Evo Amo and Brent

so much good stuff to update....not sure where to try to begin.

Back for fourth of july we had friends visiting from LA....so excited (and nervous!) to finally meet my online friends and heroes of sorts Evonne and Brent Heyning. Evonne runs Amoration and is an artist in residence at the intentional arts coop The Sugar Shack....she's my online green friend on SecondLife, building The Manor on Better World Island and promoting/inspiring activism throught the arts. Read more about her and her activities HERE. SHe's also a bodypainter and glass artist...and is an amazing community arts facilitator. She does so many things...I can't even begin to describe.

As fate would have it, right around the same time Brent and I got married she married anOther Brent over there in LA....each of us finding a team partner...and her Brent is a master model maker!(these are needed. I've been intentionally and subconsciously attracting modelmakers for my not so secret plans to save the world...there are quite a few now in the network:)He works on the elaborate sets you see in major films....for instance, if you saw the latest X-Men movie....the scene with the Golden Gate Bridge being ripped out and turned to connect to Alcatraz? That's an 85 foot(!!??!!) replica that he and his team built, not computer animations.

He creates entire cities in scale...it's pretty mindblowing. So much to try to condense into a real-life meeting..showed my artworks...we discussed the virtual...the actual...it felt a bit overwhelming..but we also laughed so easily together and had such moments of happy comfortable connection. I'm SO glad to have met them. Wish they lived closer!!!Regardless, I know we're moving towards something together, no matter the geographic distance... (as Eliav and Bee and Ariella are as well...and others:)Meeting points, convergence....we'll all seee...

They've worked for years at Burning Man (of course)....and so much in my research has been pulling me to look in that direction. A locus for experimental community energized by collaborative creativity...a fabulous temporal kaleidoscopic construction...there and gone...there and gone...with the remaining concentric pattern of an ancient ritual site...picture the energy...and what is happening in spacetime...to think of it as energy, sites, nodes and networks...it's glorious. Each year growing exponentially. A good article/essay about it is HERE

Aerial view of Black Rock City, 2001
© Burning Man, photo by Thom van Os

Android Clone

"Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro clones himself, android-style. His incredibly lifelike mechanical double, "Geminoid HI-1," sometimes takes his place in meetings and classes..." See pics and read the article in Wired