this is a pretty eye There are times when we share with others a special, fully interconnected...

Andy Goldsworthy is the zen master of environmental art. His process & work possess a deep...

Asch conformity experiments

Before diving into a project of starting our "own revolutions" it is critical that we...

From the Wikipedia: A given set of tiles, in the Euclidean plane or some other geometric...

[ photo via The Daily Bruin ] Today we celebrated the Internet’s birthday. We tied ourselves...

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

These are the things that were shown at my final presentation

Recent commissioned work I've done for RIDES MAGAZINE. Will be used as backgrounds for their...

In everyday experience, it is quite intuitive to expect simple systems to present simple behaviors,...

This is a post continuing a little exchange between me and megan regarding a relation between...

"Theo Jansen, artist, studied science at the University of Delft Holland. The first seven...

Contrast is Relational Structure is Indicative Form is Meaning Vision Updates...

[UPDATE: Part II has now been posted.] I have some ideas in need of coalescence, in need of the...

"I wonder whether fractal images are not touching the very structure of our brains. Is there...

i think we need to be really careful when it comes to this whole pursuit of perfection. a lot has been said for the negatives of human nature, we are irrational, often violent and hurtful, and essentially slow paced and fragile creatures. but is this necessarily a bad thing? i am strongly inclined to believe that the positives of human...

As the Secretary General of the United Nations, an organization of 147 member states who represent almost all the human inhabitants of the planet earth, I send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. We step out of our solar system, into the universe, seeking only peace and friendship, to teach if we are called upon, to be taught if...

I've been watching a lot of speeches from TED.com lately, and I've been tremendously inspired by their positive energy in a time that the media would paint as rather daunting. I hope to do something with my life as good as those noble people at TED are doing. As good as they are, it is difficult to criticize the people of TED, aka...

Recently a friend brought the following article by Drake Bennett to my attention. It appeared...

A theme has presented itself over the past two days: the flexibility of the human brain and the way...

All you have to do to resolve the enhancement debate in your mind is watch these fantastic...

Can my Mind exist outside my body? Can I have a consciousness transplant? I suppose mind is...

Infinity defies absolute definition. Perception of the infinite, for anything other than a mind...

Nary a post goes by when I don't feel compelled to share a relevant book. I'd like to propose a collective recommended reading list, and in beginning this list I'll paraphrase the first page of my first recommendation. It's from a book called "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Many people, when they see an immense...

I recently commented on Xarene's post about how oblivious we are that even while we're just sitting...

space is cold and dark and this orbit's getting boring nobody near to talk to hello is there anyone out there? save our souls cure this cosmic loneliness --- A poem I wrote a while back. Inspired by a handout from a Physics class entitled "Physics & Astronomy For Pedestrians" ... yeah my uni has the funniest classes!...

the play on light .. this new find has really inspired me : a beautiful environment of soft...

... I saw invisible fields of energy - of everything , and the past, present, and future .. And all...

click to play A project I did for an electronics class at UCLA using a stepper motor and...

For quite a while, I have the idea to invite Space Collective members to reflect, discuss and...

Projekt: 0 - Lonely Sun; found here Fascinating visual (and musical) works by Václav Pajkrt!...

Outstanding Reading Material I have carefully selected a few of the outmost important texts on...

Though rudimentary, the texts quoted below pin things in a place where I like them as a...

just the other day i was having a conversation with rene about the usefulness of data...

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Richard Hayes over at the Washington post has a critique of Ronald Green (Ronald M. Green is a...

Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5. London Symphony Orchestra. For a comprehensive experience check out the full length. I was first introduced to The Emperor Concerto while watching the film version of Kurt Vonnegut's 'Harrison Bergeron'. A science fiction short story based on the idea of an egalitarian society achieved by handicapping...

A human nervous system receives and processes roughly 1 million bits of information per second. Per...

There will be higher quality files uploaded soon, but until then, feast upon this my psychedelic...

Here are some experiments that I did yesterday (marbling paper). Hooray. I feel like shit. But you...

This post is an appendix to The Next Great Revolution in Reality. Also, please read the first part...

7 minutes of Mckenna improv. Required listening! ...it's not outer space, it's not some kind of managed Orwellian collectivist paradise, it's something more profound than that. We are perhaps going to download ourselves into a gold ytterbium cube that we will super-cool and bury a thousand feet beneath Copernicus and there all walk on the...

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