Golden Gatherings With A Lust to Share

[giovonni]

i can't begin to express my love and appreciation for his talent ...
and for the great comfort and company his music played in my life ...

Crusaders star Joe Sample dies at 75 (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29197456)

"One Day I'll Fly Away"

Joe Sample and singer Randy Crawford
with his son Nick accompanying on bass ... :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViIx5uagasY

[giovonni]

indeed ...

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/mt/2014/09/shutterstock_144558722/lead.jpg?nbr1j6

Understanding How Grief Weakens the Body (http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/understanding-how-grief-weakens-the-body/380006/)

[giovonni]

Chibatman a real life Dark Knight (http://toybox.io9.com/a-japanese-city-has-its-own-police-approved-batman-1632877659)

Published on Sep 1, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CzHFhZFk3g

[giovonni]

will share this here ...

http://www.fubiz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/growing3-550x316.png

Growing is Forever (https://vimeo.com/18305022)

[giovonni]

Meet Honey Bee The Cat

"Honey Bee is our amazing blind rescued cat from http://www.animalsfiji.org/
This is a video of a hike we went on to Mason Lake, in the mountains outside of Seattle."

More Honey Bee Here (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHsiiSO8YDV7YM9c8ddWd3Q)

Published on Sep 8, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7mJmJ4q53c

[giovonni]

I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours ...

http://manrepeller.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/barbieass-636x423.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfQ-hV3WtA

[giovonni]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/16/1410825466060_wps_9_SYDNEY_AUSTRALIA_SEPTEMBE.jpg

Australia's largest cemetery hosts an unusual sculpture exhibition
to encourage more tourists to visit the historic spot
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2757279/Unusual-sculpture-exhibition-called-Hidden-Rookwood-Cemetery-hopes-encourage-visitors-historic-spot.html)

[giovonni]

yes but no ...

http://www.odditycentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/rainbow-grapes2-550x366.jpg

The Infamous Rainbow Grapes – Are They Real ? (http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-infamous-rainbow-grapes-are-they-real.html)

[giovonni]

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--LlgSReNu--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/kgdfy3204swkok8sojd1.jpg

What She Saw in the Sky Couldn't Have Been a Complete Illusion

The ship and the whale, glimpsed diving through the sunset, were absolutely vivid. She could see the shadows on the whale's dorsal side, and light glinting off the ship's sails. Soon, she would have to decide what it was — or, more to the point, what would manifest itself like this.

Artem Chebokha is an artist in Omsk, and you can see more of his gorgeous, dreamy illustrations on his
Deviant Art page (http://rhads.deviantart.com/art/Infinite-Dreams-327473896). You can also buy this image as a print.

[giovonni]

He's one of my all time favorites ...

In the news ...

Darrell Hammond to Replace Don Pardo as the
Announcer for ‘Saturday Night Live’ (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/business/media/darrell-hammond-to-replace-don-pardo-as-the-announcer-for-saturday-night-live.html?_r=0)

Related video item ...

Darrell Hammond Is Heading Back to 'Saturday Night Live'
in a New Role


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydzSrZQTR9w

[giovonni]

A compelling reflection on MSM entertainment influences ...

Desensitized / By Aron Goch

"In psychology, desensitization is defined as the diminished emotional responsiveness
to a negative or aversive stimulus after repeated exposure to it."

Published on Sep 19, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6bNbmj73O4

[giovonni]

Beautiful weather today !

But the rains will come soon.

http://www.mtadams.tv/MtAdams.TV_LatestImage.jpg

[giovonni]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/21/article-2763283-21820E8F00000578-270_634x335.jpg

Where did the green 'alien eggs' come from? Scientists baffled by UFOs
(Unidentified Floating Objects) that washed up on a Sydney beach (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2763283/Where-did-green-alien-eggs-come-Scientists-baffled-UFOs-Unidentified-Floating-Objects-washed-Sydney-beach.html)

[giovonni]

Pink Floyd Roll Out Plans For 'The Endless River,' First LP in 20 Years (20-years-20140922?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=092214_1601&utm_medium=email&email=sangiovonni%40hotmail.com)

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/2014/article/pink-floyd-roll-out-plans-for-the-endless-river-their-first-lp-in-20-years-20140922/169106/medium_rect/1411399334/720x405-63dcf99a-a0ca-46be-993d-dc5197eac22c.jpg

another time And space ...

Richard Wright solo on piano ~ Us and Them - Pink Floyd

"Very nice and rare video of Richard Wright playing is favorite Pink Floyd song on the piano ,the one he's most proud of 'Us and Them'. Richard died from cancer September 15 2008 at the age of 65."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGYPOzfn6hI

[giovonni]

India’s First Transgender News Anchor, Padmini Prakash

"India’s first transgender news anchor, 31-year-old Padmini Prakash has begun broadcasting on television. Prakash is also a transgender rights activist, a dance teacher, a soap opera actor and a transgender beauty pageant competitor. We look at video of the anchor and discuss the cultural revolution Prakash has created, in this Lip News clip with Gabriel Mizrahi and Lissette Padilla."

Published on Sep 22, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPU3Y0elEHs

[giovonni]

hmm ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9748535.ece/alternates/w620/cannibals.jpg

What does human meat taste like ? (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/what-does-human-meat-taste-like-9748706.html)

[giovonni]

A compelling reflection on MSM entertainment influences ...

Desensitized / By Aron Goch

"In psychology, desensitization is defined as the diminished emotional responsiveness
to a negative or aversive stimulus after repeated exposure to it."

Published on Sep 19, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6bNbmj73O4

continuing ...

Desensitized (2of2) By Aron Goch

"Part 2 I talk about being desensitized to harmful foods, toxic beauty products,
cleaning detergents, the dangers of cellphones etc"....

Published on Sep 23, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCkoNaEKIpg&feature=em-uploademail

[giovonni]

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/mt/2014/09/IMG_0239_2/lead.jpg?ncb4oq

How to Make a Living in the Death Industry (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/how-to-make-a-living-in-the-death-industry/380536/?single_page=true)

[giovonni]

Go Seattle ...

I am not one who's for creating laws for the sake of more government intrusion...
But these actions are kind of appealing to me ...

http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Peace/2014/09/24/seattle-trash-ap.jpg

Seattle Passes Laws to Keep Residents From Wasting Food

[giovonni]

another Seattle story ...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/25/1411630090805/9507b4f6-dd5b-4763-9a11-9989537515ab-460x276.jpeg

Seattle property boom sparked by blockbuster
Chinese romantic comedy (http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/25/seattle-property-boom-finding-mr-right-chinese-film-nora-ephron)

[giovonni]

French spiderman scales Urals’ highest skyscraper,
conquers top w\out safety gear

"The French climber Alain Robert scaled the Vysotsky skyscraper in Yekaterinburg, Wednesday. Press and spectators looked on as the Frenchman prepared his safety gear, starting the climb from ground zero of the 188.3-metre-tall (617.8-foot) structure. Taking two-and-a-half hours to climb the top, Robert conducted the final stages of his climb without safety equipment. The French climber plans to conquer the summit of a Dubai skyscraper for his next project."

Published on Sep 25, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln7hBcmdBds

[giovonni]

its been forty five years ago today ...


The Beatles 'Abbey Road' Album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEO_Q13zzJo&feature=youtu.be)


"It was a very happy record," said producer George Martin. "I guess it was happy because everybody thought it was going to be the last." Abbey Road – recorded mostly in two months during the summer of 1969 – almost never got made at all. That January, the Beatles were on the verge of a breakup, exhausted and angry with one another after the disastrous sessions for the aborted Get Back LP, later salvaged as Let It Be [see No. 392]. Determined to go out with a sense of recaptured glory, the group reconvened at EMI's Abbey Road Studios to make its most polished album: a collection of superb songs cut with an attention to refined detail, then segued together (especially on Side Two) with conceptual force. There was no thematic link, other than the Beatles' unique genius. John Lennon veered from the stormy metal of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" to the exquisite vocal sunrise of "Because." Paul McCartney was saucy ("Oh! Darling"), silly ("Maxwell's Silver Hammer") and deliciously bitter ("You Never Give Me Your Money"). George Harrison proved his long-secret worth as a composer with "Something" and the folk-pop diamond "Here Comes the Sun," written in his friend Eric Clapton's garden while playing hooky from a business meeting. And Lennon, McCartney and Harrison reputedly sang more three-part harmony here than on any other Beatles album. Let It Be was the group's final release, but this album was its real goodbye.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t31.0-8/p843x403/10679973_10152328033965779_2718484362622812585_o.j pg

THE BEATLES,"ABBEY ROAD PHOTO SESSION
"LAST FOOTAGE TOGETHER"


This is the historic photo session for the ABBEY ROAD album cover,taken on august 8th 1969,at 10.00 out side of ABBEY ROAD EMI STUDIOS,just THE BEATLES crossing the zebra.some making off photos were taken by LINDA EASTMAN,also includes a short footage make by Linda McCartney with the Paul's camera.on august 22 1969.remain the last footage by the Beatles together.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBYBOMTJ0sQ

[william r sanford72]

.......:cool:...:smokin:
TZp_-7YUn-s

and 1 of my faves off the white album...:amen:

ucPta4tIcSs

truth and balance.

[giovonni]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77867000/jpg/_77867065_024088325-1.jpg

India's Modi calls for reform in speech to UN (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29373722)

[giovonni]

http://oddstuffmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2742.jpg

From Burning Man to Bellevue: A Hero’s Journey (http://realitysandwich.com/223430/from-burning-man-to-bellevue-a-heros-journey/)

[giovonni]

Coming your way North America ...

Note The Full Mac Will Be Back ... And Probably For The Last Time ...

On With The Show
(http://www.fleetwoodmac.com/news/223853)
Say Goodbye


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-KJvR_JWs8

[noxon medem]

and some music :

Golden Slumbers and the Beatles :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qP4Ye15J0Y

( A Classic )

[giovonni]

http://artbell.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Gobekli-Tepe.jpg

10 Ancient Settlements That Were Abandoned for Mysterious Reasons (http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2014/09/10-ancient-settlements-abandoned-mysterious-reasons/)

[giovonni]

accident or well intended ...

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03056/SHARK_3056785a.jpg

Terrifying cannibal shark on shark attack caught on camera (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraphtv/11130690/Terrifying-cannibal-shark-on-shark-attack-caught-on-camera.html)

[giovonni]

far out ...

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article9760414.ece/alternates/w620/KewGardens.jpg

Kew Gardens opens drugs festival where visitors
can sample mind-altering plants (http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/kew-gardens-opens-drugs-festival-where-visitors-can-try-mindaltering-plants-9760396.html)

[giovonni]

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort ...

And they all love boxes !


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J11uu8L8FTY#t=87

[giovonni]

What a Talent :thumb:

Local boy makes good ... Nils Lofgren
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Lofgren)
Most know him as one of Bruce Springsteen E Street band's guitarist ...

i grew up with him in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D C ...

This year he was inducted in the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

Here he is back in the day on The Old Grey Whistle ...

Back It Up


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cok4901DWqs


Goin Back


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQjExmkCKF4

[giovonni]

Now that's what i call commuting ... :eek:

Docking a Ferry Boat in Greek island Kimolos

"Not quite sure the exact island where this landing is located but it looks like they've been doing it for a while! People, cars, trucks all manage to disembark and load with crazy waves all around" ...

Published on May 13, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92BF5jdRy1Q

[giovonni]

from a local station ...

MUST READ

http://khq.images.worldnow.com/images/4977952_G.jpg

Dad keeps secret from daughter for 13 years (http://www.khq.com/story/26694090/must-read-dad-keeps-secret-from-daughter-for-13-years)

[giovonni]

hmm ...

sniff sniff ...

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/2014/10/354815944_382a4247bc_o/home-article-curation-carousel.jpg?ncvdh4

'I Couldn't Smell, and Then I Died' (http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-eerie-relationship-between-smell-and-death/381057/)

[william r sanford72]

A wonderful version of Hemingways classic...The Old Man and The sea.

Xv35MQFeFmc

truth and balance.

[giovonni]

http://r24.imgfast.net/users/2411/23/55/04/smiles/262321.gif

Did you see the new car ad with Matthew McConaughey ?
You might not have realized who originally starred in it with him" ... Not http://www.skype-emoticons.com/images/emoticon-00136-giggle.gif


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K69chHMtrs4

[giovonni]

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln


The Secret Constitution - 14th Amendment

"Thomas Lacovara discusses the 14th Amendment, and the legal implications of corporate personhood that extend beyond the question of slavery. Was this the beginning of a sinister secret application of the Constitution? We discuss it in this excerpt from the Buzzsaw interview hosted by Sean Stone" ...

Watch the Full Episode here:Constitutional Conspiracy and Government Gangsters with Thomas Lacovara (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBejpmIx79o&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGc7NOFr74KbOPBCXrXT8nlf&index=8)


Originally Published on Aug 29, 2014 / Re-Published on Oct 5, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icC85amn2p8

[giovonni]

A Dog Named Lazarus

"A mutt in Alabama is known as that dog that wouldn't die after he survived a euthanasia attempt by a local animal shelter. The dog, who's new name is Lazarus, is now finding a new lease on life with his adopted family." (Oct. 6 2014)

Published on Oct 5, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iQ_4ZKTUGA

[giovonni]

Civil Forfeiture Laws ?

"Did you know police can just take your stuff if they suspect it's involved in a crime?

They can !

It’s a shady process called “civil asset forfeiture,” and it would make for a weird episode of Law and Order" ...

From Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Published on Oct 5, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks

[giovonni]

Paul Revere, leader of the Raiders rock band, dies at 76 (http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/05/paul-revere-leader-of-the-raiders-rock-band-dies-at-76)

"The Good Old Days"

Dick Clark reunion with Paul Revere & the Raiders - 1979 TV Special


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ8RdgHqk8U

[giovonni]

:angel:

Rally car crash makes spectators sh t their pants !

Spectacular accident, today, at "Jolly Rally" Valle D'Aosta, Italy ...
Only the driver and passenger of the race car sustained injuries.

Published on Oct 6, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5umnqsOtw0E

[giovonni]

just look at it as we're all working together for a better cause ... :rolleyes:

The 'Barney Fife Loophole' to the Fourth Amendment (http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/nickelodeon-diversity-klickstein-flavorwire-interview/381180/)

Barney Fife Deals With It !


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGvM6e8Cfdw


Citizens Arrest !


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwEvysDpNm0

[giovonni]

good news for fans ...

https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/316191_240286012699961_1572468852_n.jpg?oh=f3f33fd e033c93eea3870cd96faea027&oe=54F84550

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/11439883.jpg

The actual Twin Peaks (Mt Si) where i lived in 2011 from North Bend, Washington ...
note it often rained several inches a week there ... :rain:

http://sco3110.ipower.com/images/2007/DSCN1206.JPG


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/North_Bend_Movie_Theater.JPG/1024px-North_Bend_Movie_Theater.JPG


Twin Peaks Return Predicted in Show’s Finale

"Twin Peaks will return after a 25 years hiatus as hinted at by Laura Palmer in the show’s series finale. Nine new episodes from show creators David Lynch and Mark Frost will air on Showtime in 2017. The show's return was announced in a tweet from Lynch himself followed by a tweet from actor Kyle Maclachlan. We look at video of the prediction and discuss the return of a cult classic, in this Lip News clip with Mark Sovel and Elliot Hill" ...

Published on Oct 7, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4t2-WH0egY

[giovonni]

"You Make Loving Fun" ...
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dUG9XSbaQg)
http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/2014/article/fleetwood-mac-float-on-a-cloud-at-euphoric-madison-square-garden-gig-20141007/170752/medium_rect/1412694799/720x405-456765488.jpg

Fleetwood Mac 'Float on a Cloud' at Euphoric Madison Square Garden Gig
(http://www.rollingstone.com/music/live-reviews/fleetwood-mac-float-on-a-cloud-at-euphoric-madison-square-garden-gig-20141007)

[giovonni]

hmm ...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/10/8/1412751752827/9b8c975c-6916-41a2-a28d-b88970117ba7-460x276.jpeg

Bear cub found dead in Central Park
likely to have been hit by vehicle (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/08/bear-cub-dead-central-park-hit-vehicle-postmortem)

[giovonni]

Truck-In 2025 ...

NEW Mercedes Future Truck


"The Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 constitutes a revolution in efficiency, safety and networking, a revolution for road traffic and its infrastructure, for professional driving and for the road transport sector. This is not a new truck, but rather the key element in the interconnected transport system of the future. It is being developed as part of the "Shaping Future Transportation" initiative by Daimler Trucks to conserve resources and reduce emissions of all kinds. Other aims are to ensure the highest possible level of traffic safety and to boost networking with intelligent data management considerably for tailor-made vehicle and service solutions.

The prototype demonstrated the exciting capabilities of the Future Truck 2025 back in the summer at speeds of up to 80 km/h in realistic traffic situations on a section of the A14 motorway in Magdeburg, Germany. Now the thrilling exterior and interior of that same vehicle are being revealed.

Published on Sep 23, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIe9gSRBQTk

[giovonni]

who knew ...

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--KvX9zoLe--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/xvwrmjgrqvlsahborbov.png

Read Carl Sagan's Compelling Pitch For An American TV Show About Drugs (http://io9.com/read-carl-sagans-compelling-pitch-for-an-american-tv-sh-1644011456)

[giovonni]

It's not called a blood/howling moon for nothing ...

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/blood-moon-alternative-red-640x352.jpg

Ya think ... :rolleyes:

[giovonni]

Iraq - Ayn Rand ... :rolleyes:

How Is She Still A Thing ?

From Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead" is still kind of a thing ... How ?

Published on Oct 9, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8m8cQI4DgM

[giovonni]

new movie about an unsung hero journalist ...

"Kill the Messenger" Resurrects Gary Webb ...
Journalist Maligned for Exposing CIA Ties to Crack Trade


The new Hollywood film "Kill The Messenger" tells the story of Gary Webb, one of the most maligned figures in investigative journalism. Webb's explosive 1996 investigative series "Dark Alliance" for the San Jose Mercury News revealed ties between the CIA, Nicaraguan contras and the crack cocaine trade ravaging African-American communities. The exposé provoked protests and congressional hearings, as well as a fierce reaction from the media establishment, which went to great lengths to discredit Webb's reporting. We revisit Webb’s story with an extended clip from the documentary "Shadows of Liberty," and speak with Robert Parry, a veteran investigative journalist who advised Webb before he published the series...
More here > http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/10/6/inside_the_dark_alliance_gary_webb

Published on Oct 9, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSsvtzv6idI

[giovonni]

Knock Knock ...

Nice animation done on iPhones & iPads

Published on Sep 26, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3t8LiW114

[TargeT]

This was... just wow.

Amazing talent and creativity, it's worth watching the whole thing:
-0gED3rn2Tc

[giovonni]

http://www.skype-emoticons.com/images/emoticon-00136-giggle.gif

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10689709_1075079102521542_2832852926728180678_n.jpg?oh=97bc8800b0d1a7bc1cd92084906ea038&oe=54B5A124&__gda__=1421114909_91ff6913fcce6d62f1365f1adf32aaaa

[giovonni]

12 Things We Learned From Howard Stern's Interview With Neil Young (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/12-things-we-learned-from-howard-sterns-interview-with-neil-young-20141014)

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/2014/article/12-things-we-learned-from-howard-sterns-interview-with-neil-young-20141014/171455/medium_rect/1413310770/720x405-457127424.jpg

Related ...

For Neil's fans ... :)

Neil Young On The Howard Stern Show

10/14/2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxIy-LOnewU

[giovonni]

NEIL YOUNG - CINNAMON GRIL


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl9AGlbe3YU

[giovonni]

Kicking it Out ... :cheer2:
While Your still Alive

Published on Oct 15, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qgdVZq1Pfk

[giovonni]

can you imagine running into this ...

Mutant Giant Spider

Dog


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoB8t0B4jx4&index=1&list=TLu0nI2JNFIxHsAjzeEP-0n96ilOFKnxVr

[giovonni]

hmm ...

Facebook, Apple Pay For Women Employees to Freeze Eggs


Facebook and Apple with now pay for their female employees to freeze their eggs as both companies will cover up to $20,000 for the procedure. The benefit shows that companies are investing in women by making an effort to attract top female talent. We look at how the coverage could give the Silicon Valley giants a leg up on competition, and if this implies that women have to choose between family and a career in this Lip News clip with Lissette Padilla and Gabriel Mizrahi.

Published on Oct 16, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J-d71bYlXs

[giovonni]

Billy Idol on Drinking With the Stones and Seeing Jesus in the Sex Pistols

"Rebel Yell" singer opens up about his memoir, the unlikely origins of "Dancing With Myself"
and new album 'Kings and Queens of the Underground' Read more
(http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/billy-idol-on-drinking-with-the-stones-and-seeing-jesus-in-the-sex-pistols-20141016)
http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/2014/article/billy-idol-on-drinking-with-the-stones-and-seeing-jesus-in-the-sex-pistols-20141016/171514/medium_rect/1413384220/720x405-458763733.jpg

Related ...

Billy Idol - Kings & Queens of the Underground - Episode #1

"Behind-the-scenes web series for Billy Idol's new album, '
Kings & Queens of the Underground,'
Coming Oct. 21 (Oct. 20 internationally)."


Episode #2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnZa471LhWE)

Episode #3
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwQ3VUK8e2s)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj2eYkfU6dc

[giovonni]

Soothing Cats ...

http://www.suprmchaos.com/djangor6_loisinor.jpg

Nora the piano playing copycat ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmp8xCAnrZQ

[giovonni]

Sometimes diversionary pleasures can be good ...

And i am looking forward to this one ... :)

'Inherent Vice' (Trailer)

"In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry "Doc" Sportello
investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend."

Published on Oct 18, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulxJIBueUFo

[giovonni]

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/10/19/1413682991686/d317d109-a8d5-4d84-b343-ae17d484ac67-460x276.jpeg

Mystery of the Hollywood sphinx:
Dig unearths Cecil B DeMille's lost treasures (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/19/mystery-of-the-hollywood-sphinx-dig-unearths-cecile-b-milles-lost-treasures)

[giovonni]

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--DakL75pX--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/mgtkyxen4gl6vi8v2fat.jpg

The Seven Wonders of the Moon (http://io9.com/the-seven-wonders-of-the-moon-453669085)

[giovonni]

http://preraphaelitesisterhood.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/helen-of-troy.jpg

In Search of Helen of Troy (http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/search-helen-troy-002229)

[giovonni]

Also will share this here ...

What is so bad about Aleister Crowley

From Freeman TV

William Ramsey joins us for a discussion of the life and times of Aleister Crowley ...
What turned him to the dark side and how is his pandemic influence affecting our 21st century world? Could this singular man be at the heart of the New World Order? Learn of his connections with the Illuminati and the Satanic ritual sacrifices of Scarlet woman including his wife. How did a channeled book from the ’40s create a new religion based on “Do what thou wilt”?

Published on Oct 6, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XczSnyxRp7E

[giovonni]

will share this here ...

a fascinating look

How We Got to Now

http://kpbs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/croppedphotos/2014/10/14/HowWeGotToNow_Clean_lead_t614.jpg?a3ca5463f16dc11451266bb717d38a6025dcea0e

Clean

"Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world. The iPhone, the subway, flat screen TVs and even the bikini are the result of the valiant efforts of the unsung heroes of clean" ...

Watch here (http://video.pbs.org/video/2365347150/)

[giovonni]

me fly you long time ...

http://aviationweek.com/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/10/AW_10_20_2014_3716.jpg

Bigger, farther and more connected: The new biz jets
(http://www.cnbc.com/id/102106572)

Related video ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc6nhGRP9ms

Also ...

The Gulfstream G650 & Global 7000/8000
Putting Billionaires on a Wait List


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmgDgfGWwiQ

[giovonni]

Ladies ... :violin:

Toxicity - System Of A Down

Cover by Meytal Cohen And Friends


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccl9syXozdU

[gripreaper]

The Gulfstream G650 & Global 7000/8000, Putting Billionaires on a Wait List [/I][/B]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmgDgfGWwiQ

I was thinking about placing an order for one of these, but since the ebola eugenics pandemic, the collapse of the dollar, the event horizon and major shift in 2017, and I can't buyout someone else's position in line, it's just not economically feasible at this time. I do not want to wait till 2018 and besides, I've already secured my space in one of the DUMB's so I wont need to fly to my 10,000 acre estate in south America in that big of a hurry anyway. I'll probably just take one of the high speed underground trams.

[giovonni]

Yes, i thought how great this type of air traveling could possible be ...

Then i remembered this week's latest related headline ...

No matter how nice the airplane, flying out of the airport can still be a bitch ... :(

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/78445000/jpg/_78445489_024419577-1.jpg

Moscow Total plane crash snowplough driver 'got lost' (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29722498)

[giovonni]

Apple's New Headquarters ...
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Campus)

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/06/apple-hq-proposal.jpg


"Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at New York City's Climate Week on Monday where he proclaimed that Apple's new "spaceship" headquarters would be "the greenest building on the planet," according to 9to5Mac's Zac Hall.

“We’re building a new headquarters that will, I think, be the greenest building on the planet," Cook said about the building, which is under construction. "It’ll be a center for innovation, and it’s something clearly our employees want and we want."

Cook's tenure as CEO has been marked by a renewed emphasis on Apple's effect on the environment. Cook recently spoke to Charlie Rose about Apple's sustainability efforts:

"You know, we want to leave the world better than we found it," he said. "What does that mean for us? It means that we take toxins out of all of our products. We’ve done that."

To his claim about Apple's new headquarters, Cook said the building would be exclusively powered by renewables like wind and solar energy.

"I know some people have issues with this, but to me it’s all about leaving the world better than you found it," Cook said. "We owe it to the generation, to the younger generation, to solve this and not to keep turning and looking away.

The building should open at the end of 2016."


And here's a first drones eye view of this mammoth structure ...

Apple Campus 2 construction video - August 2014 - shot with GoPro

watch towards the end for a more detailed views


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfZvimPkKio

[giovonni]

What the US Can Learn From Norway's Prisons

"U.S. may have a lot to learn from Norway’s prison system, according to a Scandinavian documentary, which looked at life inside Norwegian prisons. The prisons were examined by a retired superintendent of a New York prison who found that Norway imposes looser restricThe tions on inmates and focuses more on rehabilitation vs. punishment. We look at a clip from the documentary, in this Lip News clip with Gabriel Mizrahi" ...

Published on Oct 24, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-xJKVo78-4


Related ...

The Norden

"James Conway, retired Superintendent of Attica Correctional Facility in New York, visits four Nordic prisons and facilities. What methods are used in the correctional facilities of the Nordic countries? How do they differ compared to the US? Host: Joakim Rundt" ...

Excerpt from the documentary series...
Note -full episode with English subtitles here: http://youtu.be/HfEsz812Q1I


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g56susrNQY

[giovonni]

will share this here ...


till the freeing of the wires ...

A Conversation On The Nature Of Life

A wizard and his traveling companion discuss the nature of life,
consciousness and the workings of the universe.

Published on Oct 24, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2WUw2FLTY&feature=em-uploademail

[giovonni]

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/2014/article/cream-bassist-jack-bruce-dead-at-71-20141025/172391/medium_rect/1414251142/720x405-103336676.jpg

Cream Bassist Jack Bruce Dead at 71 (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cream-bassist-jack-bruce-dead-at-71-20141025)

White ROOM

(Royal Albert Hall 2005)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCc00pX_pFA

[gripreaper]

Love this version. RIP Jack Bruce.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyFs13mMtPo

[giovonni]

doggy dude ... http://www.skype-emoticons.com/images/emoticon-00136-giggle.gif

love that face ...

https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10606557_799401456791052_2203297432635629734_n.jpg?oh=78789c66a708c532628aa3a01c65c349&oe=54AFE6DC

[giovonni]

spaghetti popsicles ... :shocked:

http://r2-store.distractify.netdna-cdn.com/postimage/201410/12/0925e8ef8a2e8157281a6b3aa848e962_650x.jpg

31 Of The Most Interesting Food Flavors We Don’t Get To Try In The US (http://news.distractify.com/matt-buco/interesting-food-flavors-not-in-the-us/?v=1)

[giovonni]

some amazing items ... :)

http://img3.rnkr-static.com/user_node_img/50027/1000539931/870/lenticular-ufo-cloud-photo-u1.jpg

50 Incredible Pictures That Might Teach You Something (http://www.ranker.com/list/interesting-pictures/robert-wabash)

[giovonni]

trick or treat ... creepy

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--eDMyxgzD--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/x1zf5zbfomklcebexaur.png

'Evil clowns' stalk France (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11191626/Evil-clowns-stalk-France.html)

[giovonni]

Apple's CEO ...

Tim Cook Speaks Up (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-im-proud-to-be-gay)

http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-10-30/OR_01-630x420.jpg

[giovonni]

The Mongolian Death Worm

From Lost Tapes

"Greg and Benton competed in a three-day, five-hundred-mile (310 km) ATV race across the Gobi Desert, following a tradition in which they pushed each other to new challenges each year. As they find they are in last place in the race, they agree on next year's challenges before continuing. They become thoroughly lost as night falls, but assume that they will be able to find their way once it becomes light again. As they rest and joke around with each other, Greg is suddenly bitten by an unseen creature, and Benton's camera captures a trail of sand being pushed up by something under it" ...

Published on Dec 29, 2013


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKVHxDakok

[TargeT]

Ahem...
obAtn6I5rbY

That is all.

[giovonni]

Thanks TargeT ... :thumb:

though 'not your usual rock and roll band' ...

They do make perfect sense to me !

[giovonni]

get a grip ... ;)

Trainer Can't Mount Elephant


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRkG0cmZ3aI

[giovonni]

ThunderStruck ...

https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/q82/p552x414/10011910_832526026833002_3970658704783629897_o.jpg

By Steve'n'Seagulls


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc

[TargeT]

Thanks TargeT ... :thumb:

though 'not your usual rock and roll band' ...

They do make perfect sense to me !

I grew up with this music played at near (or maybe past) damaging volume levels thanks to my uncle.

I can only imagine what the lyrics and thought forms contained in songs created by artists like this did (subconsciously for the most part I'd assume) to shape my current way of thinking; perhaps via Epi-Genetics shape the very "me" that exists today.

mPrkz1yIhBM

Watch out you might get what you're after
Boom babies strange but not a stranger
I'm an ordinary guy
Burning down the house

Hold tight wait till the party's over
Hold tight We're in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house

Here's your ticket pack your bag: time for jumpin' overboard
The transportation is here
Close enough but not too far,
Maybe you know where you are
Fightin' fire with fire

All wet hey you might need a raincoat
Shakedown dreams walking in broad daylight
Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees
Burning down the house

It was once upon a place sometimes I listen to myself
Gonna come in first place
People on their way to work baby what did you except
Gonna burst into flame

My house's out of the ordinary
That's might don't want to hurt nobody
Some things sure can sweep me off my feet
Burning down the house

No visible means of support and you have not seen nuthin' yet
Everything's stuck together
I don't know what you expect starring into the TV set
Fighting fire with fire

Shallow interpretations of these lyrics read something like this:

To form the lyrics, they picked words that fit the rhythms, which is why the words don't make a lot of sense. This is common practice in the world of Funk, where you don't want the lyric to get in the way of the groove on a feel good song.

But I don't see it that way, I see a message; frustration with society and it's mislead actions... "Fighting fire with Fire" "People on their way to work baby what did you except, Gonna burst into flame" ... Lyrics that only make sense more fully to me today; I'm sure my (sub?)consciousness processed these just as it does symbols today regardless of my full conscious understanding of their meaning.

[giovonni]

Two heads up films being released today ...

'BIRDMAN'


BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfLoE6hanc


Also ~


'Nightcrawler'


NIGHTCRAWLER is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling -- where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou thrives. In the breakneck, ceaseless search for footage, he becomes the star of his own story.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1uP_8VJkDQ

[giovonni]

it's October 31th ~ Halloween ...
Or as i like to call it ~ Friday the 13th big brother ... :)

http://images.viralnova.com/000/087/640/desktop-1414521942.jpg

These 21 Victoria Era Post-Mortem Photographs Are Unsettling.
How Was This a Thing ? (http://www.viralnova.com/post-mortem-victorian-photographs/)

[giovonni]

"Stephen King hasn't done many recent in-depth print interviews since a van accident nearly killed him 15 years ago, but he decided to sit down with us to discuss his life and career. Click through to read what the horror master revealed to us about his worst books, believing in God, Kubrick’s ‘Shining’ and much more" ...

https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQAmHLSaYEkWKgOs&w=484&h=253&url=http%3A%2F%2Fassets.rollingstone.com%2Fassets%2F2014%2Farticle%2Fstephen-king-the-rolling-stone-interview-20141031%2F172368%2Flarge_rect%2F1414184818%2F1401x788-king_final.jpg&cfs=1&sx=0&sy=18&sw=1401&sh=732

Stephen King: The Rolling Stone Interview (http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/stephen-king-the-rolling-stone-interview-20141031)

[giovonni]

Flying car prototype unveiled in Vienna ...

And it actually works !

"Slovakian start-up AeroMobil have unveiled their Flying Roadster at the Pioneers festival in Vienna" ...

Published on Nov 1, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hXjyXQr5M4

[giovonni]

:jaw:


http://images.viralnova.com/000/088/057/690x252-1414609880.jpg

What One Town Did With This Abandoned Walmart Building Will Make Your Jaw Drop (http://www.viralnova.com/walmart-turned-library/)

[giovonni]

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/624_351/images/live/p0/29/ky/p029kyym.jpg

From BBC/Future

Mind the gap: London’s buses embrace wireless charging (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141028-the-bus-that-recharges-on-the-go)

[giovonni]

totally ...

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/mt/2014/11/clock/lead.jpg?neg3e4

Daylight Saving Time Is America's Greatest Shame (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/daylight-saving-time-americas-greatest-shame/354753/?single_page=true)

[giovonni]

mind over matter ...

What Is The Internet Of Things ?

“We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back — when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them — then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.” - Andy Clark

Published on Nov 4, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL34vK-On3o

[giovonni]

I Ate All Your Halloween Candy :p Not ...

2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NDkVx9AzSY

[giovonni]

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd charged with attempting to arrange murder ...

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-640/h-360/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video/2014/11/6/1415266806248/Phil-Rudd-010.jpg

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd on New Zealand murder plot charge (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29928698)


Related video ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM3D5DGcvVw

[giovonni]

update

AC/DC Drummer Phil Rudd Charged in Murder Plot

"AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been arrested in New Zealand on charges of attempting to procure murder after he allegedly tried to have two people killed in a murder for hire plot. Rudd is also facing drug possession charges after methamphetamines and marijuana were found in his home during a search. AC/DC had been prepping for the upcoming release of their new album Rock or Bust, their first in six years, and a 2015 tour. We look at the charges against Rudd and AC/DC’s response to his arrest" ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUUVWanx5aI


just life imitating art ... perhaps :rolleyes:

Shoot to Thrill


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEKwQmahMKM

[giovonni]

another update

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/78803000/jpg/_78803877_78803876.jpg

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd murder plot charge dropped (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29947289)

[giovonni]

A Dog And His Bone


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtv5KplR74k

[TargeT]

'Nightcrawler'[/I][/B]


NIGHTCRAWLER is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling -- where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou thrives. In the breakneck, ceaseless search for footage, he becomes the star of his own story.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1uP_8VJkDQ

Saw this the other night,

PERFECT case study on psychopathy. J. Gyllenhaal does (another) amazing performance... I definitely recommend it.


but after watching it you'll need to cleanse your pallet with this:


Critics Consensus: Agreeably entertaining and brilliantly animated, Big Hero 6 is briskly-paced, action-packed, and often touching.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/big_hero_6/

8IdMPpKMdcc

(also recommended!)

[giovonni]

nice ...

A New World Record
Watch Harlem basketball player make an
amazing 82-foot backward shot !

Published on Nov 13, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S28xouJzctU

[giovonni]

an essay on inherited and historically transmitted depression ...

http://wp.newrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/dina_13996-1600x1200.jpg

The Science of Suffering
Kids are inheriting their parents' trauma. Can science stop it? (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120144/trauma-genetic-scientists-say-parents-are-passing-ptsd-kids)

[giovonni]

:rolleyes:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R9Ir4jyySbM/UtbWmdv8CiI/AAAAAAAAPzQ/gt_KmkvXPbA/s1600/por+un+dolar_2.jpg

[giovonni]

Simon's Cat

Let Me Out !


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDzkaJOT_KI&list=UUH6vXjt-BA7QHl0KnfL-7RQ&index=1

[giovonni]

hmm ...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10322704_10152473034146489_8051666423323931301_n.jpg?oh=81e72f7ce3b6cb5159bf75990e1e3fb8&oe=54DBD404&__gda__=1427325970_b36c9ac5ad4797ab07d70c33eb07cf80

[giovonni]

the latest from Disco ...

Bay-Bay-Bee Bird !

Published on Nov 18, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9s7x-Gp4X0&feature=em-uploademail

[giovonni]

Cheech & Chong


Up


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCXqbjo6cb0


In


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5h6iE_HD_g


Smoke


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJW67QN24SA

[giovonni]

Ethics defined ~ moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior.

note: it has been said a man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.


http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/mt/2014/11/RTR22KKJ/lead.jpg?nfegp1

Is Cheating a Part of Banking Culture? (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/11/is-cheating-a-part-of-banking-culture/383005/)

[giovonni]

ya think ...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2012/9/27/1348755461206/Tinfoil-hat-008.jpg

Could Wifi be harming YOUR health ? (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2846494/Could-Wifi-harming-health-Thats-growing-number-people-believe-triggering-headaches-nausea-crippling-pain.html)

[giovonni]

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Cover-Story-Ferguson-Arch-690-942-26114404.jpg

With his cover for next week’s issue, the artist Bob Staake comments on the tragic rift in the wake of Ferguson:

“I wanted to comment on the tragic rift that we’re witnessing,” Bob Staake says about his cover for the December 8th issue, arriving next week. “I lived in St. Louis for seventeen years before moving to Massachusetts, so watching the news right now breaks my heart. At first glance, one might see a representation of the Gateway Arch as split and divided, but my hope is that the events in Ferguson will provide a bridge and an opportunity for the city, and also for the country, to learn and come together.”

Read the rest of our Ferguson coverage here (http://www.newyorker.com/topics/ferguson-missouri)

[giovonni]

The Missing 43: Mexico's Disappeared Students (Full Length)

From Vice News


On September 26, students from the Teachers College of Ayotzinapa in Mexico en route to a protest in Iguala were intercepted by police forces. In the ensuing clash, six students were fatally shot and 43 were abducted. Investigations over the following weeks led to the startling allegations that the police had acted at the behest of the local mayor, and had turned over the abducted students to members of the Guerreros Unidos cartel. All 43 students are now feared dead.

The case has come to represent the negative feeling of the Mexican public toward the state of justice and the rule of law in Mexico. The events have now galvanized the survivors of the attack and the disappeared students' parents. Nationwide demonstrations have increased in intensity, and recently led to government buildings in the state of Guerrero to be set on fire.

VICE News travels to Guerrero, ground-zero for the protest movement that has erupted since the disappearance of the students. We meet with survivors of the Iguala police attack and parents of the missing students, accompany volunteer search parties, and watch as protests against the government and president reach boiling point.

Published on Nov 28, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jt-urgNN3A

[giovonni]

in the news ...

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03122/skin_care_3122560b.jpg

Scientists hail the most 'advanced anti-ageing serum' in the world (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11262873/Scientists-hail-the-most-advanced-anti-ageing-serum-in-the-world.html)

[giovonni]

good documentary ... sprinkeled with both truths and falsehoods ... :rolleyes:

Kenneth Anger's ~ Hollywood Babylon

"Nigel Finch's 1991 documentary covering many of the stories from Kenneth Anger's sordid Hollywood gossip book of the same name ... Hollywood Babylon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Babylon) is a book by avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger which details the sordid scandals of many famous and infamous Hollywood denizens from the 1900s to the 1950s"...

Best viewed full screen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwKWbKB2wW8&feature=youtu.be

[giovonni]

here come those Santa Anna winds again ...

Steely Dan ~ Babylon Sisters


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWWtcO12DEA

[giovonni]

YIKES !!!

Grizzly Bear Chases Man On Bicycle Through The Woods ...

You can almost hear his heartbeat !

Published on Dec 1, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI_ey1nN_Xw

[giovonni]

Catnip

Simon's Cat (A Christmas Special!)

Published on Dec 4, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQ9HquDNEM&feature=em-uploademail

[giovonni]

From Gingerbread to the Dog House ...http://www.skype-emoticons.com/images/emoticon-00136-giggle.gif

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10734030_10152478792175756_8245901722156518601_n.jpg?oh=9119e3c2ad83f4f73ee95d0882969780&oe=5504F4AD&__gda__=1426571256_e136e9c8af0e41e4c5f2a1a1838a16b1

[giovonni]

time to wake up ...

Great Dane puppy at 3:30am Talking ...

Thor knows BS when he hears it ... :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzIS_0iSJWY

[giovonni]

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/624_351/images/live/p0/2d/kh/p02dkh7c.jpg

From BBC/Future

The mind-bending effects of feeling two hearts (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141205-the-man-with-two-hearts)

[william r sanford72]

umm rules and regulations for who????:rolleyes:
Published on Dec 3, 2014
Drones are now soaring beyond their practical and recreational uses and are landing firmly in the hands of troublemakers and pranksters.
9MNLs5NZ0V4

truth and balance

[giovonni]

Thanks William ... :wave:

continuing in the seriously/playful spirit of the thread ...

Big Buckin' Classical Chickens


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd8nfEdo59I

[giovonni]

living in a blue zone ...


http://saxonandtaj.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/rsz_28ikaria3-articlelarge-1.jpg

The Island Where People Forget to Die (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html?WT.mc_id=AD-D-E-KEYWEE-SOC-FP-DEC-AUD-DEV-DSK-1201-1231&ad-keywords=AD1214KW&kwp_0=5668&kwp_1=113785&kwp_4=43557&_r=0)

[giovonni]

interesting ...

"Group of teenagers checking their cell phones while sitting next to Rembrandt's "Night Watch"

https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10846345_751278451618564_4709500189570819177_n.jpg?oh=8ad9c8a985a93d7471ac78145b15bb9f&oe=550A8942

[giovonni]

i sense this is probably occurring in other world capital cities ...

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/12/05/highres_00113390-c43042115d941bc3c5662e0035adda8dd7d8be83-s1100-c85.jpg

From NPR

'A Universe Beneath Our Feet': Life In Beijing's Underground (ww.npr.org/2014/12/07/368760646/a-universe-beneath-our-feet-life-in-beijings-underground?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202607)

[giovonni]

some amazing pic's ... :photo:

http://r2-store.distractify.netdna-cdn.com/postimage/201409/23/c795996faab9e0d35622b908cae42529_650x.jpg

60 Photos From The Past (http://news.distractify.com/jake-heppner/x-history-photos/)

[giovonni]

Happy Birthday Jimbo http://www.skype-emoticons.com/images/emoticon-00166-cake.gif

The Doors Live at "PBS Critique" 1969 Full Show


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtz795e3_Uw

[giovonni]

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/84/d0/1f/84d01f3229e68411214c71638921f618.jpg

The New Beverly Hills: Riyadh Overruns Rodeo Drive (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/new-beverly-hills-riyadh-overruns-753288)

[giovonni]

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2014/01/1001/e16d84cba.jpg

What Niagara Falls Looks Like Without Water (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/01/what-niagara-falls-looks-like-without-water/282991/?utm_source=FB1208_4)

[william r sanford72]

Picture In Your Mind (1948)
Sent by the U.S. government as a participant in the Marshall Plan with a specific mission to assist the French in re-gearing their animation studios, Stapp discovered a Europe much-decimated by war, but in further danger of annihilation by nuclear weapons. Returning to the U.S., he produced this alarming-yet-hopeful film, replete with its lonely, Tanguy-inspired landscapes peopled with static figures casting long shadows across charcoal-colored plains. While taking the risk of leaning a bit toward didacticism, Stapp managed to urgently convey the thought that world destruction was not necessarily inevitable, provided that people embrace, rather than reject their cultural and racial differences. 'Picture' is a unique document resulting from the sometimes dreamy, sometimes nightmarish vision of the artist in a war-torn land, with the spectre of death hovering ever-so-slightly ahead.

gP47pRPtmB4

truth and balance

[giovonni]

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Arbugaeva_01-690.jpg

Weather Man (http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/weather-man?mbid=social_facebook)

[giovonni]

will share this here ...

Terence McKenna / The Transcendental Object At The End Of Time

(Full Movie)


Terence Kemp McKenna was an author, lecturer, philosopher and shamanic explorer of the realm of psychedelic states. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including metaphysics, alchemy, language, culture, technology, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He has been described by some as being "so far out, nobody knows what he's talking about", and by others as "the most innovative thinker of our times".


may i suggest watching in segments and note best viewed in full screen


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAlaRdrcQcY

[giovonni]

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/f19afa2afae3fdfee8fd2abfe892d595fd5224ac/c=35-0-566-399&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/2014/12/10/Phoenix/Phoenix/635538207830207095-canyon.jpg

Antelope Canyon photo sells for record $6.5M (http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2014/12/10/worlds-most-expensive-photo-depicts-antelope-canyon/20203093/)

[giovonni]

great story ...

The Cat & The Ducklings

Published on Nov 21, 2013


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=570khFoaE4s#t=29

[giovonni]

just released ...

back in the day ... and out today

What Inherent Vice tells us about modern America
(http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/12/what-inherent-vice-tells-us-about-modern-america)
Inherent Vice (trailer)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUZgOQ186-A

[giovonni]

giggle :) time

Monkey Steals the Show at 'Museum 3' Premiere


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Lh--5k248

[giovonni]

Some Real New York City Blues ... :rolleyes:

Rat problem worsens at One World Trade Center offices of Conde Nast (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/conde-nast-offices-wtc-plagued-rats-article-1.2042294)

Aerosmith - Rats In The Cellar

not too shabby for a bunch of 60 year old's


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nmManQXfUc

[giovonni]

interesting ...

Paris Bans Diesel to Clear Air Pollution


Paris's pollution problem may soon be fixed as Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced a plan to ban diesel cars in the French capital by 2020. France has the highest number of diesel cars on the road and reportedly worse pollution than Beijing at certain times in the day, which is likely the reason why they are the first European city to propose an outright ban. We look at the proposed diesel ban to combat pollution and the controversy it's being met with, in this Lip News clip with Gabriel Mizrahi and Jackie Koppell.

Published on Dec 13, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr2Mw3fDRzk

[giovonni]

some sad news also related with environmental concerns ...

Ecuador Indigenous Environmental Activist Murdered Before Addressing UN


An indigenous environmental activist has been murdered before speaking to the UN climate change conference in Lima, Peru. José Isidro Tendetza Antún, a leader of the Shuar federation of Ecuador, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered before he was scheduled to speak against a Chinese-backed mining project in Ecuador that would have had potentially disastrous environmental consequences for the indigenous people of the area. Ecuacorriente, the company that is behind the project, has been bought from Chinese interests from Canadians, and the government of Ecuador is keen to facilitate the project to the financial gain of both countries. Antún was said to have declined bribes and been resilient to threats prior to disappearing, though the grave consequences of his obstinance are now apparent. We discuss the harrowing story of Antún, and his unfortunate end in this Lip News with Mark Sovel.

Published on Dec 14, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpUVbaJ04aA

[giovonni]

the balloon effect ...


Peru: The New King of Cocaine

(Full Length Documentary)



The United Nations announced in 2013 that Peru has overtaken Colombia as the world’s top producer of coca, the raw plant material used to manufacture cocaine. For the past two decades, Colombia has been virtually synonymous with cocaine. Now that Peru has become the global epicenter of cocaine production, the Andean nation runs the risk of becoming the world’s next great narco state.

The Peruvian government is trying to crack down on the problem by ramping up eradication of coca plants, and devoting military and police resources to interdiction efforts. Despite the response — and a hefty amount of foreign aid devoted to combatting cocaine production — Peruvian coke is being consumed in the nightclubs of Lima and in cities around the world like never before.

VICE News travels to Peru to learn more about the government’s battle plan against cocaine, and to see how nearly every aspect of Peruvian society is caught up in the fight. We witness how the fine, white powder has forced an entire nation to the brink in the global war on drugs.

Published on Dec 15, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCeuHlUqGEA

[giovonni]

environmentally friendly ...

Elephant Is Caught Cleaning Up The Trash

Published on Dec 15, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBQLFRsOQfc

[giovonni]

A special visit to Portlandia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portlandia_%28TV_series%29) ...

With Jerry Seinfeld and his guest Fred Armisen

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee

Published on Dec 4, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxhpBh8ggL0

[giovonni]

we have it all ...

Here At The Western World

Steely Dan


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umoHZbKnUW4

[giovonni]

http://www.redicecreations.com/ul_img/32305Energy_large.jpg


Energy.

As in: energy depletion.

Without energy, the individual feels trapped. In that state, he seeks to conform, fit in, survive long enough to die of old age.

Body and mind deploy various feedback mechanisms to inform a person about his “available supply of energy,” and when these signals are taken as absolute truth, trouble comes.

“I can sense my energy is dwindling. So I have to…settle for less, or see a doctor, or give up, or accept that I’m getting older, or change my values, or tune up a victim-story, or join a group, or…”

On and on it goes.

In this twilight zone, the individual is unwilling to consider solutions that could restore his vitality. He’s already opted for a lower level of life.

In particular, he’s unwilling to explore the one aspect of his capability that works like magic: imagination.

That’s out. No dice. Preposterous. Absurd.

After all, imagination is just that spring rain he felt as a child, that unknown space that held all the promise in the world.

That was then; this is now.

Now is sober reflection. Now is routine. Now is habit. Now is empty.

Once upon a time, he read a science fiction novel and, at the end of it, he felt as if he were standing, triumphant, in deep space at the crossroad of a hundred solar systems.

Now he knows there is no such place. Now he is intelligent.

And now he has no energy.

The light that once flared is gone.

The idea that his own imagination could lead him to discoveries beyond anything he knows is fool’s gold.

Yes, once when he was twenty, he woke up in the middle of the night and walked to his window and looked out over a city and knew he was on the cusp of an endless future…but what can he do about that now? There is no returning.

So his imagination waits. It idles.

Yet…if he took a chance, if he began to dream again, if he started up the engine, if he considered offloading the interlocking systems that have become his daily life, what might happen?

What layers of dead thought might peel away?

What abiding convictions might dissolve?

What energies might be restored?

Is there a huge space beyond his common neurological impulses and rigid survival habits, where Vision can be played out on a vast scale?

Is there a different kind of life he can enter, crossing the threshold from tired knowledge into mystery?

Can he take a route around the banners and facades of his former reality after opening the door to his imagination?

There is, in fact, a silent channel that winds through the entire time-scale of the human race.

History does not officially record it, because history is written by winners for losers, and this channel has nothing to do with pedestrian notions of victory or defeat.

The route of imagination has no truck with conventional space or time. It invents its own, and eventually introduces them into the world.

How many stories are there about journeying knights who cross the boundary from ordinary events into a realm of magic?

The stories are messages…sent to ourselves, to remember. This place, this day, this moment is a platform from which to embark.

Adventure, with no end.

Imagination.

Energy.

Jon Rappoport

Source (http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/energy-depletion-in-a-human-being/)

[belljoshua565]

I love the term "House of God". as if God only appeared in that particular place called a church or mosque or temple, why don't we consider the planet earth as the house of God? Maybe then we might stop defiling his house.

[giovonni]

I love the term "House of God". as if God only appeared in that particular place called a church or mosque or temple, why don't we consider the planet earth as the house of God? Maybe then we might stop defiling his house.

The house of God ~ lies within all of Us ... :)

http://spreadtheflame.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/the-spirit-in-you.jpg

[giovonni]

have you ever wonder ...

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--SqdOwhK3--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/aubx7jrfnrqceuhchxof.jpg

What Was The Psychology Behind Dueling ? (http://io9.com/what-was-the-psychology-behind-dueling-1670618873)

[giovonni]

Paraphrasing that great American statesman Ronald Reagan ... :rolleyes:

Don't tear down that mall Berliner's !

http://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/citylab/2014/12/berlin/lead_large.jpg

In Berlin, a Shopping Mall's Flop Leads to Schadenfreude (http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/12/should-the-failing-mall-of-berlin-become-a-techno-temple/383811/)

[giovonni]

The Feast ~ :hungry:

13 Dogs and 1 Cat Eating

Published on Dec 15, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhg7Xm4FXAY

[dianna]

The Feast ~ :hungry:

13 Dogs and 1 Cat Eating

Published on Dec 15, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhg7Xm4FXAY

Seriously … can't stop laughing … that was hilarious
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[giovonni]

CPR ... caring primate resuscitates ...

One Monkey saves another Monkey after a severe electric shock in india

Published on Dec 21, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYrj2hcvzow

[giovonni]

will share this here ...

Virunga - Official Trailer 2014

Note this documentary is available on Netflix


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUFCtFtV3mE

Related ...

VIRUNGA -
Congo Documentary on Nature in Peril with dir. Orlando von Einsiedel

"VIRUNGA, the documentary examining the crisis of wildlife in the Congo’s Virunga national park, is shared with the trailer, film clips, and insightful explanation by director Orlando von Einsiedel. The risks being taken by a select group of people on behalf of gorillas that are being threatened, and the myriad of hardships being faced by those in the Congo are all explored in the film that has been shortlisted for the best documentary Oscar. M23 rebel forces, refugees, and a silent animal population are all seen through the beautiful lens of von Einsiedel, and shared with BYOD in this uncensored interview" ...


FILM AND GUEST INFO:

A powerful combination of investigative journalism and nature documentary, VIRUNGA is the incredible true story of a group of courageous people risking their lives to build a better future in a part of Africa the world’s forgotten, and a gripping exposé of the realities of life in the Congo. From director Orlando von Einsiedel and executive producer Leonardo DiCaprio.

ORLANDO VON EINSIEDEL (Director)- With his documentaries spanning the globe, winning a multitude of prestigious awards, screening at the world’s top film festivals and encompassing everything from a skateboard school in Afghanistan to the tracking and arrest of pirates in West Africa, the filmography of this young filmmaker thus far is downright impressive. Praised by critics for his fearless filmmaking and strong sense of the people and places he covers, Orlando’s eye for striking shots, combined with his compelling global investigations into social issues, have ensured that he is unequivocally an original and talented filmmaker on the rise. VIRUNGA is Orlando's first feature.

Published on Dec 18, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT4r6tQEAsQ&index=1&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGdZbrANmO6kYPy8IQC0GiN_

[giovonni]

the war to end all wars ...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/5/20/1305910642295/1914-Christmas-truce-01u1-007.jpg

A Century Ago, When The Guns Fell Silent On Christmas

Listen to or read the story > Here (http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/12/25/370381693/a-century-ago-when-the-guns-fell-silent-on-christmas?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2051)

[giovonni]

http://media.salon.com/2010/09/hollywood_wants_to_censor_the_internet_and_congres s_is_on_board.jpg

2014: the year films like Birdman came to grips with the internet
(http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/dec/25/2014-films-internet-respect-culture-birdman)

Related ...

BIRDMAN - (Trailer)


BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) -- famous for portraying an iconic superhero -- as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.

Directed by Alejandro Iñárritu, and also starring Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfLoE6hanc

[giovonni]

Bless his soul ~ his message of love will always be reverent by me ...

Joe Cocker - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ity-l7be1z0

[giovonni]

bless him ...

Racism Among Non-Humans ?
Vets Believe That This Baby Seal Was Beaten Up,
Bullied And Abandoned Because It Was BLACK. (http://www.viralspell.com/racism-among-non-humans-vets-believe-that-this-baby-seal-was-beaten-up-bullied-and-abandoned-because-it-was-black/)

http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/hk/yS1QFa9RF6Z77KY85xwjwZ0SyD/www.viralspell.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/634x476xra-1.jpg.pagespeed.ic.ySxVJrPDtzluu4Pq4Ade.jpg

taking that first plunge all by himself...

Crying seal pup learns to swim

Published on Dec 26, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0eknS4I7PI

[giovonni]

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--45ZRk-aM--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/jf44fq4ke7cwm2te1bzv.png

From NPR

NPR Interviews Film Score Composers

This week, NPR's "All Things Considered" is running a fantastic series of interviews with film score composers. "You'll hear about the magic of the Wizard of Oz score, how 5/4 time inspired Halloween's terrifying theme, and why a Canadian says he's become to the go-to composer for films requiring South Asian-inspired soundtracks ...

:ear:Listen Here (http://www.npr.org/2014/12/26/372511466/a-week-with-musical-storytellers-of-the-silver-screen)

[william r sanford72]

The Butterfly (Russian Animation) - 1972
_FRr-_GABuU

truth and balance.

[giovonni]

Sleepy Hollow: Unsolved mystery of slumbering village
(RT Documentary)


They call it Sleepy Hollow. A small village in Kazakhstan which has succumbed to a mysterious ailment – its dwellers keep falling asleep for no apparent reason. The indiscriminate illness has no cure. Episodes begin without warning, and those affected never know if they will wake up again. Some blame ghosts, others the closed uranium mines located nearby. But despite multiple attempts by medics and scientists to solve the riddle, the causes and consequences of the disease remain unknown. Now the RTD team goes to Kalachi village to undertake its own investigation.

Published on Dec 28, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dQiCuZO76o

[giovonni]

getting ...

Thunderstruck


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

[giovonni]

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/624_351/images/live/p0/1z/1z/p01z1zfd.jpg

From BBC/Future

How extreme isolation warps minds (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140514-how-extreme-isolation-warps-minds)

[giovonni]

http://i2.wp.com/luminarydaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Hyperloop.jpg?zoom=1.5&resize=627%2C471

NYC to LA in 45 Minutes Might Soon Become Reality Thanks to ‘Hyperloop’ (http://luminarydaily.com/nyc-la-45-minutes-might-soon-become-reality-thanks-hyperloop/)

[giovonni]

A Night at the DAR Constitution Hall (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/watch-kevin-spacey-perform-piano-man-with-billy-joel-20150103)

Watch Kevin Spacey Perform 'Piano Man' With Billy Joel



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F4MYJIC1sU

[giovonni]

hmm ..

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.kfJSL8x4jE4QAJvRJWQdw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTM3NztpbD1wbGFuZTtweG9mZj01MDtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz02NzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/059f0763a7d446006a0f6a7067000645.jpg

Shipping container home readying for Detroit debut (http://www.myfoxny.com/story/27755680/shipping-container-home-readying-for-detroit-debut)

[giovonni]

The Usual Suspects ...

Meet ~ Tass, Nicky and Tess ...

https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10892029_842396179158246_8832188057173252359_n.jpg?oh=5c75912961270870774dcc1783b35f09&oe=553C2C98

[giovonni]

Some happening news from the Holy Lands ...

Emu running on Israeli highway caught on camera ...

'liya Zelser spotted an ostrich-like bird (supposedly an emu)
running on the road in Herzilya, Israel.'

Published on Jan 5, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW2TKw29pNs

[giovonni]

wonderful story with an inspiring accompanying musical verse ...

"Lovebirds are a social and affectionate small parrot. Eight species are native to the African continent, and the grey-headed lovebird is native to Madagascar. Their name stems from the parrots’ strong, monogamous pair bonding and the long periods which paired birds spend sitting together. Lovebirds live in small flocks and eat fruit, vegetables, grasses and seed. Black-winged lovebirds also eat insects and figs, and the black-collared lovebirds have a special dietary requirement for native figs, making them problematic to keep in captivity ...

A very special lovebird named Benjamin was born disabled. He had splayed legs, and was very small compared to his siblings. His parents paid no attention to him and pretty much completely ignored the little bird. Then his brothers and sisters began to help him and he was able to survive. This is such a wonderful story" ...

A Love Bird Named Benny


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDwyYygFgGw

[giovonni]

:dance3: ... WHIPLASH ... :dance3:

Frostie Dancing To Shake Your Tail Feather !


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bt9xBuGWgw

[giovonni]

hmm ...

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/mt/2015/01/RTR4KMTHb/lead.jpg?nhvtdo

#JeSuisAhmed: The Muslim Victim in the Paris Massacre (http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/Ahmed-Merabet-police-officer-killed-charlie-hebdo/384331/)

[giovonni]

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Lifeandhealth/Pix/pictures/2015/1/9/1420807762072/Bernard-Jordan-on-his-way-010.jpg

Why elderly couples often die together: the science of broken hearts (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2015/jan/09/why-elderly-couples-die-together-science-broken-hearts)

[giovonni]

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/c-difficile-660x528.jpg

9 Amazing and Gross Things Scientists Discovered About Microbes This Year (http://www.wired.com/2014/12/microbe-discoveries-of-2014/)

[giovonni]

meanwhile in Seattle ...

Dog Rides Bus Alone, Wins Hearts

From AP

"A black Labrador named Eclipse just wants to get to the dog park. So if her owner takes too long finishing his cigarette, and their bus arrives, she climbs aboard solo and rides to her stop, to the delight of fellow Seattle bus passengers." (Jan. 13)

Published on Jan 13, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS_8D1WZAzc

[giovonni]

there's something to this ...

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/01/12/man-sausage_custom-186ab7976b76a512a39c719c1a85e0d5d8f567a8-s1100-c15.jpg

From NPR

Minifasting: How Occasionally Skipping Meals May Boost Health (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/01/12/376712920/minifasting-how-occasionally-skipping-meals-may-boost-health?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150112)

[giovonni]

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/01/18/corner-store-9cbb7501133c705fa0b830f782374dadc3cbed01-s1100-c85.jpg

From NPR

Welcome To Whittier, Alaska, A Community Under One Roof (http://www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378162264/welcome-to-whittier-alaska-a-community-under-one-roof?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150118)

[giovonni]

this might be a good one ...

Cake

Jennifer Aniston and Anna Kendrick ...

"The acerbic, hilarious Claire Simmons becomes fascinated by the suicide of a
woman in her chronic pain support group."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3IsUOSHlnU

[giovonni]

Stray cat 'saves' Russian baby's life

"A stray cat in Russia has been praised after saving the life of a baby boy, who was
abandoned in the hallway of an apartment block. Report by Claire Lomas."

Published on Jan 19, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksDysRKpI4o

[giovonni]

Wow ...

"Hear an Unreleased Early Mix of Led Zeppelin's 'Houses of the Holy'
Version from 'Physical Graffiti' reissue highlights John Bonham's drum fills and Robert Plant's harmonies

Next month, Led Zeppelin will reissue their sixth album, the 1975 double LP Physical Graffiti, with a disc's worth of unreleased versions of the record's songs. Among these is a rough mix of the funky hard-rock radio staple "Houses of the Holy" ...

Slightly shorter than the version that appeared on the original album, the rough mix places guitarist and producer Jimmy Page's iconic riff in the right speaker and reduces some of the high end. The bass is more prominent, John Bonham's percussion sounds looser in the verses and the overdubbed stabbing guitar line toward the end of the song is more prominent. On top of that, Robert Plant's harmonies on the line "Let the music be your master" are even more present.

"'Houses of the Holy' is unlike anything that anyone was doing," guitarist and producer Jimmy Page tells Rolling Stone. "It's just something that's totally of its own. I think the lyrics are brilliant on it."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5UnZEwdnIM

The rest of the reissue includes rough mixes of "Trampled Under Foot" (titled "Brandy & Coke") and "In My Time of Dying," an early version of "Sick Again," a Sunset Sound mix of "Boogie With Stu" and a rough orchestra mix of "Kashmir" that's titled "Driving Through Kashmir." It also contains what the band has billed as a "strikingly different" take on "In the Light."

As with last year's reissues, the new edition of Physical Graffiti, which Page personally remastered, will be available in a variety of formats, including standard CD, vinyl and digital releases. A super deluxe version will contain CDs, vinyl and links to high-def audio, as well as a hard-bound, 96-page book containing rare and previously uncirculated photos and memorabilia.

The reissue will arrive on February 24th" ...

By Kory Grow
| January 20, 2015

source: RollingStone
(http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/led-zeppelin-house-holy-physical-graffiti-rough-mix-20150120)

[giovonni]

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--910U4pK_--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/uci7ajlsrj8bmymaoa5a.jpg

E.T.'s Face Appears In Tree Stump (http://io9.com/e-t-s-face-appears-in-tree-stump-1680986163)

[giovonni]

hmm mmm ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9990627.ece/alternates/w620/reading.jpg

Man 'trapped in a time loop' crippled by extreme déjà vu for last eight years (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-trapped-in-a-time-loop-crippled-by-extreme-dj-vu-for-last-eight-years-9990640.html)

[giovonni]

:angel:

Driver pinned between 2 semi trucks tells of terrifying crash (http://www.kmov.com/news/talkers/Driver-pinned-between-2-semi-trucks-tells-of-terrifying-crash-289015391.html)

Published on Jan 18, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDzPSvbOYx4

[gripreaper]

Obama said in his State of the Union speech that we are going to Mars to stay!!

https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10606544_1623511891202518_7408241273974000193_n.jpg?oh=32a2d3103e98a32654343a48f1a820fb&oe=5527DA76

[giovonni]

hmm ...


http://d3adcc0j1hezoq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/beach-gone-640x360.jpg

Cornish town of Porthleven has ALL sand stripped from beach by sea in massive storm (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2921665/High-tide-strips-beach-sand-Cornish-holiday-town-Porthleven-leaving-just-bare-rocks-covered-seaweed.html)

[giovonni]

hmm ...

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/mt/2015/01/RTR4MU59/lead.jpg?nisjim

Europe’s Austerity Moment Is Ending (http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/europes-austerity-moment-may-be-over/384813/)

[giovonni]

just finished watching this series ...

"The Fall" Now streaming on Netflix - Trailer


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyFrBC1rAcg

[giovonni]

hmm ...

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/isl-585x306.jpg

From Mysterious Universe

The Mysterious Ghost Island of Japan (http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/01/the-mysterious-ghost-island-of-japan/)

[giovonni]

From Merry Old England ...

http://cdn.business2community.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/medium_7989638060.jpg

Slender Man spotted in Staffordshire (http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Slender-Man-spotted-Staffordshire/story-25920210-detail/story.html)

[Citizen No2]

Can you watch this without tears forming?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDXuCE7LeQ


Regards.

[giovonni]

Can you watch this without tears forming?


Regards.

And also ... :)

[giovonni]

will share this here ...

Joni Mitchell Interview


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUu1MvnAecc

[giovonni]

How did Burlington achieve 100 percent renewable energy ?

"Burlington, Vermont, the state's largest city, recently became the first in the country to use 100 percent renewable energy for its residents' electricity needs. In a state known for socially conscious policies, the feat represents a milestone in the growing green energy movement. NewsHour's William Brangham reports on the implications for the country's green movement."

Published on Jan 31, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXOYsYCukY8

[giovonni]

light em up ..

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ksM_qXal--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/tb1jbsnsllcfb6d1xu3n.jpg

Luminous Fruits & Veggies, by Radu Zaciu (http://io9.com/luminescent-fruits-veggies-by-radu-zaciu-1683099774)

[giovonni]

IN California ...

http://www.motherjones.com/files/VALLEYFEVER_A-630.jpg

How the Government Put Tens of Thousands
of People at Risk of a Deadly Disease (http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/01/valley-fever-california-central-valley-prison)

[giovonni]

Rescue Cam: dog saved from freezing water by US coast guard ...

"US Coast Guard rescue team swam 200 meters through icy waters to save a dog in distress in Frankfort, Michigan."

Published on Feb 4, 2015



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzGPuLjo8Zo

[giovonni]

Train kept a rolling ...

Train Porn (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a1a_1423095659)

[giovonni]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03188/billionaires-map_3188103k.jpg

Where do the world's 2,089 billionaires live ? (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/11390897/Where-do-the-worlds-2089-billionaires-live.html)

[giovonni]

Wow ...

check this out ...

Skydivers Almost Get Sliced Up By The Plane They Just Jumped Out Of !

"Close Call: Skydiving almost gone wrong when the plane they jump off of almost hits them."

Published on Feb 8, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhs_mtGMQ-A

[giovonni]

Oo-de-lally Oo-de-lally Golly What A Day ...

Friends Furever


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnVuqfXohxc

[giovonni]

and speaking of odd couple friendships ...

Animal Odd Couples (PBS Nature Documentary)



Are animals capable of feeling complex emotions? Recent observations of unexpected cross-species relationships in zoos and animal sanctuaries around the world may provide some answers. Endearing interactions between a cheetah and a retriever, a lion and a coyote, a dog and a deer, a goat and a horse, and even a tortoise and a goose offer captivating glimpses of supportive connections in the animal world. Each interspecies pair challenges the conventional wisdom that humans are the only species capable of feeling compassion and forming long-lasting friendships. Animal behavior experts weigh in with their opinions, and animal caretakers share their personal experiences with cross-species relationships in this compelling tale of unlikely animal couples.

Published on Nov 24, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ygrN91hl1U

[giovonni]

👌 Okie Dokie 👌

with some interesting comments ... ;)

What Does "OK" Stand For, Anyway ? (http://io9.com/what-does-ok-stand-for-anyway-1685265181)

[giovonni]

a waking bicycle ...

THE LOPIFIT


We meet Bruin Bergmeester who in his spare time has invented a new form of transport: the Lopifit.

It works in part as a scooter, a treadmill and a bicycle.

Check our Epoch Inspired article here: http://epochtim.es/qJiO

Published on Oct 24, 2014


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8G3xxjiz-0

[giovonni]

nice

All About That [Upright] Bass

Jazz Meghan Trainor Cover featuring Kate Davis


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyTTX6Wlf1Y

[giovonni]

the usual suspects ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9809474.ece/alternates/w620/web-wildlife-photo-7.jpg

The 12 terrifying ways researchers think human civilisation is most likely to end (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-12-terrifying-ways-researchers-think-human-civilisation-is-most-likely-to-end-10046945.html)

[giovonni]

will share this here ...

i really enjoyed this do-cu film about the legendary song writer Paul Williams

If you don't know who he is ... i am quite sure you've heard his music ... :)
note this film is available on Netflix and DVD


BYOD - 'Paul Williams: Still Alive' with Director Stephen Kessler


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDiUq-cHuHQ

[william r sanford72]

the muppets came instantly to mind after seeing the above post.:o...and own the first season of the muppets show..:happy:

The Muppets Show/Paul Williams---Old Fashioned Love Song
6Qjtj9lliXU


truth and balance

[giovonni]

lucky and wish ...

Bikepath Moose


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyLSHl1nlcw

[giovonni]

the least we should do ...

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/mt/2015/02/keepoutedit/lead.jpg?nka1iw

How to Send a Message 1,000 Years to the Future (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/how-to-send-a-message-1000-years-to-the-future/385720/)

[giovonni]

hmm ...

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/2/25/1424890079000/133dbb98-5639-4c5a-ac9f-028d2521016a-1020x612.jpeg

First full body transplant is two years away, surgeon claims (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/25/first-full-body-transplant-two-years-away-surgeon-claim)

[giovonni]

hmm ...

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/81210000/jpg/_81210316_gifts-purple-624.jpg

The girl who gets gifts from birds (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026)

[giovonni]

meanwhile ...

Fallout in Gaza: Six Months On

(Full Length)


During the devastating 50-day war in Israel and Gaza this past summer, around 18,000 homes in Gaza were destroyed or severely damaged, leaving around 120,000 residents homeless.

Now, with trouble in neighboring Sinai and infighting between Palestinian factions, reconstruction efforts in the beleaguered Gaza Strip are moving slowly. With the UN warning of a growing humanitarian crisis for the people of Gaza, many fear that another armed conflict is imminent.

Six months after the end of fighting, VICE News returns to the region to investigate the progress on reconstruction.

Published on Feb 27, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGl2J-KoB_o

[giovonni]

Lucy on the counter with nuggets !


Lucy is a very clever and cool Beagle pup, and she knows her way around the kitchen very well too!

Her owner knew Lucy was getting onto the counter and into some food, but he never caught her up there. So he set up a camera, and he put some chicken nuggets into the toaster oven for “bait”, then he turned the oven on for 12 minutes, and he left for the store for 40 minutes….

Yep, Lucy was busted on video! You’ll be surprised to see how she does it… :D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ym0rxisOpw

[giovonni]

Go Sidney !

Sydney sparkles for its annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras parade

Published on Mar 8, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0KT-kaQloU

Go Tokyo !

Anti-Nuclear March in Tokyo

Published on Mar 8, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zP_YGmCnRM

[giovonni]

http://images.laweekly.com/imager/b/745xauto/5414177/2297/wreckingcrew.spectorherodate.jpg

From LA Weekly

Studio Musicians Who Played on Two Decades of Hits Finally Get Their Due (http://www.laweekly.com/music/studio-musicians-who-played-on-two-decades-of-hits-finally-get-their-due-5414177)

Related video

The Wrecking Crew


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xs2kJn6PBE

[giovonni]

will share this here ...

Psilocybin in Pre and Post Hi-Tech Civilization

(Terence Mckenna)

Published on Mar 9, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1lT5ersWg

[giovonni]

"Don't Wanna Fight No More"

By ~ Alabama Shakes

David Letterman Show / Mar 9, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtGGsMbQez4

[giovonni]

Ya think ...

http://www.adoptionbirthmothers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/adoption-research-studies.jpg

From the Independent

There are too many studies, new study finds (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/there-are-too-many-studies-new-study-finds-10101130.html)

[giovonni]

Wow, China builds complete 57-story skyscraper in record 19 days (http://sploid.gizmodo.com/china-builds-complete-57-story-lego-like-skyscraper-in-1690315984)


"Xian Min Zhang sent us the latest time-lapse video of the construction of his latest building: A 57-floor 2-million-square-foot (180,000-square-meter) skyscraper fully built with energy-efficient, factory-produced Lego-like blocks. He claims that they are now building these at a record three floors per day!

The company keeps increasing their building speed and size of these buildings at an impressive rate. It is still not the 220-story skyscraper they claimed they were going to build, but it is amazing nonetheless."

Published on Mar 7, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veNf-bz99cI

[giovonni]

http://images.laweekly.com/imager/b/745xauto/5414177/2297/wreckingcrew.spectorherodate.jpg

From LA Weekly

Studio Musicians Who Played on Two Decades of Hits Finally Get Their Due (http://www.laweekly.com/music/studio-musicians-who-played-on-two-decades-of-hits-finally-get-their-due-5414177)

Related video

The Wrecking Crew


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xs2kJn6PBE

News Update

Some good news after 19 years in the making and funding this music
documentary will finally be released this week March 13, 2015 !
What took so long was having to pay/clear the muic included in the film.

Here's a interview with two of the producers/makers today with
LipTV BYOD with host Ondi Timoner ...

http://www.wreckingcrewfilm.com/

Published on Mar 11, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyl_j7ziZeY

[giovonni]

hmm ...

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/81210000/jpg/_81210316_gifts-purple-624.jpg

The girl who gets gifts from birds (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31604026)

A follow up story ...

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/81504000/jpg/_81504603_03366c00-c61c-4dbc-9bb3-96db59660bac.jpg

From the BBC

Birds that bring gifts and do the gardening (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31795681)

[giovonni]

i love trains ...

Little cute girl waiting for train


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvpCmKUo1Aw

[giovonni]

This news item was (is) utterly amazing ...

Police Video Shows Recusers Responding to Pleas for Help From Unknown Voice



A Utah toddler was rescued after being trapped for 14 hours upside down in a car in the Spanish Fork River, and the whole thing was caught on a police officer’s body camera.

Police officers who saved an 18-month-old girl from a frozen Utah river after her mother died in a car crash have reportedly said they heard cries for help before finding the child.

You can hear the rescuers answer the pleads for help coming from inside the car. Pay close attention around the 1:56 - 2:01 mark.

Rescuers plunge into a frigid Utah river and struggle to open the doors of a car that is partially submerged, in hopes of pulling survivors from the wreckage of the vehicle.

This is the scene that unfolds from the vantage point of an officer’s body camera as he rushes toward the Spanish Fork River in Utah Saturday where a car crashed, landing up-side-down.

And there was a survivor. Lily Groesbeck, 18 months old, was found alive in the car, nearly 14 hours after the vehicle plunged into the river. Her mother, 25-year-old Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck, did not survive the crash.

First responders can be seen in the video straining to lift the Dodge on its side. They quickly pass Lily from one person to the next until she reaches the safety of a waiting ambulance. The child was released from the hospital Wednesday.

Published on Mar 14, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvhuUEx2UhM#t=123

[giovonni]

blessed be forgiveness ...


https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e4/ee/b7/e4eeb7b715fe705291d28c7c342d5fc2.jpg

[giovonni]

Yes Sir...

Don't Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down

Eric Bibb


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg7JSVLt6rY

[giovonni]

DEEP WEB - Dark Net & Silk Road Documentary with Dir. Alex Winter & Lyn Ulbricht

"DEEP WEB is the documentary that explores the Dark Net, Silk Road, and the arrest of Ross Ulbricht. We look at the film trailer and hear from director Alex Winter and Ulbright’s mother, Lyn Ulbright, about the miscarriage of justice going on against the advocates of the dark net. How the Prison Industrial Complex, the War on Drugs, and the vanquishing of online privacy is colliding to imprison Ross Ulbright, plus the future of the Dark Net, and the human face of the struggle for internet freedom is explored in this BYOD interview, hosted by Ondi Timoner at the 2015 SXSW Festival" ...


GUEST & FILM INFO:

DEEP WEB gives the inside story of one of the the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century -- the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the convicted 30-year-old entrepreneur accused to be 'Dread Pirate Roberts,' creator and operator of online black market Silk Road. The film explores how the brightest minds and thought leaders behind the Deep Web and Bitcoin are now caught in the crosshairs of the battle for control of a future inextricably linked to technology, with our digital rights hanging in the balance.
In addition to being the only film with exclusive access to the Ulbricht family, Deep Web features the core architects of the Deep Web; anarchistic cryptographers who developed the Deep Web’s tools for the military in the early 1990s; the dissident journalists and whistleblowers who immediately sought refuge in this seemingly secure environment; and the figures behind the rise of Silk Road, which combined the security of the Deep Web with the anonymity of cryptocurrency.

Lifelong actor, producer and director, Alex Winter started as a child actor on Broadway and came to prominence in the wildly popular BILL AND TED franchise. Winter has directed two narrative features: cult classic FREAKED for 20th Century Fox and FEVER, which screened at Cannes. His TV credits range from MTV’s THE IDIOT BOX to Emmy-nominated work for Cartoon Network, two Ben 10 films, as well as numerous music videos. Winter’s VH1 Doc DOWNLOADED world-premiered at SXSW.

Lyn Ulbricht is the mother of Ross Ulbricht, the man accused of running online black market Silk Road. Since his arrest, Lyn has become outspoken about Ross's innocence and actively campaigns for internet freedom. She runs the site FreeRoss.Org which is following Ross's case and raising money for his defense.

Published on Mar 21, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uw2SGAnJiw

[giovonni]

http://www.rockandrollgps.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Jimmy-Page-outside-of-Headley-Grange.jpg
Jimmy Page / Headley Grange House (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headley_Grange)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y83/leddy/HeadDog2.jpg
The Infamous Black Dog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpigDGf6vXM)


Jimmy Page: How Stairway to Heaven was written - BBC News


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDo4CA13LbY

[giovonni]

:hand:

Unborn babies whose mothers smoke cover their faces more often – report (http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/25/fetuses-smoking-mothers-cover-face-womb-report)

[giovonni]

'Going to the dogs' ...

Is really not such a bad idea ... ;)

https://scontent-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11071742_10153172448162863_5543622852005713297_n.jpg?oh=f8dd0d3e4d228b7a33befbb31a2e568c&oe=55743459

[giovonni]

The Israelites of the Amazon ...

The Promised Land: Cocaine And Faith In The Amazon

(Full Length)


Peru is now the world’s main supplier of coca, the raw plant material used to manufacture cocaine. In the last five years, coca production has grown the most in the tri-border region, an area deep in the Amazon where Colombia, Brazil and Peru meet.

The tri-border region is home to a messianic sect with apocalyptic beliefs whose members dress in biblical robes. Known as “Israelites," the religious group migrated to the Peruvian Amazon in 1995 in search of a promised land that's now infested with coca plantations.

VICE News traveled to Alto Monte de Israel, the sacred land of the Israelites, to meet them and understand how they cope with the existence of coca crops on their land, and whether they’re involved in the drug trade.

Published on Mar 30, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Ux3GCk06o

[giovonni]

Just found out Eddie's guitars are custom made right here in Spokane ...

Last night in Bloody Hollywoodland ...

Van Halen Performs

"Panama"

Published on Mar 31, 2015

post note: Van Halen's David Lee Roth Busts Open His Nose
(http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6516982/van-halen-jimmy-kimmel-live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6RaoMXV87Q

[giovonni]

i was unaware she suffered from morgellons disease ...

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/82048000/jpg/_82048687_462961498.jpg

Joni Mitchell in 'intensive care' in Los Angeles hospital (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32142332)

[giovonni]

will also share this here ...

Joni Mitchell 2014 Interview


Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was hospitalized March 31, 2015. A Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said that about 2:30 p.m., a person in the 600 block of Funchal Road, Los Angeles was taken to an area hospital in fair condition. He would not identify the person or provide further information. Mitchell has long lived in the Bel-Air neighborhood.

Joni Mitchell, 71, was one of the most prominent musicians to come out of the legendary 1960s Laurel Canyon music scene, which included the Doors; Neil Young; Crosby, Stills & Nash; Carole King; the Eagles; and the Mamas and the Papas. Since then her music has inspired and been covered by artists including Bjork, Janet Jackson, Steely Dan and Chaka Khan.

"I have a tremendous will to live," Mitchell told the Los Angeles Times in 2010. She self-identifies as having Morgellons disease and has been a vocal advocate for the controversial disorder in recent years.

"I'm a polio survivor, so I know how conservative the medical body can be," she said. "In America, the Morgellons is always diagnosed as 'delusion of parasites,' and they send you to a psychiatrist. I'm actually trying to get out of the music business to battle for Morgellons sufferers to receive the credibility that's owed to them." Source: Los Angeles Times March 31, 2015

Published on Apr 1, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HajWhhXkfYQ

[giovonni]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/47/c0/78/47c0786b3f8053012ef40eae72043968.jpg

From NPR

Van Gogh's Turbulent Mind Captured Turbulence (http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2015/04/01/396637276/van-goghs-turbulent-mind-captured-turbulence?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150401)

[giovonni]

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/82002000/jpg/_82002178_624_night-sleep.jpg

The man who's always on the bus (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32115613)

[giovonni]

iconic ...

Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

(Full Album)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2nxCSTAq9c

[giovonni]

getting to be that time of year again ...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/1926913_10152331855249561_7851421594857149745_n.jpg?oh=5b6a61aaf4c851ddc4ac01ebdf224d59&oe=55BE5D67&__gda__=1437723736_8099028d2da1f43d9832473e09ee1b87

[Selkie]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/47/c0/78/47c0786b3f8053012ef40eae72043968.jpg

From NPR

Van Gogh's Turbulent Mind Captured Turbulence (http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2015/04/01/396637276/van-goghs-turbulent-mind-captured-turbulence?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150401)

I have been meaning to get back to this post for awhile.

Having done mushrooms and acid, I can tell you that what Van Gogh is depicting there is not the product of his own mind: it is how the earth and everything on it actually looks in the ego-dead state.

What most people like to think of as ego death is no such thing; it is merely a setting aside of the ego...a very good thing to be able to do, let me add :)

I experienced real, non-drug-induced ego-death in Andalusia, and the world looked to me just like it looks in Van Gogh's paintings...turbulent. I saw trees bending to observe me as I passed beneath them**, even when there was not a spot of wind. I saw the surface of the earth rippling like the skin of a horse that is shedding flies. I saw the mountains breathing. What happened is that I saw the world the way the animists of old saw it: alive. Alive in its own right, for its own purposes. The way people saw it before the ego came to be.

But the true ego-dead state is not a state that is conducive to living in any kind of modern setting, or for dealing with modern people. It is wonderful in its own way, but it is not meant for every-day life the way most people have to live it.

I think that what killed Van Gogh was his inability to communicate what he knew.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk

**The trees were not observing me because I am anything special. They were doing what any creature will do when another creature walks by: observe it.

[Selkie]

getting to be that time of year again ...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/1926913_10152331855249561_7851421594857149745_n.jpg?oh=5b6a61aaf4c851ddc4ac01ebdf224d59&oe=55BE5D67&__gda__=1437723736_8099028d2da1f43d9832473e09ee1b87

Ouch!, that would hurt!

[giovonni]

The Psychedelic Experience -
Terence Mckenna, Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby

Published on Apr 4, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvjsL1wvOc

[Selkie]

The Psychedelic Experience -
Terence Mckenna, Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby

Published on Apr 4, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvjsL1wvOc

To explain what happened to me to myself, I use the idea of the umwelt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt

I think there might not be any such thing as different "dimensions" as such. I think there may be only different umwelts; that we are aware of different realities to the extent that our umwelt overlaps theirs (set theory, I guess), and that what entheogens do is to expand the range of the human umwelt...what we refer to as "ego death"...at least temporarily.

p.s. When I did entheogens, I always kept my eyes open and looked at the landscape.
p.s. When I was in Andalucía, I lived in a state of great isolation and solitude. For the last 7 months I was there, I did not even have electricity in my house, and so I did not even have the internet most of the time.

There is a reason that yogis and shamans have always sought solitude: it is in solitude that the ego breaks down, because it is no longer needed. I think that is what happened to me.

[giovonni]

There is a reason that yogis and shamans have always sought solitude: it is in solitude that the ego breaks down, because it is no longer needed. I think that is what happened to me.

And also old italian monk's like me ... :)

'Language ... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.'

[giovonni]

nice going ...

Bison herd stampedes to freedom in Alaska

"A herd of wood bison stampeded to freedom in Alaska, giving the US its first
wild population in over a century. Report by Laurie Blake."

Published on Apr 5, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OQQEpDZ-vQ

[giovonni]

hmm ...

http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/www-prod-storage.cloud.caltech.edu/styles/article_photo/s3/Hajimiri-Penny_Angled-NEWS-WEB.jpg?itok=_BJQXNiU

Via Science Daily

Want a quick 3-D copy of something? Camera chip for
smartphone provides superfine 3-D resolution (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150403150704.htm)

[giovonni]

http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/styles/placed_wide/nprshared/201504/397613962.jpg

From NPR

Man Retires, Moves, Discovers His Doppelganger (http://www.npr.org/2015/04/05/397601823/man-retires-moves-discovers-his-doppelganger?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150405)

[Selkie]

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8472925184/h2130A1D2/

Courtesy of Cheezburger Network

[Selkie]

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8473634304/h6F6E94B2/
There were lots and lots of griffon vultures (which is what the ones in this picture are) in the area around my house in Spain. They used to perch in my trees. One time the landlord threw a dead sheep near the track to my house and it attracted a huge fall of vultures. There must have been 80 or 100 of them. I got within 20 yards of them before they took off. What a sight!

[giovonni]

Wow ...

Down in Chile ...

Driest desert in South America deluged with deadly floods

From RT

"At least 25 people were killed and 125 others are missing as the flooding Copiapo River
ravaged the area known as one of the driest places on Earth."

Published on Apr 6, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQu0ktH8x8I

[giovonni]

Two disturbing ongoing environmental items out of China ...
Note - the photo below is apparently quite legit ..

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aQNBoJSh6GQ/VR5z9Sxui_I/AAAAAAAAJj8/oJOZ2wXm2QM/w506-h750/AQI_360_Shiziazhuang-1024x819.jpg

Peering Through the Haze of China’s Deadly Air Pollution (http://www.wired.com/2015/04/benedikt-partenheimer-particulate-matter/)


Also


http://adevarul.ro/assets/adevarul.ro/MRImage/2015/04/04/551fe783448e03c0fd35f76d/646x404.jpg

The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth)

[gripreaper]

Next time you get pulled over, try this instead of arguing!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxijuRjX1U

[Selkie]

Two disturbing ongoing environmental items out of China ...
Note - the photo below is apparently quite legit ..

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aQNBoJSh6GQ/VR5z9Sxui_I/AAAAAAAAJj8/oJOZ2wXm2QM/w506-h750/AQI_360_Shiziazhuang-1024x819.jpg

Peering Through the Haze of China’s Deadly Air Pollution (http://www.wired.com/2015/04/benedikt-partenheimer-particulate-matter/)


Also


http://adevarul.ro/assets/adevarul.ro/MRImage/2015/04/04/551fe783448e03c0fd35f76d/646x404.jpg

The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth)

Yes. Not to mention that all of modern society is run by computer. Planes, trains, grocery store supply chains, banks, toilet paper factories. Everything.

[giovonni]

this guy is wild ...

Zach King

Red Carpet of OSCAR to Sky! My Cola Space Shuttle!

Published on Apr 10, 2015


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOqHazu9MZE

[giovonni]

Airtanker vs Fishermen

a good one ... ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2nSRHbaEH0