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Reality Sandwich

“Reality Sandwich is a web magazine for this time of intense transformation. Our subjects run the gamut from sustainability to shamanism, alternate realities to alternative energy, remixing media to re-imagining community, holistic healing techniques to the promise and perils of new technologies. We hope to spark debate and engagement by offering a forum for voices ranging from the ecologically pragmatic to the wildly visionary (which, to our delight, sometimes turn out to be the one and the same). Counteracting the doom-and-gloom of the daily news, Reality Sandwich is a platform for voices conveying a different vision of the transformations we face. Our goal is to inspire psychic evolution and a kind of earth alchemy.”

Peace Between the Sheets

“If we, as a society, have religiously idolized sex while placing it on a restricted, Victorian pedestal, and if our backlash has been to make sex compulsive, wild and unrestrained, then the balance might be found in managing our big O’s and finally finding peace between our sheets.”

Plasma/Flame Speakers

In much the same way that a conventional speaker uses a magnetic field to push a driver, plasma speakers (sometimes called flame speakers) use electricity to move the surrounding air, projecting sound directly from their discharge.

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

500 years of the female face evolves in 3 minutes, as depicted in western art.

Neutral Milk Hotel

Athens, Georgia-based Neutral Milk Hotel is/was songwriter Jeff Mangum, drummer Jeremy Barnes, horn player Scott Spillane and banjo/bass/guitar/etc.-player Julian Koster. They released their last album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, in 1998 — and though they still work together in various capacities it remains to be seen if there will ever be another collaborative album in the same spirit.

Largest Island in a Lake on an Island in a Lake on an Island

Vulcan point in Crater Lake on Vulcano Island in Lake Taal on Luzon, Philippines. It only gets easier from here.

Caseleggio Associates – The Future of Media

Wherein space exploration, by the year 2050, becomes entirely funded by a corporate merger between Google, Amazon and Second Life.

Mixtape Club – TV on the Radio: Me-I

(video)

Siberian Eco-Tower by Foster + Partners

(images)

Mark Coleran: Showreel

A ton of really excellent graphic and motion design for film and television, specifically sweet futuristic-looking computer interfaces and information visualizations. By Mark Coleran.

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