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

Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine

Links for this Post: Space Squid: Earth's Worst Sci-Fi And Humor 'Zine Space Squid's Squidcast Squids have become a popular archetype of the web recently, with Squidoo and now with Space Squid. I suppose I'm a sucker for a fun...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

World Gathering 25 & 26 August 2007

Link: World Gathering 25 & 26 August 2007. Here is an excerpt from the gathering website: WORLD GATHERING 25 & 26 AUGUST 2007 - All Night Gathering On Hilltops Worldwide - Use Powerful Flashlights To Signal Other Hilltops - Time...

Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson by Joe Bageant

Link for this Post:Death By Digitalized Celebrity: Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson" by Joe Bageant. Note: the image to the left is from Joe's post. I have to thank my friend Will Penna for sending me this amusing...

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...

Remembering Kurt Vonnegut by Paul Krassner -- Arthur Magazine

Link for this Post: Remembering Kurt Vonnegut by Paul Krassner -- Arthur Magazine. Paul Krassner who some consider the father of Underground Journalism describes author Kurt Vonnegut as " his favorite Luddite." Here is a short excerpt from his remembrances...

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...

The 1960s "single, precise climax" -- New York Times -- Video

Links for this Post: "Folk-Rock Memories, Psychedelic but Clear" By Ben Sisario - New York Times. (Also accompanying video embedded below) This combo article and video feature from the NY Times is about remembrances of music producer Joe Boyd whose...

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:...

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...

Thomas Roberts on Psychedelic Education

Links for this Post: 'Psychedelic Horizons', by Tom Roberts -- Reviewed by Bruce Sewick, LCPC on TripZine Buy Psychedelic Horizons by Thomas Roberts on Amazon I got to know Tomas Roberts over 30 years ago when I joined a group...

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Link for this Post: The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence This link (which came by way of the PatternHunter blog: is to a new (at least to me) research center with a fascinating focus: Here is a bit from the...

Have A Computer Write Your Essay

Link for this Post: Have A Computer Write Your Essay at EssayGenerator.Com Yes it's true! All you need to do is put your subject into the blue box on EssayGenerator.Com and it spits out an essay of better quality than...

Futurists Predicts That By 2020 We Will Become a Society of Virtual Reality Addicts

Link for this Post: "Experts believe the future will be like Sci-Fi movies" by Ryan Paul in arstechnica Among other predictions found in this article is the prediction By 2020 We Will Become a Society of Virtual Reality Addicts "By...

Douglas Engelbart's HyperScope 1.0 Launched

Links for this Post: Douglas Engelbart's HyperScope 1.0 Launched. You can read a HyperScope-version of Doug Engelbart's classic 1962 paper, "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework."

Acid Trip -- Self Portraits by an Artist --on AnaLogik Multimedia house Website

Link for this post: Acid Trip on AnaLogik Multimedia house Website One of a series of nine drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's...

"The Bicycle Ride" Animation by David Normal First Shown at 2006 Basel, Switzerland LSD Conference -- Updated for Bicycle Day 2006

Link for this post: "The Bicycle Ride" Animation by David Normal First Shown at 2006 Basel, Switzerland LSD Conference Updated for Bicycle Day 2006: David Normal asked me to send this message and ask that it be forwarded to friends...

Psychedelic-Art.Com

Link for this post: Psychedelic-Art.Com I found this site surfing tonight. It has some great black-light posters.

Welcome to Hive7 -- The Web Goes 3D with Ajax

Welcome to Hive7 Hive 7, An Ajaxian Virtual World by Om Malik Thanks to Om Malik's column, I found my way to Hive7 tonight. I even brought back a picture. Here is a bit from Om's bit on Hive 7:...

The Sky Has Eyes -- New Psychedelic Art Blog by Larry Carlson

Links for this post: SKYHASEYES Blog Pick up an atom feed of Larry Carlson's blog SKYHASEYES I've posted about Larry Carlson's trippy flash art Medijate. He has now launched a blog to put up his most current work. According to...

Software Program Creates Art with Artifical Intelligence

Links for this post: Software Program Creates Art with Artificial Intelligence Ray Kurzweil talks about a software program Aaron in film The Age of Intelligent Machines (Video requires Realplayer) I came upon this site (as I often do) by accident....

Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies at Technovelgy.com

Link: Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies at Technovelgy.com. The site has an FAQ that explains its name: What does "technovelgy" mean and how do you pronounce it? Okay, here's the deal. First of all, it's pronounced...

That's Brilliant -- the state of genius on Samsung's DigitAll Magazine

Link for this post: "That's Brilliant!" by Scott Lyle Cohen in Samsung's DigitAll Magazine, Here is the blurb that begins this piece. "Who’s brilliant and why? DigitAll went to five of the smartest people we know—Clifford Pickover, Esther Dyson, Jean-Paul...

More on Allen Ginsberg -- Free Video Library

Link for this post: Allen Ginsberg Trust: Video Library After I posted the The Ballad Of The Skeletons by Allen Ginsberg in the previous post, one of his fans emailed me to tell me that the ballad was on video...

Web Content Creation: Ten Approaches For Small Online Publishers by Robin Good'

Link for this post: Web Content Creation: Ten Approaches For Small Online Publishers. I had not taken a look at Robin Good's excellent blogs for a bit. I just returned from a visit with a recommendation for one of his...

International Symposium on LSD Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Albert Hofmann Begins in Basel Switzerland

Links for this post: LSD.Info I just returned from the opening session of the International Symposium "LSD: Problem Child and Wonder Drug" honoring Albert Hofmann's Birthday. The opening ceremonies were attended by almost 2000 people, I met up with my...

Free Software: Slickr Screensaver Displays Your Flickr Photos

Link for this post: Slickr by Cellar Door Software I found this new free screensaver software that lets me show my flickr photos as a screensaver on my PC. It can display your flickr images or you can show all...

Dr. Susan Blackmore "Consciousness in meme machines"

Link for this post: Dr. Susan Blackmore "Consciousness in meme machines" Dr. Susan Blackmore is an endlessly fascinating person. Everything about her from her background in parapsychology to her multicolored hair and including her series of books on topics including...

"Star Light" Song Performed by Doctors Fiorella Terenzi and Timothy Leary

Links for this post: Fiorella Terenzi Website Download "Star Light" MP3 by Fiorella Terenzi and Timothy Leary by clicking this link On several different occasions I watched my friend Timothy Leary perform with an Italian physicist turned musician Fiorella Terenzi...

Leary.ru A Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary

Link for this post: Leary.ru A Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary We Americans have been neglect in our maintenance of Leary.Com, the last project of Dr. Timothy Leary, in my estimation the greatest...

Free Event at LA MOCA January 14th : How the Psychedelic Revolution Marked Our Culture

Link for this post: Ecstasy In And About Altered States In September, I posted about the Ecstasy: In and About Altered States art exhibit which is now going on at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) until February 20th...

Updated: An Email from Douglas Ruskoff: His New Book, 'Get Back in the Box' Now Avaialble

Updated: I got an email from Douglass Ruskoff tonight. His new book, Get Back in the Box is out and you can get yourself a good Holiday read at Amazon by going to this link . Here is the rest...

Trendwatching.Com Takes the Pulse of the Bleeding Edge

Link for this post Trendwatching.Com's Trends | Listed alphabetically. According to the company: One of the world's fastest growing trend agencies, independent and opinionated TRENDWATCHING.COM scans the globe for the most promising consumer trends, insights and related hands-on business ideas....

Updated: Sacred Elixirs Confernce to Be Held in San Jose California October 22 to 23 (Timothy Leary's Birthday)

"Sacred Elixirs" looks like a lot of fun! More formally the event is called "Sacred Elixirs: A conference on he role of drug plants in the history of religion," to be held at The Mongomery Theater, San Jose, CA on...