“We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.”
Greetings, friends! A lot of gifts to share in this one – hope it finds you well!
Enjoy and stay in touch...
– NEW PAINTING –
Colibrí (Beija Flor II)
acrylic on canvas // 18"x24"
Original piece painted at home, a commissioned remix of 2014's "Beija Flor," one of my favorite pieces. The first hummingbird painting flew to Bangkok to join the collection of Greenpeace's Director of East Asian Operations the same day international news announced that vandals had written the Greenpeace logo over the hummingbird Nazca lines in Peru, those famous ancient petroglyphs visible only from the air.
That weird coincidence – like some globe-spanning karmic shuffle – was just one of many "winks" returning my investment in these lovely birds. I'm glad to revisit this creature with three more years of experience as a painter. To spend some time with it and learn from it.
– NEW MUSIC –
It's also the new titles music for John Lentz's The Invisible Room Podcast. He offered up the EP's first review:
"My vibration burst into the great beyond listening to this album. I didn’t want to come back. I felt myself riding waves of the infinite, supported by the unbounded ocean of being. The rhythms, the ongoingness, departing, returning, expanding, contracting, and the many sudden very strange moments—all of this gave way to the mystery itself...This music brings me home."
Martian Arts EP is free to Patreon subscribers. Or you can grab a print of the album cover art – a collab between myself and Tourmaline Todd – and download the tunes for free.
– NEW WRITING –
1) The systems we’ve created are opposed to human nature; and
2) We made it this way?
2) We made it this way?
We’re out of touch with who we are. We grew thinking that somebody has The Answers, and those answers can be bought.
They can’t. Here’s why.
(Here also is my archive of exhumed short writing – from 2015, when I was editor of nonduality zine Globalish – on Steemit.)
– NEW PODCAST EPISODES –
– UPCOMING GIGS –
8 July – Austin, TX – Square Rüt Kava Bar
Apocalyptic Folk Singer-Songwriter Set. 8 - 10pm
Free All Ages Show
10 July – Austin, TX – Capital Factory
"The Pre- & Post-History of Surveillance, Virtual Reality, and Swarm Intelligence"
10 July – Austin, TX – Capital Factory
"The Pre- & Post-History of Surveillance, Virtual Reality, and Swarm Intelligence"
A Special Live Taping of Future Fossils Podcast at EFF-Austin with Panelists:
Heather Barfield, Maggie Duval, Paul Toprac, & Kevin Welch
Keynote Speaker on Time, Evolution, Consciousness, & Cosmos
Playing the festival's first-ever Sunrise Set!
