Last week apears an incredible video related with the concepts i had explain on an old post...

Drop City is a legendary microcommunity, it is a model, and, ultimately, an abandoned project....

It never seizes to amaze me how the human mind works. Sometimes I have days where I forget my...

cloud seeding awareness project

The first issue of MAP has cast itself upon the unknown, but also the very physical. Although...

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A talk I attended by Martin Erickson, Creative Director of The Company P (participatory, playful,...

A fascinating presentation by Anders Sandberg from the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford...

I don't usually post simple links to non-original content, but ... I think you guys might like this. These videos ( and excessive watching of star trek ) has convinced me that off-world colonies are essential for ensuring the continuation of our species in the event of a planet scale disaster. If we fail to complete a manned mission to...

A post by Dharmishta Rood explores the idea of "networked reading," reading where User Generated Content / User Created Content is the primary text. It begins by defining what UGC/UCC is: - Generated in a public digital setting. (ie Email ≠ UCC) - Users input items of creative worth. (ie Google Image ≠ UCC) - "...content...

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In our upcoming film The Terrestrials, made by a cast and crew of SpaceCollective members and...

Welcome to my fall 2009 foray into music theory. Really, I just stumbled across some music texts...

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. quote from Alan Watts via Dmitri

left to right, then top to bottom- and then what? a composition of 28 stills, each...

“The deterritorialization of the self is the essential feature that marks human entry into...

There's a lot going on lately, and I've been meaning to write something about the structural...

Featured in The Standard Hotel New York. From Architecture Newspaper Blog: During our...

I want to Consume Less, Create More; to Speak Less, Communicate More; and if “every child is...

From The New Yorker: Eric Sanderson is a landscape ecologist who is trying to determine exactly how...

House/Egg/Body/Soul/Horror Socio-Foundation Competition Entry: Michael Vlasopoulos...

A fascinating talk about emotions and feelings by Antonio Damasio, one of the most renowned...

THE CONCRETE CIRCUS The circus as ‘the ghost’ of...

Individualism is a subject the fascinates me and the comparison between societies based on...

I saw one of these fascinating TED stories a couple of days ago. A story about restoring a complex...

Last night we tested out some of the Goggles on the street. We visited all the drunk people to see...

SCRIBD-DOCUMENT-Hronoya-Bible-Revelation-11-the-Two-Witnesses-Return-of-Christ The...

THE RAINBOW BRIDGE - ANTAHKARANA There is the material world and the spiritual. Between lies...

Omega Point and the Noosphere By Jonathan Bethel - With the convenience of modern...

“A philosopher’s ontology is the set of entities he or she assumes to exist in reality, the types of entities he or she is committed to assert actually exist. Although in the history of philosophy there are a great variety of ontological commitments, we can very roughly classify these into three main groups. For some philosophers reality...

"So if you never read OUT OF CONTROL, here is a user-generated remix that shortens and focuses...

What if the revolution doesn't need a name? Or leaders? Or a formal agenda? The most wonderful thought could be this: shit happens. Perhaps this is a uniquely Australian idiom, perhaps not - and I don't wish to offend with profanity, we Australians swear a lot, and this phrase has even been used by a Parliamentarian in a memorable impromptu...

IV. Ideological Similarities "People who wear Halloween costumes are sometimes...

via things: By committing our memory to Google or the 'cloud' we have inadvertently created a great hunger for the intangible and ephemeral, the scraps and minutae of everyday life that get sucked into the circuitry and instantly forgotten. Already we are lamenting the loss of the unknown landscape as a result of global satellite imagery, gps...

Within our mythological sphere an epic-edge is unfolding, disclosing the current narration: we as...

Recently I had the thought: Perhaps there are just too many people on the planet to sustain a good life for individuals? Now, this was an interesting moment for me. The 'overpopulation' thesis is neither original nor novel, and arriving at this as a personal insight made me question the assumed lack of value in having unoriginal thoughts. I...

Designers are energised and fed by place. Where they choose to work, live and visit feeds the designer's mind, and their creative processes. My advice to designers seeking new places is to forget about the authentic. It's a sideshow, and a diversion. It's important, no doubt - but it is not everything. Consider, instead, what is actually going...

The Mesmerized Mind - Study of Hypnosis “The motor cortex is connected to the idea that it cannot move the left hand, So even if you try to move, it will neglect to send signals to the motor execution areas.”

haha i pissed off a doctor