).
>period of transition: 3 min.














1999
>Encounter 2001 - Evpatoria radio telescope message: commercial project.
>period of transition: 3 hrs
















2004-2014
>Genesis in 1,000 native tongues on a robotic probe that
Europe is despatching to land on comet 67P/Churyumov-
Gerasimenko : Rosetta flagship mission.
>period of transition: 10 yrs












2008-2029
>Bebo social networking website radio
telescope message to the potential
occupants of Gliese 581c (20 light
years away): competition project.
>period of transition: 20 yrs











Languages, including digital codes, are symbolic (re)presentations, rising up from highly developed social structures.These social structures have externalized human memory, both out of the mind and out of the place of present. So this memory is a link between culture and brain. It makes one think if any creature is to receive and understand these messages will be of human species.
So could it be in future, when humans have colonized space, if encounter with these messages out there in space, they will need tools and knowledge to understand human intelligence at our time, when the messages were sent?... If humans could be the receivers of these codes what is our memorabilia to the upcoming generations and future space archaeologists?

3500 BC
Cuneiform script



1427-1392 BCE
The Declaration of Purifications

Mon, Oct 20, 2008  Permanent link
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Calling Planet Earth

'Refer to the discourse of music improviser and wine and ask around less the secret of time
for one hasn’t solved and won't solve this puzzle through science.'

Hafez

Sun, Oct 5, 2008  Permanent link

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local river

The Locavores appeared in San Francisco in 2005 and define themselves as ‘a group of culinary adventurers who eat foods produced in a radius of 100 miles (160 km) around their city’. By doing so they aim to reduce impact on the environment inherent to the transport of foodstuffs, while ensuring their traceability.

Local River anticipates the growing influence of this group (the word ‘locavore’ made its first appearance in an American dictionary in 2007) by proposing a home storage unit for live freshwater fish combined with a mini vegetable patch. This DIY fish-farm-cum-kitchen-garden is based on the principle of aquaponics coupled with the exchange and interdependence of two living organisms - plants and fish.

The plants extract nutrients from the nitrate-rich dejecta of the fish. In doing so they act as a natural filter that purifies the water and maintains a vital balance for the eco-system in which the fish live. The same technique is used on large-scale pioneer aquaponics/fish-farms, which raise tilapia (a food fish from the Far East) and lettuce planted in trays floating on the surface of ponds.

Local River responds to everyday needs for fresh food that is 100% traceable. It bets on a return to favour of farm-raised freshwater fish (trout, eel, perch, carp, etc…), given the dwindling supplies of many saltwater species due to over-fishing. It also demonstrates the capacity of fish-farmers to deliver their stock live to a private consumer as a guarantee of optimum freshness - impossible in the case of saltwater fish that has been netted.

Local River aims to replace the decorative ‘TV aquarium’ by an equally decorative but also functional ‘refrigerator-aquarium’. In this scenario, fish and greens cohabit for a short time in a home storage unit before being eaten by their keepers, the end-players in an exchange cycle within a controlled ecosystem.

Materials: glass: blown & thermoformed, water pump, joints.
Dimensions : Large : 64 x 29 x 39 inches, Small : 29 x 18 x 36 inches.

“Local River”
Mathieu Lehanneur
with Anthony van den Bossche, spin doctor

Sun, Sep 7, 2008  Permanent link

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Architecture, Teme and Mystics

Teme: A new term in sociobiology by Susan Blackmore explaining 'a new kind of meme which spreads itself via technology-and invents ways to keep itself alive'.

Considering teme to be a new meme, questions came up about the time it was branched out of meme and its independent procedure in human evolution.

By looking at the timeline of technology, measuring geometry has played an outstanding role in mystifying the nature of life to human’s perception. Perhaps natural numbers , were invented by women counting to keep track of their menstrual cycles, belonged goods, population and in weaving. They were added, subtracted, multiplied, until the concept of ratio was perceived in spatial calculations.

Constructing thick and safe walls, using bricks and stone-cuts as units, required much complex forms of calculation and numeral systems that were not perceived before that. For centuries constructing pyramids and measuring the circumference of circle by its radius brought new understanding to mathematical observations. The calculations inspired one of the deepest pleasures that the mind seeks: to be awed by existence, this time not only with fleshly pleasures, but by becoming intelligent enough to uncover nature’s precision and thus to conquer it. As irrational numbers appeared through the ratio of rational numbers, mind joined Ecosophia in conceiving proportionality of space and time that still to this day transcends precision.

In short, I see as ratios were discovered that showed numbers that could/would not terminate (e.i. pi), teme distinguished itself from meme. Does the historical fact that the development of geometrical math happened around the same time when the myths about human’s creation were introduced to cultures, (starting 5th millennium BC in Egypt, Babylon and India), reveal anything about teme?

Sat, Aug 30, 2008  Permanent link

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