The Longplayer

tibetan bowl

Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer, it was originally produced as an Artangel commission, and is now in the care of the Longplayer Trust. The Longplayer Website.

Green Man, Earth Angel


Green ManWe must descend fully into the real, messy world, and not stop short of the real individuals who make it up. We get so constricted! So many are afraid to think about the world because only Scientists can do that. So many are afraid of their innate creativity because that is the realm of Artists. But anyone can experience the thrill that accompanies the new ways of seeing that lie at the heart of scientific discovery, anyone can write, or paint, or make music. And yet we mostly don’t. Because, “I’m too busy . . . I’m not smart enough, I’m not good enough, I can’t really dance, or sing, or write poetry or make pots … I’d be too embarrassed.” We are haunted by the Canon, by the experts, by the professionals. We are afraid of our selves, afraid that we won’t measure up. When great thought, art, and literature become an impediment to human life and action rather than an inspiration, then something is seriously wrong. The democratization of imagination is essential for the full descent into the world of all the virtual beings crying out in their sadness to be revealed.

Tom Cheetham, Green Man, Earth Angel

Zeitgeist & Zeitgeist: Addendum

Two important pieces of work in terms of understanding some of the foundational aspects of our prevailing social world. I am not sure that we can always posit a conspiracy when the system of thought forms the type of ideologies that both support ad resist its existence. In other words, the ideologies are part of the emergent system itself rather than consitituting it. Somewhat “chicken & egg” I suppose, but important to the type of alternative ways of being that are possible and the type of resistance that emerges as a result.

More information is at: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM

ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT: ORIENTATION PRESENTATION

A Super 8 Spectacular: Childhood Memories

A compilation of Super 8 footage from my childhood and a small tribute to Norton Buffalo, who died recently. “Thank you lord for giving me another day” says Norton. My sister Kathy is unavoidably throughout this video, just as she is in all the footage I have. She seems the one constant throughout our entire family experience when I was young and the film confirms this as she weaves in and out of the scenes of the film, just as she wove in and out of our lives and became a driving force in our family dynamic. Now that she has been gone, dead from brain cancer, for more than 18 years, it seems less bitter sweet to look back and put together a compilation of all the footage collecting dust and cobwebs in our parents attic. Most of my memories of Kathy are truly as she appears in the film: as a child bursting with exuberance and angst rather than the often angry and determined adult she became. We were always friends and always at odds. She challenged me just as she challenged my brothers as the only girl among us four siblings. These were good times, but they seem another life as I watch having now replaced old memories with many new. Nostalgia is simply part of the art now rather than remembrance.