I got a new job… :D

Turns out I’ve been working full-time the past few weeks at a local TV station called My50-TV.

It’s been fun because I get to come up with script ideas, edit, shoot, be creative, and get paid for it. Whoa.

Most of our stuff involves going around town to promote businesses with a host, aka “VJ”, who does all the talking and interviewing for 20-60 second segments between TV shows.

For 2012, we have been auditioning for a new VJ, and came across Dominic, a very funny chap from England. Unfortunately, he will not be the next VJ (citizenship status), but he’s going to be the “Judge” who tries out the 3-4 VJ finalists throughout January.

We brainstormed up this bit together:

Josh did the voice over.

I’ve had all kinds of ideas for Dominic, and he’s had very slap-stick ideas for himself, but we’ll have to keep him tame and toned down for a little while as we “ease” him into the public eye. So I eased him in with a nice extreme close-up for his introduction.

Down I Go – Poseidon

I recently got a message from Ben Standage, which reminded me to check out his blog and youtube videos. He was my friend (most of the time) during the last couple of years I spent at UNM, then he quickly moved back to London continuing playing music with his old mates. We jammed at best a handful of times together, and I still wonder what could have happened if we formed something, anything, while he was out here. Instead I was too busy looking at the green grass that was in any other direction than where I or anyone else was standing. Sorry Ben.

Watch this music video made by director Adam Powell (who apparently has been teaming up with them over the last 5 years), for Ben’s band called Down I Go, a hardcore band who takes the best themes from mythology (including dinosaurs, planetary upheaval) and makes entire albums out of them.

Ultra Slow Motion Video

I got my camera (still/video) during the summer. Here’s some of the footage I’ve taken since then using the super slow-motion feature.

I think you might enjoy the surprising elasticity of Josh’s face-skin, as well as the repetitive slaps to various faces.

Hesher

Watched this tonight. Dug. Very.

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11/11/11 – 11:11 a.m.

Minutes before 11:11 am, I realized the significant one-second moment was coming up; 11:11:11 a.m. on 11/11/11. I waited, watched, secretly relished it by myself. Then it was over. Immediately I noticed my loud open-mouthed breathing, cleared my throat, and languidly got out my clothes for work.

I spent some time today looking over digg.com and found a lot of articles about world events regarding 11/11/11, mostly relating to people’s superstition of the date (labeled as examples of apophenia and/or pareidolia). Today the Egyptian Pyramids were closed to the public because of the rumors that a bunch of hoo-ha new-agers were going to perform rituals with intentions of opening a portal that would allow in all the positive energy we’d need to accelerate the enlightenment of the entire human race. Unfortunately security guards kept all of them out, as well as the potential widespread nirvana because of it. Better luck next century.

The crazy stuff I read is that a high number of pregnant mothers around the world purposely scheduled C-sections today to cut their babies out early, all so the beloved date would be printed on their birth certificate, therefore enhancing their child’s numerology-based destiny. I also read that a bunch of people decided to schedule marriages today, some in extremely lavish golden cathedrals with 11 total bride/groom combos. The same thing also happened at Disneyworld (the possibility is assumed the each groom must be required to bang 11 times within 11 hours, or he be punished by twin mantis-gods of the skies who stand wrathfully together, skinny as 1′s).

Among the same news topic, a movie came out called 11-11-11 where some kind of portal to hell is opened up and dark forces wreak havoc on all humanity. I think today is also National Metal Day… and I’m pretty sure that you can get a car at a discount somewhere, all because it’s 11/11/11.

(A beer Kevin bought today, released only on 11/11/11)

There hasn’t really been a surge of synchronicities for me, just the usual… such as seeing hexagons everywhere, noting it, and discovering this bee (or wasp) hive while Josh and I bashed holes in walls and ceilings while remodeling a bathroom.

As this date passes, and/or any other Mayan-related dates, I wonder what’s going to happen to the people who actually make a living off of it.

Jack and Kitty’s 60th Anniversary

Happy Anniversary to my Grandparents, Jack and Kitty.

1111 Dairy Sightings

I’m hoping the synchronicities get a little cooler than this.

The Brain, Fractals, Mushrooms, Mycellium, 1111, & The Universe

I once had a dream that I was in this organic maze that was constantly changing shape, becoming more complex and overwhelming. There was a digital clock, illuminated and constantly in my view, counting down by the milli-second, representing time left that I was to get out of the maze. It stopped at 11:11:11, and a voice thunderously said that if I was to say “Awake (something something)” that I would be able to escape the maze. So I did, and then I began to float up and expand out to see that the maze looked a lot like this:

Shortly after coming out of the maze, I woke up in my bed.

Both photos are a micro-image of the mycellium structure of a mushroom.

I went to Will’s birthday party last night, and he had a book called “Cosmos” lying out in the open on the kitchen table. We talked about the images in there, real and computer-generated pictures of some of the billions of galaxies in our observable universe. I’ve seen this image before, but it always sparks something wild in me every time I look at it.

Will suggested the irony that the mycellium of a mushroom looks strangely similar to the interconnected web of galaxies in the universe. I’d never thought of that but have definitely considered that the image looked strangely similar to a membrane, or even neurons in the brain.

Lots of eastern thought and even advocates of psychedelics have nearly made it a cliché that the universe is contained within its parts, much like a fractal. It makes you wonder why so many people claim that they’ve had perceptions of one-ness or “awakening” after consuming psychedelic mushrooms.

Because of the parallel, I tried to find the rant Joe Rogan does in his stand-up about the possibility of the human experience looking like this: being within a galaxy of a universe inside the ball of a guy whos in a galaxy of a universe within the ball of a guy who’s in a universe…

…but instead, I found this.