12/11/07 - PRESS RELEASE: Coinciding with the DVD release of the Bourne Ultimatum, we present the OSBORNE ULTIMATUM http://leutrellosborne.50megs.com/whats_new_8.html

THE OSBORNE ULTIMATUM:
Conspirituality: Heartful Intelligence & Sacred Activism

Interview with Retired CIA Case Officer,
Leutrell "Mike" Osborne, Sr.

By Iona Miller 12/2007

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

OSBORNE ULTIMATUM: US intelligence needs to be revisioned and transformed. Covert Action needs to have tighter oversight and accountability. No nation-state currently polices transnational crime, which is a growing threat. Most intelligence now comes from Open Source, so an increase in HUMINT is the quickest route to improvement. The shadow of the Shadow Government, including domestic spying and assassinations, needs to be revealed to the American people and the world so we can finally heal. We must take responsibility for that shadow, including national and global discrimination and exploitation.

We have prospered at the expense of disenfranchised others for too long, and need a common survival strategy, at home and abroad. A truly humane and spiritual approach is what is required to heal the split between conspiracies and our human sense of the sacred. Perhaps the light cannot defeat the darkness, but surely we can hold the balance of power against the evil that men do. What we need is more intelligent intelligence.

 

DREAMHEALING: Chaos & Consciousness

http://dreamhealing.iwarp.com/

Paradigm shift has come to the healing professions for both the body and mind. We are learning the roles of subtle forces in energy medicine and the formations of our bodies and modulations of the mind. Dreamhealing is a way of decomposing the old primal self image in chaos, tapping our source code, and rebooting our system from the ground of consciousness.

The guide's global perspective resonates with, entrains, and opens the participant to letting go of outworn patterns and rigidities. The old patterns break up as flow is restored. Resting in the void allows for instantaneous repatterning by the whole. Unfolding of the process leads to integration, entrainment of systems in the service of evolution, adaptation.

NOV 2007

1. ARTSHOW: DIGITAL LONG ISLAND, New Media Festival Nov 9 - Jan 11, 08 Invitational (click Preview).
Digital Long Island: An International New Media Festival: works by national and international digital artists (digital paintings, computer based illustration, digitally manipulated photography, digital video art, digital collages and films). Digital Long Island (DLI) was created to harness the talents and resources of the Long Island art community toward an bi-annual art event that would attract visitors to savor the wide variety of art and entertainment experiences that are unique to Long Island. Exhibiting the works of artists and creative thinkers whose thought provoking works extend the continuum of art into the new millennium, the DLI project highlights the collaborative efforts of multiple arts organizations toward a common goal.

http://stacarts.org/digital

Digital Long Island

An International New Media Festival

Saturday, November 10, 2007

National Exhibition and Reception

2 p.m.-4p.m.

Mills Pond House, St. James
&

International Invitational Exhibition and Reception

7 p.m.-10 p.m.

Port Jefferson Village Center

What is Digital Long Island?:

The first Long Island exhibition of world-class national and international digital artists featuring digital paintings, computer based illustration, digitally manipulated photography, digital video art, digital collages and films.

Digital Long Island will take place in several locations, the historic Mills Pond House in St. James for the national juried show and the international invitational show will be take place in the Village Center located on the water in downtown Port Jefferson; both are perfect venues for this exhibition. Additionally, The Art League of Long Island in Dix Hills will host a public show with reception for all the student entries on Thursday, November 8th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. A digital media film festival will also take place on November 8th, see www.stacarts.org/digital or details.

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2. Calm Birth Teacher Training Nov 16-18, NYC Meditation in medicine and an energetic model of women's bodies.

http://calmbirth.org/

OCTOBER 2007

1. Adam Gorightly's Untamed Dimensions,

RADIO: Join Spywhisperer Iona Miller and Deputy Director Charles Stone on
Mankind Research Unlimited

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gorightly

2. Print Article: Paranoia - drops Dec 07.
"Tom Bearden 0.0: Wizard of Zero-Point"

Issue #46

http://paranoiamagazine.com/

SEPTEMBER 2007

http://trianglebook.50megs.com/

THE KEYS TO ST. GERMAIN & his TRIANGLE BOOK

SECRETS OF ALCHEMY AND LONGEVITY REVEALED

THE KEYS signify the power and act of opening the way to the soul's progress in both the higher and lower nature. The Treasure is found therein. There are many keys to St. Germain that unlock different aspects of his woldview and secrets. The keys take us beyond the readily available legends of St. Germain's public life, and reveal the motivators of his secret life and soul goals. The keys reveal his secret lineage, education, health regime, and source of his sustaining energy and beliefs linking his line back to the dawn of history. His philosophy prioritized light, life, love and liberty in an era when isolated adepts began to study and practice together in brotherhood. St. Germain was their pathfinder. There are no Greater or Lesser keys to St. Germain, but it takes all of them together to unlock his Mystery -- magical revolution.

AUGUST 2007

http://baconisshakespeare.50megs.com/

Was Sir Francis Bacon a concealed Tudor Prince? Did he pen Shakespeare? Many experts say it is so. A stealthy undercurrent of denial, deception, disguise, betrayal, spy networks, magic and secret societies ran through Bacon's life, shaping him as he shaped his world with intelligence.

JULY 2007

http://spiritualphysics.50megs.com/

JUNE 2007

MIND CONTROL FOR DUMMIES - book http://mindcontrolfordummies.50megs.com
Everything you always wanted to know and were afraid to ask.

"Untamed Dimensions" Radio

http://gorightly.wordpress.com/
On June 28th at 3PM PST, Adam Gorightly welcomes Performance Artist <> Iona Miller to the Untamed Dimensions airwaves. Tune in at www.blogtalkradio.com/Gorightly

OCCULT ESPionage
Is it Crowleyanity or Truth? In the world of Aleister Crowley, it is impossible to say definitively. In OCCULT ESPionage follows the meandering path of Crowley's magickal journey into the shadowlands of psychic warfare, occult spies and occult power visions. The daisey chain connects the worlds of irregular freemasonry to the political machinations of both Hitler and the Bush family.

http://occultespionage.50megs.com/

"ESP(iona)ge!"
Psychotronics is the science of mind-body-environment relationships, an interdisciplinary science concerned with the interactions of matter, energy, and consciousness. Mind control in espionage, psychedelics, cold war culture, today.
http://espionagecentral.50megs.com

MAY 2007

"Agent Provocateur"
http://espionagecentral.50megs.com/whats_new_11.html

"From Tavistock to Woodstock"
http://espionagecentral.50megs.com/whats_new.html<>

Mind Control Countermeasures"

April 2007

Art Manifesto 2007:
"Intelligence as Performance Art"
http://espionagecentral.50megs.com/whats_new_11.html

and for Paranoia - drops in Dec 07.
"Tom Bearden 0.0: Wizard of Zero-Point"
http://virtualphysics.50megs.com/whats_new_18.html

MARCH 2007

MARCH 2007
PARAGON SECURITY AGENCY:
My Own Private CIA
http://leutrellosborne.50megs.com
http://paragonsecurity.50
THE OSBORNE SUPREMACY: Intelligence Profile
http://beyondmkultra.50megs.com/whats_new_8.html
Coming: HARNESSING REALITY or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the CIA

GLOBAL WARMING 2012
New Site: SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HELL
http://climate2012.50megs.com
New Site: ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENA
21st century EVP and ITC 101 with Frank Sumptions and KT
http://evp2007.50megs.com

February 2007
IN PRINT
PARANOIA MAGAZINE: ISSUE 44
Cover Art and Article: "Blinded by the DMT Light"
http://paranoiamagazine.com
New Site: BEYOND MK ULTRA
Inside Mankind Research Unlimited - Spook Central
http://beyondmkultra.50megs.com

JANUARY 2007
NEW WEBSITE: VIRTUAL PHYSICS 2007
http://virtualphysics.50megs.com
"Fierce Luminosity" - Zero Point Awareness

2006
12/06
Deep Cover/Deep Physics
Conversations with Tom Bearden:
"FIERCE LUMINOSITY:
Virtual Visualizations for Living Hyperdimensional Reality"

11/06
IONA BRAINSTORM 2007 Homepage
(under const.)
http://ionabrainstorm.50megs.com
New Feature Article: 10,000 words
1. DEEP FIELD, HIGH MOUNTAIN, DARK CAVE
Grounding Systems, Meta-Syn, & Rebirth Feature Article:
2. SOMA PINOLINE: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
Prophets, Procreation & Parallel Worlds
http://ionaparamedia.50megs.com/whats_new_1.html
http://ionaparamedia.50megs.com
and at http://popocculture.com
Pop Occulture feature

Greg Braden's total MIS information about Schumann
Resonance rising has permeated paramedia as an urban
myth. It is patently wrong, and there is NO published
citation for same, despite what he says. My colleague
moniters it and trains NASA on same. It has NEVER
waivered beyond norms despite the decidely NEW AGE
idea that is so, based solely on GB's allegation. I
have personally observed the readings for years now.
An oft-repeated error doesn't make it so.

If the writer here suggests critical thinking, I
suggest he apply it.

This is only something people WANT to seem to believe.
It's totally bogus. I watch people block their
cognitive dissonance, and disconnect when I tell them
they've bought into a lie, which goes to credibility
of the source of that disinfo.

Bob, help set this record straight on this minor
point, at least among ourselves.

NASA document attached.

Iona Miller
http://ionatopia.50megs.com



--- Richard Rosa wrote:

> Bob -
>
> Thanks for this post and website.
>
> Relates directly to MM's CULTURE IS OUR BUSINESS
> (1970)- wherein Saint McLuhan refers to WWI as a
> railroad war, WWII as a radio war, and WWIII
> (currently on-going) as a guerrilla information war.
>
> Which brings me to pose the probe - what is the role
> of a media ecologist - para & deep - in terms of
> working for the people while we are all engaged in a
> guerrilla information war? Is our job simply to make
> our subjugated condition more and more transparent?
>
> Along these lines - what comes to me is providing an
> index of websites - such as the one shared by Bob
> here
> - that would include davidicke.com and what others?
>
> This cluster/index of websites (a bouquet of light)
> would be shared with those who dare to look even
> harder and clearer about what is REALLY going on in
> the world we find ourselves sharing.
>
> Something along the lines - TAKE TODAY, THE
> EXECUTIVE
> AS DROPOUT MM&Nevitt - gross paraphrase - Many hands
> make work light, many minds make much light.
>
> I find it ironical - that in the same digest of
> posts
> in this group, the post on a 'video game'
> conference.
> When I was studying archaeology at the grad level
> back
> in 1985 - I could immediately see how to teach
> excavation procedures via the video game
> format/platform. Now I see how video games can
> transcend (I mean no offense here) the seemingly
> solipsistic/masturbatory focus into becoming a tool
> for revelation concerning the conspiracies that
> choose
> to render further levels of subjugation upon all of
> us. To me someone like Karl Rove is clearly an
> example
> of a media ecologist - with the ends of increased
> levels of subjugation for the many by the few.
>
> With the ever increasing speed-up of information due
> to the environments of electric media COUPLED with
> the
> subjective experience of time speeding up *(see
> 'Current Zero Point News From Greg Braden' which
> appears in this post after ref- Bob Dobbs post -
> related to shift in Earth's Schumann Resonance &
> sorry
> I don't have a date on this file - suggest those
> interested to google Greg Braden) the role of the
> media ecologist, in my opinion becomes more and more
> vital such as exemplified by Bob Dobbs' recent post.
>
> Richard

http://www.thevisionproject.org/Visionaries.html

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A Special wish for you on Valentine's Day... HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! I hope with all I have that you are surrounded by light, love, joy, hope and peace... I hope that you know you have at least one person in this world that can see the beauty in you I hope there's one who picks you up when you need them I hope there's one who loves you unconditionally I hope there's one who leaves you feeling a little less alone in this world I hope at least once you'll find that someone is there when you need them. I share this moment with you, sending my best wishes for you on this and all days, take care ~hugs~ xoxio

In Magick, the so-called Masonic secret is sex magick - the thoght that occurs at the moment of orgasm HAPPENS.
Let's put it to the test Dec. 22 with what gets you off!  ;)))) How HARD is that?  !!!!!

http://www.globalorgasm.org/demo.html

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GlobalOrgasm.org Mission Statement

The mission of the Global Orgasm is to effect change in the energy field of the Earth through input of the largest possible surge of human energy. Now that there are two more US fleets heading for the Persian Gulf with anti- submarine equipment that can only be for use against Iran, the time to change Earth’s energy is NOW! Read more about the fleet buildup here.

The intent is that the participants concentrate any thoughts during and after orgasm on peace. The combination of high- energy orgasmic energy combined with mindful intention may have a much greater effect than previous mass meditations and prayers.

The goal is to add so much concentrated and high-energy positive input into the energy field of the Earth that it will reduce the current dangerous levels of aggression and violence throughout the world.

Global Orgasm is an experiment open to everyone in the world.

The results will be measured on the worldwide monitor system of the Global Consciousness Project.

This is the First Annual Winter Solstice Synchronized Global Orgasm for Peace, leading up to Winter Solstice of 2012, when the Mayan Calendar ends with a new beginning.

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 8, 2006 more on this date 3:30 PM Location: Environmental charter High School Lawndale More Info: 310-463-4352 Wednesday, November 8 2006 (3:30-5:00) Environmental Charter High School Special Speaker: Dave Williamson How to get your city running on biodiesel Open to community This is a Special Speaker Event through the Green Ambassadors Project which is working with High School students and members of the community who are commited to a clean environment. We are very excited to have Dave Williamson coming to speak with us and wanted to extend the opportunity to a larger audience. He is a dynamic speaker and has made a huge impact and created a great example of how to make a change for the better in the world we live in. If you are interested in attending please give me a call and I will give you directions to the school. If you are interested in the Green Ambassadors Project you can also give me a call. My number is 310-463-4352.

IONATOPIA 2006 http://ionatopia.50megs.com THE IONASPHERE: COLLECTED WORKS 2000 http://ionamiller.org 2005 ART UPDATES http://ionamiller.50megs.com 2005 GENERAL IO UPDATES PORTAL http://ionamiller.chaosmagic.com FANSITES 2005 TRIBE Public URL: http://ionaisthebomb.tribe.net BLOG: http://people.tribe.net/ionamiller BLOG: http://www.myspace.com/ionamiller SUBCUTANEOUS UPDATE PAGE 2005 http://www.subcutaneous.org/Iona.html LUX ARTILLERY ART BOOK 2005 http://theluxartillery.chaosmagic.com SYNERGETIC QABALA PORTAL 2005 http://synergeticqabala.chaosmagic.com FUTURE SCIENCE PORTAL http://futurescience.chaosmagic.com CREATIVITY PORTAL http://creativity.chaosmagic.com THE MODERN ALCHEMIST BOOK http://themodernalchemist.chaosmagic.com EMERGENT HEALING PARADIGM PORTAL http://emergenthealing.50megs.com SCIENCE ART USA PORTAL http://science-art-usa.50megs.com CHAOSOPHY JOURNAL PORTAL http://chaosophy.50megs.com EDGEWORKS HYPNOSIS PORTAL http://edgeworkshypnosis.50megs.com MYTHIC LIVING PORTAL Pantheon Book http://mythicliving.chaosmagic.com NEW 6/2005: BIOPHYSICS Portal http://biophysics.50megs.com SACRED GEOMETRY http://sacredgeometry.50megs.com IO UPDATES 2005 & SAMPLE ARTICLES http://www.angelfire.com/art2/digidiva_ionamiller THE MAGICAL & RITUAL USE OF PERFUMES book http://magicalperfume.chaosmagic.com ART ARTICLES & Reviews ~ ARCHIVE What Inspires Me http://ionamiller.50megs.com/about.html Digital Cymatics: http://ionamiller.50megs.com/catalog.html Iona paintings Animated: http://www.onenationundergods.com/iona.html Cyberotica Art Manifesto: http://www.onenationundergods.com/statement.html Edge Artists as Strange Attractors: http://www.subcutaneous.org/edge.html Random Order Revisited: http://www.theesecondcouming.com/random.html History of Digital Art 101: http://theesecondcouming.com/digital.html Media Ecology: http://theesecondcouming.com/backgrounds.html Lydia Lunch: Beyond the Pale: http://www.subcutaneous.org/lunch.html PandroGENy: Genesis P-Orridge: http://ionamiller.chaosmagic.com/catalog.html Book of ATEM: Review: http://www.meta-magick.com/imlleratemreview.html

Sister Lizrd is a poet, artist, and social engineer. She hapens to be sister in law of Alex Grey, but doesn't live in anyone's shadow. Check her out at http://lizbethrymland.50megs.com

she is here at lizrymland.zaadz.com


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“Paramedia” describes what happens when peers come together in networks of influence, using media innovation. In the era of USER AS CONTENT, self-organizing people with the skillsets of traditional media and access to media publishing tools can come together in mutually-reinforcing, democratic and purposeful new ways beyond journalism and the shameless self-promotion of "Web 2.0" and other non-compliant media and distribution channels. Paramedia is arguably the single most important factor in current social evolution.

Paramedia Ecology describes the peer-to-peer world of subtle interactions of the sum of all such evolutionary media interactions, networks of influence, and peer relationships. It includes social and political potential, agitprop, blogging, podcasting, videocasting, network nodes, tiny TV, and the next thing we haven't heard about yet but will soon all be doing.

• Paramedia is a form of media that applies the training that has been largely restricted to journalists, artists and storytellers by limited access to the tools and channels for making and distributing messages;
• Paramedia operate beside, between, above and below the traditional practitioners of media and the paramedia channels enjoy an increasingly similar access to audiences through distribution channels.
• Paramedia can be dysfunctional; the assumption by established media is that paramedia is essentially flawed by a lack of professionalism. Paramedia people, likewise, believe the conventional media they supersede is dysfunctional. (Ratcliffe).


"McLuhan believed that electronic environments were molding people on a scale that was greater than any artwork, and that, therefore, artists should embrace the technologies of the future," says Paramedia Ecologist, Bob Dobbs."By this, he meant that in mass media environments, people are molded not only by the content but by a sensory bias specific to the medium," says Dobbs. For digital media, he adopted a different adage, that the "user is the content."

McLuhan's "put on" is the mysterious process of continual mutual transformation, resulting from a reciprocal dynamic whereby a reader's perceptions are altered by putting on a mask or poem, and a writer or maker puts on the reader, having to project his own image as the mask of the user or reader. McLuhan would later note that the "complexity of this process is such that even literary critics have despaired of ever unravelling it. Critics of the press, on the other hand, are accustomed to label the whole thing as degrading…" given that in the commercial sphere, the process can be referred to as "giving the public what it wants." He continues, "this process is at the very heart of any communication activity…It is certain to remain the central issue so long as readers are human and not merely robots." -Andrew Crystall

STAY TUNED


Now, it's time for the TAKE OFF, as we all GET REAL, online or off, once again ~ what is called in media ecology, the ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHYSICAL (AP), the physical body - not just the chip-body.

The audience is US, the users, the DOWNLOADABLE HUMANS.

MYTH IS the pattern of information/culture/community/technology and words/archetype/story/passion. Previously myth was imposed, now it is evoked. Instead of ruling people by controlling their passions, we rule through their passions. Myth is passion and under the electric myth all passions are retrieved and recycled simultaneously as software "form" (to live in on a long-term basis) and as hardware "content" (short-term and temporary lifespan). In terms of communication, which is what a medium is - it's shared information, it's community - shared communities and archetypes are talking, living out loud.

"We are polluting Art as fast as we are tidying up Nature. The people of the Earth are encouraged to engage in an experiment of utmost urgency. We must turn off the electric environment for a period of one week to perform a cleansing of mass-man's mind, body and spirit. We must get back to our bodies, lest we forget they are still there! Imagine the freedom to be experienced as the top-down cultural control of civilization is eradicated for even the briefest period! If everyone did participate in the media Fast, how would we know it happened? Stay tuned..." ~ Bob Dobbs

Who are we?

What we need is a new existential paradigm, a design pattern for putting knowledge into action. Doctors tell us we don't know the simplest things like how to eat or sleep properly. Psychologists tell us we don't know how to behave and politics shows us we don't know how to get along. Pundits and talking heads tell us we don't know how to think critically. We don't know what to believe, and fall victim to mind control, the spiritual supermarket, memes, agitprop and propaganda, and our own outworn childhood scripts.

What we need is a new Participatory Wisdom for how to be and how to get along in our rapidly changing world. We need to change the architecture of our participation with self, others and world for a richer user experience, an attitude not a technology. Science isn't the panacea. Soon it will make us Borg, transhumans with bioelectronic supplementation. Science still doesn't know what energy, matter, electricity, life, or the cosmos is, but the secret of the Universe is that IT's ALIVE! And so are we.

Calm Passion

It is that very nonmechanical liveliness, the joi de vivre of passion that best communicates our holistic Presence to others, to the world. In ancient times, wisdom was thought of as the type of knowledge needed to discern the good and live the good life. It was one of the four virtues, including justice, moderation, and courage which comes from the heart as the root couer shows. The pursuit of wisdom comes from a willingness to expose the pretenses of wisdom wherever we find it, even in ourselves. It gives us the infallible judgment to discern what is worthy of pursuit.

The "courage to be" -- what we potentially are, our mission and raison d'ete -- is essentially an ethical act of affirming our identity despite any shortcomings or the possibility of dreadful outcomes. It is embodied in two basic life strategies, which can be summed up as, "Say it then play it" or "Play it and then say it."

In the former we declare our intent. We begin with an inspiration, fantasy or desire, name it then go about the process of making it so. In the later, we place ourselves in the matrix of spontaneous events and find ourselves living larger than life, and then maximize that fortune to parlay it into further opportunities for fantastic experiences. Wisdom is developed through experience, insight and reflection -- the common sense of foresight, or "connecting the dots."

Philosophy as the love of wisdom is a metaphysical pursuit which opens the depth dimension. Sure, each of us can be wise in our craft, but that is merely a steppingstone to the greater accomplishment of a well-lived life, optimizing our talents and opportunities for expression. Knowledge is the basis for making good choices. Without the right information, we are stuck in the "garbage in/garbage out" modality.

Participatory Wisdom

Practical wisdom, then, means the disposition and skill to use knowledge in the right ways -- fully actualized power. Skepticism toward rigid dogmas and even our own beliefs helps us stay quietly open to the opportunities which might otherwise be lost. In this mode, faith comes from a solid connection with the nurturing Ground of our Being, the inherent power of self-affirmation, despite the threat of nonbeing.

Faith in oneself pragmatically confronts and transcends both theism and mysticism with a skeptical eye toward their limiting content. In this regard, it affirms radical freedom. This is a freedom to simply be what we are, more fully, without cultural or "imported" conditioning. Insecurities remain, but are no longer paralyzing. When the inner aim is true, we cannot help but be drawn forward toward our own Truth. Aligning ourselves with others who appreciate the fundamental interconnectedness of life helps us thrive. It opens the door to both learning and mentoring others.

Courage in the face of the unknown is a gift of our Spirit. This strength of mind and heart is our Essence, our essential nature, which can neither be taught nor learned, but is a grace. It means power over oneself to muster and self-regulate inspiration, mood and creativity. It gives us the will to surpass ourselves, and joy in doing so. Without courage, we can tolerate neither failure nor success. With it, we can face the prospect of setbacks, guilt, condemnation and even death, for our lives are not empty nor meaningless...but a grand work of art, an artfully lived life with the acceptance that what IS-IS.

Thus, seeking and promoting wisdom means the capacity to realize what is of value in life for oneself and others, including knowledge and technological know-how, but much else besides that is the domain of aesthetics - Art with Heart.

YOU REPRESENT; THEY RECOGNIZE

MENTORING is the art of giving and receiving wisdom; guiding, nurturing and enabling others to realize and develop their full potential with respect for their own journey. It celebrates an extension of self-cultivation with kindred spirits in soulful relationships.

Mentoring is individualized and tailored. Instructables means sharing what you make and how others can make it: step-by-step collaboration and nouveau niche opportunities - status skills. Once you find your niche, phreak it!

Now, consumers and "trysumers" can acquire as many skills as they want, but equally important is showing-off what you've learned and created. Don’t forget: without ‘the others’ seeing, tasting, hearing or smelling your skills, without the inevitable story-telling, there is no status coming your way!

The anti-trend to status skills is LACK OF TIME, balancing skill time and consumption time. Where on earth will consumers find the time to actively acquire these new skills? Infolust drives status skill-building and trend immersion.

The intergenerational "group leader" is a very busy and observant character, anticipating and even creating trends. While alternately bombarding the viewers and leaving them in pregnant silence, her approach is nevertheless anticipatory and dependent on the will of individuals within the group. This goes a long way toward avoiding the toxicity of recipes, the flapdoodle of stating the obvious.

The mentor must be able to think on her feet, with fluid concepts and creative analogies, and thus make it a learning experience for herself as well. Her job is to inspire, encourage and validate, to give authoritative crits, tips, demos, as well as input from Leonardo, Andy, Vincent, Georgia and others. It's good to instill and cultivate a feeling of the historic brotherhood and sisterhood. Newbies benefit when they keep their pride and lose their inhibitions.

Teaching can stealthily eviscerate your own need for art-making. Of course, there are those who find teaching a stimulus. Because many of us have a hard-wired need to share--and teaching is an obvious vehicle--we need to find ways of satisfying this need. Teaching art and hypermedia is not like teaching accounting. In the first place, individuals in an art community are likely to have vastly different expectations, potentials, aesthetics, icon repertoires, and prior experiences.

Because everybody is on a different page, you need to adjust your methodology. A feeling of "We're all friends here" must be established. In a game-like environment and an urgent atmosphere, all the particpants start by going to work on current projects at their own level of proficiency. When the mentor feels that some direction can be reasonably offered, she engages on a one-to-one basis.

Students, collaborators and colleagues may gather or disperse. On occasion the mentor may pontificate for the whole group. She may quickly demonstrate her own or another's work for whoever may be interested. Examples of work, good and bad, finished or not, are held up for quick discussion. There's an ongoing interactive crit, a celebration of individuality within the joy of the group.