"Human beings must have an epic, a sublime account of how the world was created and how humanity became part of it. Religious epics satisfy another primal need. They confirm we are part of something greater than ourselves. The way to achieve our epic that unites human spirituality, instead of cleave it, it is to compose it from the best empirical knowledge that science and history can provide."
– E.O. Wilson
I have so much to tell you. I'm sure you have so much to say. I don't even know where to start having that kind of authentic exchange via this newsletter. Feel free to write to me – I'd love to know what Great Work consumes you, these days, and if I could contribute to it. And of course, more goes on in my life than I have space for in this newsletter – so feel free to follow my thoughts and recommended reading over twitter, instagram, facebook, tumblr, or youtube.
For now:
Annual Live Art Sale
This isn't just good news for high rollin' gangstas who want to line their cribs with original art - you're also in luck if you want inexpensive prints, pins, merch, etc. for your loved ones (or enemies - good for you!) this year. More details on the FB event page.
Featured Artist on IntegralLife.com!
Big thanks to Integral Life for featuring my art this month! Here is a community that really knows how to THINK about stuff...it's an honor. I've been an admirer of Ken Wilber's integral philosophy for a whole decade, and am delighted to give back by sharing my art and ideas.
My friend "Tourmaline" Todd Shepherd is a fixture in the Austin, Texas live art scene and familiar to admirers all over the country for his cool work on hat racks, vinyl figurines, and all kinds of other unusual media. I think his futuristic, spacey style and mine dovetailed together quite nicely on our first-ever studio collaboration...
We humans have a bad habit of assuming we're special. But science teaches us over and over that we're not. Here is my latest morsel of food for thought, on High Existence, about how to strike a balance between grandeur and humility. A teaser:
Check out the great gallery they put together with academic commentary and a new artist's statement...
The Encroaching Tides
(a collab with Tourmaline Todd)
My friend "Tourmaline" Todd Shepherd is a fixture in the Austin, Texas live art scene and familiar to admirers all over the country for his cool work on hat racks, vinyl figurines, and all kinds of other unusual media. I think his futuristic, spacey style and mine dovetailed together quite nicely on our first-ever studio collaboration...
We humans have a bad habit of assuming we're special. But science teaches us over and over that we're not. Here is my latest morsel of food for thought, on High Existence, about how to strike a balance between grandeur and humility. A teaser:
The accepted story of physics right now is that we live on a miraculous, impossible planet where solar eclipses can happen because the Moon is the same apparent size in the sky as the Sun, and where our orbital wobble, the Precession of the Equinoxes, takes exactly as many years as we are light years from the center of the galaxy – which just so happens to be a cozy intermediate zone where core radiation won’t melt DNA and the frigid depths of space don’t render chemistry a moot point. (And all chemistry is biochemistry, it seems .) Above it all, we live at a special moment in the life cycle of our star, a narrow window before it swells to consume the entire Earth. Statistically, life is impossible, but if it’s possible anywhere, it’s here – in this impossibly convenient place.
This is the Goldilocks Hypothesis, and it’s junk. If we’re going to take the Copernican Revolution all the way, let’s go there: we are perfectly adapted for this place because life is always adapted to its surroundings. All that hawking radiation from the supermassive black hole at the galactic center might boil carbon-based life, but as NASA’s astrobiologists are quick to remind us there’s no reason to suppose that heavier elements haven’t grown metal minds, evolving at breakneck pace in the roiling creation, linked through the instantaneous communication of frictionless superfluid field dynamics, vortices within vortices.
Sonic Bloom 2013 Panel Discussion
The third annual Sonic Bloom Festival all-star panel discussion was our most diverse and impassioned yet. In a conversation moderated by Solpurpose.com editor-in-chief Michael Garfield, festival director Jamie Janover, community builder Mark Heley, bass producer Lux Moderna, astrologer Ver Dar Luz, dream interpreter Jonathan Zap, healer Alaya Love, video blogger Jordan Pearce, and his friend Ray all gave real talk on life, death, and categories beyond and between. This hour is the fruit of a truly transformational festival - potent, raw, and deep...
Remixed by Frank Heiss
In Search Of A Booking Agent
So if you know people who represent musicians or performing artists, please introduce us! Anyone who can hook me up with a good booking agent gets my eternal gratitude and a bunch of sweet art. (Here is my full EPK, to make things a little easier.)
Thanks again for reading, enjoy the art and ideas, and have a beautiful day!
