2008-02-10
web surfing
A polyglot of styles and subjects.
• Documenta 12, an arts and communication held roughly twice each decade in
Kassel, Germany, is an event we missed, but would like to attend when it comes around again in 2012.
The documenta is regarded as one of the most important exhibition of contemporary art, drawing attention from all over the world. It was initiated in 1955 by the artist and art educator, Arnold Bode, in Kassel. After the period of Nazi dictatorship, it was intended to reconcile German public life with international modernity and also confront it with its own failed Enlightenment.
• Zen Studies Society established in 1956 to assist the Buddhist scholar D.T. Suzuki in his efforts to introduce Zen to the West. In 1965, it came under the leadership of a Japanese Zen monk, Eido Tai Shimano, who shifted the emphasis towards zazen (Zen meditation) practice.
• Ron's Log takes a walk through Camp Iron Mountain and the remains of General George Patton's Desert Training Center.
• Forgotten National Heritage: An interview with Donald Grinde where he talks of The Iroquois Confederacy and how it shaped the US federal government.
• New Yorker Magazine's Eustice Tilly gets a makeover.
• Die! Mythographer, Die! Political collages by J. Long!
• Philip Zimbardo talks about factors that can lead good people to engage in evil actions, and what he call's the Lucifer Effect. This is the latest research from the researcher who conducted the Stanford prison experiment, a two-week investigation into the psychology of prison life that had to be ended prematurely after only six days because the guards quickly became so brutal.
• Deep Black Magic, a site by Tom Porter with a series of essays on CIA research on ESP and the MK-Ultra mind control project. Chanced upon that when looking at the work of
Martin Ebon, a researcher intrigued with Soviet ESP experiments and Kremlinology.
• Universe Today begins a series on building a base on the moon with inflatable buildings or living in lava tubes beneath the surface.
• The August Review reports on the Bush financial Bust of 2008. You thought the mortgage loan scandal was big? Hold on to your hats, boys and girls. [and I certainly hope this is wrong]
• New Sources of News. In the spirit of the old town crier are Sprword and The August Reviewreporting on, and warning about the global elite class and covering information the corporate media sources are reluctant to bring to light. Perhaps most intriguing, the two sources come from what has been considered the old "left" and the old "right", and they seem to coalesce and agree it what they deem important to report.
• Documenta 12, an arts and communication held roughly twice each decade in
Kassel, Germany, is an event we missed, but would like to attend when it comes around again in 2012. The documenta is regarded as one of the most important exhibition of contemporary art, drawing attention from all over the world. It was initiated in 1955 by the artist and art educator, Arnold Bode, in Kassel. After the period of Nazi dictatorship, it was intended to reconcile German public life with international modernity and also confront it with its own failed Enlightenment.
• Zen Studies Society established in 1956 to assist the Buddhist scholar D.T. Suzuki in his efforts to introduce Zen to the West. In 1965, it came under the leadership of a Japanese Zen monk, Eido Tai Shimano, who shifted the emphasis towards zazen (Zen meditation) practice.
• Ron's Log takes a walk through Camp Iron Mountain and the remains of General George Patton's Desert Training Center.
• Forgotten National Heritage: An interview with Donald Grinde where he talks of The Iroquois Confederacy and how it shaped the US federal government.
• New Yorker Magazine's Eustice Tilly gets a makeover.
• Die! Mythographer, Die! Political collages by J. Long! • Philip Zimbardo talks about factors that can lead good people to engage in evil actions, and what he call's the Lucifer Effect. This is the latest research from the researcher who conducted the Stanford prison experiment, a two-week investigation into the psychology of prison life that had to be ended prematurely after only six days because the guards quickly became so brutal.
• Deep Black Magic, a site by Tom Porter with a series of essays on CIA research on ESP and the MK-Ultra mind control project. Chanced upon that when looking at the work of
Martin Ebon, a researcher intrigued with Soviet ESP experiments and Kremlinology. • Universe Today begins a series on building a base on the moon with inflatable buildings or living in lava tubes beneath the surface.
• The August Review reports on the Bush financial Bust of 2008. You thought the mortgage loan scandal was big? Hold on to your hats, boys and girls. [and I certainly hope this is wrong]
• New Sources of News. In the spirit of the old town crier are Sprword and The August Reviewreporting on, and warning about the global elite class and covering information the corporate media sources are reluctant to bring to light. Perhaps most intriguing, the two sources come from what has been considered the old "left" and the old "right", and they seem to coalesce and agree it what they deem important to report.
COLLAGE PHOTOS: Will Brady
Labels: documenta 12, Eustace Tilley, globalization, Iroquois Nation, Martin Ebon, MK-Ultra, news sources, political collages
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