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jan_toomer@diasp.eu

Family Politics and Drama

I was recently telling someone that Hubby and I don’t do or tolerate family politics and drama – relative or not.

We each have various family units – whether we consciously think of them as that or not – our energy certainly does.

A family can be (but isn’t limited to):

  • Nuclear Family
    A couple and their dependent children. For me, I include pet, as they are part of the family unit.

  • Immediate Family
    There are different definitions for Immediate Family and Extended Family. For the purpose of this article, I am defining Immediate Family as including the Nuclear Family, parents and siblings.

  • Extended Family
    Those who are one household beyond the Nuclear Family (and can include Immediate Family) such as aunts, uncles, grandparents.

Other Families

We also have the following families. You may disagree with my interpretation (and that’s fine), but I think if you look at it objectively and energetically, you’ll probably see it.

  • Work/Office Family
  • Each In-Person Social Group
  • Each Interest Group (hobbies, etc.)
  • Each Online Group
  • Online Friends

And then we can have:

  • Neighborhood Family
  • City/Town Family
  • State Family
  • Country Family

But don’t forget the:

  • Actual political association family
  • The Human Being Family
  • The Inhabitants of Earth Family (including all non-human inhabitants)

And these are just a few of the families we are connected to.

Each family has its own politics. By that I mean each family unit probably has a...Read More

#3D #4D #5D #choice #opposites #equal #drama #politics #family #energy #motherearth #victim #chaotic #bizarre #clarity

indieshade@diasp.eu

VIDIVERSE (Alex Proyas)

Indie (short) movies streaming platform

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In August 2021 Proyas has announced that he is developing a new video platform titled "VidiVerse" for independent filmmakers, as an alternative to YouTube. [source]

https://www.vidiverse.com/

I just subscribed to it, and am quite excited to explore. Lots of interesting-looking shorts on the platform. But it's too early for me to recommend it. Nevertheless, feel free to explore. Think of it what thy will :-)

Trailer

https://www.vidiverse.com/videos/vidiverse-vod-trailer

#alex #proyas #youtubeAlternative #vidiverse #indie #filmmakers #shorts #movies #platform #subscription #vod #bizarre #odd #art #thriller #dark #city

garryknight@diasp.org

Two men take corpse into Irish post office to claim dead man’s pension | Ireland | The Guardian

Gardaí have launched an investigation after two men carried a dead body into an Irish post office in an apparent attempt to claim his pension.
The deceased pensioner was described in reports as being “propped up” by the men as they walked into the building in County Carlow on Friday morning.

#bizarre #interesting

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/22/two-men-take-corpse-into-irish-post-office-to-claim-dead-mans-pension

colibrinecrophile@joindiaspora.com

The Necrophile Hummingbird netlabel and Internet Daemon (Cian Orbe Netlabel) present
Tohu Wa Bohu Disc 1 & 2
"Unreal Music for Real People" or "Real Music for Unreal People" ?
Disc 1 in free download here https://archive.org/details/Invisible_Illusion_Tohu_Wa_Bohu_Disc_1/
Disc 2 in free download here https://archive.org/details/tohu-wa-bohu-disc-2

I'm very happy that the first Invisible Illusion is a split with Humanfobia. I orientated my sound with this project to be closer of witch house style for example because of Cian Orbe Netlabel compilations like this one https://archive.org/details/v-a-post-witch-music-vi and also because we share very close ideas about free music.
This is not the first time we do a split, we already did one "Strange Pearls" https://archive.org/details/yaka-anima-yoshiwaku-strange-pearls-split with other projects. But this time the process is slightly different, and that's why this is not a rADio eNd album, last summer I sent the raw improvisation session to Humanfobia and they created these upgraded tracks listenable on disc 2. And next I reworked a little the raw tracks adding one or two layers on one, reading poetry on another one and that's the disc 1.

While I was trying hard to cut out the Gordian knot about how to organise this split album, thinking about to melt our contributions in the playlist or to follow the rhythm progression for Humanfobia playlist etc, I noticed Humanfobia choice to base their tracks on the 10 egyptian plagues instead of me who based it on the seven plagues of the apocalypse. So I kept the 10 plagues order for the playlist and split the album in two discs.
This to point out that what could seems a missunderstanding could be more meaningfull about the way these two propheties could be link.
Same way I'm not that much in apocalypse topic, really not into collapsology I didn't choice the theme, it comes by itself. But I noticed that in addition of "The World is Over !",
archive.org/details/VA_The_World_is_Over__A_side and despite it's still not achieve we've got a Multiple Personality 3 album called Glauko Psyche waiting since several years amongst other things like the french lyrics of Paroxysmic Rhapsody with that sort of end of time theme. Perhaps it's only because that I feel everything around, I don't make any statement about it I just think there are many signs. So perhaps the way this album is organise could talk about the way it's organise between real life and myths, who knows ?
I can only hope each one is conscious about the disasters humanity is spreading over this world.
And that we will not let this rot like a larva wasting its ressources before turn into butterfly and then diying stupidly.
But that we will do obvious choices to stop all this shit. There is a time to think and a time to act.

Last thing this is a share of free culture, and it's not a hasard if there are two poems ( In french here https://lundi.am/Arracher-l-art-a-l-artifice ) from an anonymous writer in this album,
free culture is not only the opposite of property but also of narcissic behavior. It was so good to read the writer answer to do whatever I want because its writing owns itself.
This is one of Brion Gysin & William S Burroughs legacy : the Cut-Up teaching shows that most of the artist live only with the illusion to be generator,
because everything is a permanent mix of conscious and subconscious sources. Others know they are only mediums and care of their artworks that way. I mean if we bring children on earth it's for they do their own choices. Not to be steril clones stuck in a loop.

I struggle for free culture since more than 20 years because the free share of ressources seems for me the key for a world no more rule by nations or multinational corporations.
And that's one of the things I'm talking about we are all connected to each one, and we need to get ride of the separation illusion.
Invisible Illusion may be a kind of key.

Before this album two tracks by Invisible Illusion are allready release on these excellent compilations :
Communitas Volume 2 https://mickmagic.bandcamp.com/track/unreal-mixtape
Cicada 17 requiem : brood X 3 https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/flying-salt-shakers-of-death
And last thing there is an interview here in aproximative english here https://cian-orbe-netlabel.blogspot.com/2021/10/interview-with-ed-end-2021.html or in french in podcast here https://aligrefm.org/podcasts/la-vie-est-un-roman-08-juin-2021-le-colibri-necrophile-ed-end-1400
But nothing talking as well than the music. #music #experimental #industrial #darkwave #avantgarde #noise #darkambient #postpunk #ritual #tribal #abstract #drone #odd #postrock #weird #triphop #downtempo #downbeat #bizarre #dark #electro #electronics #improvisation #soundscape #freemusic #freedownload #ccmusic #creativecommons #obscure #netlabel

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Photographer Catches Goose Flying Upside Down

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Here's a curious photograph that's turning heads online: a Dutch photographer managed to catch this goose flying with its body upside down and its head right-side up.

Amateur photographer Vincent Cornelissen was shooting wildlife back in March near the town of Arnhem in The Netherlands when he noticed the goose flying strangely in the choppy weather.

"The weather was bad, so I put on my waterproofs and sat with my back against a tree looking over a lake," Cornelissen tells KJZZ. "I saw that one of the three had trouble flying in a straight line. He was having a hard time which I thought was because of the wind. He seemed to be struggling, so I took some pictures of him.

"I immediately realized that I had captured something special, but at the same time, I was afraid that no one would believe me. The image looked like it was edited in Photoshop."

The bird wasn't flying for a long time upside down -- bird wing aerodynamics wouldn't allow for that. Instead, Cornelissen captured a bird maneuver called whiffling that has been observed in several bird species.

It's when a bird rapidly descends to the ground in a zig-zag flight path, sometimes briefly turning its body upside down and using its wing aerodynamics to accelerate its journey.

"As a mechanical engineer who learned Bernoulli's theorem and aerodynamics, I could easily understand why this goose turned down against strong wind for landing," mechanical engineer Alpay Lök tells Cornelissen on Instagram. "Because the wings have the [aerofoil] shape, it was creating lifting force. But when it turned down, [it] created down force, same way spoilers of F1 cars. This picture will be very useful for the engineering students."

The acrobatic maneuver resembles a falling leaf, and birds may use it to land faster or to avoid predators in mid-air. But there may be another reason why birds whiffle: to show off.

"Once young geese have mastered flying, they start to see what is possible and how far they can go," Dutch wildlife photographer and conservationist Lars Soerink tells KJZZ. "They [could] do it to brag to their peers. Like, look at me!”

You can find more of Cornelissen wildlife and nature photography on his Instagram.


Image credits: Photograph by Vincent Cornelissen and used with permission

#features #news #bird #bizarre #caughtoncamera #goose #strange #vincentcornelissen #whiffle #whiffling #wildlife