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In Azure Mystic, inside Heaven Empyrean City, the various powers summoned all their subordinates over. The Darknorth Immortal Emperor gathered his heirs, the Southern Phoenix matriarch gathered the holy successors and holy maidens, and this was the same for the Hundred Refinements Sect and Jadestage Immortal Palace too. After that, arrangements were made, telling these people what they should do after the Darknorth Immortal Emperor and the rest left Azure Mystic.
Before this, when the Darknorth Immortal Emperor and the others entered Ancient Azure Mystic, they took some of the core immortal emperors of their forces with them. This was also the same for the Southern Phoenix Clan. Although everyone was willing to follow Qin Wentian to the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms, it was impossible for all of them to go or it would leave Azure Mystic undefended. Hence they decided that for all emperor-ranked experts in Ancient Azure Mystic to temporarily stay here for now. These people would be the ones taking over, becoming part of the ruling party of Azure Mystic.
All of this was too sudden. Those powers that were gathered here were all shocked. They didn't expect the leaders of the various powers who had vanished for tens of years, suddenly passed on their positions to their descendants. This event was sufficient to cause an earthquake-level commotion in the Azure Mystic Immortal Realms. The leadership of all the major powers was changing hands. Never has something like this happened before in Azure Mystic.
Even before Azure Mystic was completely calm, the handing over of rulership was naturally imperative. Protectors were needed as well. If not, the hard to establish discipline in Heaven Empyrean City might be broken and chaos would descend to Azure Mystic again. Also, Qin Wentian chose to temporarily let Di Tian stay behind to guard the peace. If there was a chance to, Di Tian could represent him to enter the floating city in Ancient Azure Mystic.
Not only were all the people from the various major powers shocked, even Xu Li and others from the Lifire Palace whom Qin Wentian brought to the lower world were shocked as well. They discovered that those who entered Ancient Azure Mystic with Qin Wentian had all undergone a transformation. The demeanors of many people were completely different and they had no way to sense what their cultivation bases were exactly. It was very possible that all of these people have already surpassed the immortal emperor realm.
This caused them to feel extremely envious. The monarchs and governors of the Lifire Palace here all had a different look in their eyes when they stared at Qin Wentian. Was this the ability and charm of their new Palace Lord? Sadly, they still weren't trusted aides of Qin Wentian yet or they might have been able to have a share of this good fortune.
Naturally they wouldn't have any unhappy thoughts as well. After all, they were the subordinates of the previous Lifire Palace Lord. After Qin Wentian took over, it was already very good that he didn't touch their positions. It was impossible for them to become his trusted aides so quickly. Even Xu Li, who was Ye Qianyu's ex subordinate, wasn't brought along by Qin Wentian. What opinions would they have then?
However, some of them silently vowed that they would definitely follow this Lifire Palace Lord and become his trusted aides. The brightness of their futures would depend on him.
After everything was arranged, Qin Wentian decided to set off. Today, many friends and family members gathered here to send them off on their journey.
His foster fathers Qin Chuan, Ye Qingyun, his sisters Qin Yao, Ye Lingshuang, his friends Fan Le, Luo Huan, Lin Shuai and the others. All these familiar faces were here together with him. Now, they no longer needed to return to the particle world. Everywhere in this immortal realms belonged to the Heaven Empyrean, Qin Wentian. They could have everything they wanted and wouldn't be forced to survive by the mercy of others. They can cultivate anywhere they want to, enjoy endless cultivation resources or simply choose to live a leisurely and carefree life.
Qin Wentian wanted them to stay in safety inside Heaven Empyrean City. If they missed home, there are immortal emperors here who could escorts them back to the particle world. He believed that none if the immortal emperors would reject this request. Right now, everyone wanted to form a good relationship with the Heaven Empyrean. As long as the friends and family members of the Heaven Empyrean wished for something, everyone would do their utmost to help them.
Everyone had also felt how imposing and majestic Qin Wentian was currently. As the saying goes, when one achieves the Dao, even the dogs and chickens belonging to him would rise to the heavens. All his friends and families can now do what they want to, living a life of no worries. If they wished to improve further, they could always depend on the boundless cultivation resources to cultivate.
"Qing`er." Fairy Qingmei stared at her disciple, feeling a strong reluctance. The Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms? To her, that place was truly too far away.
The people of the Mo Clan crowded around Mo Qingcheng, all of them were extremely worried about her, especially her parents. Her younger brother and sister turned to Qin Wentian, "Brother-in-law, will you stop teaching us cultivation now?"
"Brother-in-law has something important to do. Now, the Heaven Empyrean Palace already has so many immortal emperors, they are all qualified enough to teach you two cultivation. You can seek guidance from them. I might not be able to personally coach you any longer." Qin Wentian gently spoke.
"Smelly brat, we always gathered for so short a period of time before having to be separated for immensely long periods. Be more careful when you are outside." Luo Huan glared at Qin Wentian as she spoke.
"Understood, senior sister." Qin Wentian smiled bitterly.
"Take good care of Qingcheng and Qing`er. If you dare to bully them, you better be careful because I, your senior sister, will be coming right after you to teach you a lesson."
"How would I dare to? It would be great if they don't bully me." Qin Wentian smiled weakly. He then turned and bowed to Qin Chuan and Ye Qingyun, "This child is unfilial. In the future once I have a stable foothold in the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms, I will definitely fetch foster fathers over there together."
"Just be at ease and leave. We have lived for so many years, why would we need you to worry about us? You better be more cautious when you are out there, okay?" Qin Chuan smiled.
Qin Wentian nodded. This scene was very familiar. Back then when he first left his particle world, a similar scene to this has occurred before as well.
However this time around, there were many people following him together. His two wives, Qingcheng and Qing`er, and many elders such as the Evergreen Immortal Emperor, Bai Wuya and the others. There were many friends with him too, Jun Mengchen, Nanfeng Yunxi, Purgatory, Little Rascal, and many other subordinates. This time around, he had many powerful forces with him. This was unlike previous time when he was alone.
"Let's move out." Qin Wentian spoke. After that, their entire group departed the area.
Right now, there already is a spatial teleportation array built connecting the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms to the Azure Mystic Immortal Realms. By using that, they could traverse through the starry space. This teleportation array was built by several super powers and it naturally wasn't free of charge. To use it, one had to pay an astronomical amount of treasures. But even so, many people didn't hesitate and still paid the fee. There were experts from other powers aligned with the super powers stationed here. They acted as the middle men and although they weren't able to earn much, they didn't want to give up on this opportunity.
In the short term, the earnings might not amount to much but this teleportation array was definitely going to be here for a long time. As long as they were stationed here for a thousand years, ten thousand years, a million years…How terrifying would the benefits they gained be??
To those super powers, they naturally didn't lack in far-sight and vision. All of the super powers had extremely good judgement.
The restriction order on Azure Mystic was relaxed. To them, this was an opportunity, they naturally wanted to grab it.
This also made things more convenient for Qin Wentian. Right now, he didn't have the ability to create a spatial teleportation array linking the two realms, he could only use the array built by others. After paying out an astronomical amount of treasures, his group directly stepped into the array and teleported straight to the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms. Although they had now arrived there, the distance to the Lifelong Realm was still extremely far away.
After spending a long period of time on their journey, Qin Wentian finally arrived back at the Lifire Palace with everyone.
In the Lifire Palace, Ye Qianyu was no longer present. The Evil Emperor had also followed her to the Lifelong Sainthall. After Qin Wentian returned, he directly commanded the various governors, monarchs, protectors and the others to gather before him for a discussion.
Everyone arrived at the Lifire Palace with their fastest speed.
In the Lifire Palace's great hall, Qin Wentian sat on the throne. The experts before him were as many as the clouds, all with transcendent auras. Other than him, there were two other beauties standing on the left and right of him. Their beauty was extraordinary, akin to goddesses.
"Your subordinates pay our respects to Palace Lord." All of the important personnel of the Lifire Palace bowed together. On their way here, Qin Wentian had already inform his friends and family members about his current situation in the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms. They weren't too surprised, other than feeling a little shocked at Qin Wentian's abilities. Qin Wentian came here alone to the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms, and he actually managed to established such a foundation, becoming the palace lord of an entire region. He had countless immortal emperors under him and if it wasn't to return Azure Mystic to a peaceful era, their previous respective major powers in the Azure Mystic Immortal Realms wouldn't even be able to enter Qin Wentian's eyes.
"These two are my wives. Mo Qingcheng and Evergreen Qing`er." Qin Wentian solemnly introduced. From now onwards, all his subordinates knew about this.
"We pay our respect to the two madams." Everyone bowed again, extremely polite. Their gazes didn't dare to have any disrespect. All of them had heard about the news. Ye Qianyu was brought to the Lifelong Sainthall because the Lifelong Realmlord seemed to be very unhappy with Qin Wentian. No one knew what things would happen in the Lifelong Banquet this time around.
And currently, Qin Wentian would definitely feel extremely angry in his heart because of this. It was best not to antagonize him or the consequences would be unimaginably dire.
"How much longer before the Lifelong Banquet officially starts?" Qin Wentian then asked.
"Reporting to Palace Lord, the Lifelong Banquet will commence several months from now."
"Mhm." Qin Wentian nodded. "For the matters of tax contributions, all of you make sure to handle that well. Also, there's one more thing I want to inform you guys of in advance. I'm sure everyone already know that Ye Qianyu was brought to the Lifelong Sainthall by the Realmlord, right?"
All his subordinates instantly stopped talking when they heard this. This matter had implications to the Realmlord and was quite sensitive. At this time, it was best not to talk too much. If not, if they accidentally said the wrong thing, no one would be able to save them. They weren't able to offend Qin Wentian or the Lifelong Realmlord.
"I'm afraid the Realmlord is very unhappy with me. This time around, my position as the Lifire Palace Lord might change hands and if the Realmlord really selects a new Lifire Palace Lord, I might choose to leave this place. In the future, all of you must work hard for the Realmlord. Naturally, if there are people willing to follow me, I won't let those who choose to follow me down." Qin Wentian spoke.
When they heard Qin Wentian's words, the eyes of all these important personnel of the Lifire Palace flickered unceasingly. They could tell that there were many deep layers of meaning to it.
At this moment, should they express their loyalty and still follow him?
But if they expressed their loyalty now, those who do so might have their identities leaked to the Realmlord. At that time, they would have no choice but to leave with Qin Wentian. It was still better not to talk casually at such a moment.
"Maybe the Realmlord has no such intentions. Palace Lord might be worrying too much?" A monarch stated.
"That's right, Palace Lord is trusted heavily by the Realmlord, why would he try to touch Palace Lord's position?"
Several people spoke out. Although they seemed like they were talking nonsense, it was a kind of expression of their attitudes too.
All of them said that nothing would happen and Qin Wentian would be fine. This clearly meant that if Qin Wentian was really in trouble, they naturally wouldn't follow him any longer!
"Mhm." Qin Wentian smiled and nodded his head, staring at everyone. His gaze actually caused many people to tremble. Those people who said those words earlier have undoubtedly already offended Qin Wentian!
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grunt gallery, Other Sights for Artists' Projects, and Creative Cultural Collaborations (C3) are thrilled to announce the public launch and first open house of the historic Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency on August 25, 2019, at the Plaza of Nations in False Creek. The yearlong inaugural program Skeins: Weaving on the Foreshore examines Coast Salish weaving practices and includes three research and residency periods by Angela George (Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh), Janice George and Buddy Joseph (Squamish), and Debra Sparrow (Musqueam). Australian Indigenous artist and activist Vicki Couzens (Gunditjmara) will be the first international artist-in-residence from September 15–October 31, 2019, presented in partnership with Australia Council for the Arts.
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Originally built in 1927 as a floating house in Coal Harbour, the Blue Cabin was re-located to North Vancouver for more than 80 years. Artists Al Neil and Carole Itter used the space as a studio from 1966 until their eviction in 2015, when the cabin's site next to Cates Park was purchased by Polygon Homes. When the structure was scheduled for demolition, grunt gallery, Other Sights for Artists' Projects, and C3 led a campaign to save, restore, and re-launch the cabin as a residency. Their success brought in artists Jeremy and Sus Borsos to repair the cabin and salvage its cultural history. In 2018, artist Germaine Koh and architect Marko Simcic were engaged to build a small 500-square-foot deckhouse; the energy-efficient structure features off-the-grid water and power systems.
The August 25 public launch will include the announcement of the Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency's first season of programming as well as tours of the facility, including the interiors of the Blue Cabin studio and the newly constructed sustainable deckhouse, every 15 minutes from 11:30am–5:30pm. Participants will be limited to 20 people per tour and will be first come, first served. Additional open house dates will be announced at the public launch. Mr. Bannock Indigenous Cuisine and Rico n' Lalo All Natural Frozen Bars will be on-site serving food and refreshments.
Skeins: Weaving on the Foreshore features the following artists-in-residence:
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• Debra Sparrow (April 15–May 31, 2020)
Skeins: Weaving on the Foreshore has been assisted by Vancouver Foundation, the City of Vancouver Public Art Program, and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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The Students Council held a pool party for students of Grades 5 – 7 on Friday 13th April 2018. Despite the ominous date, the party was a huge success. Most students from these classes stayed on after lessons on Friday at 1.00 p.m., proceeding to the pool.
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What City Will Be Destroyed In Cloverfield 2?
There was always the danger that mass online embracing of Cloverfield would end badly: Look what the enthusiasm of geeks like me did to movies like Snakes on a Plane. But that doesn't seem to have happened to J.J. Abrams' and Matt Reeve's post-9/11 monster movie, which had a $46 million dollar opening weekend. It dropped precipitously on its second weekend, but with a $25 million dollar budget, the movie is already profitable.
Clearly we're getting a sequel. Paramount Pictures is already in talks with Matt Reeves and former Buffy the Vampire Slayer writer Drew Goddard about coming back to do Cloverfield 2–once that little matter of the Hollywood-crippling WGA Strike is settled.
I like Cloverfield a lot, but I'm not sure how they'd handle a sequel. Paramount PR reps were talking about doing Cloverfield 2 in another city, but I think that would get tedious quickly. A better idea is to make Cloverfield 2 happen on the same night but from a different perspective, so we start piecing the story together through two viewpoints.
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A few months ago, I made the decision to leave the popular social networking site. I gave no explanation, or warning to my facebook 'friends', I just deleted my profile. It was quite a spontaneous decision, but left me with an immediate feeling of relief. Since then, I have contemplated about why I made that snap choice, and why I have a continuing feeling it was a very wise decision. This has led me to thinking about the very concept of facebook, the purpose intended by its designers and its global domination. It has brought me to consider the personal, social, and psychological effects it was having on me, my friends and the world at large. The more deeply I unravel its framework and the social processes it has unleashed; the more unnerved I find myself. The more I see people glued to their screens for a facebook fix; the more concern I have for people's mental health and general social evolution.
Yes, yes… here harps on the technophobe hippy, full of conspiracy and with a failure to see how facebook is really connecting people. Actually no; I was as hooked to the website as everyone else for many years. I used it to keep in touch with old friends, promote music and community events, encourage political debate and thought, share photos of fun memories with friends. What I failed to see is the illusion facebook creates, and the damage it was doing to my own mind and my relationships with others, until a few online events and arguments caused me to open my eyes.
I could probably write a book on facebook, but sadly I do not have the time, or patience, so instead I will give a few snippets of what revelations caused me to be so against the website, and provide food for thought with a few links.
It seems pretty obvious to me how a tool such as facebook has warped the reality of social reaction. Your facebook profile is not you. It's a representation of certain parts of your character and that includes what you write on facebook in statuses or to others. They are not things you'd just drop into conversation, they are snippets of your life and thoughts that you think are going to provoke a reaction from others in the facebook unreality. The very nature of facebook determines how you express your thoughts and ideas; you consider not just how you come across to others before you type, but how you come across to the unreal facebook community at large (the entirety of your friends). These are all very different people; who on a face to face basis you would talk to differently, depending on who it was and who was around. You cannot alter your language and communication to personally speak to 300 friends. In reality, you would be very unlikely to speak to that many people at once – so a strange facebook personality begins to emerge, perhaps without you even realising, and this virtual facebook you, does not react or communicate in the same way as the real you.
I find this pretty unnatural and also it has an effect on how we perceive others in reality based on the facebook unreality. For example, the idea of the facebook wall. We communicate to one another in personal messages and yet these are public to all the friends we mutually share. This includes people we both don't know that well in reality, maybe we met them once at another mutual friend's house, or they work in the next office, or they frequent the same club night. This is material that would not in reality be public knowledge and allows others to form opinions or prejudices based on this interaction. It is so easy for such information to be misinterpreted, especially as this is just disembodied text. These words never left your mouth, yet hundreds of people will be judging you on an interaction that wasn't even intended for them. Or was it, the very fact that you know that this interaction is public will consciously or subconsciously affect the very nature of the way you speak to your friends through facebook. The special connections we share with our real friends are lost in translation with the very fact that it is all so public. This leads to feeling of social isolation, as special bond with friends seem less significant when they are public property. We can make sure our responses to people are witty and quirky, we could spend an hour getting funny quotes off the internet to make ourselves look more interesting; but that's not the real you, is it?
This facebook unreality has slowly been taking over from real interaction with friends – there is less need to make the effort to see friends when you can chat online. It is all made too easy and this exacerbates social laziness, also as social interaction is always a click of a button away, it prevents us from spending as much quality time alone; thinking, creating, reading or whatever else. Time alone is important for reflection and learning and social networking discourages this activity. Why use your brain when you can spend some time blankly looking at your news feed and feeling closer to people who are physically further away. Or in the next room in some cases!
Facebook encourages prejudice. We judge others on their profile, their 'likes' and unreal facebook interactions instead of how they come across in reality, because we have much more contact with them through facebook, so of course it will colour our perceptions of people. Yet this is the unreality.
Facebook encourages narcissism, as each time we are logged in we come across the unreal projection of ourselves. We begin to see this projection as the reality. What our profile picture is becomes important and how this will make us come across to others. We start discussing trivial facts about our day because if it gets some 'likes' from your friends then it must be worth saying. But some people will 'like' anything. Because the very action of 'liking' something makes them feel connected as they have had some input in an unreal social interaction. It also makes us judge others for the stuff they post in status that is of no interest to ourselves. How dare they clog up my news feed with such trivia…. this in itself is another form of self-importance. We are essentially often projecting to others look at my beautiful holiday, look at my perfect loved up relationship, look how many friends I have and how often they post on my wall. I must let everyone else see how perfect my life is. I must prove to myself how perfect my life is by representing it in the best possible way on facebook. Deleting the unflattering photos. Being all slushy with your other half on their wall when in reality, you are both on facebook in the same room and not interacting properly with the person that is under your nose!
I'll give you an analogy I thought of:
My screen tells me you had a sausage sandwich today and it was tasty. I think – god – so what? That's well boring. That person is dull. Why do they need to tell everyone about a sandwich – they must really love themselves to think all their facebook friends need this useless information. However let's transfer this interaction to reality. We meet for a coffee. It's nice to see you – it's been ages. We smile and hug. You tell me about your sausage sandwich. I say "right, fair play, cheers for that" (this info still isn't fascinating) but I laugh in a joking way and you smile too at the lameness of your sandwich story. It actually turns out to be a funny moment. We share a little laugh and now the sandwich story is almost endearing rather than leaving me wondering why I am friends with you.
I am trying to highlight the differences between real interaction and facebook interaction – obviously not all sandwich stories would play out like this 🙂
Then of course the facebook addict. I have my theory on facebook addiction. I think it comes from a cycle of feeling alienated or isolated so therefore needing the constant flow of social interaction, this in turn makes you more isolated because you spend all your time alone on the computer, so look to facebook to allow it's perceived social fix. There are also laziness cycles in place. It is so much easier to log into facebook and chat or spy or post than to put your efforts into things that require more patience, concentration or effort. Facebook decreases your attention span because it's all there on a plate… and the more you do it, the less arsed you can be to put this time into things that require more effort. This could include creative outlets, or going and seeing friends in person. Why go out when you can chat in bed? Facebook also because of its unreal nature makes people more comfortable with this false interaction than real interaction. It makes people more fearful or ill at ease with real interaction.
It can be argued that facebook allows free flow of ideas to lots of people at the click of a button. But using politics as an example, don't you ever feel like your preaching to the converted? The 'likes' are always from the same people and those that don't agree will use the opportunity to troll, to argue, to vent how they are right and you are wrong. Is that really a positive force or does it just further cause social divides. People don't listen on facebook. They rant, they show off, they express what media they like or dislike, but they certainly don't listen in the same way you would to a person you are talking to in reality. You can argue, be mean, be pig-headed to a disembodied profile – it takes a lot less courage than arguing to someone's face. And it is easier to forget compassion when all you have is some text and a cheesy profile picture of that person in front of you. That sense of 'unreality' again stopping your tact and preventing the usual censorship you would normally use to spare people's feelings. You are almost ranting to yourself not the individual(s) in question.
Facebook is changing the way we interact as people. That's certain. But why do the creators want to manipulate the way we interact; to control, to mediocritize and ultimately to create unthinking, unquestioning consumers. If you learn about the background behind facebook they will tell you themselves; facebook is used as an advertising tool and to sell and spread consumer information. Of course you're being manipulated, even if you like to think it's not affecting you; it will be, especially if you have this stuff in your face for several hours a day. John Smith likes Smarties and X Factor. Lucy Jones likes Pirates of the Caribbean and Primark. Every day. In your face. Personalised adverts.
You could convince yourself that as long as you still have lots of facebook interactions you have a relationship with those people. They might be just as bored and unfulfilled as you, and you happened to post something that caught their attention for a second so they commented. Does that equal a lifelong friendship? With real friendships you don't need facebook. Remember phones, and going to see people, even email? Leaving facebook will only destroy your social life if it was all an unreality in the first place. And I don't know about you but I'd rather know who my real friends are and be free from a fake social circle that leaves me feeling paranoid about true intentions and allows me to be manipulated by the Facebook Corporation and their business contacts.
Technology can be shared in person. Get off your arse and watch those funny videos at your friend's house. You'll enjoy it more. I'm not preaching here, and if people want to continue using 'the book' that's their choice. But from what I've seen facebook users aren't any happier or more life enriched. I care about people; and long for a society with improved links and bonds between people. Social gatherings, community groups, artistic workshops and real life social interactions a plenty. I miss those archaic, outdated times of yore before facebook. I certainly feel like I did more in those days. Or maybe I'm just living in the past?
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Way to go Bo! I totally agree with all your points. I have gone from being a moderate facebook user to a very casual one, and often find myself just logging on to take a peek in to the lives of others. It makes me feel like a peeping tom, glimpsing in to the private lives of others. For a while i've limited how much of myself I project to the facebook world, I've decided to save the real me for the good old fashioned world. Now it's just time to take the jump to?
it wasnt that i took your 'musings' personally and i respect your descision to delete your account. but, i think that the real world and real interaction is just as shallow as facebook. full of the same advertising, full of people chatting the same crap. i take it you still have a mobile phone? so big brother has your gps 24/7? where does this dropping out end? the real world is just a much a self created illusion as your facebook account!
and yes … the world is truely fucked! but getting rid of facebook wont change that.
This blog has lots of extremely useful stuff on it! Cheers for informing me.
This is exactly how I am feeling about Facebook these days. I have realized it only gives you the illusion of social connection and is not the real thing.
First, thank you for your thoughts on this subject Bo. Certainly, I think you are shedding light where light needs to be shed.
I too, have shared similar experience and opinion regarding Fb….Big brother? He'll yes!! Invasive? Creepy, too close for comfort!! Destructive? As possible as you let it. Narcissistic? Well, to each our own GREAT AND POWERFUL OZZ (behind the curtain or should I say book?)
Personally, I have lived the Facebook "heyday." As an original member, I remember advocating to everyone I knew how fun and exciting, how great it was to connect and share with new and old friends a like. How they should join!
Responses from those not yet on board came with curiosity, apprehension, excitement, fear, uncertainty, eagerness and or all of the above or a combo there of. Nonetheless, just about everyone I knew ended up on Fb including the initial scoffing, reluctant ones whom by which now, in my opinion are, some of the loudest, most manipulative, hypocritical, soap box, Fb therapy using monsters of all.
Anyway, that being said, I have literally watched personalities morph and emerge as unfamiliar alter egos…..Relationships literally go into cyberspace flames over night and connection take on a dual, dichotomy meaning.
But as Harley raises the point, it is the same nature and existence outside the digital space and has been for years. We have just been living in it longer and it probably feels closer to home or "reality" for many of us. Cyberspace is still relatively new to our existence and people are infants in it.
I'm with you Bo that Facebook feels like wastebook and certainly chaotic and in need of governing by the people. Well, cyberspace in general needs it. Ultimately though I think it is about our experiences wether on Fb or not, it is through our experiences that we bring consciousness. It may be a bit esoteric, but the real "reality" is consciousness……we are pure, conscious, energy, beings exchanging at various awarenesses. How aware or not remains the journey.
So keep shedding light Bo, your consciousness vibrates with the universe and the universe is ultimately light however constricted or dark it may seem. And as a final play on words, "Universal awareness seems light years" as Fb proves a measurable evidence in our current times. -Sharetheworth
this is cool man, respect x
I dig what you're saying if it works for you, but generally I'm skeptical about anything that blames the vehicle and not the driver for a loss of perspective. It's like blaming food for obesity, when it's ultimately about choices made by the person eating the food. For me personally, I feel like I have very strong social interactions both in real life and in social media, and they are very integrated. However, I think my personality and life experiences lend themselves to that end, as I'm a very natural extrovert and also have had to do a lot of conscious work on life balance for health reasons. Additionally, things like facebook and instagram have done some great things for me when it comes to staying connected during times when I just didn't have time to give people the time our friendships deserve (like while I was in law school.) Maybe I'm an exception (but maybe I also have a skewed vision of myself) but I do not sound much different in person than I do on facebook,, so either I am really weird in person or I have a consistent voice in my real and "not real" (as you call it) lives. Social networking in my view is very much an extension of my regular life, not an alternate reality. But hey, maybe I'm a narcissist and I'm way off. Either way, kudos to you for doing what works for you. For me the larger picture consists of me being accountable for the choices I make, whether it be how I eat, who I talk to, how much I exercise or how much time I spend on facebook, the internet or binge watching Netflix. I am ultimately responsible, and for me, facebook works.
I just tried to post the link to your great article on my FB timeline and it would not let me post it. It said FB tries to keep things safe and detected an unsafe link. Damn chilling if you ask me. I am sick of the toxic playground of Fb no matter how much good is shared, it is a fabricated world that is very unhealthy for real human being…I am exited for awhile…but I am leaving my page up and will report here if FB writes back to me.
Thanks for the article. I agree with what you've said about Facebook. Although I still have an account, I don't post nearly as much as I used to. I used to post something once per day. Now it's more like once per week.
I would like to add something to what you've said. Spirituality is a strong passion of mine. The way I see Facebook is an ego booster. It often acts as a tool to enhance a false sense of self for many people. Its indeed all an Illusion. People post photos of themselves, sometimes even several times per week. They advertise all the "good" things going on in their lives and they only post negative things to gain sympathy or make an impression. It's all fake. As we are Spirits in reality; the mind, body and this so-called external life are all an illusion and a temporary show. Nothing in the external world is who we are. So I see Facebook as something that promotes the ego, false sense of self and to some extent, narcissism.
Sometimes people get so mentally engrossed in the illusion that they feel insecure if they don't get a lot of "likes" or even get jealous if someone else gets more likes than they do. It's all very superficial. And no, Facebook does not reflect reality or how the person's life really is. It's all a show. Just my humble opinion.
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"Vivo en Sol." The words slip from my slightly chapped lips as I explain to the cab driver how to get home on my last day in Madrid. It's a natural phrase, uttered without hesitation, reflecting my years of practice and months of living in this city. A recited and practiced line, I guess you could say, but more or less a string of words smushed together haphazardly, indicating that I call this place my home. I live in Sol.
"Derecho en Calle Mayor y para antes la iglesia." Sentences begin to flow effortlessly, a sudden click between brain and tongue, a feeling of near fluency. A sense of accomplishment washes over me, but then the sudden realization that I will be on a plane a mere twenty-four hours later brings me down from cloud nine.The ping of my inbox, alerting me to check in to my flight, brings with it a flood of emotions, regrets, memories, question; an almost self-loathing and pity all combined into one.
I watch the minutes tick away, yet I cannot bring myself to terms with leaving this place which had just provided me with a treasure chest full of experiences. Laying in my tiny twin bed for the last time, I set the alarm for 9 AM, early by our Madrid standards. Insomnia strikes again, surely a result of the conflicting emotions pitted in the depths of my stomach, thought I'm sure the cup of green tea an hour earlier wasn't helping either. I shoot my family a quick "24 hours" text, send a Snapchat to my favorites and browse through the photos on my iPhone one last time before slipping into a light sleep. I wake no less than seven hours later to the blaring of my alarm, but instead of getting up, I silence it and enjoy the fleeting moments in my bed for the last time in our tiny Calle de la Villa apartment.
I rub the sleepies from my eyes, and look up from my bed towards the charcoal painting above my bed for the last time. The portrait of an old man, arms crossed, with a disappointing look strewn across his slightly wrinkled face, almost resembling my gather, looks down upon me and my questionable decisions for the last time. I look to my right and see three bags filled with a semesters' worth of clothes and souvenirs, sitting neatly ready for their next adventure.I muster all my of my strength and plop myself up and quickly throw on my clothes and hastily pack away the last of my belongings. It plays back in my head; a surreal moment, frozen forever in time.
I creep down the hall into Erin's room and see her struggling with her overpacked suitcases. I proceed to zip them shut in a "sitting and pulling" fashion, learned from my reign as Packing Princess of the Patten household. The clock hits 9:27 and we wake up our other two roommates to say our final goodbyes. The routine is all too familiar, from weeks of traveling together, yet the baggage, both physical and emotional, is much more to bear. A final group hug, a huddle, if you may, and we drag our belongings up the stairs from Bajo Izquerida for the last time and hail a taxi down.
After squishing into a cab, we wind our way through Sol and head eastward to the airport, past Puerta del sol, through Plaza de la Cibeles, by the Prado, and turn left at the Atocha railway. The cab driver asks us if we're Americans and he reacts eagerly to ask more about our stay once we're from Chicago and California. He asks if we mind if he smokes a drag, and though it'd normally bother the hell out of me, the smell and smoke in my face is almost welcome, a subtle reminder of my time in Europe. We continue on, past Plaza de las Ventas and my normally subdued emotions take form as a singular teardrop out of the corner of my left eye. It was beginning to hit me. The only thing holding the flood of tears back was the conversation with the cab driver about the Copa del Rey final the night before.
We struggle through the airport, it feels as if our feet our chained together, the city unwilling to let us out of her grip. Erin and I part ways, and promise to meet up after security, and sure enough, we do. My luck of running into people still proving to be as relentless as ever. What seems like an hour later, we are saying goodbye for real this time. She goes through yet another security check point and disappears into the growing crowd beyond the fence. I find my place among the remaining empty seats at gate U60, and find myself thinking of the number of people who have sat in that exact seat after a semester abroad.
I flash back to reality when fellow NYU students sit next to me, all hungover, clearly already missing our new city, regretting getting drunk the night before an 11 hour flight. I guess they really did grow accustomed to this Madrileño lifestyle. Twenty minutes later, I'm sitting in seat 27H, next to one of my teammate's freshman year roommates – as a matter of fact, the same one who comforted my sobbing self when I missed my flight home on my official visit, three years prior. This world really is getting smaller. We break into conversation, reminiscing of our days abroad, her adventures in Italy, and mine in Spain. The familiar pang of nervousness washes over me as the captain announces we are delayed because we cannot take off in tail winds.
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Literary Leicester Festival
This is an archive of the 2008 Literary Leicester event.
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This year sees the opening of the remodelled and extended David Wilson Library, combining stunning architecture, state-of the-art study facilities and a splendid home for the Library's million books.
What better way to mark the opening of a new library than a celebration of books and words associated with the University of Leicester, the city of Leicester and academic life.
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With all the debate around outsourcing, it gets very confusing to keep track of what's onshore, offshore or right shore. What if you could operate from the high seas? And before you smirk and start laughing, I do not mean piracy.
Blueseed, a start-up based in California is looking for investors to fund its plan to build a boat that can accommodate up to 1000 people. The concept is to make this boat a veritable home office for a cluster of technology start-ups that are finding it increasingly difficult to get talent into the US mainland because of immigration and work permit rules.
The intent is for this vessel to drop anchor just outside the US international maritime boundary, which is just around 12 Miles from the San Francisco Bay. This is close enough to the mainland for supplies and people to be easily transported via helicopter or ferry. That would obviously come at a cost, as would the boat itself and all the trappings necessary to use it as an office.
I suppose a case could be made that such operations that are literally offshore might work out to be cost-effective in the early days of the venture, when people work almost 24x7x365 and only need a few desks, chairs and telecommunication and internet infrastructure. And of course, lots of coffee, courage and perseverance.
Blueseed is the brainchild of Max Marty, who is the company's CEO. Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel has committed $500,000 to this venture, which means that he doesn't think the idea is too wild. It will probably be mid-2013 by when you or I can actually hire an office cubicle on board the Blueseed vessel.
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TNT Garners 8.1 Million Viewers for Game 4 of Pacers-Heat
TNT continues to score with its coverage of the 2013 NBA Eastern Conference Finals.
The drama network averaged a 5.1 U.S. household rating and 8.1 million viewers with Game 4 in which the Indiana Pacers evened the series against the Miami Heat, according to Nielsen Fast Nationals data. Those deliveries lifted TNT to the top of primetime on Tuesday across all of TV, broadcast and cable.
The Heat/Pacers Game 4 telecast was up 26% in rating and 24% among viewers compared with the 4.1 mark and 6.5 million watchers TNT recorded with its presentation of Game 4 of the 2012 Western Conference Finals. (Under the national TV contracts, TNT and ESPN/ABC alternate coverage of the conference finals.)
Game 4 generated a 26.2 metered market rating in Miami and a 21.7 locally in Indianapolis. Miami is the 16th-largest DMA among the 56 metered markets, while Indianapolis ranks 24th.
Through four game telecasts, TNT has averaged 7.7 million total viewers for the 2013 NBA Eastern Conference Finals, up 7% compared with 7.2 million for the first four games of the 2012 NBA Western Conference. This year's 4.8 rating has grown 4% over the 4.6 mark through the same number of games last year.
TNT has netted the four most-viewed 2013 NBA Playoff telecasts to date across broadcast and cable.
Additionally, TNT's Sports Emmy Award-winning Inside the NBA studio show has averaged more than 3 million total viewers during the 2013 NBA Eastern Conference Finals.
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Using Construction Kits in your Production (loops of music phrases etc…)
I feel every artist/musician has to decide for themselves that amount of creativity/control they need to have in their music to feel "right" about it.
That's balanced with the "Arrogance of Isolation" where someone thinks they have so much…talent or magic to offer that they must compose or create everything themselves.
"producers" have twisted the definition of Producer into One Man Band.
I do Drums
I do Melody
I do arrangement
I do engineering
I do Mix
I even do master….
And somehow that becomes a more accurate definition of making music when A BAND or Orchestra or any group of individuals working together is FACTually able to achieve more with broader results.
It's actually the reason music has dumbed down since the invention of the one-man-band. It was hidden during the sample era since Samplists were sampling Bands – i.e. Group Efforts.
Those libraries are meant for more than just Producas.
There are PRODUCERS who don't play anything (Drums, keyboards, synths, guitars etc..) They are using the same process they always have. Listening to a phrase/part/performance and deciding if it fits -and where and how.
That's actually what it is to be a producer at its core (aside from all the other business elements of producing a record). That's the ear part.
If I am submitting for a commercial project (and those that know this world understand deadlines) I may not have time to get an Uptempo/Urban/Pensive/Driving track done in one night. I might use loops to see what fits when my ideas for a melody or synthline are stalled. Hell I may not want to spend a whole night studying Crunk music to learn its language. I may just pop open a folder called Crunktified Loops and take the crash course. Snag a loop and build my signature on top of it. That would account for the project description of "with a taste of Crunk, but not too much" Bingo.
Also, Producas tend to do everything just enough to get over. Not a pianist, but they play the keys. Don't play drums, but program drums…etc…
As a musician I might actually have serious keyboard chops, but can't play the drums. I would then use loops for my drums and play everything else.
Guitarists use loops without batting an eye lash. Why? Because they consider themselves musicians. And as a musician, it's okay to play a single instrument. As a Produca (who doesn't really play anything) it's not.
That's the joke of it all.
You gotta decide for yourself how much control you need to feel truly creative. And it makes sense to have that decision be made based on creating the best music possible and not the ego of the creator or anyone else.
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Everything is very open with a precise clarification of the issues.
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interesting points.. just getting into it myself (Zouk, which is often heavily produced), and this convinced me that maybe I shouldn't worry too much about using kits.
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hey bro, I have this discussion with cats all the time, and say the same thing. These libraries are no different than having session musicians, bands, orchestras, etc…it gives those who don't have the time, budget, or connections to actually hire a guitarist, or keyboardist, or drummer, or whatever we need…the chance to see the vision still complete.
Simple, to the point, but dope none the less, keep it up man. I know this is an old one but I love it, love the site too, magazine is dope.
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When it comes to studying art history, we've come a fair way since projector slides. Interactive online resources, archives, and image databases have made viewing and researching art much more accessible to the public. Still, contemporary art is moving in such a direction that historians and students simply can't rely on the tried-and-true methods they have used to study art in decades past, especially when it comes to themes of site-specificity, collaboration, and interactive installations. Much of the site-specific art we see today is partly experiential, for example. Often times, a photographic reproduction only serves to destroy the integrity of the piece and neglect the artist's original intent.
This issue isn't unique to contemporary art. Site-specific art dates back even to the days of Renaissance-era illusionistic frescoes. Consider Andrea Mantegna's ceiling fresco in the Ducal Palace, with its illusionistic oculus adorned by curious putti observing the viewers below. Art has evolved exponentially since then, so it seems absurd that we should study Mantegna in the same way we study the site-specific works of contemporary artists like Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In our technologically savvy era, why haven't we discovered more innovative ways to study and analyze unconventional media? In this project, I will cite several case studies of artists whose work eludes traditional means of representation.
Felice Varini creates illusionistic, site-specific work atop various architectural landscapes. Dubbed a "perspective-localized painter," Varini manipulates his painted surfaces to appear flat and geometric, creating contrast between 3-dimensional building façades and 2-dimensional paintings. However, Varini manipulates his "canvas" in such a way that the image is only coherent from one specific vantage point. From any other perspective, the mural dissolves into a series of jagged, nonsensical lines. In one sense, these artworks imply the necessity of the viewer's participation to bring a painting to life. In another sense, the painting technically lives on, whether or not the viewer is there to confirm its existence—not just from its original viewpoint, but from an infinite number of viewpoints. In a 2008 interview, Varini himself claims, "It is not therefore through this original vantage point that I see the work achieved; it takes place in the set of vantage points the viewer can have on it." He also believes that his artwork truly lives "outside the vantage point, where reality allows for all shapes to live."
Varini's work is difficult to describe even textually—his work is entirely experiential, and raises questions about the painting-viewer relationship. The annotated image above of his work, Trapèze désaxé autour d'un rectangle (1996), exemplifies a need for a more hands-on, intuitive method of representing his work. Interactive media might remedy this issue, perhaps by utilizing a 360-degree camera to capture several angles of the work, from different vantage points, so the viewer can witness the alignment and subsequent destruction of the geometric pattern as if they were moving around the space in real time.
Laura Owens is a contemporary painter who aims to explore the limitations of the medium of painting. Her paintings are all conceived digitally, despite their gestural quality. Owens' paintings retain a distinct human quality, full of emotion. In addition to raising objections to the notion of digital art feeling impersonal and mechanical, Owens' paintings raise questions about the nature of the viewing experience. Her paintings feature many hidden phrases and small details which are not easily translated through photographic reproductions. Additionally, viewing her digital paintings through the additional lens of a computer screen or physical reproduction distances the viewer from the paintings' emotional, gestural aura. Despite the fact that the paintings are conceived digitally, viewing them digitally defeats the purpose of Owens' work, as she aims to highlight the capacity of digital painting to bear intense emotion, as well as reform the concept of what the painterly gesture can look like.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude are a monumental duo in the field of modern site-specific art and architecture. Notably, they have tackled projects in which they wrapped famous monuments in massive amounts of tarp, such as the Reichstag and Pont Neuf. At the heart of their work is the concept of questioning the quotidian by transforming monuments which otherwise provide some stability within their respective bustling, urban landscapes. Because they aim to cause a rift within the quotidian urban superstructure, their work requires viewer presence to be fully realized as the artists intended. Is a photograph of one of their artworks, then, an inherent rebellion against their mission? A photograph could never provide the same effect as one of their installations visited in-person. Just imagine: a municipal building, for example, one which effectively grounds the city in its specific place in space and time, yet remains understandably overlooked and invisible. Now imagine having a bright orange tarp placed over the building. This calls new attention to the building but also makes one reconsider the structure as distinct from its previous, unremarkable state. People would reform how they consider the space in theory, as well as how they physically move around the space. That being said, a photographic reproduction of this experience would fail to capture the essence of the project.
Site-specific and interactive art, in our present digital age, pose problems regarding how to represent and archive them. When the focus of an artwork is its temporality—its urgency of being right-here-right-now—it becomes difficult to effectively document it in traditional formats. Interactive media is a budding field which might remedy the solution of learning about and admiring these types of artworks. Media such as virtual reality could provide promising solutions to these problems. Virtual museum tours, for example, begin to address the need for viewing experiential or site-specific art with integrity. The possibilities are as limitless as the infinite strings of programming code with which to create these resources.


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Our new Harford 4 Piece Storage Corner set in Grey/Black mix weave sets are a new addition to our range and look superb, a mixture of intricate weaves, very stylish and contemporary, all modular so you can arrange as you wish
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