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"Dreaming a Reality - Senses Fail"
Dreaming my reality
where truth and fiction don't seem to exist
Confusion is home here, but believe in you is what you insist (it's what you insist)
Well I try and i won't get far,
i'll die and i won't get far
i'll try and know that everything's ok
I have no idea why there's a British flag in this. I thought it looked good, haha.
Do you think you're being stalked? You're probably right. In our present day world consisting of both a physical universe and a virtual realm there's more than meets the eye. There's one thing to do: find out, and stalk your stalker. Use this app to spot your stalker hiding behind a tree or just standing around the corner. Good luck! play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.augmentnl.Stalker
Expectation vs. Reality
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Loved this logo on the back wall of the youth room at a friend's parents' church down in San Jose. If you decide to use this photo for something (a blog?), let me at least find out who painted it so there are no copyright issues. (But isn't it gorgeous?) :) I just had to share.
My friend Michael Naimark is exploring new ideas for virtual reality experiences, in collaboration with Google and other researchers. To discuss this work, we got together with two other colleagues, Steve Gano and Jim McKee -- with whom we worked at the Apple Multimedia Lab in the eighties, pushing the envelope on related questions.
We started with a tour of the historic Sentinel Building in North Beach, home of American Zoetrope -- where Francis Coppola worked on many cinematic masterpieces like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. We checked out the underground screening room and sound mixing room where some of that work took place, then headed upstairs to Michael and Jim’s studios, for a wonderful conversation about the new VR frontier.
Michael and his colleagues are researching how people are represented in virtual reality. Their first experiment at Google’s “Big Chairs” Park led to some helpful guidelines on how to film people for VR, by using different camera angles and distances.
They’re also investigating ‘hyper-images’ that resemble a group of people, but that are shot at different times and composited together to create both ‘credible’ and ‘incredible’ pictures. To enable more experiments like these, Michael is developing ‘IMU VR’, a new type of camera that could make it easier for communities to tell their stories in VR. More on this later.
It was great to reconnect with my colleagues and brainstorm these ideas together. It felt like the good old days, and the creative juices were flowing all over again ...
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By using famous AR technology, now students can learn anything even if they are outside the classroom in an entertaining way. Distance learning program are more easier and Augmented Reality teaching help in increasing engagement towards studies. @ yeppar.com/augmented-reality-education.html
Quantum physics is showing some pretty weird things about the nature of reality these days. This however, has nothing to do with that, but rather too much beer on a night in town, and a photo I have no recollection of taking,,, an accidental one for sure! The effect I thought is interesting enough not to delete it anyway! PS Does "Drunk Photography" count as a proper tag? PPS I think that is the path down there.....
Sometimes it’s difficult to decide from where to start when thoughts are incoherent and things are not in perspective. Things become vague and cease to hold any meaning. It’s all perception. No wonder sometimes I think this world is just existing on perception and the whole idea of human existence is just a perception, reality is absurd and waiting to be defined. We have mastered the art of perception and living it off. Figment of imagination as they say.
AUGMENTED REALITY, SENSORS and IoT.
Augmented reality is already making changes in many different industries.
Unfortunately, we do not see too much reliable, inexpensive and white-label solutions related to Health Care.
This our story:
The patient lies on the hospital bed, as the doctor passing by. He is wearing glasses that look like completely regular.
The doctor looking at the patient chest, examining her condition. The Heart Rate data, Skin Temperature, Respiratory Rate and RR interval appears on a computer monitor nearby patient, but this time there is no need to turn his head towards monitor, because he can see all data in front of his eyes. There is no reason to get close to the patient or his monitor, just look at the patient from the distance up to 15 meters and the data pop-up automatically.
It was a completely new challenge for Mircod Team to adapt all existing Mircod IoT modules and prototypes to be able to visualize data not only on any mobile devices, smart TV’s and on regular computers, but also to create a true, hands-free augmented reality solution. The final solution can project digital scenes with regard to Mircod ECG patches on what we see and prepare or alerts nurses and doctors on different biometric changes, patients portfolio, historical data etc….
AR in education changes the way to learns anything in a practical manner as it visualises 3D models in the real environment. Using Augmented reality in education increases students presence in the classes and also it helps in interacting students towards study. For more: yeppar.com/augmented-reality-education.html
New York City's longest running weekly psytrance event is back at Sullivan Room for yet another action-packed evening.
lineup for the night will include:
SKOOCHA (UKSL / Parabola Records)
Skoocha is one of the may aliases of French/Spanish Musician & Producer Benoit Munoz. He discovered Trance in 1995 while visiting friends in Amsterdam when somebody gave him the first Dragonfly compilation. From there there was no turning back and he knew music would be his life. Now a busy music producer and musician in NY since 2003. Skoocha still finds time to craft Trance tracks that will blend the emotions of the oldschool goatrance that started all this with the power of the actual production and the Funk of NY ! Over the years he has worked released tracks with Manmademan (UKSL / Flying Rhino) Biotonic (Solstice ) Earworm (3d Vision) Mesmerizer (MindControl). His music has been played extensively over the world by dj's like Domino and the mighty Juno Reactor. His long awaited 1st album that will contain many unreleased tracks as well as remixes of the old ones is due this winter on Parabola Records (Germany). It will be the 2nd release of this new label after the Talamasca Vs XSI Album.
Expect a set that combines old and new tracks as well as some new collaborations.
Also, we'll be celebrating Skoocha's birthday!
CTRL + ALT + DEL (Nexus Media, US/India)
LUIS CAMPOS (Dreamcatcher/Reality Engine, US/Brazil)
Deco by the Dreamcatchers AND Neuronymphonic
**August 20, 10pm - 4am **
@ Sullivan Room, New York City www.sullivanroom.com
218 Sullivan St (between Bleecker and West 3rd St, 2 blocks east of 6th Ave)
General Admission: $10.00
RSVP to psycheground@yahoo.com for $5.00 reduced list
21+ with ID
Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, or V trains to "W 4 St - Wash Sq"
Map to Sullivan Room:
ERIE, Pa.| Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration's interrogation policies were within the law, declaring the private sector -- not government -- will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care.
"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in," the former president said to applause from members of a local business group. "You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money."
Repeatedly in his hourlong speech and question-and-answer session, Mr. Bush said he would not directly criticize the new president, who has moved to take over financial institutions and several large corporations. Several times, however, he took direct aim at Obama policies as he defended his own during eight years in office.
"Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States," he said to huge cheers.
Mr. Bush weighed in on some of the most pressing issues of the day: the election in Iran, the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, and his administration's interrogation policies of terrorists held there and elsewhere. The former president has not commented on Mr. Obama's decision to ban "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding, which the current president has called "off course" and "based on fear."
"The way I decided to address the problem was twofold: One, use every technique and tool within the law to bring terrorists to justice before they strike again," he said, adding that the country needs to stay on offense, not defense. On Guantanamo, which while in office Mr. Bush said he wanted to close, the former president was diplomatic.
"I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor," he said. "I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that -- persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind."
The Obama administration has started to clear out some of the more than 200 detainees at the facility.
Repeating a mantra from his presidency, he called the current war against terrorism an "ideological conflict," asserting that in the long term, the United States needs to press freedom and democracy in corners across the world
The Miz has appeared on The Real World: Back to New York, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, Tough Enough, Battle of the Network Reality Stars, Fear Factor, Identity, Ghost Hunters, Dinner: Impossible, Psych and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
New York City's longest running weekly psytrance event is back at Sullivan Room for yet another action-packed evening.
lineup for the night will include:
SKOOCHA (UKSL / Parabola Records)
Skoocha is one of the may aliases of French/Spanish Musician & Producer Benoit Munoz. He discovered Trance in 1995 while visiting friends in Amsterdam when somebody gave him the first Dragonfly compilation. From there there was no turning back and he knew music would be his life. Now a busy music producer and musician in NY since 2003. Skoocha still finds time to craft Trance tracks that will blend the emotions of the oldschool goatrance that started all this with the power of the actual production and the Funk of NY ! Over the years he has worked released tracks with Manmademan (UKSL / Flying Rhino) Biotonic (Solstice ) Earworm (3d Vision) Mesmerizer (MindControl). His music has been played extensively over the world by dj's like Domino and the mighty Juno Reactor. His long awaited 1st album that will contain many unreleased tracks as well as remixes of the old ones is due this winter on Parabola Records (Germany). It will be the 2nd release of this new label after the Talamasca Vs XSI Album.
Expect a set that combines old and new tracks as well as some new collaborations.
Also, we'll be celebrating Skoocha's birthday!
CTRL + ALT + DEL (Nexus Media, US/India)
LUIS CAMPOS (Dreamcatcher/Reality Engine, US/Brazil)
Deco by the Dreamcatchers AND Neuronymphonic
**August 20, 10pm - 4am **
@ Sullivan Room, New York City www.sullivanroom.com
218 Sullivan St (between Bleecker and West 3rd St, 2 blocks east of 6th Ave)
General Admission: $10.00
RSVP to psycheground@yahoo.com for $5.00 reduced list
21+ with ID
Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, or V trains to "W 4 St - Wash Sq"
Map to Sullivan Room:
Reality Checkpoint, Parker's Piece, Cambridge, 22 Oct 2016
The lamp post at the crossing of the paths in the centre of Parker's Piece is known as Reality Checkpoint.
To many it marks the boundary between the Cambridge academic bubble to the west (left) and the real world to the east (right).
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Checkpoint
It was repainted in summer 2016 and currently does not have any 'Reality Checkpoint' markings.
The rest of the shots in this series are to the east.
There are those who say that life is an illusion, and that reality is but a figment of the imagination. (RHPS)
Prague
Stalin's index finger and the laughter of Václav Havel
The "Museum of Communism" in Prague was founded by an American and shows the sabre-rattling Matryoshka dolls or the blazing blue-shirt-demonstrators. Does it trivialize history for this reason?
After the American director Philip Kaufman had filmed Milan Kundera's novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" in 1984, the writer immediately dissociated himself from the adaptation - it was cliché-laden. However, as hundreds of thousands of filmgoers with the large, frightened eyes of Juliette Binoche saw the penetration of the Soviet tanks into the city and thus probably for the first time got an idea of the tragedy of August 21, 1968, is waiting for museum visitors of today a discovery: in the "Museum of Communism". It was founded near the Wenceslas Square by an American. The English name of the memorial is just as much attributable to him as the posters, which show a sabre-rattling Matryoshka doll or blazing blue-shirt-demonstrators provided with the image line "But the shiniest were in the uranium mines".
Trivialization of history? Not necessarily. It is rather the case that in the appearing gloom exhibition rooms the scandal of the communist human experiment is presented in an effective way. The historical dimension is by no means omitted: the foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 is documented as well as the Western treason of Munich in 1938 and Hitler's subsequent invasion. Also the liberation of Prague by the Red Army in May 1945 is not withheld. But then, starting with the Communist Seizure of Power 1948, the visitors in the rooms "Reality" and "Nightmare" is awaiting an oppressive exhibit show: original faithfully reproduced prison cells from the time of the Stalinist Show Trials, causing goosebumps radio recordings of malignant fizzling prosecutors, in addition the dubious oil paintings of Socialist Realism on which country women as blond as bread roll throw red carnations to resolutely looking soldiers, or Josef Stalin exhorting the pointing finger.
Kafka, Marx and the soldier Svejk
The fact that totalitarianism differentiated itself exactly here from traditional dictatorships that it did not suppress the people clumsily but turned those people into brainwashed complices of its domination exercise - it is a lesson, which is here sensually comprehensible and is conveyed completely en passant in the literal sense. Many of the young tourists who go through the exhibition in neat, foolish "Czech it" or beer-stein-Kafka-und-Schwejk T-shirts get the first impression of the Communist system and which for a while even cast a spell over a few naive Westerners. Even if, for example, the path of Marx's theories to the crimes of the regime were somewhat shortened, the fascinating intellectual environment of the Prague Spring might have been represented a bit more in detail: whoever sees the historical TV recordings of the protesters who are at Wenceslas Square fearlessly facing the Soviet tanks with the red star is by no means emotionally manipulated but catches an impression of the essence.
Thus, the museum can be visited in two ways: with the curious eyes of an upcoming generation born around the year 1989, as well as with the eye of the contemporary, who is regarding very critical if the complex history has been given the due attentiveness. Is it not a standard formula of the repressers from Prague to East Berlin, in the last years of its existence, the Party regime had become more moderate and was then peacefully imploded? But now the museum shows pictures of pre-military youth education from the eighties, shows - in pictures of the Austrian television - pictures of one of the numerous arrests of Václav Havel and in addition police, who yet in November 1989 were bashing up demonstrators and dragging students on the hair over the pavement - again on the Wenceslas square near the museum.
In a free word
Even who knows all this is shattered, and must not be ashamed at the end of the exhibition of his emotion when he finally sees the freedom triumphant on the screens and monitors. On November 24, 1989, Alexander Dubcek and Václav Havel stand laughing and arm in arm on the balcony of the publishing house Svobodné Slovo (The Free Word) and talk to the demonstrators who finally now can be what they have dreamed for so long: free citizens of a city that begins to breathe again.
"Museum of Communism", Prague, Na Príkope 10, open daily from 9 am to 9 pm.
Prag
Stalins Zeigefinger und das Lachen von Václav Havel
Das „Museum of Communism“ in Prag wurde von einem Amerikaner gegründet und zeigt zähnefletschende Matrjoschka-Puppen oder strahlende Blauhemden-Demonstranten. Trivialisiert es deswegen die Geschichte?
Nachdem 1984 der amerikanische Regisseur Philip Kaufman Milan Kunderas Prag-Roman "Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins" verfilmt hatte, distanzierte sich der Schriftsteller sogleich von der Adaption - sie sei klischeebeladen. Doch so, wie inzwischen Hunderttausende Kinozuschauer mit den großen, erschreckten Augen Juliette Binoches das Eindringen der sowjetischen Panzer in die Stadt gesehen haben und damit wohl zum ersten Mal eine Ahnung bekamen von der Tragödie des 21. August 1968, so wartet auch auf Museumsbesucher von heute eine Entdeckung: im "Museum of Communism". Gegründet wurde es, nahe dem Wenzelsplatz, von einem Amerikaner. Ihm ist der englische Name der Gedenkstätte ebenso zu verdanken wie die Plakate, die etwa eine zähnefletschende Matrjoschka-Puppe zeigen oder strahlende Blauhemden-Demonstranten - versehen mit der Bildzeile "But the shiniest were in the uranium mines".
Trivialisierung der Geschichte? Nicht unbedingt. Eher ist es so, dass in den düster anmutenden Ausstellungsräumen das Skandalon des kommunistischen Menschenversuchs entsprechend effektvoll präsentiert wird. Auf die historische Dimension wird dabei keineswegs verzichtet: Die Gründung der Tschechoslowakei im Jahre 1918 wird ebenso dokumentiert wie der westliche Verrat von München 1938 und Hitlers nachfolgender Einmarsch. Auch die Befreiung Prags durch die Rote Armee im Mai 1945 wird nicht unterschlagen. Dann aber, beginnend mit der kommunistischen Machtergreifung 1948, wartet auf den Besucher in den Räumen "Reality" und "Nightmare" eine bedrückende Exponatenschau: Originalgetreu nachgebaute Gefängniszellen aus der Zeit der stalinistischen Schauprozesse, Gänsehaut verursachende Radio-Aufnahmen bösartig fistelnder Staatsanwälte, dazu an den Wänden die Ölschinken des Sozialistischen Realismus, auf denen semmelblonde Bäuerinnen entschlossen dreinblickenden Soldaten rote Nelken zuwerfen oder Josef Stalin mahnend den Zeigefinger hebt.
Kafka, Marx und der Soldat Schwejk
Dass sich der Totalitarismus genau darin von traditionellen Diktaturen unterschied, dass er das Volk nicht plump unterdrückte, sondern zum gehirngewaschenen Komplizen seiner Herrschaftsausübung machte - es ist eine Lektion, die hier sinnlich nachvollziehbar und im Wortsinn ganz en passant vermittelt wird. Viele der jungen Touristen, die in nett-törichten "Czech it" oder Bierhumpen-Kafka-und-Schwejk-T-Shirts durch die Ausstellung gehen, bekommen hier wohl das erste Mal eine Ahnung davon, weshalb sich das kommunistische System so lange halten und für eine Weile sogar manch naive Westler in seinen Bann zu ziehen vermochte. Mag auch in den Erklärungstafeln etwa der Weg von Marx' Theorien zu den Verbrechen des Regimes etwas verkürzt dargestellt sein, hätte man das faszinierende intellektuelle Umfeld des Prager Frühlings auch etwas ausführlicher darstellen können: Wer die historischen Fernsehaufnahmen von den Demonstranten sieht, die sich am Wenzelsplatz todesmutig den Sowjet-Panzern mit dem roten Stern entgegenstellten, wird keineswegs emotional manipuliert, sondern erhascht einen Eindruck vom Wesentlichen.
So lässt sich das Museum auf zwei Arten besichtigen: mit den neugierigen Augen einer nachwachsenden Generation, die um das Jahr 1989 erst geboren wurde, wie auch mit dem Blick des Zeitzeugen, der durchaus kritisch betrachtet, ob man hier der komplexen Geschichte gerecht wurde. Lautet nicht eine Standardformel der Verdränger von Prag bis Ostberlin, in den letzten Jahren seiner Existenz habe sich das Partei-Regime doch gemäßigt und sei anschließend friedlich implodiert? Nun zeigt das Museum aber Bilder vormilitärischer Jugendausbildung aus den Achtzigern, zeigt - in Aufnahmen des Österreichischen Fernsehens - Bilder von einer der zahlreichen Verhaftungen Václav Havels und dazu Polizei, die noch im November 1989 auf die Demonstranten eindrosch und Studenten an den Haaren über das Pflaster schleifte - wiederum auf dem nahe beim Museum liegenden Wenzelsplatz.
Auf ein freies Wort
Selbst wer dies alles kennt, ist erschüttert und muss sich am Ende der Ausstellung seiner Ergriffenheit gewiss nicht schämen, wenn er auf den Schautafeln und Monitoren die Freiheit letztlich doch triumphieren sieht: Am 24. November 1989 stehen lachend und Arm in Arm Alexander Dubcek und Václav Havel auf dem Balkon des Verlagshauses Svobodné Slovo (Das freie Wort) und sprechen zu den Demonstranten, die nun endlich das sein können, was sie so lange erträumt haben: freie Bürger einer Stadt, die wieder zu atmen beginnt.
„Museum of Communism“, Prag, Na Príkope 10, täglich geöffnet von 9 bis 21 Uhr.
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