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Posted on January 31, 2007 - by dionysus

LED terrorism spawns dionsyian chaos in Boston

Members of the Boston psytribes assisted in the installation of a guerrilla art installation of mooninites at the start of the New Year. The following video document of the art project began circulating among the knowledgeable and well-connected in the days that followed. Now it can be watched on YouTube…

Approximately three weeks after the night shown here — that is to say, the morning of January 31th — a concerned citizen-commuter noticed one of the devices for the first time while on the way to work. Her report alerted the Authorities to them for the first time, too. The media circus that followed can be shown better than described.

LED ad campaign ignites terrorism scare in Boston (boingboing)

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Posted on January 25, 2007 - by dionysus

fractal sponges and the puzzle hunt

Based on the paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise created by Zeno of Elea, this film seeks to communicate the idea, that sometimes, the feelings that we get from the world aren’t real. This particular case seeks to challenge perception of space and time, questioning motion.

A place where the images created by the character’s mind live together with the character herself. Short-film made on animation with real characters illustrates this problem using the fractal structure, “the sponge of Sierpinski/Menger.”

This fractal interposes itself between the two characters, Kim and the tortoise. It grows and develops in the measure of the desire of the small girl to catch the tortoise. The ambiguous game of knowing if this structure is real or just the fruit of the imagination of the small girl has two objectives:

First, to show how we, human beings, can turn a simple problem in to a complex dilemma. Two, to explain Zeno’s paradox: motion can seem impossible if its distance is recurrently divided in smaller pieces. If movement is truly over space and time, one could not move without a lapse in logic or a miracle of time.

Not the sort of sponge used on the dishes; the menger sponge is a fractal curve extrapolated into three dimensions, poised in the topological space between the plane and the solid. Though the classical Menger sponge is constructed in three-dimensions, it can be embodied in any number of higher dimensions; consequently any geometry of loop quantum gravity can be embedded in a Menger Sponge. Some say the structure of space-time may be allied with this foam-like form.

At the end, Kim solves the apparently contradictory logic of the problem. The absurd structure interposed between her and the tortoise disappears and she can finally catch it.

(Thanks, Vlad!)

An Interactive Menger Sponge (java required)
Puzzle Hunt site
Menger Sponge on Wikipedia
The Business Card Menger Sponge

Posted on January 16, 2007 - by dionysus

the ayahuasca monologues in nyc

January is turning into an excellent month for the visionary arts in New York. First up is the salon at CoSM coming up this Saturday night, with the creator of electricsheep; now we hear of another night of visionary culture and entertainment, this time in written form.

Next Thursday the 25th, NYC culture mag souldish is bringing us The Ayahuasca Monologues: Tales of the Spirit Vine. A panel of five will tell stories and share experiences relating to ayahuasca, the powerful shamanic brew from the Amazon that is making waves through circles of the visionary elite. It is going down at Manhattan nightspot Eyebeam. The featured five will be:

Daniel Pinchbeck – author of Breaking Open The Head: Psychedelics and Contemporary Shamanism and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl.
Jamye Waxman – sexplorer, Playgirl advice columnist, Sex and Spirit podcaster.
Nat Bletter – ethnobotanist, explorer, herbal healer, and author of a recent piece on the psychoactive effects of chocolate in “Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao.”
Bill Kennedy – actor/storyteller and ayahuasca guardian.
Jonathan Phillips – founder of the NYC Gnostics, executive editor of Souldish.com.

7:30 PM, $10

Event details (psyny.com)
Source (via souldish.com)

Posted on January 14, 2007 - by Root

Links for 2007-01-13

Hyperspace Studios</a

The Art of Guy Aitchison and Michele Wortman
to psychedelic entheogen entheocentric visuals art artist graphics ars_psychedelia … 23 hours ago

Wikinomics

How collaborative neural networks will change the world

to economics collaboration communitas community book… 1 day ago

Transaction Net: Local Exchange Trading Systems – LETS

Community-based currency models. What better way to outgrow the Government?

to economics reference currency communitas … 1 day ago

Posted on January 11, 2007 - by dionysus

Robert Anton Wilson, concluded

Posted today on the robertantonwilson blog:

Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11.

All Hail Eris!

On behalf of his children and those who cared for him, deepest love and gratitude for the tremendous support and lovingness bestowed upon us.
(that’s it from Bob’s bedside at his fnord by the sea)

RAW Memorial February 2007
date to be announced

During his ~32-year writing career, RAW deprogrammed many intelligent young minds in the generations that succeeded him. Ours included. It was only last weekend that we stumbled upon his blog after years of exposure to his books.

We then discovered his link page, a wild collection of ‘net lore as has ever been assembled. We’ve set up a local mirror of RAW’s links, since all of his websites are down for now. Copying his collected wisdom seems the most fitting tribute to our minds.

Oh, and since the world is indeed a strange place: a coincidental happy birthday to Doctor Albert Hoffman. It is his 101st.

update: The RU Sirius Show posted a tribute: mp3Robert Anton Wilson Lives!

“Robert Anton Wilson taught us all that “the universe contains a maybe.” So maybe there is an afterlife, and maybe Bob’s consciousness is hovering around all of us who were touched by his words and his presence all these years. And if that’s the case, I’m sure he’d like to see you do something strange and irreverent – and yet beautiful – in his honor.” -RUSirius

Link

Posted on January 8, 2007 - by dionysus

do electric sheep dream in the chapel of sacred mirrors?

Scott “Spot” Draves, designer of the electricsheep screen saver, will be joining Alex Grey at his CoSM for a talk at the upcoming Entheocentric Salon. Scott will be introducing his favorite project, Dreams in High Fidelity: a painting in continuous evolution, and exhibiting electricsheep to the visionary art community here in New York for the first time.
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