This avant-garde film, by Tracy Twyman, recently re-appeared on YouTube. I can’t remember exactly how I stumbled into it. I’m glad I did. It’s cool little piece.
Twyman is a controversial occultic historian, whose critics accuse her of being a monarchist. But the artist and historian, who published Dagobert’s Revenge Magazine through 2003, is new to me.
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Perhaps internet access will make them happy.
Buses, at least in Boston, are filthy and grossly inefficient. Accidents and shootings are common, although the police are quick to assure uninjured passengers when they were not targeted in gangster-on-gangster hits.
But since buses will be the primary mode of ground transportation in U.N.-defined urban habitats, officials and the media are trying to sweeten the experience for city dwellers.
Motorola, MIT and a supportive Boston Globe (for which I am a columnist) this week made the case for adding wireless internet access and TVs to buses, to lure individuals out of their cars.
They claim that wireless connections between bus riders will foster the growth of urban habitat areas, or “urban gardens,” as sociologist Federico Casalegno called them in the Boston Globe on Sunday (link and excerpt, below).
Casalegno, who had just designed a futuristic-looking prototype bus station at MIT, is collaborating with the university’s “Smart Cities” group, which is headed by the architect and urban planner William J. Mitchell.
But Casalegno’s real job (which the Globe article does not mention) is working for Motorola, where he is a manager.
Motorola‘s and Mitchell’s plans do not allow for weekend excursions to the country, let alone opportunities to reside permanently outside the city.
But ubiquitous wireless connections will benefit Motorola, and a Sovietized transportation system will help cities such as Boston comply with the U.N.’s Agenda 21.
In his book, “e-topia,” Mitchell describes future urban centers “characterized by live/work dwellings and 24-hour pedestrian-scale neighborhoods,” according to his publisher.
And Motorola’s current vision, according to Monday’s Financial Times, is “seamless connectivity”: access to information “at any time, on any device, and anywhere.”
For more about Agenda 21, listen to Alan Watt‘s May 2 and May 3 audio blurbs, which are here and here.
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The artist observes his viewers in Second Life
Artist and Emerson College professor John Craig Freeman, in one recent Second Life piece, created portals to various alternate realities. One portal (one of the orbs in the image, above) might take you to the U.S.-Mexican border; another to the streets of Sao Paolo, Brazil. Freeman is among the first artists to explore the alternate world being created by Second Life users. He is also the first SL artist to be featured at the Boston Cyberarts Festival, taking place this week. He said his pieces are designed to make viewers more aware of how alternate realities will affect human interactions.
I rounded up images from John Craig and Cyberarts participants who are creating interactive and ubiquitous computing works. You can see those images here.
Henrik Palmgren today interviews Jake Kotze, who says the internet will make us all smarter givers-and-takers of information, and will take power from the planet’s media conglomerates. I’m not buying it. In an upcoming report at The Register, I describe how most hosted website are under the control of these very companies.Also, marketers are on fire for alternate and virtual worlds (think Second Life), which they plan to use for mind control purposes.
But the most surprising bit of the interview comes at the end of the subscriber (paid) portion of the interview. That’s when Kotze suggests that mystics and visionaries, including Moses, may have been on mushrooms. I don’t know how he’s going to make the case for that, but I look forward to hearing it!
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Stockholm-based Oceanic Creations hopes to build fantastic-looking structures on water with its new composite building material and investors and customers it does not yet appear to have. As for the charged symbolic meanings for this proposed project, that will be for Henrik Palmgren (Red Ice Creations) and his frequent guests Michael Tsarion and Freeman to parse.
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Artist and Emerson College professor John Craig Freeman, in one recent Second Life piece, created orbs that act as portals to various alternate realities. One portal might take you to the U.S.-Mexican border; another to the streets of Sao Paolo, Brazil.Freeman among the first artists to explore the alternate world being created by Second Life users. He is also the first Second Life artist to be featured at the Boston Cyberarts Festival, taking place this week. He said his pieces are designed to make viewers more aware of how alternate realities are affecting human interactions.
I rounded up some images from John Craig and other Boston Cyberarts participants, some whom are creating interactive works and ubiquitous computing applications. You can see those images here.
Originally uploaded by meghatron.
From Meghatron, a New York-based performance artist who works with arfids (RFID tags) and spime (RFID-tagged objects). The ad in this photo is for a “cosmeceutical” (as in, “snake oil”).
And I thought those puppy mills were bad… This “SFX” artist creates animatronic hearts and gargoyles. I imagine this is an example of the predictive programming Alan Watt often speaks of in his interviews and audio “blurbs.”
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Jake Kotze – The Philosophy of Synchromysticism
