RealitySandwich - Arts

Kickstarter Success!

Reality Sandwich — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:28:56 -0700

We did it! The Reality Sandwich 2.0 Kickstarter was a great success. We raised an amazing $56,360.56. -- 141% of our goal.

Thank you to everyone who donated. Also, we want to thank the many people who supported this effort by blogging about it, sending emails, sharing Facebook posts, and more. This was a huge group endeavor -- and it came together wonderfully well.

Remember to Bounce: Reflecting on Sonic Bloom

Eugene Igma — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:30:08 -0700

This article contains summarized excerpts of my subjective nonfiction story “Remember to Bounce!” – which tells of my experience at Sonic Bloom Festival 2012. SolPurpose.com is publishing the entire story in six parts, starting here. An asterisk (*) indicates that the name has been changed to protect someone’s privacy.

Synergy, Sound and the Sacred: Documenting Transformational DJ Culture

Terra Celeste — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:26:30 -0700

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Transformational Festivals Are a Symptom of Dissociation

Michael Garfield — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:31:27 -0700

This rant started as part of a discussion about The Bloom Series, a documentary project chronicling the culture of “transformational festivals,” following a screening of its first installment in Austin, Texas. I have dedicated years of my life to the aims and values of this culture, and yet cannot feel the conversation is complete without acknowledging that the very existence of transformational festivals poses as much of a problem as a solution.
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Top Fictional "Demi-Gods"

Reality Sandwich — Thu, 30 May 2013 11:02:26 -0700

Every story-telling medium has its fair share of larger-than-life characters that are almost mythical in their embodiment of a particular idea or archetype - hence "demi-god." We polled Reality Sandwich contributors to find out what fictional characters of this variety resonated with them the most. The result is a great mix of film, literary, and comic book characters who have transcended paper and screen into the collective psyche. Enjoy.

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Reality Sandwich Reviews, May 29, 2012

Reality Sandwich Reviews — Wed, 29 May 2013 06:51:44 -0700

In this edition of Reality Sandwich reviews:

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RS Gnosis Files

Faye Sakellaridis — Wed, 29 May 2013 06:35:20 -0700

Since Reality Sandwich's launch in 2007, we've compiled a stunning wealth of quality essays that have graced the front page as featured articles. Presently, there are so many essays that have stood the test of time. It would take a dedicated reader months to absorb it all, and due to our website's current technical limitations, it would be frustrating to even make the attempt.
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Kickstarter Volunteers Wanted

Reality Sandwich — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:17:19 -0700

We recently launched a Reality Sandwich Kickstarter campaign that envisions a next phase for Reality Sandwich, one that will enable us to serve the community better and support the growth of the new consciousness movement. We call it RS 2.0.
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The Inspiration Behind Entheon

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:09:40 -0700

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The Rising of Little Sun

Sophie Pinchetti — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:31:06 -0700

Light for Everyone: An inspired solar-powered artwork and project by Olafur Eliasson and Frederik Ottensen.

A new sun is breaking through the horizon. It shines brightly at night, and best of all, you can hold it in your hand. Born from the collaboration between Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottensen, this new sun has been baptised Little Sun - a solar powered creation, dreaming of light for everyone.
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OM Vibrations - A Convergence in Longhorn Cavern

Gia Rapasadi — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:20:08 -0700

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Life is a Reality Sandwich

Ken Jordan — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:06:02 -0700

The new consciousness culture that Reality Sandwich covers is becoming a movement, and to stay one step ahead, RS needs to grow with it. With the resources raised through a Kickstarter campaign, we want to expand our editorial program by adding a timely blog; do more video, music, and podcasts; go in-depth on hot topics; and improve the site's interactivity. It's time to take Reality Sandwich to the next level!
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The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs

Matthew Levi Stevens — Mon, 13 May 2013 03:14:02 -0700

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Declaring Independence

somantics — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:04:20 -0700

Used to be no end of people willing to gang up and go with the flow without question. Couldn’t say if it’s just being human, cultural or something peculiar to a moment in history, but it’s true that the society in which I live has gotten into trouble more than once over this pervasive trait.

But now it looks like some of us want to do something different. We’re grasping at what shape it might take, like unmolded clay spinning on the wheel. We know that we want it to be useful, beautiful and for everyone to use.
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Love in Motion: A Conversation with Occupy Love Director Velcrow Ripper

Darrin Drda — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:44:37 -0700

"Power without love is reckless and abusive. Love without power is sentimental and anemic." These words of the late Dr. Martin Luther King echo throughout Occupy Love, the latest documentary by Velcrow Ripper, and by all accounts they serve as a guiding principle in the Canadian filmmaker's own life.
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This is Why I Don't Date Straight Guys

Dani Katz — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:28:59 -0700

Straight Guys: [streyt gayhz], n.; men who don't believe in astrology, archangels or crop circles; who watch television, eat processed mind control food, and don't know the difference between the Pleiades and Sirius B; and who think it's weird that I wash my crystals in moonlight and my face in early morning urine, and bleed onto the Earth during my cycle.
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An Interview with Visionary Artist Thijme Termaat

Jonathan Zap — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:36:52 -0700

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Aligning Minds: My Heart is Love

Robin Gunkel — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:33:10 -0700

Aligning Minds’s newest album, My Heart Is Love, has been described as an ethereal future city. They say it wasn’t a conscious construction, but listening to the album now, I feel myself floating in a dream; swimming through a Miyazaki film or a Philip K. Dick novel—underwater undulating breaths, heartbeats, android love songs, dripping tunnels, cathedral hollows, hypnogogic blips and clicks, and siren arias.
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The Bloom Series

Reality Sandwich — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:54:38 -0700

The Bloom, a ground-breaking new documentary webseries, illuminates the blossoming phenomenon of Transformational Festivals, immersive participatory realities that are having profound life-changing effects on hundreds of thousands of lives.

The first episode, "Fundamental Frequencies," has just been launched and will be featured at over 30 screening events. It can also be found online at www.thebloom.tv.
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Extremist Art: A Talk with Nick Zedd

Tamra Lucid — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:32:35 -0700

"Nick Zedd's films are legendary -- he is a truly seminal figure in the New York underground." --Jim Jarmusch
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Crossroads: Literature and Healing in the Classroom

Brandy Schillace — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:36:52 -0700

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Neurons to Networks: A Talk with Tiffany Shlain

Neşe Devenot — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:43:34 -0800

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RS Podcast, Episode 3: "Spreading Awareness Awareness"

Reality Sandwich — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:57:29 -0800

On this edition of the Reality Sandwich Podcast, hosted by OddEdges:
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Reality Sandwich Reviews, March 7, 2013

Reality Sandwich Reviews — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:41:36 -0800

In this edition of Reality Sandwich reviews:

American Cyclopath

Downton Abbey

Leviathan

Push the Sky Away

Supernatural: Writings on an Unknown History

The Psychedelic Future of the Mind: How Entheogens are Enhancing Cognition, Boosting Intelligence, and Raising Values

The Next Day

WSIS +10 Review

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The Universe in a Nutshell

Tara Storozynsky — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:11:49 -0800

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Sonic Shamanism: An Interview with Ebbot Lundberg

Chris Kaplan — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:40:46 -0800

Ebbot Lundberg, front man for Sweden's The Soundtrack of Our Lives, is a true storyteller, a modern sonic shaman exploring the innermost depths of the human soul and condition, and the very same fabric that makes up the omniverse.
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Beat of the Shaman: An Interview with Musician Byron Metcalf

Daniel Moler — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:59:28 -0800

In their book The Universe Story, mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme and historian Thomas Berry discuss how our primal ancestors used the drumbeat to establish an integral connection with the psychic or spiritual dimensions of the universe: "Their aim was a life in resonant participation with the rhythms of reality."
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Jeramie Bellmay’s Perception Altar

Robin Gunkel — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:23:07 -0800

Entering into Bellmay’s abode is an act of translocation. Hinged open fish bone lips; a grey, feral cat-like mummy found in the basement of a castle; a two-headed, baby chick under a dome of glass; a jar of Bellmay’s finger and toenail clippings, which he’s collecting as raw material for a sculpture; a tiny speck of Abraham Lincoln’s hair … the peculiar, antiquated, and organic live in the open space of his artist loft where he dreams beneath a cracked paint ceiling— an indoor, image-filled sky.
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A Spiraling Eye-Encrusted Overview of the Art of Alex Grey (Part 1)

Jonathan Zap — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 06:43:55 -0800

Introduction

On the morning I started writing this, a five-year-old named Caleb happened to be visiting the house and interrupted my writing session to tell me (and this is an exact quote):

"Jonathan, I see ghosty things other people don't see."

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Vine of the Soul

Arianna A Garofalo — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:20:19 -0800

Evolver Washington DC is hosting a FREE screening of the documentary film "Vine of the Soul" on Friday March 1, 8 pm at 615 Kenyon Street NW Washington DC.

"Vine of the Soul" features Dennis McKenna, Gabor Mate, M.D., Kenneth Tupper, with Guillermo Arévalo, Metsa Niwue and Ronin Niwe. It was shot on location at Espiritu de Anaconda, Iquitos, Peru and other sites in North America.
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