Quick note to share a friend's latest musical efforts. Ian Rhett is a singer/songwriter in San Francisco who wrote, recorded, produced, and made the music video for this new piece. Ian is a cool cat with loads of talent so I invite you to check out his efforts in the video below. If you dig the piece be sure to rate it on youtube to get him more visibility.
Just saw this docu-comedy and though it is 11:35pm and past my bedtime I felt the need to share this link so that many of you can find salvation this holiday season. Let your soul find comfort in the knowledge that you are not alone in your credit card worship. You are not alooooone in your over extended and underfunded home equity lines of credit. You have come to a cross roads in the depth of the "Shopocolypse"!
Let Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir lead you to the promise land and liberate you from the false idols of Mickey Mouse and the logos of... OK you get the idea. Definitly check out this film. Is produced by Morgan Spurlock so you know it's good.
One of single (test) most productive tools for a mac is Quicksilver which is a free plugin that allows you to quickly hit a few keys and conjure up all kinds of wickedness from your system. And now it looks like Ubiquity brings this genius to the Firefox browser. Check out the video below for a demo and here is the link to go get it: http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Here is yet another documentary telling us that no matter how shiny the paint job is on our Titanic... we are still headed for the iceburg. I haven't seen this one yet, just heard about it and wanted to pass it along. Here is the site link: http://www.iousathemovie.com/
I will be sharing more on the inspiration I am finding in Napoleon Hill's life and work but for now check out this video, apparently the only one in existence, of this brilliant and humble fellow who has influenced all of us whether we know it or not.
This is one of those documentaries that just seems to leave you wondering what in the hell we are thinking as a species. How we have gotten so far from our connection with actual life that a human being could concoct a way to feed a cow a grain based diet of corn, that is known to kill the animal, just long enough to fatten it for slaughter. To cut a whole in the side of a living cow to study which antibiotics can be used to keep it alive long enough to make weight for slaughter.
This film gives you the opportunity to listen to farmers discuss how their crops are the worst crap ever grown on US soil and how they know it but need the money and can't care what the corn is for. How they grow only corn, and corn of only one kind, that is not edible just to get the government subsidy check and can't even grow thier own food anymore.
King Corn brings home the notion that we are all complicit in this insanity... each time we buy a coke, shop the local walmart, eat that cheesburger, we are making an abstracted choice to continue on this course of lunacy. I guess that is key... that this is all abstracted away from a direct connection to us. We never see or smell the slaugher house, we don't live next door to the family working in the Chinese factory, and we have gotten as fat and blind as all our diabetic neighbors so we don't recognize the mess we are in.
Just a quick note on a good movie I came across this evening. As always Danny Devito brings heart to the show. The movie is "Just Add Water" and as you can imagine if you are reading about it hear it is about dreaming. Great feel good film that says the universal truth of all ages... life is what we dream of it so dream bring with a big heart.
[UPDATE] This looks like the place to go for the scoop: http://www.savetheinternet.com/ here is a page from google.com as well: http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality.html
I am just digging into the net neutrality issues and trying to get a brain around what is going on. I found this video to be an interesting place to start. Check out the video: http://foureyedmonsters.com/neutrality/
I think this again is the same struggle of "ownership"... much like open source approach to software, DRM free music, and on and on. Copyright infringement, pattent infringement, etc etc.. Do corporations with legal empires have a right to own all that can be thought and sold?Is there some greater collective ownership of knowledge, information access, freedom of expression, that is struggling to be achieved?
Here's a couple more:
Here's a commercial from the cable companies claiming net neutrality is a scam! funny stuff:
There are certain foods that one most come to know how to prepare in one's lifetime. This is a fundamental secret to existence and a fundamental practice on the path of liberation. I have decided it would be wise to share these foods here in the blog so that others may free themselves from some karmic dead weight and enjoy the fruits of the gods on thier tables.
The first of these foods would have to be, hands down, humus. My wife and I have been on a quest for years to find the perfect humus recipe... that recipe that is so delightful, easy to replicate, and fundamentally sound that it can be made almost anywhere from memory and universally recognized as food for the soul.
We have found this recipe recently and will share it here in. Just be warned: This humus is soooooo freakin good it will make you silky smooz like Zohan.
The humus ingredients:
Instructions:
From a design point of view the planning and ingenious design that has gone into this piece is astounding... it has a dream like quality to the experience and you have to keep reminding yourself you are watching snapshots of a wall mural.. at one point the mural reaches out and eats some paper hanging on the wall!! Freakin genius!!
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
