S02E05
Update on a few things going on in my life, A film recommendation and a comment on Dune. Total SNAFU’d when recording of this episode but never mind!
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A Bit Of A Blur
Hello everyone, podcast is a day late due to travelling back from a wedding in deepest Dorset. Big shout out to Jess and Sian, congratulations again.
We stayed in an airbnb thatched roofed cottage. It kinds seemed to me that all the places in the village were set up as a secondary economy to provide guests attending the amazing venue up the hill with places to stay. From spring through autumn there’s two weddings a week. A village in deep Brexit country relying on tourist monies of pro brexit city folk. It’s an interesting dynamic.
So first all I have a couple of announcements.
We Are Europe
I’m happy and a little humbled to announce I’ve been selected as one of the 64 speakers for We Are Europe’s They are Europe Programme.
We Are Europe is a unique and innovative co-operative project, aiming to group together and develop links between 8 European cultural structures spread throughout the continent, each of which organises both a contemporary music festival and a forum addressing wider issues relating to the evolution and future of culture, with a special focus on the field of creativity.
There’s some other friends and co conspirators amongst the cohort and i’m looking forward to what this opportunity might bring.
Secondly – And relatedly
Sonar D 2019
I’ll be on a panel at Sonar D 2019 in Barcelona in July about ‘The next internet’
The blurb for the panel is as follows:
In 2019 the internet celebrates a triple anniversary: 50 years of the first computer-to-computer connection, 30 years of WWW creation, and 20 years of Napster. Three milestones to celebrate and reflect on the next 30 years of the web, where decentralization protocols will play a capital role.
If you’re in Barcleona come along.
Next Some recommendations:
Third Eye Spies
I recently watched the new documentary Third Eye Spies, you can buy it on most platforms it was a tenner i think on vimeo. Shot by director Lance Mungia, Third Eye Spies tells the story of two Stanford physicists who discover that psychic abilities are real, only to have their experiments co-opted by the CIA and their research silenced in the name of secrecy.
The film is narrative driven by the life of Russell Targ (who also serves a producer on the film) one of the founders of the Stargate program at the stanford research institute. It covers the beginnings of the program, its involvement in supporting the government in incidents like patty hearst’s abduction, the recovery of a shot down plane over africa and a myriad of other quote un quote missions. This is probably THE best documentary on remote viewing and the stargate program yet. Partly due to recently declassified materials but also due to the involvement of many key people who were involved in the program at the time – speaking about the classified program for the first time.
I already have Targs book ‘the reality of esp’ and im considering subjecting remote viewing experiments on friends in the near future.
I’ve read 24 books so far this year.
Dune
I inhaled all of the first 6 dune novels whilst on holiday and had to take a break before finishing up the final two Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of dune written by Frank Herbert’s workhorse son Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.
Though i first read dune as a nerdy teenager I hadn’t read any of its sequels. But On finishing the series as a complete chunk i find that i have so much to say on it and not enough time here. But part of me wants to call Dune and its subsequent books the only sci fi novel. Reading Dune nearly 55 years after its release you realise that it has influenced everything, from space operas, star wars,and games workshops world of warhammer 40k. The list goes on. Game of thrones certainly wouldn’t exist without it. And also there is a note on his writing – as pointed out by my Alex Fradera. He does some really weird stuff with the text – Like smuggling haiku form into prose paragraphs to create zones of hyperflow where he wants them.
I also like the first books abrupt campy action packed ending. You are sent skidding from the story, trailing bits of it behind you in to children of dune and dune messiah.
If you haven’t read dune or any of its sequels i urge you to read them now before the next film comes out.
And that’s about all i have to say for this week. I realise that spoke way way to fast in recording this episode and have another min of time to fill. I don’t know why i launched in to my bullet points speaking at such a breakneck pace, i noticed when i was recording it that i was tripping over my words. Given the amount of time i have left inside this hour i dont really have the time to go back and finish it either.
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