The first version of Playbin is complete and ready for testing.

PlayBin is a new network of free artistic and creative materials. The goal is to set these materials free from ownership and create a community around them from which everyone can use, learn from and develop.

Every member of playBin is given a certain amount of space on its server to upload whatever there heart desires. This could be photographs, tools, programs, typefaces, incomplete work, inprogress work, unrealized projects, drawings, paintings, writings, music, video. By uploading a file you give the rights to all members of Playbin to use that file however they like. Recycle, share, discuss, and circulate unused artistic material and keep it alive. This will bring life to all those projects you want to finish but don’t have the means. Get feedback about your work, and watch it take directions you never thought to go.
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“This ‘sovereign-meaning top-weapons enforced ‘national’ claim upon humans born in various lands leads to ever more severely specialized servitude and highly personalized identity classification. As a consequence of the slavish ‘catagoryitis’ the scientifically illogical, and as we shall see, often meaningless questions ‘where do you live?’ ‘what are you?’ ‘’what religion?’ ’what race?’ ‘what nationality?’ are all thought of today as logical questions. By the twenty first century it either will have become evident to humanity that these questions are absurd and anti evolutionary or men will no longer be living on Earth. If you don’t comprehend why that is so, listen to me closely.”
-Richard Buckminster Fuller

Fuller confirms what I truly believe which is that the solutions to the problems facing us as a race and are not within resources, pollution, poverty or technology. Instead the solution lies in perspective. By changing our perspective and our ability to comprehend the forces on this planet that govern us we can adapt our actions to create a model of sustainable life on this planet.

Fuller claims that specialization is “in fact only a fancy form of slavery” and the road to extinction. Animals go extinct because of specialization, there genes are all too similar, and there bodies are all too specialized. Without a diverse population a change that occurs in the environment which causes one animal to die, means the rest will all suffer the same effects. Unlike a variable gene pool which would allow certain members of the species to survive, reproduce and therefore adapt. Likewise if we depend on one resource and it is depleted we must be able to adapt, but further more we have the ability to comprehend this event in the future. So what is holding us back?

Its funny to use evolution and the, “survival of the fittest” as an analogy here because it is exactly the perception that Fuller would describe as anti evolutionary. It is also the political attitude of our world leaders today as everyone gears up for the big WWIII Armageddon showdown, tickets on sale now. We must move past the Malthusian “you v.s. me” perspective to survive in an age where we have the ability to blow up the world eighty thousand times over or something like that.

Other themes he discusses in his operating manual are synergy, general systems analysis and world pirates but those are all for another day.

Buckminster Fuller Institute

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I went to the Isamu Noguchi Museum in Long Island City. I would say the experience was like going to church on Sunday if I had ever been. But I have been inside of churches and felt that same spiritual air at the museum last Sunday.

Although I would like to I do not intend to go into Noguchi's entire career but instead I wanted to just touch on a few of the things that really struck me in his work. The first being the feeling of spirituality, the whole time I had the feeling that I was in a temple looking at idols of forgotten gods. I felt that each piece held a debt to someone or someplace. Noguchi's spirituality is within nature. He had amazing conversations with dirt and overheard secrets from trees. His work always contains some contemplation and worshipping the earth in various ways. He treats the earth like a body without commentary only dedication and meditation. Noguchi was a nomad, he identified with the surface of the earth more than any culture paved over it.

His earthworks and playgrounds where he actually contoured every surface of the landscape were Noguchi at his best. A form I found especially captivating in his work was the ring. This is most prevalent and obvious in his sacred rocks piece. However it it shows up in different places throughout his work. Rings or elements encircled, either sunken, on or elevated on a mound like circles of protection. The ring as a form carries enough meaning or feeling to study for a lifetime, but one thing is certain, it has an ability to calm the viewer and I just enjoyed it

Noguchi is the master of working with the earth as his medium for new and exciting experiences and allowing a new harmony between bodies, the body and the landscape.
Noguchi Museum

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US Patent 6536440

I just fond out about this and i''ll write more about it later but wow.

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Milton Floyd - I am Shadow, I wish I knew more about it, but there is a cat that does.

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