Decon3:... DECONfess...

Decon3: Deconstructing and Decontextualizing Decontamination

(or Decontaminating and Decontextualizing Deconstructionism)
2002 September 11th

Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government describes powers that responding agencies might desire:

``The authority to compel people to remain in one location or move to another, including temporary detention;
The authority to use the military for domestic law enforcement, population control, and mass logistics;
The authority to seize community or private property, such as hospitals, utilities, medicines, vehicles, or transit centers, or to compel the production of certain goods;
The authority to compel individuals to undertake decontamination procedures, take medicines, or be quarantined;
The authority to censor and control the media;
The authority to liberalize standards for conducting searches and seizures;...
The authority to waive regulatory requirements on the use of certain pharmaceuticals....

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DECONfess...
by paul e royes

the artistic stance...
the metaphysical shock ...
multi-states of the invisible...
seeping about and through the physical ... forms...
the need for "shocks" continues...
understatement: "society has chosen to be complacent"
DECONfess everything...
there is no time to compress
no space to contract...
no form other than the form you have created for your self...
DECONfess everything...
shower off what you once knew
towel dry your new home
there is nothing there
imagine nation
evacuate the physical world
relocate your soul
share...
the one with the many...
the many with the one...
take apart everything
build up from nothing
mass-contamination
misfiring of the omni-canon
universal beings won the day
DECONfess everything
before you forget...
why you be-came...
UNdress
DECONfess
REcess
EXpress....

© paul e royes, Toronto, ON Canada

Gidget passed away yesterday....

LOS ANGELES— Handlers say Gidget the Chihuahua, whose Taco Bell [YUM] commercials made her a star, has died. She was 15.
The owner of Studio Animal Services in Castaic says Gidget suffered a massive stroke late Tuesday at her trainer’s home in Santa Clarita and had to be euthanized.
Gidget was the sassy mascot in Taco Bell commercials from 1997 to 2000. While other dogs had bit parts, it was her bug-eyed, big-eared face that is seen pronouncing, in a dubbed male voice, "Yo quiero Taco Bell," Spanish for "I want Taco Bell."

The ads made the Taco Bell mascot wildly popular, although they provoked some criticism from activists who felt they used Mexican stereotypes.
Gidget also had a role in the movie "Legally Blonde 2."

Creating Visionary Art

Your creativity is your birthright. Your ability to connect with others, human-to-human, is your birthright.

Yet both your natural, joyful creativity and your relationships are challenged by soul-killing forces like obsessive productivity and thoughtless hierarchy.

Fortunately, though, in this time of rapid change, visionary innovators are forging inspiring alternatives. From them, you can learn to:

Create and experience art as a doorway to your inner freedom and deepest consciousness free of commodification.

Live your relationships as an open-hearted, neo-tribal celebration of your community's full expression

Reclaim ancient traditions of illuminating ritual -- toward a continual awakening of the very things that make you human



How does visionary art help us create community?  Art and performance can not only inspire and delight -- they can transform your level and quality of engagement with the world and with community. These calls will explore visions as well as practical steps you can take today – on the personal, local and planetary levels.

Featured guests include visionary painter Alex Grey, ritualist and filmmaker Antero Alli, neo-tribal festival producer Jen Zariat, and the legendary Larry Harvey, the founder of Burning Man.
http://www.evolverintensives.com/VisionaryArt/

TED Fellows: Apply...

http://www.ted.com/index.php/pages/view/id/244

Key application dates in 2009

Applications for
TED2010 Fellows
Open: August 7, 2009
Due: September 25, 2009

If you would like to be notified when applications open, please email fellows@ted.com.

How it works: four steps
1. Candidates apply to attend one conference in either Long Beach or Oxford. Individuals can apply directly or be nominated by others. We'll also directly recruit potential Fellows and invite them to apply. Email fellows@ted.com to be reminded when applications open. Please include your name, title, organization, email address, and country.

2. We'll choose 25 people to attend each conference as Fellows (50 per year).

3. In 2010, after the 2009 conferences, we'll choose 20 from 50 of the previous year's participants for the three-year TED Senior Fellows Program, bringing them to five additional conferences (for a total of six).

4. We'll recruit 50 new Fellows each year, resulting in 20 Senior Fellows each following year. By 2012, we'll have 50 TED Fellows annually (split between Long Beach and Oxford) and 60 concurrent Senior Fellows.

Erik Davis now on Progressive Radio... Check it out.

I received an email from Erik Davis today, informing me of his new show on this network. Worth checking out!!!
Also see Erik's web site for more goodies...: http://www.techgnosis.com/

Erik's message:
I know things have been a bit quiet on the Techgnosis front lately, but here is an official announcement of my new weekly radio show, Expanding Mind, which will be streaming live (and archived) at the Progressive Radio Network starting this Thursday, July 16th, at 2pm EST and 11am Pacific time. http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com

For those who appreciate ahead of the curve entertainment…

This weekly hour-long radio show hosted by award winning author, lecturer and San Francisco native Erik Davis explores the many dimensions of mind and consciousness. From meditation to parapsychology, from the effects of art and technology on our souls to the abiding mysteries of religion and spirituality, the show’s discussions are designed to expand our understanding and experience of ourselves while casting a critical and often humorous eye on the twists and turns that consciousness takes as it tries to make sense of itself and the world.

Progressive Radio Network is an internet radio station driven by passion and that includes our listeners whose feedback we value; after all, this is radio for the proactive thinker.

Thanks for your ongoing support!

Tune into a hour of mind-blowing galactic chat about consciousness, technology, and spirituality.

And please consider calling in your comments and questions! 888-873-4643.

cheers

Erik

TechByte blog has a good intro to AE & animation

Great intro to AE:
http://www.sfu.ca/~tutor/cgi-bin/techbytes/Aftereffects/index.html

Animation techniques:
http://www.sfu.ca/~tutor/cgi-bin/techbytes/Aftereffects/ae1.html

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Basic Animation in AE, with wiggle and 3D Light effect

This video is created using three layers: light, text and solid in a 3D space.
The wiggle effect is applied to the text.