Cymatics

Great film about Cymatics. There are three parts to this on you tube. I recommend you check them all out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Io6lop3mk

Polychrome Fizz: Not sure how to explain this one

Polychrome Fizz: Not sure how to explain this one

Not sure how to explain this one

http://www.theblogbelow.com/2008/07/japans-superkamiokande.html

Long Time no write

It has been too long since I have tended to this things. After losing a lap top,a friend,a mother it has been difficult to keep up the blog. But I am ready to get back into it.

Color and Illusion

http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=illusions-colors

fruit and vegetable MRI's

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/07/fruit_and_vegetable_mris.html

The Portal

Not a Burning Man person myself , projects like this make me wish I could stand the trek.
I hope to see/experience this in person.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/55892250/the-portal-a-transformative-sound-installation-fir

Farewell Kazuo Ohno

It is easy to be sad by the passing of such a remarkable human being and someone who has touched my life so remarkably , yet when someone lives 103 years and has had a profoundly productive life it is perhaps wiser to celebrate them.
Kazuo Ohno the founder of Butoh passed away this month at 103 . He continued to perform up to his death. He was an amazing inspiration in so many ways. Thank you Kazuo for living and dying so many times,again and again in such beautiful way.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/arts/dance/02ohno.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUjhQLB0hXY

See how his movements are like liquid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACms__4Y2mU&feature=related

Russian Artist Tatiana Plakhova

Found this today on a news feed.
The work of Russian artist Tatiana Plakhova .
Absolutely amazing!

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/FOLK-COMPLEXITY/492245

The Bell Wheel

I am crazy about this thing! The Bell Wheel is on display at the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City Ca.
Had I arrived earlier I could have spent hours in the room with this wheel of tinkling bells . A better video would be nice
but you sort of get the idea.
This is link better describing it's meaning .
http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/bellwheel.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvCJ2eZjoCk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEz46q4JiD0

Chappaqua

I saw this film last night at Ella Street Social Club.
A bar in Portland that was formerly a funeral home.
This is by far the most interesting thing I have done since my return .
An incredible film ! Beautifully done in 16 mm goes from black and white to color throughout.
At times Noir , Expressionist , surreal and psychedelic.
If anyone can get ahold of this DO!
I was enraptured by every second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te1i0lwPtEU

Sun

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/eit_304/1024/latest.html

Integration Dome Joshua Tree California

I first learned of The Integration Dome via some friends I caught up with at The Drawing Room bar in Los Feliz . These friends were not what you would equate of any kind of "spiritual" or "metaphysical " nature. My girlfriend was a dress designer from Miami with a passion for Tango dancing ,serial killers and a Good Fella's aesthetic which she was born into ( a typical Jew from Miami as she referred to herself) and her boyfriend an architect who did ok for the both of them.
They told me they had been spending some time in Joshua Tree and had found this sort of roadside attraction called the Intragration Dome or Integratron.
They espoused on their experience of something called a "sound bath" .
They made a detailed disclaimer of not being "spiritual " people or knowing anything about energy , chakra's or any of the usual jargon that comes with such territory , but they rented out the place and had a few of these sound baths after the first one blowing them away.
This experience changed their lives.
They extended their stay for another round of this esoteric experience , coming out with a new lease on life.
I was amused and intrigued to say the least.
I believe in this stuff but am always a sceptic , but already having some knowledge on the subject of harmonics and the effects on the human body/mind A-Z , I was taken in and made it a goal to visit this place. Three or four years later I finally did .
The experience was incredible .
My friend Natalie and I made the trip in February of 2009 and it was amongst one of my top experiences.
I could go into great detail , but this link may give the general details better than I .
It is a place I intend to visit again and hopefully in succession.
It is not only a place with a certain novel attraction, but it also was life altering.
Lookie here !

P.S I am having trouble getting the link to show . For now google Integration Dome

Pythagoras and Music (Part 1)

THE PYTHAGOREAN MUSIC FREQUENCIES WITH THE DORIAN ANCIENT GREEK SCALE E(...

NASA Official Saturn Audio Recording 2003

Nasa began recording vibrations bouncing off the planets . They recorded the planets and their moons including Jupiter , Saturn, Uranus , Neptune, The Sun and Earth. My personal favorite is Jupiter , but here is Saturn and it's malefic noise.

The Very Eye of Night 1

Musica Universalis

In the last few years I have become more and more fascinated and perhaps a bit obsessed with all things related to the Music of the Spheres. This obsession was prompted by a dream I had about a decade ago in which I was lying in a bed in a room with no ceiling as it was open to the universe. Sparing  details here , in short I was given some hand held objects which were directly connected to the stars . When they moved in my hands I could hear the tones of the stars and move the formations of the constellations. 
 Just over two years ago , I  decided that it was once and for all time to make this dream into a performance piece.
The more I thought about the dream and visualized the look of it and what it would entail , the process of the work and possibilities became more complex. I began gobbling up information on geometry which was always a horrible subject for me in school as were mathematics in general ( still  difficult ) but just like any other subject becomes easier to understand when applied to something which interests me.  The subject of sacred geometry and it's inherent relationship with all that exists .
The cosmos , music , movement and all the elements are imbibed with mathematics-Good Heavens!
I have been trying to understand Harmonics , musical scales , but my not so linear brain is still perplexed by graphs which I do happen find so very interesting though it stills hurts my brain.
I have rediscovered Holsts symphony The Planets which I was introduced in my earlier years by Tomita .
An almost irritating symphony to listen to , it is more "thinking music" , like much of Noise or Experimental music , it is not something the listener finds pleasurable or relaxing , it requires thinking .
The musical composition by Holst was based on the actual tones produced by the planets themselves which were discovered by Pythagoras and later delved into more deeply by Johannas Kepler.
See the attached article.
Benjamin Franklin played similar compositions on his Glass Harp or Glass Harmonica ,mainly compositions by Bach.More on the subject later.


http://www.crystalinks.com/harmonyspheres.html

Polychromatic Scale in zoology

From the the department of zoology and vertebrate zoology Berkley.

Summary  We describe the histological basis of color metamorphosis in the polychromatic Midas cichlid, Cichlasoma citrinellum. Eight percent of the individuals in a natural population transform from gray with black markings to orange, simultaneously losing their ability to adjust coloration in response to background and social context. This trait is inherited. Light- and electron microscopy revealed that this transformation is a two-step process. First, the melanophores die, then macrophage-like cells remove the debris. As a result of this initial process, the underlying xanthophores become visible, producing the orange coloration. A similar process may occur in individuals that further transform to white, or go directly from gray to white.

I feel this way much of the time and I will bet many of you do as well.

Polychrome is the Rainbows Daughter of Oz

Polychrome is the Rainbows daughter and friend of Ozma .
Herein describes the plight of Polychrome .

Even the Rainbows daughter has worries you know.


http://www.classicreader.com/book/119/7/