Stanley Kubrick & NASA's Excellent Adventure

Well worth watching to see a string of scientific luminaries talk about how close Kubrick's work looked in comparison to the actual moon landings. 

Really Copernicus?

Christopher Knowles & The Elusive Companion Hypothesis

See update below: At the one hour thirty two minute mark the host Mike Clelland guest Christopher Knowles both riff on the mind fuck qualities of the experiencer phenomena and I have to say it fits perfectly John Lash's Archontic description through the Gnostics, that by and large they are playing with our heads.

As an aside I only learned the name crypto-terrestrials last week which I kind of liked but understand the weakness of as well though elusive companion doesn't hit the spot with me either. 

There's a fantastic Arthur C. Clarke anecdote in this excellent podcast by Leo Sprinkle. Super cryptic and elusive but in some ways very revealing.

Update: The original video has been removed so I replaced it with another. You may have to scout about on this link to find the original audio file.

Jay Weidner - Kubrick, Apollo & Alchemy

Called by Wired Magazine an “authority on the hermetic and alchemical traditions,” and “erudite conspiracy hunter”, Jay Weidner is a renowned author, filmmaker and hermetic scholar. Considered to be a ‘modern-day Indiana Jones’ for his ongoing worldwide quests to find clues to mankind’s spiritual destiny via ancient societies and artifacts, his body of work offers great insight into the circumstances that have led to the current global crisis. He is the director of the powerful and insightful documentaries, Kubrick's Odyssey, Infinity; The Ultimate Trip, and the forthcoming feature film, Shasta. He is also the producer of the popular documentary films, 2012 The Odyssey and its sequel, Timewave 2013. 

Was Anders Breivik Clockwork Oranged?

A reasonable question given that Stanley Kubrick would have been 83 today. Decades on his work's dual narrative is largely misunderstood such that most are unaware of Clockwork Orange mind control exposed, 2001 Space Odyssey solar system Saturnalia (among other cosmic dramas), Eyes Wide Shut's elite ritual sex abuse and The Shining's tale of Kubrick's work filming the moon landings for NASA. 

Arthur C Clarke says he was possibly the most intelligent man he knew in this eulogy montage video, and given his movies nested clues exposing a world he kept himself recluse from his greatest day may yet be to come. 

This is mainly from Jay Weidner's research and film making, taunting the elites with quips such as Stanley's world class chess skills. We both know what chequer board Jay's talking about and so do they. Tick tock, tick tock.

Via Open Culture

Jay Weidner on Stanley Kubrik, Arthur C Clarke, The Moon Landings, NASA & Saturn

The tiny moon in the picture above is actually Mimas (of Star wars death star fame)  but because I was confused with Kubrick movie 2001 space odyssey and Arthur C Clarke's landing on Saturn (it's gaseous how would it do that?) I now know it was Iapetus that was originally in the book but was changed to a moon of Jupiter by Warner brothers. 

Why would anyone would care? Well Saturn is Saturnalia and the studios got nervous about how much Kubrick was revealing. I've posted part two of the interview because it's just so interesting and gets straight to the sizzling bacon though I'm sure you'll start at the beginning if it grabs your attention. It did mine.

All I Do Is Float On Ideas

Arthur C Clarke wrote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". He wrote it because somebody showed him that technology indistinguishable from magic. 

I'm just not sure if he was from the future or if somebody gave him a preview. It's retarded to assume he invented satellites thus condensing the entire planet in one feel swoop and then retired to Sri Lanka. Do your homework.

Childhood's End

2001 Space Odyssey

We were watching 2001: A Space Odyssey last night. I vaguely recall watching it when I was younger but this time round it was such a treat. A lot more fell into place on this viewing as I'm getting a sense for Kubrick as a director and as a person. I'm trying to think who else is as good as him and apart from Lynch there is nobody is there? Funny thing was we both turned to look at each other half way and said 'those look like iPads'.

Now you might think that's a coincidence but Steve Job's amazing streak of success over the last few years has definitely had me wondering if he has had access to those allegations of back engineered gizmos that the UFO crowd swear are largely withheld from us by a self serving elite who accumulate wealth by enslaving our time to a mortgage/debt treadmill before egging us on to ripping each others throats out over oil and destruction through soul draining organised religion and misery. Like that feeling of being disconnected from who you really are. Precariously attached to a marginally differentiated lifeline of drudgery and artifice.

Well of course I'm riffing a bit here because Stanley Kubrick was a very secretive man.  Then there are those allegations of filming the moon landings in case they went wrong and thus potentially losing the U.S. a crucially psychological information war.  Allegedly Stanley demanded a deal that in return for shooting the moon landings he could later do the films he wanted without Hollywood interference. Has anybody got any recommendations for which Kubrick film I should watch next as I'm obsessed with his work now. Also does anybody know the rumour about why he changed the destination planet in 2001 Space Odyssey? It was meant to be Saturn but that was too close to the mark so he changed it to Jupiter. Saturn has that distinctly odd looking moon Iapetus which I've mentioned before was the spark for my synchronicity post and which looks like the death star in Star Wars. Just saying folks. Draw your own conclusions folks. I'm only on the lookout for better questions.

It's the circular parts of Iapetus that merit comment and then on closer look the ridge around the equator is distinctly uniform.

But rather than get bogged down with the differences between man made and artificial. You can leave that to Benoit Mandelbrot. The question I have is why call the moon landing missions Saturn V. What is it about Saturn? Why not call them Neptune 5?

Timo Veikkola - Nokia

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I went to PSFK's conference yesterday in London. It was billed as a morning of trends and ideas, and an afternoon of new marketing. The whole day was hugely enjoyable and I'm not just saying that because PSFK put me up at the Metropolitan and paid for those Cannes tickets I was moaning about. I made some notes of the thoughts and ideas that made sense to me or even didn't make sense but somehow needed to be taken down. Here they are.

The first speaker was Timo Veikkola (picture by lynetter) who is a future specialist at Nokia (what a great job), and seems to have a similarly exciting position as Jan Chipchase. Timo is one of those social science types that the Scandinavian countries excel at integrating into big business much more sympathetically than many U.S. corporations. His goal is to make communications as natural as possible while picking up on future trends to integrate into Nokia products and usability. Timo pointed out that there is no other stimulant like travel and I'd fully agree with him there. Anything else is just Disneyland really. Timo is currently planning for the year 2010, and reminded us of the question "can the human mind master what the human mind has made?" (Zygmnunt Bauman). For a Clinton Kid like me, the last 6 years have been quite depressing and Timo underlined how war is thematic for this decade despite the number of casualities at this moment in time. He talked how these visuals of the oxymoron 'war on terror' have started to seep into culture and may also explain why there is a considerable counter movement for the honest, fun and simple.

Many years ago I was in Vietnam and noticed that despite all the efforts of the mighty U.S. military machine it was Coca-Cola that had really won the war. One slide by Timo of a car covered in Arabic text reminded me that if we look at the population growth demographics for Islamic countries it shouldn't be too long before, along with India and China we should in the future begin to see more Arabic text creeping into our culture. I always find text fascinating and have even etched a few Khmer and Siamese tattoos on my body. I can think of nothing more exciting than nipping up to the Turk, Sri Lankan, Kurdish and Tamil supermarkets where I'm living and looking at 'foreign stuff'. Somehow Coconut Milk from Southern India is much more romantic and kosher than something packaged by one of the supermarkets. I am also quite frankly bored with all the web 2.0 cuddly logos sprouting, although I do realise that style is more important and useful than identity in this overloaded logo world.

Timo talked about how protest and political statement will likely be more present in design of the future and this was reinforced later by the sustainable design panel. I can certainly see a future where homogeneous brands, products and services are more likely to differentiate themselves by what they stand for - their values as it were. Timo also described that we seem to be living in almost biblical Revelations-like times with famine, pestilence, disease and floods from things like SARS, Hurricanes and Tsunamis, he then talked about the move from a celebrity culture to a knowledge culture which simply can't come soon enough for me.

Many moons ago on a hardcore right wing political chat channel that I liked to sharpen my teeth on I was arguing (or rather being shouted down) about the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of driving SUV's in a world with rapidly diminishing oil and young Americans and British people dying for it while serving in the armed forces in Iraq which everyone knows (except the oil addicts) was invaded for its oil reserves and the Green Zone that will administer it. The one weapon that unsettled the frothy mouthed right-wing-nuts in the debate (95% of the channel) was the question, would Jesus drive an SUV? The unholy alliance between the Neo-Conservatives and the Christian fundamentalists is always unsettled by this simple question and mark my words for the future of sustainable consumption, religion and culture will be huge factors in the war of ideas. Ask yourself if Jesus would purchase an SUV, because it looks to me from the picture above that Mohamed wouldn't have minded a Big Mac. That is every reason for being optimistic about the future...... which according to Arthur C Clarke is going to be 'utterly fantastic'.