"Don’t hanker for the other world. Live this world, and live it with intensity, with passion. Live it with totality, with your whole being. And out of that whole trust, out of that life of passion, love and joy, you will become able to go beyond."
– Osho
Happy New Year, everyone! 2014 was intense. Maybe it's just the chronic optimism that seems to infect me at this time of year, but I think 2015 will be less about hard lessons and more about putting those lessons into practice. I look forward to practicing with all of you.
Since we're on the cusp of what Back To The Future II officially recognized as "the future," here is a great conversation I had with the hosts of Gaian Radio Podcast about artificial intelligence, life extension, the end of privacy, and more awesome future things. It's guaranteed to be more complicated than pro-future armchair philosophers let on, but it doesn't have to be scary. We walk a razor's edge in this fun hour-long chat between ?? and !! – it's free to listen/download here.
And then there's this:
Live at Art Outside 2014
Acoustic-electronic inventions performed at the Tenth Annual Art Outside Festival on a gorgeous and mystical laser-cut stage hidden in a grove of old pecans.
There amidst the branches and the hanging lanterns, people sprawled in blankets, chairs, and hammocks, some bizarre new breed of soaring anti-folk infused with jazz took shape – atmospheric improv raw and wild, heartfelt, numinous.
Accompanied by visual performances from the legendary florist Anthony Ward and live painter Chris Morphis, featuring guest instrumentalists Andrew Stocker (triple harmonic flute) and Jared Buchsbaum (clarinet), this music overflowed its banks and sprouted something beautiful – often dipping into darker territories, veering into strange terrains, but always moving, always full of life and curiosity.
Many thanks to everyone at Art Outside for holding such a wondrous space for work like this to grow! (And thanks to David Titterington for the lovely cover art...)
Accompanied by visual performances from the legendary florist Anthony Ward and live painter Chris Morphis, featuring guest instrumentalists Andrew Stocker (triple harmonic flute) and Jared Buchsbaum (clarinet), this music overflowed its banks and sprouted something beautiful – often dipping into darker territories, veering into strange terrains, but always moving, always full of life and curiosity.
Many thanks to everyone at Art Outside for holding such a wondrous space for work like this to grow! (And thanks to David Titterington for the lovely cover art...)
New Studio Painting
"Ediacarans I" (2014)
Studio – oil & acrylic pens on canvas
16"x20" (four 8"x10" panels)
The Ediacara biota consisted of enigmatic tubular and frond-shaped, mostly sessile organisms that lived during the Ediacaran Period (ca. 635–542 Ma). Trace fossils of these organisms have been found worldwide, and represent the earliest known complex multicellular organisms.
Determining where Ediacaran organisms fit in the tree of life has proven challenging; it is not even established that they were animals, with suggestions that they were lichens (fungus-alga symbionts), algae, protists known as foraminifera, fungi or microbial colonies, to hypothetical intermediates between plants and animals.
Most macroscopic fossils are morphologically distinct from later life-forms: they resemble discs, tubes, mud-filled bags or quilted mattresses. Due to the difficulty of deducing evolutionary relationships among these organisms some paleontologists have suggested that these represent completely extinct lineages that do not resemble any living organism. One paleontologist proposed a separate kingdom level category Vendozoa (now renamed Vendobionta) in the Linnaean hierarchy for the Ediacaran biota. If these enigmatic organisms left no descendants their strange forms might be seen as a "failed experiment" in multicellular life, with later multicellular life evolving independently from unrelated single-celled organisms.
Custom Hats
I'm so busy writing for Globalish.com these days I haven't dedicated that much time to hat work, but with new fluorescent pens a new horizon's opened up for UV-reactive lids, so I'm excited by the prospect of a new round of commissions. Feel free to contact me if interested!
More Articles For Globalish
I love my job. If you're attracted to the seeker's path and wonder how it looks in our accelerating age, my friends and I at Globalish.com are writing for you:
Channel 1: Revolution
Channel 2: Travel
Channel 3: Art
Channel 4: Life
Geography as Mind: Recho App Brings GPS-Tagged Audio to Storytelling
100 Years of Beauty in 1 Minute: Who's Aware of the Story?
100 Years of Beauty in 1 Minute: Who's Aware of the Story?
Gem & Jam Will Be My First Festival of 2015
This year, I'm focusing on fewer, more deliberate bookings. I'm looking forward to this one and what's shaping up to be the finest live art lineup I have ever seen...it's been since 2010 and I can't wait to reconnect with all my homies in AZ. Perhaps I'll see you there!
Stay Warm In Style This Winter
Just a reminder that my friends help me provide a wide array of wearable designs (including those for phones and such, since, yes, devices are a part of us, these days):
And that is all for now. Thank you so much for reading!
