This is a really beautiful piece.  A 1969 John Lennon breaks down big-money war, activism, and square children all to a goofy 14 yeard old kid that snuck into his hotel room with a tape recorder.  This is really, really cool.

This film, “I Met the Walrus,” is the audio of that interview set stunningly to animation by Josh Raskin.

LOVE IS THE ONLY FREEDOM FROM ATTACHMENT. WHEN YOU LOVE EVERYTHING YOU ARE ATTACHED TO NOTHING.
In fact one has to understand the very phenomenon of attachment. Why do you cling to something? Because you are afraid you will lose it. Perhaps somebody may steal it. Your fear is that what is available to you today may not be available to you tomorrow.Who knows about what is going to happen tomorrow? The woman you love or the man you love — either movement is possible: you may come closer, you may become distant. You may become again strangers or you may become so one with each other that even to say that you are two will not be right; of course there are two bodies but the heart is one, and the song of the heart is one, and the ecstasy surrounds you both like a cloud. You disappear in that ecstasy:

you are not you, I am not I.

Love becomes so total, love is so great and overwhelming, that you cannot remain yourself; you have to drown yourself and disappear.

…………………………………………………………

I am a lawless man; that’s why two dozen countries are against me, although I have never committed any crime. But I don’t believe in any law either.
I love — there is no need for any law.
Law is for those who do not know how to love.
Law is for the blind, not for those who have eyes. Law is for those who have forgotten the language of the heart and only know the language of the mind.

m/r.

I stopped a couple of young dudes on Fairfax and them about how they made the fashion switch from baggy to skinny. Here’s what they had to say:

Friday, August 1 is a red-letter day for eclipse enthusiasts. On that date, the sun will be partially eclipsed over an immense area that includes western and central Asia, parts of northern and central Europe, all of Greenland and even a small slice of northeastern North America.

A total solar eclipse — the first in nearly two and a half years — will be visible along a narrow track that will start over the Northwest Passage of Canada, gives a glancing blow to northern Greenland, then shifts southeast through Siberia and western Mongolia and before ending near the famed Silk Route of China.

The path of totality for this upcoming eclipse is never more than 157 miles (252 km) wide.

James Henrik Daniel Sundquist- (b. 1969) to Jimi Hendrix and a Swedish woman by the name of Eva Sundquist.

Spike jonze goes mainstream, but still brilliant.

For years the graffiti artist known as Banksy has been the art world’s Deep Throat: a hugely influential figure whose identity remained shrouded in mystery. Now, like Deep Throat, he has been given a name.

Banksy is a 34-year-old native of Bristol, England, named Robin Gunningham, Britain’s the Mail on Sunday reported on July 13. The thread that may have unraveled the mystery was a 2004 photograph taken in Jamaica, which many — including photographer Peter Dean Rickards — say is the only known picture of Banksy. (The artist’s agent, Steve Lazarides, denied that the photo — which depicts a man in jeans and sneakers crouching above a can of spray paint — is of Banksy. A spokeswoman for the artist declined to confirm or deny the Mail’s report.)

  Ex-Astronaut: Aliens Are Real and NASA Knows It

He says extraterrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions — but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by goverments for six decades. Dr. Edgar Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview in Birmingham, England, that sources at NASA who had had contact with aliens described the beings as “little people who look strange to us.” He said supposedly real-life ET’s were similar to the traditional image of a “small gray” — short, slight frame, large eyes and large head.Mitchell also claimed human technology is “not nearly as sophisticated” as the aliens’ and “had they been hostile,” he warned “we would be been gone by now.” LISTEN TO MP3 HERE…the last 1/4 of the clip

A German inventor, Jan Vinzenz Krause, has invented a spray-on condom that allows men of all sizes to have safe sex. The spray-on condom prototype measures a man’s size (really big, big, average, small, really small) and then covers his penis in liquid latex providing him with a proper fitting condom. A man places his penis in a chamber. He then presses a button and a pump squirts out liquid latex through some nozzles onto the man’s penis in about 20 seconds. If 20 seconds seems like a long time to wait the good news is that the inventor is working on shortening the time to about 10 seconds.  When no longer in use the spray-on condom can be easily rolled off and thrown away just like a regular condom.  (from inventorspot.com)

 Look @ the tickets for an Obama speaking event in Germany…how EPIC. One German newspaper has anointed him “Der Schwarze JFK”—the black JFK.  

Interesting Bollywood homage video by Devendra Banhart feat. Natalie Portman.

here’s a glimpse into a Sunday afternoon over on the black side of thangs…Sonny and Richie’s first stop is the Moorish Science Temple with Shafiq Husayn and Taz Arnold, then onto the drum circle in Liemert Park- the black arts center of Los Angeles- to kick it with the El_        ow!!+++…oh, and a special Thundercat guest @ the end>>>

go watch him.

 Ron Paul: “Some Big Events Are About To Occur”Texas Congressman Ron Paul has warned the House that he is “convinced the time is now upon us that some Big Events are about to occur.” that will cause liberty to go “into deep hibernation”.

Paul told the House:

“These fast-approaching events will not go unnoticed. They will affect all of us. They will not be limited to just some areas of our country. The world economy and political system will share in the chaos about to be unleashed.” July 17, 2008

last nite, you sounded like an egyptian sky castle……… or, a radius flute 

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 (IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS— DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND WATCH IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH–THE ROBOTS ARE HERE)   — - Take a cursory look at BigDog and you might think you’re watching an agile, newly-discovered species of deer. On closer inspection, you’ll realize the animal is in fact a robot that mimics the movement of several animals both real and imaginary.Watch the video and see a man even trying to kick it over, while BigDog manages to stay upright.

nobody care about no “C” ……and ain’t nobody interested in “D”, right?…. RIP/ RP_+(just to add to the psychdelic kid’s theme)

wombat

…when we asked him to show his dirty hands from putting his art in the street he didn’t realize he was making hearts with them…… (except for the first try)

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if you haven’t heard of him , he is an amazing composer.the first film of his that I ever watched was Koyaanisqatsi (1982)I was just amazed, till this day it is one of my favorite films.but as for today this video piece composed by him is my favorite: 

The MBW show , last month was what people in the LA art scean called “Event of the year”.walking into the actual gallery space, the thing that stood out for me the most was the amazing space itself rather then the art on the walls.the piece’s were… well, how can i put this in nice words? boring, uninspiring and something you have prolly seen before or maybe a replica or an attempt to be the next Andy Warhol.if you have seen MBW piece’s around the city they do blend well with the city landscape, but to put them in a gallery does no justice to them.but after all, this was a nice attampt to make something happen and be creative, and even though it was half-assedI do give respect for taking action on your dreams.

We have decided to make the installations there into our own set for a photoshoot-

p.s-mmm i would post some pic’s of the actual art, but their just not that great.

I’ma be like this when I’m 85:     This is why we can’t accept the image of aging as becoming a decrepit pre-corpse.  Look at the strength this man has!  Look @ him get low when that dude attacked him.  He’s like a 30 year old man!  Time to take up some form of practice. Morihei Ueshiba- Akido creator/MASTER (60’s) — 

The real birth of Aikido came as the result of three instances of spiritual awakening that Ueshiba experienced. The first happened in 1925, after Ueshiba had defeated a naval officer’s bokken (wooden katana) attacks unarmed and without hurting the officer. Ueshiba then walked to his garden and had a spiritual awakening.

Sonny Coates and Allakoi Peete recording tambourine on the /squareBOP+++/ for the SERV/nT piece coming Spring ‘09…(interruptions courtesy of Black Money Tetteh…w/ a special shout to the JUICE)

Here’s a bit of news about a topic that is very much on our minds: 2012- the Mayan Calendar ENDATE for our current era of human evolution.   Blockbuster director Roland Emmerich revealed that his next big movie is titled 2012, a disaster movie that takes place in the year of the title. The script for 2012 is apparently so good, that the studios started a bidding war for distribution, with Sony ending up the winner. Now it’s heading into production for aJuly 10th, 2009 opening. Emmerich has said previously that “it will be very expensive, you see the whole world go to shit” and other sources reported that the “project has more going for it than the big idea that studios love,” but what exactly that means yet, no one knows. All that we do know is that 2012 is the year that the Mayan calendar (pictured to the right) ends and many others have predicted that it will be the apocalyptic end of the Earth. What Emmerich is depicting, however, is a“natural disaster” of some sorts. This whole movie I’m doing next was inspired by just the phenomenon of the internet when you type in Google, ‘2012′, you get 240 million hits. That’s a lot. And it’s just, so many people write about it, believe it, that our world comes to an end in 2012. I said wow. I kind of said before I will never do a disaster movie again. I said, for this idea I have to do it again.”  Cusack and Ejiofor have just been cast in the movie as well. 

 BULLET-PROOF FASHION (taken from coolhunting.com)First off, Black Armor’s Covert Denim Jacket ($800) combines rugged Marlboro Man style with full front, back, and side ballistic protection. It’s the perfect choice for the casual Friday bullet dodger. Next, Australia’s Duram Products has a natty, Belstaff-looking all weather jacket that can stop the rain as easily as it stops rounds from an AK-47. In a similar vein, Spycatcher of Knightsbridge offers their Weatherproof Disguised Bullet/Stab-Proof Jacket ($1,779), a sharp number that will strike just the right note as you stand over the corpses of your would-be assassins.If you’re looking for an accessory that will truly save your hide, pick up Zahal’s Bullet Proof Briefcase ($490), a thick shield disguised as a mere laptop case. Countermeasures beat computers any day. We don’t like to think about it, but kids can catch a bullet as easily as anyone else. Thank goodness for Bullet Blocker’s My Child’s Pack ($175). Now little Georgie can walk home from school without fear.