Sunday, January 25, 2009

Transport von Colani








hopefully this is not your first exposure to the sumptuous & brilliant designs of Luigi Colani. his flamboyant biodynamic style is an extreme re-definition of form following function. it seems impossible to not fall in love with the voluptuous organic shapes that inhabit most of Colani's work. here i thought that it would be interesting to showcase some of Colani's vision for the future of mass transit. the designs scream elegance & efficiency by sampling the bodies shapes of some of earth slickest wildilfe...you gotta love the dolphin, whale, & dragonfly inspired aircrafts!

just a little inspiration for those that are tired of the lip service about change for the future.

post script...
if you're interested in more of mr. eccentricity's work check both of the links in this post as they lead to different websites

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

whatever happened to intergrity???

it seems like somewhere along the way everyone forgot about having integrity. didn't dignity used to be en vogue??? today money is everyone's supreme motivation & it leads them down a host of awfully shameful pathways. the thing about money is that its supposed to give people power when they have enough of it, but nowadays rich people act like they're wealthy & waste all of their doe buying shiny things to impress the other idiots.
in our modern world there's a lot of coons that will do anything for money, but when they finally get it they don't use they're power for anything.

imagine if jordan, lebron, or kobe ever said or did anything that made a difference. i'm not talking about throwing money @ non profits & charities that only serve as band-aides over the bullet wounds of society's ills. truly utilizing power would be more in the range of talking to the media about the merits of universal single payer healthcare, or using their stardom to open a dialog about raising the minimum wage to something that not insulting.

katt williams says something interesting about his experience hosting the not so surprisingly racist roast of flavor flav on comedy central. katt talks about how flav's kids were so embarrassed by the way their father was treated that they left in tears before it was over. after the show flav told katt that he didn't care about what the comedians said about him because no matter what comedy central had to pay him. flavor flav is not uplifting his family (or any other black folks for that matter) by allowing moderately humorous white people disgrace him in front of the world.

how did we allow money to become the thing that has the highest value in our world? back in the day when black entertainers absolutely had to coon to get booked in paying venues its more than understandable that they did it. old school jazz cats like cab calloway broke all the barriers & kicked in all of the doors specifically so there would be no need (or excuse for) a motherfucker like t-pain to essentially perform in black face in 2009. they say that everyone has a price, but didn't people also used to say that there's a line that you simply do not cross??? in fact i contend that cats like the ying-yang twins are so successful that they make it impossible for more thoughtful musicians to become popular. by no means am i saying that everyone isn't entitled to unlimited freedom of expression. however, when the people holding the purse straps see how easy it is to make money on the backs of individuals without a grain of integrity its easy to understand why youngsters frequently emulate what they've always seen as being acceptable behavior (that supposedly ends in them getting big money).

i guess my chances of becoming another one of those pop-tart musicians with deep pockets is waning because everyday the list of things i'm not willing to compromise (for any reason, let alone the false promises of money) gets longer.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

the NiN9

greetings from the jungle!

instead of feeding into the pre-2012 tensions that i'm sure many of us have somewhere in the back of our minds i've decided to take this opportunity to discuss the (i believe) serious possibility that peace will break out all over the world & what we thought of as utopia for so many generations will only be a shadow of the infinitely inclusive & delectable possibilities of our new reality.
it seems like earth is tired of us being so clueless. & those of us with even half an idea of where the keyhole is know that finding the key (shared prosperity) is inevitable. so with 3 years & 11+ months before the world as we know it changes i wholeheartedly encourage everyone to be the change you wish to see...& keep in mind that the world we know is terribly flawed & impossibly difficult for most of our brothers & sisters to deal with day to day.
hope, love, peace, & shared prosperity to us all in the new year whether its 5769, 4706, or 2009.

& on the post script tip i just wanted to say that i have been adding posts to the blog in december, but i just haven't finished editing them because of my new gig as a preschool teacher [which gobbles up an ungodly amount of my time for far less money than i deserve for being such a stupendous teacher...but i digress] & i will be posting them in the next few days. in order to avoid this problem in the future i'm also considering revamping the horus set & turning it into a video blog so that digging into the nuances of modern life becomes just a bit easier................peace in palesrael!