Happy Spring Equinox everyone! Brief announcement from Bright Moments World Headquarters at this time of small green shoots & deep mud & birdsongs & new beginnings:
I've finally found the perfect cohort for my psy-comix insanity, & we're creating a graphic novel together! His name is Tom Coyopa, check him out at: http://create.coyopa.net.
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A.Minor's "Arty Party" at Lamb Abbey in Montpelier VT, on 2.13.10, was more fun than anticipated, as if such a thing were possible.... vids from our friend Gman Clark up at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHJ9SS9KjU4
Thanks so much to everyone who came out & got freaky with us.... special thanks to Kevin Macneil Brown for the marvelous ambient loops...
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When living in the society, it is very easy to become disconnected from the consequences of ones actions. We have been conditioned to accept things at face value without giving much thought to the circumstances which surround the infrastructure of our daily lives.
I always welcome new music in my life. As I meditate I like to listen to ambient music. Such as Sigur Ros - Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do; Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps; Bass Communion - Molotov and Haze; Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline.
I realize we are all everything, completely unlimited in our capacities. But at the same time, I realize that we incarnate to experience parts of ourselves in order to better understand the whole. You know, when you're All That Is, it's kind of hard to know how bad ass you are without something "you're not" to compare it to. Thus you begin The Game. What part of myself can I experience Now?
One of my earliest memories is sitting on the front-seat of an old truck with my grandmother. The seat was no longer in the truck, though - it now belonged to a small hill beside my grandparents’ rural home.
The following was handed onto me by a professor around the time I began committing full-heartedly to my artistic practice. I come back to it time and again, and thought it would be suiting to share here.
I think you should pick up the phone and call someone you love even if you are not sure the message will be received. I think you should stop falling asleep with the company of the television screen. I think you should lie on the kitchen floor and stare at the birds and planes out the window -- it's amazing how similar they look from that perspective.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
