Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing

The Dream Machine Online

Link for this Post: The Dream Machine Online Note; Be sure to close your eyes when you view the dream machine. Three years ago, I wrote Remembering Brion Gysin Among Gysin's works was the concept of the Dream Machine. The...

The Hivemind Aesthetic, Instopix and Other Art

Links for this Post The Hivemind Aesthetic. Luke Stanley on Stumble Upon Luke Stanley's Blog Instapix I stumbled upon a young fellow from England a couple of years ago, who is working on a semantically sensitive software program that adds...

A Workshop on Writing in San Fransisco

Links for this Post: Stanley Krippner

Mystic Garden Party 2008 Jan 25-26 Maui, HI Includes 3 Days of Workshop and Music

Featured Links for his Post Mystic Garden Party 2008 Buy Mystic Garden Passes for various lengths and level of participation

The Six Wives of Timothy Leary

Links for this Post: The Six Wives of Timothy Leary reviewed in The Stage The Six Wives of Timothy Leary - reviewed by John Higgs MySpace profile of The Six Wives of Timothy Leary Here is an interesting take on...

Return of the Light

Happy Solstice. Today in the Northern Hemisphere where I live, it is the shortest day of the year in terms of sunflight and in the Southern Hemisphere it is their longest day. In this way, the Solstice marks a day...

RealityStudio » RealityStudio, a William S. Burroughs Community

Link for this post : RealityStudio » RealityStudio, a William S. Burroughs Community. Its about time we had a William S. Burroughs Community on the web. Here is what they say about themselves. RealityStudio.org is dedicated to William S. Burroughs...

Are Psychedelics Google’s Biggest Trade Secret?

Link for this Post: Reality Sandwich Google and the Myceliation of Consciousness. I'm not sure if this article is irrefutable proof of the idea that psychedelics are Google’s biggest trade secret but the author RoseRose has a gift for blarney...

Actress Mariel Hemingway Hosting Fund-Raising Dinner November 9th for Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York -- Consciousness Cafe

Link for ths Post: Consciousness Cafe. Here is an excerpt from this post: Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated American actress Mariel Hemingway will host a fund-raising dinner November 9th for Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM) in N Alex's art is...

LSD and Dying on the eye of the cyclone Blog

Link for this Post: LSD and DYING on eye of the cyclone. This is a three part post. The first part cited above begins: Modern pharmacology’s ability to synthesize psychoactive drugs has made the psychedelic experience-one that can encourage memories...

Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era at the Whitney Museum -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: Embedded YouTube Video below Back in May 2005, I posted Tate Liverpool Features Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era and later followed it up with Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Originally...

The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video

Links for this Post: The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein -- YouTube Video Ebbed in this post below The Shock Doctrine Book and Film Home Page The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism...

Peter Max (and a lot more) on lines and colors at blog

Links for this Post: Peter Max on lines and colors art blog. lines and colors a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other visual arts Until today, when you think of the name Charlie Parker,...

Remembering Jack Kerouac on the Smithsonian Magazine

Link: Remembering Jack Kerouac. by Joyce Johnson on the Smithsonian.Com Magazine According to the tagline on the story, "A friend of the author of "On the Road," published

Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Golden Gate Park 9/2/07 YouTube Video Updated with Stream Information

Links for this Post: Summer of Love Home Page YouTube Video embedded below I'm posting this as part one of two updates of my post about the Summer of Love celebrations this March.

Burning Man Burns Early -- Caught on Video

Links for this Post: Burning Man torched early; artist held - Yahoo! News. Burning Man's 'man' burns early — S.F. man arrested for arson-- USA Today A Heated Q&A With the Prankster Accused of Burning the Man -- WiredThis video...

Andy Warhols TV -- FREE Vidio Via Alterati.net Torrent

Link for this Post: Alterati.net: Torrent Details for: Andy Warhols TV. This video torrent comes by way way of a post on GPod and so I am publishing great background they wrote for the video: At the start of the...

alterati The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary's Neurocomics and More -- Plus Info on Leary Biopic

Link for this Post: alterati » The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary's Neurocomics & Promethea by Alan Moore. by Wes Unruh. This alerati post is interesting from a variety of perspectives. I actually own one of the Neurocomics. Timothy gave it...

Anniversary of the Summer of 1967 Montery Pop Festival July 29-30

Link for this Post: Anniversary of the Summer of 1967 Montery Pop Festival July 29-30. This is part two of the update to my March post about the Summer of Love Celebration. This post is about the 40th Anniversary of...

RAI Film Festival Conference Beyond Text: Synaesthetic & Sensory Manchester UK June 27-July 2

Link sfor this Post: RAI Film Festival Conference Beyond Text: Synaesthetic & Sensory Manchester UK June 27-July 2. Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology According to the website announcing this event: In his recent book The Corporeal Image: Film, Ethnography, and...

It Was Forty Years Ago Today! Updated

Links for this Post Updated: 'Sgt. Pepper' at 40 Summer of Love saw release of Beatles' landmark album By Jim Harrington, InsideBayArea.Com "A Day in the Life: Sgt. Pepper Turns 40" by Jon Wiener, Nation "Musical Album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely...

Invisible College PDF Magazine

Link for this Post : Invisible College PDF Magazine. There is a new edition out of the colorful but a bit cumbersome Invisible College Magazine out. If you remember, I posted about issue Invisible College Enthusiast PDF Magazine FREE Download...

The New Eye Visionary Art and Tradition by Erik Davis on Techgnosis

Link: The New Eye Visionary Art and Tradition by Erik Davis on Techgnosis Erik Davis has recently redesigned his excellent Techgnosis website and added a bunch of new content. This essay by Davis, which has seen publication as an introduction...

Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era Originally at Tate Liverpool - Starting May 24 2007 Whitney Museum NY

Link for this Post:: Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era (Orig Tate Liverpool) Starting May 24 2007 Whitney Museum NY. Back in May 2005, I posted about Tate Museum Liverpool's Summer of Love exhibit. The Whitney Museum of...

Nick Herbert and RU Sirius on Rudy Rucker's Flurb

Link for this Post: FLURB, a Webzine of Astonishing Tales No. 3 I just got an email from my Santa Cruz friend Nick Herbert was happy to report: "Four Milestones of Quantum Tantra just published in Rudy Rucker's FLURB." In...

The Bicycle Ride by David Normal -- Video

Link for this Post is embedded video. Today is a Bicycle Day so I am reposting David Normal's animation, The Bicycle Ride, which was made in conjunction with the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann last year. Here is the description...

Mark Henson Sacred Light Studio 2007 Summer of Love Tour + Festival Info

Links for this Post: Mark Henson Sacred Light Studio 2007 Summer of Love Tour. Summer of Love Festival Website I found this information in the process of getting my Island Web Voyages Elsewhere directory cleaned up and online (more about...

Become a Politically Correct Raver

Link for this Post: Musikal Resistance: A Short History I found this short tract (I suppose that is what you call these things) via eBlips "emergent culture metafilter." eBlips correctly qualifies it he describes it as a paper "... by...

Remembering Rachel -- A Poem

Links for this Post: Clay's Ten Cups Blog "Remembering Rachel: A Collaboration" "My All-Time Favorite Movie I Love You Alice B.Toklas" Vision Thing Blog Post Over New Years, my friend Clay and I worked on a collaborative poem. Clay had...

Web Consciousness Video Collection

Link for this Post: Web Consciousness Video Collection. I found this collection of "consciousness videos" via the Enthogenic Reformation blog. There are over a hundred videos including some I have not seen before by an assortment of consciousness personalities including...

Alex Grey - World Spirit - Live Performance -- Google Video

Link for this Post embedded below Happy Solstice, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanuka! This time of year when the days stop growing shorter and begin growing long put us in state receptive to the transcendent in many forms. I was fortunate...

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

Link for this Post: The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun. Here is an irrisistably fun site! The presenation is in Flash and the principles are unexpectedly fresh. Here is a bit about the site from the publishers: Everyone needs a...

The Rise of the Military-Industrial Complex -- Video Documentary

Links for this Post: Why We Fight on Google Video see image below (full version) "Why We Fight" DVD on Amazon We We Fight is a documentary by Eugene Jarecki starts with the Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address address in which...

U B U W E B Advent-Garde Poetry Website

Link for this post: U B U W E B. According to the people at U B U W E B: UbuWeb was founded in November of 1996, initially as a repository for visual, concrete and, later, sound poetry. Over...

WALRUSGUMBOOT: The Beatles Partnering with Mirage for "Revolution" in Las Vegas

Link for this Post: WALRUSGUMBOOT: The Beatles partnering with Mirage for "Revolution" in Las Vegas Two of the Beatles may be dead but their business enterprises live on. I wrote in a previous post about the lavish Beatles tribute production:...

How to Operate Your Brain by Timothy Leary

Link for this Post: See Video Below Timothy Leary made this video, How to Operate your Brain more than a decade ago. The 28 minute 58 second video was produced by Chris Graves. It is the best in a series...

Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder Paintings Featured at the Retrorama Exhibit, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle Nov 10th

Links for this Post: Mark Fraeunfelder's Paintings at Retrorama Exhibit Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle WA Note: Click on image on the rigth to see full size. I've known Mark Fraunfelder since the late 1980's, when Boing Boing was a...

Digital Utopia: A New Breed Of Technologists Envisions A Democratic World Improved By The Internet -- SF Chronicle

Link for this Post: "DIGITAL UTOPIA A new breed of technologists envisions a democratic world improved by the Internet" by Dan Fost, SF Chronicle Here's a bit from the beginning of a cool web 2.0 essay by Dan Fost of...

Forbes.com Is Sex Necessary? -

Link: Is Sex Necessary? - Forbes.com. Yesterday I posted about the hot new aphrodisiac heading for market. Today we look at sex from a different perspective. Forbes.Com asks "Is Sex Necessary/"

Revealed: Dentist Who Introduced The Beatles To LSD

Link for this Post: "Revealed: Dentist who introduced Beatles to LSD" by Ian Herbert in The Independent Here is a bit from the beginning of the article:

Back from the Burn

Links for this Post Are "Best Of" News Stories About Burning Man "20th Burning Man more unique than ever" United Press International "Burning Man festival leads to cool idea" San Fransisco Chronicle "Burning Man Art Festival Draws 30,000 Into Nevada...

Burning Man 2006 Art Theme -- Hope & Fear: The Future

Link for This Post: Burning Man 2006 Theme -- 'Hope and Fear The Pavilion of the Future'

Blish Makes It Easy to Buy and Sell Digital Content

Link for this Post: Blish Makes It Easy to Buy and Sell Digital Content. One of the nice things about the web is how it is making things that were either hard and time consumptive or impossible for the small...

Love and Beatles in Las Vegas

"Revved-Up Magical Mystery Tour" Toronto Star "Love is All You Need" The Observer Cirque Du Soleil: Love Tickets Tickets for All Shows Beatles producer Martin mixes it up for "Love" Love has come to Las Vegas. Love is a Vegas...

Summer Solstice

Today is the Summer Solstice. I found this bit about the day while Googling: Summer Solstice: Midsummer, or Litha as Pagans call it, refers to the time centered upon the summer solstice and the accompanying religious celebrations. The longest day...