Rebecca White
Web 3.0: Are we enabling our own extinction? Super creepy reality…
November 12th, 2006
I want kids one day. I really do. Despite the fact that I’m twenty-five and the mere idea of marriage and motherhood scares me almost senseless, I know that’s where I’m headed. Or at least I hope that’s where I’m headed.
What do I mean by hope? Well, I mean that I hope that the genetic concoction that I am will be succesful in the mating game, thus rearing a competent and postitively modeled variation of myself that will, in turn, succesfully produce an even stronger and well-equipt variation of itself. In other words, I hope I do m’Darwin proud!
And who’s to say that won’t happen? After all, when you add the current technological advancements of the late twentieth-century to the domestication of all of our bestial predators, there exists virtually nothing to stop almost anyone from duplicating themselves! As far as man is concerned, it’s conquered almost every objectionable element in nature that would have stood in the way of procreation. In other other words, without nature to fear, the process of selection no longer exists. Beat it Darwin! You’re SO nineteenth century!! Unless…
Moby or Melville? Who said it better?
November 3rd, 2006
As a New Yorker in my twenties I frequent many cool places. This is because I, myself, am very cool. I blip in and out of laid-back coffee shops like the Burg’s very own “Verb” and always find myself in interesting situations. Especially when I have free time on my hands. Like this one time when I landed front and center on the shoot for Moby’s Lift Me Up music video.
Complacent Nation Goes up in Flames
October 18th, 2006
Complacent’s been a leader in online activism and community building but has also been an initiator of creative stunts that have continually challenged the protest status quo.
From dousing hoards of shoppers in pools of dollar bills to piling partiers into trains, Complacent Nation’s record of bombastic assertions shows that its upcoming finale on July 29th will be nothing short of explosive.
Creator of Complacent Nation, Will Etundi, shares his sentiments:
After a long run, Complacent Nation is finally coming to an end. How did this activist organization begin?
Complacent Nation was a personal project that I started six or seven years ago. The idea behind it was to make protests sexy and attractive. Instead of being anti-everything, it would be an engaging street party that would get people out and excited about an issue. Read the rest of this entry »
Atheists and Satanists and Heaven’s Gate-inists! Oh My!
July 10th, 2006
Fringe religions in the foreground: J.C. Hallman’s The Devil is a Gentleman, reviewed in last week’s New York Times Book Review, is a first hand account of his Oz-like trek through the forest of modern American spirituality.
The Moth: The Biggest Little Porch in NYC
May 17th, 2006
Artistic Director Catherine Burns takes us behind the scenes of New York’s best-kept storytelling secret, The Moth. Discover what really happened to JFK, what Ethan Hawke’s most precious memory is, and why Moby has a nose for the news.
David Graeber on Anarchy, Madagascar, and Magic
May 8th, 2006
It’s not often that we get to sneak a peak into the minds that will no doubt be remembered. David Graeber is one such mind. But more than a mind, he is a man whose work has been met with varying opinion in the past few years due to the threatening nature of his anarchist beliefs.
When I met him, I was faced with a slew of discussion topics to choose from. In the scholarly world he’s known for his research on Madagascar. In the world of gossip, he’s known for being the anthropology professor at Yale who was fired without due cause. Either way you look at it, David is an anthropological scholar, an anarachist, and an all around witty guy with a wry sense of humor one wouldn’t expect from someone so feared by the “ruling class”. Read the rest of this entry »
David Wolfe: Raw Beauty
May 5th, 2006
David Wolfe is one of the world’s leading authorities on raw-food nutrition. He is author of The Sunfood Diet Success System, Naked Chocolate, and Eating For Beauty. He has conducted over 800 lectures and performances worldwide on raw-food nutrition, and is co-founder of Nature’s First Law Online Superstore RawFood.com. David Wolfe’s achievements and worldly impressions could continue, could probably fill the space below this if one were to take into account every person he’s affected. And though that list alone has astounded many, it does not compare to the accomplishment I discovered upon meeting him in person. David Wolfe does not only talk the talk, he embodies the walk. And his ageless skin and the light in his eyes reveals the most beautiful data one could have to prove one’s beliefs. He is almost a living work of art - an inspirational alignment of the perfection of form and the food that he eats. Read the rest of this entry »
Red, White, Blue, and Black
April 20th, 2006
An intimate conversation with Lexa Rosean, the Village Voice’s “Best East Village Witch” and Cosmo Girl’s astrological advisor, dispels the myth that America’s painted in only three colors.
Got God?
April 7th, 2006
An Interview with Hemant Mehta, the first man ever to sell his soul on eBay, and Jim Henderson, the lucky consumer, now short only $504. Two interviews for the cheaper-than-a-soul’s price of one!
