pod : fora

audial � dynamic musik technologies

creator: akhentek
subject/ dynamic musik technologies
posted: May.08 @ 9.45pm (GMT -8)
topic replies: 0

it has been quite a long time since the last fora visit

it is great to surf and catch up with all your latest work

here are a couple of links, with the latest audial
environments ready to stream into your speakers

http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/Pharoelidae

http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/akhentek

and an article on the music, quite enjoyed the
way michael captured the intention into words

http://michaelgarfield.gaia.com/blog/2008/3/the_trans-human_music_of_akhentek

continually honoured by all your reflections

events � jun 20-22 2008 : entheos 4 : conference and festival

creator: akhentek
subject/ jun 20-22 2008 : entheos 4 : conference and festival
posted: May.08 @ 9.34pm (GMT -8)
topic replies: 0

entheos 4
SUMMER SOLSTICE CONFERENCE AND FESTIVAL

the intention of the entheos summer solstice gathering is to showcase, explore, and evolve an emerging interconnected global culture of sound, energy, positivity and visionary creativity

entheos will be held from June 20-22, 2008 on magical Mount Elphinstone located on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, a short ferry ride from Vancouver

entheogenetic and the seed of life are presenting two stages with both uptempo and downtempo music and media environments designed to invoke a energetic experience for all attendees.

the conference platform features speakers on key subjects of interest to our collective future

entheos includes an ethos of environmentalism, permaculture, and sustainability which is integrated into the planning and presentation of the festival

tickets are $100 for the entire weekend and are available exclusively through this website

[www.entheosgathering.com]

CONFERENCE:

CHRIS BENNETT (vancouver) forbiddenfruitpublishing.com
CORINNE CORNISH (calgary) theinnerrealm.ca
IVY MICHELLE (elphinstone) inklingarts.com
AKHENTEK (elphinstone) akhentek.com
SOBEY (elphinstone) sobey.nexialist.org
NATALIE ROSEWOOD (elphinstone) natalierosewood.com

AUDIO ENVIRONMENTS:

TELEPATHIK [live] (portland) phutureprimitive.com
BASILISK (toronto) ektoplazm.com
ANAHATA [live 5.1] (vancouver) entheogenetic.com
PHUTUREPRIMITIVE [live] (portland) phutureprimitive.com
OSIRIS INDRIYA (seattle) osirisindriya.com
RONIN (elphinstone) greensamuraiclan.com
AKHENTEK [hybrid] (elphinstone) deliria.org
KAMINANDA [live] (sooke) kaminanda.com
NETO [live] (elphinstone) entheogenetic.com
ECHOPILOT [live] (vancouver) entheogenetic.com
GORDON FIELD (saltspring isle) interchill.com
JAY MICHAEL (vancouver) entheogenetic.com
BYRON DREAMWEAVER (vancouver) entheogenetic.com
AUSTRIPIN (vancouver) deliria.org
RJ SOLO (vancouver) deliria.org
MYTHRIL (vancouver) deliria.org
JACOB CINO (vancouver) thirdeyetribe.bc.ca
DEW (elphinstone) nativestaterecords.com
INDIGO VIOLETTA (vancouver) deliria.org
LUNA (elphinstone) ekstasisdance.com
PSYENTIFICA (edmonton) infinityloopmusic.com
EYEN (calgary) seedoflife.ca
Q’ELF (elphinstone) jordao.ca
DOKTOR J (vancouver) doktorj.ca
MOUNTAIN EYES (victoria) rainbowcathedral.com
BRIDEN (victoria) briden.org
STARGIRL (vancouver) jessicastargirl.com
CLOUD DANCER (victoria) rainbowcathedral.com
NILS (vancouver) beatswithoutborders.com
TIMBRE (vancouver) jyotihnetwork.org
ARCHIVE (vancouver) jyotihnetwork.org
HEIDROGEN (vancouver) stereoshift.org
JOSHUA JAMES (vancouver island) spinningdrum.com
MARS (vancouver) 13moonsmatrix.tribe.net
AMBROSIA (victoria) rainbowcathedral.com
BEATFARMER (lasquiti isle) rainbowcathedral.com
JOSHUA (victoria) rainbowcathedral.com
WHITE SPIDER (williams lake) cariboodreamcatchercollective.com
DODD (victoria) rainbowcathedral.com
NAGDEO victoria) rainbowcathedral.com
CRYSTAL 721, (victoria) rainbowcathedral.com
DESUNOS (victoria) rainbowcathedral.com
MATSYA (galiano isle) seedoflife.ca

VISUAL ENVIRONMENTS:

UBER VISION (vancouver) ubervision.tv
DEJAHVU (nelson) mahayana.cc

VISIONARY ART:

SIMON HAIDUK (elphinstone) thinningtheveil.ca
MYTHRIL (vancouver) mythril.ca
DOKTOR J (vancouver) doktorj.ca
and more...

optical � Annubis: new piece

creator: Sunny Salvia
posted: May.08 @ 7.28pm (GMT -8)
topic replies: 10

Pachamama: from a dream. Dated 4/24/08 One day back in SLC after Costa Rica
I am standing in the jungle. The air is warm and I notice that even though I'm nude, I'm completely comfortable. I can feel the moist earth on my bare feet and hear the howler monkeys call and birds sing in the trees. "Its so beautiful here", I say it out loud.

I look down and am extremely surprised (and surprisingly- pleased!) to see that I'm pregnant. My swollen belly is tight and I run my hands over it. Smiling, I realize that the babies within are actually golden frog tadpoles...a precious cargo especially because they're endangered animals here in the jungles of Costa Rica. They've just begun to grow arm and leg buds.

Suddenly the trees begin to rustle about 12 feet in front of me. I look up as a monster comes running out of the jungle on all four legs. Its moving like a giant monitor lizard. As it approaches, I can see she has the head, back and tail of an iguana, but the breasts, legs, tummy and arms of a human woman. She runs up to me and I take a step back. I'm not terrified...but rather, surprised by her strangeness.

As she approaches me, she rears up onto her legs and becomes bipedal. She slows to a walk and continues to approach. She moves in the most amazing, snake like way. Any fear I had is replaced by awe. What I remember most clearly were her extremely intent, orange eyes...bird-like and discerning....taking me in, looking me up and down. She reaches toward my belly and places a surprisingly soft, warm hand on me. She caresses my belly and places her other hand gently, but firmly on my shoulder.

I begin to whisper something to her and she shushes me. Not in a patronizing manner, but more to get my attention.

Then, cocking her head to one side to look deeply into my eyes, in a deep voice she says, "Now its time to grow your legs, Woman. The earth wants you to come out of the water and walk here."" border=0>

nectar � permaculture design certification course

creator: lunaya
posted: May.08 @ 6.48pm (GMT -8)
topic replies: 25

After many weeks apart
the fates, and our busy schedules finally allowed us
to be together again to continue our epic permaculture studies

this time we reunited together at the Heart Gardens for the beginning of our class :

photo by poxin

where the elfinhome eco-education centre joyously holds space :

we all came together in this way
after a few hours spent just delvin and i,
planting, looking up, classifying and documenting plants
for the heart gardens living classroom :

careful consideration went into where we would place each of our new plants
that delvin had recently acquired at a spring plant sale.

including this very special carniverous roundleaved sundew :

photo by poxin

we started at the beach with a long check-in about where we have been at
on robert's creek beach

this time we knew we wouldn't have enough time to dedicate ourselves
to making real progress of the final design project
the permaculture mapping project for the dreamberry farms property
so we decided to simply use this time to enjoy being together once again
and catch up on the to-do list of important activities
that would need to be done in person

one of these things involved a series of professional photos from sir poxalot
of the beauiful spring flowering heart gardens
honouring his part in the work trade for this course

white bleeding hearts :

photo by poxin

mainly delvin asked poxin to take photos of the "spirit flowers"
AKA, flowering food and medicine plants
that were intrinsic to the dietary / cultural lifestyles of the coastal first peoples

magnolia :

photo by poxin

we had recently had a dinner of steamed stinging nettles
which are unbelievably nutritious
in order to honour the wise traditions of this area's ancient native cultures

photo by poxin

red wood sorrel :

photo by poxin

red flowering currant :

photo by poxin

stone crop :

photo by poxin

not sure what this one is...

photo by poxin

sacred fawn lily :

photo by poxin

the "forest floor" gateway :

photo by poxin

red elderberry :

photo by poxin

labrador tea :

photo by poxin

stone crop :

photo by poxin

miner's lettuce :

photo by poxin

red elderberry :

photo by poxin

aguga :

photo by poxin

apple tree :

after a wonderful time in the gardens we took the bus and walked home
back to dreamberry to connect in for another session

photo by poxin

this time poxin treated and sized all these photos
and we talked about the future of this course
over a yummy snack of chips and salsa :

we knew that it would be tight, and would surely prove difficult
to even get together for our three solid days still required
over the next 6 weeks that we feel we have
before things become too busy to pick up again until september

i hope that we'll be able to finish the course before the summer!
we all do feel confident that this is very likely.

the next day we talked at length about our experiences while we were working independently
we also dedicated time to writing about those experiences and considering them at length

because this course will soon take form as an online course
we knew that our insights from these 7 independent weeks would be especially significant.

i also designed these this new guilds worksheet that delvin had developed
during our independent work time :

our day went in different directions and we said goodbye
dearly looking forward to our next opportunity to interactivate
with the long awaited, the deeply exciting, the uber excellent
FINAL DESIGN PROJECT!!!

nectar � permaculture design certification course

creator: lunaya
posted: May.08 @ 4.39pm (GMT -8)
topic replies: 25

much time has passed since our last time connecting as a team!
spring emerged in full force, and many of our lives became very very busy
week after week, we decided to do readings and answer questions independently
rather than getting together in person
knowing that we would need to connect for three full days at some point to complete our final design project

7 weeks have passed now since our last in-person permaculture class

some weeks, poxin did readings and design work in the city
while delvin and i worked in a more informal way at home

one week we did a field trip to robert's creek beach, just down the street from our house
and checked out the new living fence that has just been put up around someone's property

often delvin worked around the dreamberry property, getting paid as a landscaper
while i would hang out nearby and read in proximity

i finished the permaculture cards and the booklet that goes with them too!
and we decided that we will sell them both in electronic and hard copy format
and donate the proceeds to the heart gardens society, which we are setting up together
i will be sure to tag it on here once the whole teaching tool set is ready to be distributed

though we felt the pressure of our lives making it hard for us to take time for the course
we remained dedicated, and continued to make considerable progress through the course material.

here are my short essays from these weeks :

1. Create a forest guild using all 7 layers.

for my tall tree layer i'd plant a nitrogen fixing, flowering acacia
tree, which could attract beneficial insects, enrich the soil and give
off a beautiful fragrance for the garden : also has some mulch value.
second layer smaller tree could be a cornelian cherry dogwood, which
would give fruit, attract beneficial wildlife and insects... then for
shrub layer i would plant goumi berry!!! yummy! that's also a nitrogen
fixer and has wildlife value.

Vine layer would be medicinal hops, which also helps invite good
insects and wildlife and could lovingly climb around the acacia. For a
groundcover I would go with some nice insectary strawberry... which
would help mulching, and speaking of mulching, jerusalum artichoke
would also be a helper for that at the root layer, and could also
build soil by turning into soil food if i don't harvest them all. For
my herbs I would plant a combination of fennel to repel unwanted
insects, and maybe some flowers and leafy mulch plants.

2. Understanding that your food forest will grow and evolve in a similar way to a natural forest, describe some of the ways a forest changes as it grows older.

the defining factor really is that the trees become really tall and
dominant, and if the guild isn't really positioned well for sun, they
can possibly shade each other out completely and like a real forest,
the main trees would pretty much take over. however if that doesn't
happen then the shrub layer i would think can become very mature and
and strong over the years. for sure the groundcovers, root plantings
and herbs will be constantly changing over time and probably i will
slowly have realizations and change the species of annuals that i'm
using.

1. How could this information (mollison chapter 10) be seen as relevant to you personally?

As a template for applying all the information in the other chapters
of the book to any bioregion I like ::: such as this one!

2. short essay questions for hemenway chapter 11

a. Describe how a garden is a living ecosystem of interconnected parts. Use examples from permaculture about how we can make our garden into a more harmonious ecosystem.

In a permaculture garden, or a natural ecosystem, every single process
of every single plant, insect and animal either directly, or through a
couple of degrees of separation, affects, and usually supports every
other element in the garden. plants can enrich the soil, help to hold
moisture, prevent erosion, cycle air, attract beneficial insects and
animals, provide shade and much more... while animals can fertilize
the soil, spread seed and more as insects create soil life, polinate
flowers, keep other insects in check... and this is just scratching
the surface of how all the life forms in an ecosystem naturally create
habitat for each other and keep the cycle of life moving forward.

b. What are the highlights of your learning experience with Gaia's Garden?

gaia's garden is such an ultimately good book, and it's hard to pick a
highlight, since the whole thing gave me such an overall sense of what
it is to garden effectively, lovingly, intelligently and easily. while
last time reading it i found the soil chapter to be life changing,
this time I must say I just found the whole thing as a complete body
to be riveting in general. if i had to pick a highlight, it would be
toby hemmenway's super funny and insightful writing style that just
charmed me in a really deep way to absorb as much as i could, yet
again, from this wonderful book.

3. short essay for mollison chapter 11

a. What are some of the relevant kinds of information to research when exploring a whole climate zone from the perspective of permaculture?

i'd say the first thing you have to do is check out the soil in that
zone on a grand scale. what the problems tend to be and what causes
them, as well as how to potentially solve them. then, what I see in
Mollison's strategy, is to go from there and create systems from the
micro to the macro for channeling, catch and storing the available
energies in the area in order to treat the soil, prevent any other
similar damage, and thus build life. Of course, temperature, wheather
patterns, and other climactic factors play a strong role in informing
that process. In a more specific sense, it's also useful to look at a
variety of different styles of landscapes that you get in each area :
their differences and similarities. This can help the micro settlement
designs, (depending on what kind of landscape they're in) and can shed
light on a larger pattern of overall needs and offerings of an entire
climate zone.

optical � Kit'n Kaboodle

creator: Dusty
posted: May.07 @ 3.25pm (GMT -8)
topic replies: 43

Not the best quality of pic...but you can't always catch the memories you want with the best camera readily available.

This is Fulci:

-D

optical � Pattern Diver

creator: Sunny Salvia
posted: May.07 @ 6.08am (GMT -8)
topic replies: 2

I enjoyed the sentimental and nostalgic feelings I had watching your video. Thanks for posting and welcome back.

optical � :: vids n reels ::

creator: erik
posted: May.07 @ 1.41am (GMT -8)
topic replies: 87

Rev. Wright vs Chuck Love

optical � Kit'n Kaboodle

creator: silky
subject/ and so i laid down in a feild full of Kitties!
posted: May.06 @ 6.30pm (GMT -8)
topic replies: 43

Can i has a pretty Kitty?
beautiful shots everybody!

slk

nectar � art � bringing focus to a vision

creator: - Z.
posted: May.06 @ 4.12pm (GMT -8)
topic replies: 70

optical � Kit'n Kaboodle

creator: air
posted: May.06 @ 9.22am (GMT -8)
topic replies: 43

Pablo in repose.

optical � photo � Plant Perspective

creator: air
posted: May.06 @ 5.46am (GMT -8)
topic replies: 228

Super juicy drop, agape.
Mandalic flowerization vortex eminent.

optical � Pattern Diver

creator: phong
posted: May.05 @ 1.36pm (GMT -8)
topic replies: 2

yes, you're back
and you've been cookin!

congratulations on all this!
I love this VJ mix - if you ever wanna play japan - I know they're waiting for ya :

optical � Pattern Diver

creator: Pattern Diver
subject/ Pattern Diver
posted: May.04 @ 7.46am (GMT -8)
topic replies: 2

Hey guys
After a very long gestation period, I have finished my senior thesis at Hampshire College. I havn't posted in a while, but I wanted to share this with the pod, because of the constant encouragement and inspiration that I've found here.
Hope you like it and please tell me what you think!

Echoes from Orion

-Pattern Diver

babble � Quotes

creator: lunaya
posted: May.04 @ 1.02am (GMT -8)
topic replies: 102

Artist's Prayer

Creator of the Universe,
How infinite and astonishing
Are your worlds.
Thank you,
For your Sacred Art
And sustaining Presence.

Divine Imagination,
Forgive my blindness,
Open all my Eyes.
Reveal the Light of Truth.
Let original Beauty
Guide my every stroke.

Universal Creativity,
Flow through me,
From my heart
Through my mind to my hand,
Infuse my work with spirit
To feed hungry souls.

- Alex Grey