Art Adventurer: The Incredible Story of Michel van Rijn
Michel van Rijn is responsible for ninety percent of all art smuggling cases throughout the world.  And he would gladly like to claim that he was also involved in the other ten percent.” DCI Richard Ellis, New Scotland Yard

2012: End of the World or Consciousness Revolution?
The original and literal meaning of the term apocalypse, however, is not “destruction” but “lifting of the veil” or “revelation.” It referred to the disclosure of secrets, hidden from the majority of humanity, to certain privileged persons.

Who Needs Marriage? A Changing Institution
When an institution so central to human experience suddenly changes shape in the space of a generation or two, it’s worth trying to figure out why.

Do You Have Impostor Syndrome?
The impostor syndrome, sometimes called impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome, is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments

Rory Sutherland: Perspective is everything
The circumstances of our lives may matter less than how we see them, says Rory Sutherland. At TEDxAthens, he makes a compelling case for how reframing is the key to happiness.

Do Kids Care If Their Robot Friend Gets Stuffed Into a Closet?
I know Robovie isn’t sentient, and that there’s a human behind a curtain somewhere directing it to say what it says. But I still cannot help feeling bad for the robot, and this (I’m guessing) is what the researchers are trying to get at.

A Rich Man’s Message to America: You Need Us To Get Even Richer!
How can you tell a really smart rich guy from a really silly one? The really smart one would never spend four years writing a book that tries to justify the incredible riches of incredibly rich people. Mega-millionaire Edward Conard has done just that.

Real Cinema: An introduction to Italian Neo-Realism
Films like De Sica’s The Bicycle Thief, Rosselini’s Rome, Open City, and Visconti’s Ossessione presented a new and dynamic way of presenting the world, which went on to influence movements such as Nouvelle Vague and directors as different as Martin Scorsese and Derek Jarman.

Why Are Conservatives Petrified of Sexual Freedom?
Right-wingers seem to have a deep-seated fear of women’s sexual rights.

The Mechanical Bride Digs Into Technosexual Desire, Sci-Fi Fembots (NSFW)
The title of the documentary is borrowed from Marshall McLuhan’s 1951 book The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man, which studied “the cultural interfusion of sex and technology in the advertising strategies of his day,” director Allison de Fren told Wired in an e-mail interview. “What would he say about our nostalgic fixation with Mad Men? McLuhan would have a field day with the mechanical brides of our time.”

A Letter to Jonathan
Actor Jonathan Frid, who portrayed  Barnabas Collins on Dark Shadows, passed away on April 14, 2012.

The Man Was a Giant’: NYC Film Guru Amos Vogel Dead at 91
Vogel’s Cinema 16 events, introduced in 1947, battled censors and opened viewers’ eyes to the likes of Roman Polanski, Yasujirō Ozu, Robert Bresson, John Cassavetes and scores of other auteurs — in some cases before the word “auteur” meant anything.

The Future of Sex? 5 Trends That May Completely Transform Our Sex Lives
Pornography, prostitution, online sex — in the future, it’s all one thing. But is it a better thing?

Manual Of Evasion LX94: Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson & Rudy Rucker
Edgar Pêra’s Dadaist film about Time.Starring Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson & Rudy Rucker.

Mad Men: Roger Sterling’s LSD trip was based on real ad
The ad was actually real and so was the product: “Great Day For Men” hair dye. The gentleman modeling the two-tone ‘do? None other than future “Ted Baxter,” the great Ted Knight!

Anti-Christ Republicans Warp Religion to Justify Harming the Poor
Ryan’s faith is at odds with Christ’s teaching, & the United States Council of Catholic Bishops understated the severity of Ryan’s spending cuts when they criticized his courageous budget as being “too hard on the poor.”

HBO’s ‘Girls’ Hits Too Close To Home For Millennials
And how can parents lend support without creating spoiled brats who are still living off mom and dad at age 30? Or would even that not necessarily be such a terrible thing?

Spanking Goes Mainstream
From the steamy bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey to HBO’s Girls, sexual domination is in vogue. Katie Roiphe on why women’s power at work may be fueling the craze.
Dark Shadows’ Vampire Jonathan Frid Dead at 87
Jonathan Frid, who played the bloodsucker Barnabas Collins on the 1966-1971 cult soap, has died at 87. Jace Lacob remembers how the actor propelled a struggling soap into a cultural phenomenon.

 Artists with autism express their desire for love, friendship

Emotions shine through at ‘Circle of Friends’ exhibit at Chicago Cultural Center

Movie Studios Are Forcing Hollywood to Abandon 35 mm Film. But the Consequences of Going Digital Are Vast, and Troubling
It is the studios’ bottom line — they no longer want to pay to physically print and ship movies. It costs about $1,500 to print one copy of a movie on 35 mm film. By comparison putting out a digital copy costs a mere $150.

Masculine Sexuality: What Gets Overlooked
Promiscuity, sex without commitment, and use of sex to manage stress or tension are also things that are frequently a part of male sexuality, whether we like it or not. But, male sexuality is not a disease, it is not evil, and it does not overpower men’s lives and choices .

Robo-Interview with Tessa B. Dick on life with sci-fi author Philip K. Dick
Presenting Tessa B. Dick on life with Philip K. Dick.

Video on demand: kill or cure for arthouse cinemas?
The new streaming service for leftfield movies will be welcomed by many film fans, but there’s a risk that local indie cinemas will suffer

 Shadowing The Third Man: Must-See Documentary on the Making of the Classic Film
It was the French thriller Pépé le Moko, with its infamous gangster hiding out in the casbah of Algiers, that inspired Graham Greene towards writing his classic treatment for The Third Man. In Frederick Baker’s masterful documentary Shadowing The Third Man from 2004, we learn this and a host of other facts.

Hello community:

If you haven’t committed to plans this evening then come and join us at Part 4 of the Unitribe Event series: LUCID ::: Awake in the Dream.  Every Saturday, From March 10 - April 28th.. we bring you…LUCID ::: Awake in the Dream. (Details of Part 4 under “sponsored by”) Join our ancient Unitribe for an 8-part journey of discovery and collective evolution. We travel our course through 8 consecutive Saturdays and enjoy the last days of this location at City Life Wellness. Each event of the series is crafted with sound, color, movement and smell to engage all of your senses as you move, create and study on this path of transformation. We encourage participants to attend as many of the 8 parts as possible and dive in deeply. Reveal your personal truth, understand, discover, expand.

Learn more here: http://www.unitribeevents.com/component/content/article/22-lucid-awake-in-the-dream.  Want to volunteer? Sign up here: http://www.unitribeevents.com/join-us.  Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/313492145383377/.  LUCID will be professionally documented throughout the series. A Unitribe Events production in association with: Media Tribe, Artist Ashram and High Vibe Cafe.  In partnership with: Didge Project, Srikalogy Music, Truth Now Music, Adam Ahuja Music, SoulBound, Star Gate Alliance

Sponsored by: City Life Wellness, Beyond Kombucha, Opportunity 4 Life, Mayan Mystic Tours, New Life Expo, Raw Revolution, One Good Reason, Wave Movement, Yoga Rave,www.parablevisions.com, Cameron Gray.

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March 31st, Part 4: Share the Love Affirmation: “I am needed where I am best at service” Giving from the heart is your greatest service. Giving is the first step to realizing the abundance being offered by the unique beings that surround you everywhere you are. Share your gifts and experiences and the Universe will reveal itself to you.

7:30pm - Doors Open

8:00pm - 8:20pm - opening circle and ceremony

8:30pm - 9:30pm - Seva through Community Yoga and Thai Massage with Jess Jones ::: Description: Service to others can be as simple as a compassionate touch to relieve pain & tension, or as joyful as helping someone change their perspective by balancing them upside down on your feet! We’ll play with the principles of therapeutic partner & community yoga and learn some basic Thai yoga massage techniques. We’ll also practice self-love and self-centering to highlight the interdependence of healing and the existence of subtle energetic exchange. Share the love with friends, family (including kids!) and partners. Individuals especially welcomed. -end

9:45pm - 11:00pm - Share the Love, starting with yourself hosted by Roar Shepard ::: Description: Who am I? Have I forgotten what a precious being I am? You can be of the greatest service to humanity when you know who you are and know how to love yourself. During this Saturday night talk, Roar will share; how to know who you are , love yourself and after this he will share how to give service through the heart; he will include special breathing methods, which will give you the power you need to share love . -end

MUSIC:
11:00pm - 11:45am - Dances of Compassion: Improvisational Dance with
Rebecca Bone and Music by Adam Ahuja
12:00 am - 1:45am - Share your Love with AJ Block, Tyler Sussman, Adam
Ahuja and Tripp Dudley: Music and Art Expression. Enter into the ‘open
space’ on stage to interact & share your expressions.
1:45am - 2:05am - closing circle and meditation

$15 entry, includes a yummy snack!

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Kaliptus, Jaime Martinez, Vincent Zambrano and many other artists exhibit at Hennessy Youngman’s “It’s a Small, Small World” Group Artshow at Family Business Gallery. Lot’s of art celebrities, collectors, artists and cool people came to the opening reception. Spank Rock also performed which was fucking awesome. Show is up from April 3rd to the 16th

For more photos click below
IT’S A SMALL SMALL WORLD by Hennessy Youngman at Family Business!

Thanks Richard Metzger

Full Robert Anton Wilson lecture at The Prophets Conference
The RAW fans contingent in Palm Springs were totally distinct from everyone else present goths and cyberpunk vs New Agey senior citizens who wanted to hear about Pleiadian prophecy and 2012 Mayan stuff, which Bob just hated.

Capitalism’s Dirty Secret: Corporations Don’t Create Jobs, They Destroy Them
If we want good jobs and long-term career opportunities, we have to tame the wild horses of big business.

The Holy Fool (UPDATED)
The Kalends of April are sacred to Venus, as is the entire month, and this day has been called the Veneralia.

Millions of Americans Cut the TV Cord
Streaming rental  offer a lower-price value proposition and have radically altered the rental channel while negatively impacting DVD/Blu-ray/Download sales, & encroaching on TV subscription.

The Bleaker Sex
You watch these scenes and other examples of the zeitgeist-y,early-20s heroines of “Girls” engaging in, recoiling from, mulling and mourning sex, and you think: Gloria Steinem went to the barricades for
this?

Buh-Bye, DVDs! Americans Now Watch More Movies Online Than on DVD or Blu-ray
In 2012, people will watch more movies online than they will on physical media such as DVDs and Blu-ray. For the first time in the history of the entertainment industry, more people will consume media via a digital format than a physical one. This shift in the consumption of media marks a shift in Hollywood’s traditional business models.

Committed couples stay together – by living apart
Kate Bolick, contributing editor for The Atlantic, talks with TODAY’s Ann Curry about why more couples are living in separate homes and how it helps them keep their relationships strong and exciting.

Non-Orgasmic Sex on Purpose?
Given the commotion of modern living — too heavy on guilt and too light on delight – is it any wonder that couples are drawn to slower or non-orgasmic sexuality as a way to build and sustain their bond?
Oliver Reed: Early interview on the set of ‘The Trap’ from 1966
Reed died too soon, and too young. But fuck it, he left behind a major body of work, which still needs to be properly assessed. And let’s not forget, he died pissed and arm-wrestling in his favored place - the bar

The New 60: Outliving Yourself and Reinventing a Future
The ultimate gift of turning 60 is embracing the freedom to be myself. To quote Oscar Wilde: “Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.”

What Comes After the Hipster? We Ask the Experts
Hipsterdom appears to be on the wane ,so what’s next for American
youth-based movements? We asked several intrepid thinkers, writers,
and academic types to hazard a guess.

Sex Will Change Totally, Liza Mundy Predicts In New Book ‘The Richer Sex’
The main proposition of Liza Mundy’s new book “The Richer Sex,” is
that women will ultimately become the primary earners in a majority of
American households — and that this will profoundly affect personal
relationships between men and women, including their sex lives.

Sex, Witchcraft and the War on Women
The right wing war on women is certainly no new development.  Like
many, if not most of the primitivist planks in the right wing cultural
platform, their fear and loathing of anything sexual (outside of the
act of procreation) is tied to their bond with the church.

Vernor Vinge Is Optimistic About the Collapse of Civilization
I think that [civilization] coming back would actually be a very big
surprise, “The difference between us and us 10,000 years ago is we
know it can be done.”

How Religion’s Demand for Obedience Keeps Us in the Dark Ages
The most fervent advocates of religion in the modern world are also
the most deeply inculcated with the mindset of command and obedience,
which has dangerous consequences.