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The Movies of Adam Curtis

http://WillieNelsonPRI.gaia.com — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:53:16 GMT

I've just put The Century of the Self up on my blog. It was real easy to use the insert video function.

If you have not heard of Adam Curtis or seen his movies, this is a good start. Very thought provoking. Examines the media with media. You could say a self-reflexive discourse.

This one along with two more can be found on Google Video. I put The Power of Nightmares up here.

I put them up because I find Google Video awkward to navigate. The third one The Trap - What Happened to our Dream of Freedom is his latest but the third part is divided into three parts, making it five parts online. I am hoping to find the third part as a single piece. Then I'll put it up somewhere.

His technique is interesting because his movies are constructed from archived footage. His biggest problem is clearing the rights to all the little pieces. Shows what you can do with other people's footage.

Re: A New Internet Architecture

http://my-head.gaia.com — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:37:33 GMT

Don't we all have a long way to go - and not I am afraid a great time left to get IT right such that the 'survivors' can take a sustainable technology package with them !

Roshi Joan Halifax's Tibetan Trip

http://ladybear.gaia.com — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:03:46 GMT

Namaste,

Zaadzster Joan Halifax has just put a 10 minute video of her trip to
Kham,Tibet on youtube. check her blog.but here is the link.

It was a medical mission with some incredible video worth the watch.

Gethuman Database

http://ladybear.gaia.com — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:38:23 GMT

if you get fustrated by companies that put you through hoops trying to speak to a
human being. check out this database of how to beat the system.

GETHUMAN DATABASE

Re: NEW VIDEO FUNCTIONS IN ZAADZ

http://ladybear.gaia.com — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:59:29 GMT

YES! YES!! YES!!!

it is amazing and so easy to use.
there are instructions posted in the

HOW TOs AND FAQs > Zaadz Blogs (zBlogs)

NEW VIDEO FUNCTIONS IN ZAADZ

http://trust22.gaia.com — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:19:39 GMT

Hi

Just wanted to let you know that Zaadz just lunch the a new toy that you are going to LOVE. Well at least I am loving it.

Now you can add video to your blogs from U-tube and google video. The cool part is that you can adjust the size, were to put it and were to add the text. Also it makes it easy for people to post your videoin there blogs with out you having to post the URL

REALLY COOL CHECK IT OUT YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE IT !!!!

O.

This is trippy

http://ladybear.gaia.com — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:20:02 GMT

You can make this webpage for anyone you want to just by changing the name
in the URL. This one is for Samme!

http://samme.youaremyfriend.com/

and you can do this mighty one too!

http://samme.youaremighty.com/

The Tibetan Book of The Dead Movie

http://ladybear.gaia.com — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:25:55 GMT

Namaste,

The Tibetan Book of the Dead movie is on youtube in 2 parts.

The first segment is found
<a href ='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9FxdTMJpIs'> HERE </a>

and the second is linked from that page...

Re: Cool Diagram of solving complex problems.

http://joybringer.gaia.com — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:48:29 GMT

This is EXCELLENT Ladybear! I will share this in turn with many other friends as well. What a beautiful spiral of inspiration and learnings this ALL is! Take Joy and Courage as you do, Darina :)

Cool Diagram of solving complex problems.

http://ladybear.gaia.com — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:17:34 GMT

http://www.idiagram.com/CP/cpprocess.html

Cool Diagram of solving complex problems.

The Art of Complex Problem Solving [idiagram.com/CP/cpprocess.html]

Re: Contribute to Yahoo! Time Capsule & Jonathan Harris Project

http://ladybear.gaia.com — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:10:06 GMT

Thanks so much! That is FANTASTIC!
i will be spending some time in that link and definately passing it on.

Blessings...

Re: A New Internet Architecture

http://xian.gaia.com — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:52:43 GMT

Very interesting. I agree with the scrap of the old, in with the new mentality when it comes to design and innovation. It's about time we put what we have learned over the last 15 years of mainstream internet use to work. Wireless adds a whole new level of fun and coverage, and security problems...

But I think big companies are too caught up in their poker hand to work out a way to redesign - I think it will take entrepreneurs with big money backing to make something happen. The US still has control of ICANN; we have a long way to go.

Contribute to Yahoo! Time Capsule & Jonathan Harris Project

http://joybringer.gaia.com — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:01:24 GMT

The Yahoo! Time Capsule: One World. Many Voices.

Yahoo encourages all of us to contribute personal photos, stories, thoughts, ideas, poems, prayers, home movies, music, and art to this first-ever electronic anthropology project designed to document life in 2006.

And the themes you can choose from are:

LOVE FAITH SORROW PAST HOPE ANGER FUN BEAUTY NOW YOU

You can start contributing here. Guess what I did :)

You and what matters to you.

For 30 days, from October 10 until November 8, Yahoo! users worldwide can contribute photos, writings, videos, audio – even drawings – to this electronic anthropology project. This is the first time that digital data will be gathered and preserved for historical purposes.

In addition to submitting your own content, you can view, read, or hear the images, words, and sounds contributed by users from around the world.

You can also comment on the content you and others have submitted – and engage in a digital conversation that is just as revealing and important as any of the content you’ll witness.

And by November 8, you will have helped create a digital legacy of our times, a mosaic of revealing snapshots that will be sealed and entrusted to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings based in Washington D.C., officially taking its place in history.

In celebration of the project, Yahoo! will illuminate one of the most well-preserved sites from ancient times by projecting selected time capsule submissions onto The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico from October 25 to 27, 2006. Yahoo! has chosen this symbolic UNESCO site because of its role in the preservation of ancient culture.

Following the screening, the time capsule will be saved onto a digital archive, sealed, and later to be opened at Yahoo! corporate headquarters on the company's 25th anniversary in the year 2020.

Finally, to thank you for your contribution to the Time Capsule, you’ll be asked to help select how Yahoo! will donate $100,000 to seven global charitable organizations.
Learn more about these seven organizations

Why will future generations chant your username?

What will you save and what will you share? Your self-portrait. That home video clip that always makes you smile – or cry. A Top 10 list of predictions for the future. Perhaps the single photograph you could never live without. A list of what makes you angry. A special letter to yourself or to your children – just in case. A special class project. A letter to your lost love or to your boss that you’ll never send. The URL of your favorite blog, web site, or podcast. Perhaps it will be something banal. Perhaps it will be something beautiful. This is your time capsule.

So let’s review. You’ll be part of history and witness what other are saying and saving. You’ll have your handiwork presented to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, projected on one of the most famous relics on the planet, AND then beamed along a path of laser light into space. This will definitely be something to email the grandkids about someday.

Get started

Check ou the current facts & contributions

Time Capsule Artist's Statement
Jonathan Harris

A tradition as old as cave art, one of the most primal human traits is the need for self-expression. We make drawings and paintings, take photos, sing songs, write stories and poems, keep blogs, build and decorate houses, buy and wear clothing, write memoirs. We do these things to become individuals, to fight anonymity and the passage of time.

These days, life is lived in short bursts. We dart madly from the house to the car to the train to the office. We check email, voicemail, headlines, and stocks. We absorb web sites, TV, radio, music, movies and gossip, desperately try to keep up. We maintain this crazy pace, tumbling through our 80 years, obsessed with the present, rarely pausing to consider the full arc of life, much less the arc of many lives, lived across many generations. As we dash through our days, expressing ourselves in countless ways, leaving thick trails of footprints, we seldom stop and think about those footprints. We rarely consider the legacy we are leaving behind. But what if we did? What if we were each to choose a small handful of precious thoughts and artifacts to represent our life – a few words, a few pictures, perhaps a drawing or two – and were to put them away somewhere safe, as keepsakes for the future?

It is this ability to shape the way we will be remembered that makes time capsules so appealing. Time capsules have a storied past, stretching back to the first known literary work, The Epic of Gilgamesh, which opens with a hunt for a manuscript hidden in the walls of Uruk. The great pyramids of Egypt and Mexico are also time capsules of a sort, containing relics of ancient eras. The ruins at Pompeii, buried in ash for more than 1,600 years, formed an unintentional but impeccable time capsule depicting city life at the height of the Roman Empire. The modern time capsule was born amid preparations for the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City, when Westinghouse constructed an 800-pound metal ball, which it then filled with everyday items and buried underground. More recently, a satellite time capsule named KEO, to be sent into space for 50,000 years, has been proposed but not yet launched.

Building on this colorful heritage, the Yahoo! Time Capsule sets out to collect a portrait of the world – a single global image composed of millions of individual contributions. This time capsule is defined not by the few items a curator decides to include, but by the items submitted by every human on earth who wishes to participate. We hope to reach a truly global expression of life on earth – nuanced, diverse, beautiful and ugly, thrilling and terrifying, touching and rude, serious and absurd, frank, honest, human.

The Time Capsule itself is realized digitally so that the maximum number of people can have access. It is organized around ten themes, chosen to illuminate different corners of the human experience. The ten themes are: Love, Sorrow, Anger, Faith, Beauty, Fun, Past, Hope, Now, and You. Each theme harbors an open-ended question: What do you love? What makes you sad? What makes you angry? What do you believe in? What’s beautiful? What’s fun? What do you remember? What is your wish? Describe your world. Who are you? People respond to these questions in five simple ways – with words, pictures, videos, sounds, and drawings.

The aesthetic of the Time Capsule is that of a ball of thread, spinning like a globe, its shifting surface entirely composed of words and pictures submitted by people around the world. The thread ball concept relates to threads of memory and threads of time, where threads are taken to be any continuous and self-consistent narrative strand. When the Time Capsule opens, it displays the 100 most recent contributions, which form the spinning globe. The ten themes orbit the globe in a pinwheel pattern. At any moment, any individual tile can be clicked, causing the globe to fall away and the selected tile to expand, revealing detailed information about the tile and the person who created it. Using a search interface, viewers can specify the population they wish to see, exploring such demographics as “men in their 20s from New York City”, and “Iraqi women who submitted drawings in response to the question: What do you love?”. There are an infinite number of ways to slice the data, and each resulting slice then becomes its own thread, which can be browsed independently, tile by tile, like a filmstrip.

The contribution process is designed to be simple and universal, using minimal gestures to create words and drawings, and to upload files. Though translated into ten languages, there are very few textual instructions anywhere in the piece, so the experience is necessarily one of exploration and discovery. A clock counts down constantly in the bottom left corner, approaching the moment the Time Capsule will close.

The presiding message of the Time Capsule is: “One World. Many Voices.” The piece attempts simultaneously to express the differences between individuals, and to illustrate the shared ground between people of all ages, races, backgrounds and cultures.

- Jonathan Harris
New York City, September 27, 2006

Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris is an artist working primarily on the Internet. His work involves the exploration of humans through the artifacts they leave behind on the Web. He was awarded a 2004 Fabrica Fellowship ( www.fabrica.it ), and is the creator of such projects as We Feel Fine ( www.wefeelfine.org ), 10x10 ( www.tenbyten.org ), WordCount ( www.wordcount.org ), Phylotaxis ( www.phylotaxis.com ), and justcurio.us ( www.justcurio.us ). In 2005 he created the Yahoo! Netrospective, a look back on the first ten years of the Internet. He studied Computer Science at Princeton University, where his thesis was a system that automatically gathers and clusters similar news articles from a large number of online sources. The winner of two 2005 Webby Awards, his work has also been recognized by AIGA, Ars Electronica, ID Magazine, and the State of Vermont, and has been featured by CNN, Reuters, BBC, The Guardian, USA Today, NPR and Wired. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works as Design Director of Daylife ( www.daylife.com ), a global news service. His website is www.number27.org

Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva

http://ladybear.gaia.com — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:08:39 GMT

This video is pretty impressive! :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24SoPihLdq4

Robert Thurman

http://ladybear.gaia.com — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:37:34 GMT

Some wonderful podcasts and video of the great Tibetan Buddhist teacher/Lama
(and father of Uma!) Robert Thurman..

http://fyminc.typepad.com/bob_thurman_podcast/

ALL THINGS WIKI AND FREE

http://princesamwise.gaia.com — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:39:22 GMT

Great free links

Stumble Upon

http://ladybear.gaia.com — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:07:13 GMT

There is an interesting link website called

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

I have a personal favorite person there that always has funny links

http://floweringmind.stumbleupon.com/

A New Internet Architecture

http://my-head.gaia.com — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:14:21 GMT

Gaia: Media & Technology - INTERNET

The Movies of Adam Curtis

Re: A New Internet Architecture

Roshi Joan Halifax's Tibetan Trip

Gethuman Database

Re: NEW VIDEO FUNCTIONS IN ZAADZ

HOW TOs AND FAQs > Zaadz Blogs (zBlogs)

NEW VIDEO FUNCTIONS IN ZAADZ

This is trippy

The Tibetan Book of The Dead Movie

Re: Cool Diagram of solving complex problems.

Cool Diagram of solving complex problems.

Re: Contribute to Yahoo! Time Capsule & Jonathan Harris Project

Re: A New Internet Architecture

Contribute to Yahoo! Time Capsule & Jonathan Harris Project

The Yahoo! Time Capsule: One World. Many Voices.

You and what matters to you.

Why will future generations chant your username?

Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva

Robert Thurman

ALL THINGS WIKI AND FREE

Stumble Upon

A New Internet Architecture

In the context of my comment here I thought this may be of interest