“A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, power-lines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not Continue reading “Edward Abbey – “A Voice in the Wilderness” “→
Over the years I’ve seen and heard many bands, but ever so often, I come across something that borders on the super-natural. Kan’ Nal is just such a band. Originally from Guatemala, they moved to, and toured mostly around the Boulder, Colorado area. They describe their music as “Tribal Psychedelic Rock” Continue reading “Kan’ Nal “→
JR is a street artist from France. His mission is to create a global art project called Inside Out. He has been all over the world taking photos of people in their communities, enlarging them, and posting them as billboards.
“We’ve been imprinted in a distorted way, to perceive reality; we’ve been imprinted with trauma…”
John Trudell is the “Graffiti Man”… a writer, composer, public speaker, activist for the American Indian Movement, and the ultimate guerrilla ontologist.
In Buddhism they teach how to transcend the veil of illusion. In that sense John Trudell is the truly an American Buddhist.
Mark Johnson has taken ‘sound on sound’ technology to levels never before imagined. He produces a single song traveling all over the planet with audio/visual equipment to record musicians performing on separate tracks. He then edits all of the tracks and video into a finished production. You should notice all of the performers are wearing headphones in order to hear the master track.
This is an interview of Mark Johnson–producer and founder of the Playing for Change Foundation–with Bill Moyers. Visionaries like Mark will always make me proud to be a human being.
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“Playing for Change-Peace Through Music” I found this to be inspiring and emotionally in keeping with what I feel about music and my sense of humanity/ check this out