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May 26, 2012
May 17, 2012
Ian MacKenzie: 'make a CHOICE to evolve'
I recommend reading Port Moody filmmaker Ian MacKenzie’s full post, which considers the dangers of “end times” thinking and proposes we rise above the smallness of our psyche and our past and inhabit a world of our own choosing that embraces oneness over separateness, love over destruction, ascension over collapse. Here’s a choice quote he offers from Darin Drda:
We are not, as the old guard preaches, feeble and passive observers of a fixed, objective order or cogs in a giant, lifeless machine. Nor are we, as the new guard intones, the all-powerful masters of our own destiny, capable of instantly conjuring anything we want out of pixie dust and wishful thinking. We are co-creative participants in a great cosmic adventure, the outcome of which must always remain unknown.
“In summary: consciousness creates our world,” continues Ian. “… The Apocalypse is about uncovering/reintegrating our projections, essentially forcing us: not to evolve, but to make a CHOICE to evolve.”
This choice is crucial. Without choice, we are merely pawns of fate, adrift in an indifferent cosmos.
Instead, we are called to embody this new consciousness, not as an opinion, but as a lived relationship with ourselves and the Other. While we can only do this on an individual level, we need other “awakened beings” to hold us at this higher note until we can stabilize – and then help others do the same.
This is the true meaning of the apt quoted maxim “Be the change you want to see in the world.” We must literally BE from the future – retrieving a higher order of self that does not recreate the past. We must resist the death throes of our old institutions, even while we flow towards our new ones. We must bow humbly to our ancestors and their echoes of pain, include the injustice of the present, and embrace the uncertainty of our Great Transition.
Check out Ian’s blog and his films for a deeper exploration of co-creation and the Great Transition he mentions. The beauty part is knowing he’s not the only one out there laying it down. (Though he may be one of the movement’s more articulate ambassadors.) Finger snaps and fist pumps, brother.
April 30, 2012
"… There’s a whole cast inside me, so many voices of I…"
— Kiki Falconer, a disco ball refracting light, reflecting all the faces of human experience
April 28, 2012
via Tangential Vancouverism. #quotes (Taken with instagram)
April 23, 2012
"More and more activist groups are starting to catch up to where marketers have been, creating sophisticated campaigns, sophisticated imagery. In one way, I really like it because I think they are reaching more people-but I also have mixed feelings about it. I’m kind of getting tired of quick call to actions that provide no context."
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Sergio “Topo” Toporek, transmedia artist and creator of the forthcoming animated documentary Beware Of Images, in an interview with Alex Samur of Rabble.ca following his CreativeMornings/Vancouver presentation, which challenged creatives and activists alike to opt out of the easy “sex-sells”/”gore-sells” tactics that are so prevalent in advertising and marketing and adopt tactics that have bigger systems impact - informed by a motivation to create a more equitable, ethical world.
Here’s his CMVan presentation:
April 23, 2012
April 23, 2012
"Why should women be paid equal to men? Men have been in the working world a lot longer and deserve to be paid at a higher rate. Heck, I’m a working mom and I’m not paid a dime. I depend on my husband to provide for me and my family, as should most women… and if a woman does work, she should be happy just to be out there in the working world and quit complaining that she’s not making as much as her male counterparts. I mean really, all this wanting to be equal nonsense is going to be detrimental to the future of women everywhere. Who’s going to want to hire a woman, or for that matter, even marry a woman who thinks she is the same, if not better than a man at any job. It’s almost laughable. C’mon now ladies, are you with me on this?"
— fake Ann Romney quote, at a fake meeting with the “Moms For Mitt” group outside Philadelphia, PA. According to FreeWoodPost.com: “Ann Romney was asked her opinion on Lilly Ledbetter and equal pay for equal work regarding women’s employment. Without hesitation she responded with another question that seemed to shock even the most staunch conservatives in the room.”
April 6, 2012
"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."
— Jim Jarmusch (via boiledrocks)
(Source: goodreads.com, via designinvan)
April 5, 2012
"I am blessed to be surrounded by such thoughtful humans who actually give a shit about the city they live in. And by “blessed,” I mean my catholic upbringing has left me with many phrases like that which I still apply to my grownup life as a borderline buddhist/atheist who believes that we are all made up of energy and that energy never dies but goes back into the earth and everything within it. ;)"
— Bob Kronbauer, via email
April 4, 2012
Modernity provides the rationale for disenfranchisement, with the real goal all too often being the extraction of natural resources on an industrial scale from territories occupied for generations by indigenous peoples whose ongoing presence on the land proves to be an inconvenience. ~ Wade Davis, ‘The Wayfinders’
(Taken with instagram)
April 3, 2012
April 2, 2012
"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."
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Kurt Vonnegut
(via mutualaddiction)
(Source: ophidiophobic, via mirrortheories)
March 28, 2012
"Finished bushwacking in part of Stanley Park for #Vancouver’s homelessness count. Found abandoned camps, + chatted with 3 homeless folks."
— S Chandra Herbert on Twitter
March 28, 2012
via good:
Completed another infographic, this one about the final statements given by 281 death row inmates in Texas.
The Last Words: Texas Death Row Inmates’ Final Statements - News - GOOD
Tonight, Texas will execute its 282nd person since 2000. We visualized the last words of the first 281. Powerful stuff here.
“The death penalty is a poor person’s issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end, when the deck is cast out, it is the poor who are selected to die in this country.”
~ Sister Helen Prejean, Catholic nun, author of Dead Man Walking and spiritual adviser with inmates on death row
March 25, 2012
"There is no peace in the mountains and hills over the Marcellus Shale. No glad tidings. The forests of Pennsylvania are filled with chainsaws, flares, drill pads, pipelines, condensers, generators, and the 24/7 roar of compressor stations. The wind that blows east from the gas fields carries toluene, benzene, and diesel exhaust. Sunshine turns it all into poisonous ozone. Storms send silt into trout streams from denuded hillsides and cause good people to lie awake at night, worried about overflowing impoundment pits full of neurotoxic chemicals and overturned frack trucks full of carcinogens."
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Sandra Steingraber in an open letter titled, Breaking Up with the Sierra Club, which articulates the ”confusion, fear, and outrage that’s pouring out of communities in gasland” after the news that the Sierra Club has long been accepting monies from the fracking industry.
via Orion Magazine:
The Sierra Club had taken money, gobs of it, from an industry that we in the grassroots have been in the fight of our lives to oppose. The largest, most venerable environmental organization in the United States secretly aligned with the very company that seeks to occupy our land, turn it inside out, blow it apart, fill it with poison. All for the goal of extracting a powerful heat-trapping gas, methane, that plays a significant role in climate change.
Related: Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune on why the organization turned away millions of dollars
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