RealitySandwich - Arts

Imagine Reality Sandwich 2.0

Reality Sandwich — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:28:29 -0700

We want to let the Reality Sandwich community know what we intend to do with the money raised through our Kickstarter campaign. We're envisioning a next phase for Reality Sandwich that will enable us to serve the community better and support the growth of the new consciousness movement.

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.

OM Vibrations - A Convergence in Longhorn Cavern

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

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!

The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs

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

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.

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.

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.

An Interview with Visionary Artist Thijme Termaat

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

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.

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.

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

Crossroads: Literature and Healing in the Classroom

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

Neurons to Networks: A Talk with Tiffany Shlain

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

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:

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

The Universe in a Nutshell

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

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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Millions of Images: The Paintings of William S. Burroughs

Matthew Levi Stevens — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:37:13 -0800

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HiveMind Consciousness Party

Reality Sandwich — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:51:42 -0800

Welcome to the first day-long HiveMind, where you can learn with hands-on workshops and talks, connect with like-minded people, receive healing, nutrition, and art, dance, and be.
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Top Music That Takes You to a Higher Plane

Reality Sandwich — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:42:38 -0800

For many of us, the quickest route to a transcendent state comes through a particular Coltrane solo, or Radiohead track, or Eric Satie miniature, or... fill in the blank. We recently polled Reality Sandwich contributors to find out what pieces of music most effectively transport them to a higher plane. The results are appropriately eclectic, as should be expected. We expect that this column will be the first of a series. Enjoy.

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Cry Before Your Lord - Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke on Ancestral Spirits & Communion with the Dead

David Metcalfe — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 06:32:26 -0800

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Southern California Lightning in a Bottle Rush-N-Get-Em Sale

Reality Sandwich — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:38:04 -0800

Southern California’s beloved art and music festival Lightning in a Bottle is getting a new home this year and is giving participants the chance to experience it for less. “Rush-N-Get-Em” tickets go on sale for 48 hours beginning Tuesday, February 12th at 10am PST via Lightning in a Bottle’s website. Regular ticket sales will begin on March 18, 2013.
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Mindrolling: Politics and Spirituality

Raghu Markus — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:43:37 -0800

Mindrolling, the podcast, is about coming unstuck. It’s about the recent history of awakened awareness. It is about the intersection of culture and consciousness and realization.

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Save Dancecult

Graham St John — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:14:34 -0800

Save Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture through crowdfunding

Only EIGHT HOURS to go in our flexible crowdfunding campaign. It is now your chance to help save our international journal of electronic dance music culture, Dancecult. Over the past weeks we’ve been impressed by the gracious contributions of many who’ve donated event tickets, books, DVDs and other materials for our cause as perks, and buoyed by our supporters who’ve been buying the perks and donating much needed funds.

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Deep Basement Mysteries

OddEdges — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:33:11 -0800

Hey you media-munching Evolvernauts!

If you haven't checked it out already, bounce on over to our new YouTube channel, EvolverNetTV.

In effort to propagate Evolver's hyper-dimensional logos deeper into the brush of the cybersphere, we're rolling out YouTube playlists by collecting the words and images of others that reflect our Other-oriented RS ethos.
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