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Archive for September, 2009
FDIC is Broke
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009Typographic Synesthesia
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.
An amazing video for the Typophile Film Festival – all done by hand (no CG!). Using words placed in sensory environments the film evokes sensations via letter combinations.
For anyone familiar with “The Invisibles” this video creates a nice counterpart to the hallucinogenic substance – Key 23. Key 23 allow the taker to see an object when presented with the word for that object. For instance the word “Bear” produces a vivid hallucination of a bear.
Synaesthetes often associate words with feelings, smells, colors, and sounds. This film beautifully connects text with texture.
Burt’s Bees Raising Awareness of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
Monday, September 28th, 2009Where To Flee
Monday, September 28th, 2009
If you find yourself the target of unjust U.S. authorities and need a place to flee, check out this map of countries that do not have extradition treaties with the US. Steer clear of the blue.
(Croatia, Vietnam, Borneo – not a bad selection.)
Thanks to DisInfo
International Alchemy Conference
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Visionary Podcasts
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Podcasts, the internet’s equivalent to radio shows. If you are not yet savvy to what a podcast is and how to listen to them here is a brief primer.
How Podcasts Work
A “podcast” is an just mp3 audio file on a web server, there is no actual difference between a podcast mp3 and and any other mp3 you may already own. It will play in any standard mp3 player software or portable device. The way an mp3 becomes a “podcast” is through the use of an RSS feed, which is actually just a text file sitting on a web server somewhere. The RSS feed has a specifically formated list of the names and URL locations of each podcast mp3 file. When you add or subscribe to a podcast using “podcatcher” software (see step one below) you are simply telling it where to find the list of podcast files. The podcatcher will automatically check the file for changes from time to time. When a new “episode” of the podcast is released the RSS file will also be updated, and the new podcast will show up in your podcatcher ready to be downloaded and listened to.
How to Start Listening to Podcasts
Step 1: Download Podcatcher Software
There are many podcatchers out there, iTunes or Juice. You can also use just about any RSS feed reader like web based Google Reader.
Step 2: Add RSS Feeds to Your Podcatcher
The easiest way to do this is to locate podcast webpages, and cut and past the RSS feed for the podcast into your chosen program (look for an +add feed or subscribe function. for iTunes 9 look under the advanced tab). Be aware that many podcast sites have more than one RSS feed, you are looking for the one that has a list of the podcasts and not news articles (some podcatcher programs allow you to add both types of RSS feed).
Step 3: Download Shows
Once you have added the RSS feed the show should start to show up in your podcatcher software
List of Visionary Podcasts
Bioneers Podcast (free)
Psychedelic Salon (donation based)
Maps Podcast (free)
Disinformation Podcast (free)
Coast to Coast AM Podcast (subscription based)
The RU Sirius Show (free)
NeoFiles (free)
C-Realm (donation based)
Visionary Activist Show (free)
Gnostic Radio (free)
Viking Youth Power Hour (free)
Leave a comment if you know of other similar podcasts. This article will repost at a later date as more podcasts are found.
Humans are 90% Microbes
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
The Human Microbiome Project is analyzing the human body to determine it’s non-human components. Only 10% of our bodies are composed of human cells while the other 90% is composed of bacteria, viruses and other microbes that make life possible. (Human cells are much larger than microbes so this percentage is by cell population, not by volume.)
Just like an ant colony or planet Earth (according to the Gaia Hypothesis), humans are super-organisms. What happens when a superorganism becomes aware of itself? Why the Overall Effect of course.
Perhaps the accumulated electro-magnetic discharge of our human minds and bodies combined with that of billions of tiny organisms within is what imbues us with consciousness and sparks our feelings of oneness as we toggle our scale sliders.
What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds
Monday, September 21st, 2009The Vigilant Citizen
Monday, September 21st, 2009The Vigilant Citizen is one of the most impressive websites active in the analysis and documentation of mystical symbology implanted in prominent architecture and culture. It is well composed and as unbiased an account of spooky shit as I’ve ever read.
Gems:
Astana, Kazakhstan – Sim City of the 21st Century
The Manitoba Legislature Building – Solomon’s Temple Reincarnate
Denver International Airport – A Vortex of Power
Rockefeller Center – We Bring Weird Things to Life
The Mormon Temple – “Hail Satan!”
Lady Gaga – Mind Control Role Model (by far the seemingly craziest at first but spectacularly well evidenced in the long run)
Admittedly these all have a leaning towards conspiracy theory. The importance of these articles beyond the facts and interpretation are the ideas. Ideas, either direct in art and architecture or subconsciously embedded in music and movies, have power. One way or another – this is all direct evidence of massive, organized power.
Tags: consciousness, conspiracy, futurism, geometry, laws, movie, perception, political, power, symbology
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