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(don't :) VOTE Uncensored & Shift Happens

Posted on Nov 3rd, 2008 by Joy Bringer : Visionary Creator & Artivist Joy Bringer
Shifthappens

Time to Vote In the 'F' above, yes? :)


2 videos worth experiencing. One whose shorter version you might have already seen but is worth seeing the uncensored parts esp. with Sacha Baron Cohen & Tom Cruise. 5 Friends VOTE 4.46 min

5 More Friends uncensored



The other one is an expanded version of the shifts happening on many levels globally - social, educational, technological, environmental, societal, spiritual... Some of the facts, figures & trends are shocking and amazing in their scope and impact. See why. 6.01 min

Shift Happens Narrated


You might also enjoy the clips from 247 TownHall & esp. Majora Carter's take on "If I Were President"

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Iraq War Ends - NY Times massive prank

Posted on Nov 19th, 2008 by Joy Bringer : Visionary Creator & Artivist Joy Bringer
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Few days back in NYC international pranksters The Yes Men recruited volunteers through the website Because We Want It to distribute thousands of copies of a fake version of the New York Times dated July 4, 2009 with the headline “Iraq War Ends”.

Before seeing the actual details of the spoof try doing this first:
Visualize This:
Iraq War Ends
National health Insurance Act Passes
USA Patriot Act Repealed
Maximum Wage Law Passed
All Public Universities To Be Free
http://www.nytimes-se.com/
http://tinyurl.com/5ufaad
http://tinyurl.com/6pjs8t

In an elaborate hoax, pranksters distributed thousands of free copies of a spoof edition of The New York Times on Nov 12 morning at busy subway stations around the city, including Grand Central Terminal, Washington and Union Squares, the 14th and 23rd Street stations along Eighth Avenue, and Pacific Street in Brooklyn, among others.

The spurious 14-page papers — with a headline “IRAQ WAR ENDS” — surprised commuters, many of whom took the free copies thinking they were legitimate.

The paper is dated July 4, 2009, and imagines a liberal utopia of national health care, a rebuilt economy, progressive taxation, a national oil fund to study climate change, and other goals of progressive politics.

The hoax was accompanied by a Web site that mimics the look of The Times’sreal Web site. A page of the spoof site contained links to dozens of progressive organizations, which were also listed in the print edition.

(A headline in the fake business section declares: “Public Relations Industry Forecasts a Series of Massive Layoffs.”)

The Associated Press reported that copies of the spoof paper were also handed out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, and that the pranksters — who included a film promoter, three unnamed Times employees and Steven Lambert, an art professor — financed the paper with small online contributions and created the paper to urge President-elect Barack Obama to keep his campaign promises.

According to The A.P., software and Internet support were provided by the Yes Men, who were the subject of a 2004 documentary film.

On Wednesday, the Yes Men issued a statement about the prank, stating, in part:

In an elaborate operation six months in the planning, 1.2 million papers were printed at six different presses and driven to prearranged pickup locations, where thousands of volunteers stood ready to pass them out on the street.

Gawaker describes how the prank came together and here’s the reaction from the New York Times. There is also an online version of the fake paper, including a PDF.

 

Here’s a CNN interview with Andy Bichlbaum (The Yes Men) and Steve Lambert (Anti-Advertising Agency).

 

FAKE NY TIMES hoax on CNN (The Yes Men)

 

 



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Validation short movie & Euro-English joke :)

Posted on Nov 20th, 2008 by Joy Bringer : Visionary Creator & Artivist Joy Bringer
Wisechair


Time for some Euro-English-German fun & a wonderful short pronoic movie "Validation" (16.23 min) No wonder it grabbed so many awards across the globe. Makes me/you wanna be a 'validator'. Enjoy both! And if you feel like you want/need another one, watch Rent-A-Person by the same writer/director, Kurt Kuenne.



Validation

Euro-English

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby  English will be the official language of the European Union rather than  German, which was the other possibility. 

As part of the negotiations, the British  Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and  has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as  "Euro-English". 

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft  "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.  

The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k".  This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.  

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the  sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will  make words like fotograf 20% shorter. 

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new  spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes  are possible. 

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have  always ben a deterent to akurate speling. 

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the  silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.  

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps  such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". 

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be  dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil  sensibl riten styl. 

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and  evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil  finali kum tru. 

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking  German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. 

Danke shon & tanke mucho!

Smiles from the funky Wise Chair above :)


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Love in Times of Menstruation ~

Posted on Nov 23rd, 2008 by Joy Bringer : Visionary Creator & Artivist Joy Bringer
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May contain religulous, sexual & seriously funny adult references & allegories.
Laughing meter check up & children non-discretion advised. 

 Love in Times of Menstruation

 

Times, they are bending

To be f*cked by our perceptions

Love, she is stripping

To be raped by our illusions

 

Men, they are pretending

To be busy the morning after

Women, they are imagining

To be non-bleeding the night before

 

Children, they are baring

To be seen on web screens

Adults, they are hiding

To be away from suffering

 

Possessions, they are flirting

To be seduced by generosity

People, they are life dancing

To be kidnapped by creativity

 

Animals, they are reproducing

To be left out of cloning trials

Plants, they are campaigning

To be eligible for gay rights

 

Beliefs, they are pimping

To be given to penetrate hearts

Ideas, they are competing

To be able to open minds

 

Souls, they are enjoying

To be free of inhibited misery

Spirits, they are laughing

To be witnessing the kosmic orgy



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Thank YOU for Sharing AND Being! ~ & Be Blessed Movie

Posted on Nov 26th, 2008 by Joy Bringer : Visionary Creator & Artivist Joy Bringer
Gratefulness

May you feel gratefulness for all within and around you like never before! 
Thank YOU for reading, co-creating, sharing and simply BEing! 
Merci! Gracias! Spasibo! Danke! Thank You! Blagodaria!

As Rob Brezsny invites us: 
"It's time for the Gratitude Fest. Why not write thank-you notes to the
creatures, both human and otherwise, that have played seminal roles in
inspiring you to become yourself?

Who have been your guides along the way, both the purposeful teachers
and the inadvertent helpers? Who has seen you for who you really are?
Who has nudged you in the direction of your fuller destiny and awakened
you to your signature truths? Who has loved you very, very well?"

(You don't have to do any of the marketeering at the end :)

Cornucopia Thank YOU

Design: Margaret Wakeley

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." 

~ Melody Beattie ~

 Images credit to the wonderful organization Gratefulness.org

The Gratefulness image above: Design by Linda Fisher


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