#Polytopia-(the emergence of) - is a work/proposal in progress# We are called to be architects...

Unfortunately this isn't a post to share something, but to ask something of you instead. I...

Dave Eggers wrote this piece for Esquire Magazine after being named one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century. THE FUTURE OF WORDS Author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers is one of the most ambitious and activist literary figures of his generation. We asked him if reading has a future. It’s...

We looked through the door and saw composers writing music, musicians rehearsing, and for some reason there was a banker(?) in the room. Now, since composers like John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen, etc, the doors have been thrown wide open. We walked into the room apprehensively though. We watched (and perhaps talked) to the...

Gil Scott-Heron

The following are thumbnail versions of my bound book since the full size would not fit and would...

Nowadays, there are companies that believe on a change. I've you belive too, give and...

“You-you yourself are a child of this mass and a brother to all the rest. Or else an...

So it looks like there will be a new futurist-oriented magazine in the making. I have gotten...

Dear Polytopians, The Polytopia project is now open, and the flow purports worthy and interesting happenings. Your inputs, essays, papers, links, suggestions, comments and sharing are the lifeblood of a collaborative effort to ascend. Intelligence is being amplified as we speak Let us make the Polytopia happen Welcome Wildcat

A project Proposal: Polytopia , Our Mind Habitat in the Infoverse A dream you dream alone is...

Life is about experiencing. There is no one in your life more central as a character than yourself. Therefore, I decided that experiential protagonism is the way forward. What is it? To me it is the essense of life as a living, breathing human being. Every day we interact, learn, teach, experience. From these experiences we grow. Central to this...

Today is a very special day, a day to celebrate People. I almost missed this celebration, but...

At the interior of the series Prismatic Stories I started a sub-series. The stories are prismatics...

We call wildflowers weeds, and we pull them out of our tame tidy gardens. The butterflies go away...

In aggregation I left the islands of leaving with nothing to say. Had I stayed to learn what...

"Today, 13 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, and we believe the volume will...

NEW! Archimedean Spidron Tile Enjoy it! Thanx a lot. The Spidron Team

Human beings versus machines, or machines as instruments of human designs? The answers to these two questions would have been obvious years ago: Human beings, of course, machines are instruments of human design! But now days when we speak so much of progress, science and technology as if progress, science and technology were in themselves...

species are now swimming in their primordial pudding , they will gain more and more...

"In 1969, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), the pre-eminent 20th Century engineer for the...

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface, IPA: /ˈmɪdi/) is an industry-standard protocol that...

"Iceberg 2025" is an architectural interactive installation proposed to be installed in...

Beneath is an indoor interactive installation inspired by the underwater world. It consists of a...

Human society needs to aspire to an integration of its material, spiritual and ecological elements....

I will use this space to give a brief description of where I am coming from. This is a post...

I think that notthisbody's post on the current state of a Polytopia shows how promising the notion...

I am always thoroughly impressed with Mr. McDonough when I hear him speak. He his not only acting...

Talk about a bad place to have a light bulb burn out...The crew aboard the ISS is struggling with lightbulbs burning out in the new Japanese module. "Almost half of the 21 fluorescent lamps aboard Japan's experimentation module Kibo on the International Space Station (ISS) have burned out, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...

In my last post, I went over several challenges facing Polytopia. Now, I will attempt to share...

Galvanic skin response sensors measure levels of emotional arousal through changes in skin...

Combine a dimly lit room with Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Flickr.com, and an array of other comfort-rot activities, and you get a recipe for the dissolve of interest of most other things in life. Namely, my job as an industrial designer in the field of visual merchandising. I've been spending the past year partaking in the subtle manipulation of the...

The Portland, OR Inverge and Cre8Con conferences were last week. You should scope their twitters and blogs at #Inverge and #Cre8Con. It was amazing.

This is part I of a two-part post on my thoughts on the Polytopia. In this first one, I will aspire to present the challenges we will face in Polytopia. In the next post, I will examine possible vaccines and counterpoints that could be built into the architecture, as well as possible constructive uses that could help all of us...

The Mike Wallace Interview: Aldous Huxley5/18/58. Aldous Huxley, social critic and author of Brave...

While other space collective members have called for interactive performances, as of yet...

I have always been interested in human individuality and self-expression... The persons...

Interesting speach by Peter Hirshberg. Always is good to look backwards :) His blog here.

I had a strange feeling when I saw one of the "animals" walking in the beach.

You Be The Judge: The Critique • In the past three decades, one-third of the planet’s...

Oil Fields No. 19 (California) & Bao Steel #7 (Shanghai) These images are meant as metaphors...

MW - China, Factory For The World: Image #1, EB - Manufacturing #17 (Dehui City, Jilin...

CJ - Crushed Cars #3 (Tacoma) & Mixed Recycling (Seattle) Exploring around [the United...