Prometheus Rising

is an ace book full of futurist philosophical ideas.

Reading historic philosophy at University was fun and enlightening, but I kept thinking wouldn't it be more thrilling to read these ideas at the time they were written; to be part of the experience of imagining the future.

Most contemporary texts I was introduced to during my master's course were obvious babble about digital cultures. Sure, those texts of 5-10 years ago have been realised with social networks in the last year or so; such is the pattern of high art and philosophy filtering down into wider society. However, these ideas just seemed obvious and rather unexciting to me; perhaps it is shortsighted of me not to grasp hold of them and make a small fortune by harnessing the ideas and being ahead of the curve for social networking applications...

The ideas never sparked my imagination; but the kind of shit Robert Anton Wilson is shoveling most certainly does! Meta-programming, Space migration, Quantum consciousness... yes please!

Buy it for the Boheme in your family today (but read it yourself first)...

I'm clearly a newb to this flavour of high concept futurist philosophy, so any recommendations of further reading I will gladly accept...

Flash on the Beach phenomenon

The last three days have affected me in ways I'm finding hard to put into words. I can only imagine it might be akin to witnessing first hand Niagra Falls or The Grand Canyon, though neither of those I have been fortunate enough to visit.

Flash on the beach was on fire. Every session was so wildly different to the one before; each speaker offering literally mind altering approaches to creativity and development on the Flash platform.

John Davey's closing words were something along the lines of:

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I hope that you can all soak up the vast amount of talent that has been floating around these theatres over the last three days.
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I definitely feel as though I have soaked it up. I already had a deep love for Flash and the community surrounding it, but after seeing all of these amazing people first hand, my appreciation has been elevated to an impossible level that I'm not sure how to describe.

I guess it's just a deepened feeling of pride; to be part of such an historic creative movement that is the Flash community.

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Meet us at Flash on the Beach

Look out for a couple of guys wandering around wearing this:



and this:



See you there!