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"Art is the opposite of war. Artists wage peace with their creations."
"When everyone realizes they are an artist, we will have world peace."
– Roman Villagrana
The big news continues. Here's the best of what I've been up to for the last few weeks:
Help Support My Google Glass Video & Essay Series!
Google selected me on the basis of this tweet to be one of the first 2000 people with access to their game-changing new smart glasses, which allow me to share my work more fluidly than ever before. Even though the opportunity is kind of overwhelming, I feel a profound responsibility to take it up so that I can continue my work to inspire and empower as many people as possible by making my life a work of art.
My plan for Glass is to share as much as I can about my own creative process and the amazing community of artists with whom I work through a video record of my transformational festival tour and an ongoing video time capsule project for people to leave messages to their future selves. You'll be funding an ongoing series of intimate views into the work I do as an acoustic-electronic musician, live painter, public speaker, writer, and awestruck traveler – with plenty of windows into the work of other artists, inventors, and inspiring people.
I am also going to write a series of short essays on the promise and risk inherent in this new technology, and others like it. It's a Golden Ticket to the Chocolate Factory...but most of those kids got eaten by machines. It's a Lightsaber...but with great power comes great responsibility. Hopefully these writings will help a generation of digital natives navigate their world with more care, discernment, wonder, and respect.
Please support this project however you can – in small ways or large – by donating to this campaign and sharing it with your friends, family, and anyone who is interested to see what Glass can do to empower someone in service to the creative commons and the evolution of our planet.
Here are pics of the brass pin and vinyl stickers I'm offering as perks:
Here are pics of the brass pin and vinyl stickers I'm offering as perks:
The World's First POV Video Projection Onto Stage! (?)
Huge thanks to Morphis Art for taking these four short videos of my set at Gratifly Festival, where I streamed live video from my face back onto the stage, where members of the audience could see themselves up there with me – as well as the fire dancers and live flower arrangement by the legendary Anthony Ward – and get an up-close look at what I'm doing with all of those guitar pedals.
My talk from Om Vibrations 2013: Reflections on a Shift
New Live Album: This Never Happened
For real, guys. I don't know what you're talking about. ;) But Magnetic Eye Records does. They made this album #007 in their catalog; given all the spy talk surrounding my appointment as a Glass Explorer, I'm tickled.
Official SCI Hornings Hideout Pin [Sold Out]
After years of flirting with The String Cheese Incident to make some official merchandise for them, I was approached by Sales & Shenanigans to make this pin for their Hornings Hideout shows this year. The limited series of 220 sold out in ten minutes. D'oh! We should have made more. I suspect we will be working together again soon...
The New MG x Herbivore Designs x GRC Flatbill
The SE Festival Tour Continues
Michael Goes To Burning Man, Part Five
This time as a Glass Explorer. A big part of the work I'm hoping you'll support with my Indiegogo campaign is to get out there to record as much awesome and inspiring work as possible – both my own and other people's. My full Burning Man speaking and music schedule is here (on the left sidebar).
Fractal Planet is also taking a quantum leap and powering their camp with a RevAir vertical mag-lev wind turbine – clean, quiet energy that will turn the desert winds into the electrical life of celebration. Support their crowdfunding campaign and help usher in a new era for transformational festivals...
You might already know as the "TED Talks for Psychedelics," but it's a lot more than that – over the years it has featured such luminaries as Alex & Allyson Grey, Alexander & Ann Shulgin, John Perry Barlow, Bruce Damer, and more. They're running yet another donation-worthy campaign, which you can read about and donate to by clicking the pic above.
That's "all" for now! Deep gratitude from me to you for your time and attention. I'm always available to respond to your questions and feedback. Stay in touch and have a beautiful weekend!
That's "all" for now! Deep gratitude from me to you for your time and attention. I'm always available to respond to your questions and feedback. Stay in touch and have a beautiful weekend!
