Boom Festival 2008

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Modern architecture

MOSCOW’S boomtown skyline will be dominated by the world’s biggest structure, a £2 billion “city inside a building” designed by Lord Foster.

Reaching almost 1,500ft into the sky and housing up to 30,000 residents, the Crystal Island will contain more floor space than any other structure on Earth.

LINK: Sunday Times





Sanyo has built an ark for the solar century – an impressive 630 kW solar-collecting building that boasts over 5,000 solar panels and kicks off over 500,000 kWh of energy per year. Even more outstanding is the fact that most of the monocrystalline modules used on the Solar Ark were factory rejects headed to the scrap pile.

More info and pictures HERE.



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As global leader of the bizarre world of upscale development, Dubai has yet another feat of both engineering and excess in the works. The latest spire to be added to the desert landscape will be the Time Residences building in the City of Arabia, a 200-unit apartment tower - that will rotate! The complex will turn a full 360 degrees over the course of a week, utilizing stored solar energy to power the turning mechanisms. More info HERE.



Inhabit.com is very nice blog detailing many futuristic designs in green-living and deluxe-trippy design.

Ayahuasca, shamanism and foreigners

Intensely enlightening description of the merging of western mythology with that of the healing traditions of Amazonian Ayawaskha knowledge.
Watch this before you delve into the oceanic jungles of Sudamerica searching for an herbal savior medicine-man.
DMT is deeper than culture, that is to be sure.

Lemurs get baked on giant millipede poison

Black lemur zoopharmacognosy.

LOLcats meet their match!

Apparently a recent internet fad is sweeping the blogosphere; LOLentities:


LOLentities!

Online Dreammachine!!

Boy you guys are gonna wanna save this link. This is an online dream-machine or brain-machine. An adjustable strobe meant to viewed with eyes closed. In ordinary states of consciousness, it can stimulate various types of meditation and entoptic imagery. If used in conjucntion with psychedelics, it functions as a stargate to other, inhabited dimensions of quantum beauty.
A monitor is not as bright as LED's so it really only works in a dark room.
http://www.netliberty.net/dreamachine.html

World's largest jail-break! woot!

Here's a comment on what happened yesterday from brasschecktv.com:
Tear down that wall!
"One of the Nazi's favorite strategies was to wall Jews in ghettos, depriving them of food, livelihood and access to medical care in an attempt to degrade them.
The Israeli war party uses the same tactic in Palestine.
Yesterday, one of these walls - in Gaza - was massively breached allowing tens of thousands of Palestinians access to food and medical attention.
Americans get no exposure to the reality of the Middle East. Everything reported must pass through Israeli War Party censors."

And here's a report from Aljezeera:


To contrast, this report here is from CNN. "The CNN anchor shows no interest in the justice of the situation and only seems concerned with the structural integrity of the wall itself."

Alex Grey rendered in 3D

Just saw this gorgeous new psychedelic Tool video on Dose Nation's website. I would love to watch this in high-def.

BBC: Medicinal plants 'facing threat'

Hundreds of medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, threatening the discovery of future cures for disease, according to experts.

Over 50% of prescription drugs are derived from chemicals first identified in plants.

Full article HERE.

Some cymatics for a Sunday afternoon

It's actually Thursday but I felt like alliterating :)

Cymatics is the study of wave phenomena. It is typically associated with the physical patterns produced through the interaction of sound waves in a medium.

Supra-sexual Co-creation

Barbara Marx Hubbarb was in the the documentary Entheogen. Here's her take on where we are heading.

Deepak Chopra "The Wonder of You"

(Did you know, Deepak dropped acid and loved it? He told D.J. Brown in an interview.)
Here's a short clip. Good stuff.

Dolphins play with bubble rings

Medieval Mosque Shows Amazing Math Discovery

The never-repeating geometry of quasi crystals, revealed 500 years early.
A study of patterns in 12th- to 17th-century mosaics suggests that Muslim scholars made a geometric breakthrough 500 years before mathematicians in the West.

link: Discover Magazine

Tesla Down Under

Neato! A site documenting over 200 high-voltage / tesla-coil projects.
http://tesladownunder.com/

Free At Last ! ! ! ! ! !

This is very near to my heart as M. L. King has been a hero of mine since I was a child... even before Terence McKenna. Please pass on this 2 minute video as far and wide as you can, MLK day is the 21st.

Marc Emery agrees to five years in Canadian prison

Very sad news today:

VANCOUVER - Marc Emery, Vancouver's self-styled Prince of Pot, has
tentatively agreed to a five-year prison term in a plea bargain over
U.S. money laundering and marijuana seed-selling charges.
"I'm going to do more time than many violent, repeat offenders," he complained. "There isn't a single victim in my case, no one who can stand up and say, 'I was hurt by Marc Emery.' No one."
He's right. Whatever else you may think of Emery -- and he grates on many people, what is happening here is a travesty of justice. Emery's case mocks our independence as a country.

Read the article: The Vancouver Sun

Histocompatibility

When women were given three-day-old t-shirts from various men and rated them on sexual attractiveness and then had their DNA profiled, many fascinating and various results ensued, as well as a new kind of dating service.

Link: The Economist

All we need is love

A New Years message from Guillame in NYC:

In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood and Bioterrorism

I won't say much except repeat what every other blogger has said about this documentary: Everybody needs to see this and share it as far and wide as possible.

In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood and Bioterrorism

This is What A Police State Looks Like

This is a breakdown of what happened in Seattle, 2002, when the Police attacked the crowd with chemical weapons without provocation or reason, spraying babies and brutalizing a peaceful protesters. This edited very well using video footage from the Police cameras themselves to demonstrate the point that the Police indeed incite riots and ATTACK crowds for no reason.
This is What A Police State Looks Like

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Joe Rogan on Ganjah

Vape cannabis? Smoke charas? Drink bhang? Eat brownies? Fuggedaboudit!
Let Joe lay it down for ya'.
Joe Rogan - Cure For Life

Wade Davis on the ethnosphere

National Geographic anthropologist and ethnobotanist (trained by Richard Evans Shultes), Wade Davis, beautifully articulates on the need for preservation of indigenous cultures, diversity and languages with absolutely stunning photographs and a breath-taking plea for wisdom that spans the eons.
This is a 'must-see right-now' for any psychedelic person, anthropologist or being bent on compassion.
God I love TED Talks!
"Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind."
"... to have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a riffle barrel lined with baroque paintings and landing in a sea of electricity..."

"vicious drug laws"

Ron Paul on CNN discussing the New Republic's pathetic smear piece attempting brand him as a racist. Very important, please watch:

WHO SUPPORTS THE DRUG WAR?

How does this ethical abomination continue? Why do certain politicians, gangs, terrorist orgnaizations and media continue to support this epic travesty? Frosty Wooldridge offers some insight he gained by interviewing his brother Police Officer and Detective Howard Wooldridge of Lansing, Michigan (retired) concerning the “War on Drugs,” who is actively trying to educate congressmen and the public of the peril of the new prohibition.
“As you can see, the supporters of Prohibition Two are numerous and well-funded,” Officer Wooldridge said. “Nonetheless, I will use my one-eyed horse Misty and my Stetson to promote the end of the most dysfunctional, immoral policy since slavery until it is in the history books, or I draw my last breath.”

Read the article here > > NewsWithViews.com

CIA Cocaine - Then and now

In September a plane the CIA used to transport terror suspects to Guantamano crashed in Mexico. 4 TONS of cocaine were found on board and the pilot was a frequent contract aviator
for the CIA, DEA, and FBI.

Go HERE for 3 short videos documenting government drug running operations in the 80's, 90's and today with the recent plane crash. Such madness.

33 Weird Statues and Sculptures

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I'm a railroad.

This is hysterical, especially the second half.

Localizing God in the Brain

Here’s an interesting editorial about neurotheology. It brings to the fore certain basics that necessarily form the foundation of a unified field in which physicality and ethereality both intersect. It also mentions the Harvard Pahnke and Griffiths psilocybin/religiosity studies, conducted 50 and 2 years ago, respectively. I, myself, being of the Wassonian/McKennian school find the endo-psychedelic field of inquiry to be of significance, and this brief report manages to touch this peculiarly neglected aspect of biophysics.

LINK: New England Journal of Medicine

2007 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest Winners

Oooooohhhhh... Many exquisite images...
Check it out:
LINK > > > fractal art contest

Cannabis Activism, Health Freedom, Ron Paul & The Left

I tend to assume that folks reading a blog about 'psychedelic topics' are already gung-ho and excited for a US Ron Paul administration but I realize that some are still 'on the fence' and not quite comfortable with this particular candidate, perhaps because you disagree with him on certain issues, as you should. For you, I offer this article to digest;
Letter To A Liberal Friend:
The Left and Ron Paul

To everyone else... you may have heard about the full page High Times ad to appear next month for the good doctor's campaign, but die-hard Paul supporter, Marc Emory, has placed Ron Paul on the cover (as well as a folded poster insert) of his most recent issue of Cannabis Culture magazine promoting Paul's campaign. Emory, currently the world's leading cannabis activist and Canadian citizen, will end up in a US prison for life for selling world-class cannabis seeds, unless Ron Paul becomes president because Ron Paul will:
End the war on drugs
Allow medical marijuana laws
Legalize industrial hemp
Pardon non-violent drug-offenders
Abolish the DEA and drug-czar's office
(and, of course, end the war in Iraq).

I honestly agree with the sentiment that the "Ron Paul Revolution" would be more properly be called the Intelligent Revolution. And if you agree that the medico-pharmaceutical industrial complex is as dangerous (or even much more so) than the military industrial complex, than you will LOVE this editorial:

Ron Paul Revolution to Restore Health Freedom to America

Good luck in the caucus tomorrow! ;)