FOLI, the Mandinka word for rhythm, has become an eleven-minute film about the Malinke tribe in Guinea who acknowledge rhythm into all aspects of their lives. This definition of rhythm is without musical-academic context, and introduced as the patterns and movements of daily life. Common Western practice has become removed from these inherent acts of collaborative sound-making and assigned these traits to an abstract realm of primitivism and tribal cultures. That is incorrect, empirical, and selfish. When you’ve absorbed this a few dozen times we recommend exploring the related videos.
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The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind.
—Terence McKenna
Midnight Ridazz founder Roadblock has started writing very informative and somewhat cheeky articles for KCET’s online blog. He recently posted this one to help cyclist and motorist understand how eachother work and can co-exist more safely.
Los Angeles is a bike town in waiting. All the elements are there: year-round fair weather, relative flatness, big wide streets, insane traffic delays, the need for exercise in a city that lacks public parks and spaces.
Studies show that 50% of trips made by car are less than a very bike-able 3 miles in distance. We know that not all of those short car trips are to carry lumber and tons of groceries. They’re mostly trips to the movies, to get coffee, dinner, the book store, school, concerts – how about a bike date with peanut butter n’ jelly sandwiches in the park?
So what gives, L.A.? Why won’t you come out and play-ay?
The reason is pretty obvious. Fear. Not many people feel safe mixing it up with the L.A. traffic. I don’t blame them. Our streets seem to encourage a kind of bipolar disorder – motorists slowing and speeding only to stop at traffic jams and red lights. Hitting the gas, then hitting the brakes then hitting the gas.
From a cyclist’s perspective it just seems silly. If you consider the time a driver spends getting from A to B in Los Angeles, the speed averages out to about 20 mph. If drivers were to slow down a bit and time the lights, there would be less stress and death on the streets, not to mention the savings in gas and vehicle maintenance.
So how do we make it safer to ride in L.A.? More bike lanes? Driver education? Cyclist education? The answer is all of the above, plus better care and enforcement from the police and judicial system. There is a lot of work to do and the issues are complicated.
Drivers and Cyclists both need education
Lines of paint on the streets are the most fundamental form of driver education. In L.A., since there are relatively few bike lanes and facilities, cyclists are forced to ride in a vehicular fashion – ride in the lane as a motor vehicle would. But not every driver understands that cyclists have a right to be in the roadway, let alone expects them to be in the roadway. Likewise, not every cyclist knows how to ride in the roadway either.
by brian vu
Composed by impulse and the stream of consciousness, seven juxtaposed artists came in union to create a collective vision; distinct and furthermore one. Seven of the Absent Fever artists collaborated to create one seven minute song. Each was given only the previous artist’s one minute to base their one minute off of, and was told to compose from solely initial creative reaction. In result is a seven minute long guide through the soundscape of Absent Fever. Videographer Library Voices then interpreted the entire stream of consciousness into a visual depiction of the landscapes visited. It sounds almost like an afterthought of a global-travel, and looks like it too. As if the sounds are soaring between the ivory coasts of the equator, wrapping their presence around the sphere. The travelers collected grains of sand and salt, blizzard and air-currents from each dwelling passed. Country, to corner, city, to village, without realizing, they’d had pieces of everything. And somehow, the diversity compiled itself into something more together than they could anticipate. Each had a map of their travels ingrained in the palms of their hands and the wiring of their subconscious; when each sat to make song, the song was together. There were seven travelers, and their retelling of their voyage was one.
order of appearance:
0:00) KYNAN 1:00) Gracie 2:00) Birkwin Jersey 3:00) Wonder Bear 4:00) Ra Cailum 5:00) Galapagos 6:00) Guerre
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Absent Fever
submit yo: paintings / drawings / photographs / digital schwagg.
please give a brief discription of method/madness behind the submission. the more info you give the more credit given. please submit via email with a creative title like ‘bonita foto de a guapa’ only with better spanish. the more creative the title the more likely you’ll see it. look forward to posting what i receive.
matte [@] thefmly.com
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photo taken on my travels through el salvador with a nikon fe2. lens: tokina 20-35mm.
“If you want to be happy for a day, get drunk.
If you want to be happy for a year, get married.
If you want to be happy for a lifetime, plant gardens.”
-Ambassadors of the Earth
After a looong Memorial Day Weekend, I made it back in one piece from the arts and music festival in Riverside, CA. Check out my adventure at Sustain&Maintain.
When Surfrider and the Coastal Commission are down for the geological rearrangement of a surf break, you can bet a pretty penny it's going to pull through afterwords...
About a week ago the Malibu Lagoon restoration project was discussed in a San Fransisco court, only to be delayed another year… Thinking positively, we’ve stopped bulldozers from tearing apart a geologically active estuary while saving some endemic birds and fish! Unfortunately this tends to not matter to the general public.
Teen Daze‘s new record A Silent Planet out on Waaga August 9th
When Salem can turn a song, which I consider the apocalyptic queef of electronic music’s raw dog session with Brittany, into a post-apocalyptic death march, one can’t help but chuckle.
Brittany Spears – ‘Till the World Ends (Salem’s Synthesis)
Alison Scarpulla would be the photographer of this session, catching the perversion in a more sadistic, out-of-body kind of way. – check out the link for her flickr photostream, you can spend hours lost in that thing.
