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I came across this while investigating the local tribe out here in Seattle.
In deep appreciation of those who shine…
…I raise high my glass of wine.
A patient smile can win you kin from strangers who have walked the mile to join the game. You tame the troubled, drifting hearts who wonder at the omniscient sifting. [...]

In a rare display of non-insularishness, I have departed New York City for a week in the Pacific Northwest.
Seattle is to be my primary urban home while I am here. Fortunately, this urban center is also home to many vibrant aftercultural communities, a few of which are hosting events during my stay.

First off is [...]

Saturday night’s party at CoSM was great fun. The 28thday community turned out in numbers Holistic Approachfor what was expected to be an informal inaugural event. No sacred chapel, no live painting, no intellectual discourse — just dancing, music, home-brew art, and home-made cupcakes.

Visual Alchemism made its first attempt at public video projection. Inspired by the Dreams in High Fidelity projections at Psynoptic Shift, Alchemism’s venerable flock of electric sheep provided a apparently-entrancing spectacle, framed as it was by the art of underground community decorator Mordechai Schulgasser.

A promising alliance between two of NY’s psy tribes was announced earlier this week.

In a secret midnight ceremony, 28thday producer Theo was sworn into the extended CoSM family. Details of the ritual are of course secret, but rumor has it that the sacrifice of a soy-substitute chicken is demanded, as well as certain oaths taken in the presence of patrone Alex Grey himself…

Here is a podcast of the talk Fraiser Clark gave at Stanford University, explaining the evolution from beat to hippy to zippy to raver. Adopting our social model, he posits, is perhaps our species’ best hope for a sustainable existence.

Visionary artist Alex Grey and psychedelic violinist Kenji Williams collaborated on this multimedia experience, a fusion featuring poetry, storytelling, music, projections, and paintings.

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Worldspirit retail DVD

Us technical gnomes in Boston and New York have set up a video link between the simultaneous parties. We’ll be able to say hi to our trance neighbors up in the north,or taunt them, flirt with them, or whatever.
On the Boston side, our video signal will be fed into the VJ’s mixer, where he will [...]

On Saturday the 10th of March NYC is treated to a classic art loft party of a kind not seen since Gulliani transformed this city into the dour place it is today.

As we covered previously, the electric sheep and their shephard Spot Draves debuted in New York January at the Ethnocentric Salon. The exhibition engaged an at-capacity crowd at CoSM, Alex Grey’s visionary art gallery in Chelsea. It was a digital symposium featuring the hi-fi dreams variant of electric sheep, followed by a dialogue between the visionary artist and the visionary programmer. The curious came to see the sheep and the famous sacred art, then stayed amazed and danced until morning.

Out of that night comes this non-commercial multimedia event. Spot’s electric sheep will be cast large on the walls while we dance to progressive psychedelic trance mixed artful across the span of ten (or so) hours. Three psy headliners are flying in from Sweden this Saturday — Reefer Decree, Ibojima, and Christer. The remaining… eight-or-so hours of music will be provided by DJ’s Dave Henshaw and AmmonEP, from the Boston-based Sonic Beating psytribe, and Lauryn and Tony Unorthodox, standing for 28thday and NYC.

No true multimedia art party would be complete without the chance to play with fun technology. In this case, an A/V chat will link the two psy parties in Boston and NYC. Perhaps also a webcast of the video projection, should the tech gnomes and I happen across a cam worthy of the task. More on that as the date approaches.

All that is publicly known for now is that it is somewhere in Queens. This is a private exhibition so, if you want to attend, you will need to email shift@28thday.com or purchase a ticket directly from the 28thday site. In this spirit, the location will remain a secret until Thursday night, at which point RSVPs will receive full directions.

11PM – 8:30AM, $20 in advance, $25 with RSVP