tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-197869842024-03-08T05:34:04.133-06:00Michael Garfield's Love Without End Tour NewsletterMichael Garfield – paleontologist turned visionary artist, author, avant-singer-songwriter. Exploring cosmic vistas and the evolutionary journey since 1984. New music, art, and writing every month!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger301125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-19100274593736517392023-04-05T12:51:00.003-05:002023-04-27T03:45:53.292-05:00✨🎸🦖 Leaving SFI for Even Bigger Projects...<p style="text-align: center;"></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">I'm building a new website! This is my last blog post at Blogger.<br />Please follow my updates and new work at <a href="http://MichaelGarfield.Substack.com" target="_blank">MichaelGarfield.Substack.com<br /></a>and stay tuned for the launch of <a href="http://FutureFossils.org" target="_blank">FutureFossils.org</a>. 💗🖖🏼✨</h3><i><div><i><br /></i></div>Announcing A New Book + Book Club on Jurassic Park • Guest Appearances on KMO.show + Rainbow Brainskull • New Live LP + Music Videos + Concert Dates</i><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">✨ Saying Goodbye to The Santa Fe Institute</h3><div><br /></div>Last Friday was the end of an era. Leaving SFI was not an easy choice, but it is time to synthesize what I have learned from years of complex systems science study and communication in some “grown-up” projects.</div><div><br /><b><a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield/status/1641913851913314306">Here is my announcement</a> (also pinned to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/pfbid02gzkVPWSdDgriHN5XpExBg1sGQvi3eHWtjGrag4dJyLtpTGTgMKUgsAoDhRhK638yl">Facebook</a> and to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7047646806343643136/">LinkedIn</a>):</b></div><div><br /><i>🧵 Today is my last day at @sfiscience! It's been an honor and a pleasure to oversee SFI's social media for the last 4.5 years, to launch and grow #ComplexityPodcast into an internationally-charting show, and to work amidst such a thriving and inspiring intellectual community...</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEAl4i1RmJg_fsVjdCZXjlwRLQtc7AYSjfbjv0Bu1jza7arKeE-nN5dkc9Ql_IM3eCyhSaXQtVtZgis0pmal67I1Kj2ND_BcUPaJA1TKCQh4D2G18hKQ2rwecKdQZkUAa75Kzvn-bt3FYUxyaGbjAlP_e9JVKdZ7Nr6ifA6Q_DHEHWd3FKHtE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="777" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEAl4i1RmJg_fsVjdCZXjlwRLQtc7AYSjfbjv0Bu1jza7arKeE-nN5dkc9Ql_IM3eCyhSaXQtVtZgis0pmal67I1Kj2ND_BcUPaJA1TKCQh4D2G18hKQ2rwecKdQZkUAa75Kzvn-bt3FYUxyaGbjAlP_e9JVKdZ7Nr6ifA6Q_DHEHWd3FKHtE=w493-h640" width="493" /></a></div></i></div><div><h3 data-block="true" data-editor="33i99" data-offset-key="fof1p-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(11, 12, 15, 0.95); font-family: system-ui, Roboto, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">🦖 Join My Book Club for Jurassic Park!</h3><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What's next? <a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/pfbid02ivoLiDAHtQTDSc37cAHDsKLEdCpzkhfxUJn9LrHkmzqVxYqwZJPuM57cz5zHYwa8l">Here is an update</a> on the HUGE undertaking I'm already working on — a new book, book club, and podcast project exploring how the science and philosophy of the Jurassic Park franchise (books, films, games, AND rides) sheds light on and entangles with the evolution of AI, VFX, biotech, and other monsters of modernity since JP’s first edition back in 1990:</div></div><div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUgQmm4FeAB4V1ld4K6oUKS43hhqTCUwBtqr1mAHhrBxwNACQs1L8D77zxLtpHX2XTbHAfI-X-rGQfzfzKFE4DrBCL87cGSptebKlj1pkP1tOy99d-b0vLA4X6TCeMqaT8_SKuWzm9usQC3oYXtVUVSU9I34UvFzp02EuoE6igguMdBUM09G8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="790" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUgQmm4FeAB4V1ld4K6oUKS43hhqTCUwBtqr1mAHhrBxwNACQs1L8D77zxLtpHX2XTbHAfI-X-rGQfzfzKFE4DrBCL87cGSptebKlj1pkP1tOy99d-b0vLA4X6TCeMqaT8_SKuWzm9usQC3oYXtVUVSU9I34UvFzp02EuoE6igguMdBUM09G8=w397-h640" width="397" /></a></div><br />Michael Crichton’s legendary techno-thriller is more relevant than ever now…which is why I’m resurrecting <a href="https://www.patreon.com/michaelgarfield?filters[tag]=Book%20Club">the Future Fossils Book Club</a> to explore it! <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/24290/9780345538987">Grab your copy here</a>.</div><div><br /><b>The JP Book Club starts on April 29th</b> and will mix asynchronous discussion in the Facebook group and Discord server with live calls. Patrons get a deep dive into privatized science, the breakdown of the boundaries between reality and virtuality, chaos and complex systems sciences, and science fiction as self-fulfilling prophecy.</div><div><br /><b>There will be at least two live calls for this book, and then more for The Lost World later on this summer. If you have to miss them, they will be recorded.</b></div><div><i><br />Then, in the months to come, I'll interview a very heavy-hitting roster of scientists, philosophers, critics, and artists about all this on Future Fossils…including several of the SFI researchers whose planned episodes of <a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/">Complexity Podcast</a> I had to cancel. These two shows will start to bleed together…Future Fossils will stay weird, but also start to feature more rigor and prestigious guests.<br />It is a GIANT leap of faith to take this on…I hope you'll grab your front row seats, become a paid subscriber, and help me feed my family while I’m bringing all of this to life!</i></div><div><br /><b>Read more and weigh in on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/pfbid02ivoLiDAHtQTDSc37cAHDsKLEdCpzkhfxUJn9LrHkmzqVxYqwZJPuM57cz5zHYwa8l">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield/status/1642926812341600256">Twitter</a>.</b><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">🎸 New Videos + Live LP Reviewed</h3></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="349" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E52oQLt0wXY" width="609" youtube-src-id="E52oQLt0wXY"></iframe></div><br /><div><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/a-better-trip-live-at-the-jean-cocteau-cinema-supporting-shane-mauss">My latest live recording</a> marries science-inspired folk songs, high-tech improv explorations, and psychoactive concert banter into a truly magic stew I’m glad to share in full with everyone as a Bandcamp exclusive!</div><div><br />Anyone who buys it gets a secret playlist link with videos showcasing twenty extra very juicy minutes from the show (also available to <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/better-trip-live-80632344">Patreon</a> and <a href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/a-better-trip-live-at-the-jean-cocteau">Substack</a> members, if you missed that email).</div><div><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield/status/1643006382780866560">Here is the album’s first review</a>:<br /><br /></div><div><i>"I think this is his best yet...not just a good record but this is an interesting person...worth making an effort to appreciate." <br /><br />🙏🏼 @WarmthHighest reviews my latest live @Bandcamp-exclusive #psychedelic #folk album: <a href="https://birdboyblizzard.music.blog/2023/04/01/a-better-trip-live-at-the-jean-cocteau-cinema-supporting-shane-mauss-by-michael-garfield/">https://birdboyblizzard.music.blog/2023/04/01/a-better-trip-live-at-the-jean-cocteau-cinema-supporting-shane-mauss-by-michael-garfield/</a> cc @shane_mauss @CocteauCinema</i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="892" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5g-7Icyd3cHFdSgD4Ae_V557V8XfUBRv46JAE1ZBR4Tsfz9wmXao_3yUv7Bd1LMetgauU-vmP5xI6k_wQbxM6l5L8ZOIxNBAxWMuUJRJmwdYIaN4ijzoRmM2_ERC6EPEcBN9MNvfVaBWidB97Xwg5XrZWqFmPtxRbCKD-8_zu0s_JbfRO2KQ=w429-h640" width="429" /></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">🎧 New Podcast Guest Appearances</h3> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7Pygqy3r7l0reBmUM9x2W0Ghbq3hFp-CHxwXM2jFwGLqeDcCHpBW1lfPw3Y0mIKIvckjb73ekucWEMP5oXYQNDXWM-b7100wQ2gDjE-W8RfayXcRcCRC5y0LQvIenMCOZMeu3SCzfdKvJvJHnRnCZjeY52ffb4WEd6MlAwVUxgpPzXn01DHQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7Pygqy3r7l0reBmUM9x2W0Ghbq3hFp-CHxwXM2jFwGLqeDcCHpBW1lfPw3Y0mIKIvckjb73ekucWEMP5oXYQNDXWM-b7100wQ2gDjE-W8RfayXcRcCRC5y0LQvIenMCOZMeu3SCzfdKvJvJHnRnCZjeY52ffb4WEd6MlAwVUxgpPzXn01DHQ=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://rss.com/podcasts/kmoshow/847842/"><b>Guest on KMO.show Episode 1 (with my buddy Kevin Wohlmut!)</b></a></div><div><br />"In this inaugural episode of the KMO Show, KMO, <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19786984/1910027459373651739#">Michael Garfield</a> of the <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19786984/1910027459373651739#">Future Fossils podcast</a> and mutual friend, <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19786984/1910027459373651739#">Kevin Wohlmut</a>, discuss the dawning of the epistemological apocalypse. Thanks to AI, we can't really trust our eyes or our ears anymore. Deep faked images and voices can produce 'evidence' that people said and did things they never said or did. How do we select our reality tunnels when almost anything can be faked in real time? Do we give up on truth seeking and just believe whatever floats our boat, or are there general principals [sic] or trustworthy oracles we can depend on?"<br /><br /></div><div>Part one of a two-part trialogue that will conclude on Future Fossils 201. Stay tuned!<br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxeKzsIFZ48kDOcADGqnY1TlIm-aGXtUuP8El7iZ0RGwqsNR1Wgzqdhb7-Dlq5S0GtUYBgfnv79Hkrk2ImMVdH6WJWifMSTreHlGu07t3U15oWlUxS3rOyQLZ17xN-PqaAsRtqjI9wY0frquOJ-d0CKKqiNL2n7mqu74VSPD687ForuBJFSRs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="285" data-original-width="640" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxeKzsIFZ48kDOcADGqnY1TlIm-aGXtUuP8El7iZ0RGwqsNR1Wgzqdhb7-Dlq5S0GtUYBgfnv79Hkrk2ImMVdH6WJWifMSTreHlGu07t3U15oWlUxS3rOyQLZ17xN-PqaAsRtqjI9wY0frquOJ-d0CKKqiNL2n7mqu74VSPD687ForuBJFSRs=w640-h286" width="640" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://raminnazer.com/blogs/rainbow-brainskull-hour/michael-garfield-2"><b>Guest on Rainbow Brainskull Episode 81</b></a></div><div><br />If you want to hear me at my absolute SLOWEST, then enjoy this conversation I had with Ramin Nazer after pulling an all-nighter taking care of a cranky baby. I'm ordinarily not a fan of people listening to conversations at 2x speed because I try to pack my own episodes with as much information as possible, but in this case I think you might actually get something approximating my ordinary cruising velocity if you did so. Anyway, it was a superb conversation in spite of the fact I was a total mess (and he didn't bother to cinch it up in post-production, which I take to be basically a love letter to my mind, however ill-conceived) and I love Ramin to High Heaven so go show him some love…<br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">🎶 Upcoming Musical Events</h3><div><br /></div><div>I WILL be making audio and video recordings of these shows for everyone who couldn’t make it. But if you live in or near Santa Fe I hope I’ll see you there!</div><div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSLoWbxueh7eeE4UYDB0IsNc2BJePm6XbmTHKifif_tSZE3bag_wCjoMOTMGH5i7Amhpdsbje3dOE0F4gc8Jo-ZbvFbypuQ5qOVMCil7Qv2OcfW5ShUNFj7LftnuwfolLb8ErB8FhhnjhT9M2uCrtd6szAbEV0JFthkISJyDyELOBxXB7tNQY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="640" data-original-width="436" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSLoWbxueh7eeE4UYDB0IsNc2BJePm6XbmTHKifif_tSZE3bag_wCjoMOTMGH5i7Amhpdsbje3dOE0F4gc8Jo-ZbvFbypuQ5qOVMCil7Qv2OcfW5ShUNFj7LftnuwfolLb8ErB8FhhnjhT9M2uCrtd6szAbEV0JFthkISJyDyELOBxXB7tNQY=w437-h640" width="437" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://bit.ly/musiclabnm">More Info & Presale Tickets</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/996518364661469/996518374661468">RSVP/Invite @ Facebook Event</a></b></div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJLUlBHrD7LeejTQ9gN0W8BaB2ijms1SXwZiuQ3dH1_w8aLhlZUZ2fns9MwPt-nA9h6EiZsemCJ_Do3kNzMwCoQYaA9eQ-BreSTSosVFEAgZOrt0Sc2fX8NvpGpRVoy0CLoiYFSMKqk-mwBt1elMnfQ4I8EiHcvtnmHuMxr9kPLvpBgtVF9vE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="640" data-original-width="414" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJLUlBHrD7LeejTQ9gN0W8BaB2ijms1SXwZiuQ3dH1_w8aLhlZUZ2fns9MwPt-nA9h6EiZsemCJ_Do3kNzMwCoQYaA9eQ-BreSTSosVFEAgZOrt0Sc2fX8NvpGpRVoy0CLoiYFSMKqk-mwBt1elMnfQ4I8EiHcvtnmHuMxr9kPLvpBgtVF9vE=w413-h640" width="413" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://bit.ly/m/honeymoondesertmystics">More Info</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/506991441646938">RSVP/Invite @ Facebook Event</a></b></div><p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-51869192600087593512023-02-28T14:00:00.000-06:002023-02-28T14:00:38.387-06:00🎶 Changing My Tune: Big Moves Afoot + Android Jones Interview + New Solo & Big Band Recordings + A.I. Art Exhibition + Discussing The Singularity<div style="text-align: center;"><i>“Playing small doesn’t serve the world.”</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>– Fred Rogers & Marianne Williamson</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>– John Kenneth Galbraith</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hi friends! I've been soul-searching about how to balance my responsibilities to a very diverse and heterogeneous audience, and between my duties to myself, my family, and my career. This morning <a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/pfbid037KcgPPwYALT3kthNgy7eH6WrDr9QreN9cctc3LK13fTyDp3gt873sp5W6HRuqZMql" target="_blank">I posed the question to Facebook</a> and the overwhelming response was support for making whatever transformations (and reclamations) I find necessary to keep doing work that nourishes my soul.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is all to say that you're going to see some changes in this blog, and soon. Most of the folks who followed me for paintings have already bailed — as I did from twelve years of live art back in February 2020 — and since everyone I know seems to want to shrink into a far more manageable scale, I'll understand if you decide to leave as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But: Stay. My best work's still to come. I am about to wrap up two extraordinary projects I have spent ten or more years on EACH, and there are flowers blooming in the graveyard of my past lives that I cannot wait to wrap up in a big bouquet for you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So here we go, again, down a deep rabbit hole...feel free to follow it however you're inspired to.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In this newsletter we have: new big band electronic and solo acoustic music, a vulnerable interview with a legendary artist whose studio just burnt to the ground, reflections on a provocative recent generative text-to-image art exhibition, and copious new podcast episodes to help you navigate what is starting to feel more and more obviously like the long-awaited Technological Singularity...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Love & Thanks,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />Michael</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">New Solo Singer-Songwriter-Storyteller Live Album</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-8QBlc8jAE5Tq8peCDsR_q45rho8eTi1N1t0KFEhWnFwf8vNLFOyU_wrkNtB5z5yq-7YKFsbfW6vtgUUUueoHaHSj2B7tHvGQEI2kILPy0tRG7oZIUuQP3vlIgL6NcVm7uI5M1ZlEnpTKPziiSowgnxRbEjG2Tw6xwFc9ah_99_CCRojbEYM/s3000/Unplugged%20Live%20in%20Kevin's%20Yard%203000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-8QBlc8jAE5Tq8peCDsR_q45rho8eTi1N1t0KFEhWnFwf8vNLFOyU_wrkNtB5z5yq-7YKFsbfW6vtgUUUueoHaHSj2B7tHvGQEI2kILPy0tRG7oZIUuQP3vlIgL6NcVm7uI5M1ZlEnpTKPziiSowgnxRbEjG2Tw6xwFc9ah_99_CCRojbEYM/w640-h640/Unplugged%20Live%20in%20Kevin's%20Yard%203000.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Stream/Download at <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/unplugged-live-in-kevins-yard" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/75415945?pr=true" target="_blank">Patreon</a></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Recorded live in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 3 September 2022.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">My friend Kevin Wohlmut (the only person I've ever let guest-host Future Fossils Podcast, and one of the most active members of our Facebook group) is BY FAR one of the most generous supporters of live music I have ever met. It was an honor to play this show for his house concert birthday party bonanza, alongside the very talented Dust City Opera and Austin Morrell from Albuquerque.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Over the last fifteen years, I've overemphasized technically intensive electroacoustic sets and neglected my stripped-down acoustic singer-songwriter roots. This show was a return to form — meaning, also, a storyteller format where I spent a good third of my set regaling my audience with humor and cerebral nonsense.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A mix of old and new songs and a philosophical dive into science fiction turning fact, learning to love yourself, the tension between individuals and collectives, video game obsession, political revolution, and my wonderful family. Enjoy, and thank you for your support!</div></div><div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A New, Insanely Ambitious Concert Series in Santa Fe</b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgViYi0dyDfAEWNrvkhlE0MEZPXxx7LjDnH7Bi1axEXKNTx9WD_Xs_7Kk7POEhAO04uCrijlEeReI2gCfDYatj3cO9jt-9gSTe38SxbRJ3QNwPQkuN7XgdLeFLtHj3nwIioscCSV1HyeSUWkUmGEIFFKPvezm5PBr9MQOklCBzmBJyl_AWiSH4/s3300/TUMBLEROOT%20MUSIC%20LAB%203%20FEB%202023%20FLYER%208%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3300" data-original-width="2250" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgViYi0dyDfAEWNrvkhlE0MEZPXxx7LjDnH7Bi1axEXKNTx9WD_Xs_7Kk7POEhAO04uCrijlEeReI2gCfDYatj3cO9jt-9gSTe38SxbRJ3QNwPQkuN7XgdLeFLtHj3nwIioscCSV1HyeSUWkUmGEIFFKPvezm5PBr9MQOklCBzmBJyl_AWiSH4/w436-h640/TUMBLEROOT%20MUSIC%20LAB%203%20FEB%202023%20FLYER%208%20copy.jpg" width="436" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/497418582470135/?active_tab=discussion" target="_blank">RSVP on the Facebook Event Page</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tumbleroot-music-lab-ii-w-michael-garfield-daring-electroacoustic-improv-tickets-536285683917" target="_blank">Grab Presale Tix on EventBrite</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The Tumbleroot Music Lab brings together acoustic, electric, and electronic musicians with live painters and dancers in short- and long-form cross-disciplinary large group improvisations — a psychedelic spaceship exploring the frontiers of the atmospheric groove. Hosted and curated by looping multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter <a href="https://linktr.ee/michaelgarfield">Michael Garfield</a> and building on the success of his former <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/loopers-night-at-strange-brew-loungeside">Loopers' Night</a> and <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/paint-jam-atx-1">Paint Jam ATX</a> residencies in Austin, Texas and and site-specific collaborative freestyle at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVJ4Jy8v8mc&list=PLcC2ShU7TrqewzZ2K0gifLgx75iRk-vtR&index=26">festivals</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQOlX7ktGuM&list=PLcC2ShU7TrqewzZ2K0gifLgx75iRk-vtR&index=50">around</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12rnE3ZzRek&list=PLcC2ShU7TrqewzZ2K0gifLgx75iRk-vtR&index=54">the</a> <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-chillout-gardens-boom-festival-2016">world</a>, the Tumbleroot Music Lab is an offering of medicine to soothe the wounds of the pandemic's social isolation and a showcase for the absurdly intense concentration of artistic greatness that Santa Fe has to offer.<div><br /></div><div>We already have a ton of fresh faces confirmed for March, including saxophones and new painters who will collaborate on a single large canvas provided by our awesome sponsors at Artisan Santa Fe. If you're interested in participating in our upcoming events drop me a line and I'll add you to our planning email thread!</div><div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9loi_0dGz4s" target="_blank">Watch the full concert recording from our epic first edition on YouTube:</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9loi_0dGz4s" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1700" data-original-width="3422" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp31NrtsYhekE6wej5n_jZvL6GBcIF2BGhd8_1YY-Ic_wvEM14vL6CpyYqndXw18nsQDxe79T7vOh9906QFdmyC26vPL0iAJmGP-tVIZ7r_7RVWyYKNQgZWqLqiLhEUZCRoKMrvtUesYN7V62t9y4bK2gIuaIKPGdNpcAAbit4lJfI_T2uPao=w640-h318" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><div><b style="font-size: x-large;">My First A.I. Art Exhibition: </b><b style="font-size: x-large;">"Hyperborea"</b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnuCPabmsHWHJcFoar6KA2ij2JBWHz5cV1qOWKRiCxzQ4QmDGcaqyx2JAHxWJgxxkYrKquuS38BtiB9oj5OPQdVRIp6qBL0gcOG3J6i-3G_NJPNn55rzv13P3ekMQWFUGPhK0u4jgmJxS_JuSoh9S7DHpVhYWDRcWkFdRxASLOaB4-47AwFoQ/s1462/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-21%20at%202.55.36%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1462" data-original-width="1456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnuCPabmsHWHJcFoar6KA2ij2JBWHz5cV1qOWKRiCxzQ4QmDGcaqyx2JAHxWJgxxkYrKquuS38BtiB9oj5OPQdVRIp6qBL0gcOG3J6i-3G_NJPNn55rzv13P3ekMQWFUGPhK0u4jgmJxS_JuSoh9S7DHpVhYWDRcWkFdRxASLOaB4-47AwFoQ/w638-h640/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-21%20at%202.55.36%20PM.png" width="638" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/74948790" target="_blank"><b>Patrons can use any of this work for noncommercial purposes (like phone wallpapers, etc.)</b></a></div></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Lately I've gone down a very very deep well lately remixing my own <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/35086036" style="font-weight: 400;">coloring book</a> pages into AI art evoking visions of an ancient future, high technology at peace with nature. In keeping with one of my central frames for Future Fossils, I imagine these to be oracular imprints delivered <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/117" style="font-weight: 400;">retrocausally</a> from some distant coordinates in Minkowski block spacetime — downloads from the Akash, or the remote viewing of worlds that once were, or could one day be. A beckoning into something transcendent.<br /><br />(As noted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperborea" style="font-weight: 400;">the Wikipedia entry for Hyperborea</a>, some ancient Greeks regarded the mythical Hyperboreans as the founders of Apollo's shrines at Delos and Delphi...so, fitting given everything I've said elsewhere about the potential of text-to-image MLA synthesis as a kind of 21st century Tarot.)<br /><br />Which do you find most compelling? Which ones make you go "I want to be there!" or "Wow, I REMEMBER that place!" This has been a strangely emotional exploration for me — especially after rediscovering <a href="https://integral-options.blogspot.com/2010/01/william-irwin-thompson-on-avatar-and.html?m=1" style="font-weight: 400;">Avatar</a> on Disney+, bingeing the wonderful docu-series Myths & Monsters (especially episode two, "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akKL6t4ClqQ" style="font-weight: 400;">The Wild Unknown</a>"), immersing myself in the controversy around Graham Hancock's new Netflix docu-series, and consequently realizing just how deeply these visions of other worlds have penetrated the collective imagination...<br /><br />Thanks for trekking with me into the Mystery!<br /><br />PS — I know this medium is controversial, which is exactly why I'm experimenting with it. My artist friends and I have been subject to a lot of hatred for doing so lately...please don't subject us to any more of it, but do consider <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSxFAGP9Ss&list=WL&index=62" style="font-weight: 400;">the practical critiques of its current forms</a> and consider <a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/pfbid02mHF3HtTQJ4rcuPSbJoySct14Dw1mkSfjPP5nWHg4LevxQiAsFyembkD4hSE191qTl" style="font-weight: 400;">joining the collective processing</a> of the nuance demanded of us in these strange and unfamiliar waters.</div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoh3lpYgPRoqF4kSs7I4hmEPRQtMHl23w1VlXwNyuk-iZarCv2Z4SWf6-ZzK-A_SuIR4MIAadA_1ua00fZebWWvN2NuLApEKza6O_LTgI-MDcBYVVVyqFIDsxzn_92XRVbtv7Q_9n4MmZvbfidr7KxpywkfEdZ5Ne6HVrVpUWGsmWWNsfjrfg/s1456/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-21%20at%202.52.44%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1456" data-original-width="1454" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoh3lpYgPRoqF4kSs7I4hmEPRQtMHl23w1VlXwNyuk-iZarCv2Z4SWf6-ZzK-A_SuIR4MIAadA_1ua00fZebWWvN2NuLApEKza6O_LTgI-MDcBYVVVyqFIDsxzn_92XRVbtv7Q_9n4MmZvbfidr7KxpywkfEdZ5Ne6HVrVpUWGsmWWNsfjrfg/w640-h640/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-21%20at%202.52.44%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><br /><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">🎤 ICYMI: </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">More New Episodes of Future Fossils</span></b></div></div></div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/199" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv8l9WjbS2-D6SgF9dO0AwHw341S7Cy5nK6WUEQslMx78eGJ19XEPHIb0rmQPVMzQgvol4XgnNJM2C9OIYWoZfHLQPCERYqw2hM7QeiO3XZ4W5jESmLE45JteeQ2SvxCDxJAr1aDEoAR2TypQxLRYYLmHPyhFxeNlMWTjWt4ZK_kdELW12jds/w640-h640/FF199.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><a href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/199#details" target="_blank">Listen Now</a></b><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/198#details" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Happy Holidays, everyone! For the five of you who see this overdue update amidst the avalanche of promotional nonsense, thank you so much for taking the time to scan the news and absorb what I have to bestow upon you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I hope you find real value here, and appreciate the change of pace — the new work is this update are REAL offerings, not just a blitz to score your year-end dough. I don't have the heart to beg like that. But if you DO want to help me keep my family warm and fed this winter, <a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/" target="_blank">there</a> <a href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/" target="_blank">are</a> <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">many</a> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">good</a> <a href="https://society6.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">ways</a> to do so. More on that down below...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Onward! Major new works in just about every quadrant, starting with a temporary return from live painting retirement for the Santa Fe Institute's <a href="https://interplanetaryfest.org" target="_blank">InterPlanetary Festival</a>:</div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">First New Live Painting Since Before The Pandemic</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW9vxiIAXluq89-zuoKTSaS3ehrmhzwNaq_dF_LZ4GhpVbXef54zaturWg3_fCLdbkKMEjjYpcmcN7ue5wb8ItqvxTMzIauBU4koatz1zTASSSE4ebXMnCq7p3OeK3WV-uRpgZ_oLc7LMfTW7B1WexuMtRhP_49U33GuILc1hMV2PGI0Yz_Wc/s2499/20221024_160112%20small.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2499" data-original-width="2000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW9vxiIAXluq89-zuoKTSaS3ehrmhzwNaq_dF_LZ4GhpVbXef54zaturWg3_fCLdbkKMEjjYpcmcN7ue5wb8ItqvxTMzIauBU4koatz1zTASSSE4ebXMnCq7p3OeK3WV-uRpgZ_oLc7LMfTW7B1WexuMtRhP_49U33GuILc1hMV2PGI0Yz_Wc/w512-h640/20221024_160112%20small.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Xenodendron</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/xenodendron" target="_blank"><b>24"w x 30"h x 1.5" gallery wrap • acrylic on canvas</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/xenodendron" target="_blank"><b>Prints & Original at MichaelGarfieldArt.com</b></a></div><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLcmW4jvisKuKu7spf01gOaLlRsqkfYa_X2RICGv7sjjWgBBqDWj7UglkPIbjzn7qeUy0JSn-48nKa81cmMS7wE4kLqu3pVrMJ9A2WRjeK_CwtdC0FN5djwj9sC5AIMgdP6BWhUMe6LvrQe1-vEJsaP9xYXCl1HfnxVd_H8GNgiN18E7OURu4/s960/313088464_10158695054111653_5453591087488915171_n.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLcmW4jvisKuKu7spf01gOaLlRsqkfYa_X2RICGv7sjjWgBBqDWj7UglkPIbjzn7qeUy0JSn-48nKa81cmMS7wE4kLqu3pVrMJ9A2WRjeK_CwtdC0FN5djwj9sC5AIMgdP6BWhUMe6LvrQe1-vEJsaP9xYXCl1HfnxVd_H8GNgiN18E7OURu4/w480-h640/313088464_10158695054111653_5453591087488915171_n.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Painted live with <a href="https://interplanetaryfest.org/event/dark-matter-dance-party/">DJ Astrofreq</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/eA6uXGy6b9k?t=20700">Rob Schwimmer</a> at the Santa Fe Institute's InterPlanetary Festival at SITE Santa Fe, inspired in large part by <a href="https://youtu.be/gWW2oE4TO94?t=16265">SFI Professor Chris Kempes’ work on biophysical constraints on exotic and undiscovered plant forms</a> and more broadly by thinking on dissipative structures, space exploration, and the interrogation of a conceptual boundary between biology and technology.</div><div><br /></div><div>(Original painting is up for grabs if you want a piece of SFI history — I'm fairly certain this was the first time in 38 years anybody painted live at one of the Institute's events.)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">New Song & Unplugged Performance:<br />"The Luminous Night"</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/6ZT4MF-tnPE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1332" data-original-width="2084" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbgOKGIc8PQzr51XUy0YlpUKwxPSmFCYbApA_28XLyN2UYSFrirzPQORwT1OIXHxZFEnENCLYfabXxLmZheQkfXBic5u_iCWNYsgyuSJcj38XivFkT_BtKUiPXs9o8u1nRutrFlmD91HxotGaMNrosCANMdvqinyCyvrmOJuArjP5ZXz9VUV4=w640-h410" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/6ZT4MF-tnPE" target="_blank"><b>Watch on YouTube</b></a> | <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/empty-frames-solo-acoustic-demos" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><b>Free MP3 on Bandcamp</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Enjoy this demo of a new song written after a soak in the healing hot mineral springs at Ojo Caliente, New Mexico — and performed live for the first time at The Santa Fe Institute. This is the last studio recording with my beloved 2001 Martin D-35 "Marianne" before boxing it up to send to its new owner. </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This take is rough as hell, but so too have I been. (Recorded not long before my surgery for a premature cataract...) At least I have the song on file and can promise a cleaner official studio take on the horizon — but first, demos of TWO MORE new songs coming soon! Hardship is indeed great fertilizer for the muses.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;">Find the lyrics — and the story about parting with a beloved legacy axe that has appeared in my videos and albums since I started recording in 2001 — <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/74033331?pr=true" target="_blank">on Patreon</a>:</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/74033331?pr=true" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="" data-original-height="1510" data-original-width="2922" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL0idsEr24CGf_skhKWPpJA-M2TymejBxcv6Cr0SMnb3-yJ1yHAPylPfPfGvp_HIosAuxDxwxI2SK7KK6lBIf1bKKwHg3B7G2-wSeSP18usOT2LYimPCp2P-qNuDCt-MDS8rqt1sp9_RNWfih76X-X1Lg2kpFKvMCfz-L6u0y4-tFhq407U7s" width="640" /></a></div></div></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">New Future Fossils Podcast Episodes</span></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>First, some big news: I just poured sweat and blood for two full days — while staying up all night to help care for a sick infant — into applying for this podcast grant for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/futurefossils?__cft__[0]=AZUhBvRCewV7pV1_u5exrkOrDY9HPvmMTetgAeRpbFIZSDxeJWDf6mRPV6RCj2f-RNGcgUH9Bso0zMm_LUoCSWeolMl3BIUH9aCkNAHYuDSQbdAIZ_w8W6KQR6R-hmYjEII&__tn__=-]K-R">Future Fossils Podcast</a>. Working with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PRX-Public-Radio-Exchange-472087402982926/?__cft__[0]=AZUhBvRCewV7pV1_u5exrkOrDY9HPvmMTetgAeRpbFIZSDxeJWDf6mRPV6RCj2f-RNGcgUH9Bso0zMm_LUoCSWeolMl3BIUH9aCkNAHYuDSQbdAIZ_w8W6KQR6R-hmYjEII&__tn__=kK-R">PRX Public Radio Exchange</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TempletonFoundation/?__cft__[0]=AZUhBvRCewV7pV1_u5exrkOrDY9HPvmMTetgAeRpbFIZSDxeJWDf6mRPV6RCj2f-RNGcgUH9Bso0zMm_LUoCSWeolMl3BIUH9aCkNAHYuDSQbdAIZ_w8W6KQR6R-hmYjEII&__tn__=kK-R">John Templeton Foundation</a> would be TWO dreams come true.<br />Wish me luck or say a little prayer if you're inclined. This opportunity would be transformative — and finally empower me to hire a whole web of awesome friends to help build out the show as the immersive, community-focused transmedia project it was always meant to be. Cheers to <a href="https://prx.org/bigquestions" target="_blank">BIG questions</a>!</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div>And now SIX very potent new episodes:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/74870894" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw9gptJmPa_34QWt7WO521cZrruxH8C4mgpMFuXjywiZCqPWqZC-c4GKrJnCeMGXjDs-WB9wqlHXBqqI6pu3BidL8VgsOTR44ze6yTbgDdSNIk5N_uazjVpoyOc2vCyFnvHQmJcMyluWr-R1Ycmc-dM8vl-SuAOw8K6FBGKV351ys22VJioi4/w640-h640/FF%20194.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/74870894" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Listen on Patreon or anywhere you dig podcasts</span></a></b><br /></div><br />How much of natural history is inevitable, and how much is the result of chance? Do mass extinctions slow the evolution of the biosphere, or speed it up? These are two of the six great questions of biology explored by <a href="https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/directory/simon-conway-morris">Simon Conway Morris</a>, famous evolutionary theorist and Cambridge Emeritus Professor, in his latest book. <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/24290/9781599475288">From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution</a> (<a href="https://templetonpress.org/">Templeton Press</a>) is a meticulously researched, cheeky and inspiring romp through both the living and extinct worlds, challenging a handful of widespread beliefs and offering provocative alternatives. Conway Morris is a character, even amidst the strange ranks of his fellow natural history researchers, and his arguments bear careful scrutiny. As someone drawn to mavericks and weirdos and enamored by contrarian perspectives, I can’t help but like his work — and reading him forced me to reconsider some of my assumptions even as it validated other long-held hunches.<br /><br />In this episode, we talk about his book and what his work implies — and I get fanboy on him and assault him with a bunch of lengthy questions <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abv0v3NZfKI">like Tim Murphy in Jurassic Park</a>. Strap in for a deep dive into evolution’s laziness, complexity and process, cooption and repurposing of novel traits, great puzzles in prehistory, ancient food webs, evolutionary radiation, symbiosis, flowers, death, and more… And when you’re done, go read his book and dig a dozen more related episodes in the show notes!<br /><br /></div><div>I've recorded over 300 podcast episodes and this one is for sure the most deep-diving and far-reaching conversation I've had about evolutionary theory on ANY of them. Certain that there is new material covered here even for people intimately acquainted with Simon's work — I use the extensive research reviewed in his latest book as a springboard to posit some of my own most provocative and long-brewing hypotheses about prehistory and the nature of evolution and extinction.</div><div><br /> Very eager to share this — and amazed that Templeton Press reached out to me to have him on Future Fossils Podcast, and glad we finally made it happen! And YES this is an invitation to listen and offer your reflections, because it's clear to me now that these questions are FAR too big to be settled in the span of a 90-minute dialogue...</div><div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/73955661" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhANE_f12QaHVTphJQgdaEO7iKp5vSLD2o4vE7Jmb5Stq_l11UQX9HubTbQl_5JzK1qWzQD_AtQB1zGbOq5rQdMO8c1RBD7tzy4WornJCisvUmJjuiQmNKYxWzNiGJ6JzpWuCGNk1X1JmR9_XouW4TdfwvPWfYeOb_3gHl6_kBRUtdq79yhQAg/w640-h640/FF%20193.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/73955661" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Listen on Patreon or anywhere you dig podcasts</span></b></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />This week I talk with environmental philosopher and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SantaClaraUniversity/?__cft__[0]=AZXEpQSCJWaJrXqc8CJMS8fkAhiBp13YTu5jpR2_-sS79Sci5oUecXJfjJYNetuvuDyEBz-RA6V1XklC1JOgsYQh6hMBVgLa7DQ86X0ZoR2jPSNmtiT4V2dzOcb9DmIYPMb_g8Z0oZtVer5eYIdTqXt5wnJJ1lUM1ZgpmISMcc_zsA&__tn__=kK-y-R">Santa Clara University</a> Assistant Professor Kimberly Dill, an old friend of mine from Austin, Texas whom I met at Bouldin Creek Coffee over lemon maté sours and a deep dive into Eastern nondual traditions while she was in school studying arguments against free will under acclaimed analytic philosopher Galen Strawson. She has since grown into a formidable scholar and ethics instructor in her own right and positively exudes a studious, diligent, caring, and starry-eyed vibe at all times…an utterly unique and finely-honed heart and intellect who stands out from the rest of my belovedly strange cohort of Austin festival-going slacker friends.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />I’ve been chasing her down to be on the podcast for years and am delighted she and I finally managed to link up to record this potent dialogue on the relationality of humankind and the wild world in which we are inextricably entangled, the substantive differences between our simulations and the originals they fail to fully reproduce, the importance of forests and dark skies to our psychospiritual well-being, where modern Western festival culture fails in its declared goal of delivering us back into right relations and ecstatic harmony with our kosmos…plus much else.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />My big, BIG thanks to everyone for being so patient with me while my family and I suffered through some extraordinary challenges over the last months. I can’t tell you enough how much it means to me to have retained nearly everyone’s Patreon support while my wife and I dealt with two constantly sick kids, a number of our own health issues, and major upgrades to our home and big transitions at work.<br /><br />So, again, thanks for your subscriptions, your glowing Apple Podcasts reviews, and your engagement in the Future Fossils Facebook group…and stay tuned for several exciting big announcements soon!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">And if that's not enough, I just appeared on two superb podcasts —starting with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYg6zfLZ9Rg" target="_blank">SEMFILOQUIA with host Carlos Zapata and co-guest Curt Jaimungal of the Theories of Everything Podcast</a> to discuss the rise of science podcasting:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYg6zfLZ9Rg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1608" data-original-width="3412" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKGa8iONAo9nmQSIr92j6Lwhubw5kiUgeUqbjzmFUdxtYmqEV2oKG607T1eNjt2ZchhDE4jAiOR6V9eL5Pud5-Mw697qLewiAwbeH538dKQiDzbFPWLg7dPmOSkXrgOplhRDlmSEdENFk1LV4oDz6tdZIQp39gOBAu3m_P9TQj41ktytDSbXA=w640-h302" width="640" /></a></div><br />...and then there's <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/lost-spaop-ep-in-74414629" target="_blank">my "Lost Episode" of the Self Portraits As Other People Podcast</a>, hosted by my wonderful friend Michael R. Jacobs aka The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo. This is a patrons-only deal but his feed is definitely worth your subscription — a kindred spirit and wonderful weirdo genius:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/lost-spaop-ep-in-74414629" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="794" data-original-width="1030" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFKAa_MwPOnPsfse_NmsHdgSKZJWZ91jUR-c15xiBA-Hlz0kCtaocU64pUq72doa0YqO4Lbl-TRif4ZOZTj9V8FiH4FUKBYTti3eWRMu0t-ma1mwitDF4UWOmKhPARbZ6m0BU4v6TOKO-9pG3rZ5CejSKGUJsGzmeuRCuqWmBqYXv_2N2vAMk=w640-h494" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Extra Credit:<br />Three Social Media Threads Worth Bookmarking</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In hindsight it's strange that some of my finest work in the last seventeen years to curating public discussions on Facebook and Twitter and yet I haven't bothered to archive those anywhere for posterity. Here are three threads I guarantee to enrich your thinking on art, technology, and economics if you ever find the time for them. And if not, feed them into your digital clone for later enjoyment!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield/status/1588394533662130176" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1486" data-original-width="1072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAlgFPSS4Zx1pL8tHzvRwPv8EJ69jjM8Hb0_R9BjxPiL5eQD43Lt2EyVKoEUeNOMlxvDwnHRLNQVW1P2hHDY61lYe9kMlbyPLtuPCukWh2tE3dTAs5bvu7-DkYWvAfut64dq3Rf0Kg-1jazHUszkdDOhEWB7pWdnQJmYI9K055jTkWGG0O1U/w462-h640/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-03%20at%2011.39.02%20PM.png" width="462" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield/status/1588394533662130176" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Read on Twitter</span></a></b></div><p style="text-align: left;">And then, amazingly rich Facebook comments threads on AI artwork, capitalist expropriation, the restoration of the commons, and the future of the creative economy:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/pfbid02mdZ3tAzswEwvQrogjZAJYVZH4yNgGi114LvyuKp4Yh7R4oL95rDddXnAhUqZJMWvl" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="932" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilhPqJDnwRccorpQiJEuH6RCDH8MxARBdz0m7EVrJt7SOcuSYIhDkFgDAJ3ZcWDWJ20QnbcLbfc9InXtNkszcMdXJGuEZcohLuK_sR10KvpwqqkNgblk2nIWVUTZZx8aDhNUfq4B0iGtnarJslOl1QBXI5jgtWS_TFPPZh5qHtXeLWlDlRQ6w/w640-h506/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-27%20at%2012.00.13%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/pfbid02mdZ3tAzswEwvQrogjZAJYVZH4yNgGi114LvyuKp4Yh7R4oL95rDddXnAhUqZJMWvl" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Read on Facebook</span></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/pfbid0DmPUfmQDrMNgkBE1JfwuQf2X32vvoHoEVcJdWeVGyzUBwG3mbeFBZTVzpxcxzWsMl" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="940" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjue3HEQOAgo0ary0XIUu6zcFJO7ON-7r2GdcJ_V0KhAi_xdldpZjNlv_tRZ9DEr9VDPM9zobaKLWHCs9DqDznyLD6HJI9DSAhGVVz-dth2pSjLXt2fNbcXnIC4gwh9MhKnOOsEusHwpfkBgjQ3wsY5AFNB8BJ3-5kYpD_WgjkYXYqeTyserQo/w630-h640/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-27%20at%2011.58.13%20AM.png" width="630" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/pfbid0DmPUfmQDrMNgkBE1JfwuQf2X32vvoHoEVcJdWeVGyzUBwG3mbeFBZTVzpxcxzWsMl" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Read on Facebook</span></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And that's that. Thanks for reading!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Stuff Worth Grabbing If You're In A Grabbing Mood</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1860" data-original-width="2596" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDYLxGcQTnIoPoAZSPWrrS7ahK4zMOKtaW-y8WiZuo9A3Rv2G2I-5xfz4nggzgBbeIWyx3nC0Ft4iu1_EtsaXYYErVGt5nxOlo2ur_fMMSt2iLEXJY9TFTcXVhEBJoVF013obVqzPDrjstuKtE35FGLcBNsLoQN908zHL6qfc-uF2Vq3gvqSM=w640-h458" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Prints & Originals</span></b></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://society6.com/michaelgarfield" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1808" data-original-width="2816" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ttyPpSuJDqkSyfnb4kCEnJAV3JZmF3iUUjvWpAlcGIfbQ2DrBixPGVUsNug2XqXh19T7I2plE5g62bf9tKMsJS_05J5imNuCwKbstoT0mctORarvSeRM8ttu6JVVAkC_I-iwUMBLWcdr9NlJY3JLaFGLjOxrHGcZVnFG0ULueU9AUdUVeik/w640-h410/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-29%20at%203.57.53%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Various Print-On-Demand Items</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1190" data-original-width="1982" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtyz7WTilFMwPFmkyqtGxSFk_1Hmkw7_q3g4_UgiRUohk5kQR2iDmOMj7O4sp4Yb-kaP9qwzyc576erLLiq0BVkhcBlGfjQouZGxT0Mt3sdBlbEm8KJKduK0aH1OsTvjpDIXTI-Kc1aICrzagKEdYe1dQEZuDJ7mmU9HGhf4Iv2kK5tZBvDsM=w640-h384" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Original Music</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://patreon.com/michaelgarfield" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="1000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBOiWjn9TMdRyjaBxSJRNTou2hJcwkKOIjF9UyMZToiC2MAoFzSjW8wcJTTRBnKIu9Tz4vXeOJkn_VUaObJAwLTwogbK8MVCGvKqRi_Tj0u3EcxLdgoiEG0YJgwoQzxFqZj4FEqqI80vlB7EP2zikki2kZVyI_47bIwX9_JEqO-bBn2pb5wwo/w640-h206/Patreon%20Email%20Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Ever-Flowing Fountain of Cool Stuff<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><br /></div></div></div><i><span style="font-size: medium;">"Task: to be where I am.<br />Even when I’m in this solemn and absurd<br />role: I am still the place<br />where creation works on itself."<br />- Tomas Tranströmer, "<a href="https://readalittlepoetry.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/guard-duty-by-tomas-transtromer/">Guard Duty</a>"</span></i></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-15559665550765668672022-10-05T23:26:00.001-05:002022-10-05T23:34:00.592-05:00New Chill-Out EP + 1:1 Print Series • My Cataract: An Initiation • Upcoming Show in Santa Fe • Custom Hats Are Back!<div style="text-align: center;"><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []" style="text-align: left;">Life has handed me some lemons, lately. This is my lemonade:</p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">New Instrumental Cyberguitar EP <i>Ephemeropolis</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/ephemeropolis-ep" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxUWyXUgPGLUJjRna3M35NkotWEs53t7Ujut5ML0GMoPWdTilvD9iz0Y381n7aSEuhrrfJF6W-Kkd1u0KBMEDC5YJbzlAoQ7uyxItk4uFWyjqlrurx482y6VJUvWR3po97tnhWn-0DRAYd3P-QvdAZIKxZ2yT3wfp_e8tEPeQN2dYjCeMN2LY/w640-h640/ephemeropolis%203000.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/ephemeropolis-ep" target="_blank">EP & Album Art @ Bandcamp</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Home means a lot to moralists, but the mystic is society's alien and is not allowed to have a home smaller than the universe, and any time he tries to settle for less, to settle down, and to set up fences, God appears as the moving whirlwind."</i></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>- </i><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-chillout-gardens-boom-festival-2016"><i>William Irwin Thompson,</i> The American Replacement of Nature</a></div></i><br />I've been thinking A LOT lately about home, loss, wandering, fugitivity, transience, and the "new normal" of being <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/71730505">forever in transition</a>. None of this is entirely new — these themes have pervaded my entire life — but they've really come to the forefront of my contemplations over the last year, bringing into focus how much of my work emphasizes <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield/status/1440802499812679688">the temporary and fleeting beauty of our lives</a>. "Castles made of sand," as Jimi Hendrix put it. This latest release makes explicit what has always been implicit in my electroacoustic guitar work especially: the Heraclitean revelation that we never step in the same flow twice...<br /><br />(So far feedback is unanimously positive; my friends are calling this "a real vibe" and "vibey as fök," if you can see a theme developing...)</div><div><br /></div><div>It was grown in the summer sun, reaped and winnowed under moonlight, bundled and shipped on the autumnal equinox. It is the harvest from two hours of live performance, leavened and ready to bake in your ears to rise and make fractals in your brain. Recorded live at the Santa Fe Society of Artists pop-up gallery in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 27 August 2022. Improvised on guitar, voice, and electronics. Cover illustration prompted in Midjourney. Dedicated to the burners.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Listen to or purchase it at <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/ephemeropolis-ep">Bandcamp</a> or add it to your playlists at <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1pKxF5F0aGtj0zNaaxwq1R?si=g7FkZyuUS4mk_3lTof_OFg">Spotify</a> or <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/ephemeropolis-ep/1646686134?uo=4&app=itunes&utm">Apple Music</a>.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">40 Variations on "Ephemeropolis": An AI Art Collection</b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/ephemeropolis-ep-ai-cover-art-unique-variants" target="_blank"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbSpCTB35P8f6vL1HJWtIKmQBHJVTMgc5_EAJ6zo-jIPrz0V7FmfgGM6a73sDZFtvL6gY6dNEmQB7K0GuGs5vHvmYEvNFJLh6YiSxlCMW1F0aE3HyuIPSLHsiZwgOm8fZM0iFhYWBbstN4v-9tnyv2GIPOMEOlLtl4wpGKzLdZ8hAWm8oNkyE=w640-h640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/ephemeropolis-ep-ai-cover-art-unique-variants" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Browse & Collect @ MichaelGarfieldArt.com</span></a></b></div><br />Unique AI-generated variants for the new EP's cover art. Each variant will only be printed ONCE as an 11"x11" signed print on glossy cardstock; <a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/ephemeropolis-ep-ai-cover-art-unique-variants" target="_blank">select your variant number at checkout</a> and I will delete the option as soon as I have received your order, guaranteeing you will remain in perpetuity THE ONLY person with that print.<div><br />The series is comprised of 40 unique HD designs in total. Think of these as analog NFTs...it's an experiment exploring the fascinating intersection of digital abundance and artificial scarcity, a performance of the flickering and transient nature of the temporary cities from which the EP draws its name.<br /><br />Every print comes with a free download of the EP in both WAV and MP3 (preview it on <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/ephemeropolis-ep">Bandcamp</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1pKxF5F0aGtj0zNaaxwq1R">Spotify</a>, or <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/ephemeropolis-ep/1646686134">Apple Music</a>) AND a link to the image file itself, in case you ever want to replace the original due to damage.<br /><br /><i>PS — If you want to learn more about my work with, and philosophical musings about, AI artwork, <a href="https://michaelgarfield.blogspot.com/2022/09/merch-avalanche-psychedelic-rebrand-new.html">dig into my blog</a> and recent appearances on <a href="https://jimruttshow.blubrry.net/currents-garfield-martel/">The Jim Rutt Show</a> and <a href="https://thirdeyedrops.com/michael-garfield-309/">Third Eye Drops Podcast</a>.</i><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">New Future Fossils Episode 192 Gets Esoteric</span></b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/72504035" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH_GC6_Dw7AvXDZ-TzKopCi-qQa0zuEcopGYH6zMUvZ2TDUJuFVnFJoXkc8-4eh7uEPZ-ZSpsVSyDrdsV2o7Z8Bj3QOobP-MTk_Eqh1-JngiTWcgWW1CRK-02hRlylX-HqtR_SwLA7_ZPq_Vy1Yh7LPqNJhxGfSvXhWS2zZDzdq9xFGpSxfro/w640-h640/Future%20Fossils%20192.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/72504035" target="_blank">Dig In & Read Extensive Show Notes</a></b></span></div><br />This week on Future Fossils I go solo and get reflective on age, noise, loss, mystery, stars and angels, dreams and seasons, modern science and the retrieval of magic...</div><div><br /></div><div>Because I have a cataract. At age 38. What the hell?<br /><br /><b>cataract (n.)</b> — early 15c., "a waterfall, floodgate, furious rush of water," from Latin cataracta "waterfall," from Greek katarhaktes "waterfall, broken water; a kind of portcullis," noun use of an adjective compound meaning "swooping, down-rushing," from kata "down" (see cata-). The second element is traced either to arhattein "to strike hard" (in which case the compound is kat-arrhattein), or to rhattein "to dash, break." Its alternative sense in Latin of "portcullis" probably passed through French and gave English the meaning "eye disease characterized by opacity of the lens" (early 15c.), on the notion of "obstruction" (to eyesight).</div><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Join Me on October 14th Live in Santa Fe!</span></b></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/336788988604628/?ref=newsfeed" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf_afDdOO4Hd-gPfJcEc8vEEBGv8beDMcJDBc4xkF2e7VDIHEYYaKij4r6ifCX-G7MjDT4nJKqJ_UWjhIXadfVHzaXXIYEW8l2d-uWEbkiBUT_52tGb5zq3ZZBNJNjrguiygAp6u3RqNbRcezKc9aze1WRauW9l2sB4KqzPOSUw1VnOH_gYo0/w414-h640/mg%20at%20honeymoon%2014%20oct%202022%20copy.jpg" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/336788988604628/?ref=newsfeed" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Learn More & RSVP</span></a></b></div><div><br /></div><div>That's all I can say about this. I've wanted to play a show at <a href="https://www.honeymoonbrewery.com/" target="_blank">Honeymoon</a> since before the pandemic. Their kombucha is amazing. And my daughter is <i>so</i> excited to dance with me during my set, she talks about it every day. Even if it's cold that night, I'm glad to be outdoors for this because there's nothing like the sound of my guitar reflecting off of buildings, pulling in the unsuspecting passers-by, while I gaze into the distance at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangre_de_Cristo_Mountains" target="_blank">Sangre de Cristo Mountains</a> as they disappear into the gloaming. MMM.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>If I can stream it live, I will. <a href="https://youtube.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">Subscribe to me on YouTube</a> if you want to know next time I'm live.</b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I'm Offering Custom Hats Again!</span></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/one-of-a-kind-custom-painted-hats" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrnCxm-xDpCf7DvB1ktU7HWPi3oAuOtGjDeaoaSZLRflJWJTbF3PTJ6Q01ye-MEqDSep_704CBDTFnkbinfdlWJl7EWBs0gENzxqbpPFq0C_-PGi0vcQmzE6xj-Y0OySusQc5ERLnHDGBurxoeJzcA3BoS-7UrNsUfcka9b4Rg-lzLSd8RkS4/w630-h640/mgcustom_hat_examples_3422706a-3a9f-4c90-b66d-5752f10592df_large%20copy-large-scale-4_00x.jpg" /></a></div><div><br />They're back! I was out of the business for years but am now making my custom-painted lids available, taking orders in time to bless up your holidays. I've painted 350 custom lids over the years and cherish the opportunity to make yours (or your loved one's) a totally one-of-a-kind fashion accessory you'll cherish for years to come. <a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/one-of-a-kind-custom-painted-hats" target="_blank">Learn more and order yours today</a>.</div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Follow My Music Discovery Playlist</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8?si=41335f313248491f" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="2410" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiPFem-G78X_gDwSKPRwUiXnSSDujRC8Ewg1Tl-L0nZ3sF8AW4b50J9_-I2NREBwZr8mgWKd-QHUawBZRgqe_YjiVLp4zrJGZPfdeOrbmaGhFwTT5XmaOIHNWc5q5Y9wtKo5xj4F88TAxyUYz5MsnYDMOH3TlnC9r7CxKp9VzJgiaSVUinQo/w640-h210/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%204.43.23%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div></div><div>In parting, a reminder that I share the music that I find and love <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8?si=41335f313248491f" target="_blank">right here</a>, and while this is a wildly diverse and very long collection you cannot deploy for a specific mood, I hope it serves as inspiration.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-71379617018475468912022-09-11T23:14:00.005-05:002022-09-11T23:19:40.130-05:00Merch Avalanche + Psychedelic Rebrand, New Music + Paintings, Interviewing GPT-3 via Oscar Sharp, New Future Fossils Episodes with Roland Harwood + Lauren Seyler<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"We ask our readers not for belief but for doubt of their infallibility.”</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>– <a href="https://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/FAQ.htm" target="_blank">Alfred Russel Wallace</a></i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By now most readers of this blog already have a strong opinion about the impact of artificial intelligence on the art world. I've always handled my ambivalence about disruptive new technologies by diving deeper, trying to understand, playing and exploring...I've learned a lot this way, and see it as an integral component of my overall commitment to the complications and complexity of life on Earth. Discomfort is an opportunity for shadow work and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKtfC0ZeYfc" target="_blank">curiosity is the antidote to fear</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But it has not been easy: people wrote me hate mail <a href="https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/the-evolution-of-surveillance" target="_blank">when I beta tested Google Glass</a>; they wrote me hate mail <a href="https://opensea.io/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">when I minted my first NFTs</a>; and I have similarly caught a lot of flack this year for exploring tools that have a lot of artists justifiably concerned in much the same way that composer <a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2020/05/sousa-and-the-talking-machine/" target="_blank">John Philip Sousa worried about the economic impact of recorded music</a>. (My friend Michael Jacobs has <a href="https://medium.com/@voiddenizen/from-minds-eye-to-ai-564e870c5219" target="_blank">another, possibly more crucial caution</a>: that, like television, A.I. artwork is a kind of "offshoring" of the human imagination to machines.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And yet, as someone who has struggled as an artist in an economic system that is outright hostile to the vital work of dreamers, this is just another turn in the ongoing evolution of our synthesis and reconnection with the spirit world as it appears through minerals. (<a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/111" target="_blank">I chatted at some length about this with the legendary Android Jones</a>, another artist I admire for his embrace of every new tool he can get his hands on.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Those of you who are already members of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/futurefossils/" target="_blank">the Future Fossils Facebook Group</a> and Discord Server know it's now a constant conversation in those fora. I feel immensely blessed to have so many people in my circle willing to pursue this inquiry, unflinchingly and with enormous creativity. And I've been sharing all of <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/midjourney-ai-68072105" target="_blank">my own A.I. art experiments</a> with Patreon supporters, and dreaming up new visionary vistas in collaboration with members of the Discord server...there's something special happening here, quite unlike collaborative painting, more like consulting oracles and forming egregores together.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As fast as things are moving in this space, I'm sure that I'll have more to say on all this soon. For now, however, plenty new, exciting news to share — not just about A.I. but also simpler and more obviously soulful human things, like painting with my daughter, making music, and exploring liminality and depth with awesome people on my podcast.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Enjoy, and thanks for tuning in with me:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">💅</span><span style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Future Fossils Gets A Makeover</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://linktr.ee/michaelgarfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivXsd2x-ddmZls8eRH-VKtbz-mC-knNyIvxV7XpP484FUwGSF1V3BLvu-Hf3hWDIyu2E49ys7uJy4faocu3buMztvYhRPPACe9ECfSq-XO2XkwuPTNWmxBFR9ZAbT_fmsnZAp0pdq5WlR2LMpCGh7JusI7sHAgCP6sFnxih4BILIEVvvCIi0k/w640-h640/New%20Future%20Fossils%20Square%20copy%203000.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://linktr.ee/michaelgarfield" target="_blank"><b>Explore My Tree of Interesting Links</b></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's always been my goal to turn this podcast into an umbrella for my work in every medium, and this month I took one big step in that direction with an overdue rebranding. "Future Fossils" is intentionally plurisignative: it points not just to our mortality, to deep time and our role as ancestors-in-training, but to information from the future to which we might be oblivious. It is a speculative fiction game in which we dream up objects from the worlds to come, and a reminder that those speculations will one day feel obsolete, perhaps naïve or foolish. And it's simply fun to say; much like how I have failed to look the part on stage when playing super-trippy music, I have always felt the visual aesthetic of the show fell short in making clear just how intensely psychoactive it can be. Well: FIXED! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Expect some stickers soon, and plenty more to boot. For now, this GIF:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/future-fossils-m6wIrLlcq50r6jsS9L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7W5xZ0f1yMX2Qs9vn47Un6VI3swkc__ZgMRUa9P2qqS0MSZMB-b_Q2gs8wT_YW9pYbEIR9kBNyU6QwmYO83WpIAw0E0-wFNVMbLP0X2fb0PYQWzPyGwkzQbppZl_l5cmznlvjjD4xz1_E_25ZFN0HkEX-5lpjLgYVqOsKkcYbz7DAQMpv8bw/w640-h360/future%20fossils%20gif.gif" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">👕 New Clothing, Home, & Auto Collections</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://acidmath.net/collections/michael-garfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="4583" data-original-width="4462" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSX-hzE4iTLYLAdzbpr3gQlhiep5Iqttqp574CDE5MDGd5kRDNY6d2FKQen8P22w6mFh8EZ9o2V6HXDiea8j2S1bMSp1I5ZBgppB9p5kcyxhGv6oRouj8-mXtLYKVbg1tdPNHYanKXV5ELij55HtaRbWDmjSoGgEsFQK3Or1Fy5P7UdFr08b4/w624-h640/acidmath%20squares%20copy.jpg" width="624" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://acidmath.net/collections/michael-garfield" target="_blank">Dive In & Kit Up at Acidmath</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Excited to explore the "art director" role with my A.I. experiments in this overdue collab with Acidmath! Pull-over and zippered hoodies, bedding, stairway decals, blankets, tapestries, jigsaw puzzles, rugs, door socks, cloaks, and more are all on offer now to help you rock next season. These are among my favorite of about 10,000 images machines have "dreamt up" at my bidding...just one small slice of four months of obsessive tweaking and discovery in "latent space" — a kind of plenum right next door and full of treasures, horrors, and sublime encounters. Come with me on an adventure into jellyfish metropolis and druid forest temple; play with steampunk insects, flowery dragons, and exotic alien botanicals. New items added all the time!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Quick note: I know I'm not alone in this, but I will say it anyway. This year has been a landslide of surprise expenses and I am immensely grateful for your purchases. If A.I. art is not your thing, I still have <a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com" target="_blank">plenty of prints and paintings in my store</a>, and would be happy to discuss commissions. Thanks for helping me (for instance) keep my family comfortable by adding heating and AC to our house after two long years without it!</div><p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-size: x-large;">🎬 Collab with Film-Maker Oscar Sharp & </b><b style="font-size: x-large;">GPT-3</b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/71345918" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2kIpLHEwMxDF1wIdlfdlKbxz8e0-chh3g6_cP9mQU7Z5-nYzF5isrNssLLNOe7kyBmDM5IEiHAKsARrC9hxvfky1d2KjJxfafYsZsAAVXuMK1yHgBU0Z7ySjlTygb0qWCeviB2TkMmy-fcVaKMRREY-i5OyPSX86SGFCaWsejQ1POmmBZLY/w640-h640/Michael_Garfield__a_fractal_jellyfish_city_ab1ebbfb-dee3-4836-b069-3b7119b3b0a5.png" width="640" /></a></p></div></span><div style="text-align: left;">…in which I prompt prospective <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils">Future Fossils Podcast</a> guest <a href="https://gpt3demo.com/">GPT-3</a> via my delightfully weird friend, visionary film-maker <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Sharp">Oscar Sharp</a>, who notably directed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspring">Sunspring</a>, the first screenplay written by artificial intelligence. This “conversation” took place in the summer of 2020, while GPT-3 was still in closed beta. In other words, before it became a part of the routine corporate toolkit for replacing call center workers, copywriters, and other white-collar precariates…before DALL-E and <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/midjourney-ai-68072105">Midjourney</a> and Stable Diffusion sent my artist friends into an anxious sweat.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">(It was, however, three years AFTER I wrote about what was coming in my novelette <a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/an-oral-history-of-the-end-of-reality-ba76ab3bb1f5">An Oral History of The End of ‘Reality’</a> — which I’ll continue to harp on about like Cassandra until I can “hire” GPT-3 to do it for me with my UBI unemployability dispensation. That day cannot come too soon, because I’d really like to get back to writing and singing songs all the time. Musicians, at least the ones with <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/duende">duende</a>, have long since disabused ourselves of the conceit of economic utility. We know the economy is blind to the labor that matters most. But I digress.)</div><br />It gets weird fast. Let’s begin! Read on at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/71345918" target="_blank">Patreon</a> or <a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/conversation-with-the-machine-mg-meets-gpt-3-c-o-oscar-sharp-8c861ee2658d" target="_blank">Medium</a>.<span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">🎨 Collab Paintings with My Three-Year-Old Daughter</span></b></div></span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/collections/2022" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2134" data-original-width="2677" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmle0mhm9M9GCnd2xPw3WfuaKUi6u1_da1xoIZ-LWrGQ8ZGdMekI1nzIg88dqWp9Ozv1jHNIu8jPVMuywaZVAqyqn8zZKkrCt_fIcj8Hg5PvJpAeI8az1C9EGr49aS_6TThjtB5UWpaS1ElrbthY1hZI1dHjp6d_-aVCZznjmu4BYJIp7CHH8/w640-h510/2022%2008%2021%20Ada%20Collab%20003%20Ada%20Tornado.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/collections/2022" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2187" data-original-width="2682" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDgI-eYkcitqKit5ehvZvo16RbgPlsdRRHKuBbNZDIIyGoCxcI4TvC8-CXdtfL8nD8pQFOVAElGo5FQYZ8DSdSYzD3MxwPQwYa1QkLT30IJzCnO5M--3UFcjw7xwYPBK9hgQnIzbxAk2TMaVUZA65izAA7SxEVrLJB_H40BnNChe7_eCmddZM/w640-h522/2022%2008%2021%20Ada%20Collab%20002%20Fun%20Eggsplosion.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/collections/2022" target="_blank">Grab Poster Prints</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Teaching my daughter to paint has been not entirely dissimilar to how I work with A.I.: she's a source of chaos that gives me constraints within which to refine and focus a "random seed." It's been truly and deeply gratifying. Plus, it's been delightful to teach her about how making art isn't just about the intrinsic satisfaction but the (potential) financial rewards. We sold these two paintings to friends and she's earned her first toys for herself, as well as squirreled away her own seed savings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>🎸 New (& Old) Musical Adventures</b></span></div></span></div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/track/organized-and-thoroughly-seductive-fluctuation" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="4000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcZXIcaMA-MV_KMwZRYbQxEHgO1_TkDGXC8oF6yMdehNM8frn5UDyQiQeXRqswMpNK0T6ICcCryFY9aqC3XMhCX5Uhkzn1BbGUOgsagNe2IidUfMppyWpVOhsk5A6HfAG1k0xpV7WGsgnIYi3EBmhYvP-ejeJb7n9RJXk7PfjSkARF-gB5Zzo=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/track/organized-and-thoroughly-seductive-fluctuation" target="_blank">Stream + Download at Bandcamp</a></b></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>Recorded live on solo acoustic guitar and hardware electronic effects at Cosmic Music Festival, Mesa, Arizona, 8 October 2021. The first edition in a new series combining live cyberguitar improvisations with psychoactive excerpts from my favorite texts and similarly sample-based inventive remixes for the eye: visual glitch, generative art, and digital collage.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mintsongs.com/songs/1414" target="_blank">Also available as an NFT on the Polygon blockchain at Mintsongs.<br /></a><br /><br /></div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/adventure-on-snake-island-ep" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtzkHSvj8TXKsqcFfYFjonKso5rAECdHyV8VMelq9YX4Bf22WBVTmFQ53j4CcY8nYRFoGPkJkJRtBe9u6Fzqse542mWF8BJzixTHnxhN0OV5Rla8-iupyM888dMBo2DWVcK53Pl4fucFwiQffd312EKWqx5Dz8SNLPDDvPVd8G47E4Qc8Mazc=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/adventure-on-snake-island-ep" target="_blank">Stream + Download at Bandcamp</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span>Recorded live at a secret island party on the then-invisible-to-Google-Maps Snake Island on Town Lake in Austin, Texas — a Mad Hatter's tea party to which all of us had to lug our equipment on motorized rafts (which made for quite the voyage back against the current of the Colorado River and nearly resulted in me and my wife losing our musical instruments in the water).<br /><br />This is a time-edited 18-minute cut of a 30-minute performance, echoing with the carnival-cathedral atmosphere of this bizarre psychedelic social experiment amidst the oaks of a Lost World in the middle of a high-tech metropolis.<br /><br />All three tracks feature my beloved Nicole Taylor for a rare guest appearance on viola, which I sampled and remixed into my looping rig with the Boss RC-505. Light some incense and enjoy!<br /><br /><a href="https://www.mintsongs.com/songs/525" target="_blank">Also available as an NFT on the Polygon blockchain at Mintsongs.</a><br /><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">🎧 New Podcast Episodes</b></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/71730505" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvCepWgHnc9JgQp4dJ_ykKWtO9WC87Iuwp0gxjwDZUIxxEVo-xc58_uR5Ijzs2DOvUQe__TxLwq3jEylRi7L0f8ieTF5QUeEg15UeZgfb2l1X1xAV5zMCnWvmo8I9tTPTxzQJPG3F4acbLyv21hKNthuD6BpbeoDOBhSbWRkci5ijqw2s6yGM/w640-h640/FF%20191%20Roland%20Harwood.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/71730505" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Episode + Show Notes</b></span></a></div></span></div></span></span><br />This week on the show I chat with the storied, insightful, multidimensional Roland Harwood — a “compulsive connector,” generalist, “failed astronaut,” pianist, Founder, CEO, Trustee, impresario of international collective intelligence projects, and generally fascinating person. In a conversation that already feels somewhat archaeological (it was recorded in November 2021 and references discussions that have already developed significantly over the last year), we explore the martial art of living in transition, of thriving in the in-between spaces, of dealing with the unpredictable and the fundamental uncertainty of our lives. We also rap on the subjects of innovation, global weirding, organizational evolution, technology, hope, and happiness...<span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19786984/7137961701847546891#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxG82xOo9nw6eOJLy0DEQGQbNumAfoGA-qOu_ghjW1sKZ6DOKSZbJqfrZq4stXL2f5ctyWfjgnjP0_9wJJCgqUZ56YLYfnTUA5nJ2UPqgIgjtSFmPA8wpZs3BxUIKVhbJRqE4HK9EqWgCSUB_JMd1uqzj5grQ8Tmj3D5GSK_qhQvKBBeSg404/w640-h640/Future%20Fossils%20190%20-%20Lauren%20Seyler.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/70791395" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Episode + Show Notes</b></span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div></span></span>This week we’re joined by Lauren Seyler, Assistant Professor of Biology at Stockton University, who studies the microscopic living world that flourishes in dark places: the mud of coastal marshes, inside rocks, and in sediments at the bottom of the sea. She’s also co-authored a number of publications on how scientists can work ethically with Indigenous peoples, and applies her scientific research to questions of astrobiology: the search for life and intelligence in outer space. In this episode, we discuss the life/non-life boundary, evolution as thermodynamics, anaerobic microbes as the invisible labor supporting all life on Earth, the origin of life: in the light, or in the dark?, the wonderful world of -omics, individual vs. Institutional agency and the necessary revolution of consciousness required for effective collective action at planetary scale, power and responsibility, best practices for working with the Indigenous as a scientist, stepping up to biospheric stewardship, and practicing right relations across scales (not just micro-macro but also across space and time).</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://patreon.com/michaelgarfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="1000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVGt7bu5RJjd_0K2_jdrbTpaPd3SBm0a4XpUUw3M4k7tB3lrpNdA1PBTSkpY3wemx19Dm2l682CsS2HgvO0E7xDtIO6Vfn1MPrc9IjVPGRaw1nN2aunj2ZMe7yg4kJSAtu4LvMU5j_LzmhXP61akMaV55Ood4lxRk7H8f86ruiNXb9I720giE/w640-h206/Patreon%20Email%20Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">✨ Parting Thought:</span></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/70075367" target="_blank"><i>"To no one type of mind is it given to discern the totality of truth."</i></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/70075367" target="_blank"><i>- William James</i></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-35083710622614151322022-08-14T18:37:00.000-05:002022-08-14T18:37:00.531-05:00A.I. Art Eruption: The Wildest Period of My Art Career is Right Now (Plus New Music, Podcasts, Public Talks, & Thoughts on Human-Tech Co-Evolution)I finally surrender to letting these roughly-monthly updates be a magazine unto themselves. This one is about a very hot topic right now: the explosion of A.I.-assisted artwork that you've surely seen sprouting up all over the Web, and my experimentation with it. I've always believed that the future would empower "professional dreamers" to share their inner worlds instantaneously, and it feels like that vision is finally substantiating itself in our waking world. But not all is rosy in this magical future, and I'm honored to help act as psychopomp on the River of Souls we're crossing together as these new tools mature and transform society.<div><br /></div><div>But first, an announcement for the thousands of you in my active online fora:<br /><div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-size: large;">✨ </b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Big Changes for Future Fossils!</span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/futurefossils/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="516" data-original-width="1440" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG_xEUBFEhJj5SLVVTkWLZ2xz1uuCHpb3KouQ6IGOQMyXjt0NnwvJ0QTiCNyk00a6AXRHOsRB_4fIzGaqbewbGAxZvk_ORD4LxCOqr6u2XXdNfns8qL7MdFynskp8KRlSExr_BM8mkmA3QVAteTvtXU_wU1B6pMidpXs-9oBVKl4OmIY2e31M=w640-h230" width="640" /></a></div></b></span><br />After years of volunteering dozens of hours a week in a patrons-only Facebook group and Discord server mostly populated by free riders, I'm finally clearing out the non-patrons and restoring some focus and sanctity to the community we've built together. Spending so much time moderating non-subscribers has been taking time away from podcast production and my family, but I also don't have the heart to just nuke this group. If you'd like to stay involved please consider <a href="https://patreon.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">signing up for at least $2 a month</a> for the part-time job it is to curate and moderate this group.<br /><br />Let me clarify that old close friends, former guests of the show, and other people who routinely and consistently add value to this group are welcome to remain regardless of whether you're contributing financially. There are many ways to do this, so if you're broke but interested in staying involved please respond to me privately.<br /><br /><b style="font-size: large;">✨ </b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">There Is No One Path Forward: Pluralism in Science, Philosophy, & Art</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_vCNolkoj36W3UNrMMnWDTvqmaW4_jWIv-umwhcZj_weswpG3fOBsijhpqfhXgf3yjdiZ2fJ6IR6-1yWn0lyRdyDV6qvQ1ogzB3NEgLdRL1oXFaH1dPo2sYxBZQWwh5Y0gJVK8e9HofJGBw9h2m7eMwD8ltY5WNSBal_1zims3h67DGSym1o/s3584/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%202.28.59%20PM.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_vCNolkoj36W3UNrMMnWDTvqmaW4_jWIv-umwhcZj_weswpG3fOBsijhpqfhXgf3yjdiZ2fJ6IR6-1yWn0lyRdyDV6qvQ1ogzB3NEgLdRL1oXFaH1dPo2sYxBZQWwh5Y0gJVK8e9HofJGBw9h2m7eMwD8ltY5WNSBal_1zims3h67DGSym1o/w640-h360/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%202.28.59%20PM.png" /></a></div><br />A digestible, albeit light-speed, six-minute-and-forty-second talk on the virtues of and need for pluralism, presented at Creative Santa Fe's Pecha Kucha Talks last month. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can find their (audio-and-slides-only) presentation on <a href="https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/creatives-presentation-620" target="_blank">the Pecha Kucha website</a>, or find my own video recording and extensive supplementary notes and resources <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/70075367?pr=true" target="_blank">on Patreon</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Abstract:</b></div><div><br />Biodiversity is the measure of ecological health. Cognitive diversity is the secret to innovation and effective collaboration. And contrary to popular belief, there will never be one Theory of Everything to unify all of human knowledge in an equation that fits on a t-shirt. Multiplicity is how the cosmos knows itself, because all models of the world — whether they take the form of intellectual theories or organisms in an ongoing dance of adaptation with their environment — are partial, incomplete, and provisional. Every statement of truth is a conjecture based on limited information, conditioned by a specific history, and ultimately up for revision. Even the myriad standards by which we settle on satisfactory explanations are in tension and conflict with each other — and that's a good thing, because unanimous agreement results in brittle, easily disrupted strategies. If humankind stands any chance of navigating the immensely complex challenges we face, it's time for us to jettison the notion that there's One Idea To Rule Them All, and fan out into "The Adjacent Possible," covering as much ground as we can to search the space of what could be more comprehensively.</div><div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> ✨ AI Art Experiments Stash</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/midjourney-ai-68072105" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO0UV4alcwgAXk7E9pjmjbjbg1E0rl3imMCLgKo1tSPFkPGGA8vNiMdlo3LkpoKIVaJ6SVp9mlindB9oNZfKgCRw_d8Wxnv4IOoXGSm1VMQRIOkxNuGehsPEe4nvI9HGoNf2aIUAVA1urIC5L3tWpi4hsIlLms1S_8ZMw0fm_ATE4GLDc8VNs/w546-h640/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-21%20at%203.17.58%20PM.png" /></a></div></b></span><br />Lately I've kind of lost myself in the rapture of exploring text-to-image AI art prompts on the invite-only platform <a href="#">Midjourney</a>, which is (at least in some respects) considerably more advanced than similar apps like <a href="#">NightCafé</a> and <a href="#">Wombo Dream</a>. <br /><br />Part of this is my lifelong commitment to guinea-pigging myself with new creative tools, starting with <a href="#">my immersion into Google Glass</a> and the resultant contemplation on the co-evolution of surveillance technologies and the self (see essay parts <a href="#">1</a>, <a href="#">2</a>, <a href="#">3</a>, <a href="#">4</a>). Exploring AI-assisted mass production of works that would, just two years ago, have each taken 20-50 hours to paint...well, I'm hardly the only artist that feels drawn into this as a necessary precursor to navigating the disruption of the creative sector by these tools.<br /><br />In the meantime, I want to give patrons <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/midjourney-ai-68072105" target="_blank">exclusive access to my curated "dream stream" of Midjourney experiments</a> — feel free to download any of these images you like for personal use: wallpapers, desktops, one-off pillow/t-shirt printing, whatever floats your boat.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here are some of the most exciting images to have emerged from AI "latent space" lately:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/michaelgarfieldart/posts/pfbid0ZgmxB6UveyUP1rN5K2z4bxpjzXoJ8jPPTvF1EtqKBWXgFz4AxgUCzVuU8e4YwDA1l" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge5kaXKTZQRzSApnUdFLl6HHyxlZ0BzY4QTuPW7YID_0vrtNWCHzFTzf7vZ-Y86OvC98cyV0obOjpr5d8n9qN_zXI8ym3sBYPnU5KSy8CJRmUht9vA7EW8LUbyKqY-UX-Y5p5fiXFXgH24Ux_GM5GziAAmW1-7ol5ziEZKAO-Y7WcmpdaIgSQ/w590-h640/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%201.55.15%20PM.png" /></a></div><br /><b style="font-size: large;">✨ Podcasts on AI, Art, and Philosophy</b></div><div><b style="font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The above experiments have led to a whole series of fantastic conversations on the direction things are moving, how it connects to ancient esoteric practices, the labor market implications, and how I'm engaging with the mysterious Other through these tools. Here are three solid recordings on this and related topics:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://jimruttshow.blubrry.net/currents-garfield-martel/" target="_blank"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrR3FA19dtRECOpiw3y7J0ge1FGQcRQmekKRwQd-gRM1S8tuXt0E_EHRoN52DZdMGujcX55kg1rV9aAhRiZ4KZEdb6JzOWPhGbTF71N0be-4xPlvM0pAwDbf4fMwihlisxMTRXynqjNGNej6U3qMTKVeEKulM4gT7F-zEoVbRovai-GFZCqOI=w640-h364" /></a></div><br />But of course it also raises deep philosophical issues, like those <a href="https://jimruttshow.blubrry.net/currents-garfield-martel/" target="_blank">I recently discussed on The Jim Rutt Show</a> with Jim and my friend and frequent Future Fossils guest J.F. Martel — questions of what art even is, whether sentience is required, what if anything is uniquely human, and how different art might be in another few years' time. I recommend digging into that discussion — and staying tuned for more, because this is a conversation I consider very squarely in the Future Fossils wheel house, and more urgent than most people seem to realize.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thirdeyedrops.com/michael-garfield-309/" target="_blank"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXikbP961igC8a0aSOymxaEebZii8RTxeGBIPgR3KFcAw10mMFPMTu9ocB9ep2LeIV4mG6zcHsEokfTY6Tv2821cFy61QzpF7OMqdiWyv0LuKE3jahRBuRtW9s0cs8KCKMPfg36cLaxS9CdJQORodgxa5hjODkGdmbBhyovRoXXMpm_IJNRgo=w640-h402" /></a></div><br />One conversation wasn't enough so I ALSO just appeared <a href="https://thirdeyedrops.com/michael-garfield-309/" target="_blank">on my friend Michael Phillip's show Third Eye Drops</a> to talk about Google engineer Blake Lemoine's claims of AI sentience and machine ensoulment, labor market disruptions from new creative tools like Midjourney, and what it's like to "breed" images straight out of the ethers of the imagination.<br /><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.herewearepodcast.com/episodes/episode-388-michael-garfield" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj16CEFPHPcsHaROcvNnUEUHIlPuzet8gCyDomSVRQEssvqqOBFeB_vB_ve74l6U85GXtJsq2XK64v-_MQUDm2nSKGLJgdWxMAfEU-HByIPS6tMIZGGKKnlw1xxhEhaOQnZFdRh5QG0WP8xlxuYGBatPxqjNMu6qMI7gIpVlMimmEq0eFA7P58/w640-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-30%20at%2012.44.17%20PM.png" /></a></div><br />From Shane's show notes: "In <a href="https://www.herewearepodcast.com/episodes/episode-388-michael-garfield" target="_blank">this episode</a>, I catch up with my good friend, Michael Garfield. Michael is the host of the Future Fossils podcast and the Complexity podcast. In his 4th appearance on Here We Are, we discuss topics like fatherhood, lifestyle changes, and the ever-changing world we live in."</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b style="font-size: large;">✨ </b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Recommended Resources on Human-Technology Egregores</b></span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge5kaXKTZQRzSApnUdFLl6HHyxlZ0BzY4QTuPW7YID_0vrtNWCHzFTzf7vZ-Y86OvC98cyV0obOjpr5d8n9qN_zXI8ym3sBYPnU5KSy8CJRmUht9vA7EW8LUbyKqY-UX-Y5p5fiXFXgH24Ux_GM5GziAAmW1-7ol5ziEZKAO-Y7WcmpdaIgSQ/s1142/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%201.55.15%20PM.png"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><b><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge5kaXKTZQRzSApnUdFLl6HHyxlZ0BzY4QTuPW7YID_0vrtNWCHzFTzf7vZ-Y86OvC98cyV0obOjpr5d8n9qN_zXI8ym3sBYPnU5KSy8CJRmUht9vA7EW8LUbyKqY-UX-Y5p5fiXFXgH24Ux_GM5GziAAmW1-7ol5ziEZKAO-Y7WcmpdaIgSQ/s1142/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%201.55.15%20PM.png"></a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/69767348?pr=true" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0x7q-s3UP_K-wMimMXkEtBu8kR0PxtbeOFzH-j31rBurR01iotoI_ArV51aD8WvoLQGVAdhyd1H8whrPIJ2kg4KanYuojCfzG69wUCj9hDpOpncqu_2nlg1wZ-W5VIKiW6oosmVhKc1TjS7ZwRB1FyxH2YlnP6X54nm3by7enP5Yv9uyIhsQ/w640-h640/downloadfile-30a.png" /></a></div></b></span><br />I recently got into a very deep and intense conversation with Carnegie Mellon/SFI Professor Simon DeDeo during his latest visit to the Santa Fe Institute campus. (<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19786984/3508371062261415132#">Check out his talk</a> and my Twitter coverage of it, which I found equal parts nightmarish and utterly inspiring.)<br /><br />Most of that two hours was spent in roundtable discussion with him and our 2022 cohort of <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19786984/3508371062261415132#">Undergraduate Complexity Researchers</a>, making for the most exciting opportunity I've ever had at work to blow the minds of a bunch of awesome, brilliant twenty-somethings.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/69767348?pr=true" target="_blank">Here is the epic mind-dump I sent them afterward</a>, collecting resources that came to mind during our rap session. If you've been following the show for a while you've probably heard me bring most of these up at one point or another, but I'm happy to share them all in one place.<br /><br />I apologize in advance for what my buddy Mitch Mignano would call an "ecodelic avalanche." Enjoy either spending the rest of time getting around to this or immediately binning it all to preserve your mental health!<br /><br />(Album cover is from <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19786984/3508371062261415132#">my ongoing series of AI art experiments with Midjourney</a>, which as mentioned above I'm archiving for the personal use of my patrons.)</div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>✨ New Future Fossils Podcast Episodes</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/69684855" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ77sDA9xoOIsJMoMQSiPnzChjZdbzPWBaZZE3Wv7jk-w5SWq_tRxYpGqTzZ7ca3Lrwt05ylP8SOz0wVHXPPEa2W3guCLBJrYVfokJUVIDyMbq5WuWtvpsH3KNlVDzR5aFDI5RmMrF2-DKnC3gLwJBvkvPF1DLgJeqq_8dKE3U-vGgnnnlyTY/w640-h640/FF%20189%20Parag%20Khanna.jpg" /></a></div></b></span></div><div><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/69684855" target="_blank"><b>Listen/Subscribe here.</b></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/68610743" target="_blank"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiP45rr6C3myt-IgWvjUR6Bw2mwdHWfmgtJIOF1CU9ZuBpSKRy1AUhtvxzXFZ3B4BBbTIDfhsltbTEEeHc4a9f65KwHF21CWdoQJ7A0gIAsIbflYL2H_WNKjj1HyOazTu6ERvdvAX3p3T7xjKCAFpVOqOhM7NriAwnfGOtANOGPXa5-FADqKfk=w640-h640" /></a></div><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/68610743" target="_blank"><b>Listen/Subscribe here.</b></a></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>✨ New Music: Live at the West China Tea House (Austin, Texas 2022.05.28)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-west-china-tea-house-austin-texas-20220528" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lQFSYpUH5RmfLlha8Hrukccbbsc0Mg35hNGdhBnDL0aGXJrJgLHjoaVMzIu8Zw99GHLjuQPDSsKEAmLA2mxfIwezL6MUymXPksUNYWALsAWiCPwsTK5Uv1faoQ4gOPw-Be3KYfsCFWcsoeyE6MtZ81Mv80AT1a9Yys8qJ1hPPiZepk-10hA/w640-h640/live%20at%20the%20west%20china%20tea%20house%20copy.jpg" /></a></div></b></span><b>Member-exclusive HD download on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/68657138" target="_blank">Patreon</a> or <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-west-china-tea-house-austin-texas-20220528" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>.</b><br /><br />On the musical front, here's an intimate "storyteller" format acoustic and electroacoustic concert spanning fourteen years of songwriting, with some teahouse-specific improvisations to accompany gong fu tea ceremony. This was my first show in Austin, Texas in nearly four years, a very emotionally intense reunion with old friends and the land I love and once called home. Big thanks to <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19786984/3508371062261415132#">So Han Fan and Nate Bell at the West China Tea House</a> for making space for me to play a family-friendly concert (you can hear my kids screaming throughout) and for the live Future Fossils Podcast I taped there in between sets with <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19786984/3508371062261415132#">Kevin Welch and David Hensley of EFF-Austin</a>!<br /><br />(If you want a blast from the past (or into the future?), I played one of <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19786984/3508371062261415132#">my favorite late-night instrumental sets</a> at their pop-up tea house at Utopia Festival back in 2017, when they were still called the Guan Yin Tea House.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Lastly, for now, here's a link to <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8?si=fc948c7e94fe4678" target="_blank">my ever-growing Spotify playlist</a> of new music discoveries and old favorites. I've been keeping and cultivating this for three years now, and it's EXTENSIVE, over 37 hours long. Enjoy!:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8?si=fc948c7e94fe4678" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="2410" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfOmIY_yqWLa5TPrB-73IBgPFgPEWh6JtAUToaiX-82q25AI7--7OAC6siqg4zexcf6EU_RoNzGXhI22f0Bk2Qfelqddb6m0nmY128rsqLrqhtx0Sn98FxXF6pqozGMUNWIeNdr1yKA6VSrZjL9OmWLyE1Oam6tC_Mf66iTkTXliUiSyz1TL0/w640-h210/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-14%20at%204.43.23%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-73690162695339316322022-06-12T22:38:00.000-05:002022-06-12T22:38:09.980-05:00The Future is Noisy • New A.I. Music Videos • In Defense of Picard • Future Fossils with EFF-Austin • A Manifesto for Weird Science • Diverse Aliens<div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Two dangers threaten the universe: order and disorder."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>— Paul Valéry</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Without order, nothing can exist. Without chaos, nothing can evolve."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>— Oscar Wilde</i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The next newsletter will be an explosion of new visual art experiments in several different media. THIS one is a combination of speculative non-fiction; experimental art-plus-electroacoustic-music collaborations with A.I.; two of the spiciest podcast episodes I've ever released; and a short slide deck summarizing my critiques about the current state of astrobiology. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's all about as heady as can be. If you just want eye candy, hold tight; I have plenty in store for you.</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>📝 New Writing</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://return.life/2022/06/07/the-future-is-noisy/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1542" data-original-width="2934" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6R96uU6PDV3-txMjoARIzFaHUMxxbLiSkhdAlFvgHTaBpH7YBlbQwV83xLPwFLYrXgvP4dGkTfTeo0o7f50DD4t1r6iH2be91LeAWSfCUdNDAAPf8WvxM7ajB9VhGgg-be70BVQvT1urdpJZ2qowEH4ZpgD6bqLG3qnUdHrOWQ60h9MQZeXY=w640-h336" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://return.life/2022/06/07/the-future-is-noisy/" target="_blank">Read "The Future is Noisy"</a></b></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />My latest essay for <i><a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/the-future-is-indistinguishable-from-magic-5b9596a4ea" target="_blank">How To Live in The Future</a></i> is now at Return.Life. Here's a teaser:<br /><br />When I imagine forward into futures, all of them but the worst are noisy places: highly interactive, densely woven, layered, and syntactical – and as in any web of chatter, lots of lossy transfers, errors, and the patterns of intelligences too bizarre or fast or vast for anyone to notice are registered as noise. Stand back far enough and it’s hard to ignore the curve: from the biofilms that dominated early Earth and made no more noise than gaseous bubbling, to the launch of rockets and atomic bombs. We’ve found a way to make ourselves heard...<br /><p></p><div class="sc-1sp3zau-0 hvQAYo sc-1di2uql-0 iqVOaT" data-tag="post-content" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #241e12; font-family: aktiv-grotesk, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; white-space: pre-line;"></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/in-defense-of-star-trek-picard-discovery-dfa4209578bf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="1744" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaAGh1Zmy3KPlUv343BiALGaN3uk8jqILtjQ7o2T_8kdzE1L63rCE64pFQVFe2_GYnlfrqRe2M1ktXYitNV5W--Ia7qvsvOJeEe11RkYaM4sneaOTgVFII3abu8ob24MVsZTgCFrCBewA0x_3Fr6U8S5GBKjKPItNmlzAa5Pxo2DxwDPsr1Ks/w640-h526/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-05%20at%205.16.11%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/in-defense-of-star-trek-picard-discovery-dfa4209578bf" target="_blank">Read "In Defense of Star Trek: Picard & Discovery"</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div>Here is my response to disparaging comments made by several of my friends about how Starfleet and The Federation of Planets no longer represent what they did in Star Trek: The Original Series and The Next Generation, I felt it necessary to say a few words in defense of the narrative turns taken by the recent series Picard and Discovery on Paramount+.</div><div><br /></div><div>This one is considerably less deep and interesting than the piece above, frankly, but it might have more resonance for some people given that Star Trek is such an extensive cultural phenomenon.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">🎸 New Music + Animated A.I. Imagery</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/65179593" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4V7GUqkHuRKdmmrY0gNDyK5kDStauzVoiVLyBBINJ8g5xB7uO6QsJyOl9A-b9K5bGsfalh7xE6AxM3JR6TWkpEt81pNvh2kCdLzj5VR5_9gMHE10ANM_I0bwC5x0OBMhUs73gDe08Y0Anni6D5K02KgV1JAC7JQqWsS5yCsfawHjy4SCfLQ/w640-h640/love%20machines%20album%20cover%203000.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/65179593" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Watch & Listen to <i>Love Machines Vol. I</i></b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I’ve devoted the last 17 years to exploring the constructed and metamorphic boundaries of human-machine, self-other, nature-culture, created-discovered…all of which are under interrogation in our acceleratingly weird era of digital media and proliferating intelligence.<br /><br />As a musician, this manifests in site-specific “cyberacoustic guitar” improvisations that embed artist and instrument into what Darwin might have called a “tangled bank” of electronic augmentations — sampling, mangling, remixing, and reinventing acoustic music as a raw material just like the complex transformations of gene and meme transfer drive the evolutionary process as more conventionally understood.<br /><br />As a visual artist, I’ve recently taken to exploring the same ever-folding symbiosis from the other shore: starting with text-to-image AI artworks in collaboration with generative adversarial networks, then animating them by hand and setting them to music.<br /><br />Both paths recruit non-human agency and the contingency of machinic creativity into my own dreamy psychedelic wanderings through transmedia hyperspace — building and testing, in the words of rhetorician Richard Doyle, <i>ecodelic</i> “training wheels for transhumanism” that perform, and prepare audiences for, the convoluted subjectivity of the futures into which we will be reborn. The <i>Love Machines</i> series explores the intersection of intentionality and randomness, chaos and order, will and automation, heart and mind arising in the clear light of awareness…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">🎧 New Podcasts</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/67616896" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LtekJh4tPc1HIhdvczS9OTuQdy9zVGX1XrHppshjPbIZIwmOe8Mans7CvzNkAnOtmULSXadRJRqotyF_GDO7FIYiJqckd9EHSzE4iWSEZwbPQWkZT6OCrA2pia4h1-HIhKtyGavom1tu42C8crwlFpTGHJ9xQxSNB0kpJKol1-oA9zeUMNU/w640-h640/187.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/67616896" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Listen to Future Fossils Episode 187</span></b></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/66433863" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipsqvYxebIl2qBASdlzO0g8nrW33AOvyuFtET0V2IODvpkLslf-5-KMY4QIHHW5DGdgz6gpkYcRufrYe5XHnWDniVQ8j5dkGGT8W9YpKpOMRSIUPD60F3nVXNWE8N_tHjqVzx15wLmxjv4ByblF27lSA58UUJ0xjrLh34_TlS93A2q_tLWsZc/w640-h640/FF%20186.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/66433863" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Listen to Future Fossils Episode 186</span></b></a></div><p>And speaking of weird science...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">👾 "Diverse Aliens" Slide Deck</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>Here are the seven slides I contributed to a group presentation for the 2021 <a href="https://disi.org/">Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute</a>, interrogating the criteria used by SETI (The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) and beckoning people deeper into a somewhat more rigorous embrace of Mystery:<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/slideshow-aliens-65981453" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="1170" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgddqmwe_fU5XTzpsqAWfQHY8G__yAiODubQ8FWN6tJEVN23Fhp700Dx70SEjrDt0slcj6MC1ZefhmyizQ4uWWdH-5Gg38IHcs5n9EWrxa1eFJp2HOre9T8UWZ6yS3NydgS4B9xhEu8pNly9aoST3vg5xu2WZTQ4oa8J214iI3vhOix9JyyqQc=w555-h640" width="555" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/slideshow-aliens-65981453" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">View/Download Here</span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That's all for now. (It's still a lot!) Thank you for sitting with me and be well!</div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-71741804743664712512022-05-03T15:19:00.005-05:002022-05-03T15:19:58.720-05:00New Blotter Art, Solo Acoustic EP, Futurism Essay, Sensemaking Roundtable, Upcoming Book Club<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">“We can only navigate outside as well as we can navigate within.”</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">– Timothy Leary</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span>I</span>'m not really clear on how I've managed to get so much done with all the parenting and day job, lately, but regardless I'm pleased to share these latest highlights with you! Enjoy and feel free to write back if the spirit moves you. (And of course, if you like this stuff I hope you'll share the newsletter with a friend; not touring festivals anymore means I get almost zero chances to build out this list the way I would prefer to, one inspiring in-person conversation at a time...)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>🎨 New Art: "Liquid Sunrise" Blotter Art (Signed/Numbered)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://shakedowngallery.com/products/michael-garfield-liquid-sunrise-blotter-art?_pos=1&_sid=c3014d151&_ss=r" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCb4apalqhyMnYb2WIXX_o6f0bYFkjZNzXeA38Ne7UxiZ5gycZpJzdIbBXXQ5oSdpUucDA7G1mZ7-Nv8nLFbSYuyOMiZB6GxTw0vtHnPuPagljQu3d04se7yAs7iKh0qh18WWiBItB9BHpfES2JY_XZSYd5Lgov9KYolZ9_EDf3V2WMHzizfg/w640-h640/liquid%20sunrise%20blotter%20art.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://shakedowngallery.com/products/michael-garfield-liquid-sunrise-blotter-art?_pos=1&_sid=c3014d151&_ss=r" target="_blank">Grab Yours Here</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://shakedowngallery.com/products/michael-garfield-liquid-sunrise-blotter-art?_pos=1&_sid=c3014d151&_ss=r" target="_blank">The Shakedown Gallery</a> in San Francisco is the world's premier source for blotter art, and I'm honored to finally get some artwork into their collection! Grab your own (perfectly innocuous and legal) prints of my piece "Liquid Sunrise" — released in a signed and numbered series of 100 as part of their special Bicycle Day 2022 drop, including works by my friend and hero Randal Roberts and many other greats — for a better price than pretty much any other print deal I've ever offered. Much like the peak experience they depict, they won't last...but at least you'll never have a bummer "oh man, human AGAIN?" come down.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">🎸 New Solo Acoustic EP: Empty Frames</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/empty-frames" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="2560" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh96bfiLNZitfFzGweXEidUTHwNekFU_uEPPXpuN-7-7QYyCZNoCAJm9zu6MBcAly6bBFHt6RWSef0vBqfIt2Kv1jEGWAME54zJ8QXyuUYt5u5BRbGhL4dOqGQQ77j5bOk8i6jXcOw_TnWDASbZU91UffO7X32HsVUgbmvI1ST6uIFga_Lwnc/w640-h640/empty%20frames%20copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Download WAV/MP3 at <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/empty-frames" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/65953502" target="_blank">Patreon</a></span></b></div><br style="text-align: left;" />These are placeholders to stake and commit to record songs I love that aren't ready for prime time yet. A song ought to stand on its own and I hope these do, but this is basically me sharing my songbook with a feather in it for a bookmark. They mean a lot to me but I haven't found the time to give them a proper studio treatment yet. We have:<br /><br />1. Ian - about my baby son, with maybe some Elliott Smith and (sleepy) Tenacious D and Lana Del Rey swimming around in there.<br /><br />2. A Merry Mess - not sure exactly but a tip of the hat to Jeff Buckley and my friend Mitch Mignano.<br /><br />3. The 120th Shrine - regarding The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, kind of a cowboy ballad since you're riding a horse a lot, but also gliding.<br /><br />4. Seeing Like A State - with a nod to James C. Scott's book, about mathematically guaranteed injustice and the tragedy of being one of the ants out of a plane window.<br /><br />5. Buried Together - for Nikki Taylor, with whom I intend to be interred, God Willing.<br /><br />6. Frog Seven Green - a vignette of life in a hot tub under shade sails on the porch of a basement apartment nestled up close to the mountains in Santa Fe with a young family.<br />credits</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">📝 New Writing: </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Future Is Noisy<br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/65686933" target="_blank">A nearly-completed draft of my first new chapter</a> of <i><a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/the-future-is-indistinguishable-from-magic-5b9596a4ea" target="_blank">How To Live in The Future</a></i> since 2018 (!) is now available to Patreon supporters, and is in edit now to be published (in what I'm sure will be a very different-looking for) at <a href="http://Return.Life">Return.Life</a> soon. Here's an excerpt to whet your appetite:</div><br /><i>Noise is here to stay because making noise on purpose can jolt a system out of its rut. The fool in the king’s court or the heyoka at Sun Dance both keep the social system from settling into maladaptive complacency. When mass extinctions disrupt the byzantine symbiotic networks of mature ecosystems, fine-tuned specialists take the hit and loose, messy generalists that can catch as catch can — the raccoons, cockroaches, Lystrosaurs — misfit organisms that seemed forever out of place suddenly come into their own and help reboot the entire food web. It pays for the biosphere to keep these clowns around.<br /><br />Then there’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLNtHK0-DEw">Michelle Girvan</a>, who explains that literally just the live feed of a camera trained on sloshing water in a bucket is enough to double the predictive horizon of a machine learning algorithm trained to model weather…seeing further by leaning less on memory. Similarly, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389921000647">Erik Hoel</a> hypothesizes that dreams function to prevent “overfitting” of the brain to its conditioning, allowing it to generalize from past experiences to novel future scenarios. It would fit, then, that not only jazz and noise music but the myriad other dreamlike expressions of modern art — from surrealism to cubism to combinatorial music — all emerged at a time when we started to “lose the plot,” or perhaps more accurately realize that the story the modern world had been telling itself was nothing more than a linear projection drawn poorly from heavily biased historical sampling.<br /><br />In times when you can’t trust the score civilization has been following, it’s a more sensible recourse to stop following the conductor and play by ear. Cognitive scientist <a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/67">Tyler Marghetis</a>, in studying the quantitative data tracking critical transitions among improvisational jazz ensembles, notes moments when the entire group breaks through and shifts together all at once, like a pirouetting murmuration of starlings; the pace and immediacy of this kind of response is impossible for those who insist on an objective “view from nowhere” – a monolithic canonical version of reality – and refuse to accept that, in Thompson’s words, “A fact requires a theory just as a flame requires an atmosphere.” In other words, people who refuse to relax their focus, let figure dissolve into ground, enter a flow state that can respond faster than the clunky executive processing of the frontal lobe, and dream with the agility of a disinhibited mind in attunement. Education at the edge of history can’t rely on the authority of educators brought up in a world that no longer exists; <a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/we-will-fight-diseases-of-our-networks-by-realizing-we-are-networks-7fa1e1c24444">a postapocalyptic pedagogy for digital natives</a> discards rote memorization and writes curricula that emphasize curiosity, lifelong learning, collective intelligence, and the power of search.</i><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/65686933" target="_blank">Become a patron</a> if you want to soak up my illuminated mystic science rantings right away...</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">🎧 New Future Fossils Podcast Episode 185</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/65751063" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjqY49obvC0eqyt-XBIQ20-G4RWCq1S_FPlPtIL0c-GTfw2F7cIXiZdvELqRxm6PIvhL-siNVB8ymI2gDpCVEQVXO0A1cp7gIopvQAKgopjp0XOqdiWXtvpndTuNdOKixxcDMl26KN_E9Uy1Q4e0n2hh2ED3s3DaIOg8McNs5jGO6rcizpOo/w640-h640/Future%20Fossils%20Podcast%20185.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/65751063" target="_blank"><b>Dig In Here</b></a></div></span><br />Be forewarned: This latest episode is some extremely heady stuff. But thankfully, it's also full of heart and soul...<br /><br />Back in February, <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Rowson">Jonathan Rowson</a> posted two clips (<a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Rowson/status/1494766628483051527">here</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Rowson/status/1495020737442242561">here</a>) from his latest in-progress writing tlimito Twitter, where it succeeded in baiting a bunch of the folks with whom I regularly interact as members of the so-called "<a href="https://www.joelightfoot.org/post/the-liminal-web-mapping-an-emergent-subculture-of-sensemakers-meta-theorists-systems-poets">Liminal Web</a>" into reflecting on the value of partitioning a global boil of loosely-associated "sensemakers," "meta-theorists," and "systems poets" into well-meaning but ultimately dubious cultural taxonomies.<br /><br />I had plenty to say about this (<a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield/status/1494770997446291458https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield/status/1494794608622120968">here</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield/status/1495064301022834690">here</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield/status/1495191807147364354">here</a>) from my awkwardly consistent stance of being both enthusiastic and skeptical about apparently everything. But so did numerous other brilliant and inspiring people, including <a href="https://twitter.com/bonnittaroy">Bonnitta Roy</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/stephlepp">Stephanie Lepp</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/RizomaSchool">Ashley Colby</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/cognazor">Jason Snyder</a> – all of whom I've wanted on the show for a while (with the exception of Stephanie, with whom I had a great chat back on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/154-stephanie-on-42503730?l=it">episode 154</a>). So I took it upon myself to press for an on-the-record group discussion about the virtue and folly of putting labels on sociocultural processes and networks that are defined by their liminality: Is this ultimately a good thing, or does it just kill the magic in a foolish servility to economic pressures and the desire to be recognized as A Movement?<br /><br />When we finally met at the end of March for our call, the conversation turned to issues with more urgency and gravitas — namely: Is it even helpful to spend all of our time talking about crises and metacrises when there is so much work to be done?<br /><br />What transpired was easily one of the more profound and inspired conversations I've ever had the good fortune to host on this show, although it was also more beset with insane and infuriating technical problems that getting it ready for release took over thirty hours of excruciating editing. I am so immensely glad I am finally done and can get on with my damn life! But also that I get to share this with you and hear what the rest of our scene(s) have to contribute to this discourse.</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">📚 Next Book Club: <i>When We Cease To Understand The World</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/62967826" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="620" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidLzZOT6czG3wi_iHwlWgBQej6IfUuC0B5IOVxRPUFscaUJQw1SZ09urCYojVxb8YhXQdstkvSJYrIOfJpLq_CY9LhIGaBEaoeE7il4YoDhF40DggQBE_jpD-2Zgu312XWOrW-va36GVyKp2yL2dV7jZvooVNL2UV9p4THTFN9U9TG7E8KfsU/w430-h640/Screen%20Shot%202022-02-23%20at%203.58.11%20PM.png" width="430" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/62967826" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Call Details On Patreon</span></a></b></div><br />The Future Fossils Media Club returns next month on <b>May 14th at 1:00 - 2:30 pm Mountain </b>(12 noon Pacific, 3 pm Eastern) with a discussion of Benjamin Labatut's award-winning <i>When We Cease To Understand The World</i>, a visionary exploration of "the complex ties between scientific and mathematical understanding and personal and historical catastrophe...a book that fuses fact and fiction to revelatory and profoundly disconcerting effect."</div><div><br /></div><div>You can grab your copy at the <b><a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/futurefossils" target="_blank">Future Fossils Bookshop.org Reading List</a></b> — and whether or not you can make this call, I recommend going there to check out an extensive (although not comprehensive YET) list of recommendations we've discussed on the show. (I love Bookshop.org because it's a small but still nontrivial diversion of excess funds away from Amazon and toward local booksellers...and I get a tiny piece of every sale at no additional cost to you-the-buyer.)</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">– Blaise Pascal</span></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-81936072179275405172022-04-07T23:12:00.000-05:002022-04-07T23:12:22.320-05:00Live at Meow Wolf with DeVotchKa • SIX New Paintings • The Other Others • Rad New Future Fossils Episodes<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">- Carl Jung</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Once again I'm awful and dump way too much on you at once! I'm sorry and I love you. But wow am I ever excited about this new stuff — I think this latest newsletter outdoes every other I've released. Enjoy, and write back any time!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Music</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just played the best gig I've had in years at Meow Wolf Santa Fe opening for DeVotchKa (who is, by the way, an act I've always respected but suddenly now that I've finally seen them live one of my favorite bands of all time). As always, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/64014040" target="_blank">Patreon</a> and Bandcamp supporters got it first, but now it's up on <a href="https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/michaelgarfield/--live-at-meow-wolf-santa-fe--03122022" target="_blank">Spotify</a> and all other major streaming services (in an abridged form without the between-song dialogue, which would have messed with being able to put this on playlists, but is an essential part of the show in my mind and is there on the <a href="https://youtu.be/ybAvXuzgx_c" target="_blank">full-concert HD video YouTube</a> and the <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/prevotchka-live-at-meow-wolf-03122022-santa-fe-nm" target="_blank">lossless audio Bandcamp</a> pages).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/prevotchka-live-at-meow-wolf-03122022-santa-fe-nm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="4032" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXVIUkRRuXlSheTMYTk_dofQDrQwUxG03SnlUAY34xO064Eiui2HUenSfuYSOaLC7C2u8rXmn_aj-Qrcch26fNwA-2__eNfCJeCt6dZZcuHc8QXR5xQBeUIABoGd3HoFVoBBb3Pv7BOs4UvJXztvN6RNP-fgXtqDtqAIpfkgyVBOZJ2l4hz8s=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/prevotchka-live-at-meow-wolf-03122022-santa-fe-nm" target="_blank">Listen Here</a> | <a href="https://youtu.be/ybAvXuzgx_c" target="_blank">Watch Here</a></span></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Paintings</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My first collaboration painting with my daughter Ada, who just turned three, plus five others! Sometimes I seem to go months without painting and then, like this, I knock out six in one week. When it rains, it pours. Most of these are sold but the Ada collab is available, as is the "Fabergé eggs launching seed bombs" type piece — 100% of the sales of which will donate relief to Ukraine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com" target="_blank">I still have a ton of prints for sale</a> <a href="https://linktr.ee/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">as well as NFTs</a> but have not made any for this batch yet...meanwhile, I'd far prefer to just keep doing commissions, which I've always loved as a professional illustrator (as I used to with the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10152971957693653&set=a.10150296718308653" target="_blank">350 custom-painted hats</a> I made back in the day)...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chainlink Heart - Sold</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://bit.ly/paintingsforsale" target="_blank">Several other paintings still available here.</a></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Podcasts</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjS_WVZ5yFXlLL1eqWR8GyFY1isSq0uExAbQi6WINtT2J3ozMSt1mM45CPiHLEBR0ZkcnwgLgOpK15m8qYindCw1JrT2WkEjp23Mifi3o-XgAfaBzzOW-lrJ192jm0sonRxkHPsqvxFbSot8Ci4yo8F8buD4CsrDp4c7Tm-1FbGiz5lsOoH9g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1912" data-original-width="1848" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjS_WVZ5yFXlLL1eqWR8GyFY1isSq0uExAbQi6WINtT2J3ozMSt1mM45CPiHLEBR0ZkcnwgLgOpK15m8qYindCw1JrT2WkEjp23Mifi3o-XgAfaBzzOW-lrJ192jm0sonRxkHPsqvxFbSot8Ci4yo8F8buD4CsrDp4c7Tm-1FbGiz5lsOoH9g=w619-h640" width="619" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Soooo excited to have made it onto Tyson Yunkaporta's podcast The Other Others after his wonderful appearance on <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/172" target="_blank">Future Fossils 172</a>. Here's his description of the episode:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://anchor.fm/tyson-yunkaporta/episodes/Hyperstition-and-Hyperobjects-e1ggrud" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="420" data-original-width="1194" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkoGVoSKvL7hmQ_zkMnhD55VzNxpTpCBeAyeJV-upidhHLp8DVtZHFZfGp5pZnhV_E4_Qt9q_vU8NbsNeXpkJOpxjpWcj1laKfqtZNM0XxfgEils2P39pgMOFyIH4TegLSVMuGer4wdM9_hfqh5-qRI4xAhfTI_g9or0nJ5i_OjjPKj-cdz7w=w640-h226" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://anchor.fm/tyson-yunkaporta/episodes/Hyperstition-and-Hyperobjects-e1ggrud" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Listen Here</span></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And then, <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes" target="_blank">Future Fossils</a> has just been AWESOME lately:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/64386061" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9MnMWOG0u5cVAcNKMdNHIvUi4xqIkmZOSfGgIXqeawqK1wAHhVlLJv-cabkaXq10isAb8nmhvMiMMMhkxg6jLTMEAxhlDKV9HN-0AXj5F1Yx5OhPuvVgaF-qFN-FDPflYO8jcPHCdqHyrijuUDGZhUwBiIf57Sxl3-VMtlUF3vZWiYT6MG3Y/w640-h640/Future%20Fossils%20184.jpg" width="640" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/64386061" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Listen Here</span></a></div></div></div></span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Buckle up, friends. This is the most epic edition of this newsletter in its thirteen years of existence...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I recommend opening this in a new tab to devour at your leisure, like my current long-game effort to assemble the Lego "Tumbler" Batmobile. :)</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Happy Year of the Tiger!</div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>NEW ART</b></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/my-bright-companions" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1993" data-original-width="3000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdPVIM4Uvr_NgVW6MZ7XwqBN4PaHKjPGv00rVTRdJnpvIvqFdiMVuoMHjdQr1IAlecgObVUKMnCOaYK6HAy9MvPs3lTN_78JcEetK8YoMYL7V03gZXBMpq1OfyfUdZj90h7ar-WE-5ThqOiv_IN_9ez-m4XwvIDYKDF0J-li4v2kw8Yrg2HcI=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">"My Bright Companions"</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">acrylic paint on masonite panel</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">48"w x 32"h</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/my-bright-companions" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">original available + canvas & cardstock prints here</span></i></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My first big new painting since before the pandemic! This piece started as part of my science communication fellowship at the 2021 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, live painting to amazing talks on evolutionary biology, cognitive science, cyborg experiments, animal intelligence research, and more — and finally came to a satisfying conclusion at my temporary retirement from live painting at a recent Mary Lattimore + Walt McClements + Michael Garfield show here in Santa Fe.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's the sequel to my 2017 painting "<a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/my-dark-companion" target="_blank">My Dark Companion</a>" and an exercise in visionary-art-as-science-fiction, paying tribute to Terence McKenna, biologist Michael Levin, and many others.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's more info about the piece <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/60720056" target="_blank">on Patreon</a> and a picture of it with human creator for size comparison <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CXjVb7OJk3J/" target="_blank">on Instagram</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oh! And I'll add: I still have just over a dozen paintings available, most of them rather large and pricey (but flexibly so). I also have two kids and all the patience in the world when it comes to paying off an exchange like this, so <a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/10109253383033189" target="_blank">if you're interested in one of these</a>, let's talk.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>NEW MUSIC</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZ2Zqg7mNRFjXmVp_cXFiQwDe1g7m7c70rRBim7tx_AbLINhzDMj14mKVaWXLVFStjZj0O8Wj2w3DXjft0gmt_xun2TMr61hbPx183NJ5-J32s6USjBwmUr13pC6uRKTUpUiukTmH3-RxengFGwvY0gvWTaNeJmdfviHlI8hNqw6SE1BNysb4=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="4032" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZ2Zqg7mNRFjXmVp_cXFiQwDe1g7m7c70rRBim7tx_AbLINhzDMj14mKVaWXLVFStjZj0O8Wj2w3DXjft0gmt_xun2TMr61hbPx183NJ5-J32s6USjBwmUr13pC6uRKTUpUiukTmH3-RxengFGwvY0gvWTaNeJmdfviHlI8hNqw6SE1BNysb4=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Download in lossless audio at <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/alive-again" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Save & Follow at <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/695sA6YsA9qfs3883EY8wd?si=HspW9ZzKSa6bZm-N3NMfCA" target="_blank">Spotify</a> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Listen at <a href="https://audius.co/michaelgarfield/album/alive-again-meow-wolf-tumbleroot-2021.12.14-91745" target="_blank">Audius</a> (where artists get 90% of streaming royalties)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Speaking of "the first in over two years," MY GOD how I needed a return to the stage! Musical performance has been woefully absent from my life over the last two years since my last public gig at Meow Wolf opening for Papadosio in December 2019 — even if you count <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/track/l-wenmensch" target="_blank">my asynchronous collaboration with archaeologist Liane Gabora</a> for her research on the paleolithic Löwenmensch sculpture and <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/mt-tam-psychedelic-integration-jam" target="_blank">my livestream with painter Amanda Sage</a> for the Mt. Tam Psychedelic Integration Jam.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I even got a (pre-show) write-up from the wonderful Adrian Gomez in the <i><a href="https://www.abqjournal.com/2452667/michael-garfield-opening-show-at-tumbleroot-brewery-and-distillery.html" target="_blank">Albuquerque Journal</a></i>!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">AND I managed to get some decent concert footage. Here are two new live concert videos of my philosophy-complex-systems-protest song "Seeing Like A State":</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="353" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R5ZNMznzFWc" width="491" youtube-src-id="R5ZNMznzFWc"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And of my cyberacoustic guitar improvisation, "Wing It":</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NtsEVLS35e0" width="501" youtube-src-id="NtsEVLS35e0"></iframe></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>NEW PODCASTS</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And of course I spend most of my time talking to people about important ideas. This last few months has been especially rich and rewarding. Just take a look at these (and then, hopefully, also, listen):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/58663893" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0zst1uTeGI-2kS1hqE25EsqGDZLAQTFU8-wYIm_K1mKMg6nJzJtTCzYuvC9gYgOQcVRNA141QNmSj8E8w5FN5W7JKJ548RFF8H47UZMUjrnnoHvTtK96_HP4Hve52oWxgHaAbA3iV0FraMvnSa9OCZRh3twTp2Hs7DcEkJtg9n57Pfrproi4=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/59413660" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgegcJD7j_sfKa0ck9n9UI8LISV5kpnY6IoYjl_JTkuQcvDuWxBwIPIHKeha3qOY686XyyZwjffeZ4qg8Q0r-eDA1flEpsp-sPw_xv2kOxNh5FTvwdRX9a1eHocfJ4C2btMVpA02pe4MvljSNwKdnGbDHadRZPAQYuonETLUufm2MTQ0ftYhRE=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/60042629" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS2pKt7bKffe81A5zK5OLHKkg8gTsLSorqkViMDVE5S8AGquPehQG2gaV5H0uxf5o0Pm7Dfai1A-WXw_4CqWQoazMrQ4OdavJsmt5b-PyIFcVnaKkRc_5ydPoriy-2to-PtWe5ZQTbifj9YSlpD60QqBv5StNweJm0lZrPABRQH5ZTkTC3HvQ=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/61344710" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoQhEAgxa_kHoIqaPTOEHyUTA1glRnbrhNxXKAT3oHRgO2QFxElMpCcmxSooL_Hyk25Jdw4sUf7qc1RzmbnFrbAwkUQuqrfdUiJcMuGrKzD6T4wCjtcLiCullMy_JvZG0gxvWc999DMevPIBh94BSuMl19AG1P-SZ5JLK0zgmG7qUREV2dBl0=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/61974389" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6u645Ii1u3ZcM0i0RDaZYj1zA0DU-7zYQ3kZTxfIMzWdJrFZiDBLXcWRZhH0GyUj180YC5ItXauydpsJgCS6YQcHm5jsL891p0AL6ufkRXGT7EezQjtRJuLGIGPXPgiSH4tSLj08Z-YF7xqbLbVDwT39YZP4l3n_Q4v1UUkSFM6LCrmoSnPA=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've dropped these two excellent and soulful sessions as well for Patreon supporters:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/58906924" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMiYRsw4b9JILAW_T0RUvzS1SkL3fCsN5-niyf3UIrmguGSje_t6VaRVBYAqWNWaOtQKdVWbVewt2tb_ArQaBqBwyzY5jDCwV_HEjfdTUHkoQND18N3MvQLB3NzpgHkufWa2Js0F9Gc6D0HqiQfLJdB5IPWTEpH8TMphj-V3972n5WEU-u4sc=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/59720513" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhI-V5H-xAexTvYzf_BJrj2mwpY88JfQcefENgCZLGf2CdIh28XbTro1hGGa41R2BRpZ_CrZUaUIkItvEGTWCZ6uoi2LgrTxCG_4DBx5AuNYf-pefYrCDgtMMk0DD6Ob6xHqYsWV2BOtmYz7whH1943eBMdE1kGhxJOR80_TYmA2JFTvGFLmhs=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>MENTIONS</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Thanks to Cris Beasley for pushing my Future Fossils episode with Time Loops author Eric Wargo on her incredibly cool and fun <a href="https://becomingdragon.substack.com/p/-youre-lucid-dreaming-right-now" target="_blank">Becoming Dragon Substack</a> in a special issue on lucid dreaming.<br /><br />I am similarly honored that the Plutopia News Network (c/o my friend and low-key living legend Jon Lebkowsky) felt it similarly worthwhile to point people in my direction in <a href="https://plutopia.io/plutopian-week-coltrane-sterling-frauenfelder-garfield/" target="_blank">THEIR newsletter</a>, alongside the badasses John Coltrane, Bruce Sterling, and Marc Frauenfelder.<br /><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">NEW MUSIC DISCOVERY PLAYLIST</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lastly, here is a link to the new playlist I'm starting for delicious musical discoveries. I don't really like Spotify as a company but it's nonetheless still a great place to turn other people on to music I enjoy:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1DceXQZzUOjFl2Qh8DO0si?si=a36622f6cc784d7b" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1726" data-original-width="2388" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSSitOUBGOX0HJrhyphenhyphenzxJaqDoovx8UUMwakBV367eWOYF7YSa6sh0iuKXW3YNMVAfpJoy2UUzLnSPT2Tow6k_DNR98_KrGp_yxSvT14O_l6YL0CGWwV9CSwBDRpNgEc_vXGZ6j5Dg/w640-h462/Screen+Shot+2022-01-19+at+2.36.21+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1DceXQZzUOjFl2Qh8DO0si?si=a36622f6cc784d7b" target="_blank">Enter the Vortex</a></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And that's all she wrote. :) Thanks for reading!</span></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-39749424283564728042021-11-09T12:37:00.005-06:002021-11-09T12:37:44.625-06:00Ecodelic Explorations: AI Art + Arvo Pärt | Kant on Rationality | Evolutionary Adaptations I Love | Greater Than Code | Agency as Art<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihS4KG0-hGtKRe9t0kD2B81SgetPiA3bQNzC1D67T9RsEu83vIIfdOTs0T8pwi9wYZtA0jEoMAs61EHjaOx-Xmv4mH3Upzh13Vwkm7SlMObQYay0RCNpajd323JyNxGlmmMnwj_A/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1706" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihS4KG0-hGtKRe9t0kD2B81SgetPiA3bQNzC1D67T9RsEu83vIIfdOTs0T8pwi9wYZtA0jEoMAs61EHjaOx-Xmv4mH3Upzh13Vwkm7SlMObQYay0RCNpajd323JyNxGlmmMnwj_A/w480-h640/IMG_2522.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Hey everyone! Lots of big moves lately on my end so here's the short of it:</div><div><br /></div><div>1) I'm hugely expanding my offerings on Patreon, including providing access to <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/future-fossils-58211416" target="_blank">HD images of all of my new digital art experiments</a> to the $10 tiers and up.</div><div><br /></div><div>2) I am, in the parlance of our times, "aping" into NFTs (at <a href="https://rarible.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">Rarible</a>, <a href="https://hicetnunc.xyz/futurefossils" target="_blank">Hic Et Nunc</a>, <a href="https://voice.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">Voice</a>, and <a href="https://mintsongs.com/u/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">Mint Songs</a> for starters). Before you have a kneejerk reaction to this one way or another, it's part of my commitment to guinea pig myself with new media so I can learn their potentials and hopefully help empower other people to take the leap and/or make valid critiques. I lost a lot of fans when <a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/the-evolution-of-surveillance-part-4-augments-amputees-92075fabd5a6" target="_blank">I beta tested Google Glass</a>, but it was SO important to my understanding of evolution and technology, and the role I could play in urgent discourse on these things, and I feel the same way about exploring NFTs.<br /><br />(Accessibility matters and I don't want you to feel left behind, so please hit me up with questions or feel free to join the discussion we're having about this stuff in <a href="https://discord.gg/5JeugFT" target="_blank">the Discord server.</a>)</div><div><br /></div><div>3) <a href="https://www.getrevue.co/profile/michaelgarfield?via=twitter-profile-webview" target="_blank">I'm moving the email newsletter from Substack to Revue</a> and returning to biweekly updates, in part because it's unfair to you to keep sending out enormous entries like this one. Hopefully you agree that more bite-sized pieces are easier and more fun than dropping a six-foot sandwich once every 4-8 weeks. </div><div><br />Thank you for sticking with me through these changes. Continuing to make art, music, and writing while helping raise two new humans is insanely difficult and it means the world to me that we're on this journey together.<br /><br />And now for as much new work as I feel okay to share at one time. More music and paintings soon!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Experimenting with AI Art: </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Future Fossils" Takes On A New Whole Meaning</b></span></div><br />It's always been my intention to fold more of what I do under the Future Fossils name, since the podcast is far from the only work that qualifies (as both a trace of present activity left to the future and a kind of presentiment or foreshadowing for later comprehension).<br /><br />Lately, that's taken the form of two different styles of digital art exploration. This batch here is AI art (using VQGAN+CLIP on a pre-trained model), grown from text-based prompts using the titles of some of my favorite episodes.<div><br /><div>This is so incredibly fun. I love collaborating with machines, feeding analog into digital into analog and back again, seeing what can be learned by taking the other's perspective on the self. This series (curated from a much larger pool of failures) are what I consider "hits" where the computer grokked the spirit of the episode, like those "intuitive" plays made by AlphaGo.<br /><br />If you're interested in owning one of these as a unique (1:1) NFT, I've started minting my favorite generative art experiments on <a href="https://hicetnunc.xyz/futurefossils">hicetnunc.xyz/futurefossils</a>, which runs on the Tezos blockchain (which is approximately 2,000,000 times more energy efficient than Ethereum — you can read more about sustainability comparisons <a href="https://medium.com/tqtezos/clean-nfts-on-tezos-58566b2fdba1">here</a> and <a href="https://wiki.tezosagora.org/learn/baking/tezos-energy-consumption">here</a>).</div><div><br /></div><div>More info on what you're looking at:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcGQ-UqKx4Y8or14TI-6FSbsKizccEYYj8G3iNv0WgDco4Ru_4DPJb-IL3YBNzCLXOeOUBpGQTmzjlmIBsgUAUM0aylU-WK4et0TAxz_Bx7973-AfQlxDRKRuFWX3fTOSQtWvGA/"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcGQ-UqKx4Y8or14TI-6FSbsKizccEYYj8G3iNv0WgDco4Ru_4DPJb-IL3YBNzCLXOeOUBpGQTmzjlmIBsgUAUM0aylU-WK4et0TAxz_Bx7973-AfQlxDRKRuFWX3fTOSQtWvGA/w640-h640/Screen+Shot+2021-11-02+at+9.29.51+PM.png" /></a><br /><i><br /></i><div><i>168 - Mikey Lion & Malena Grosz - <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/168">Festival Time, Life-changing Trips, and Community in COVID</a></i><div><i>49 - Jake Kobrin - <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/49">Sex, Death, and The Return of The Black Madonna</a><br />163 - Toby Kiers & Brandon Quittem - <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/163">Bitcoin and Fungal Economies</a><br />69 - Tim Freke - <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/69">The Evolution of The Imagination</a><br /></i><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRMOz_pRKNNu9pz6wwZh8qcwdq81bYsn-4hb1Dd7gfVwFJ3-nJNQVrNep0RDiT8EEEVs-zq6qssGF62DisQggCYzdAiDaa1l7lWy4gOzLGJvh5-jUf49__m8qOumXSDrZ7QPdhiA/"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRMOz_pRKNNu9pz6wwZh8qcwdq81bYsn-4hb1Dd7gfVwFJ3-nJNQVrNep0RDiT8EEEVs-zq6qssGF62DisQggCYzdAiDaa1l7lWy4gOzLGJvh5-jUf49__m8qOumXSDrZ7QPdhiA/w640-h640/Screen+Shot+2021-11-02+at+9.30.52+PM.png" /></a><br /><br /><i>57 - Conner Habib & Mitch Mignano - <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/57">Occult Biology</a><br />171 - Eric Wargo - <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/171">Precognitive Dreamwork and The Philosophy of Time Travel</a><br />100 - The Teafaerie - <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/100">DMT, Transhumanism, and What To Do with All of God's Attention</a><br />176 - Richard Doyle, Sophie Strand, & Sam Gandy - <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/176">Exploring Ecodelia: Myth, Magic, and Mycelium</a></i> <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK2nk5sVNhvGfTKazqgoxPch2aiJvn84aJzRUwngR9gOK0jReE9MVK6XlrIDZaxTGV0hibBWjcIn7CXSryZZu3utd2W9-90biiSDB71BGn6htU3zviVMcwHwIcmXBy3BHP-bOSEg/"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK2nk5sVNhvGfTKazqgoxPch2aiJvn84aJzRUwngR9gOK0jReE9MVK6XlrIDZaxTGV0hibBWjcIn7CXSryZZu3utd2W9-90biiSDB71BGn6htU3zviVMcwHwIcmXBy3BHP-bOSEg/w640-h640/Screen+Shot+2021-11-02+at+9.30.03+PM.png" /></a><br /><br /><i>120 - Ramin Nazer - <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/120">Cave Paintings for Future People</a><br />160 - Stephen Hershey & Kynthia Brunette - <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/160">His Dark Materials: Narnia, Fillory, and Coming of Age in The Multiverse</a> <br />109 - Bruce Damer - <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/109">The Origins and Future of Life</a> <br /> 91 - <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/91">An Oral History of The End of "Reality"</a></i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Writing New & Old on Art, Philosophy, Evolution</b></div><br /><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#"><img height="451" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgartrz-zjXVJhyphenhyphenRr9b-KWFCnFWYtIU54eIESkSA7ox9YGC1qMEvpBMYhAnEIW80Hzr9zjw5KJKambxbiwA_ObbAyjWmcASW2PjV-u55zq7EhyphenhyphenD7OxYPfUyjAJkAx7MvO85hbdKCw/w640-h451/10313849_10152021652027105_4826131040371301173_n.jpeg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Arvo Pärt’s minimalist soundscapes are a major feature of the 20th Century's musical terrain; his is a particularly windblown and barren, starkly beautiful land, with grand vistas and time-carved expanses.<br /><br />Here are <a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/the-fullness-of-emptiness-riffing-on-arvo-p%C3%A4rt-f21ba435f5fb?sk=d00243bca84f38bc9884e49c8b6a2a2e" target="_blank">my nondual reflections on his work</a> (an OLD piece from 2007, recently republished).<br /><br />I also wrote a short love letter to one of my favorite turtles in Neo.Life, a magazine about synthetic biology founded by Jane Metcalfe of WIRED Magazine fame:</div><div><br /><a href="https://neo.life/2021/06/9-evolutionary-adaptations-we-love/" target="_blank">9 Evolutionary Adaptations We Love<br /></a><br />And don't think I ever shared this five-minute lecture I gave at The Long Now Foundation's Ignite Talks last year, very much in the spirit of Terence McKenna:</div><div><br /><a href="https://blog.longnow.org/02021/03/22/long-now-member-ignite-talks-02020/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yDsFzsb68&list=PL6uS2H8g4Y29ynN-yHTyAoKvNYOcIJuhd&index=6" target="_blank">Deepfakes and The Archaic Revival<br /></a><br />Lastly, <a href="https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/bitcoin-atms-pop-up-across-santa-fe/article_4e86c7e2-e31e-11eb-98c2-c72dfddc15f4.html" target="_blank">I recently appeared in <i>The Santa Fe New Mexican</i></a> by virtue of being the only person at the Santa Fe Institute to have ever used a Bitcoin ATM.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>New Podcast Episodes (Both Home & Away Games)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I had a fabulous conversation on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/futurefossils/permalink/1426225231072776/" target="_blank">Greater Than Code</a> earlier this year about the economically invisible work of true innovation and discovery...it got deep but stayed accessible. Recommended.</div><div><br /></div><div>And then more recently <a href="https://thirdeyedrops.libsyn.com/the-age-of-false-enlightenment-with-michael-garfield-mind-meld-274" target="_blank">I joined my friend Michael Phillip on his show Third Eye Drops</a> to discuss Immanuel Kant's ideas about rational enlightenment, and ask whether we're living in an age of False Enlightenment (spoiler: both of us think the answer is yes).<br /><br />Lastly, I've had some AMAZING conversations on Future Fossils, recently:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj95Z7oqn6DYYlL6rxL153pKRvQaIjIKa0PUye8ZW4dPMLnSgGwi7UVOmQj9qjZ8DnY8I5fpcUkxKesMpzgmFrdSvYe7sNLjrB6NRUHz7CGG24wTISTNrkwGt_5jEOJ_He3HbzSmw/w400-h400/176+-+Exploring+Ecodelia+-+Myth%252C+Magic%252C+and+Mycelium.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi29e2Ap6GrscP45oyH6whCIQ-2B08Eqc-WmSA1XC9HYxy5kQQEjIJJHMLk2onH8pvF9KIYTuc7akZAvbxWGUH0ia_lP_hJ3OqzrPGwBxRtt26ROhYaJSG8Jda-rbl3ejwb3Ae2ZA/w400-h400/175.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBV3PF5rCwgeuao6tVTohIHX3cLe1CGSd4V3FoVrL1lfupRnm3HWHWmtUSO92NRllINBQffJF-w8uMsrFVSbIZBrCCp4pdn_q95R0VZAfJ9E6Mk94mtEjCw-MJQ6CtIAm2WvlPKg/w400-h400/Private+Collection+07+-+Evan+Snyder.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF1eEuc9SAbuuVPjZ6LBs0EmRsiQHHW5Ge-ASeJVfXXbH4zEr5qSHg33rHI7fRiwGZ9inUbQcRL8xYjed5rq76UmHNZS2m5jbTcDiomevLq0Cyna198VhdPf-tKbS6V_zG8ml23g/w400-h400/Private+Collection+6+-+The+Future+Acts+Like+You.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAotvsTMKwJo8xoRcTn5mov6ORHMsnT-f72I4FRFRXXhc-QMA1y1XzYdyDNOfdUXdOOlkspDaO1k_FwVAurovsoYpz0eu90UoZAEutS3KCKokp5-4U2u1GKQIqmG7TLMYQGGlipQ/w400-h400/Future+Fossils+Private+Collection+4+Michaelangelo.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#"></a><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpouuasfO7yltTnkm2SGla87YP6cSJT4a_9McuOSanm1gbHB3-1-pra2J8eqe0nDscnc9LPxLV_wvU8bdL4h1aEM0S2KmdOYBmzf76ARCMV-mx5IVBWC3xAUNRY-rcbPQ2pwWQSg/w400-h400/Private+Collection+03+-+Positive+Sci-Fi+Consulting+Hour+with+Matt+Dorsey.jpg" /></a></div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Lastly: Prints & Original Paintings for Giving Season</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Here's <a href="http://michaelgarfieldart.com" target="_blank">my print shop</a> and here's <a href="https://bit.ly/paintingsforsale" target="_blank">my list of available original works</a>. Happy to offer unique arrangements to interested collectors — I would far rather you have one of these than for me to keep them hoarded in my studio!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://michaelgarfieldart.com" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1765" data-original-width="1079" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihj_8rt8Sx4j7tcM_jlZ2JdOOx4I3fDgMFeOecKek5qWUfzJgUMGvYQz0ZCttRZGFL0yNBl-asL8KI6bp91pYhpiBcjwiGrgwdcVrpnZv7PtSDnERUtnb9dvHIg36zAo0NOT3_ww/w392-h640/Screenshot_20211105-215725_Photos.jpeg" width="392" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>—Goethe</i></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-25446449856437276672021-10-03T23:42:00.008-05:002021-10-03T23:46:32.085-05:00Autumnal Cornucopia: The Infoboros • New Zelda Song • Carbon-Neutral NFT Future Fossils • Podcast Tour • Back at Meow Wolf Soon!<p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks for reading! I am trying to get back more, but shorter, more digestible emails...but that means catching up first with a major info-dump. (It's my love language!) Hope your upgrades have been and continue to be mostly pleasant, and that you find something in here that hits the spot. Write back any time...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">New Book Cover & Future Fossils NFT Collection</span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.voice.com/michaelgarfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1361" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYbmPz3FkPmoscACh2EIIbJeaMatZWmxAtrJAYkDuKSRI1OeBsHNmVuLlVZrAfyt_Ngzi0nbvZACI5-QnqlQWjScn9zKjiuzyjfhFAstQnw1FQD1fX247F3QA-3jSu_UtFV470wQ/w424-h640/Infoboros+%2522Solo%2522.jpg" width="424" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The brilliant Vidur Mishra, gifted undergraduate student of my mentor Richard Doyle, just wrote his first book and it is one hell of a debut. <i><a href="https://metanoia.press/the-infoboros/" target="_blank">The Infoboros: Recursion Across Mind, Matter, and Information</a></i> blends neuroscience, yoga and meditation, and information theory together into a mind-altering ride on the nature of consciousness and what to notice about it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I feel very lucky to have done the cover for this book. The commission sparked my passion for photomanipulation art, and got me deep in some awesome apps that have become my go-to flowstate protocols when it's too late at night for me to mess with paint or music. And of course, the honor of doing the cover for a book this good...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's also my first NFT (non-fungible token, a unique digital instance of a work of art, minted on a blockchain) at <a href="https://www.voice.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">the carbon-neutral digital art marketplace Voice.com</a>, which I've been following with interest since 2018, well before it launched. I like that they want to make it as easy as can be for artists to produce collections and for people unfamiliar with cryptocurrencies to collect art without having to understand the infrastructure.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And making 1-of-1 "official" versions of each work, in addition to <a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/the-infoboros" target="_blank">paper and canvas prints</a>, makes me feel like I can recognize my finished products as unique, like paintings, even though the art is easy to mechanically reproduce (although it's worth noting that my NFTs use JPGs orders of magnitude more detailed than what anyone will find online...and that the real utility of NFTs has less to do with owning an art file and more to do with what else having a verifiable on-chain identity opens up — for instance, I can send new works to people who've acquired older ones, or grant them special access to decentralized communities or projects...I'll be writing more about this soon).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is more info on the book:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://metanoia.press/the-infoboros/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img data-original-height="1598" data-original-width="1044" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUGyNPaXudBX34UuhulcVI1z2Ko33pP3M-1H3OjA0fLyYbvYvBy0_KlV63nAJZR0FYzqrCz7PUVxwZUXwUtE7sBQ1Tb0G-VNrj5OMGs7qpEtT8piQ5R_imRfOANaPVnMt3fi5mdw/w262-h400/Screen+Shot+2021-09-09+at+7.47.26+PM.png" width="262" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And here is where you'll find <a href="https://www.voice.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">the NFT for this piece</a>, and <a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/the-infoboros" target="_blank">paper or canvas prints</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, "San Francisco", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(I was pleased to learn that Voice promoted my work and this piece in <a href="https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/tour-virtual-gallery-nfts-then-visit-one-irl-bushwick" target="_blank">a recent sponsored feature at <i>Gothamist</i></a>, a New York culture mag with nearly 1M Twitter followers...)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Also on Voice: FINALLY, the series of digital portals I've been diving into, rendered as unique digital collectibles with <a href="https://www.voice.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">psychedelic scifi microfictions for each piece</a> (which you can read there). I've always imagined "Future Fossils" as literal objects, time traveling messages from the future, kind of like reverse time capsules. Having, finally, the right place to enact this concept in a series, I'm reveling in the trippy glimpses of "the" future that each one invokes for me, and captioning them in that way...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/collections/digital-paintings" target="_blank">I'm doing prints for these as well</a> — but nonthelesss believe displaying the 9K-pixel-wide NFT version on a huge solar-powered OLED screen would be impressive.</span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib7ryeFJLl9-gb47QVojqTrHQzC-54fEjpVlFweBnevkDH7Z6qEiwgyfWFMUEy7SXAwgNf6J4J8eoBhFCHkL-h3hUR928cTkG3H2FrB_4E17gwxqeI4mgznMVMQazaGX1D6_2Gbg/s2048/actual+future+fossils+v1+copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib7ryeFJLl9-gb47QVojqTrHQzC-54fEjpVlFweBnevkDH7Z6qEiwgyfWFMUEy7SXAwgNf6J4J8eoBhFCHkL-h3hUR928cTkG3H2FrB_4E17gwxqeI4mgznMVMQazaGX1D6_2Gbg/w640-h640/actual+future+fossils+v1+copy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Find the NFTs and <a href="https://www.voice.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">read the microfictions here</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">New Song About <i>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild</i></span></b></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />And then there's this. Sometimes a song just overtakes me and writes itself in minutes. This is one of those. I love it and the people whom I've shown this demo take have ROFLed. Patreon supporters can expect more stuff like this — I'm writing music far, far faster than I can produce definitive recordings, and it seems to me that the best way to honor my undying songbird muse is to just slap these out as rapidly as possible, and loop back when I can. If that sounds fun to you, <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#">hop on board and let's do this</a>:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-song-demo-of-56394911" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img data-original-height="1022" data-original-width="1532" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4RpgD9zlmFQpcDByPc7gbCKOjmCCPBqCYq_eJToGu3zc0enYkfnGlCK-ybEmdG4Ij8B4B9KehyphenhyphenRbOGifzQAIdr9A1JCwMj5Ec2wZ4bdVoLI7uCNjidZI493J2bKHmcORV3SOaDQ/w640-h426/Screen+Shot+2021-09-20+at+2.07.57+PM.png" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">New Podcast Episodes</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This show has been quite satisfying for me, lately, as a host. The quality of conversation — the amount of heart and presence, the grace with which we engage in deep stuff with well-balanced levity — has been nourishing. The latest two are no exceptions:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYAroN2hIZTyO7xJe47JBMoNcfvbT3wWwewj8nX-308P8zNj87Rbp1vEJI4-dHfhep4uwCF0n5PQhQcJP_2f8rJsbSXCtnl0yfXPRLZh4BN0nvHoMFmGJNu8qJJbU-Fgbw3YiSMA/w640-h640/174+-+Evan+Snyder+on+Sound+Design+for+A+Robotic+Built+Wilderness.jpg" width="640" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/55845232" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTlm-7ay_vLq7QefXGpPPA0unxV5Dt-FjOIyM1TboeZ9T9oJ_0wsypAtROrz2f1tFqSvrtxscB199M4a6PnfEVBBynNp2NZCIvJeXVv_1WWOHLFADY67W_ClzncAe6cmuW8mRJg/w640-h640/173+-+Daniel+Shankin+on+Psychedelic+Integration+-+The+Path+of+the+Heart.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Future Fossils Book Club Is Back!</span></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/update-roadmap-3-56004894" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1578" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27EuO_UMw9g-qTbxyHuzP8aKC5G287BjxRlM1Mdw290Z42Asz4MQRaRpxaOmxE8sjvv4E7BUuk0kRzMrLm4RxfvfqsZOMHz5tcjXKNSenG_flqg-BPxrSFqowlVXMzLsawjIi-A/w640-h324/book+club+2021-big-scale-2_00x.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">As of this week, all three authors have agreed to be on the show. As always, Patreon supporters at all levels are welcome...and I will set up channels for asynchronous group discussion in <a href=" https://discord.gg/5JeugFT" target="_blank">the Future Fossils Discord Server</a> so we can yarn together about these both before and after the actual live calls. By all means, start reading whenever you like, but I'll be active in the channels in the order I can actually get to these books, starting with <i>Civilized To Death</i>, and will treat these discussions as crowd-sourced notes in preparation for the episodes.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">2021 Podcast Tour</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I've also been on a lot of other people's amazing podcasts lately, for which I am grateful. A very diverse set of conversations spanning leadership, spiritual inquiry, creative work, sustainability, and much more. I know time is limited but let me know if you would like me to refer you to just one of them in address to a given living question in your heart:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsAgEDcs0lM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1217" data-original-width="2048" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5tVl3HHorPwxy06X3RIsRbao6N8B55Iew5FBGU4Maay3fvoJbgDPo3RMCFEW1B0XwtF6h0A5UMbt1wmyMHR3ZURexV_JGzodCYEro13x8TOFKq8l2Qw15vy6B3U_rFbSul0xwLA/w640-h380/Screen+Shot+2021-10-03+at+10.25.26+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />"For episode 33, Layman [Pascal] is joined by Michael Garfield for a stroll along the highlands of weirdness. Ostensibly orbiting Michael's Complexity and Future Fossils podcasts, and his work for the Santa Fe Institute, they riff on the four types of individuals who channel creativity into society; the difficulty of translating novel insights down in the marketplace; ontological pluralism; 'pace layers' in social and artistic transformation; UFOs; Pepe the Frog, cunnilingus, and neo-Shamanic symbology; alternative voting systems and maximizing collective intelligence; dinosaurs; transhumanism, the bicameral mind, and alien modes of consciousness; tantra; retro-causation; the hummingbird at the edge of time; and -- well, frankly, Layman finally found a guest and conversation partner that out-taxed my powers of summary .... Just hop in, strap on, and see for yourself."</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://anchor.fm/artsyaf/episodes/Episode-90--Michael-Garfield-Amphibious-AF-or-How-to-Adapt-and-Navigate-in-Changing-Complex-Systems-e16v1k4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSXMxpz0dO2NZZgw8kYgo32shN_DfFb5Fahzm5_pPK3j_odA-8cZoPvtE4TCXjTErRfZmCZfMZkD_MDaCjfNG0UKK3S_fshLOVUpd-wFMc4xZduHitjZQQCebabxdT3nsJhn1zkg/w640-h360/maxresdefault+copy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"We talk on everything from free will, to the future of civilization; from incentivizing integration over innovation, to staying childlike into adulthood in order to adapt to the disruptive economy we've created. If you like deep thinking, fractal conversation, you will one-hundred-percent-love this episode. Thanks and shouts to Michael for all the insight and good humor he brought to this episode!"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgsB7r1SXYI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img data-original-height="632" data-original-width="1092" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjABwZs4BfgTY2wVNxYpHA0a_k08l-OhKg44OCLnx-FFCXTdefjwUrnQ39wOpZjIVw8SxP16Ny8G6h9rtydzDY5De1ak6WRhlXBnnueko0F9aCxh_QvPN-kl24jIck3-Sr22AbN_w/w640-h370/Screen+Shot+2021-09-23+at+9.37.47+PM.png" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I'm honored to be a grantee of this rad project </span><a href="https://docs.ideamarket.io/" target="_blank">Idea Market</a><span>, which seeks to fix the vital problems of mass media reputation market and fact factories. This conversation with founder Mike Elias and co-host James Ellis (also of Hermitix) was extremely fun.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Discussed: Time-space synesthesia; Corporatization of the natural; 'The incentive structures of society are misaligned with the incentives of individuals'; Scaling laws of life and society; Be open to the unknown or perish; Tokenization of everything and the inability to quantify value; 'Story is the active ingredient in epistemology'; 'The truth owes you jack'; The Century of the Self & why values are more important than incentives; 'I'll probably ruin your entire company'; the need for dissenters...</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://anchor.fm/weareliminal/episodes/035-Michael-Garfield---The-Purpose-of-Polymaths-e17keq8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1157" data-original-width="2048" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1YlOwicX9c9qd2Z23GVCYVrJOOPZlB9QV8T_nnNTtEnXYYRoeGM-iTBYLgWjhRFUv7sllQwLBMW2rfggN97SiU5H-9mQLwc7B9VJUicWozLrGfpoi7e-8C1y-q5W-6c4VC1bgFw/" width="640" /></span></a></div></div></div></div></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center;">"Our conversation explored the need for generalists in a highly specialised world and interdisciplinarity, including the following questions: What is the purpose of polymaths? Why is neuroplasticity is the best antidote to uncertainty and complexity? What is the nature of the technological and evolutionary transition we are in right now? Why would we want to live in the future versus the long now?"</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.21stcenturyvitalism.com/episodes/finding-balance-on-the-edge-of-collapse-with-michael-garfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4yilbuwla1_u6C975P1M8FXzDcdGLxYkEJMFi8hKUEyqPmid24c8Dd1NKCPPgshbb_cb6LzYZyTrfSyt0Fg8g45fP9c-yQJjgjcBH8lF809gqiboHGNOITmYo8tchOYuipBwKgw/w640-h640/MG+Cover.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"We explore how humans have been evolving with technology, what happens when innovation becomes the problem, and how we can best navigate societal collapse. It's a nourishing buffet of optimistic outlooks and critical evaluations on the very real issues that we're currently facing on the world stage."</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face="Inter, sans-serif" style="color: #3a3a3a;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://apricotjam.castos.com/podcasts/24496/episodes/michael-garfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="496" data-original-width="1062" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgucEYQOqJDEABk2elPSz1Z2vYRzWFCQ6-0b8vrMCLkKiwuAwNITLdVarQYttOoivzyemg8Z9xYLkYI4BAU8mtdD2uGc-WHzmIbkWBvBsvnCadlG5q1-4IzWDFldBTprf99q8wIrA/w640-h298/Screen+Shot+2021-10-03+at+10.31.10+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">They didn't break down this episode with detailed show notes, but I remember this conversation with Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf as a candid trialogue about spiritual practice and psychological inquiry. Very broad, friendly banter that ranged far but stayed close to the heart of things...<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Upcoming Concert</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Lastly! I'm excited to announce that two years to the day after my last pre-pandemic day, and on the same amazing stage, I'll be back at Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return to open for the awesome electroacoustic harpist Mary Lattimore! If you live nearby (meaning as far as Denver), join me on December 14th and we'll have a grand old time:</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tickets.meowwolf.com/events/santa-fe/mary-lattimore/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="952" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrypF-mFbduv1xSufxIyXUqknzStho5_-eTjxMBgv9iZgtAIy3FH37mceEj3AL5Dm52vtghVETj3XzK98zrUeDRT4arfhru0CfS5Cew7oAxQslv6IVzNX3x7564T2m4cHWfB16-w/w426-h640/digitalposter+%252812%2529.png" width="426" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>“Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways.”</i></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>— Glennon Doyle Melton</i></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-72581084382156688992021-08-30T23:58:00.003-05:002021-08-31T00:15:07.115-05:00An Entire Summer's Worth of Explosive Creativity (Part 1): Indigenous Systems Thinking, Psychedelic Folk, Time Travel, Painted Dinosaurs, Cyborg Cuttlefish...oh, and I had another kid!<div style="text-align: center;"><i>"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>- J. Krishnamurti</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="text-align: start;">“My point of view is marginal, even in my own community. But there is fertile ground at the margins.”</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">– Tyson Yunkaporta</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5DNMyqQN6NdKx_0fhPZvbQl4sJs3mGkI6jV7xSsHFRVM7WAc7k1LS7Bj9MUn6LxYjKz8nvYblURnWy9tnaLwFrRcRRfqPqKjnxRVX3-H4WNv7jvacoWQjyfbJbRQrVkTEzQTFGg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5DNMyqQN6NdKx_0fhPZvbQl4sJs3mGkI6jV7xSsHFRVM7WAc7k1LS7Bj9MUn6LxYjKz8nvYblURnWy9tnaLwFrRcRRfqPqKjnxRVX3-H4WNv7jvacoWQjyfbJbRQrVkTEzQTFGg/" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hello, friends! This "biweekly" newsletter last went out on June 19th. <b style="text-align: center;">🤦 </b>While routine has never been my strong suit, I'd like to apologize for gathering an entire summer's worth of news into two updates and explain that my silence had good reason — or, two reasons, really:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1) 🐙 This summer I was picked to participate in the <a href="https://disi.org" target="_blank">Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute</a>, an amazing international program that brings promising young scientists and inspiring media creators together for a month of intense study and collaboration. The fruits of this immersion will be falling from my tree for quite some time, starting with this update and proceeding with a steady stream of new art, videos, podcasts, possibly music, maybe even peer-reviewed publications over the next year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2) 👶 My wife and I just welcomed <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CShsgL6J0iR/" target="_blank">Ian Taylor Garfield</a> to the family on August 9th! There are four of us, now, and his arrival catalyzed a period of massive change equal in amplitude to our first child Ada's. I've had to take some time away from the grinds and hustles I've been locked up in for the last fifteen or so years to get perspective and allow the inner transformations to unfold while caring for this growing family amidst a world that seems to make less sense with every passing day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0-eMWFQhj1oX6LGZ9-8lGruoiRiASVGB4kXgqydbr4wngTxpruijS5CVS1jEQ389ojT8StJHU3lqNelEUzbnTp21ELtrfpK4Lfk8rPTqs_CwJeFy4DExrmu9lVux4s9EsjGqDw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0-eMWFQhj1oX6LGZ9-8lGruoiRiASVGB4kXgqydbr4wngTxpruijS5CVS1jEQ389ojT8StJHU3lqNelEUzbnTp21ELtrfpK4Lfk8rPTqs_CwJeFy4DExrmu9lVux4s9EsjGqDw/w640-h360/PXL_20210818_035009613.NIGHT.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In spite of working harder than ever while staring into the abyss of even greater responsibility for the well-being of innocents while the whole world waltzes off the plank into total madness, I nonetheless managed to spent a lot of time this summer making art — in part because I need this now, to cope; in part because I somehow only sleep 5-6 hours a night, these days; and in part because I would rather do this than my day job anyway, and must, so here we are.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The hard part has been finding time to share it. Out of respect for your time and attention I will split this update into two parts and send Part Two out next week. Stay tuned and thank you for sticking with me through all of our mutations!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">🎸 NEW SONGS:</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">HOUSE SHIP ON A HILL</span></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/house-ship-on-a-hill" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgsyUaMu5IaPWLoS1aqEc1jQlv-jFMStudj4mdf8sKqLNSg20Mk6x8OGtN2WLHUc3rNG8ykoEdgv2zrTdmq1E4zuWVfNLbiJHgvy4uHtCQFlVNDWMf43x0-en9Be_Pqof7r1XMeA/w640-h640/house+ship+on+a+hill+cover+art.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/house-ship-on-a-hill" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Listen/Buy at Bandcamp</span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"It takes a certain ability and passion to be vulnerable to release artwork as raw and iridescent as these songs...they came as a complete surprise to me. Hearing ["Autonomous Zone"] filled me with much unexpected emotion. It made my heart hurt, if I’m gonna be honest..."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>- Sandra Lam</i></div><br /><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/house-ship-on-a-hill" target="_blank">Three new songs</a> (and four more on the way) — some of the most emotional and mysterious I've ever recorded — about confinement and liberation, hope and anxiety, love and loss, joy and mystery. They haunted me, at length and vividly, and wrote themselves after almost a decade of slow currents, just one song a year. The all-at-once-ness of this inspiration was unusual, but no less than its circumstances...I hope you hear in these a record of the tragic beauty and uncanny brilliance of a time and place.</div><div><br />Life hasn't stopped and 2020 gave me more songs than time to record them, so buying these songs subscribes you to the rest of them as soon as they are ready. Rather than wait until I can get all seven down, I felt like sharing what I have so far...the rest will come, along with more new songs, but I owe it to the muse to get these out now. I hope they help you, too, abide in the complex, diaphonous, and potent energies that animate these times...</div><div><br /></div><div><i>For anyone who'd like a deeper exploration, I just shared extensive patrons-only liner notes, with a photo album and a 45-minute exegesis of these songs and their backstory, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/55380862" target="_blank">on Patreon</a>:</i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="bcTruncateMore" face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #171717; color: white; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/55380862" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUNA3v1Pfme2GCCt-MOsd-nFoMLd4zG5iDTPZW6flFjuJw0Hqiwbq5qQHeqfLX-BTGxhTwNN2FQiF04kOiBk3AspjHTC7kg7cp_KEPZT7r5mTIRrWKnMRVIaCFvBSi6is4EZVv2g/w640-h640/Private+Collection+5+-+Inside+The+Music+-+House+Ship+On+A+Hill.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>🎨 NEW PAINTING:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>GMO WATERMELON TOURMALINE PARASAUROLOPHUS</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/gmo-watermelon-tourmaline-parasaurolophus" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1625" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8nTPqLiiGIX3myj-PijvguufY4cWF4pQuKycI3VoUiof5RHk4ng8qOVc9jfiNhhZXKdtbdcJmFZuEbkXJcfKsMUOhI3TvkSVWOwUoDE4mIodt1MfBO2BjQBiQ0uy2w2ReAStc0w/w508-h640/20210821_132330.jpeg" width="508" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/products/gmo-watermelon-tourmaline-parasaurolophus" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Buy Prints</span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">paint pens on canvas</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">18" x 24"</span></b></div><div><br /></div>My friend and original Future Fossils Podcast cohost Evan "Skytree" Snyder commissioned this piece as an engagement gift to his awesome fiancée. Loosely inspired by Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous' fluorescent designer dinos as well as religious iconography (namely, Tibetan Thangka paintings - you can see it in the eye - and patron saint prayer candles), this piece is loose, stylistic, and playful...not terribly precise as an exercise in perspective or anatomical accuracy, but working on this piece has inspired me to keep going with more of attention to accurate paleoillustration reconstructions that retain this psychedelic art flair. Stay tuned!</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">🎨 NEW PAINTING-IN-PROGRESS<br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>DIVERSE INTELLIGENCES </i>(WORKING TITLE)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY86_A1DMH9RQVQpNI9oo6aTB8zOKg-jeQUosZE0I_KVFieX_jWZn3gjcMJLbDiC5MfcKkBYACqbwjmiENtMYw_NkvdsePIOcNQkSuvqvgURa4Bi7aYYZ5xjhhbvmDRHIkP9w7UA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1929" data-original-width="2048" height="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY86_A1DMH9RQVQpNI9oo6aTB8zOKg-jeQUosZE0I_KVFieX_jWZn3gjcMJLbDiC5MfcKkBYACqbwjmiENtMYw_NkvdsePIOcNQkSuvqvgURa4Bi7aYYZ5xjhhbvmDRHIkP9w7UA/w640-h602/Working+Title+Diverse+Intelligences.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">paint pens on masonite panel</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b style="font-size: large; text-align: start;">48" x 32"</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After eleven years of live painting at concerts and festivals that built on a lifetime of doodling in class, working on this large piece while listening to the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute's remote lectures at home in my office felt like landing a successful turn up the helix of personal evolution. This is by no means done, however, and I still have several lectures left to absorb, so it might be a month or so before I have a finished work to share...follow the progress on <a href="https://instagram.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">my Instagram account</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">🎧 NEW FUTURE FOSSILS EPISODES</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This show just keeps on getting better — probably because <a href="http://complexity.simplecast.com" target="_blank">Complexity</a>, the show I host for the Santa Fe Institute, demands so much of me as a scholar and conversationalist and it's honed my work with my own independent podcast. Future Fossils has become the home for conversations I can't have at work — about Indigenous thinking, about time travel and precognition, about visionary art and behavioral design and weird philosophy. But it would be much less without the awesome guests that I've roped in — if you don't recognize these people, let me promise you you're doing yourself favors by absorbing what they have to say.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can subscribe to <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes" target="_blank">Future Fossils</a> anywhere, and join the conversation on <a href="https://discord.gg/5JeugFT" target="_blank">Discord</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/futurefossils/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/55031630" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS-GzDHSuXxSBwLzMWF8Kh8TD2fVkn4jWe1h1X4ldlX7NLnd_ceZwYyEg_6XgQ-BKvy5I24pX8WHOQEpD5T6_UuRDiS1jz-cBQsnja1HTpPm8bCGItkBxJNCeHqrPtExSKrPDveg/w400-h400/172+-+Tyson+Yunkaporta+on+Indigenous+Systems+Thinking%252C+Fractal+Governance%252C+Ontopunk%252C+and+Queering+W.E.I.R.D.+Modernity.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/54204005" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQVQXaIFURr5D2GvSncHTi0CNt018xmWCN7aA2zBSVuhV6fBnpuD1bBc06FAx3aPT77J9b9IfktS7uVjAKHE9J6JjxIiCmFfnTeoKDYKjRA01eTInKVO4LaGzNxtg5KM-ylFZIg/w400-h400/171+-+Eric+Wargo+on+Precognitive+Dreamwork+%2526+The+Philosophy+of+Time+Travel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/53439846" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTbQkQzA385fWcZbA6F9bq1N6DaRHL0aZrl9Q16yYlStKf8QuvG8rUo33Mh22SFV-5kAe1YhiRtbwTz4h_LQvDT4fURFBGkyfi-NEiaVz7I5XJXvJNVrdFOqDEVLmZYYbUu2CEsg/w400-h400/FF+170+-+Michaelangelo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/future-fossils-53031973" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOu8hGkrYFaYnRv75KdkxvH-l7BtpseMSwlT9as8Z-_575mugf4ovBWf-UOhnUPXzeOfRz32WHE2VDsSlkVEIroQ3ftiWPgVWJkyj4Pi9m8-jOzP7QwVKFfauW695p12dR74hag/w400-h400/FF+169.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That's it for now. More to share next week. Thank you for reading, reach out any time, and be well!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://patreon.com/michaelgarfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="1000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dr1q_Sv2v7Rgvo4OS-tWq_FZG1h1FvG9Z27OKmYJ0GI1oDKmQHNZ15SCVyXIrkrArIuiGYXBr82Pl_3QVawguMAFHF0t20rB5p4Tin3jYR_Y0SRoZ33nBGFNf1TQTqMAiy2hAQ/w640-h206/Patreon+Email+Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></i></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-11729869668110778212021-06-19T17:18:00.003-05:002021-06-19T17:18:29.523-05:00Life Finds A Way • Hyperstition • Freak Flag Mailbox • Psychedelic Book Club • Post-Covid Festivals • Art & Science • The Future Is Disgusting<div style="text-align: center;"><i>"We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is...joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>– Joseph Campbell</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Consummations and conversations: I've been very busy lately in the Future Fossils <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/futurefossils/" target="_blank">Facebook group </a>and <a href="https://discord.gg/5JeugFT" target="_blank">Discord server</a> but have nonetheless brought these works — some very long in the incubator — to completion. The relief is real, the resolution deep! Here are my latest psychoactive brain treats to augment your navigation of the weirdness that is 2021:</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">NEW MUSIC 65 MILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING</span></h3><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP57SDPnDKlZ9USTaVnbdDYDkis_Qt-hPgtW8_kh7Ry-Y3VvD3xuWv8-Cmu_GETn8ctgIWgqgu4BDI5UwwhcurcMrpMbHX_Vh5_dSJ9UXldsz2SJw7UBN4p76d1z6Ni3dRRtCw7g/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP57SDPnDKlZ9USTaVnbdDYDkis_Qt-hPgtW8_kh7Ry-Y3VvD3xuWv8-Cmu_GETn8ctgIWgqgu4BDI5UwwhcurcMrpMbHX_Vh5_dSJ9UXldsz2SJw7UBN4p76d1z6Ni3dRRtCw7g/w640-h360/maxresdefault.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNRPl3JMxW0sTsNDXvjha1tE9ePXAer-JRqtjK9Yw5w3zme49zTW-WwgDthR6JzRW1bk_55gOpz4uKYq5rgwA_OHAFTws9DbOxof1_SuibFMDzy1AiQg_KBOYMDXyYrYxls2jOw/s2048/life+finds+a+way+%252B+hyperstition.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="2048" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNRPl3JMxW0sTsNDXvjha1tE9ePXAer-JRqtjK9Yw5w3zme49zTW-WwgDthR6JzRW1bk_55gOpz4uKYq5rgwA_OHAFTws9DbOxof1_SuibFMDzy1AiQg_KBOYMDXyYrYxls2jOw/w640-h322/life+finds+a+way+%252B+hyperstition.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/michaelgarfield/life-finds-a-way-hyperstition" target="_blank">Listen at Soundcloud</a> • <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/the-age-of-reunion" target="_blank">Purchase at Bandcamp</a> • <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21FNc7eXuPzQ4Q5cjMFwiG?si=53497621ea6d4eaf" target="_blank">Save to your Spotify collection</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Life Finds A Way" (and the one-minute instrumental coda "Hyperstition") have been in the works since my dorm room days in 2002 — so not exactly the Cretaceous, but might as well be.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This latest addition to my ongoing album-in-progress <i>The Age of Reunion</i> (which you can <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/the-age-of-reunion" target="_blank">scope out and pre-order here</a>) brings acoustic guitar, synthesizer, Chapman Stick, organ, electronic drums, and four-part vocal harmonies together into something appropriately bombastic, groovy, operatic, and apocalyptic to serve as the vehicle for proggy epic pop adventures into the pre-and-post-historic.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are a few different ways to engage. Get out your headphones and hold onto your butts:</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>🦖</b><b> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/michaelgarfield/life-finds-a-way-hyperstition" target="_blank">Soundcloud</a> (for time-stamped commenting) </b></span><b>🦖</b></p><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>🦖</b><b><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/the-age-of-reunion" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> (for lossless audio downloads) 🦖</b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>🦖</b><b> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21FNc7eXuPzQ4Q5cjMFwiG?si=53497621ea6d4eaf" target="_blank">Spotify</a> (for saving to playlists) </b><b>🦖</b></div></b><p class="p3" style="color: #dca10d; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Patreon supporters get some sweet exegesis with <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/future-fossils-52197944" target="_blank">an extra half-hour of my Ian Malcolm-esque ranting</a> on the inspiration behind this song: technological evolution, complex systems, accidental magic, reality ruptures, and the end of the world. If you're "like me...a digger," then dig into all that here:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/future-fossils-52197944" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG6UvKFmW8qR8ykpTWwyculMrAhGRXub7r2KL5M84cNcv4R3UXjKn8WsTOC3N6Fz52E7gJULhxy5M4kf1WULJW_NxcEEntQqIUBZbI93iF9UxQaocV4xgI27wEr14F5jvDY4risA/w640-h640/Future+Fossils+Private+Collection+02+-+Hyperstition%252C+Hyperobjects%252C+and+Jurassic+Park.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">UPCOMING BOOK CLUB CALLS</span></h3><p class="p3" style="color: #dca10d; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Speaking of awesome science fiction and general weirdness, we're discussing two amazing books in the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/52266326" target="_blank">Future Fossils Book Club</a> this summer. I hope you can join us!<br /><br /><p class="p3" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/52266326" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwWzFpW_KacTh7TKcNRzk73VQX3SNWwjmUfK370ISD0lUvdmanqd58Af6tNQxdkStko0imoajOiRiwjkR3biq5PnEQdgSR_8kBE8PM2y5zbf1iUoQp5PPNq3yH55tgQz41y1DZig/w640-h480/book+club+calls.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I PROMISED YOU I WOULDN'T STOP PAINTING</span></h3><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And now that I have a place I can customize however I like (the pressure!), I started small by upcycling our trashy old mailbox into something that screams "weirdos live here." Next up: my closet doors...</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZMhEjTiQS9nx3lBeJCNElvp6aXMCH3ZsVmF1-sfYTDo38O-08fYooaxNf59bpwxBaerXXyGh9adoAHn7YskW0fcV7ooN-iwRSoPxP3ndCSw91r_0AvtZ0TIBeY7dmVq3q55h2ig/s2048/mailbox+more.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZMhEjTiQS9nx3lBeJCNElvp6aXMCH3ZsVmF1-sfYTDo38O-08fYooaxNf59bpwxBaerXXyGh9adoAHn7YskW0fcV7ooN-iwRSoPxP3ndCSw91r_0AvtZ0TIBeY7dmVq3q55h2ig/w640-h426/mailbox+more.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWmjnNtYL0oB0lxaeTWJwQY0vB-l31iPuAWhQVvqq039nQCf_cbrA6L_QMCzddpxaBDzFJTWEJuY1g8DVvCsdK9ubzFPkY7qOp-pV0gZq9WRrG1zqeRIUUGMaX3-qXZwf_mn6SFA/s2048/mailbox+montage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1820" data-original-width="2048" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWmjnNtYL0oB0lxaeTWJwQY0vB-l31iPuAWhQVvqq039nQCf_cbrA6L_QMCzddpxaBDzFJTWEJuY1g8DVvCsdK9ubzFPkY7qOp-pV0gZq9WRrG1zqeRIUUGMaX3-qXZwf_mn6SFA/w640-h568/mailbox+montage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">NEW FUTURE FOSSILS EPISODES</span></h3><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lastly, while I'm not toiling away at my admittedly-excellent (4.8 stars on 147 Apple Podcast reviews) day job show, <a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com" target="_blank">Complexity Podcast</a>, I've been knocking out some wonderful conversations and solo casts for Future Fossils. And here they are:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/52340931" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVN9y7Bw3xZ44XDY4-PmdW7upb-Q2EfUTFlHUN0p8eECeGg3PZUCZagX0R9de7tnQ3OyARtajQapJqFwyRplyoDpfUDqt-aYNdy_Tljl5aaVGQx4Nho3j0PD9UPHFZv708XmEDFA/w640-h640/168+-+Mikey+Lion+%2526+Malena+Grosz.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I talk with <b>Mikey Lion</b>, music producer and co-founder of <b>Desert Hearts</b>, and <b>Malena Grosz</b>, creator of <b>The Party Pro Toolkit</b> and director of <b>Stargate Reunion</b>, about the pandemic’s distortions of time and community, flow states and festival time, gatherings in the No New Normal, the impact of stage design and architecture on how community events shape individual experience, the tension between intimacy and scale, DMT and other life-changing experiences, the good parts of tribalism, psychedelic integration, and the future of festival economics…<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/psEO1E9bS-A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="2048" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyPVaNqR9C4KlHMlwQhUUPiuSwmtOqyTgRmQnsyAqaYz-yzPKFDs9D-PpgGlnd2Tq31iGd_0B9fImfoYWOsaBEf7PgUKVPmy7qcBtbSkUFja4lH33rPXAtdEEOvv5cEeleNqgQJQ/w640-h380/Screen+Shot+2021-06-15+at+4.00.16+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/psEO1E9bS-A" target="_blank">Watch Here</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>On 23 May 2021 as part of the latest Complexity Weekend hackathon, I hosted a live panel discussion with four unique and fascinating minds: </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Michaela Emch</b> is a communication and marketing specialist, translator, cultural mediator, biomimicry practitioner, safari guide, keen naturalist and biology enthusiast. <b>Andréa Naccache</b> is a psychoanalyst and a doctoral student in philosophy of law at the University of São Paulo, with an MBA in finance. <b>Meredith Tromble</b> is an artist and writer who makes installations, drawings, and performances. <b>Timothy Clancy</b> work ranges from sophisticated simulations of violence & instability to systems thinking for business.</div><div><br /> We discussed the relationship between the arts and sciences, conflicts of interest between systems and individual people, and many more interesting threads at the intersection of complex systems research and creative innovation.</div><div><div><span style="color: #0000ee; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="background-color: #181818; color: white; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/51486631" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZOK2CjIV7Mh1FfNfCnOYKp0GFAHYiZUlSVg-ORb90LhTja9-V8ZQ-XPwKlGOzZNWEVA6KSYAJRXceL-c8f972PfwA3Rn0X0JIBa-Pih9OS-XZHlv9fKZS9532ZPx99aTsqZZ-Q/w640-h640/Future+Fossils+Private+Collection+01.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: underline;"><br /></div></span>The first in a new biweekly, patrons-only sidestream for author-read essays, commentary on current events, mailbag replies, and experimental format episodes. First up is a reading of and commentary on my Part Six of my book-forever-in-progress, <i>How To Live in The Future</i>: "The Future Is Disgusting." <br /><br />Here's a teaser:<br /><br /><i>The future that I want, the only future I believe worth living in, is full of love — and love is all about relaxing boundaries. Erupting into our Italian gardens, smashing manicured taxonomies, and popping our extropian illusions of a better life beyond constraints, love is the greatest trickster that reveals distinctions in imagined unity and unifies apparent opposites, to hell with definitions; it is time for you to learn.<br /><br />And that ensures the future will be positively gross, because as every set of paired antitheses resolves within the immanent-transcendent whole appearing as the herald of another era, nemeses are written into myth together; warring faiths combine their efforts to create economies; and everything you loathe today is indispensably a part of who you are, in truth, and who you could become if you survive and live receptive to the gnarly lessons of reflection offered up to you by love.<br /><br />Someday all you hate will lose its charge within a greater truth — which, in a way, is even worse than knowing it will just persist. No: it becomes a part of you, and therefore worthy of your love; you learn to dig the things you feared; your brain adapts to shifting norms; we really are remarkable in our plasticity, and you’ll regard you-reading-now as hopelessly naïve, and small, and understandable, for all your ignorances are enshrined and glow within as relics of the origin of that more terrible and beautiful, awake and all-embracing thing you are.<br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">MISCELLANY</span></b></h3><div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://rarible.com/michaelgarfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="2966" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjB-OTAwBKtuwg7DDh7WR1l-xCOrSKY3-215p4Q-DQuwpPlpSUOnC850rsyAU6JMbdRebsD1UbIXqG41NlEYpre3AtRG-CUD7e76odCqfSX14tHxLlXm4-1UVGWXaykzhGLaXEtA/w640-h194/Screen+Shot+2021-03-12+at+4.52.41+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://rarible.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank"><b>Available NFTs at Rarible</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://foundation.app/michaelgarfield" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1117" data-original-width="2816" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDrmqEjGiS149NefA1xKjoj7xH1zDdhNMFvVJWwZo1Na24DP21-YZp7iPkisB77TsVaowImxHBMZmPVLuuCw9o8Fa3gujXzEi2Z-jb5iDfF3zPjEIMpidZ9XKLFNr8Qfdr_hltuw/w640-h254/Screen+Shot+2021-06-19+at+3.42.12+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://foundation.app/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">Available NFTs at Foundation</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8?si=6658b35cedc6414d" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="2336" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ooUNNl7btGHBG_4uvBBCkF8gPHkT0aNrNUX-jOqGJJpU0zGo_L22LNFQNwWzJGfWEHtsxK3XafJCsTXfPSgAXZPPiYV6bH0Mf3U8k1mnpujql52k-ZBoxgfEmJSi3PpFq7Cdyg/w640-h134/Screen+Shot+2020-11-02+at+2.00.49+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8?si=6658b35cedc6414d" target="_blank"><b>My ever-deepening feed of wondrous musical discoveries</b></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://patreon.com/michaelgarfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="1000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dr1q_Sv2v7Rgvo4OS-tWq_FZG1h1FvG9Z27OKmYJ0GI1oDKmQHNZ15SCVyXIrkrArIuiGYXBr82Pl_3QVawguMAFHF0t20rB5p4Tin3jYR_Y0SRoZ33nBGFNf1TQTqMAiy2hAQ/w640-h206/Patreon+Email+Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-51462567549033768362021-05-19T12:20:00.001-05:002021-06-19T17:19:19.133-05:00There is no path. The path is made by walking.<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Traveller, there is no path</i></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><i>The path is made by walking.</i></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><i>Traveller, there is no road</i></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><i>Only wakes in the sea.</i></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><i>– Antonio Machado</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;">Hey, everyone (weary smile). It's Spring, finally, and beautifully so. Some things are starting to feel like The Old Ways again and some never will. I hope this new work finds you well. I talk so much these days, I'll let the work speak for itself this time.</p></div><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLh2F1Pj0nop_WriwjBUOZy0Blm0L6S7fhrKgjHJbaluhehwuDuQMokSqJxHb3EeGvo_JxEvL1QunG7_4swrwPkiYz51G690RWB_q8M9i5r4zt9x1XWsUvOxm-1anksbGGvg_9Vw/" style="font-style: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1535" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLh2F1Pj0nop_WriwjBUOZy0Blm0L6S7fhrKgjHJbaluhehwuDuQMokSqJxHb3EeGvo_JxEvL1QunG7_4swrwPkiYz51G690RWB_q8M9i5r4zt9x1XWsUvOxm-1anksbGGvg_9Vw/w480-h640/IMG_0914.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><p>You can watch the time-lapse of my latest digital art explorations <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CO3bPr5hyGa/" target="_blank">on Instagram</a>, where I have also been playing the wonderful <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CO82IsThN-O/" target="_blank">Chapman Stick</a> almost every day, writing new short pieces that will fit the narrow format. It's an amazing instrument. It's kind of saving my sanity, lately. Speaking of which:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/improvising-out-of-algorithmic-isolation-7ef1a5b94697" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1748" data-original-width="1446" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyF18idDp0LF_wAG1WIaHE84m9Rctv4nWlRJyQG1pz9SpjUlaObpcJtsNWRNGZHCNNoeNOh3HBhehP2k8j02OeGATXHRTP8-7Jn8aRjeUGcjuCU-43FAr4QoPjZQz-WV-0GDrkQ/w525-h640/Screen+Shot+2021-05-11+at+11.05.58+PM.png" width="525" /></a></div><br />My most recent article to share with you, the first stabs at an essay for a compilation on the topic:<br /><br /><div><i>As artists, our improvisation with the dehumanizing algorithms of predatory surveillance capitalism is a kind of tango — an exploratory, open-ended, provisional, context-dependent, time-bound, blindspot-defined process of mutual adaptation. The economy — and the ecology of which it is a subset of dynamic interwoven agencies — is an evolutionary system, and evolution is improvisation via the appropriation of existing forms. The algorithms we design are just the visible tip of the algorithms we enact unwittingly, the action of distributed intelligence in a long, complex arms race with itself. The only way to win is to refuse the rules and act from true and nameless spontaneity.</i><br /><br />Read the whole thing <a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/improvising-out-of-algorithmic-isolation-7ef1a5b94697" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/50596620" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgt7HYPQHjsYVgatwH-iKHdA80VLhoRpdX4-pzgV-PAStsl6_VxcPPcHRtl0yaluo1HaQAjy8rGVBvCCY2wpLFYt2Z9tmFh52XRx9gGy0Hlr2rfCw9BW7aU7jbSe6KQOy8xGk0Rw/w640-h640/-+tam+1+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>My first concert in months! Freestyle explorations from within a tangled bank of musical electronics, far-out ideas, and intertwingled subjectivity, for your journeying pleasure. Live streamed on 2021.04.18 as part of the Mt. Tam Psychedelic Integration Jam, hosted and organized by Daniel Shankin, with a special live painting appearance by visionary artist Amanda Sage. <br /><p>Download it for for free (or for tips) on <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/mt-tam-psychedelic-integration-jam" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> or <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/50596620" target="_blank">Patreon</a>. Watch it on <a href="https://youtu.be/sfSiJTc22gU" target="_blank">YouTube</a>:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/sfSiJTc22gU" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL51FK8zdj5IiNrIXlW6QLO9wiCxmj0-0m0Md2NQ_SV7JFXUFecXqwK93Rwh0NlNoVIybXtcmzMWy1TmHQdOPmnTCjEP8OEgf3RHicATvJkvNTDaWK8wik6KkJqkJwdpMlZIftOA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1157" data-original-width="2048" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL51FK8zdj5IiNrIXlW6QLO9wiCxmj0-0m0Md2NQ_SV7JFXUFecXqwK93Rwh0NlNoVIybXtcmzMWy1TmHQdOPmnTCjEP8OEgf3RHicATvJkvNTDaWK8wik6KkJqkJwdpMlZIftOA/" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p></div><div>Also on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcC2ShU7TrqfMQgVw5NoxubO1duqbmBfZ" target="_blank">the full recordings from our recent Future Fossils Book Club discussions</a> on <i>Sand Talk</i> by Tyson Yunkaporta and <i>Distress</i> by Greg Egan, two of the coolest books I've ever read. We went deep! I love the scrappy and profound community that has clustered around the conversations we have on the podcast. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcC2ShU7TrqfMQgVw5NoxubO1duqbmBfZ" target="_blank">Subscribe to my YouTube channel</a> to watch future book club recordings or become a Patreon supporter to participate in them yourself! Our next call will be on May 30th to talk about <i>Dark Constellations</i> by Pola Olaixarac, and then in June we're getting the author on the call to talk about Eric Wargo's <i>Precognitive Dreamwork and The Long Self</i> (!).</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, excellent Future Fossils episodes continue to trickle out every two weeks:</div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/49787879" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimaTP_3wITxg1u_8DxJtzwOEF6MPFngPQuS7T2wW6oagca3UvKoMGpL5cJlVo4w5Uh0aeWHsaIRSiTf2CvVjE8rtkVqE9JzBm2kffoqV3s_mQ9pF-D0AJZVrq-9DyugpuJIizNRQ/w640-h640/164+-+Violet+Luxton+on+Scientific+Reductionism+vs.+Traditional+Ecological+Knowledge.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/50526965" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxA8VrlhY8nAbEOAtQF6KuPfb2bZJbr8zhT0MnEx8qRLZgapDNr_ohE43SzjF1sgqZmEQTPPI63sODyGXW5Plrfd_C7GAEhm_pOrkjcdLf0BhVpTGCQ-FQIqfFllDSOsWo-HtT-A/w640-h640/FF+165.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/51199115" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlzY_zjEGdo_6HaGe2Ua0219GoBrib99F-I1RnEMQcuWg6e6g8e4iqWEVMLP4Z4i9Joga0HmazUXrdzKac0Wo9xyW1-QWGJkxCaNAOvucUA3gF2fbMOYRNwLUR4pzbXilIdmdITg/w640-h640/166+-+Anna+Riedl+on+Bounded+Rationality+%2526+Effective+Altruism.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That's "all" for now. Thank you for reading and for being. Reach out any time. Be well...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Until we meet again, here is where I put all of the cool new music I discover:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="2336" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ooUNNl7btGHBG_4uvBBCkF8gPHkT0aNrNUX-jOqGJJpU0zGo_L22LNFQNwWzJGfWEHtsxK3XafJCsTXfPSgAXZPPiYV6bH0Mf3U8k1mnpujql52k-ZBoxgfEmJSi3PpFq7Cdyg/w640-h134/Screen+Shot+2020-11-02+at+2.00.49+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And where I sell art prints and original paintings — proceeds go directly to feeding children:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1630" data-original-width="1776" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBkZOpvWrKeZkV7yKAuzHY8uYTcAvtqDxBhPxQ9_nV-2uVf_lYzv1gJX3OJfwlsA3z08ya5KPmqcT5C2DfgL0ud-aofIeJ4zRdr4-CMf969lBx6pAFb9eYEBAKiQEjmR1EXZGvqA/w640-h588/Screen+Shot+2021-05-19+at+10.48.42+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://patreon.com/michaelgarfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="1000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dr1q_Sv2v7Rgvo4OS-tWq_FZG1h1FvG9Z27OKmYJ0GI1oDKmQHNZ15SCVyXIrkrArIuiGYXBr82Pl_3QVawguMAFHF0t20rB5p4Tin3jYR_Y0SRoZ33nBGFNf1TQTqMAiy2hAQ/w640-h206/Patreon+Email+Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-15015260587255187242021-03-14T17:56:00.000-05:002021-03-14T17:56:09.141-05:00New Painting + Digital Reworkings • Re: NFTS • Skytree @ Long Now Blog • Sand Talk Book Club • New Future Fossils<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: both;"><i>"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be<br />saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in<br />any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith.<br />Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore,<br />we are saved by love."<br />—Reinhold Niebuhr</i></div><div style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hello, dear friends (and long-running fond almost-strangers)! Life has been especially full this year so far and I apologize for taking 400% longer than advertised to get this update to you...hopefully it finds you well, and lands precisely where it nourishes you best.</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have A LOT of projects in the pipeline right now but here are some finished works worth sharing:</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">New Painting: "Party Time" + Digital Reworkings</span></h3><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpfcKYoFJvv_zICFYL9HPtw49e6sSI6ynqUD3tmF0YT-fb11vaX9Yuvo8KtRU_DsQjtAizhUMO_xvRxMmnSz1-k_vhq-X2pIyYsXPMlfrClMpi6qL99YGL_yLMuliJoDOHDTXN5Q/s2048/2021-01-xx+Party+Time.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1646" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpfcKYoFJvv_zICFYL9HPtw49e6sSI6ynqUD3tmF0YT-fb11vaX9Yuvo8KtRU_DsQjtAizhUMO_xvRxMmnSz1-k_vhq-X2pIyYsXPMlfrClMpi6qL99YGL_yLMuliJoDOHDTXN5Q/w514-h640/2021-01-xx+Party+Time.jpg" width="514" /></a></div></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As usual, I may be getting ahead of myself...but it just felt right to celebrate the end of 2020. Here's a fun, light-hearted moment of color in the weirdest, longest, most ominously-warm-and-dry winter I can remember — created the week of the Capitol riot, which feels humorously apropos.</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Available — interested collectors, find more details in <a href="http://bit.ly/paintingsforsale" target="_blank">my shrinking master list of unsold paintings</a>.</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For several reasons, I've decided to slow down and stop offering <a href="http://michaelgarfieldart.com" target="_blank">open-series prints</a> of every new piece...instead, I want to use the original paintings as starting points for remixes and reimaginings, letting them be the raw material for novel digital compositions in the same way my recent music has reworked live recordings into <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/the-age-of-reunion" target="_blank">vastly deeper</a> and <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/house-ship-on-a-hill" target="_blank">more ambitious</a> sound collages.</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a glimpse at how that works. I haven't decided how, precisely, I want to bring these to market yet, but here are some pieces that grew out of the painting above — really, just snapshots along a kind of improvisational random walk across an evolutionary landscape (see Future Fossils Podcast #161 below):</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfsXx5FJPHJCKBGAY7QlvYlrVUh4NDILz8L7GOXtM35k-C56Mp6l7fPrg8vWjwQul7CU55eeuIpdqrJdcy8CfSqbWUXgdFS3W8k_2dCAli_01lfO9wUVOOAgIro45CbD6Pevxpg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAfsXx5FJPHJCKBGAY7QlvYlrVUh4NDILz8L7GOXtM35k-C56Mp6l7fPrg8vWjwQul7CU55eeuIpdqrJdcy8CfSqbWUXgdFS3W8k_2dCAli_01lfO9wUVOOAgIro45CbD6Pevxpg/w640-h384/image3A3838_mirror4a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But digital work didn't used to hold much appeal for me, because you're kind of just "singing into the wind" until you impose some artificial scarcity (printing onto clothing, etc.). Which brings me to:</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I Too Am Minting NFTs</span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://rarible.com/token/0x60f80121c31a0d46b5279700f9df786054aa5ee5:442725:0x666ee4ad9c9275ddb5fbeb7cf0d9f272847e6ccf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="355" data-original-width="720" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCdGDHnjNG_kY41Pf8AGc5AVwGG4IhaAijF6XdHMIopOEzd0BgN2c7HyZEGhBh72_rX4oCCVlhMN5uNR8kxDDOVCO1hy6uo697XvEjxYDPrvj9evI1KvAwW11EjrnG4SLXmCllyQ/w640-h312/48E2CAC7-C80D-4DDB-BC3C-3A5E96C79F6D-48411-00000909D49A0077.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://rarible.com/michaelgarfield" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="2966" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQHBNJKDS3dEMbaUF0MSc8E4k2Sw4GC4GsuUkFUBRpaIUQVeCHN3xXUNDCJZWD-PLxT7C4GZJyW1IcDBK8XvkUm1JamqB86nO1HAzIopNsZmd_l0dZPMeOULIc8P1eUfqN3jV7A/w640-h196/Screen+Shot+2021-03-12+at+4.52.41+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://rarible.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">Browse my available NFT artwork at Rarible</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Like nearly every other artist you know, I've started minting Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), a blockchain-enabled new medium that (as just one promising example among many) allows creators to take control of their own digital rights management back from exploitative corporations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(There's been a swirl of controversy around this extremely-hyped new technology, so if you're skeptical about this I invite you to dig into the thoughtful discussion I've been kindling on the issue on my Facebook profile <a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/10108574951385649" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/10108560289313559" target="_blank">here</a>.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm planning some really fun collaborative multimedia NFT projects with friends, but for the time being you can scope and bid on my first few 1-of-1 digital art tokens, each an animated version of one of my most popular paintings, at <a href="http://rarible.com/michaelgarfield">rarible.com/michaelgarfield</a>. I am very pleased to see these pieces transform with new flowing movement into works more perfectly representational of the psychedelic hyperspace from which they descended into my brain and down my arm onto the canvas. Go check 'em out!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxZyUi2VMBcPAuxOps2e4wQ748GcY6w8cfpoyCiCRmATko2WdYd_f_gbmqLqo26tS8JlGtf5jZ4RYUlEpRb5YbFe7P454orkHsodnusNpxAAYbTZJxD8rhyphenhyphena71za1cAtjKLzv_xw/s720/116E71CD-FE49-41CD-9BA9-C2EC942A7219-67107-000009CBA5D7AC5B.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="720" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxZyUi2VMBcPAuxOps2e4wQ748GcY6w8cfpoyCiCRmATko2WdYd_f_gbmqLqo26tS8JlGtf5jZ4RYUlEpRb5YbFe7P454orkHsodnusNpxAAYbTZJxD8rhyphenhyphena71za1cAtjKLzv_xw/w640-h424/116E71CD-FE49-41CD-9BA9-C2EC942A7219-67107-000009CBA5D7AC5B.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_oRvXKenNcZqG7a4NGwSWy6M-1Y8fjPE2YuBVJmrIIued5VgMZ4VRMNg7v8msrDg8LLK0JbcOkMJBNbaAKGknGZNqSp1GTimFNmFhP7iVyzVYppXhdHyzchbtVjNkFis1n9_0uQ/s483/C07663F6-E2F0-4015-83DB-E663302EDA12-67107-000009B0BBF1F498.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="483" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_oRvXKenNcZqG7a4NGwSWy6M-1Y8fjPE2YuBVJmrIIued5VgMZ4VRMNg7v8msrDg8LLK0JbcOkMJBNbaAKGknGZNqSp1GTimFNmFhP7iVyzVYppXhdHyzchbtVjNkFis1n9_0uQ/w400-h396/C07663F6-E2F0-4015-83DB-E663302EDA12-67107-000009B0BBF1F498.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Long Now Feature on Skytree's Deep-Time Electronica</span></h3><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blog.longnow.org/02021/02/15/evan-skytree-snyder-on-atomic-priests-and-crystal-synthesizers/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1922" data-original-width="1638" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg12QvSX93h6YGHS5Y0_YCI7tk36NPl99SnPrd4dqx_jrX2Z5Gx0xUVpRqKwqWDyvvSpXeX0a86tmzbk9Q9ZExu_8L_OtL8Z_MqjNYUrUoze1WPrT-vKBS6w7x9O_S3tlYhFeuvrw/w546-h640/Screen+Shot+2021-02-15+at+10.09.24+AM.png" width="546" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br />I was and am so pleased to interview my old friend </span><a href="http://skytree.bandcamp.com" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Evan "Skytree" Snyder</a><span style="text-align: left;"> for </span><a href="https://blog.longnow.org/02021/02/15/evan-skytree-snyder-on-atomic-priests-and-crystal-synthesizers/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">The Long Now Foundation blog</a><span style="text-align: left;"> about how his meditations on deep have have inspired his electronic music and recent "geosonification" (using mineral specimens to drive modular synths).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Future Fossils Book Club on Tyson Yunkaporta's <i>Sand Talk</i></b></div></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg63A72IDsabUkyPhYCLsjnk40JBsIEKVN2cqlTTY-SIoAhEt8ZzxhjitrDEk5IkXSnzPtk2K6YbAqL1hqK2e7zb3KuM_SvJ7RXHuUHOm65BLt5W5AAHDQbhyT2i5RCbwDPDUM6aA/s1524/Screen+Shot+2021-02-15+at+9.17.23+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1524" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg63A72IDsabUkyPhYCLsjnk40JBsIEKVN2cqlTTY-SIoAhEt8ZzxhjitrDEk5IkXSnzPtk2K6YbAqL1hqK2e7zb3KuM_SvJ7RXHuUHOm65BLt5W5AAHDQbhyT2i5RCbwDPDUM6aA/w640-h588/Screen+Shot+2021-02-15+at+9.17.23+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Our last Future Fossils book club call, for <i>Sand Talk</i> by Tyson Yunkaporta, was so good! Thanks especially to Naomi Most & Karja Cygni for contributing such wise reflections to our yarn on how the complex, embodied, relational, context-dependent Indigenous wisdom Yunkaporta performs for us in this work makes sense of violence, paradox, identity, time, nomadic versus sedentary living, and much more.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/47584530" target="_blank">The video recording and our extensive collection of relevant external links are now up on Patreon.</a><br /><br />Please share with anyone you think will benefit.</div></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hard-Hitting New Episodes of Future Fossils Podcast</span></h3><p>I talk with an intensely-scientific ecumenical preacher about how to face radical climate change with grace and dignity; with two friends and fellow fantasy nerds about the profundity of Philip Pullman's <i>His Dark Materials</i>; with Third Eye Drops host Michael Phillip about the mythology and biology of creativity; and with an evolutionary biologist and a Bitcoin entrepreneur about the analogy between digital currencies and mycelial networks.</p><p>I also published my first "mailbag" solo episode, in which I had immense fun answering listeners' questions about aliens, death, and making art:</p><p><a href="http://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/159" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwaA50gB06x84WlDmRALV_Qi62nLCPG_WCkkDqTc6uZDseEjEErWUE_-yhw4oX0rzTV7om6XcRUt_KIC0vxAbxPKPLiVIrvsJ597K50U6NcXjoM6MUTLHSIpsAnE0SboEcbsf3eA/w320-h320/FF+159.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/160" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqbULrSiIMlt9LknIHx_EXLTn0Aj1dpCFfThbwpfAFdLP1AiXp_1YPxWFPQe1HJdMdmgNR46TyrULl7-5SHeAZ7edN9Yg4oITeSLFygq9aFd8kXjnLrt4ffbXdLWgzwK0rVmFt5w/w320-h320/160.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/161" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnLeGQZ0K0s_Fik-_9SPQxkS8SLp1WsNzdrxCbTMGejGuYqW3L8et59nlQolEhyphenhyphen8C6hHw642HPN2aLBlzXYkKmORHI9RbrfQQG1ngFbk4TiD6Kjd3vJ73SneYeYezQ4dCj4W35Yg/w320-h320/161.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/48628243" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvigw3oGygMBJJjzmFay5WmiLcsAu6aJWxgvM4nEAFuhdIOOyLifgqXRZG4gKh4qna5fae4PTG2rlarlH5UIhp1fqSYEh1G50_X1jpisp6J0O_NImdLqHlxjzW0Q9qajNV9aSXJw/w320-h320/163.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/162-aha-ask-him-47917255?cid=54315490" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDXhMocQVVjPFkxDtSKfKwZp9TYRV2LPEbxdyPf-97zmHVN5eJFHdBHDVu4JgxTpOUDuTAyFQkII7fn8owMpZThcXvy4IHDdQjIHGxljuJ_z-h4swp40h6F5Lb_loy6lfJ4spMwA/w320-h320/162+-+Ask+Him+Anything+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p>And as far as other podcasts are concerned, I had a blast joining Chris Curran of the Podcast Engineering School for <a href="https://podcastengineeringschool.com/michael-garfield-host-of-complexity---pes-209/" target="_blank">this conversation</a> about the philosophical AND technical aspects of hosting and producing both my podcasts, Future Fossils and <a href="http://complexity.simplecast.com" target="_blank">Complexity</a>.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Follow My Spotify Playlist (Recommendations)</span></b></h3><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8?si=6LoQd4o6SFekm8vSTgadDQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="2336" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ooUNNl7btGHBG_4uvBBCkF8gPHkT0aNrNUX-jOqGJJpU0zGo_L22LNFQNwWzJGfWEHtsxK3XafJCsTXfPSgAXZPPiYV6bH0Mf3U8k1mnpujql52k-ZBoxgfEmJSi3PpFq7Cdyg/w640-h136/Screen+Shot+2020-11-02+at+2.00.49+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This is where I share <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8?si=6LoQd4o6SFekm8vSTgadDQ" target="_blank">all of the cool new music I discover</a>. Chillout, electro-folk, acoustic instrumentals, avant-pop, film scores, and more — it is as everywhere as I am, but I hope that you agree it all coheres.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If you have tracks you'd like to add, please share them in the <a href="https://discord.gg/5sdNm2n" target="_blank">Future Fossils Discord Server</a>!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://www.patreon.com/michaelgarfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="1000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dr1q_Sv2v7Rgvo4OS-tWq_FZG1h1FvG9Z27OKmYJ0GI1oDKmQHNZ15SCVyXIrkrArIuiGYXBr82Pl_3QVawguMAFHF0t20rB5p4Tin3jYR_Y0SRoZ33nBGFNf1TQTqMAiy2hAQ/w640-h206/Patreon+Email+Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><h3><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/46UT138ndv6ZAeDt0eO64h">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://youtube.com/michaelgarfield">YouTube</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://instagram.com/michaelgarfield">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/michaelgarfield">Soundcloud</a> | <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a></h3><p><b>Send BTC: </b><b>bc1qtm7tdxw0cfxey4dlagwjpqtqtt45dkh3m36vcq</b></p><p><b>Send ETH: </b><b>0xE88cF65257919A48Fd14cB327014eacc99F1A616</b></p></div></div><b>Send HELP (LOL): <a href="http://paypal.me/michaelgarfield">paypal.me/michaelgarfield</a> | @futurefossils at Venmo</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-41858028471159477812021-01-04T10:13:00.007-06:002021-01-04T10:37:28.282-06:00🎉 Happy New Year! Lasers + Dinosaurs + Singularities<div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now that we're TRULY over the rainbow...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHVtdH9Wy6lfowkEKZP9SWXtw8hK4-q-SyiT8qjdD4zan83tH_Ea9HTCM6ulIeLYxpB3MsMXRHpqVko4yuOuIzx5ZlkXbd9Jk85dTaOamzM06uaOneEDxjrDbfq6HtH8WOZgqFMw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="2048" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHVtdH9Wy6lfowkEKZP9SWXtw8hK4-q-SyiT8qjdD4zan83tH_Ea9HTCM6ulIeLYxpB3MsMXRHpqVko4yuOuIzx5ZlkXbd9Jk85dTaOamzM06uaOneEDxjrDbfq6HtH8WOZgqFMw/w640-h334/PXL_20210104_001531844.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Happy New Year, everyone! My birthday comes two weeks after Christmas, so this time of year is always hopeful and uplifting in spite of — or rather in juicy harmony with — the vibe of wintry contemplation, holiday burnout, and bare-treed, sky-wide reflections on time, life, and everything. 02020 gave us all so much to think about and learn from, recover from and build on.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Like I imagine you are, I'm looking forward into 02021 a little battle-worn but clarified and eager to explore some new horizons. This year is going to be different — I'm not quite sure yet how, but I am always grateful for this moment when our culture calls us to reach into mystery and possibility each year. And in the meantime, I have a trove of unpublished work I'm eager to share in the months to come.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CJfOIZDAL89/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBEkG9BPxo5g54FSysEMwt8XQU2IVE9FNyZuy6r5r98qoN5ZHCVspFQt_JSLaYVwJV8NFKjkSPOT4x20Ki59bMBQellw5IsAww4R-i9ZQDtWRnNsGqPtJz04EXvDk2KEl0fkh-EQ/w640-h640/IMG_20201231_111117.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thanks from the bottom of my heart to everyone who bought a painting in <a href="https://bit.ly/paintingsforsale" target="_blank">my moving sale</a> and helped us fix up and furnish our new family home! Still some time left to contribute and score art at wholesale prices — I have <a href="https://bit.ly/paintingsforsale" target="_blank">just a handful of originals remaining</a>, and I'm at work on a raft of new small studio pieces, but I'm also open for commissions — <a href="mailto:michaelgarfield@gmail.com" target="_blank">email me</a> with inquiries.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And now here are a few new things. More soon. See you in the <a href="https://discord.gg/5sdNm2n" target="_blank">Future Fossils Discord Server</a>...!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Love,</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Michael</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"Urvogel" (First Bird) Archaeopteryx Wood Ornaments</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CJZGzkBAaps/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwhL4Ebg6qNysUnBLpV9zOH06sYoUequJIFFVtOP0kDqqOkWp2f_Jk9bww5xIxF4Ls0mIyKJB65kiJrpTJL-pzK-qkZQpE6mNavzC6Pi3ubFu0DDkLZq5AQ5Q-ykr0lyB78fIuZw/w640-h640/sudhar+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">I made these on my Glowforge as Christmas gifts — short philosophical musing below on what it feels like to try and translate the analog uniqueness of painting to this digital medium.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">They're not currently available for sale but I'm happy to talk about commissioned laser-enabled designs, if you're interested! Scheming about additional perks for Patreon supporters and happy to take suggestions for the best possible applications of my artwork to laser cut and engraved merchandise.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CJZGzkBAaps/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcM7FZTiH8cb37igvM0hySChNPyyaHoMEeLBb_sCAOFdL8jwtC5rsbyHOlnUoXzL1QJmPq-pf7i4TLsKjEt0lcKM243BggbkLshRaDCAl5P2oPJxPX1K1tRF-t3EV3vBojYXYK4A/w640-h640/sudhar+9.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Sometimes I think there must be something like ASMR for eyeballs, looking at very tiny things or seeing things in neat rows, that satisfies the brain's prediction reward circuitry and is partly responsible for the mechanized aesthetic that dominates modernity. It feels like an ironic hijack of biophilia and our biologically innate love of forms like tree branches and river deltas: the fractal order of our evolved life-world swapped out for a lower-dimensional shadow of the ancient mystery of reproduction.<br />Walter Benjamin explored this, and asked about what sacredness still lives in mechanically-duplicated art forms, in his most famous essay; WJT Mitchell updated that essay for our biocybernetic century. And as technology evolves according to the same rules as everything else, it looks and acts more and more like the kind of living systems we're used to: dynamic, mutable, branching, turbulent, unpredictable. </div><div><br />Something of that was captured in these laser cut Archaeopteryx ornaments I made to break in my Glowforge this year — like (but admittedly much simpler than) printing Leeloo in The Fifth Element, seeing row after row of echoes of one of the world's most unique and precious fossils feels to me like a portal into a future in which human and nonhuman life alike becomes both more ephemeral and priceless, and we develop a more nuanced understanding of individuality and selfhood.</div><div><br />(When you can be copied like any other computer file, what makes you unique? Your context. Your history. What cannot be copied. See also Westworld, which I discussed with Michael Phillip way back in Episode 14 of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/futurefossils/?__cft__[0]=AZXIBL7SlGJXezLERwBVnm_XbjBbeOIvRE3sdaT-KDFqoqWF1n6d2AUuBa82x11RiGAIJiHIRbCK0W5VSPr8tOXK4Rkf7GpavxhlW1IOlveglL86scLrCdL1anzQFGkYf2t09_0ki7q0wY2Nm7ODU9lF&__tn__=kK-R">Future Fossils Podcast</a>, and Episode 65 with John David Ebert and I unpacking the mythical and spiritual themes of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bladerunner2049/?__cft__[0]=AZXIBL7SlGJXezLERwBVnm_XbjBbeOIvRE3sdaT-KDFqoqWF1n6d2AUuBa82x11RiGAIJiHIRbCK0W5VSPr8tOXK4Rkf7GpavxhlW1IOlveglL86scLrCdL1anzQFGkYf2t09_0ki7q0wY2Nm7ODU9lF&__tn__=kK-R">Blade Runner 2049</a>.)<br />Anyway... <img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t7b/1.5/16/2728.png" /><br /><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Mid-Singularity Trialogues with Ramin Nazer & The Teafaerie</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/45001017" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrZ15RatmyzcQU8erOkaHxIz27GLlQoVP995hQzbHXn780a9bCD8TmIX6UG-BUYl4zpvLA8sS152rXyPdrkvB4UHJVHsM2DeKAplivwwj1aYTzc09JOAHkSh9YriGrC7yTjypIcQ/w640-h640/Future+Fossils+158+-+Mid-Singularity+Trialogues+with+The+Tea-Faerie+%2526+Ramin+Nazer.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/45001017" target="_blank">Listen anywhere you go for podcasts.</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Reporting from mid-singularity, friends and returning guests Ramin Nazer, The Teafaerie, and I run for several full-court passes on augmented reality, telepresence, simulation theory, the science fiction of Charles Stross and Hannu Rajaniemi, how to enjoy the rapids of change, and much more.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>If that doesn't satisfy your thirst for weird sh*t, go listen to more about virtuality, artificial consciousness, and neuroscience, in my appearance on the <a href="https://voicesinthedark.world/are-you-conscious-westworld-neuroscience-and-living-in-the-virtual-with-special-guest-michael-garfield/" target="_blank">Voices in the Dark</a> podcast.</div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Book Club Recordings Now Free For Everyone</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19786984/4185802847115947781#" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbFIKAs9E1l2DmtI6m5Tzoe4VVRFhCIbLSu9uwjybMPbBq89jf9UBnR1SDUpJ_f7BufX2rzegtawhWV2w0GbmiylcHQKXVJ_KrehXQNL-SKMUsFcdrKYCfmSyLh78nvTrid9rSjg/w640-h320/129136295_10108325560976029_4949761349806703347_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br />ICYMI I've made all of the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/michaelgarfield/posts?filters%5Btag%5D=Book%20Club" target="_blank">Future Fossils Podcast Book Club</a> recordings entirely free, moving them from behind the Patreon paywall so everyone can appreciate the deep and illuminating discussions we've had about some of the coolest books I've ever read. Enjoy!</div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Follow My Chill Spotify Playlist (Recommendations)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8?si=6LoQd4o6SFekm8vSTgadDQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="2336" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ooUNNl7btGHBG_4uvBBCkF8gPHkT0aNrNUX-jOqGJJpU0zGo_L22LNFQNwWzJGfWEHtsxK3XafJCsTXfPSgAXZPPiYV6bH0Mf3U8k1mnpujql52k-ZBoxgfEmJSi3PpFq7Cdyg/w640-h136/Screen+Shot+2020-11-02+at+2.00.49+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This is where I share <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8?si=6LoQd4o6SFekm8vSTgadDQ" target="_blank">all of the cool new music I discover</a>. Chillout, electro-folk, acoustic instrumentals, avant-pop, film scores, and more — it is as everywhere as I am, but I hope that you agree it all coheres.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">If you have tracks you'd like to add, please share them in the <a href="https://discord.gg/5sdNm2n" target="_blank">Future Fossils Discord Server</a>!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://www.patreon.com/michaelgarfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="1000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dr1q_Sv2v7Rgvo4OS-tWq_FZG1h1FvG9Z27OKmYJ0GI1oDKmQHNZ15SCVyXIrkrArIuiGYXBr82Pl_3QVawguMAFHF0t20rB5p4Tin3jYR_Y0SRoZ33nBGFNf1TQTqMAiy2hAQ/w640-h206/Patreon+Email+Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /><h3 data-pm-context="[]">Follow me elsewhere:</h3><h3><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/46UT138ndv6ZAeDt0eO64h">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://youtube.com/michaelgarfield">YouTube</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgarfield">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://instagram.com/michaelgarfield">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/michaelgarfield">Soundcloud</a> | <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a></h3><p><b>Send BTC: </b><b>bc1qtm7tdxw0cfxey4dlagwjpqtqtt45dkh3m36vcq</b></p><p><b>Send ETH: </b><b>0xE88cF65257919A48Fd14cB327014eacc99F1A616</b></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-83824897378150787402020-11-18T02:45:00.006-06:002020-11-18T02:56:17.772-06:001.Buy House 2. Sell Art 3. Paint House + Stuart Davis + Mantis Aliens + Complex Systems Conversation<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: start;">✨🎊 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT & MOVING SALE 🎊✨</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf8mBxdUf29qR4kZvGzVHhA22pNZ8lrDncv_cvOkIR2DufGddveU4lSlC6EnslMBRZKRq1XavTZh69G3mAeCFjoMbzrL_owPA6psre3S27KkX5Zi1qGM28YkEZRpmJhxDIx0HLMw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1707" data-original-width="2048" height="533" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf8mBxdUf29qR4kZvGzVHhA22pNZ8lrDncv_cvOkIR2DufGddveU4lSlC6EnslMBRZKRq1XavTZh69G3mAeCFjoMbzrL_owPA6psre3S27KkX5Zi1qGM28YkEZRpmJhxDIx0HLMw/w640-h533/me+on+the+outs+and+ins+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://bit.ly/paintingsforsale" target="_blank"><b>Browse Available Paintings</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="michaelgarfieldart.com" target="_blank"><b>Browse Paper & Canvas Prints</b></a></div><div><br /></div>We bought a home in Santa Fe (!!!) and so I am putting all of my remaining original paintings and canvas prints up for sale at a negotiable discount in order to help my family afford the once-in-a-lifetime costs.<div><div><br /></div><div>We love it here in New Mexico and after a very tumultuous life of move after move after move, I'm so grateful for the chance to make a steady and secure and lasting Nest of Peace and Creativity where I can host friends and family and make as much beauty, truth, and goodness as possible in all available media. But this is a daunting endeavor and it's taking all we have and more to make it work. We live as frugally as possible but still need to secure some basic amenities to make this transition comfortable. </div><div><br /></div><div>In short: </div><div><br /></div><div>If you would like to bring some color/love/deepweirdness into your own life, now is the best time ever!</div><div><b>Please drop me a line</b> if you want to talk about acquiring <a href="https://bit.ly/paintingsforsale" target="_blank">any of my work</a>. </div><div><div><br /></div><div>There are, of course, much easier ways to show support - like <a href="patreon.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">Patreon</a>, <a href="michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>, or <a href="michaelgarfield.substack.com" target="_blank">Substack</a> subscriptions, or <a href="http://venmo.com/futurefossils" target="_blank">Venmo</a> transfers, or grabbing paper prints. I am immensely thankful to anyone who offers anything, and everyone who has, and I promise to show it by living up to my potential (like, for example, finally lighting up that laser cutter I have not had space to use since I acquired it! Oh yes, I have PLANS.).</div><div><br /></div><div>That's all. Thanks for reading this. My love and blessings to you and you all. 💜🥳🎉</div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZFS_tjw48w58MapkctigJyxbEUAcejrrkc6rLWJym2egXxxh7bz26a5Hoy2y-RFXSHNAPI6BXg5EW_1W6SJ5D9Sne24yf6Ehyphenhyphend6A4sqVe-DmmclrrMlRdgLZUaWB8qxXEfBfXA/" style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1707" data-original-width="2048" height="533" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZFS_tjw48w58MapkctigJyxbEUAcejrrkc6rLWJym2egXxxh7bz26a5Hoy2y-RFXSHNAPI6BXg5EW_1W6SJ5D9Sne24yf6Ehyphenhyphend6A4sqVe-DmmclrrMlRdgLZUaWB8qxXEfBfXA/w640-h533/me+on+the+outs+and+ins+2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtD-Kum6hBJCkbIHMMuqW0WjI2t3hx0-O3JqyTtgzp6OzxbbuvOKI71DPZjR84M5zF7nUc5NNLOrdc39lZflNYhEeVxVFxw06r8Rw4JuOHZP4QmLKq0HYcRn8UzIlT744cnTbZxQ/" style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1707" data-original-width="2048" height="533" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtD-Kum6hBJCkbIHMMuqW0WjI2t3hx0-O3JqyTtgzp6OzxbbuvOKI71DPZjR84M5zF7nUc5NNLOrdc39lZflNYhEeVxVFxw06r8Rw4JuOHZP4QmLKq0HYcRn8UzIlT744cnTbZxQ/w640-h533/me+on+the+outs+and+ins+3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Epic New Podcast About Aliens</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/156" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRfzlWtJRw_0KHEg546EbKjb0vBpSNB_L3iK09xOk45n5yWCcXSgZKicHgMYJZQ-Wda0UzlNmoixEjhR0H0GstRsfrqqLi5br4VtKh0PKFSPdaBSn8dVl1_HuZKJOO7L1URdpKkA/w400-h400/FF+156.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/156" target="_blank">Listen Anywhere</a></b></div><br />I’m not going to waste your time trying to explain <a href="stuartdavis.com" target="_blank">Stuart Davis</a>. He’s been a guiding star for me and presumably many other irrepressibly nondisciplinary artists for over a decade, one of the founding figures of my adult psyche in its pluriform contortionism. Musician, painter, poet, talk show host, stand-up comic, film-maker, and depth psychologist, the man knows no bounds and it’s all I can do to follow closely and listen carefully, which I have since I first encountered his work in 2004.<br /><br />Stuart is long overdue to be on the show, but the timing is perfect, because we’re here to talk about ALIENS. Not the admittedly excellent film, but the living reality of them and their astonishingly intimate relationship to us, as disclosed by the growing archive of guests on his show, <a href="https://aliensandartists.com" target="_blank">Aliens and Artists</a>.<br /><br />We discuss the ethics of withholding advanced technologies like zero-point energy from the general public; Rick Strassman getting kicked out of his zendo for psychedelic research; circadian rhythms, sleep disruption for dream yoga, and parenting sleep deprivation psychosis; when Psyche argues with the Mantis; the self is a choir; daily banishings and welcomings; and why we implore you to only work with the visitors that respect human sovereignty.<br /><br />I’ll stop now. Just listen and be amazed.</div><div><br /></div><div>PS – My two-part interview is up on Aliens and Artists now as well. I haven't heard the final product yet because of all the things, but word is it's a banger. 📣🔥🎶🐙<br /><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">~ Man Meets Mantis ~</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4DBSCJLV-webeCE1oheDUn9YGiWKJ-ioSX8YpIGpCoVK-poipsun5PuLXHDdPK4HZUnb4GF7bIJxD373ThxSrlDgbrOG-1WFq58P-o_4kB8PLcDgr_cQpXFhxXwgfgSnaAL1vg/s2048/PXL_20201010_233622409.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1257" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4DBSCJLV-webeCE1oheDUn9YGiWKJ-ioSX8YpIGpCoVK-poipsun5PuLXHDdPK4HZUnb4GF7bIJxD373ThxSrlDgbrOG-1WFq58P-o_4kB8PLcDgr_cQpXFhxXwgfgSnaAL1vg/w392-h640/PXL_20201010_233622409.jpg" width="392" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Since we're having fun being weird,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/merch/man-meets-mantis" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1574" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOBdm04KcXlQBU-2RfMWrWHkh6TUKzYJRfCCGfhGRbj-OTDobD0EC_DbEz0XIlz_GUyRAXyq4SroGTLM3o9p8ApAvWvt1LZW241gonT_ucGQ_piHgNmtVBrwqraHFsHMgdtssIw/w492-h640/PXL_20201011_002413439.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/merch/man-meets-mantis" target="_blank"><b>Get Prints</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is my first ever collaboration painting with Ada Taylor Garfield, my daughter:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIJ2WOGmvcaA1-WbO-i4ofBsRw4SUHRsykYzRCb_noFRC8aHfj9TZvaeM-s8gvJP0610ugU0bLgdiKjLwN5r0QqL_j-G4PB7-P48l8s8HHE74IdHXYDAXJ_SpjQwysLSkmXM4hg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqIJ2WOGmvcaA1-WbO-i4ofBsRw4SUHRsykYzRCb_noFRC8aHfj9TZvaeM-s8gvJP0610ugU0bLgdiKjLwN5r0QqL_j-G4PB7-P48l8s8HHE74IdHXYDAXJ_SpjQwysLSkmXM4hg/w640-h360/IMG_20200815_162317.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's dedicated to Stuart, obviously, and available for sale, I suppose, but honestly I'll be surprised (albeit delighted) if anyone bites. Who are you? People who learn the intimate weirdo stories of my paintings sometimes get all "but I can't take your holy object" on me. Ultimately, though, I let them go and if they stay it's meant to be. But this one's definitely special: Ada drew the grass with the blue marker.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Know someone who might benefit from an awkwardly intense mantis reminder? <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/merch/man-meets-mantis" target="_blank">Prints are all yours</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And One More (Awesome) Thing</span></h2></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/la5lIY7-OWs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1273" data-original-width="1514" height="539" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu4b7v8rzpG69oc_iUKGKbWyFaUZoG2YydsH87wQF2dFvljof4IKypjttzKjgdRnqgqpHHjyl2r7YgaBs7zpZWME4oMuX7CjT9OBLO_fvwfk49qD8p2J6tZU8MdB9RtMgXe-ZQyw/w640-h539/Future+Fossils+Live+Complexity+Weekend+2020.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/la5lIY7-OWs" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://youtu.be/la5lIY7-OWs" target="_blank"><b>Watch on YouTube</b></a></div></div><br />Last month as part of the latest <a href="https://www.complexityweekend.com/">Complexity Weekend</a> hackathon, I hosted a live panel discussion with four unique and fascinating minds — complex systems researchers <a href="https://twitter.com/tjjcarter" target="_blank">Tom Carter</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jennhuff" target="_blank">Jenn Huff</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/pmichelu" target="_blank">Pietro Michelucci</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/RichMacCowan" target="_blank">Richard James MacCowan</a>— and discussed archaeoacoustic design as a form of extended cognition, the continuity between the ancient and postmodern worlds, biomimicry, and many more interesting threads at the intersection of complex systems research and creative innovation.</div><br /></div></div><div>It was awesome. I hope you enjoy listening to it half as much as I enjoyed participating.</div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ironic Reminder: You Don't Have To Move</span></h2><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://timewheel.net/michael-garfield-dont-move-premiere/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="2758" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQSIO1A4Fkcc3cZJDKB2QaYycE8Hu6v0DxNnlzzMclHbkl4jugaYXE_FpRQuPK5bI2jkfKiwiRr927NOit88OuNu7HGGP5YEr2HMbw3fvdSDaiWR58wCYr0rm51J9Zyl0vOJi99w/w640-h264/Screen+Shot+2020-11-18+at+1.42.20+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/michaelgarfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="1000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dr1q_Sv2v7Rgvo4OS-tWq_FZG1h1FvG9Z27OKmYJ0GI1oDKmQHNZ15SCVyXIrkrArIuiGYXBr82Pl_3QVawguMAFHF0t20rB5p4Tin3jYR_Y0SRoZ33nBGFNf1TQTqMAiy2hAQ/w640-h206/Patreon+Email+Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-2672647126022548992020-11-03T12:11:00.000-06:002020-11-03T12:11:41.978-06:00And Now For Something Completely Different! New Music, Art, Writing, & Talks To Get Your Mind Off The Apocalypse<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSdq1dQw3PU7Ej1hwVyg83TT5KSa8HbPw_Jfx6WtS9euZQ4Kt813zFUg4Iwx9wQMmJM1O6dtF4396TH_zv4yUgGpRjq6vZVVdNZWvzMLnnUfQkZ84kbByUH3CUBx6UfCPEjAWrQ/s2048/mg+rex+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoSdq1dQw3PU7Ej1hwVyg83TT5KSa8HbPw_Jfx6WtS9euZQ4Kt813zFUg4Iwx9wQMmJM1O6dtF4396TH_zv4yUgGpRjq6vZVVdNZWvzMLnnUfQkZ84kbByUH3CUBx6UfCPEjAWrQ/w640-h360/mg+rex+1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hello, beloveds. It takes almost no effort at all to double down on the spookiness of this time of year, so let's at least have some fun with it, zoom out, and let me help remind you of the deeper currents in which we're all swimming with some of the best work I have ever produced.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am honored to share with you, in this edition of the newsletter:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">— <a href="https://smarturl.it/youdonthavetomove" target="_blank">a new psychedelic folk song</a> it took me over twelve years to write and produce;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">— <a href="https://smarturl.it/lionman" target="_blank">a new electronic guitar improvisation</a> I made as part of a peer-reviewed archaeology paper;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">— <a href="https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/the-evolution-of-surveillance-part-4-augments-amputees-92075fabd5a6" target="_blank">the final (?) installment of my essay series</a> on augmented reality and evolutionary arms races;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">— <a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/deepfakes-the-archaic-revival-a-the-long-now-foundation-ignite-talk-ff0814714f88" target="_blank">my presentation on deepfakes</a> for The Long Now Foundation's Ignite Talks;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">— my logo design mockups for the South West Science Writers' Association;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">— two excellent Future Fossils episodes on the <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/154" target="_blank">pro-social</a> and <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/155" target="_blank">anti-social</a> applications of deepfakes;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">— my guest appearance on the delightful <a href="https://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/rewilding-the-singularity-with-michael-garfield" target="_blank">Talk of Today</a> podcast; and</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">— my guest appearance on the equally delightful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmTKB3RGk6Q" target="_blank">Plutopia News Happy Hour</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lastly, as a pure and unadulterated offering, check out the extensive <b><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8?si=6LoQd4o6SFekm8vSTgadDQ" target="_blank">Future Fossils Wavescapes Spotify Playlist</a></b> I've been secretly brewing for you good people over the last couple months. It's excellent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I suggest optimizing for synergy by listening to my new tunes while you read the new pieces and then listening to the podcasts while you do whatever urgent work you assuredly have to do right now...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Let these be not bids for your attention but gifts to help lift you into a better state of mind, an invitation to enjoy some highly-polished and substantial treats — nourishment for your mind, heart, and soul.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thank you and wishing you the best through all the turbulence.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">love,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Michael</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">PS — Here's the jack-o-lantern that I carved this year, because how could I not:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2fDY-b7uPbrPUNkAp5xl_my95IPazDje8CNOu6KEo_MdmoEaRRhCBmBzS_ljz02Zy17ijvEQF-khLZJXw8BfEf8GFA4uVvHbHsFLdVCP4TA0iS9SInfXFFbY6vzF2dZ3wDyoSJQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2047" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2fDY-b7uPbrPUNkAp5xl_my95IPazDje8CNOu6KEo_MdmoEaRRhCBmBzS_ljz02Zy17ijvEQF-khLZJXw8BfEf8GFA4uVvHbHsFLdVCP4TA0iS9SInfXFFbY6vzF2dZ3wDyoSJQ/w640-h640/t+rex+jackolantern.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">My Crowning Musical Accomplishment:</div><div style="text-align: center;">"You Don't Have To Move" Finally Gets Studio Treatment</div></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://smarturl.it/youdonthavetomove" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIEzikjnb9IVSJYDV6Kz3fjMxx34QB2H7SNEE9P-GkFaspeeqacBAMT6aulATKp47ZR_75Mqa_3d9Exhz5uFqNcd9iozEcG40HvInUmBFnh4V4U5pYsDBYXeO1NRv18mlFERUcA/w640-h640/you+don%2527t+have+to+move.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><b><a href="https://smarturl.it/youdonthavetomove" target="_blank">Listen on All Major Streaming Platforms</a></b></span></div><br />Twelve years ago I wrote a song on a trampoline at Burning Man inspired by UFO sightings and apocalyptic dreams I had after getting out of college and watching the plans I'd had for my entire life fall to pieces.<br /><br />Since then I've carried that song with me and cultivated it across a 30-stop national tour, dozens of festivals on three continents, and half a dozen interstate moves...and it's grown ferns and gemstones, doubled in length, and continued to fold in all of the new guitar techniques I learned along the way to stand as a living record of everything I know about the instrument and how to plug it into electronics and transform it into other things entirely.<br /><br />Until this year, though, it had no definitive recording. Never made it to the studio — my life just moved too fast. It was the flagship of an album I'd been promising the world for years but then I got a job and had a kid and had to stop the touring, and the timeline kept receding. Seemed like I would never get this done.<br /><br />And then we all got quarantined for months and suddenly I was back in the saddle with recording — and NEW songs started coming faster than they ever have, and it's now all that I can do to get the old ones finished and the new ones down before the next batch tumble in and add another album to the FOUR that I'm now planning...<br /><br />It turns out that this song had wisdom in it that I never heeded and I never understood until it came true in my life: that you don't have to go out there to see the world, but if you stay in one place long enough the whole world comes to you. You truly, truly do not have to move.<br /><br />And so it's with immense excitement I announce today's the day that "You Don't Have To Move" is now complete and published on <a href="https://timewheel.net/michael-garfield-dont-move-premiere/" target="_blank">TIMEWHEEL</a>, an awesome group that I've been eager to contribute to since 2012! With everything else that's been going on this year it's almost hard to savor this accomplishment but this weird autumn flower is a consummation of a lifelong process and a deep delight.<br /><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">Löwenmensch: The Lion Man</div><div style="text-align: center;">A Cyberacoustic Deep-Time Sojourn</div></h3><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://smarturl.it/lionman" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="2725" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN94beTQf1GnYaW-gWs2_rYBRxd3QnvcNHSo2iJrqam28nTC29lzZmbM6hcBatXvG2moI-WueQgVZzBrSM-0JZkVpzGAwBkLAAvZJBK2aR996Q96hfNq39ZmiXLLEi-bYXlUnYiA/w640-h272/Screen+Shot+2020-10-20+at+9.12.57+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><b><a href="https://smarturl.it/lionman" target="_blank">Listen & Watch on All Major Streaming Platforms</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><b>(including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Performed by Michael Garfield for inclusion in an archaeological research project by Liane Gabora and Mike Steel about cross-domain knowledge transfer (how people translate a 40,000-year-old sculpture made in mammoth ivory into modern electronic media). </div><div><br /></div><div>The associated video is the best-yet showcase of my "cyberguitar" technique, using the acoustic guitar and hardware pedalboards in a kind of home-brewed modular digital synthesis to dream up a full electroacoustic orchestra with minimal equipment. You can read more about it at <a href="https://michaelgarfield.blogspot.com/p/musician.html" target="_blank">Guitar Moderne</a>.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">New Essays & Talks on Psychedelic Futurism</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/the-evolution-of-surveillance-part-4-augments-amputees-92075fabd5a6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="1496" data-original-width="1556" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHAvuHYtbhOWq9UQJjNicDoBVRzcS0GVuW3EgL16CoQCTMjkFX6PVU157T2FWZikVyyXXwp8Tc2JzXVYEoxz9BKu-ZBZABgUVWf81cBdBnttI0VWYsWbRT381gywLA54XC5DZuTA/w640-h614/Screen+Shot+2020-10-23+at+2.22.19+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/the-evolution-of-surveillance-part-4-augments-amputees-92075fabd5a6" target="_blank">Read Here</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div>Beta-testing Google Glass was only the beginning. Uninstalling AR dinosaurs taught me no man’s an island…and that we must be far more careful about who gets administrative access to our minds.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/deepfakes-the-archaic-revival-a-the-long-now-foundation-ignite-talk-ff0814714f88" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1682" data-original-width="1232" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVgUMX-UxP1DrAsJB75u-jSfgQxHDBh2m1nsGescDW_CBjLeRLvPHomepqsVMLZff6kuA7JztNMG8MpA48IAntkB1uRLbJP023qWFYmpdJjkwRnW_5sO-cLxhnAWb-buQqSZZnqw/w468-h640/Screen+Shot+2020-10-25+at+6.11.57+PM.png" width="468" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/deepfakes-the-archaic-revival-a-the-long-now-foundation-ignite-talk-ff0814714f88" target="_blank">Read & Watch Here</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="http://www.ignitetalks.io/">Ignite Talks</a> are five-minute lightning presentations with 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. It’s a fun and challenging format, and my invitation to present one for <a href="https://longnow.org/">The Long Now Foundation</a> seemed like a perfect opportunity to distill my thinking on a complex and difficult topic: <a href="https://michaelgarfield.medium.com/welcome-to-the-end-of-reality-living-in-a-deepfake-world-63f79c128c40">the rise of AI-assisted forgeries</a> and their social implications.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/154" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9jGs1SOwd51eq8kafBUILl7v6uRFgKExBo8A1tDz83ZBXR80GHN0bOEVCE3V1nOpSwEIiDM4_FuoI_xNaG9LX8dP19uIYPOy_4jvFdQFRoaeGTQ9cEx7yVABpzJ83Ertj0bUpw/w400-h400/Future+Fossils+154.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/154" target="_blank"><b>Listen Anywhere You Go For Podcasts</b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>This week I chat with artist Stephanie Lepp, producer of <a href="http://www.infinitelunchbox.com/">Infinite Lunchbox</a>, the <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reckonings/id1059663016">Reckonings</a> podcast, and — most excitingly, for me — <a href="https://deepreckonings.com/">Deep Reckonings</a>, a stunning new project exploring the “pro-social” uses of AI-generated “deepfakes” and other synthetic media for education, therapy, and other beneficial outcomes. In this discussion, we explore how deepfakes can expand and enrich the potent benefits of earlier media like theater and the novel; why it’s so controversial to portray wrongdoers finally accepting accountability and moral leadership, even when it’s an explicit fiction; and how science itself is going to have to change to accommodate a more nuanced and multi-dimensional understanding of truth.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/155" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWg-lwml1w5aLCy98n-VEAC3eYstxlh1mXsytkhJezIndstAO6PQSYsmc2YK6t0vuXHWo_vrHc9NV2TvXTDJeDVb84DWwtcqb_2e25nGySMyw3dQHOx5ksdQ2vz9AotRr3pzOag/w400-h400/155.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/155" target="_blank">Listen Anywhere You Go For Podcasts</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>This week I chat with film-maker Michael Morgenstern about his latest transmedia project, <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AuHKgeTKtw" target="_blank">I Dared My Best Friend To Ruin My Life</a></i>, which takes young adults down a mind-bending and immersive narrative vortex about weaponized synthetic media to teach vital 21st Century literacies and the society-threatening implications of #deepfakes — including how synthetic media will turn the logic of waking life from something sober and tangible to something more like a dream or shamanic journey; and the ethical concerns they had to consider and enact in producing something intended to create good but capable of accidentally causing serious harm.<br /></div><div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/rewilding-the-singularity-with-michael-garfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="796" data-original-width="824" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDXfiqMHemTsMFvKRW8tmsitbcKywLr_RH7iQwPmr1UulWWFKHkmY39dMJnBDNXgve9Pa2ME93ScUp-Ap7kBmGGYYlL7Gx9Wsqt57cLf5VLHZS_jduGOb4baEDvt79FfzgeljFKQ/w400-h387/Screen+Shot+2020-11-03+at+8.16.39+AM.png" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.samhbarton.com/podcast/rewilding-the-singularity-with-michael-garfield" target="_blank">Episode & Show Notes Here</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div>I sit down for a real barnstormer with host Sam Barton to discuss:</div><div><br />• Coronavirus and the epistemic crisis;<br />• Community and fragmentation;<br />• Evolution as a multi-billion year remix project;<br />• Psychedelics as training wheels for transhumanism;<br />• Restoring democracy, and regenerative communities;<br />• Rewilding the future; and<br />• The power of ideas.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEEVS5fwiIGXhUTtTIR9U600VS5VSsW9bOusoJLVEv59goSd5R40SICqz78eZnp5HSQ74gAWAkLkN41fT2ZFDfEy_XETCHJE3Cx7Ydi0RcLwarbedsBcrQ9puZTFtmGo43ZPvhnw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEEVS5fwiIGXhUTtTIR9U600VS5VSsW9bOusoJLVEv59goSd5R40SICqz78eZnp5HSQ74gAWAkLkN41fT2ZFDfEy_XETCHJE3Cx7Ydi0RcLwarbedsBcrQ9puZTFtmGo43ZPvhnw/w640-h400/Screen+Shot+2020-11-03+at+8.18.13+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmTKB3RGk6Q" target="_blank">Watch on YouTube</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=929221494270912&ref=search" target="_blank">Watch on Facebook</a></b></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div>"Deepfakes, sensemaking crisis, information warfare, surveillance capitalism, augmented reality - much to talk about! The Plutopia team speaks with our guest Michael Garfield, Community Manager for @longnow and host of the Future Fossils podcast. We'll work on better distribution of the future!"</div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Vote for My Designs!<br />South West Science Writers' Association Logo Contest</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmLTvGZnXU5CSZt5WWRglLBi0eRJrHtY-l65b465l1_pHihatPxB3fbCgoPHckUVriUCt9icO7gGt2INJkJRH-KL5Xmw8Ewc3Nc7pnrWdaG2UHfhEO8RfOBiKUV43eQSz679BUsw/s2048/SWSWA+Panel+Vertical.jpg"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmLTvGZnXU5CSZt5WWRglLBi0eRJrHtY-l65b465l1_pHihatPxB3fbCgoPHckUVriUCt9icO7gGt2INJkJRH-KL5Xmw8Ewc3Nc7pnrWdaG2UHfhEO8RfOBiKUV43eQSz679BUsw/w492-h640/SWSWA+Panel+Vertical.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw47A--6h6WTmdziPzd6v2hYDZk-TIvB-Dp6V-VCHMB-saww/viewform?gxids=7757" target="_blank">Vote Here</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Vote for me in the Southwest Science Writers Association (SWSWA) Logo Contest! I cherish every opportunity to return to my roots as a scientific illustrator and while the (international) competition is fierce, you can <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfw47A--6h6WTmdziPzd6v2hYDZk-TIvB-Dp6V-VCHMB-saww/viewform?gxids=7757" target="_blank">vote as many times as you want</a>. So please do vote more than once, and share this post.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><h3 style="clear: both;">Thank You Burning Man<br />for Including Future Fossils in Your Official Newsletter!</h3></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://jackrabbit.burningman.org/t/ViewEmail/t/DDD7A9158ACDBB872540EF23F30FEDED/07326F1B76494C7CC67FD2F38AC4859C" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="1302" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0VCJD8DPM3BbiygmlpsiZgyVKRaviS52Kuwcj_g1Kvybg6IQKfwzKVykpViTih44kpdhuhQnvgAgbPw787jpeP87Tt_-Jh3J2caLnYHHY9r4BNGiUJQzmZux-8pLPuTeX4eJetg/w395-h400/Screen+Shot+2020-11-03+at+10.19.43+AM.png" width="395" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://jackrabbit.burningman.org/t/ViewEmail/t/DDD7A9158ACDBB872540EF23F30FEDED/07326F1B76494C7CC67FD2F38AC4859C" target="_blank">Check It Out Here</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/225ThSes92498p2FNz34U8?si=6LoQd4o6SFekm8vSTgadDQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="500" data-original-width="2336" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkL_rf21QYbDeFqxNK9uoS5ENpo0RyQPsdyy9B3cPYQ-iYpQ3q6Og4WnVE294PyLPLMBOPv8vGPROYtdlYiXGbdTbJcUvRIgcI2zexKrZBZQRJVBvIGs34q58lZLSfB3WRv3FTvA/w640-h136/Screen+Shot+2020-11-02+at+2.00.49+PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://patreon.com/michaelgarfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="1000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dr1q_Sv2v7Rgvo4OS-tWq_FZG1h1FvG9Z27OKmYJ0GI1oDKmQHNZ15SCVyXIrkrArIuiGYXBr82Pl_3QVawguMAFHF0t20rB5p4Tin3jYR_Y0SRoZ33nBGFNf1TQTqMAiy2hAQ/w640-h206/Patreon+Email+Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-2810347640394882412020-09-30T21:53:00.007-05:002020-09-30T21:57:09.226-05:00Cutting Through: Now with an Even Longer Now & More Creative Service<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">No point in pretending otherwise: these are dark times. So I hope the treasures that I have to share with you help carve a bright, warm haven in the fear and loathing, and restore a sense of peace and beauty to this otherwise benighted Autumn.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjieTP6V6Doa-NeRNrKLlCycJl3n1VeIBg0AP0ZqKFxTeGqqWuYSaZaiz4B5gV450TdmyvaMOGXXIvJUZhJDz8zBxXWvaOnypGysBd1tgZZtXCGRlua4NayDXtF1vIqvZK5l-OGXA/s1000/20190512-IMG_9274.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjieTP6V6Doa-NeRNrKLlCycJl3n1VeIBg0AP0ZqKFxTeGqqWuYSaZaiz4B5gV450TdmyvaMOGXXIvJUZhJDz8zBxXWvaOnypGysBd1tgZZtXCGRlua4NayDXtF1vIqvZK5l-OGXA/w640-h426/20190512-IMG_9274.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">NEW ACOUSTIC GUITAR EP</span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;">Let's start with some music:</span> twelve minutes of guitar that an executive at my all-time favorite label told me was "a perfect soundtrack for an autumn morning."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://smarturl.it/mudras" target="_blank">Mudras</a></i><span style="text-align: left;">, my new EP of solo fingerstyle guitar tunes, is now live on <a href="smarturl.it/mudras" target="_blank">major streaming platforms</a>. Reviews have been entirely positive; one of my friends, a fabulous guitarist, told me that it made him cry. Maybe 12-minutes of your attention doesn't make even </span><i style="text-align: left;">free</i><span style="text-align: left;"> music exactly "free", but I hope it's the kind of listening that benefits you:</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT2C-XNZeJpi7uivx5oUA2tYMkRxzQl6ueEwNGpeIq_jlp7-A39QSyE_OSdY25Vp0nWEIYBAsxivTk3SpNumYY3hRZBwOsBD68_W4bjXL5KrKGcsBcy0FCgZJdF1JcLLArf395EQ/s1500/mudras+copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT2C-XNZeJpi7uivx5oUA2tYMkRxzQl6ueEwNGpeIq_jlp7-A39QSyE_OSdY25Vp0nWEIYBAsxivTk3SpNumYY3hRZBwOsBD68_W4bjXL5KrKGcsBcy0FCgZJdF1JcLLArf395EQ/w400-h400/mudras+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><b><a href="https://smarturl.it/mudras" target="_blank">Listen to <i>Mudras</i> EP</a></b></p><p style="text-align: left;">I'm also hard at work on <i>The Age of Reunion</i>, the insanely ambitious singer-songwriter album I've been teasing on this blog for over a decade. It's now halfway done (!) and the latest finished track, "<a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/41634047" target="_blank">You Don't Have To Move</a>", is up on Patreon. Four other songs are up on <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/the-age-of-reunion" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>, where you can listen to them all and pre-order the LP.</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>NEW LOOP LIBRARY</b></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And for fellow musicians and sound artists, I just released a library of over 300 loops from some of my most inspired improvisations, recorded on tour across three years and three continents. This archive is organized into <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-ableton-live-41596757" target="_blank">65 tempo-matched scenes in a ready-to-jam Ableton Live set</a>, but fans of other audio software can easily lift the WAV files as-is for use in Logic, ProTools, or whatever floats your boat:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-ableton-live-41596757" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRwOKvEAzL0O_7Mb1OVVbb_UEaICHqgguKaHMa6H1xPDYMSEh3cQLp4XWvWgtk8M9Mexy4ulEgV94IRGBKLgTGAmSpIh73qRTJFHe5sQtftmInfGTJ4Knh0kyBbPfnSdXBAtJyFQ/w640-h400/Screen+Shot+2020-09-14+at+9.41.21+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></h3><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">NEW PODCAST EPISODES</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've been chipping away at a couple of paintings; you can follow their progress (as well as the drawings I've made in my daughter's first sketchbook and a colorful bouquet of other visual miscellany) on <a href="instagram.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. But lately, much more of my time has been going into <a href="shows.acast.com/futurefossils" target="_blank">Future Fossils Podcast</a>, which has become a totally reliable font of inspiring conversations with amazing people:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/151" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNEoO3DaoeYA0bk6M7JXjsnpcyY14ptoahg0X_N9IY8d15hxbALHfUICXv6cTDseQVYNvJ7DB-5l6xXsG5P6D9SOeAzpQOOe4q4RkuTokNk_oWY12iA80JbxBXyD7HWoa273qxqg/w400-h400/151+-+Jon+Marro+on+Living+A+Life+of+Creative+Service.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;">In episode 151 I talk with <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/151" target="_blank">Jon Marro</a>, one of the purest creative souls I’ve ever had the luck to encounter, about his relationship to time, identity, and purpose, his commitment to service and the creative life, and where he thinks we are in the Big Picture amidst all the chaos and possibility of 02020.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/152" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0fRqxWwXylfNYUx6HdBpyl9YQj_JXB_9rrktteXHV_EAPrJXiumSjCwJQGuEz4iKShsCx1yLxSW53CcX5uAyfJs8sAcpc4dviWwiIo4SVi4tSgv7QvIpA_Le82Fx9vff4T1YHUA/w400-h400/Future+Fossils+152.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> I speak with the ultra-talented, immediately relatable, and immensely likable <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/152" target="_blank">Colin Frangicetto</a> about what we’ve learned from our high-dose psychedelic experiences, from our extended and potentially crazy periods of constant synchronicity, and from traveling the world playing music and making art.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/153" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvslLrLcC0QaA4ag5uZ0dyAOLtwfiLHMPC0FTKPNMBlvjLAKNmybe1zs1wlrc1lQygJQ-csV8TSUIEqNX69LbbpvYE4khU48z3p51Eu3N-IhU8MwlQuk46Hy3IYO65VhWfRUEogA/w400-h400/Future+Fossils+Cover+153.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I talk with Burning Man’s resident philosopher <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/153" target="_blank">Caveat Magister</a>, anarchist community organizer Naomi Most, and playa trickster historian Mitch Mignano about the festival’s uneasy but remarkable transition into virtuality. We cover everything from complex systems and the evolution of the city, to the unquantifiable value of culture, to the strange ontologies emerging in our screen-bound era.<div><br /></div><div>An excerpt of this conversation's transcript made it up on Lucid News, one of my favorite psychedelic culture mags, as "<a href="https://www.lucid.news/can-burning-man-be-replicated-virtually/" target="_blank">Can Burning Man Be Replicated Virtually?</a>" Quick and illuminating read.</div><h3 style="text-align: center;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;">NEW WRITING & ANIMATION ON "SLEEPING BEAUTIES"</h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtaLCId1BTFpsUZqVwRAFuIf5E_5QxhifOjIsD3-IFV1y5W52jHDhXLduv0vvqN3tiHGBZ7PjxPaknNg5DX8Vn8yIEsGMqgZXxNM4x6S1rw24mJGtTKLZDZ-ZODEKtC7iS9g8WjQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1679" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtaLCId1BTFpsUZqVwRAFuIf5E_5QxhifOjIsD3-IFV1y5W52jHDhXLduv0vvqN3tiHGBZ7PjxPaknNg5DX8Vn8yIEsGMqgZXxNM4x6S1rw24mJGtTKLZDZ-ZODEKtC7iS9g8WjQ/w640-h372/1_hYkfzoKSwm_fSo27Vw_k5w.png" width="640" /></a></h3><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;">My first long-form article for Long Now, "<a href="https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/sleeping-beauties-of-prehistory-and-the-present-day-e9a88d53017a">Sleeping Beauties of Prehistory and the Present Day</a>," explores five new discoveries, in the fossil record and in living organisms, that interrogate the boundary between the living and the dead...</p><p style="text-align: left;">...and, poetically, at the same time I was writing that I was assigned to produce <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT2FnIa5nlY&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">a new animation</a> for the Santa Fe Institute about what Sidney Redner learned from his survey of 110 years of physics papers — and why some scientific discoveries (what Redner calls "sleeping beauties") take so long to get noticed:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IT2FnIa5nlY" width="481" youtube-src-id="IT2FnIa5nlY"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'll part with the friendly reminder to help keep everybody safe with proper face masks. If somehow you've made it all the way to Autumn 02020 without one of these — or you just want to level up your style — check out the four designs I have up at <a href="http://iflmasks.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank">Idea Fab Labs</a>. You can select from head straps (which I like) or ear loops (if that's more your kind of thing) and each contains a pocket for a fancy filter, if you want to take your safety measures all the way:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><a href="http://iflmasks.com/michaelgarfield" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="1201" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhalf-zHB_xYGKWBhtxlQnk5MqjojgcnkP4A5q1x8zI2GQ-1U3K5zipvLmuW7I3wLZ1U9jp8IpWixMu_DAU4p540NEU-RcUwJ9e5Dd27Yvjr91nsuIpAXgzFgFUT56sI0AOWhiFWQ/w640-h444/iflmasks.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dr1q_Sv2v7Rgvo4OS-tWq_FZG1h1FvG9Z27OKmYJ0GI1oDKmQHNZ15SCVyXIrkrArIuiGYXBr82Pl_3QVawguMAFHF0t20rB5p4Tin3jYR_Y0SRoZ33nBGFNf1TQTqMAiy2hAQ/s1000/Patreon+Email+Signature.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="1000" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dr1q_Sv2v7Rgvo4OS-tWq_FZG1h1FvG9Z27OKmYJ0GI1oDKmQHNZ15SCVyXIrkrArIuiGYXBr82Pl_3QVawguMAFHF0t20rB5p4Tin3jYR_Y0SRoZ33nBGFNf1TQTqMAiy2hAQ/w640-h206/Patreon+Email+Signature.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-62260457168322571442020-08-21T23:56:00.004-05:002020-08-21T23:56:17.349-05:00Deep Time Meditations, Avant-Fingerstyle Guitar, Cultural Somatics, Animated Cities, Meta-Theorizing UFOs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><div style="text-align: center;">“Let go or be dragged.”</div><div style="text-align: center;">— Zen Proverb</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdXcTURFn-fvAr9vuIsO7a-b1hFPdnO7TmSVPF9DPEURB8cppH-z7Pk9a46T5cYJQHTDPPRON-w3rM3b5U0w_61kM2lc8D8JX2hhAcJTeg4nYMWiRcvEQDXPrwHq_zt5VIlzm3PQ/s4574/20160815_172352.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="4574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdXcTURFn-fvAr9vuIsO7a-b1hFPdnO7TmSVPF9DPEURB8cppH-z7Pk9a46T5cYJQHTDPPRON-w3rM3b5U0w_61kM2lc8D8JX2hhAcJTeg4nYMWiRcvEQDXPrwHq_zt5VIlzm3PQ/s640/20160815_172352.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Hello, friends and friendly strangers. Life has been very full...it's been a while, but I hope you agree this is a substantial and nutritious mind-meal for you to connect to the sublime and wonderful amidst the hardship and confusion of our blip in history. May it enrich you! Write back any time...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghIPoM0lae15p9jS3QycbglFxU38dxvISoKXyiRWrXjmVPMPZPXQWou8tblY6EQT35qox-8erGo2T3nE62ydaN5oN3O8h5525oMuEfEY8Inyeo9-Fa7VMDsIjwNCN-QCISxPJ0w/s4505/20171229_165235.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="4505" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghIPoM0lae15p9jS3QycbglFxU38dxvISoKXyiRWrXjmVPMPZPXQWou8tblY6EQT35qox-8erGo2T3nE62ydaN5oN3O8h5525oMuEfEY8Inyeo9-Fa7VMDsIjwNCN-QCISxPJ0w/s640/20171229_165235.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">First off, I got a new gig (on top of my job at the <b>Santa Fe Institute</b>) working as Community Manager for <b>The Long Now Foundation</b>, an organization devoted to the cultivation of deep time thinking. Long Now was one of the main inspirations for <b>Future Fossils Podcast</b>. I'm so excited that they have decided to take some of my short writing from their members-only Facebook group and use it to help revive their blog! It's one of the oldest on the Web and features copious contributions from heavyweights like <b>Stewart Brand</b>, <b>Kevin Kelly</b>, and <b>Brian Eno</b>, so I'm once again a hummingbird flitting amidst majestic goliaths.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here are the first few links I've curated and framed for their readership, and for you:</div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><div style="text-align: left;">• <a href=" https://blog.longnow.org/02020/07/30/the-digital-librarian-as-essential-worker/" target="_blank">The Digital Librarian as Essential Worker</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">• <a href=" https://blog.longnow.org/02020/08/06/childhood-as-a-solution-to-explore-exploit-tensions/" target="_blank">Childhood As A Solution To Explore-Exploit Tensions</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">• <a href="https://blog.longnow.org/02020/08/08/the-deep-sea/" target="_blank">The Deep Sea</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">• <a href="https://blog.longnow.org/02020/08/14/how-to-be-in-time/" target="_blank">How To Be In Time</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">• <a href=" https://blog.longnow.org/02020/08/16/kathryn-coopers-wildlife-movement-photography/" target="_blank">Kathryn Cooper's Wildlife Movement Photography</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">• <a href="https://blog.longnow.org/02020/07/24/enormous-dormice-once-roamed-mediterranean-islands/" target="_blank">Enormous Dormice Once Roamed Mediterranean Islands</a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwhEIlT9gVucER7ZDjCcabg7bdtQUUV_8ER4cz26sc6UYkkQYILIEWjNv42K5YK7MY5Wjg-7R3fe5xI8-YPy0p1fvrjlTxD2zVyH3g63ucOIFyzT0MkOEri7vYl8nWsQj0V1hRIA/s1500/mudras+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwhEIlT9gVucER7ZDjCcabg7bdtQUUV_8ER4cz26sc6UYkkQYILIEWjNv42K5YK7MY5Wjg-7R3fe5xI8-YPy0p1fvrjlTxD2zVyH3g63ucOIFyzT0MkOEri7vYl8nWsQj0V1hRIA/w400-h400/mudras+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/40712634">Download at Patreon</a> | <a href="https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/michaelgarfield/mudras-ep" target="_blank">Pre-save to Spotify</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Speaking of time and movement, next week I'll release my first EP of avant-fingerstyle guitar—a journey through 17 years of intermittent composition and my deep practice with what Philip Toshio Sudo called, in one of the most influential books I've ever read, <a href="https://www.zenguitar.com/cancer1.html" target="_blank"><i>Zen Guitar</i></a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Mudras is twelve minutes long but unfathomably deep. In it the fans of Michael Hedges, Kaki King, Tim Reynolds, and the Candyrat Records school will find familiar purchase—and everybody else will find surprise and novelty and feeling and precise dynamic passage.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Right now it's up on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/40712634" target="_blank">Patreon</a>. <a href="https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/michaelgarfield/mudras-ep" target="_blank">Pre-save it to your Spotify collection</a> and be notified when it's available for listening. Next week it will be up on <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/mudras-ep" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> and everywhere else you'd go to stream such things.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">That awesome cover photo is from <a href="https://kathryncooperwildlife.com/movement.html" target="_blank">Kathryn Cooper</a>, who's amazing, and whom <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KathrynCooperWildlife/" target="_blank">you should follow</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9nBa0AW5M5Fn5HqKX5vw5qsSrPumXsCm4fcXrUojQREquOshOG_5kq9hD9pR_RNfASP_ozRwO428IJxxK3qWU_D7SiiGxp8ILM52CKej3Q8g8LQLjxy4f9laHgqzBP6oyQlyqhw/s4456/20170213_175151.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="4456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9nBa0AW5M5Fn5HqKX5vw5qsSrPumXsCm4fcXrUojQREquOshOG_5kq9hD9pR_RNfASP_ozRwO428IJxxK3qWU_D7SiiGxp8ILM52CKej3Q8g8LQLjxy4f9laHgqzBP6oyQlyqhw/s640/20170213_175151.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In the same spirit but at far greater length and with far greater intimacy, I just drafted the fourth (and final?) installment in my essay series on <b>The Evolution of Surveillance</b>, tracing sensory and cognitive arms races back half a billion years and forward into our very weird future.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">"<a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/39293004" target="_blank">The Evolution of Surveillance, Part Four: Augments & Amputees</a>" is about how I started thinking about deep time in the first place, how my time as a <b>Google Glass</b> Explorer came to an end, what it was like to detox from a dinosaur-hunting augmented reality game, and why we have to be careful about letting corporations control our prosthetic extensions. It's a Patreon exclusive, for now.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzsuOK-4ZZzR3QfkHcqwcpnEJIn46YikLveUpq5-AKdK33SbOAdid2lHtmtOAr6F8hRs6JCsK7OKPdOG9dkxnGGDtyeSyuSM221jpTAL-GmlRYsFO3IBCR1otstAw9wy9azoG78Q/s4633/20160715_105714.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="4633" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzsuOK-4ZZzR3QfkHcqwcpnEJIn46YikLveUpq5-AKdK33SbOAdid2lHtmtOAr6F8hRs6JCsK7OKPdOG9dkxnGGDtyeSyuSM221jpTAL-GmlRYsFO3IBCR1otstAw9wy9azoG78Q/s640/20160715_105714.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Meanwhile at SFI, I occasionally get to have some fun with making "whiteboard" style animations for new science publications (like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W7UrAKcvQw" target="_blank">this one</a> on the math of parking or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0pc2WVEhbo" target="_blank">this one</a> on animal communication and information theory). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The latest was an animated rap by visionary architect <b>Ann Pendleton-Jullian</b> on the layers of complex networks that make up a city, all of which we'll have to consider when we start making permanent habitats on other worlds. This was a totally delightful project. Watch it <a href="https://youtu.be/SseeMdL4wWs" target="_blank">here</a>:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SseeMdL4wWs" width="320" youtube-src-id="SseeMdL4wWs"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS1_Udap8swFG4nM_DcBBF3vnMOwVk1SOLVgp4b8SxqK44hWi-Ap_MiQJpfAmrtl8x02Mr3ormbF8TbfmNy2lJ-YlQbLRgCCtIcqeE1UwqDPdpHHTYM8eyjplF0SYDS4FvRfn39g/s4685/20160714_165230.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="4685" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS1_Udap8swFG4nM_DcBBF3vnMOwVk1SOLVgp4b8SxqK44hWi-Ap_MiQJpfAmrtl8x02Mr3ormbF8TbfmNy2lJ-YlQbLRgCCtIcqeE1UwqDPdpHHTYM8eyjplF0SYDS4FvRfn39g/s640/20160714_165230.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div>And for anyone who missed my latest (and hugely ambitious, if brief) public essay, here is "<a href="http://liminal.news/2020/07/we-will-fight-diseases-of-our-networks-by-realizing-we-are-networks/" target="_blank">We Will Fight Diseases of Our Networks by Realizing We Are Networks</a>," republished at <b>Liminal News</b>.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb1aU1qcPXqARaL7GkArXuskfdrB-wzNRazEmoXszdBiK5UrStQuzZnn9jXRMF43QGkYa9sSlrA-HMLGkBw8Fj4bvffKC2oXCvMCV6Squv5wcqHPeTah7jfGyu-EOTjpLKh6O8fw/s3050/20160714_165001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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• I wrote <a href="https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/we-will-fight-diseases-of-our-networks-by-realizing-we-are-networks-7fa1e1c24444" target="_blank"><b>a psychoactive new essay</b></a> and talked about it with an Oxford philosopher on <a href="https://fireside.fm/s/HFGEuPQ7+M03O20BK" target="_blank"><b>his podcast</b></a>.</div>
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• I'm now printing <a href="https://iflmasks.com/michaelgarfield" target="_blank"><b>custom facemasks</b></a> with my paintings on them so you can be safe in style.</div>
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• I just collaborated with a Swiss data artist, new music for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi_0B3NAZxA" target="_blank"><b>his AI-generated experimental video</b></a>.</div>
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• I flung open the archives to share <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/145" target="_blank"><b>a long talk</b></a>,<b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbYbBfvdfzg&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">a short philosophy riff</a></b>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqc6Q3RkT-M&list=PLcC2ShU7TrqewzZ2K0gifLgx75iRk-vtR" target="_blank"><b>an epic guitar improvisation</b></a> from my 2017 Australia tour — as well as <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/146" target="_blank"><b>an intense panel discussion</b></a> I was on with Ralph Metzner, Dennis McKenna, and a handful of other legends back in 2016.</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi_0B3NAZxA" target="_blank"><b>Evading Confinement</b></a> was a very fun collaboration with data artist <a href="https://www.blogger.com/complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/18" target="_blank"><b>Kirell Benzi</b></a>. He made a one-minute experimental video with deep-learning AI networks and asked me to compose a musical accompaniment. Since the cyberguitar work I’ve been up to for the last 10 years is an explicit effort to render the shifting landscapes of closed-eye hallucinations in sound, it was like he had just re-visualized the music I was already making. Be sure to watch it in 4K!</div>
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<i>All of us grew up in a world too vast for anyone to understand. No single person comprehends a smartphone, or the economic networks in which it precipitated. Our necessary adaptations to the baffling complexity of postmodernity include a subtler and more nuanced grasp of context. It’s what Gestalt psychologists call "figure-ground reversal," where you realize that the object you’re examining emerges only at the intersection of more objects, a moiré of ever-shifting, mutually-defining processes.<br /><br />In common parlance, people talk about this in folk psychological terms like, “You are the combination of the five people you talk to most frequently.” If all of those five people share the same beliefs, it probably won’t matter in a crisis like the one we’re in if they’re all prestigious public intellectuals or they’re all plumbers.</i></div>
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<b><a href="https://fireside.fm/s/HFGEuPQ7+M03O20BK" target="_blank">The Atlas Model</a> </b>...in which Chris Kutarna, Scott Jones, and I discuss the above essay. Probably one of the best conversations I've had about complex systems, scaling laws, networks, and how it relates to our current mess of inter-related crises. Insights therein on fighting the pandemic, radical police reform, and new modes of fractal governance. (Chris is a fellow at Oxford and co-authored the amazing book <i>The Age of Discovery</i>. Very cool guy, honored to be in the mix with him.)</div>
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We're about to reboot the <b>Future Fossils Book Club</b>! Next up is <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60926.Lilith_s_Brood" target="_blank"><i>Lilith's Brood</i> by Octavia Butler</a>. We'll discuss it in three parts since it is actually a trilogy. To whet your appetite, here's <a href="https://www.e-flux.com/journal/77/76322/the-incomputable-and-instrumental-possibility/" target="_blank">a cool essay</a> on some of the themes explored by this very timely series.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/38344139" target="_blank">scheduling poll</a> and book club video calls, as well as access to recordings of those calls, are available for Patreon supporters only. I'm sure most people here can afford the lowest tier, but if you truly can't and want to be a part of these discussions, just <a href="mailto:futurefossilspodcast@gmail.com" target="_blank">email me</a> about it.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19786984.post-83735016379458705362020-05-20T01:22:00.001-05:002020-05-20T01:22:21.441-05:00Navigating Radical Uncertainty & Making Art: Vital Conversations • Metamodern Weirdness • Digital Community • Biomechanical Easter Eggs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="body markup" style="margin-bottom: 12px; word-break: break-word;"><a class="image-link image2" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25ac4df2-453c-4b6e-81af-5b48283dc752_2828x1414.jpeg" style="border: none; color: #1a1a1a; display: inline !important; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 19px; height: auto; margin: 1.6em auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img height="320" src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25ac4df2-453c-4b6e-81af-5b48283dc752_2828x1414.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 728px; max-width: 1456px; text-align: left; width: 728px;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="body markup" style="margin-bottom: 12px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="text-align: left;">Hi Friends,</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I hope you’re holding up through everything. A quarantine, you know, is from the Italian for “forty days” — that’s how long you had to sit there on the boat before debarking. Whatever brave new world awaits us must be really something, seeing as we blew past forty days a while ago…</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/on-coronavirus-complex-systems-and-creative-opportunity-b82e227a22e7">I’ve already said my piece</a> about how this crisis might help us find new and better answers than the ones we all got stuck on. Now, deeper into it, I’m just trying to help where I am able. That looks like starting some new (very modest) <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/37030179">digital community initiatives</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/10107710774817419">talking sense to crazy</a> when I can, being present as a father and a partner, finding time to <a href="https://smarturl.it/mgmusic">play guitar</a>, keeping my head on straight…</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The tiny devil on my shoulder tells me to remind you <a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/">I have art for sale</a>, and that you’ve never had a better opportunity to scoop up <a href="https://bit.ly/paintingsforsale">one of my originals</a> (because the prices seem imaginary to me, now, and wouldn’t they look better on a wall than in a closet?). The tiny angel on my shoulder tells me I should give as much of it away as possible. I’ll do my best to find a compromise.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Don’t hesitate to <a href="mailto:michaelgarfield@gmail.com">write</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Love,</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Michael</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/">Music</a> • <a href="https://michaelgarfieldart.com/">Paintings</a> • <a href="https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield">Essays</a> • <a href="https://evolution.bandcamp.com/">Talks</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h1>New Painting: “A Very Giger Easter”</h1><a class="image-link image2" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F454daec3-0926-46c2-b8bd-3f71888995bc_640x480.jpeg" style="border: none; color: #1a1a1a; display: block; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 19px; height: auto; margin: 1.6em auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img height="480" src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F454daec3-0926-46c2-b8bd-3f71888995bc_640x480.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 480px; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" width="640" /></a><div style="text-align: left;">Here I am before <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B_GBWqpplET/">the inevitable quarantine buzz-cut</a> showing off a new 30”x15” canvas I’ve been chipping away at here and there for a couple months. In contrast the rapid start-to-finish I’m used to from live painting, sometimes a piece at home will live in a kind of untouched half-done limbo for weeks at a time…and it feels good to linger and really contemplate that next step, like playing chess by mail.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This piece was one of those. Very nearly called it “My two-thousand-dollar-a-day Fabergé egg habit,” in honor of the great Bleeding Gums Murphy. Here it is head-on:</div><a class="image-link image2" href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F921cc62c-4eb2-48cf-9098-bf20a0f3c174_640x216.jpeg" style="border: none; color: #1a1a1a; display: block; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 19px; height: auto; margin: 1.6em auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img height="216" src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F921cc62c-4eb2-48cf-9098-bf20a0f3c174_640x216.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 216px; max-width: 640px; width: 640px;" width="640" /></a><div style="text-align: left;">More close-up pictures on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-5wXvIpGKa/">my Instagram</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It’s one of about two dozen pieces that I have for sale right now, and you can pretty much <a href="https://bit.ly/paintingsforsale">ignore the prices in my master list</a> and make a “Crazy Eddie’s Fireworks” offer. My place is (REALLY) small and I’d rather see these pieces find a good home.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h1>Help Navigating Radical Uncertainty</h1><div><font size="2"><br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"></a></font><a class="image-link image2" href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/" style="border: none; display: inline !important; height: auto; margin: 1.6em auto; padding: 0px; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img height="302" src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffdf9b429-649c-4e2f-a857-abd57fc89e96_1080x510.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 510px; max-width: 1080px; width: 728px;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">I feel weird talking about my day job in this newsletter, but it wouldn’t seem like an honest accounting of my creative work without letting you know about <a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/">Complexity Podcast</a>, the show I host and produce for the Santa Fe Institute.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://santafe.edu/">SFI</a> is the mothership of complex systems research, and for the last six weeks I’ve been lucky to work directly with our president <a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/75">David Krakauer</a> — a brilliant evolutionary biologist whose work has inspired much of my <a href="https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield">thinking and writing</a> — on a special mini-series exploring on how to navigate the radical uncertainty of our global crisis. (I’m especially fond of <a href="https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/29">this one</a> on surviving a mass extinction and/or market collapse.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I’ve learned volumes doing this show and these episodes in particular, and it’s been immensely rewarding to know that these podcasts have been helpful to so many people at a time when <a href="https://www.facebook.com/therealmichaelgarfield/posts/10107710774817419">things don’t make a ton of sense.</a> I hope you find them helpful, too.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h1>Join Our New Discord Server</h1><a class="image-link image2" href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/37030179" style="border: none; color: #1a1a1a; display: block; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 19px; height: auto; margin: 1.6em auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img height="400" src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2e33ea6-a23f-4b66-b588-16ccb52f8fe5_2880x1800.png" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 910px; max-width: 1456px; width: 728px;" width="640" /></a><div style="text-align: left;">Lately I’ve felt like social media is an ocean full of sharks and I’d rather just hang out in a cozy lagoon with a few close friends. Also, it feels like this pandemic hit the human species in our weak spot — namely, the civic life, the clubs and neighborhood communities that were eaten by the state and corporations in the last few decades.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you would like a smaller, less diluted scene, I hope you’ll <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/37030179">join us on our Discord server</a>, maybe even hop on one of our ongoing Sunday video calls. I am amazed and humbled by the badasses Future Fossils Podcast has attracted to my life, and it would be awesome if you got to meet them, too.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h1>New Future Fossils Episodes</h1><a class="image-link image2" href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/142" style="border: none; color: #1a1a1a; display: block; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 19px; height: auto; margin: 1.6em auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7d48418-bbcd-406c-9249-19de276c11a8_400x400.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 528px; max-width: 528px; width: 528px;" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/142">Episode 142</a> is a conversation with one of my favorite fiction authors, Alex Shakar, about the profound darkbright bizarritude he channels through his two visionary satirical novels The Savage Girl and Luminarium — two works that show the möbius strip of sacred and profane, futurity and timelessness. We bounce off a long list of paradoxical domains, including saving the world with consumerism, metamodernism, ironic religion, virtuality, neurotheology, trauma and radical meaninglessness, the military entertainment complex, hikikomori, and zen comedy…</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: spectral, serif; font-size: 19px; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-attrs="{"src":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c55c1f1f-72f4-44a1-8b14-dddadcb1b859_1440x1440.jpeg","height":1440,"width":1440,"resizeWidth":515,"bytes":241048,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":"https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/143"}" src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc55c1f1f-72f4-44a1-8b14-dddadcb1b859_1440x1440.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 515px; max-width: 515px; width: 515px;" /></span></div><div class="body markup" style="margin-bottom: 12px; word-break: break-word;"><font color="#1a1a1a" face="spectral, serif"><span style="font-size: 19px;"><br /></span></font><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/episodes/143">Episode 143</a> is a conversation with documentary film-maker Sanjay Rawal about his profound and inspiring movie, 3100: Run and Become — which explores the spiritual practice of long-distance running around the world, from the American Southwest, to the Kalahari Desert, to a remote mountain monastery in Japan. We discuss how Sri Chinmoy (a student of Sri Aurobindo, the founder of integral yoga), started the 3100 mile race in New York, and what it has become; how to be a documentary film-maker without engaging in cultural appropriation; endurance running as an integral yoga and an act of spiritual service; exertion as its own reward; and how ultradistance running and other endurance sports close the gender gap. This was literally a moving conversation for me — after talking with Sanjay, I put on my shoes and went for a run. 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This is a conversation about what happens when premodern, modern, and postmodern worldviews duke it out on a landscape of rapid change for which none of them are sufficient. It’s about the surreal Young-Earth dinosaur museums of Late Capitalism. And it’s about our trust (or lack of trust), and where we put it when we lose the plot.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h1>Go Deeper</h1><a class="image-link image2" href="https://smarturl.it/mgmusic" style="border: none; color: #1a1a1a; display: block; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 19px; height: auto; margin: 1.6em auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img height="179" src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F956dc0f6-bbcd-43d3-b63c-e317c00d6c51_1440x404.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 404px; max-width: 1440px; width: 728px;" width="640" /></a><a class="image-link image2" href="https://patreon.com/michaelgarfield" style="border: none; color: #1a1a1a; display: block; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 19px; height: auto; margin: 1.6em auto; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><img height="207" src="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e3287a6-347b-41b0-9487-7252310505ed_1000x323.jpeg" style="display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-height: 323px; max-width: 1000px; width: 728px;" width="640" /></a></div></div>
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If you're feeling lonely, cooped up, or just in need of some smart conversations, I hope you'll join some of my friends and I for the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/weekly-future-at-35334025" target="_blank">weekly casual video hangouts</a> we've been having every Sunday. We've been talking about all kinds of things in light of our unprecedented situation: philosophy, economics, personal creative process, family life... We're having two more of these open discussions on 19 & 26 April at 2 pm Mountain. If it'd help you, I hope you'll join us. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/weekly-future-at-35334025" target="_blank">Details here.</a></div>
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My next album continues to ooze forth at approximately one song per four months. Songwriting and production is the one place in my life where I can create art selfishly, uncompromisingly, obsessed, and etch away at lovingly-crafted intricate and living works for months or years, feeling all the while as if I'm swept up in The Great Work.<br />
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The first two songs of this as-yet-unnamed, long overdue LP are <a href="https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/two-new-songs-about-our-darkbright-lives-online-transparent-signal-bc818a79f57f" target="_blank">here</a>, along with their backstories.<br />
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<a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/track/always-catching-up-10" target="_blank">Here</a>'s the latest tune, on time and mind, as well as lyrics and the story of its very psychedelic origins.<br />
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<i>Walking, according to physiologists, is a controlled fall forwards.</i><br />
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Here are four smaller (12") paintings I've cooked up in the last couple cooped-up weeks. No names for any of these. Top two on stretched canvas, bottom two on cradled artboard. Check my <a href="http://instagram.com/michaelgarfield">Instagram</a> for different angles/lighting/context. Each one is up for grabs; I won't make prints.<br />
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Commercial break: <i>now is a great time to buy art</i>, because the artists need support and deals abound. If you have ever wanted to own a piece of mine, <a href="mailto:michaelgarfield@gmail.com" target="_blank">drop me a line</a>. I will be glad to show you what I've got and give you a post-apocalyptic (half or more off) discount...<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Future Fossils Podcast Episode 140</span></b><br />
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We’re extra lucky to have not one but three amazing guests this week: culture critic and religious scholar <a href="http://techgnosis.com/">Erik Davis</a>, philosopher and author <a href="http://www.duversity.org/home">Tony Blake</a>, and trickster historian <a href="https://deathlessmusic.bandcamp.com/">Mitch Mignano</a>. A deep dive into the mythic and mystical dimensions of our moment — including nonhuman agency, the virus as teacher, Pan and panic and pandemics, solutionism isn’t the solution, the danger of efficiency logic, and a media diet for meditation on the darkness of nature.<br />
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This week’s guest is <b>Nora Bateson</b>, Director of the International Bateson Institute, author, film-maker, and founder of the Warm Data Lab. Nora is a magician when it comes to getting people to live the relational and dynamic, the embodied and incompressible. I’m honored that we got to sit down for a US-Sweden Zoom call and talk about how current world events touch down in the messy and beautiful everyday.<br />
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A transcript of Episode 139 in which I rant about our situation from the POV of an armchair systems thinker and weird artist, invoking everyone from Alan Moore to <a href="http://shows.acast.com/futurefossils/85">Charles Eisenstein</a>:<br />
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<i>"The best possible outcome I can imagine from this is to witness all of the creative and intelligent people who have been shackled to pointless, stupid, undignified work for our entire lives rise up and create something new and beautiful together. Emergencies often elicit the best of our humanity, a concern for the true priorities of our existence. These are moments when we are called to act on what really matters, and to contribute to our communities and to the legacy that we pass on, at a time when good ideas are unusually quick to spread."</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">ICYMI: Free Coloring Book!</span></b></div>
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No strings attached at all, but I do hope I'd get to see your pages when you color them! (Pictured: my friend's kid going ham on some trippy doodles.)<br />
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<i>"The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.” </i></div>
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While in enforced isolation due to a plague, college student Isaac Newton devised our modern theories of both optics and gravity. What will YOU do with your social distancing?<br />
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This opportunity for a new creative chapter is upon us at all levels, right now. Our national and global systems were stuck on suboptimal solutions and have demonstrated their inability to handle the complex and evolving crises of our emerging planetary culture. We now have a chance to break out, dream up local answers in massive parallel, and come back together in a stronger, more resilient (and antifragile) place than where we started.<br />
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For those of you with a sudden surplus of free time, I've decided to freeware the previously patrons-only <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/35086036" target="_blank">Future Fossils Coloring Book</a> for your enjoyment. It's a 25-page PDF of trippy doodles (some abstract, some of a natural history persuasion) that you can print out or color on a tablet. My only request is that I get to see some of the finished results!<br />
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If you want the "full experience," here are hours and hours of free music for your streaming pleasure, with a confirmed track record of facilitating awesome art sessions:<br />
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<b><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/46UT138ndv6ZAeDt0eO64h" target="_blank">Spotify</a> • <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> • <a href="https://soundcloud.com/michaelgarfield">Soundcloud</a></b> (fewer tracks there compared to the other two)<br />
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I painted the top two pieces in collaboration with Jamie Baldwin Gaviola (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/flowstatepaint/" target="_blank">@flowstatepaint</a> on Instagram). She started the top two and mailed them to me to finish, and then I had a wild hair to "breed" the two paintings. My daughter had her first birthday this week and in the weeks leading up, the two paintings Jamie started seemed reminiscent to me of my partner (the softer pastel sunburst grid one) and myself (the edgier and bolder peacock circuitboard one). The third painting, the square of blobby motion and expressive dynamic gooeyness in the middle, is unquestionably our child.</div>
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But of course no symbol can be contained by a single interpretation, even for one (honest) person, and as with all artwork, new layers and associations will undoubtedly reveal themselves over time. The "daughter" painting was finished the night I also completed a new studio arrangement of a song I've been kind of "pregnant" with for the last several years, a song that first started taking shape the week my partner moved to Austin to live with me in 2014 and I got lost in the Texas Hill Country on ayahuasca (<a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/34812302" target="_blank">but that's another story</a>). That song, "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/07uOoOJmi8n4UVdDD3Cl7D" target="_blank">Always Catching Up</a>," has a lot to do with the network latencies in our nervous systems and how we're always responding to a state of the world that has already transformed into something else. </div>
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When I first played the scratch mix of the studio track for my friends in Santa Fe, the only visible star turned out to be <a href="https://darkstarastrology.com/aldebaran/" target="_blank">Aldebaran</a>, which is associated with the Archangel Michael and with militant peacocking. It seemed like I was being drawn back into the synchronicity vortex that subsumed me for over a month in 2017 leading up to the release of the <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/pavo-music-for-mystery" target="_blank">Pavo LP</a> & <a href="https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/martian-arts-ep" target="_blank">Martian Arts EP</a> (I talk a little bit about that particular Chapel Perilous in the public liner notes to those two releases). Anyway, the latest canvas finished itself that night, and now here we are.</div>
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All three of these paintings are available for sale, or if you're playing it safe with your money still want a copy, they're available as cardstock and canvas prints in <a href="http://michaelgarfieldart.com/collections/2020" target="_blank">my shop</a> (Jamie and I split proceeds).</div>
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