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Occupy Love began as an investigation of global warming, then a wave of revolutions swept across the Arab world and Europe, finally crashing on American soil in the form of Occupy Wall Street. In each case, Velcrow was there to capture events on film. (more)

Thijme's three-minute video,  I Paint, could have been made a century ago. He made it one frame at a time, at a rate of a minute of film per year, using no digital effects. Once it hit Youtube it soon had over a million views. (more)

The Internet has become the perfect tool of mind control. FB and the Net are SOMA. Huxley predicted it in Brave New World. We are enslaved by distractions and easy pleasures that cater to our narcissism and prejudice. It's better to be outside all of that, meet people in the real world, form alliances, organize and do something new. (more)

Filmmaker and Internet pioneer Tiffany Shlain recently released a short film and TED book. Brain Power: from Neurons to Networks explores the parallels between the development of a child's brain and the development of the global brain of the Internet. (more)

Byron Metcalf is a musician in touch with this resonance and rhythm of mysteries in the unseen realms of the shamanic experience. I sat down to talk with Byron about his work and his interest in shamanic states of consciousness. (more)

2012 was a year of All-things-Burroughs. We had the On the Road film and a two-volume set showcasing The Lost Art of Ah Pook and currently The October Gallery in London is exhibiting his paintings, drawings, and "talismanic objects."  (more)

Killing Joke has seen three decades of critical engagement with contemporary culture, bringing ancient traditions forward and embracing a reality unbounded by arbitrary laws. With this interview, I wanted to understand how the death of bassist Paul Raven and extending friendship beyond temporal limitations affected Coleman's life.
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Scott Draves is the brains behind the crowdsourced iterative screensaver known as the Electric Sheep, a continually evolving abstract animation with over 450,000 participants. Individual Sheep animations are voted on by participants; the more popular sheep live longer and reproduce according to a genetic algorithm with mutation and cross-over. (more)

John Sheldon was Van Morrison's lead guitarist at age 17. He has an uncanny gift for conjuring the wild spirit, so when he told me he'd written a song for the famous alpha female Wolf 06 shot and killed just out of Yellowstone, I wanted to share it with others who, like me, are mourning for all of the hundreds of wolves who are murdered for sport.  (more)

"The only hope in the world now lies with women. Men have tortured the world. We are walking on one leg, and it is a catastrophe. There is a deficiency of love in mankind. It's a lack of love for themselves, and therefore for mankind. The situation we are in makes us become cynical, egoists and profiteers. Parasites. Millions of parasites." (more)

The mind is capable of a certain deliberate act of will that results in a higher state of consciousness. The Forbidden Book is among the latest in a long list of literary works in which the Hermetic tradition, this mental work, is enciphered. (more)

In 2009, Jeremy Jensen and Shena Turlington went to the Amazon to make recordings among tribal communities. These sounds were woven together with modern rhythms to create a series of albums released as Critical Beats, with the proceeds going directly to Amazon conservation. In 2010, they went back. (more)

Tom Robbins is one of our unruly pioneers, and his frequently bestselling novels – including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Skinny Legs and All – are so saturated in an uncontainable joie de vivre that they have remained virtually required reading throughout the years and decades since their initial publication.  (more)