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Essentials of Virtual Community Building

No matter who you are, where you come from or what challenges you are hitting right now, there are a few things we all share in common.  We need a few basic things: food, water and shelter are followed by education and communication with others who share our experiences.  Deep down we want to bond [...]

Wisdom and silences broken

Sent to me by a spiritual sister, Krupa:
“Where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibilities to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them… there are so many silences to be broken…”-Audre Lorde

This image I created a few years back [...]

Berzerk!

For great photos of the Cirque Berzerk shows here in LA visit:
http://pixievisionproductions.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amoration
http://www.latimes.com/theguide/events-and-festivals/la-gd-events24-2008jul24,0,475023.story
Deeply proud of our AMO friends for putting together one of the best shows we’ve seen under the big top! Tremendous work, all of you….beautiful.

Filling in the gaps: Tekfarms

Learn more in our upcoming postst about our journeys and desire to create integrated networks of knowledge for microgeneration systems and safe sustainable practices at the home, village and community level.  We are currently meeting with partners in Los Angeles and worldwide capable of building new villages with sustainable power, food and lifestyle systems that [...]

Greening the Virtual World

I love building new worlds; it is the most provocative challenge for a mixed media artist in today’s horizon.
Community building in virtual space has risen to the level of an art form with the advent of multiplayer worlds with real world challenges embedded within our games. We have learned to move beyond the screen [...]

Virtual Civics

Posted a new video today from the MacArthur Foundation events in Second Life on Virtual Civic Liberties with legal professor Jack Balkin speaking with Jonathan Fanton. Hosted by USC with Global Kids, filmed by yours truly.
The post-event discussion on the practicality of these discussions for growing future communities was fruitful [...]

Roots

BAHA’I
“Blessed are those who prefer others
before themselves.”
– Baha’u’llah, Tablets of Baha’u’llah, 71

BUDDHISM
“Hurt not others in ways that you
yourself would find hurtful.”
– Udana-Varga, 5:18

CHRISTIANITY
“Always treat others as you would like
them to treat you.”
– Jesus, Matthew 7:12

CONFUCIANISM
“Do not unto others what you would
not have them do unto you.”
– Analects 15:23

HINDUISM
“This is the sum of all duty: do [...]

There are doors

So many of life’s mysteries cannot be talked about in a blog, or often even in person….you can look into my eyes and see them but I cannot tell you how to get there directly. To know this space you must go there yourself and open those doors.
Tonight I let myself slip into the spaces [...]

howling at the moon

 
The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another
His mother called him “Wild Thing!”
And Max said “I’ll eat you up!”
So he was sent to bed without eating anything.
That very night in Max’s room a forest grew and grew and grew until his ceiling hung with vines and the walls [...]