Thursday, February 23, 2012

Get Your Blue Mind On (as seen on Huffington Post)

November 14, 2011 by SarahKornfeld  
Filed under environment, neuroscience, Ocean

(Link to Huffington Post http://huff.to/sTemOQ) By Wallace J. Nichols and Sarah Kornfeld Our brains have an amazing ability to do something: hide a world of truth from us. We’re able to tune out the blinking lights and honking horns, the stress of work, the underwater mortgage, and those inappropriate clothes and music our kids prefer. [...]

Share

Faces of Chelonia: Art, Turtles and Two Guys with a Camera

This is an interview that is typically techno: Neil Ever Osborne and I did it email via email, and Wallace J Nichols and I over a beer with little wi-fi. It was great fun to interview my ocean brothers, and bioneers on this amazing adventure they are having called, “Faces of Chelonia”. Both Neil and [...]

Share

A Story of Toxic Art

By Wallace J. Nichols, Sarah Kornfeld and Andy Myers (as seen in The Huffington Post) The stuff of war is the stuff of art.  Some of the earliest cave drawings depict tribal strife.  Since before history, the material and materiel of war has served as a vast palette for artists to explore and explain the [...]

Share

Itchy, Sticky, Catchy Videos Can’t Save Us??

When I was a kid a video looked like this: Call me crazy, but I still think Toni Basil’s, “Hey Mickey!” still works. And, back in the 1980’s it was “viral” because we talked about it at school, and ran home to the one kid who had cable to wait for her “music video” to [...]

Share

Jon Hassel and Brian Eno (A call for a new pleasure principle)

I typed in “New Forms” + “World Music” and suddenly Google provided me Jon Hassel on a plate. Turns out he’s a great trumpet player who’s defined: “Fourth Wall“.  Plus, he likes to talk about masturbation. He had my attention, immediately. Then, the lovely machine of the Internet provided the most curious thing: an interview from [...]

Share

Next Page »