Tribe.net. Local Connections garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/5e19d69a-e3b4-4345-8af1-bc0370b96753 2009-10-31T18:07:05Z 2009-10-15T05:52:38Z

<div>anyone? <br/> <br/>what are your plans? <br/> <br/>(creaking hinge)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 2 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2009-10-15T05:52:38Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/0129323a-b9c5-492a-9609-ceceeb6259a4 2009-10-07T17:14:13Z 2009-10-04T19:50:31Z

<div>Here's the shadowjam "analysis" from september 30th jam <br/>(post-happening poetree:::excerpts, imagery, blurts &amp; singalongs) <br/> <br/>anything else remembered <br/>please do addon yours::: <br/>..... <br/>..... <br/>..... <br/>..... <br/> <br/>Climbing man in the tunnel <br/>falling, climbing, climbing, falling, falling,,, <br/> <br/>aaaaaahhhhh!!!!! <br/> <br/>impaled onto a cone, <br/>a crack, <br/>onto the ground, <br/>with a whack <br/>ouch! <br/> <br/>questioning all &amp; everything <br/>stark landscapes &amp; negative shapes <br/> <br/>surprise! <br/> <br/>..... <br/> <br/>"Climb into the Lime!" <br/>..... <br/> <br/>All is not well in happy face land <br/>the king lost his crown. <br/> <br/>..... <br/> <br/>Oh Buffalo Moose! <br/>buffa buffa lowww moose <br/>ohhhh ohhhh.....(chanting) <br/> <br/>things were different under the reign of the buffalo moose <br/>he disappeared <br/>boy we kinda miss him <br/>has he fallen? <br/> <br/>..... <br/> <br/>Magic Teapot! <br/>sssssssssssss <br/>hisssssss <br/>(snake) <br/> <br/>"who goes there?!" <br/> <br/>I am a pattern. <br/> <br/>"who goes there?!" <br/> <br/>(((patterns patterns patterns patterns))) <br/>&amp;lt;zig zagging> <br/>(((patterns patterns patterns patterns))) <br/>(((patterns patterns patterns patterns))) <br/> <br/>..... <br/> <br/>it came from the Faucet <br/>drip drip drip drip <br/>the tap. <br/>tickling pipes (heeheehee!) <br/>enema is nice <br/>gentle on my end <br/> <br/>~~~ <br/> <br/>a boy and girl float into the bath <br/>Bubble Bath!!!! <br/>they had fun together <br/>two hearts=love crown <br/>(blood bath?) <br/> <br/>enjoy it while it lasts... <br/> <br/>"Life is but a Dream!" <br/> <br/>..... <br/> <br/>Potted Plant <br/>surviving off the drips from the leaky faucet <br/>an unidentifiable plant is growing out <br/>from the crack in a grimy sink edge <br/>organic inhabitants multiplying! <br/> <br/>"I heard you got eaten" <br/> <br/>(((clogged clogged clogged))) <br/> <br/>...water levels have been rising and falling forever since then <br/> <br/> <br/>~~~that was all a long time ago~~~ <br/> <br/> <br/>"ever since my reign ended <br/>everything has gone to shit" <br/>-buffalo moose <br/> <br/>(((shit shit shit))) <br/> <br/>I love shit <br/> <br/>where does all the flushed stuff go? <br/>down <br/>down <br/>down <br/>down <br/> <br/>the ship went down <br/> <br/>shit went down <br/> <br/>"and so he climbed down <br/>out of the slimy lime <br/>and back into the real world..." <br/> <br/>Welcome to the real world! <br/>how was your dream? <br/>how was your sleep? <br/>what did you dream? <br/>what did you see? <br/>(in technicolour) <br/> <br/>~~~the sunrise~~~ <br/> <br/>everything's so real <br/>really really <br/>Y <br/> <br/>I love my job. <br/>I love my life. <br/>get real! <br/> <br/>..... <br/> <br/>None of these pieces seem to fit! <br/>What am I supposed to do with it?! <br/>My head's too big for this! <br/>This hurts! <br/>I can't fit into your mold! <br/> <br/>"That's my crown! <br/>That's mine, thankyou. <br/>It's kind of lonely up here. <br/>It's all Mine!" <br/>-Tree King (really grouchy) <br/> <br/>Wor-ship the ce-dar. <br/> <br/>..... <br/> <br/>I see the light a comin' <br/>It's comin' round the corner <br/> <br/>autumn leaves <br/>bubblebees (are dying) <br/> <br/>nostalgic <br/> <br/>circle womblike closing in <br/>abstract reds and blacks and oranges <br/> <br/>~~~ <br/> <br/>"As a cyclopse shadowjam makes me smile" <br/> <br/>"Sometimes when I fall on my head <br/>all I need to help me operate is shadowjam" <br/> <br/>"There's a lot of violence in light" <br/> <br/>"You didn't know before you came and now you do" <br/> <br/>"You knew before you came, and you still came" <br/> <br/>_________________________________________________________________ <br/>pretty epic, wow you read this far!? good for you... <br/> <br/>We've even an hour of captured ustream footage. check out the cacaphony here>> http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2259850 <br/> <br/>goal>>> setup the microphones better for better sound <br/>goal>>>make a shadowjam zine (tips for newbies) <br/> <br/>-jg</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

garlic_joy 2009-10-04T19:50:31Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/abe5a6f2-d616-4b57-a239-6698dd494c0f 2009-09-24T02:09:30Z 2009-09-24T02:09:30Z

<div>check it out in the moment, we are alive! <br/>http://www.ustream.tv/channel/shadowjam <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2009-09-24T02:09:30Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/35366252-1fd6-4a65-8602-ebd1506e2996 2009-08-24T03:47:55Z 2009-08-19T10:28:03Z

<div>Fffffffffffffff.fff..ff.ff.f....f...... <br/> <br/>Don't Force it, Feel it! <br/> <br/>Finally, <br/>with <br/>Fimo and <br/>Feathers and <br/>Friends and <br/>Flashlights and <br/>Ferns and oh, <br/>there's <br/>the Fluffy rabbit is over there Frolicking over the surface. <br/> <br/>(they're actually all Foxes) <br/> <br/>Featuring our Fingers in the Floating Forest. <br/> <br/>Fantasy? <br/> <br/>Fucked up? <br/> <br/>Focus! <br/> <br/>the Flying skunk rocket is on Fire! <br/>there's a pine beetle inFestation! <br/>here comes the Freight train <br/>via rail <br/> <br/>Fight or Flight? <br/> <br/>caught inside a toothy grin <br/>the Fang cleaners discuss their toil <br/>one is unemployed <br/>one is expert <br/> <br/>"don't go down the throat" <br/> <br/>~bile rises~ <br/> <br/>the joke <br/> <br/>the fang cleaner asks "do you like my logo?" <br/> <br/>further down the esophagus, Floating in a Fondue <br/>is "the shadow"::::the inFamous death skull <br/>red Faced with reFlective Fangs and jaw agape <br/>obsessed with singing his own stature <br/> <br/>the Five pack symbol of the olympic FanFare looms nearby <br/> <br/>and Forever. <br/> <br/>A boy brings his shadow to show and tell <br/>it's stuck to his back <br/>he becomes an inventor <br/> <br/>inside the church of F: <br/>did you know that the F used to be the cruciFix? <br/>it has been altered <br/>this is a Factory <br/> <br/>Fluttering Flock of yellow Finches! <br/> <br/>matter antimatter <br/> <br/>Feng shui <br/> <br/>Form, Function <br/> <br/>Function is Form. <br/> <br/>the Furrow: <br/>"this is how you Furrow a Fallow Field" <br/>with an old Fashioned bicycle. <br/> <br/>inside of this is rainbows <br/>and inside of that is the bridge to Fun! <br/> <br/>"follow me into fun in the future <br/>follow me into fun in the present <br/>follow me into fun in the past" <br/>(even "the shadow" took the bridge to fun) <br/> <br/>the bridge is the fulcrum <br/> <br/>it's fine <br/> <br/>enters the beer liquid eye <br/>the worm got goosebumps just thinking about drinking it. <br/>changed form <br/> <br/>the Figure crosses through a Flurry of Flakes. <br/> <br/>playing Footsie in the Forest is how it all began, <br/>with the ballerina <br/>and the giggling <br/>and the Feet! <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>Mr. Burns has many emotions <br/>he is mostly angry. <br/>especially with a girl poking and prodding at his face. <br/>picking his nose, squeezing his soul patch, <br/>squishing his eyeball. <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>ah yes, <br/>the Fagina <br/>the Fagée <br/>the Fagine <br/> <br/>worshiping the Female Form <br/> <br/>() <br/> <br/> <br/>-full and fleeting ephemeral flashbacks <br/>from aug 18 backyard jam at naomi's <br/> <br/> <br/>special appearances by <br/>teenager the cat <br/>star, sarah, and angelica (on the cusp) <br/> <br/> <br/>did I Forget anything?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 2 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2009-08-19T10:28:03Z sheisherself http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/d7d10b92-8d1a-49cc-8622-d9b0c96c82cd 2009-08-14T22:28:25Z 2009-08-12T05:27:55Z

<div>chez moi les shadows wish to play <br/>osay osay <br/>yay <br/> <br/>! <br/> <br/>when ?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 4 replies </div>

sheisherself 2009-08-12T05:27:55Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/ace31df9-8513-47b1-87ec-6761a8fdd716 2009-08-10T21:02:31Z 2009-08-10T21:02:31Z

<div>here's some juicy links for all you facebookers>>> <br/> <br/>shadowjam group::: <br/>http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=34214&amp;post=414972&amp;uid=2704575012#/group.php?gid=239255085437&amp;ref=ts <br/> <br/>mind of a snail fanpage::: <br/>http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mind-of-a-Snail/26616644861?ref=ts</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2009-08-10T21:02:31Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/bb253fde-60bd-415e-86d7-569eb797cc8b 2009-07-25T19:11:35Z 2009-05-31T03:55:23Z

<div>woohoo! <br/>We're flying to Montreal on June 2nd for the month <br/>performing in the fringe fest there with Ancient Rugged Revival <br/>http://hawah.net/ancientrugged/ <br/> <br/>We're performing other jams and random happenings there too (shadowjam @ Le Cajibi June 7th) etc... <br/>busking and basking <br/>(just pour rire!) <br/> <br/>maybe you're in montreal and you wanna jam with us? <br/> <br/>we'll be at Shamblahblah this year too <br/>http://www.shambhalamusicfestival.com/artist_profile.php?i=286 <br/> <br/>we'll be performing at the kidz stage at Under the Volcano too <br/>http://volcano.resist.ca/index.html <br/> <br/>oh, sounds like fun! <br/>stay tuned <br/>more gigs tba as they come into fruition <br/>(delicious) <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

garlic_joy 2009-05-31T03:55:23Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/ae2017b6-e23f-49d4-8dc1-03eb33781309 2009-07-25T18:54:38Z 2009-07-25T18:54:38Z

<div>(some notes from montreal shadowjam) <br/> <br/>full moon <br/>two hue <br/>blue sheets <br/> <br/>jen's a cat <br/>jen eats tuna <br/>tuna guitar <br/>tuna baguette <br/> <br/>cat manifest! <br/>summoned from <br/>neighbors <br/> <br/>in the bag &amp; out of <br/>the bag. <br/> <br/>how do you say <br/>"cat has your tongue?" <br/> <br/>no face chicken birth <br/> <br/>eager to consume, jaws doctor <br/> <br/>we're goin' down <br/>we're goin' down <br/>we're goin' down <br/> <br/>here <br/>kitty <br/>kitty <br/>things are lookin' <br/>up <br/> <br/>what did the snails mother know? <br/>I thought you would know? <br/> <br/>trans <br/> <br/>chicken labour <br/> <br/>chickens are (intersexed) <br/>humans are stupid <br/> <br/>learned it from the <br/>snails, learned it from <br/>their mothers. <br/> <br/>I'm having a thought <br/>it's really hard <br/>I'm really constipated <br/> <br/>eating thoughts. words <br/>the gods are always drunk &amp; playing with the planets <br/> <br/>our unknown fold of dirt <br/> <br/>this planet stinks. <br/>it has potential_being fermented <br/> <br/>organizing=counting with your toes. <br/> <br/>scanning for chicken <br/> <br/>finding a jar in the dark <br/>eons and eons. <br/> <br/>"oh it's so hard to be a <br/>planet, people <br/>step on me <br/>cats always step on me" <br/> <br/> <br/>I can't stop thinking <br/>about plants <br/> <br/>focus <br/> <br/>no freestyling <br/>read the manual <br/> <br/>wings beginnings is books flapping <br/> <br/>pointed finger learns <br/> <br/>a jar that's not really there <br/> <br/>at the bottom of the jar: <br/> <br/>heart green with envy <br/> <br/>heart pulsing red <br/> <br/>my broken heart disco courtship <br/>between fork+rope <br/> <br/>fuckedupedness <br/>forkedupedness <br/> <br/> <br/>Declaration>>>Laughter is Not Prohibited! <br/> <br/>-the wizard of wisdom's wise intructions::: <br/>1-put on your glasses <br/>pickup a flower <br/>2-hold the flower high <br/>3-then dance! <br/> <br/> <br/>(sup sup birthday broth) <br/> <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2009-07-25T18:54:38Z sheisherself http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/8b5c8dca-eb96-4607-80c8-87d87d782b58 2009-05-12T07:58:46Z 2009-05-01T16:33:44Z

<div>teeta toota wap wap wap <br/> <br/>dingalingalinga loooooo <br/> <br/>hoo hoo hoo <br/> <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 3 replies </div>

sheisherself 2009-05-01T16:33:44Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/549e9d27-ecca-4421-8831-a9cb0ec35700 2009-04-19T23:07:26Z 2009-03-28T09:31:02Z

<div>To light a candle is to cast a shadow. <br/> <br/>-Ursula K. Le Guin </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

garlic_joy 2009-03-28T09:31:02Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/74272508-c2e8-49a2-a4fd-a3bdc8496108 2009-04-08T18:27:40Z 2008-11-29T00:36:22Z

<div>So, just to let you know <br/>we have a scrumptious potluck every Wednesday at our new Vancouver home <br/>and, <br/>we Shadowjam EVERY OTHER week after the feast! <br/> <br/>Come join us::: <br/>potluck starts at 7pm <br/>shadowjam begins around 8:30 till eleven <br/> <br/>The Main heARTery (our new home) is at <br/>6423 Main Street <br/>right on the main drag between 48th and 49th <br/> <br/>bring food to share <br/>bring flashlights and candles <br/>bring instruments <br/>bring just your funlovingselves! <br/> <br/>pretty please <br/>do rsvp <br/>mindofasnail@gmail.com <br/> <br/>yippee! <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 3 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2008-11-29T00:36:22Z swishhh http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/dffd5101-bc29-4b1f-9ea8-bbd0ba8b676e 2009-03-16T09:33:38Z 2009-03-16T09:33:38Z

<div>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLMLt_7_Evs <br/> <br/>Video of Dialogue <br/>by Kumi Yamashita 1999 <br/>Light, Motor, Styrene, Shadow <br/>60 rotating profiles, <br/>lit from the side, <br/>casts a silhouette of two conversing heads</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

swishhh 2009-03-16T09:33:38Z swishhh http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/437e8ffa-39d3-4a8f-a4a1-35c7eace63b3 2009-03-16T00:28:32Z 2009-03-16T00:28:32Z

<div> <br/>"On the other hand how sad, to make your way like a snail, a very fast snail but a snail nonetheless, with no home but the one on your back, and that home an empty shell. A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness." <br/> <br/>~Margaret Atwood (The Tent) </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

swishhh 2009-03-16T00:28:32Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/fb2c5379-5279-4f08-9dec-f5b9294a6a01 2009-02-07T18:20:39Z 2009-02-06T23:21:32Z

<div>whispering <br/>~ s h h h h h h h h h a d o w j a a a a a a a a a a m ~ <br/> <br/>Who are youuuuu? <br/> <br/>you is Us is we <br/> <br/>listening <br/> <br/>using U shaped vials <br/>cheersing together with red then green <br/> <br/>enters Tiamat <br/>the Fire serpent <br/>the Snake <br/> <br/>the Umbrella protects you when the rain won't stop <br/>(portable shelter) <br/>the Umbrella holds you when the flood comes down <br/>(Used as a boat) <br/>floating along buoyant and about <br/>it's rainy a lot here <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>Who are U? <br/> <br/>the Jester <br/>the Fool <br/>alone, lost in the pondering <br/> <br/>"ch-ch-ch-ch-ch" <br/> <br/>enters the All &amp; EveryCreature creature <br/>as a razorblade <br/>beak-feather-tail-wing <br/>on a stick <br/>scurrying and darting about <br/>getting smaller and larger scuttling along <br/> <br/>heehee look at meee! <br/> <br/> <br/>mood faces <br/>pointer looms <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>Who are you? <br/> <br/>mr. Banker <br/>mr. Mysterious <br/> <br/> <br/>Mined the jewel <br/>There's a man in the house <br/>(the son having lost his penny) <br/>don't trust the fool! <br/>don't trust the fool! <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>How often do YOU hang out in your own backyard? <br/> <br/>Are YOU earthquake prepared? <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>"oh you smoke alot" <br/> <br/> <br/>~ p o o f ~ <br/> <br/> <br/>Are you? <br/> <br/>The eternal egg <br/>The underwater butterfly <br/> <br/>plucking flowers impossibly from the ceiling <br/> <br/>this watery ocean floor is so full of stuff ! ! ! <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>Are you? <br/> <br/>A missile that's lost it's cap? <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>You are my poo, so I remember you <br/> <br/>...you are you and you are you... <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>Are we? <br/> <br/>Fraternal twins separated at birth, on plinths with thumbs up <br/> <br/>with a woman watching from below, her hands in the air <br/> <br/>you, and them, and others, all staring in awe <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>one lemon juicer can be the last safe habitat for a captive dolphin <br/>(it's safer inside) <br/> <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/> <br/>are you dreaming eternally and endlessly of the octopus? <br/> <br/> <br/>. <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>shadowjam analysis remixed <br/>from the shadowjam @ the Artery feb 4th <br/>the whole jam was webcast live feed to the Philippines! </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

garlic_joy 2009-02-06T23:21:32Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/57108668-2b9f-4258-a6ff-e2e15801aeab 2009-01-22T23:44:19Z 2009-01-22T23:44:19Z

<div>The shadows are an afterlife for "indicator species" <br/> <br/>the 3 headed hydra <br/>protects us <br/> <br/> <br/>eye eye eye seeeeeee <br/> <br/>a flickering plant with red jawed mouth <br/> <br/>stay still... <br/> <br/>I Love You, I must Classify you! <br/> <br/>phylum <br/>familee <br/>your relationship to mee <br/>uproot you and <br/>take you home <br/>plant you in a pot. <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>a Puppet swings in a Tree <br/>creatures all gather for an animal meeting <br/>many languages spoken <br/>such a clamour <br/> <br/>"speak english!" <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>our hero emerges with her hair flowing <br/>she understands the language of the birds <br/>she stands and watches, <br/>are all the animals being heard? <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>reaching for the oasis... <br/>"The Oasis from Language" <br/>we bask there in the four suns <br/> <br/>(the oasis is boxed in, one lonely palm) <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>Cool, <br/>Cool. <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>the Shark, <br/>the last of it's kind <br/>Who REALLY Understands Shark Language but the Sharks? <br/> <br/>~ <br/>GONE gone gone <br/>ONE one one <br/>ON on on <br/>GO go go <br/>~ <br/> <br/> <br/>Book Lesson: <br/> <br/>Eat your Words! <br/> <br/> <br/>Now we're gonna go to the Garden of Eden <br/>It's a Place with a Fork.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2009-01-22T23:44:19Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/cb6e93b5-b3b8-4e92-bf13-ea26e0b7c3e7 2009-01-13T20:45:22Z 2009-01-13T19:24:51Z

<div>An Informal Catalogue of New-Media Performances Using Overhead Projectors (OHPs)::: <br/> <br/>http://www.flong.com/texts/lists/ohp/</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

garlic_joy 2009-01-13T19:24:51Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/e8b657da-5621-4a9c-b3ec-69017cb08c67 2009-01-10T01:18:02Z 2009-01-10T01:18:02Z

<div> <br/>wree volving round volving <br/>right volving wrote volving <br/>round volver ay velvet <br/>woo rounding woe velvet <br/>round volving re vulva <br/>snare drum stop. <br/>Volving (re). shadowjam <br/> <br/> ~Patrick Kearns at 1:08am January 8 <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>don't forget the heart ! <br/>don't forget the heart ! <br/>don't forget the heart ! <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>the weird wise hand ! <br/>the weird wise hand ! <br/> <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>ride your bike up the tree, I command thee! <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>ask the bears, it's always a good idea <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>tickle tickle <br/>tickle tickle <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>excuse me, are you my father? <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>dawn's gay apparel (registered trademark) <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>shake ! <br/>shake it ! <br/>shake it like a politician ! <br/>shake it like a lamb's tail ! <br/>shake it like a ... <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>oh, so this is what the afterlife looks like.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2009-01-10T01:18:02Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/6148999d-adc6-4057-afef-f3fa640e5451 2008-12-08T09:58:46Z 2008-12-08T09:58:46Z

<div>Yesterday we timetravelled to Seattle and performed at the "Pickled Puppet Sideshow" held at the Lee Centre for the Arts. <br/>Highlights include>> <br/>-Beau Bond's brilliant and articulate designed faces>> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2230/1835331415_7369f9be9f.jpg?v=0 <br/>-Jenelle Weidlich's well crafted papier maché "Cantankerous Gran'ma" <br/>-Dr. Andy Hubble's Crucible of Authenticity and his use of wire for shadowpuppety jerky and coughing movements. <br/>-Dr. Calamari and Acrophelia's acrobalance tragedy>> http://www.circuscontraption.com/peeps_steas/6.html <br/>-Briam Kooser's Drunkula and Day in the Life of a Tree>> http://www.briankooser.com/ <br/> <br/>yipee! westcoast puppeteers network is ever expanding..... <br/> <br/>~~~ <br/>then after the show....we shadowjammed late into the night at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in the Delridge neighborhood of West Seattle>> http://youngstownarts.org/ <br/>If you are ever in Seattle you must visit this innovative artist space! <br/> <br/>~~~ <br/>I'm making a point to again start scrawling notes of what I remember from shadowjams right after they happen, because as those of you who have been to a shadowjam know, it can become very surreal and trance-like dream-time dadaist gooey deep stewing....brilliant! <br/> <br/>so, here's some very cryptic images that I remember were conjured during the jam>> <br/> <br/>first the "space code!" creatures try out the OHP <br/> <br/>then the "three" family are exclaiming <br/>(for what reason we are not exactly sure) <br/>the mangy dog fades into the distance <br/>the tree falls <br/> <br/>the devil sings a song in his canoe <br/>and the snow keeps falling <br/> <br/>the bird shaman with the purple aura interprets the Coyote's dream <br/>(with assistance from a translator) <br/>the coyote was in actuality being dreamed by the red crystal <br/>then becoming the pelvis of Mr. Awesome! <br/>birthing a bottle <br/> <br/>racy bottle scene: <br/>the amber bottle and the wire are lovers <br/>purple tears enters (as jealous plastic) <br/>snowflakes is jealous too <br/>red bottle lover crushes them all <br/> <br/>05 PP! <br/> <br/>the wire visits grandpa rocking on his chair <br/>we discover that the house is haunted <br/>the scared wire's urine fills the house and grandpa is 50 years younger by this elixir! <br/> <br/>"my special place" <br/> <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2008-12-08T09:58:46Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/1d480f11-c8c0-41eb-a13f-1de1ed5d561c 2008-12-04T21:48:27Z 2008-12-04T21:48:27Z

<div>okay so, <br/>here's what I remember from lastnight's "dreams" shadowjam... <br/>(dec 3rd @ the Main Artery) <br/> <br/>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <br/> <br/>one candle <br/>four hands caught in the updraft <br/>caw caw! <br/> <br/>two accordions <br/>raw rah! <br/> <br/>birds of a feather......flock together! <br/> <br/>bird shaman conjuring <br/>(red bag pulsing) <br/> <br/>the dream tree..... <br/>comes in screaming! <br/>(druid telling) <br/> <br/>creatures gathering <br/>the swan nearby asking, <br/>the roots are there too <br/> <br/>(what's in the branches is also in the roots) <br/> <br/>god and dog discuss (as god and anti-god) <br/>they are the bat-bear and the gnome in cahoots, <br/>together watching the blue sky flickering <br/>arms around eachother for support <br/> <br/>ocean goddess <br/>whooshes in....... <br/> <br/>the shell, the shell ! <br/>the whole ocean's inside that space inside the shell <br/>(and outside of it too) <br/> <br/>the tree grows out from the ocean's landscape and bears her as it's fruit <br/>gummy gems lend to the mulch <br/>(bamboo steamer flickering) <br/> <br/>the yoni tree!... <br/> <br/>rubber bands layering inside <br/>while the key turns them, churns them <br/>"this is how dreams are made" <br/>a commercialized voice announces <br/> <br/>boxy eyes closing and unhinged <br/>"what do you see?" <br/> <br/>I see a dream worm on fingertip wriggling <br/>"I am bliiiiiiinded by the liiiight" <br/>(bird shaman devours the worm) <br/> <br/>the heart connector is disconnected and trapped behind bars <br/>the bird shaman is called back to help <br/>wielding a shamming crow bar.....the disbelievers are quieted. <br/>red waters revealing <br/>"will this heart ever love the same way again?" <br/> <br/>a baby is born, revealed, <br/>is the world too small to support it? <br/> <br/>the newborn is lodged into the center of the dream tree <br/>there is a brief moment of resolve,,,, <br/>then, <br/>violation! <br/>the drum thumper thrusts and the incense sticks jab <br/>the world is overturned <br/> <br/>today's disaffected youth walks through the world seeing nothing for what it is <br/>is duly unimpressed <br/>his alcoholic dad finally dies <br/>"dad is dead!" <br/>dadadadada <br/>deadbeat deeds <br/> <br/>the youth falls in love with a chicken, stemming from a staring contest <br/>(they have the same hairdo) <br/>green light for the fowl <br/>crossing the road <br/> <br/>go!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2008-12-04T21:48:27Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/edb8ceba-5a6d-4574-99db-451806cd3f35 2008-10-28T21:22:22Z 2008-10-21T22:06:28Z

<div>The Parade of the Lost Souls is a lively commemoration of the cycle of life and death, and of facing fears in order to live life to its fullest. Costumed stilt walkers, jugglers, dancers, and musicians lead a walking procession through the neighborhood. <br/>Performers, artists and willing spirits come together to honour the dead, wake the living and celebrate the brilliant cycle of life. <br/>Skeletal Brides, blessed witches, ghastly ghouls, and prancing pixies mingle side by side. <br/> <br/>Date: October 25th 2008 <br/>Location: Grandview Park <br/>Time: 6.30 PM, procession at 7:00 PM <br/> <br/>Inspiration>> <br/>"The theme for this year's parade is 'Metamorphosis and the Whimsical Dark'. As we walk the route this year, we will follow a little girl named Vasilisa. The character, from a Russian folk tale, will take us on a journey symbolizing the cycle of life. Leaving Grandview Park, we begin in the white zone, a place of purity and innocence, the place where we all begin, open and curious, filled with wonder. Then we enter the black zone where fear, despair, oppression, and repression test our mettle, shaking us to the core. The red zone then releases paraders into passion, love, imagination, and creativity. Cleansed by the flames of passion's fires, we return to the white zone, and a new innocence found in wisdom." <br/> <br/>We're gonna have a giant shadow area on the all weather field in the "white zone". <br/>The festival is building a huge screen for us!!! (16 by 20 feet) <br/> <br/>ooooOOOOoooooAaaaahhhhhhhhh....! <br/> <br/>check <br/>http://www.publicdreams.org/section_details.html?trunk_id=1&amp;branch_id=50</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

garlic_joy 2008-10-21T22:06:28Z aquagoddess http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/5bb424df-0d0f-4c5c-91d7-11343f35ed7b 2008-10-28T05:03:45Z 2008-06-01T07:13:17Z

<div>Oh yes I sea see si senoritas and senoirs -- salt water at the beginning, sea salt at the end <br/>Evol -- INvo -- Evil-- oution. <br/>Had my silly spot in a tizzy drinking in the salt water, drowning in the dance of calm and multiple visual and auditory feastings... <br/>Bravo, yippee, more for the soul to soak in and soak... in -- like the beautiful sea capped by the human form of an arm -- arm ocean same thing <br/>Guilty for the dot creation of ooily, noisy, icky oose into the ocean of life <br/>There just is no separation however <br/>Sea to Sea to salt are WE</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

aquagoddess 2008-06-01T07:13:17Z JessetheVessel http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/9d8468a9-62dd-49bc-9678-337a3fcc91e8 2008-09-19T06:45:56Z 2008-09-16T16:17:55Z

<div> <br/> <br/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n8gxEwLx0w</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

JessetheVessel 2008-09-16T16:17:55Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/f31f011e-b8d3-4909-8efd-a928f88b601b 2008-09-01T00:01:13Z 2008-08-12T18:51:05Z

<div>this twilight blue car is a time traveling machine! <br/>purrrrrrr <br/> <br/>there are pelicans flying everywhere! <br/> <br/>Still on the road, we just left San Francisco yesterday, after having performed, and also shadowjammed in Oakland, and before that, several days of the same goodness in Arcata. <br/> <br/>set gigs upcoming so far <br/>the pseudo schedule>> <br/> <br/>~August 12th (tonight at 8:00 sharp!) a show at the ZAUS with three other bands <br/>my flag in on fire <br/>pale robin <br/>birds fled from me <br/>(343 Pacheco Ave, Santa Cruz) <br/> <br/>~August 15th, puppet jam in Bridget and Iain's circusy backyard <br/>(4611 North Ave. San Diego) <br/> <br/>~August 24th, show and jam at Muddy's Hot Cup <br/>(1603 G. St. Arcata) <br/> <br/>There will surely be other things popping up in between here and there. <br/>Will keep you posted! <br/>If you know of anyone we should meet between here and there, please do lend us any of your glinting gems of wisdom. <br/> <br/>now off to the surf....</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 5 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2008-08-12T18:51:05Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/9e2d8a3b-7791-4914-9536-cf226d61d895 2008-08-08T09:14:45Z 2008-04-25T21:29:12Z

<div>We're spending all of june in clown school,. then using it as an elastic band to propel us southward! <br/> <br/>We will bring the shadows with us. <br/> <br/>Any opportunities to perform, do a workshop, or host a shadowjam are welcomed! <br/> <br/>email us if you have any suggestions, want to host a shadowjam, or have connections to an event where we can perform, or if you just wanna hang out with us :) <br/> <br/>mindofasnail (at) gmail (dot) com <br/> <br/>-chloe &amp; jessica <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 9 replies </div>

chloez 2008-04-25T21:29:12Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/f40f3c8b-1827-4cb6-8f6e-a3a2eca18430 2008-05-04T01:02:37Z 2008-05-04T01:02:37Z

<div>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhfKX_d876U <br/> <br/>April 13th at the Trout house in East Van- <br/>we'll post more from this eve, so much happened that night!! <br/> <br/>here's "the button addict" <br/> <br/>coming soon: <br/>"I don't know why I'm eating a Highway!" &amp; much more!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

chloez 2008-05-04T01:02:37Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/14e393c4-6201-436b-b1bb-67938099a953 2008-03-28T08:28:34Z 2006-05-24T19:20:27Z

<div>let us mulch and layer our definitions of compost modernism, <br/>let us decompose our ideas and concepts into a rich, fertile loam <br/>let us feed the sprouts of a living art movement! <br/> <br/>here's the start of a brainstorm.... <br/> feel free to add your own layers.... <br/> <br/>change, transformation <br/>participation, collaboration <br/>the waste of the past becomes the resource of the future <br/>layers and layers and layers <br/> stir it up <br/>permaculture patience <br/>site-specific design / re-design <br/>make art in the moment <br/>observe, integrate, apply <br/> <br/>shadowjam is compost modern</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 9 replies </div>

chloez 2006-05-24T19:20:27Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/96b0c6d5-1f7b-4402-8428-0308ecbaa322 2008-03-16T19:40:30Z 2008-03-02T06:57:55Z

<div>Admittedly socially anxious? Is this a shadow issue? How do you manage through the too bright or too dark times? <br/> <br/>In public gatherings I often gravitate towards the edges of the space to get a better view; existing more comfortably in the darker corners of parties. This is something that is becoming more and more apparent to me the more and more I am around people. <br/> <br/>Often in a crowd (and without a costume or character as a guide) I want to stay affixed to one spot….I try to get settled, then I begin to change my vantage point bit by bit to gain my sense of comfort within the whole. My mind’s eyes at work, my body’s mind in lurch. <br/> <br/>In the last couple years I have been becoming more aware of my addiction to the shadows; and have been noticing my awareness when moving around amongst pals at a party. Staring at the floor and walls more out of curiosity then out of shyness, and noticing folds in drapery and nuances in environmental compositions....more out of genuine intrigue than out of boredom. <br/> <br/>The shadows that people cast are usually more interesting than the people themselves………why is that? <br/> <br/>Are my behaviors in public about avoiding the "glare" somehow? <br/>Are some people just really really bright, so bright that their darkness is easier to deal with? <br/>Can squinting help in seeing? <br/>Am I a cockroach? <br/> <br/>Looking outside myself here a bit, and it seems like by even typing this out now, I am indulging in a kind of “shadow” activity. <br/> <br/>Dim? <br/> <br/>There are so many subtle variances of brightness and noise... <br/>even here in these online threads. <br/> <br/>Being able to maintain both a veiled AND an open exploratory mind while observing shadows can enable otherworldly interactions to exist; allowing for alternative, more enriched environments to be born into being. Sometimes sharing these discoveries with others is the challenge for me. <br/> <br/>Is alone computer screen time an ideal refuge for a shadowy mind? <br/>Are "social networking sites" shady by nature? <br/>How about with eyes closed? <br/> <br/>to be continued...</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 4 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2008-03-02T06:57:55Z swishhh http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/ebbc9d32-6e75-45e9-a6fa-f01671c6a8ae 2008-03-02T07:35:18Z 2008-03-02T07:35:18Z

<div>What generation are you? <br/> <br/>at the golden tit <br/>tittering alit <br/>shiny guest cymbals and <br/>a screaming muffin <br/> <br/>my viscera becomes bird brain nest <br/>pecked pecked pecked <br/> <br/>injested <br/> <br/>everything begins with blue tinsel inside a rose bag <br/> <br/>put that brain back! <br/> <br/>~ <br/> <br/>long necks court eachother <br/>searching placenta <br/> <br/>devouring carrot <br/>over and over and over <br/> <br/>care rot <br/> <br/>feathery adornment <br/>makes me stiff <br/> <br/>underwater cod eclipses salmon streaming <br/>bur-ble-bur-ble-bur-blu-uur-rrble-bur-bl-bl-bl... <br/> <br/>keys keys keys <br/>rattattatattat! <br/> <br/>volcano erupts as <br/>the sword climber asks <br/>do you have a lava?! <br/>do you have a lava?! <br/> <br/>griffin sent lore hound <br/> <br/>cloud of butterflies <br/>on the beach <br/> <br/>horses emerge from the waves <br/> <br/>~~ <br/>When you blow out the candle with two mouths, the sharing of the wish is always up for debate. <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

swishhh 2008-03-02T07:35:18Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/6333dd0a-b0fe-4965-bab3-9bb435b5d2c6 2008-02-21T20:14:05Z 2007-08-29T00:44:51Z

<div>....an age old shadowjam between the earth, moon and sun. <br/> <br/>......a poetic rendition of a starry performance where <br/>the clouds and wind play an integral part, <br/>obliterating and obscuring the view. <br/>masking the light eye. <br/> <br/>brown moon held nestled <br/> <br/>orbit of reflection, timeless beacon. <br/> <br/>We observe for hours, <br/>stationed on our rock, <br/>held strong by the playa, <br/>mesmerized by the rippling languages held out to us by the oncoming tide. <br/> <br/>The sounds of log barges passing with their flares alit mid-way and at each end, <br/>(they briefly obscure the view of distant cities) <br/>The lighthouse from a distant Island cycles through and through, <br/>(as a guidepost for vessels) <br/>The streetlights are also constant, and the streaming headlights of cars remind us that the highway is also being eclipsed. <br/>(this rush hour occurs daily) <br/> <br/>The babbling trickle of the freshwater dribble <br/>tickles my ears <br/> <br/>shivering is a part of it..... <br/>so is chanting, <br/>and being startled by that growling beast in the bushes, <br/>and noticing that bird carcass torn apart feathery a few logs down, <br/>and our crunching bag of popcorn. <br/>and the morning brisk swim. <br/> <br/>celestial bodies, <br/>surface caressing, <br/>over and over and over <br/> <br/>....an extended moment.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 4 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2007-08-29T00:44:51Z JessetheVessel http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/9f2f6129-f308-4d72-8504-1dfa919932a5 2008-02-20T08:34:01Z 2007-09-24T21:16:56Z

<div>----- <br/> <br/>"Shadows are peculiar affairs," he said all of a sudden. "You must have noticed that there is one following us." <br/> <br/>... <br/> <br/>"Look at the shadow of that boulder," he said. "The shadow is the boulder, and yet it isn't. To observe the boulder in order to know what the boulder is, is *doing,* but to observe its shadow is *not-doing.* <br/> <br/>"Shadows are like doors, the doors of *not-doing.* One of knowledge, for example, can tell the innermost feelings of others by watching their shadows." <br/> <br/>"Is there movement in them?" I asked. <br/> <br/>"You may say that there is movement in them, or you may say that the lines of the world are shown in them, or you may say that feelings come from them." <br/> <br/>"But how could feelings come out of shadows, don Juan?" <br/> <br/>"To believe that shadows are just shadows is *doing,* he explained. "That belief is somehow stupid. Think about it this way: There is so much more to everything in the world that obviously there must be more to shadows too. After all, what makes them shadows is merely our *doing.*" <br/> <br/>----- <br/>-Carlos Castaneda <br/>"Journey To Ixtlan"</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 17 replies </div>

JessetheVessel 2007-09-24T21:16:56Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/8a5dc50a-045f-4dad-a724-ddfc5efbe79f 2008-02-19T19:35:42Z 2008-02-19T19:35:42Z

<div>when the full moon rises at sunset this wednesday, it will already be partially eclipsed <br/> <br/>yessss <br/> <br/>i will look <br/>and listen <br/>and maybe sing along <br/> <br/>will you?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

chloez 2008-02-19T19:35:42Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/1e193bd0-2aa6-4625-813e-8649168c548f 2008-01-31T08:21:26Z 2008-01-31T08:21:26Z

<div>do you remember what happened at the big yellow house?! <br/> <br/>Here are some random snippets and fleeting glimpses from my night>> <br/> <br/>the setting:::: <br/>twas a crunchy, drizzly, ice footed pace through vancouver this past saturday eve <br/> <br/>scenery &amp; objects shuddering/staring:::: <br/>frozen wintery paper lightbox <br/>focus in with candlelight <br/>in little jar <br/>robot branching on slivery floor <br/>ferns dance <br/> <br/>sound &amp; light titterings::::: <br/>child's chorus <br/>natural sound flock! <br/>passing the little flashlight around the room so everyone in the room can explore while sitting <br/>who's drinking those pins? <br/>flash light blue/red/lightblue/red <br/>drawn underground <br/> <br/>-the idea of a lollypop, lollypop oh lolly lolly lolly! <br/> <br/>-hello! hello! (((ring ring))) can I call you back? <br/> <br/>"this is the story of...." <br/>"this is the story of...." <br/>"this is the story of...." <br/>"this is the story of...." <br/> <br/>-disembodied dna strands <br/> <br/>-the cat beaming up and outwards into space <br/> <br/>-under the microscopic, you have so many more pores! more hair! <br/> <br/>-the recurrent heart robot takes it all into an extended struggle, slow motion <br/> <br/>-tapwater washing, everything needs to wash, everyone gets their turn. <br/> <br/>-the fish in the net is measured by the ruler <br/> <br/>-always familiar to return to family photos with grandma and aunty and the whole family treety <br/> <br/>yee hee hee heeeyah! <br/>ooooohhhhhhmmmm! <br/>gggrrrrrraaawwwwlllll! <br/> <br/> <br/>tankyoutankyou yellow home! <br/>shouts outs to <br/>curlypaws candice &amp; janice and all the fellowjammers wherever you were that night and wherever you may be now! <br/> <br/>peace out my roam! <br/> <br/>from(((east van shadowjam <br/>jan 26/08))) <br/> <br/>jg</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2008-01-31T08:21:26Z Bharata http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/0d0d1b6e-190a-422d-865d-9389ff365916 2007-11-03T09:26:09Z 2007-11-03T09:26:09Z

<div>A magician makes the visible invisible. <br/>A mime maks the invisible visible. <br/> <br/>Marcel Marceu <br/>(March 22, 1923 – September 22, 2007) <br/> <br/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzPxYScMW-g</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

Bharata 2007-11-03T09:26:09Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/a129032e-7dfb-4c7d-9ac1-11a596785c29 2007-10-12T22:00:27Z 2007-03-24T04:51:41Z

<div>http://www.myspace.com/mindofasnail <br/> <br/>yes, i guess we are kinda geeky...</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 2 replies </div>

chloez 2007-03-24T04:51:41Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/e7ff37c1-dfdf-41b7-b11c-777a61bd2d0d 2007-10-12T04:01:09Z 2007-10-12T04:01:09Z

<div>it's been over a month, and we still can't figure it out! <br/>(and we like it!) <br/> <br/>who sent the mystery mail? <br/>(see photos) <br/> <br/>do you have any suspicions?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

chloez 2007-10-12T04:01:09Z foxy woxy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/ac195fa3-b6a1-45a5-b374-fbb1e98ffc47 2007-10-08T21:26:23Z 2007-10-05T07:54:51Z

<div>okay folks, <br/>I just wrote the friggin deepest thing telling my whole experience at the retreat and this computer just ripped you all off from being completely enlightened. <br/> <br/>grrrrrrrowl....pissssss! <br/> <br/>Since I had such a mind blowing time last weekend that I will forge ahead here. <br/>blah blah, reiteration will be pale in comparision, but hopefully you will get the general drift, <br/>y'all seem smart enough. <br/> <br/>So I didn't even plan to go to this wierd all night thingamy, but of course, being thick amid a deep sleep with some of my Beaver Island buddies......I woke up suddenly in the throws of a wicked contortion that I did not even know I could do. I am flexible, and the shadowjammers helped me to realize that. I ended up saying things that I didn't even know I knew, and I witnessed things that I dare not describe. I will only utter them in vague but somewhat deep poetics (apparantely, that's what shadowjam typically is?!) Ranters and ravers fit right in here. The crazier the better's what I learnt! <br/> <br/>It wer 3 days past the Ful of the Moon, and the shadders were thick from the storm outside. <br/>In mine eyes showed the time way back, and the octopus helped me to see the immediacy of reaching. <br/>The dark come close took by the wind come wet. <br/>We all come close. <br/>Jam clattering. <br/>Right at the end, I bout bit the squid with my fangs and got stuck frozen in time, and am stuck there ever since. <br/>It's a good place this. Tentacles round. <br/> <br/>blip! <br/> <br/>yip yip <br/>I had a wicked good time at this retreat and wanna know when the next all nighter is! <br/> <br/>I don't post often never, so to y'all who were there: <br/>comeon! <br/>.....get your reminissences on before you forget.... <br/>spill em! <br/> <br/>~fw</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 4 replies </div>

foxy woxy 2007-10-05T07:54:51Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/b8be9f78-4b2d-4da3-abf0-96511287ec3e 2007-09-12T19:10:38Z 2007-09-10T07:26:56Z

<div>We just came back from a really cool puppet/shadow show at the Fringe festival... <br/>Celui-Qui <br/>there was only 5 people in the audience when it should have been packed! <br/> <br/>there's 2 shows left... <br/>Monday, Sept. 10 – 6:15pm <br/>Thursday, Sept. 13 – 6:30pm <br/>it's at Studio 16 <br/>W 7th &amp; Granville <br/> <br/>Get there early, because they won't let you in if you're late. sit as close to the front as you can. <br/> <br/>here's a write up: <br/>Two beings, a creator and his little dismembered creature, share moments of existence that rise, unturl, and fade away. A wordless piece shaped by a twisted relationship of intimacy, delirium, abandonment, loneliness, and memory. Three performers follow CeLui’s inquisitive eye in this artistic research combining dance, video projection, expressionist shadow theatre, live sound environment and puppetry. <br/> <br/>here's the fringe website: <br/>http://www.vancouverfringe.com/index.php</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

chloez 2007-09-10T07:26:56Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/78c0f555-eb84-4e07-b096-942444382f61 2007-09-04T07:08:00Z 2007-08-30T18:42:39Z

<div>8pm. <br/>our house. <br/>then the beach. <br/>meteor showers! <br/> <br/>bring anything you'd like to share or burn... <br/> <br/>msg for directions!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

chloez 2007-08-30T18:42:39Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/15fe08ce-2ece-4e7d-b4ee-df11c762990d 2007-08-17T05:58:21Z 2007-08-17T05:32:29Z

<div>mythras wrote <br/>today, 12:06 am: <br/> <br/>from beyond... <br/> <br/>shadowjam is happening all the time <br/> <br/>the boy tries to capture the shadow on the screen: <br/>“you can’t catch intangible things.” <br/> <br/>Haurauspicies, the ancient practice <br/>Of reading internal organs <br/>With one’s eyes. The depth-vision, <br/>The shadow-surface. <br/> <br/>Pegasus flys in the White Fibular Center <br/>(where perhaps he’ll find his unicorn). <br/> <br/>The hoary alien sits like the thinker: <br/>“What is it, what is it?” <br/> <br/>The Queen is here. <br/>Is Pegasus to be crowned? <br/>Or a crowned Alien? <br/> <br/>The crown grows up <br/>in the blue chandelier <br/> <br/>All animals are royal <br/> <br/>This one has several limbs, <br/>Some of which it hangs from <br/>Some of which hang from it. <br/> <br/>Here is a the red elixir <br/>And here the blue. <br/>They fell for the drink of the gods. <br/>Now they will be gods. <br/> <br/>In ‘diis animalibus’ it is described <br/>sacrificial elixirs that bring about <br/>the transformations of souls <br/>which are called ‘animales’ <br/>as a reminder of their origin <br/> <br/>The crown became <br/>A ring embryo. . . <br/>To grow and change. <br/> <br/>Wolf-man, <br/>Morphing into and out of existence <br/>Following the moon, <br/>Charting the constellations, <br/>Measuring himself <br/>By the magic of the stars. <br/> <br/>Wolf-man, alone, his name means <br/>Omniscience; he is also the pack. <br/> <br/>Mathematics he created with his Quill <br/>By the power of his learning. <br/> <br/>Then Bertha came and much did she bear. <br/> <br/>Much did turn into numbers <br/>because wolfman designed it that way. <br/> <br/>So long ago, did he forget the earth <br/>so that he could not remember <br/>what he was communicating. <br/> <br/>So he contacted the goddess of communication <br/>to impart a number of wisdom upon the wolf-man. <br/> <br/>Maybe you should write the number down. <br/> <br/>The wolf-man was commended unto the monkeys. <br/> <br/>So that flying knowledge in the spotlight of life --- <br/>who can handle it?-- will land in the chrysalis <br/> <br/>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <br/> <br/>chloe z wrote <br/>today @ 12:21 pm: <br/> <br/>all animals are royal <br/> <br/>16 people! 17 if you count the baby who hasn't been born yet <br/>inter-generational! teens and kids and adults and parents <br/>a pure cacophony of thick rich impulse expression. <br/> <br/>important appearances by: <br/>the princess <br/>wolf man <br/>pegasus <br/>elixirs <br/>birtha <br/>the phone <br/>the moon <br/>liver <br/>the spinning wheel <br/>riding a bike <br/>happy broccoli tree &amp; snail friend <br/>dreams about having dinner on the beach</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

garlic_joy 2007-08-17T05:32:29Z swishhh http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/3e81d9eb-1e40-49b2-b481-ba561b37f5bf 2007-08-14T09:50:36Z 2007-08-14T09:50:36Z

<div>I found a flickr group that has sure captured some shadowy gems>> <br/> <br/>http://flickr.com/groups/poetic-shadows/ <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

swishhh 2007-08-14T09:50:36Z JessetheVessel http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/ea9cc7f4-d3b2-40f7-80d4-6b8fd9fd7f34 2007-07-27T05:06:52Z 2007-07-27T05:06:52Z

<div> <br/>In case this very cool little book <br/>has somehow been overlooked: <br/> <br/>"Hand Shadows to be Thrown Upon the Wall" <br/>by Henry Bursill (1859) <br/> <br/>http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12962 <br/> <br/>free to download!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

JessetheVessel 2007-07-27T05:06:52Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/3ac79d81-ca81-4485-8197-ece49a4f05fa 2007-07-27T02:52:52Z 2007-07-18T07:32:40Z

<div>hello from Minnesota! <br/>The snails sure flew far today.... <br/> <br/>Some Airport incidents worth noting: <br/>We just opened our baggage now and found that our overhead projector was really damaged along the way. Glass all shattered when the baggage handlers at the airport tossed it around I guess. Oh well, we figure that it's a good thing, and will help us to become more resourceful while we are here. Stretch our feelers out a bit more. <br/> <br/>This sure is the place to do it.....there are over 500 puppeteers here! <br/> <br/>A bit more weirdness at the airport on the way here was chloe's passport getting ramdomly swabbed for "chemical residues" The alarm started beeping and all her bags were routinely searched on the spot. And since the mind of a snail packs so well and compact, it was great watching the faces of the airport staff when they peeled up all the layers of plastic and wire characters in our puppet suitcase. "what's this?"...."a puppet". "and this?"......."a puppet". <br/> <br/>We've already seen 5 puppet shows and we've only been here for one evening. <br/> <br/>At dinner there was a puppet build into a sort of harp serenading us with high pitched strings... <br/> <br/>Then, <br/>the opening: <br/>imagine a theatre full of puppeteers.....and they're all so exited that we all give standing ovations 4 times just in the opening show.....Sheesh! <br/>Theatrical speech by famous puppeteer...questioning the power of puppet organizations... <br/>Many crazy complex marionettes doing their moves (a horse with flickering ears, marionette literally climbing the puppeteer)... <br/>A giant 5-person puppet busting through a shadow screen... <br/>and the band kicks in! <br/> <br/>We march outside, and there's a belly dancer, then a simple greek shadow comedy, we are served baklava.... <br/> <br/>after that, the most impressive show so far, "Tim &amp; Jim's Electric Noodle Show": <br/>live puppetry, done small &amp; projected big with multiple camera angles that they switch between real time! Satirical parodies, talking couch with sock-monkey side cushion.....cutouts with moving mouths... <br/> <br/>The weather is muggy, it feels like walking around in pudding.....uck. <br/> <br/>Tomorrow we plan on doing some hob-knobbing, take in 9 more puppet shows &amp; a puppet slam, go to some workshops, &amp; maybe figure out what to do about our broken projector...</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 6 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2007-07-18T07:32:40Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/589c74a0-4306-4415-9a54-293b95980792 2007-07-02T01:39:44Z 2007-03-17T16:37:12Z

<div>Mind of a Snail just got accepted to do a workshop at the National Puppeteers of America festival, in Minnesota in July! <br/>woohoo! <br/>here's the website: <br/>http://www.puppetrampage2007.org <br/> <br/>ooo, a whole week of puppets!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 3 replies </div>

chloez 2007-03-17T16:37:12Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/80721c35-0a73-49d9-9abf-39697addd53c 2007-06-28T06:30:29Z 2006-04-19T07:46:01Z

<div>I decree, I love thee <br/>I crave the gradations of grey, the spaces between light and dark spark ripe with fruition <br/>I spout words, unedited, born immediately, born hairy, born heard <br/> <br/>emerging dada blurred <br/> <br/>making patterns from <br/>familiar chaos <br/> <br/>the silence is even stronger <br/>it carries us <br/> <br/>whispering shadows <br/>blistering shadows <br/>wet shivering shadows <br/> <br/>calm mysterious shadows <br/> <br/>let me count the ways <br/>you ghost around my livingroom <br/>briskly crisp</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 2 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2006-04-19T07:46:01Z Christache http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/9823248a-c83e-4a17-8a3b-ce2b58e404f9 2007-06-28T06:16:52Z 2007-06-12T05:19:17Z

<div>Thanks you wizards for your magic at the trout house shadowjam party, it was a dream come true. You are always welcome to come and stir up the objects in our house and cast shadows and spells and make noise and play with toys all night long. We'll be up to the coast soon to see what kind of spiral shell you live in with your shadows. May be not this thursday but around solstice time... <br/> <br/>Love from the Aquarium of Troutfish..see you soon playmakers <br/> <br/>christache</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

Christache 2007-06-12T05:19:17Z Timinus http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/bc3295b4-4901-4ec3-bf05-9deb673fd586 2007-06-23T20:43:56Z 2007-06-23T15:26:23Z

<div>((there is a possibility that you've seen this maybe?)) <br/> <br/>The International Shadow Theatre Center of Germany is working on an updated <br/>list of shadow puppeteers. They have put out the call through the UNIMA <br/>centers in various countries but it is not limited to members. I have <br/>compiled a list of as many shadow puppeteers in the U.S. as I could track <br/>down but since I'm sure I omitted many, I would like to ask that you email <br/>me (dmitri@nwpuppet.org) with: <br/> <br/>Company Name <br/>Contact Name <br/>Mailing Address <br/>Email Address <br/>Website <br/>Phone Number <br/>Fax Number <br/> <br/>My feeling is that priority should be for those who specialize exclusively <br/>in shadow theater but if other puppeteers want to be on the list, I will not <br/>exclude you. Please at least have some work with shadows though. <br/> <br/>If you would like to submit information directly or if you are not in the <br/>U.S., here is the contact info: <br/> <br/>Internationales Schattentheater Zentrum <br/>Rainer Reusch <br/>Wolf?ckerstra?e 23 <br/>D - 73529 Schw?bisch Gm?nd <br/>Tel.: +49-7171 / 86467 <br/>Fax: +49-7171 / 86460 <br/>e-mail: isz@schattentheater.de <br/>Website: http://www.schattentheater.de</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

Timinus 2007-06-23T15:26:23Z mythras http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/60516c22-e809-46ea-a640-a1b3a145328e 2007-06-15T07:30:17Z 2007-06-15T07:09:33Z

<div>1) Hearth fire Ocean with Clay Omphalos and Floating Augenblick splitting Mortal Personae <br/>2) Owl: Omniscience and concealment. The night bearer <br/>3) French is Minerva's Latinic sensuous and provincial Greek. English is more Hermetic. <br/> <br/>Three initiatory (anfanglich) interpretive translations of Heidegger's Der Satz vom Grund: <br/> <br/>1) The path through the shadows: "to enter into the principle of ground as ground of the principle is to approach what appears as a whirlwind (Wirbel). . . it would be fulfilling and useful if we could be swept up quickly into the Wirbel and especially into its eye. For in the eye of the hurricane, as they say, calm prevails. . . this locality of the ground is not yet familiar, just as little the course into the provinces of ground. Take note: the way into the provinces of ground goes through the shadows, where light is held to the limit of being." <br/> <br/>2) Hamann says: "Lucidity is the fitting blending of light and dark." Goethe remarks: "Hamann listens!" <br/> <br/>3) The most concealed truth: "Profound visions light up only in the dark." <br/> <br/>4) Response to the ending-beginning: "The principle of ground as ground of the principle, this odd relation. . . should not surprise us. . . Here something coils in on itself but does not close itself, for it uncoils in the coiling (is a spiralling). . . Here something catches (fangt) itself at its own end. Here is a commencement (Anfang) that is already (spiralling unto) completion" <br/> <br/>Initiating Shadow Jam: <br/> <br/>1) Getting a foothold in the shadows: it is easy to gain a foothold in the shadows if one has good balance. <br/> <br/>2) How to find a path through the shadow: through the lucid blending of light and dark, <br/>there opens a path through the shadows into the provinces of ground. <br/> <br/>3) Stop fanging into my foothold (Keep hands out of the anfang!) <br/> <br/>4) By understanding the sophic underground, the owl turns into a frog. <br/>By instanding the ecstatic fitting-blending of the lucid (Lichtung and Waldung), the frog into an owl. <br/> <br/>5) A commencing spiral closing on the left, empty helium baloons hanging by threads from the heavens on the right. <br/>Let's fills the balloon with helium and use the threads to unriddle the lock on the Anfang device. <br/> <br/>5) In the depth: the muck ball of the earth, a labyrinth of beady threads. <br/>Dive in at any point and they will all lead to the commencement. <br/>Only to the wily mortal of many beginnings does the muckball seem multifarious. <br/> <br/>6) Unfurling just one thread between earth and heaven: do we climb up or dive down to get to the sun? <br/>"The sun is the hearth of being, the dive down into the hearth." <br/>You means into the the dark where profound vision flash up. <br/>"Will you jump with me?" "I will." 1. . . 2. . . 3. . . . <br/> <br/>7) Metagenesthai, gelassenheit (transbirth, releasement): now In a high voice, farewell: I'm fly down the hills. .. where <br/>"I'll keep working on unlocking with these helium powered sky threads the opening-closures of the Anfang device." Until next time. . .</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

mythras 2007-06-15T07:09:33Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/f10eb2a8-405b-458a-94ba-14e5b17d032d 2007-06-05T00:14:33Z 2006-12-09T10:51:50Z

<div>Musical Jam <br/>Improv Shadow puppetry <br/>Storytelling in the moment <br/> <br/>It's a combination of sound and light <br/>quiet and darkness <br/> <br/>Shadowjam can happen anywhere, at any time <br/> <br/>Shadowjam is an experimental art meme inside a serious ritual, inside a silly game, inside a room inside your mind <br/>with an overhead projector. <br/>or a flashlight <br/>or a candle <br/>or the sun <br/> <br/>We play music to go with the visuals <br/>we make visuals fit the sound <br/> <br/>We laugh and tell the story of our senses <br/> <br/>spoons and dinosaurs and crop circles and trees <br/>they're all are alive <br/> <br/>no special skills are required, only a willingness to engage <br/> <br/>we usually have a white sheet strung across the middle of the room... <br/>on one side are the shadow puppeteers, <br/>on the other side are the musicians <br/>the sheet acts as a membrane, <br/> the device through which the puppeteers &amp; musicians communicate. <br/>The stories which emerge can seem random yet can reflect deep personal meaning <br/>because our minds are projecting our own stories into the symbols we see and hear <br/>and revealing the humorous essence of each of our minds <br/> <br/>we make art in the moment <br/> <br/>feel free to add to this post</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 5 replies </div>

chloez 2006-12-09T10:51:50Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/91dbea60-c8c6-4125-8c5d-279b2a681b00 2007-05-21T08:10:06Z 2007-03-17T16:32:28Z

<div>Mind of a Snail is doing a shadowjam workshop in Calgary at a conference: Puppet Power 2007- Puppets as Agents of Social Change <br/>May 25-27 <br/>Here's the listing I posted with the poster: <br/>http://canada.tribe.net/event/Puppet-Power-2007-Puppets-as-Agents-of-Social-Change/canada/4c7cf851-426e-4bec-835d-8fe678a9edd5 <br/> <br/>the website for more details is: <br/>www.wppuppet.com <br/> <br/>... <br/>(albertan alert! we're planning to do an open shadowjam somewhere in or around Calgary on the Saturday night, location yet to be determined)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

chloez 2007-03-17T16:32:28Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/996dc234-ad1b-468f-9783-891304fdf585 2007-05-09T22:54:41Z 2007-04-28T20:00:32Z

<div>Hey! <br/>we wanna have a shadowjam sat, may 5th <br/>8-10pm <br/>at our home near sechelt (msg me for directions) <br/> <br/>bring something plastic if you like <br/> <br/> <br/>we're going to be making a new show all about the idea of "plastic" <br/>so we want to play with plastic possibilities <br/>plastic is weird! <br/>and looks great in the shadows</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 4 replies </div>

chloez 2007-04-28T20:00:32Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/1eb31fbb-648b-43d2-89b6-db84fbd5111f 2007-04-24T22:39:02Z 2007-04-13T20:57:28Z

<div>Saturday, April 21st <br/>Doors at 6:30, performance at 7:00 <br/>Tix $7-$10 <br/> <br/>This is a Dance performance extravaganza <br/>envisioned by Aprile Dunlop, <br/>with participation from a number of awesome community performers and children <br/> <br/>it'll be circus-y! costumified! dances, each one of them different! <br/>there will be many a wheel ...a turning and a turning. <br/> <br/>(Mind of a Snail will be there, shadowjamming behind the whole shabang...)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 4 replies </div>

chloez 2007-04-13T20:57:28Z mythras http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/5a123f47-b817-4868-bdb8-62006243fcd2 2007-04-23T04:59:30Z 2007-03-05T06:11:24Z

<div>Shadows, Images, Everywhere <br/>Revealing Theater of the Nation Station <br/>In the Living Room, a Journey <br/>Through the Walls, the Staging <br/>At the Beach, the Illusory True <br/>Natural Mortal Immortal <br/>Puppeteers, most glowing, most knowing, <br/>They follow my faces <br/>I follow their graces <br/>Down by the ocean, <br/>We see the misfits that are. <br/> <br/>Enveloper, world-illusion <br/>Grandmother, arachnid messengers, <br/>tracings of the queen's ever promising crown <br/> <br/>Amidst puppets that keep on eating, and waste that keeps on falling through, <br/>What final orientation receives the nourishing stages? <br/> <br/>Recording is the beginning of metaphysics. <br/>Once there was not metaphysics, as still archaic forces rule. <br/>And in the future there will be no metaphysics once more. <br/>Yet still gleaming like nightshade is the time of metaphysics, <br/>While crossing is anchoring of the recording world. <br/> <br/>Entry into the all-heard, where heaven sponds only present voices <br/>And the musers trace, as the pharmakeus lace, the gift of time. <br/> <br/>Gods hide in the life of symptoms <br/>Resting after the great underworld dance <br/>In which they heard so many conversations <br/>In which they learned the secrets of your location <br/>In which they mapped the caves of all wounded animals <br/> <br/>Goddess alone sings through the open terrace above convalescence <br/>In floating awareness of constellations blessedness. <br/> <br/>Everywhere finding gems <br/>Her promises sift and return <br/>through all that is mortal in time. <br/> <br/>Friends already far ahead, wait at the delayed threshold <br/>For new arrivals, warbling witchs in care’s maelstrom. <br/> <br/>We watch video screens of capillaries dim augurs, <br/>Owl wings of emergency, billowing-receding <br/>through the clouds, in phantastic truths <br/> <br/>In all places, we hear audio dreams, and journey through the nearing life <br/>of contrapuntal counterparted pals; <br/>poetry ever living on <br/>In rhythmed fragments. <br/> <br/>Friends most uncanny, ready for anything, <br/>Discerning-undiscerning, full of cosmos, rendering rendezvous <br/> <br/>Don’t assume they see you seeing, out in the Open <br/>Since you risked it, the hidden transfiguration <br/>As what once happened in dances, now with greater freedom <br/>In nature’s all abundant bourne, learn singing. <br/> <br/>Questioning life makes sense of the mortal calling <br/>But the rage of divinities carries on in what is hidden from us. <br/>And they will not abandon, not one of us, so long as they are present, <br/>But rather force generation into the circling of perspectives all. <br/> <br/>O abandoned, to see the Intime <br/>Of hidden handlings knowing cradling organs. <br/>Healing is possible through the Open vessels <br/>As there is no underworld scene that does not become <br/>The giving pharmakon for the builders of time. <br/> <br/>The coloured princes, who dance <br/>the hidden life, and know <br/>repositories of Trauma, <br/>in mycellial flood and food. <br/> <br/>O perfection of what’s been resting in fabrick of exile <br/>And sweet return to the sources of all beginnings, to a cosmos terrestrial. <br/> <br/>Will there be a dawn in which your perpetual orientation <br/>lets gods and mortal celebrate <br/>The quickening of a returning-departure without end? <br/> <br/>The house is asleep, the paintings are resting, <br/>It seems in a few postures. But goddesses dwell within <br/>And the feast day brings the walls alive with fables. <br/> <br/>May the painters vision never cease <br/>as the worlders heal sighted signs <br/>in gratitude for the earth of changes <br/>that it honoured the sacrifice. <br/> <br/>We cannot prevent the dusking by will alone, since fragments <br/>Of the symbol go Inside with the departed, <br/>As the world’s hearth gleams ashen at the perimeter of grottoes. <br/> <br/>Nothing forgets <br/>Nothing is in keeping with the whole superimposition <br/>So the Inverval, Daimon, all gracious genius, the Last One, <br/>Brings with it the labyrinth of future time </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 6 replies </div>

mythras 2007-03-05T06:11:24Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/87a6cb80-7e10-4f25-af7c-e6ab95652a30 2007-04-13T21:02:00Z 2007-04-04T00:16:50Z

<div>"We’re All In This Together" <br/>The Shadows Project: Addiction and Recovery <br/> <br/>Featuring live music, a giant shadow screen, and a large cast of over thirty community actors, shadow-casters and musicians, this contemporary fable explores two families from different social backgrounds who encounter humanity’s struggle with addiction. Out of the shadows emerge their dreams and memories, fears, hopes and visions. <br/> <br/>April 19-29, 2007 <br/>Thursdays through Sundays, 8:00 pm <br/>Russian Hall <br/>600 Campbell Street, Vancouver <br/> <br/>Suggested Donation $5 - 20.00 <br/>Reservations recommended 604-254-6911 <br/> <br/>http://www.vancouvermovingtheatre.com/</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

garlic_joy 2007-04-04T00:16:50Z mythras http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/d6574870-aedf-4e8c-afd6-45c061c7c2ac 2007-04-08T19:03:38Z 2007-01-30T06:20:35Z

<div>"Everyday opinion see in the shadow only the lack of light, if not light's complete denial. In truth, however, the shadow is a manifest, though impenetrable, testimony to the concealed emitting of light. In keeping with this concept of the shadow, we experience the incalculable as that which, withdrawn from represention, is nevertheless manifest in whatever is, pointing to Being, which remains concealed." (Heidegger)</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 2 replies </div>

mythras 2007-01-30T06:20:35Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/b6736435-71d4-4140-9eb6-2bfec78b9d9b 2007-04-04T07:00:31Z 2007-03-31T07:21:49Z

<div>come be spontaneous with us this sunday! <br/>shadowjam around 8 pm <br/>message for directions .... <br/>yesss <br/>we need this</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 2 replies </div>

chloez 2007-03-31T07:21:49Z JessetheVessel http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/5f31c7c9-bd44-4d68-8b36-a60accee76e4 2007-04-02T02:17:00Z 2007-03-22T02:23:16Z

<div> <br/>for the de-tales: <br/> <br/>http://people.tribe.net/jessethevessel/blog/0c3a0e48-2d3e-47ca-ac78-41129bdf6fad <br/> <br/>and check out the shadowjam album for some snapshots!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 3 replies </div>

JessetheVessel 2007-03-22T02:23:16Z JessetheVessel http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/90ef6808-f2db-4cc9-ac93-05ba67a09dcf 2007-03-14T07:50:57Z 2007-03-13T19:04:50Z

<div>I was having a discussion with my upstairs neighbor, Myriam, and it went something like this: <br/> <br/>me: why, hello myriam - however are you doing this morning?! <br/> <br/>myriam: i'm getting along swimmingly, and I don't mind adding that I'm rather excited! <br/> <br/>me: oh? well you know what they sometimes say - excitment is often a sure sign of a rather wonderful future event. <br/> <br/>myriam: indeed they do! <br/> <br/>me: and might this be so in your case? <br/> <br/>myriam: why, yes - since you've been so bold as to inquire directly, i might as well announce right here on the doorstep that the vines of my wonderful festival are on the verge of bearing a not-altogether inconspicuous fruit! <br/> <br/>me: i am more than ears myriam - please, do go on... <br/> <br/>myriam: well, in hardly more than a week's time, In the House will be welcoming (in warm fashion) Mind of a Snail to perform some quizical and curious puppetry magic! <br/> <br/>me: (speechless) <br/> <br/>myriam: no, it's entirely and perfectly true! <br/> <br/>me: i must go at once and verify this fantastic claim... (runs off, quite rudely) <br/> <br/> <br/>And so?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

JessetheVessel 2007-03-13T19:04:50Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/222a1e82-1a24-447f-9b87-c491174c60ca 2007-02-25T06:58:16Z 2007-02-10T17:59:47Z

<div>Hey my friends, <br/>We want to invite you to come over Saturday, February 24th to help celebrate our Birthdays!! <br/>I'm gonna be 28 the day before, &amp; 3 days later jessica's turning 27... <br/> <br/>Weird &amp; wonderful things shall occur.... <br/>expect food, frenzy, late night shadowjamming, DJ Archaeopteryx experiments, musical fools <br/> <br/>more info to come!! <br/> <br/>Circle the day, we like friends <br/> <br/>msg me for directions</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 3 replies </div>

chloez 2007-02-10T17:59:47Z mythras http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/23b01557-cb68-4661-814d-e055e6532559 2007-02-17T05:27:11Z 2007-02-14T02:36:00Z

<div>Replace idealism with the singing machine cosmos. <br/>Our (faciliator) opens the circle to our “natural” sources of light. <br/> <br/>A depth window of naturality and a circle of red “Exit” signs. <br/>Sounds, the banging of doors. Some exiting the stage left. <br/>I see the Shadowlife of the College through the lights and sounds. <br/>We focus on the Branches as they sway across the windowpanes. <br/>We become the sounds these images make. <br/> <br/>We evolve a saying for water, is there enough. . .? <br/>while in the background of nature, a deep icy spring, <br/>the question of a source without end, remains poised. <br/> <br/>Then comes a man to the window, a spook. <br/>He knocks at the Window. He lives in the Tower. <br/>“What’s in there?” There is something in his Eyes. <br/>An Ice, Keys to unlock the Tower. <br/> <br/>He slowly opens the window <br/>to the danger of all existing light, <br/>the imprint of light in stones. <br/> <br/>But it is so bright outside the Tower, we go back inside. <br/>There are so many keys for those who use their hands as feet, <br/>and their soles as their shoes. <br/> <br/>Oh, foothold. Soles on your shoes. <br/>Cinderella of the foothold. While Feet <br/>of the Tower infant hover in original wailing, the fools. <br/> <br/>Her feet, hands, soles, shoes, <br/>everything was in her Eyes. <br/> <br/>“Song is in your eyes.” <br/> <br/>Your soul in the tower <br/>until messengers arrive. . . <br/> <br/>A woman invites another for tea, other are having tea too. <br/>While the ocean gathers strongly, submergingly muffle. <br/> <br/>A street, a house, all topsy turvy, <br/>With arcs for heavens or for house’s tops, <br/>While the boarders, wandering glide. <br/> <br/>O Tower, you wish to live nature’s fountain, <br/>And so you gather keys, so many. <br/>Yet you cannot prevent the emergency exit <br/>breaking into the scenes with the signal wavering urban world. <br/> <br/>So it is time for a student protest: <br/>“Get High”, “What was the second sign?” <br/>“The Third could not be read.” <br/>You, the eraser of signs, are caught. <br/> <br/>The waters flow again clear as streams. <br/> <br/>The Salmon is dreaming of Television. <br/> <br/>From his head grows the Tree that is on the Television. <br/> <br/>On the Tree lives the big head man who escapes Television. <br/> <br/>In the Tree, he finds the Tower, the Asylum. <br/> <br/>From the Asylum windows he hears outside his windows, <br/>those who tell him they see him on television. <br/> <br/>The Salmon is dreaming of Television, again. <br/>O fish of knowledge, what does it mean, <br/>That your earth of rivers knows our channels <br/>Knows our stations, and our Chanjnis. . . <br/> <br/>What’s the next constellation? <br/> <br/>Pisces, rising in the Blue Moon. <br/>“Blue Moon, always rising alone, <br/>Without a dream in my heart <br/>Without a love of my own.” <br/> <br/>In the clear nightsky <br/>stars are windows <br/>keys are snails. <br/> <br/>“There are always bigger fish in the sea.” <br/> <br/>What about the dog-star? <br/> <br/>A Canvas of love, many creatures, <br/>A thick body, suppliant before heavens, <br/>with a dog, to form a trinity with the sleeper. <br/> <br/>Standing he receives blessing from the dog, <br/>from the god of the pharaohs upside down <br/>for the city of a people nestled in rivers. <br/> <br/>From the deep of heaven’s blue, <br/>A city gushes triumphant, a pharaoh <br/>Rights himself, salmon and the eagle, dog and snail, <br/>all join in the the Imperial Wave, <br/>loud thunderclaps and song through the ex-iting windows of asylum. <br/> <br/>Then silence, return to the first “natural” source of light. <br/> <br/>Three Graces, three fates at the Windows dancing origin, <br/>where before there was only the stranger. Life more blessed. <br/> <br/>Now they are coming home. Though eternal recurrence <br/>is the name of emergency, yet calm is her trust in the shadows, <br/>as she lets the Green Eye rise out of the crystal peaks of the forest. <br/> <br/>Silence at the tips of branches <br/>White hands draw close the new forest <br/>and voices are heard soundingy. <br/> <br/>Drawing the wellspring <br/>of background into foreground <br/>she frees the wilder essences. <br/> <br/>Nature’s Eye Nucleus Placenta StarCloud <br/>cycles amidst sources of light <br/>nearing and gaining distance <br/>From the Center’s milky rind. <br/> <br/>Hands cup the light, red the center of all that's alive. <br/>Friends free the military game, restoring holy love <br/>to those blinded for too much willingness to serve. <br/> <br/>Dear ones, hold this light, the heart. <br/>The depth of phantasia shines through the museum. <br/>Song of native voices, presence of holy dances, <br/>gentle miracles, shadowjam without end. <br/> <br/>Minutes of the committee meeting find their way through the windows, <br/>though still, as selfsubscribed scribes, the University speaks in frames. <br/> <br/>Cecil and Ida Green, the founders of this college, <br/>how much their portrait looks like the Robot King and Queen. <br/>A Liar-flip, a lyre-tip, an American way, a Cor(o)ner’s way. <br/>A coronation cradle, tagged and dated, a crystal freeze, a gushing source of warm red shades. <br/> <br/>The best is in beginning, middle, and end. <br/> <br/>A thinker walks away with a demented ring on which graces medicines grows.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

mythras 2007-02-14T02:36:00Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/0c6c6e66-af3a-437f-b1ba-98c2871b0c1b 2007-02-12T05:31:19Z 2007-02-06T07:19:29Z

<div>We're getting shadowy at the Waldorf's Wahini room this weekend! <br/> <br/>Here's the event listing: <br/>http://vancouver.tribe.net/event/Feb-10-Stop-the-Highway-PARTY-at-WALDORF/vancouver-bc/21328228-bdd8-4e60-a8ee-aa6548c497fe <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>The Work Less Party and Gatewaysucks.org entice you to Come get tropical at another climate-changing <br/> <br/>STOP THE HIGHWAY PARTY! <br/>SATURDAY FEB. 10 <br/> <br/>At the fabulous WALDORF - 1489 E. Hastings 1 bl. E. of Clark <br/>Doors 8:30 (til 2am) * $15 at door * $12 in advance at gatewaysucks.org <br/>or the Vegetarian Resource Centre, 2250 Commercial Dr. <br/> <br/>DID YOU KNOW the BC Govt. wants to blast more freeways through our city? Crazy but true. But it's NOT a done deal. We can stop this madness. Say NO to highway-building -- come out and shake your ass. <br/> <br/>To see video of the last Stop the Highway Party visit www.youtube.com/watch <br/> <br/>Featuring two rooms full of East Van's hottest freaks, stoked to <br/>shake the foundations. <br/> <br/>In the POLYNESIAN ROOM - crunching the concrete with <br/> <br/>* ALL PURPOSE - 7-piece freeflyin funkadelica <br/>* Timothy Wisdom - allout dancefloor mayhem <br/>* Language Arts - art/folk/jazzhop stylins <br/>* DJ Corrior - block party breaks <br/>* Your Little Pony - takin' it OFF <br/> <br/>In the WAHINI ROOM - smoothin' it down with <br/> <br/>* Mazeguider - chill-side techno <br/>* Nomadic Noize - global gypsy grooves <br/>* Tarran the Tailor - e.van eclectic <br/>* Mind of a Snail - shadow theatre <br/>* Dawn &amp; Ryan - jugglymagicshow <br/>* Cornerstone - acapella roots liberation <br/>* Sunskript (Rup Sidhu) - live-loopin-beatboxin fun <br/> <br/>Visuals by Todd Roberts <br/> <br/>Plus make-yer-own SUPERHERO CAPE! and HOCKEY. And more. <br/> <br/>To find out about The Gateway Project visit www.GatewaySucks.org <br/>To see video of the last Stop the Highway Party visit <br/>www.youtube.com/watch</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 2 replies </div>

chloez 2007-02-06T07:19:29Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/97eae9fb-d1e5-40be-bb07-a4d5414ea33f 2007-02-03T19:42:23Z 2007-01-22T05:50:15Z

<div>Hey all, <br/>This looks pretty cool: <br/> <br/>>From: &amp;lt;info@gvpta.ca> <br/>>To: &amp;lt;info@gvpta.ca> <br/>>Subject: VMT - Public Master Class on Shadow Theatre with Larry Reed <br/>>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:54:00 -0800 <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> Vancouver Moving Theatre, in cooperation with Carnegie Community Centre <br/>> <br/>> presents <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> PUBLIC MASTER CLASS ON SHADOW THEATRE <br/>> <br/>> with Larry Reed <br/>> <br/>> &amp; members of the Shadows Project creative team <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 7-9 PM <br/>> <br/>> Admission is by donation! All Welcome <br/>> <br/>> Russian Hall, 600 Campbell Street <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> O Look behind the screen into theatre’s cheapest special effect <br/>> <br/>> O Learn about tricks of the trade for shadow theatre production <br/>> <br/>> O Take a sneak peak at images in development for the Shadows <br/>>Project <br/>> <br/>> O Meet the artistic team who is working on the project <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> Vancouver Moving Theatre is bringing Larry Reed to the Downtown Eastside <br/>>to workshop images for The Shadows Project: a two year project to create <br/>>an original shadow theatre play for the Downtown Eastside that sheds light <br/>>on issues surrounding addiction and recovery. The workshop will involve <br/>>the artistic team and a small group of community members involved in the <br/>>project. Produced by Vancouver Moving Theatre working in cooperation with <br/>>the Carnegie Community Centre, the play will premiere at the Russian Hall <br/>>April 19-29, 2007. <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> A shadow play for the Downtown Eastside <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> <br/>> *** <br/>> <br/>> The Shadows Project is generously supported by the Canada Council, BC <br/>>Arts Council, City of Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs, Vancouver <br/>>Foundation, Hamber Foundation, Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation and <br/>>ArtsNow.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 2 replies </div>

chloez 2007-01-22T05:50:15Z mythras http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/cf8f41da-3feb-4997-a3e6-009e2ada0c4b 2007-01-22T22:05:07Z 2007-01-22T21:53:27Z

<div>Conceived, created, constructed and performed by The Old Trout Puppet Workshop <br/> <br/>"One of the strangest and most compelling performances of the year." - Monday Magazine <br/> <br/>January 25 - 27, 8pm <br/>Vancouver East Cultural Centre <br/> <br/>Matinee <br/>Saturday, January 27, 4pm <br/> <br/>Post-show Talkback <br/>Friday, January 26 <br/> <br/>Direction Tim Sutherland <br/>Set Design The Old Trouts <br/>Costume Design Jen Gareau <br/>Lighting Design Cimmeron Meyer <br/>The Old Trouts Peter Balkwill, <br/>Bobby Hall, Pityu Kenderes, <br/>Judd Palmer with Mitch Craib <br/> <br/>They're back! An audience favourite from last year's PuSh Festival, Famous Puppet Death Scenes will challenge everything you thought you knew about mortality-and about puppets. The Old Trouts and their consistently inventive approach to puppetry promise nothing less than a cure for your fear of death. No more anxiety about difficult choices, no more dreading birthdays, no more desperate pleas for immortality through fame, art, or progeny. Through a collection of famous scenes culled from the absolute best puppet shows in history, The Old Trouts will deconstruct your traumatized psyche and reconstruct you so that death means nothing to you anymore. Famous Puppet Death Scenes premiered in 2006 and has toured to rave reviews throughout western Canada. <br/> <br/>The Old Trouts launch forth to explore the outer edges of the puppet medium, and to create original, unique, and exuberant art. An Old Trout show strives for delightful allegory, joyful tragedy, and purity of spirit. They have performed to rave reviews at festivals across the country. www.theoldtrouts.org <br/> <br/>Tickets $26.00/20.00</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

mythras 2007-01-22T21:53:27Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/19b052f5-fc47-4d18-88c9-e7a3f9dd54f8 2007-01-22T21:51:58Z 2007-01-22T05:53:27Z

<div>This was forwarded to me as well: <br/>..... <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>Vancouver Moving Theatre &amp; Carnegie Community Centre <br/> <br/>present <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>PUBLIC TALK ON SHADOW THEATRE w/ Larry Reed <br/> <br/>&amp; <br/> <br/>NEGOTIATING COLLABORATIVE CREATION w/ Kim Collier <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main Street <br/> <br/>FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 7:30 PM <br/> <br/>ADMISSION IS FREE – ALL WELCOME! <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>Kim Collier is an award winning director of stage and film who directed <br/>Brilliant, The Score, The One that Got Away, and Studies in Motion: The <br/>Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge. She is co-founder of the collective who run <br/>Electric Company Theatre - a Vancouver group who specialize in <br/>collaborative creation, from creation of the story and writing of its <br/>dialogue to imagining the staging and developing the design. <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>Larry Reed, founder of San Francisco’s ShadowLight Productions, specializes <br/>in shadow theatre for stage, opera and film. He collaborates with all kinds <br/>of folk - from Asian / western opera singers to Balinese dancers, from Karuk <br/>Nation and Latino storytellers to jazz musicians. Called “a genius with <br/>light and motion”, he is dedicated to bringing the stories of the world to <br/>light. He will share his creative journey and some of the “ins and outs” of <br/>theatre’s cheapest “special effect”. <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>*** <br/> <br/>The Shadows Project is generously supported by the Canada Council, BC Arts <br/>Council, City of Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs, Vancouver Foundation, <br/> Hamber Foundation, Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation and ArtsNow. <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>forwarded by: <br/> <br/>Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance <br/> <br/>www.gvpta.ca</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

chloez 2007-01-22T05:53:27Z mythras http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/d58db3c8-d932-4db0-9f42-c1edf888fe93 2007-01-18T05:58:41Z 2007-01-18T05:58:41Z

<div>"Remember the song of Ariadne from the mouth of an Old Sorceror: here, two masks are superimposed -- that of a young woman, almost of a Kore, which has just been laid over the mask of an old man. The actor must play the role of an old man playing the role of the Kore. Here too, it is a matter of filling the inner emptiness of the mask within a theatrical space: by multiplying the superimposed masks and inscribing the omnipresence of Dionysus in that superimposition, by inserting both the infinity of real movement and the form of the absolute difference given in the repetition of eternal return." (Deleuze speaking of Nietzsche in Difference and Repetition, Introduction) <br/> <br/>This passage always makes me think a little of custodian and snail. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

mythras 2007-01-18T05:58:41Z mythras http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/ff1f5789-c11e-4a14-a6f9-698c2d74774d 2007-01-18T05:46:41Z 2007-01-18T05:46:41Z

<div>http://www.artofbleeding.com/introducing-aob.html</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

mythras 2007-01-18T05:46:41Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/421d6a01-511d-4809-bea9-88aec1787091 2007-01-12T07:38:32Z 2007-01-12T07:38:32Z

<div>For some reason i wanted to start a new "next shadowjam" thread!!! Only using lots of exclamation points!!!.. because i am very excited about shadowjam!!! so, here it is!!!! <br/> <br/>Next Shadowjam, this time with food mastication beforehand! <br/>Thursday, January 18th... New Moon <br/>At our home near sechelt (msg me for directions) <br/>Potluck around 6 pm or so... <br/>shadowjam starts around 8 pm <br/> <br/>topics <br/> "The Power of Numbers" -in honor of keeping track and adding up <br/> "X-Ray machine" -in honor of the unveiling of the first X-ray machine, 111 years ago <br/> <br/>i hope y'all can make it!!!! <br/>!!!!!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

chloez 2007-01-12T07:38:32Z Treigh http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/3ebcc06e-6926-4be9-8eea-0cd71c837688 2007-01-11T10:02:22Z 2006-12-10T00:41:16Z

<div>sooooo hi! <br/>i get to meet all you scallywags at intention! <br/>i'm quite the fan of shadowpuppet tomfoolery and can not wait to throw down with all ya'll! <br/>I'm livin (currently) in Oregon and have been travelling a whole lot this past year. <br/>Been lookin' so very forward to checkin' out your shadowjam goodness and oh how i wish i was there for your event on sunday. <br/>I don't know what day i'll be arriving, but i shall definatly be seeking you on the radar! <br/>any wants.....needs.....wishes....supplies...from the states? <br/>ready to rock! <br/>bring it! <br/>Treigh</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 3 replies </div>

Treigh 2006-12-10T00:41:16Z mythras http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/faf7b4f9-eb46-4441-9937-e0d41b6dc214 2007-01-08T22:56:12Z 2007-01-05T19:57:04Z

<div>Shadowcaptions: <br/> <br/>Roosters in the blueband, <br/>roosters in the rainbowband. <br/> <br/>Humans works through the blueband for a snail. <br/>Earthen red. Egg beneath (still windowed). <br/> <br/>Humans emerges from building <br/>to cathedral chambers (still windowed). . . (as artists . . .) <br/> <br/>Pink gloves of a goddess but ready for cathedral surgery. <br/> <br/>They remain in the symbolic, women, they continue there, always. . <br/>riding the sacred calf like a toy. . . <br/> <br/>Green fog surrounds the maniac, <br/>while the mother turns the scissors. <br/>She caresses so subtly ways so that all the worlds <br/>you have experienced are present. <br/> <br/>She takes care of the touchstone. <br/>But it is the trees that sway with her fingers, <br/>They grow without him, as she touches. <br/> <br/>Then she vanishes, though it is her danceunderground. <br/>They know the secrets now <br/>because they awoke through the deserted windows of this desert skull. <br/> <br/>While the tangle emerges in the spiral of her headdress, <br/>in the scorpio promise of her (in)finity. <br/> <br/>The X was always the mark of the man who was to be most honoured. Her fingers follow the ways of these traces. <br/> <br/>Cheiroenophansia: <br/>the capital head, <br/>blood red, <br/>in the loving scaffold of the earth. <br/> <br/>A little man, a spot of red, <br/>And the creatures of promise <br/> <br/>Snipping the wires is the word. <br/>So that baby birds must find their way in the night’s dew. <br/> <br/>We are for tears <br/>We are for puppets <br/> <br/>These birds which are the touches on the head of man. <br/>Thinker: hiccup on the surface of earth. <br/>We abandon you, we thoughts, again. <br/> <br/>The most original, the downtrodden <br/>Too much scented for. . . <br/> <br/>Asylum dissociated into Phantasia <br/>Wellsprings, assured of soul. <br/> <br/>A stag in Artemisian wilderness difficult to tag, <br/>she wants the horn of the unicorn yet runs. <br/>Two stags share the spiral heath: <br/>but is that the mystery of phallus and animal, in gestu? <br/> <br/>In the hospital, croons <br/>Filaments of fragmentation freakmenting <br/> <br/>Symbolic pathways converge and diverge through chosen friends. <br/>I danced with the muse-friends constellations <br/>just as once I intuited the constellations of the beloved. <br/>Like sky, a dark goddess, that women keep. <br/>With joy the rest of every cell in the origin <br/>Of the meta creep (*creep is an IndoEuropean word meaning to move across the ground) <br/> <br/>And Daughter, ever ready with the bow, <br/>hesitant in opening the great chamber at the center of the feast. <br/>Where the curricula of all schema of the images of history <br/>Become momento, <br/>Tender loving and textual <br/>Teleapaphones of the ruffling <br/>Path that eyes me seeing <br/>Lessons of camouflage. <br/> <br/> <br/>Night mania: <br/> <br/>The last compliment <br/>they give in the world <br/>as we know it <br/>is mania, <br/>that is the final <br/>word of approval. <br/> <br/>As deep as the flow <br/>is hospitalization, <br/>is Eternal Return. <br/> <br/>So Leave the great lion be. <br/>And surround inexhaustibly <br/>The surrounded one to whom <br/>Death will give only its eyes. <br/> <br/>Sleeping bodies <br/>Shout strange potentialities <br/>to ask about the source <br/>of the underwordly vinery <br/>that distills <br/>essential origins <br/>to whole. <br/> <br/>To think clouds, <br/>then all can help <br/>in condensation <br/> <br/>Let them care for the banished <br/> <br/>While the maniacs cast the spells <br/>that won’t let them sleep. <br/>And suffer the whole last, ready for the blitz. <br/>For there are no accomplishments <br/>at end and at beginning, none. <br/> <br/>So enjoy this more unthinkable cacophony <br/>under the name of invisible harmony. <br/> <br/>That we may follow ourselves into the book, <br/>learning each of the gestures <br/>that bring us into the book. <br/> <br/>Writing tears don’t leave a mark, <br/>but only a Wellspring. <br/> <br/> <br/>The Thraiai <br/> <br/>Jamming with dearest. <br/>They make the sounds of all beginning. <br/>That the messenger brought them together <br/>is the happiest, best to be hoped for. <br/> <br/>So singular, not even Graces can comprehend it, but the Thraiai. <br/>Reminding the touchstone: “Socrates, learn music.” <br/>And drawing first tears with the catharmoi <br/>of the Cunic and the Schema, In floating phusiologoi, where worlds are <br/> <br/> <br/>Midnight Power Outage <br/> <br/>Shadow-jam continuance <br/>with drummers, dancers, and shouters, <br/>Apocalyptic beginning of more light <br/>in the darker bodies that surround. <br/> <br/>Wounded and loving, trauma akashai, we follow. <br/>Into the twigs and braches of time's first illumination <br/> <br/>Crystalline forest, and then, <br/>out of the desert of plenty, <br/>an island starts to appear <br/> <br/>It emerges to see children clipping, <br/>tagging insensate winged ones <br/>Amidst the forest birds and DJ ARCHAEOPTERYX. <br/> <br/>Then power returns, <br/>And Children recollect <br/>The pegs of time <br/>From the timeless-time man. <br/> <br/> <br/>"The rhythmic fountains at the origin of time are sealed, <br/>we follow them back through the shadowy waves of the revealed" </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

mythras 2007-01-05T19:57:04Z morgan_m http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/882cd683-c740-49d2-a127-8b17eb875104 2007-01-08T21:38:10Z 2007-01-05T09:28:57Z

<div>How much fun can you have with a bunch of shadow puppet ters? Well, spend 5 days sleeping in the same room and find out. I did and it was fantastic! I am inspired to project paper cutouts onto my wall, and allow my wildest fantasies to come to life.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

morgan_m 2007-01-05T09:28:57Z sugarsink http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/47dd5d85-2764-4224-a149-0c5027f537d4 2007-01-05T18:41:33Z 2007-01-04T06:12:22Z

<div>I must say i love shadow puppets. love making them and love watching them. where do you all meet? Do you put on shows?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 2 replies </div>

sugarsink 2007-01-04T06:12:22Z silvi http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/35523e2f-21c1-4ca7-9700-de5e431c370c 2006-12-22T05:19:28Z 2006-10-16T06:48:22Z

<div>hey all you players with light! <br/>i have come into posession of a mighty lil' collection of coloured celophane jells (thanks to neighbours who throw out, and to neighbours who scrounge!) <br/> <br/>+ i've got an overhead projector n' sum scissors. <br/>so i'm thinkin of cartin' these all to intention this year <br/>~~visuals for the castle (small stage) n' fishbowl (party cabin of luv)~~ <br/>`````rockn'roll perticipation styles <br/>heads up n' scissorz aute!! <br/> <br/>(heads up) <br/> <br/>here's intention's site from last year, '''case yr curiosity's been tickled: http://www.tribalharmonix.org/events/intention7/</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 19 replies </div>

silvi 2006-10-16T06:48:22Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/a4567933-78db-4d14-9668-c21765c105fc 2006-12-13T19:32:06Z 2006-11-29T05:57:37Z

<div>watch out for an upcoming shadowjam at the Listening post, <br/> A Sunday eve soon in Roberts Creek at the Gumboot, yo.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 4 replies </div>

chloez 2006-11-29T05:57:37Z silvi http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/54e309f5-9963-4906-9672-56ca148a48d6 2006-12-02T20:07:23Z 2006-11-29T09:28:41Z

<div>hey, i know this is last-minute, but i just heard about someone named Heri Dono who's had a residency at the Western Front (303 East 8th Ave. in Vancouver) for the month of November. <br/> <br/>There's a performance tomorrow night at 9:00.. at the Western front (303 e. 8th). $10 or $5 if you're a student/member <br/> <br/>it's called Goro Goro the Puppet Project, here's some more info: http://front.bc.ca/mediaarts/events/3124</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

silvi 2006-11-29T09:28:41Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/b89d4b30-dc54-4b88-b3ba-afaa4384f5f5 2006-11-27T06:53:33Z 2006-04-13T01:36:18Z

<div>Next one is Weds, April 19th <br/>8-10pm <br/>at chloe+jessica's house. <br/> <br/>What should our theme be?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 20 replies </div>

chloez 2006-04-13T01:36:18Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/6f695d5b-063d-4d31-bb0b-888f61922674 2006-10-26T09:21:59Z 2006-10-24T19:19:50Z

<div>Jessica &amp; i got hired to do a show <br/> for Sunhaven school's sugar-free halloween party <br/> They show they'd like us to do requires 3 people, <br/> and unfortunately, Jennifer, who has done this show before is outta town. <br/> <br/>So we need someone to come hang out &amp; practice one day this week <br/> (everything is made &amp; we can teach you your part) <br/>and then, perform with us on halloween probably around 8, no later then 9. <br/> <br/>It's a 15 minute show about the moon called "collecting the sky". <br/>you'd get to be a sea gull, a moon being, a giant toe whose toe nails get clipped. <br/>It's fun! and there's a bit of $ for you too.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

chloez 2006-10-24T19:19:50Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/b1851f8f-5d7a-45e8-9149-9555d626dba2 2006-10-19T03:54:14Z 2006-10-03T20:41:27Z

<div>Okay, it's been Wednesdays every 2nd week for a whole year... <br/> Lets try something new! <br/>Tuesdays? Thursdays? Sundays? <br/> Random? <br/>One Saturday a month &amp; one weekday? <br/> <br/>Shadowjam every day? <br/> <br/>Maybe a regular city-side jam every month? <br/>Rotating locations? <br/> <br/>What works for you? <br/>What would you come to?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 4 replies </div>

chloez 2006-10-03T20:41:27Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/bd5c53b6-5107-4a03-a6cd-8a09827379bf 2006-10-19T00:38:59Z 2006-04-21T17:18:33Z

<div>post-meta about this week's shadowjam (april 19th)>>(violence on mother earth theme) <br/> <br/>I arrived late, but not too late........ <br/>The candlelit warm-up session was so subtle and strong. <br/>We crafted in a frenzy. I fixed up a wounded dinosaur, there was a spaceman and a spaceship born, along with a spirited halloween entity. A dagger a lightbulb and a googly wire character flew through as symbols throughout the jam. <br/>The didgeridoo, accordion, glockenspiel and drums were holding down the sounds (voices too of course). <br/>Alot of x-rated scenes crept up on us. One of our main characters (a female amputee) seemed to be facing neverending demons. There were many dreamlike moments. The last scene was a dog face down in a sideways ocean/ waterfall with a little person balanced on it's tail, hovering, dancing in mid air. <br/> <br/>We ate a scrumptious salad. <br/>We ended later than usual. <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 8 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2006-04-21T17:18:33Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/2ae1b10e-ce9b-4d04-a324-3ac2c4299815 2006-10-16T06:34:24Z 2006-08-18T23:47:32Z

<div>check out one of my first online shadow videos: <br/> <br/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tqxWznXlyQ <br/> <br/>they are eerie and slow, and very hypnotic.......in progress....</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 3 replies </div>

garlic_joy 2006-08-18T23:47:32Z garlic_joy http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/e6fa208f-c95b-4a20-8c1e-3514a55c6a64 2006-09-26T05:28:13Z 2006-09-26T05:19:10Z

<div>The New moon festival this past Saturday in Lower Gibsons was a realy inspiring event. <br/>Did you see it? <br/>Were you there? <br/> <br/>I loved the live drummers leading into the illuminated lantern procession round and around and around the park. <br/>Thanks Hawkfeather for your e~x~t~e~n~d~e~d fire spinning show! <br/> <br/>a perfect crowd with the whole diversity of cultures and ages there:) <br/>it was really a rush to perform a shadowshow for such an audience. <br/> <br/> <br/>thankyou community! <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

garlic_joy 2006-09-26T05:19:10Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/feb771eb-7984-434e-ab60-e0824813ef64 2006-09-17T23:42:12Z 2006-08-09T05:47:28Z

<div>Mind of a Snail is gonna be performing "Dream of a Tree" at the vancouver fringe festival, sept 7-17th. There's going to be 9 shows and the tickets are cheap (between $3-$6, i think) <br/> <br/> This will be a revised version of the shadow play debuted at "the Galactic Faerie Tale" the Mythmaker show in Roberts Creek last year. <br/> <br/>I'll post more info soon...</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 3 replies </div>

chloez 2006-08-09T05:47:28Z johnnydrum http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/2fff8908-dd10-44b1-939a-c2d814316ea1 2006-08-19T08:51:18Z 2006-08-19T08:51:18Z

<div>9 days later i'm still glowing ... still trying to find the words to properly express / share my first time jamming musically with jessica, who starts off by totally shattering my conception of time, playing the sweet rhythm of a gentle snowfall interspersed with the frollicking playful energy of a newborn dolphin while maintaining sustaining pulsating earth vibratories stories inter-re-acting of and in and out of, the moment, moment-us, monumental, the living breathing always in fluid motion ocean of imagery chloe creating mutating form fiction no diction just shadows of all sorts shapes sizes no disguises straight from the heart the non shadow heart shape image embracing earth gaia our mother in honour of the full moon and celebrating international day of the world's indigenous people ... <br/> <br/>thank you chloe &amp; jessica for the wonderful magical sharing of the living experience that is shadowjam !</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

johnnydrum 2006-08-19T08:51:18Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/2372491e-c026-4c63-83ac-997edaea76ac 2006-08-16T19:11:44Z 2006-08-10T00:33:34Z

<div>We're considering going down to Islewilde festival, on vashon island, near seattle... <br/>Here's some past photos of the event... <br/> http://www.islewilde.org/index.php?module=photoalbum&amp;PHPWS_AlbumManager_op=list&amp;MMN_position=8:8 <br/> <br/>We got invited to go down there and shadowjam. Wouldn't it be fun? <br/>We'd like it if more people wanted to come with us as part of a shadowjam crew! <br/> (even if you've haven't shadowjammed yet, but you want to) <br/> <br/>Also, it would be good if someone with a vehicle wanted to drive (we'd all chip in for gas etc) <br/> <br/>let us know if you're into it! <br/>-chloe</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 2 replies </div>

chloez 2006-08-10T00:33:34Z Cora http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/a0477398-dc85-4643-84c9-6495ce612586 2006-08-11T02:14:26Z 2006-07-30T04:11:38Z

<div>Hi there, I've been watching this tribe for a while wondering a few things like, how open to random people showing up you are- especially because it's at someone's own home. And, how did this all get started and when? :) awsome idea. I'd love to try it out. I'm going to be in Vancouver a couple times in August.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 3 replies </div>

Cora 2006-07-30T04:11:38Z mythras http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/72b30e82-9a9c-4caa-8c6a-6067e32ac635 2006-08-09T00:19:30Z 2006-06-02T20:23:58Z

<div>Characters are rhythm-harmonies, affective Figures and conceptual Personae. <br/> <br/>It is, for Deleuze, a kind of law, that each rhythm has three parts: "one steady witness rhythm, and two other rhythms, one of crescendo or simplication (climbing, expanding, diastolic, adding value), the other of dimuendo or elination (descending, contractingm, systolic, removing value." <br/> <br/>But this is not all. Every instant or moment is composed of vectorial combinations of all three rhythms. And since there are various instants or moments, we must also account for the various relationships that rhythmic characters establish with one another. Among these relationships there is the peculiar and interesting phenomena, which according to Deleuze the painter is responsible for painting and showing to exist, that of the "attendant rhythm." That 'there is' an attendant rhythm is what Deleuze calls the second law of the triptych: "The existence of an attendant rhythm, along with the circulation of this attendant throughout the painting (visible attendant and rhythmic attendant)." <br/> <br/>Is the Cosmic Custodian this affective figure and conceptual personae, which we might also be called an Attendant Rhythm, this force and power of visibly and invisibly attending the variations of active and passive rhythms throughout the Scene? <br/> <br/> If the Custodian would also answer to the name of "Attendant" this might be because he finds himself co-present at the distant phenomena of individuation, living in his own body the translocal continuum of "isolation, transformation, dissipation" that occurs across all the levels that the Membrane has made coavailable at the surface of the Scene. <br/> <br/>It would be a question for the Custodian of obtaining "a maximum unity of light and color [in the variation of shadows] for the maximum individuation of Figures [in the Scene]." <br/> <br/>The Custodian would be the one who "saw" the "Figure-beings separate while falling [active] into the black light. The color-fields separating while falling into the white light." <br/> <br/>The Custodian in the gray and silver monochromatism of his own earthly and elderly gestures would "introduce into the chromatism of bodies, a monochromatic eternity. An immense space-time uniting all things, but only by introducing between them the distances of a Sahara, the centuries of an Aion." <br/> <br/>The Attendant would be this bringer of a Chrono-Chromatism that restores the distances of Galaxies to the Figures. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

mythras 2006-06-02T20:23:58Z DariusRa http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/3ad82772-9252-46b7-91c8-346448fa2810 2006-07-17T00:11:12Z 2006-07-13T08:42:56Z

<div>That was possibly the most fun Ive had with Molasses, saliva, pumpkin seeds, wire, a spot light, a sheet, and friends. <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 3 replies </div>

DariusRa 2006-07-13T08:42:56Z mythras http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/48f59815-3846-4102-8302-4d22c6d05ef4 2006-07-04T05:03:13Z 2006-07-04T05:03:13Z

<div>The little celestial poet <br/>Open the shutters of his heart. <br/>The skies collide. Oblivion <br/>Uproots the symphony. <br/> <br/>Stableboy, the crazy house <br/>Which gives you wolves to guard <br/>Does not guess the rage <br/>Smoldering under the great alcove <br/>Of the vault that hangs over us. <br/> <br/>Therefore silence and night <br/>Muzzle all impurity <br/>The sky with giant strides <br/>Moves in on the crossroads of noise. <br/> <br/>The star eats. The slanting sky <br/>Soars toward the summit <br/>Night sweeps away the remains <br/>of our satisfying meal. <br/> <br/>On earth a slug walks <br/>Greeted by ten thousand white hands <br/>A slug crawls to the place <br/>Where the earth has vanished. <br/> <br/>Some angels were returning in peace <br/>Summoned by no obscenity <br/>When there rose the real voice <br/>Of the spirit that summoned them. <br/> <br/>The sun lower than the day <br/>Turned the whole sea to steam. <br/>A dream strange but clear <br/>Was born on the earth gone mad. <br/> <br/>The little lost poet <br/>Leaves his celestial place <br/>With an idea from beyond the earth <br/>Pressed to his long-haired heart. <br/> <br/> * <br/>Two traditions met. <br/>But our padlocked thoughts <br/>Did not have room: <br/>Experiment to be repeated. <br/> <br/>A.A. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

mythras 2006-07-04T05:03:13Z mythras http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/dcfdb84d-d2ad-4885-bde7-93b72de806cf 2006-06-20T07:09:55Z 2006-06-12T06:34:46Z

<div>"I tried to make the Shadows as present as the Figures" (Bacon) <br/> <br/>There are three elements to ShadowJamming: the material structure, the round contour, and the raised image. Thinking in sculptural terms we could say: the armature or technical apparatus, the pedestal or projector along with the fabrick or projected surface, and the variety of Figures within the domain of the armature and range of the pedestal, some of which receive projected contours on the fabrick surface where they become Shadows. <br/> <br/>Bacon has often said that, in the domain of the Figure, the shadow has as much presence as the body; but the shadow acquires this presence only because it escapes the body. The shadow is the body that has escaped from itself through some localized point in its contours of line and flesh. <br/> <br/>It is the role of the filmic fabrick, which can also be called The Egg, The Mirror, or The Washbasin, to extract Shadows from Bodies, producing a projective surface of sheer speculation. <br/> <br/>The effect of the fabrick screen is to isolate everything onto the singular plane of a Nature-Thought, that both reveals and conceals itself, 'through' the multiple perspectives that flicker across its shadowy surface. <br/> <br/>Now the projected surface of fabrick differs from a Pure Mirror, since pure mirrors lodge bodies inside themselves "with" their shadows. <br/> <br/>But the projective surface of shadows is less a mirror than the site of a kind of a sublime cannibalistic eidolophagy, where bodies are separated from their shadows, only to be reintrojected and assimilated by other bodies. <br/> <br/>This strange shadowy nutriment of the fabrick screen is the site of an endless feast in which, if all goes well, the body-participants "reabsorb" the shadowy biomatter that had escaped through heedless silliness. The entire scene takes on a life of its own as it extracts shadows from bodies, and restores the glorious doubles to all the bodies without shadows that populate the scene. <br/> <br/>What makes transformation through the armament and apparatus of the shadowjam a destiny is that the body has a necessary relation with the material structure: not only does the material structure curl around it, but the body must return to the material structure and dissipate in it, thereby passing through or into protheses-instruments (the Puppet-instruments as sites for the genesis of speculative Images), constituting passages and states that are real, physical, and effective. <br/> <br/>II) What is the relation between the Shadow, the Animal, and the Scene? <br/> <br/>As Deleuze writes: "the marks or traits of animality are not animal forms but rather the spirits that haunt the wiped-off parts, that pull at the head, individualizing and qualifying . . . Sometimes a real dog is treated as the shadow its master, or conversely, the man's shadow itself assumes an autonomous and indeterminate animal existence. The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering. . . The human becomes animal, but not without at the same time, the spirit of the human, the physical spirit of humanity presented in the mirror as Eumenides or Fate." <br/> <br/>What human and animal share, their "common fact", is called "meat." Meat is intermediary between Body and Spirit since it reveals the continuum between Flesh and Bone. If it is true, as Hegel says, that "Spirit is a Bone", this is also the case for Deleuze, but only in so far as the descent or moment of incarnation, is a "trans-descend" as down-going "ascension" to the condition of spirit's autopoiesis. But this condition is "meat". "Spirit is meat", not bone which can only ever be the "cruelty" of spirit, but meat, since "In meat, the flesh seems to descend from the bones, while the bones rise up from the flesh." <br/> <br/>And if the common fact of human and animal is meat this is because we are all spirit, "a mass of ambulating flesh. . . all criminals . . . all cattle" to the point that "the head", that concentration of "animal spirits", is itself nothing but "meat", the "nonlocalized power of meat . . . where meat howls under the gaze of a dog-spirit perched on the top of a cross" But this concentration of the power of the nonlocalized or translocalizable spirit (the head as meat), also brings along with it, "the reign of the blurry", the "action of a depth [of pure locality] that tugs at form": This is the "thickness [of meat] on which shadows play." <br/> <br/>Now it is precisely this thickness, through which shadows dance (wreaking, as they do, the havoc of translocality within the localized), that must become an "absolute surface", or better, a "membrane" that clarifies the limits of the local and brings the nonlocalized "spirits" to bear only when it itself is composed of those membrane thresholds that would sustain and make favorable such a spiritual amplification of its state. <br/> <br/>Earlier we called the projected surface of the Fabrick Screen used in ShadowJamming, a Tainted Mirror, an Egg, and even a Washbasin. If these determinations have any validity, it is because of the real and profound name of the Fabrick Screen which we have now discovered: "Membrane." <br/> <br/>The uncanny but ineluctable experience of all ShadowJammers can perhaps be summed up: "The Membrane is talking to us", the "The Membrane is alive." What does the membrane have to say? <br/> <br/>This vertiginous ceremony of letting the shadows speak is possible because the threshold or membrane is the most immediate form of a purely "physical" memory, the template or the drawing board for simple variations of light. <br/> <br/>In other words, the shadow-membrane is a spirtually effective medium of transmission, not because it is a head of meat, a nonlocalized brain, but because it is an absolutely “localized body”, an epicenter for a plurality of translocal spiritual personae and perspectives: "[the screen] has never ceased to be a membrane that assures the communication in both directions between the Figures and the material structures." The Membrane is, in short, a perfect channel for trafficking with the world of spirits, where the currency of this traffic is "sensation." <br/> <br/>III) <br/>We are perhaps now ready to address the classical questions of the relation of ShadowJamming to the “essences” of the various arts. From Plato to Schelling, this has been “the” aesthetic question, and the comparisons of the respective “means” and “mediums” of the various arts has always yielded fruitful materials for speculative metaphysics of the sensorium and its “instruments.” <br/> <br/>It might at first be surprising, therefore, that we attribute to ShadowJamming, not only an origin historically earlier than all the others arts, but also, what might not go along with this, that we see in this first art form, the most originary and complete of all the arts, capable of housing within it all the other arts, and explaining by gradual progressions the ways by which the arts separate from one another and attain a relative autonomy. <br/> <br/>We do not have to go into any very lengthy historical deductions, in order to realize, within the parameters of the art of shadowjam, there is no other art which could be in principle excluded, and indeed, that all the arts within the context of shadowjam find themselves united, in function if not in form, enacting a singular but “dia-grammatic” operation: First, the liberation of Shadow-Images from Bodies (such that Images come to float freely as the Sign-Symbols through which the ShadowJam is played out), and second, the liberations of Bodies from ShadowImages (such that Bodies dance free of those Symbol-Signs that had marked them within the contours of their specificity). <br/> <br/>These are the Two Great Liberations, that of Gesture and the Sign, or of Bodies and their Shadows. <br/> <br/>It is from these two elements, one a force of matter and the other a power of the incorporeal, that all subsequent arts develop through rhythm and harmony, the extreme of rhythm leading to dance, and the extreme of harmony to music. <br/> <br/>Spoken language is a mixture of concrete music and abstract sculpture or continuous tonal variations (affects) and deep clefts between things (concepts), while poetry and choral dancing inaugurates the continuous recreation of the glorified statue of an integrative “Body-Sign”, the sensation of which is lyrical. <br/> <br/>Now if ShadowJam is the art which most elementally separates Bodies and Images, Gesture and Signs, in order to constitute the first as Animal-Cyborg-Puppets (Souls), who are nonetheless Creators and Movers, the latter as Membrane Surfaces of Light and Shadow, Puppets-Cyborg-Animals (Spirits), who nonetheless Create and Move, we can only conclude, that in terms of the ideal goal as infinite perfectibility of Technique, ShadowJam is also destined to be the Supreme among the Arts. <br/> <br/>If this is so, it would have to show us how to achieve, in practice, what has long been recognized as, in principle, possible, that is, how to open “a perpetual feedback amplication loop” between gesture and sign, that finitely amplifies gestural becoming without exceeding its threshold of potentialization, while, with the same gesture, leaving the possible interpretation of signs with respect to their endo-symbio-smosis, unbounded. <br/> <br/>Now it is our contention that ShadowJam achieves this Ideal of Art, and that it is able to do this because of its unique mechanism, the “diagrammatic Membrane.” <br/> <br/>The Membrane is diagrammatic, on this account, because it productively engages, while differentiating, the two faces of being, the Aorgic and the Organic. <br/> <br/> “The Aorgic” is a magnificent term common in German Idealism, and especially Holderlinean aesthetics. It means, roughly, creation as a chaosmotic process, i.e.) the Creative, the Orgiastic, the Singular, the Dionysian, the Elemental, or Naturing Nature. It is the anterior yet ultimately synthetic, unity of force and power, the becoming of the depth, height, horizon, and center immanent to everything, everywhere, in so far as it “becomes.” <br/> <br/>The Aorgic, as creativity, relates to the Organic as the created, as Gesturality to the Sign, or Rhythm to Harmony. The question I would then like to ask is this: what if the Membrane, or Projected Screen of ShadowJam, were to be understood as bringing about a partial and indeed divinatory localization of the aorgic process (even as the Monstrous Figure that dwells at the threshold of disparate orders of communication)? <br/> <br/>Then the “aorgic Shadow” would involve, not at all a semblance of the real, but the Dark Precursor of the full spectrum of a Being-Creative of the Now that is not yet integrated as such. <br/> <br/>To this effect Deleuze writes: “The struggle with the shadow is the only real struggle. When the sensation confronts the invisible force that conditions it, it releases a force that is capable of vanquishing the invisible force, or even befriending it. Life screams at death, but death is no longer this all-too- visible thing that makes us faint; it is this invisible force that life detects, flushes out, and makes visible through the scream. Death is judged from the point of view of life, and not the reverse, as we like to believe. “ <br/> <br/>The problem concerning the “clinical essence” of each art, and even the art of aorgic metamorphosis of the shadows that bodies cast, would be precisely this “confrontation with the Shadow”, Invisible and Real, Vanquished and Friend, and this encounter would localize itself in the first instance, around the Membrane at which Life “screams,” “shouts”, or “crys”, at Death. <br/> <br/>Nietzsche, who was no stranger to this theme of the Scream or Shout, or its relation the Body and its Shadows, wrote almost exclusively about this singular threshold instant, where the Cosmological Spheres of the Shadow, as Time out of Joint that wrenched itself into Place, extracted from Bodies a Tonal Cry (Ton-geschrei), whose momentuous and involuntary effort effected the initiation of the Two Great Liberations, DanceGestures and the SpeakingSong (TanzGeberden and Sprechgesang). <br/> <br/>This was the only true aesthetic clinic and practice, where the immensity of the signal world, its eternal strife and reconciliation, its forever discordant concord with the world that gave it birth and which must own it as a child, where this whole magnificent aorgic field of Reason constellates and cruelly integrates about the gestural body, in order to receive and send, always in nuce, the entire structure, armature, and characteriology of Time. <br/> <br/>The shout is what cuts across all temporal dimensions it traverses. It is a chiurgurie of cosmological proportions and scope. The Cry, Scream, or Shout makes surgically sensible the Reason which Surrounds Bodies as their Shadow. It makes sensible the act of giving forth, giving birth, to new organs and a glorious body, becoming with it the whole of the Shadowed Reason that exists continuously in its sphere. <br/> <br/>These are the regions of the Soul, in which Meat becomes all Flesh becoming all Bone, only to break and fragment into the Rhythms and Harmonies of the Flesh, that the Bone, as Meat, “was”, “is”, and “will be.” <br/> <br/>Just as in Kant’s Third Critique, where the naturalist “symbol” finds expression in the accord of imagination and understanding in the experience of the beautiful, but is obliterated by the sublime experience which manifests the discordant accord of imagination and reason in the sensibilization of the infinite nearness but impossible arrival of Ideas of reason, so too, in ShadowJam, the naturalist symbol is insufficient and disintegrates in majesty and horror of the sublime “Shadow”, only to return in the very temporal structure of its unfolding, as the symbolic futural integration of sublimnity and beauty (Jam) in the Shadowed-Body turned Autopoetic-Body, through the unveiling of the omnipresent teleology of a Nature-Theater. <br/> <br/>Thus, ShadowJam, while deriving from the earliest history of aesthetics is also the only conceivable future of aesthetics, in so far as it creates an ideal medium through which to experiment with the shadowy involvements of finite bodies amidst the quasi-universality of Membranes that must be modulated indefinitely, in order to effect not only the two great liberations, but what is more, integration. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 3 replies </div>

mythras 2006-06-12T06:34:46Z cimi http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/d1ab4392-e7a8-487c-9b7a-05d2f3bb26ac 2006-06-16T22:15:25Z 2006-06-16T17:57:06Z

<div>hey shady folks, <br/>it seems like most of ya'll live in canada yet i want to invite you to a teacher training that i'm hosting in the bay area. here's the facts <br/> <br/>Sunday June 25th 1-4 <br/>CellSpace market building drum room <br/>2050 bryant st San francisco, ca 94110 <br/>$30-50 (if price prohibitive let me know) <br/> <br/>i've been performing and teaching shadow theatre for about ten years. this workshop will focus on teaching shadow theatre and adapting stories and curriculum to to shadows. the workhop is perfect for classroom teachers, art teachers and those interested in shadow theatre. additionally ShadowLight Productions is looking to hire a few people as teaching artists for the fall. <br/>check out our website www.shadowlight.org <br/> <br/>email me with questions and to enroll <br/>-christine marie aka cimi</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

cimi 2006-06-16T17:57:06Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/637ae72b-2922-4fa1-8ae9-248185016e89 2006-06-14T17:30:45Z 2006-04-11T20:21:45Z

<div>We can use this thread to suggest/ explore/ document our ideas for shadowjam... <br/> <br/>What crazy new stuff can we invision? <br/> <br/>What materials can we try? <br/> <br/>What are some different ways to tell a story? <br/> <br/>When and where can we do shadowjam (renegade style?) <br/> <br/>Soundscape ideas... <br/> <br/>etc...</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 5 replies </div>

chloez 2006-04-11T20:21:45Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/7282d8db-caa4-4971-b5a4-9614abd4e55c 2006-06-10T21:58:55Z 2006-06-10T21:58:55Z

<div>mind of a snail puppet co. <br/>will be doing a fresh new shadowshow for this event in vancouver: <br/>Upsidedown: Saturday, June 24, 2006 <br/> <br/>http://vancouver.tribe.net/event/UPSIDE-DOWN-a-gathering-from-a-different-point-of-view/vancouver-gastown/b21e6f69-ad4f-4f89-bdea-be1d53442aee</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

chloez 2006-06-10T21:58:55Z mythras http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/00efdb24-52bc-4045-b1ce-e80c7c2694a9 2006-06-09T00:04:43Z 2006-06-09T00:04:43Z

<div> The chapter “Mud Shadows” in one of Castaneda’s final books, “The Active Side of Infinity”, is quite astonishing in content. This chapter begins with a discussion of the physical (concealed or implicated) body and the continuum that links it its full disclosive and energetic double (the energy body). This is the only “dualism” that sorcery “understands” and it is only, as matter of course, a “pragmatic” dualism. <br/> <br/> The energy body is “a conglomerate of energy fields, the mirror image of the conglomerate of energy field that makes up the physical body when it is seen as energy that flow in the universe.” That which holds the physical body together with its energetic double is a “strange agglutinizing force”, the “most mysterious force in the universe”, and perhaps “the pure essence of the cosmos, or sum total of everything there is.” <br/> <br/> But what is this binding force if not the “shadows” that bodies cast on each bodies, shadows which are, in fact and in principle, distinguishable from the energetic continuum within which each body is purely the light of itself? <br/> <br/> The distinction between the physical body and energy body would be simply a matter of what perspective introduced by way of the overlapping “shadings” of bodies, and the shadows which bodies cast would itself be the ontogenesis of the only remaining “pragmatic” dualism. <br/> <br/> But the rhythm of the discussion does not allow this hypothesis to emerge, at least not explicitly. Once again, Castaneda’s “trickster” spirit would perhaps prefer to encounter the theme of The Shadows, that “topic of topics” within Toltec cosmology, with a more intensive and holy fear. <br/> <br/> But that should not cause us to forget that Castaneda explicitly prefaces this chapter, among the most astonishing of his oeuvre, with the theme of the energy body, only to address almost exclusively the problem of the shadows, without ever explicitly linking or exploring the connection between shadows and the full body. <br/> <br/> This is an oversight typical of many Castaneda texts, where the full implications of certain “phenomenological” insights he deftly acquires are never sufficiently linked “in principle” to the architectonic recuperation he lays out. This is at once the great flaw in Castaneda’s work, responsible for its frequent and gross irrationalisms and persistent oversights (which has made this writing so repellent to exercise of critique), and at the same time the site for immensely productive experiment in “pure experience”, the “energetic fact”, the oscillation and “approach” of the energy body with “great speed.” <br/> <br/> I would like to suggest that the missing link between the energetic body and its shadows goes by way of a fuller understanding of what Castaneda refers to in this chapter as “myth.” <br/> <br/> It is the energy’s body “control” of the situation that is the perennial themes of myth. And in Castaneda’s work, this control is still divided according to the mandates of general humanism or anthropomorphism, at least, in practice, between a free or autopoetic self-control (classical autonomy of shaman-priest) versus preprogrammation as other-domination (or what Castaneda calls the presence of the “foreign installation.”) <br/> <br/> What is worthy of a more sustained philosophical engagement in this chapter, is Don Juan’s account of the “alien” components of the body, which points towards a bizarrely anti-Hegelian account of “the mind” as a tricksy predator-shadow bequeathing itself to its prey, feeding on the energetic “coat”, and irreconcilably “other” than the full self-determining spirit which it preys upon. <br/> <br/> That this move is misguided should be quite obvious, I argue, once we take into account a more generalized and perspectival account of the relations that exists between energy bodies to the shadows they cast and have cast upon them, according to which the shadows that bodies cast upon one another, are the effect of a dimensional interweaving, through which co-present or nearing bodies intuit the topology and potentialities of place. Uping the philosophical discussion of the shadow to this level of ontogenetic rigor, which Castaneda overlooks, we can, nevertheless, appreciate that Castaneda’s value-laden and not sufficiently philosophical encounter with the shadow might also be understooda s a kind of productive error, which I hope can shed light on certain aspects of Don Juan’s exposition which are not sufficiently laid bare in the Hegelian scheme, at least, not in The Phenomenology, or elsewhere. <br/> <br/> Castaneda writes: “A tremendous degree of control is going to come into your life, but not your control, the energy body’s control.” This remark precedes a “darkness” that descends very quickly, in which, Don Juan admonishes Castaneda to unflinchingly witness “the fleeting black shadows” that populate the foliage and the surrounding air. “It was either one shadow going back and forth or various fleeting shadows moving from left to right or right to left or straight up in the air. They looked like fat black fish. It was as if gigantic swordfish were flying in the air.” Don Juan remarks: “The sorcerors of ancient Mexico were the first to see those fleeting shadows, so they followed them around. They saw them as your seeing them, and they saw them as energy that flows in the universe. And they did discover something transcendental.” <br/> <br/> But what exactly is this transcendental ‘something’ in the shadows themselves? Don Juan here begins his strange discourse, the “topic of topics”, or “energetic fact”: this something in the shadows is our “companion for life. . . a predator that came from the depth of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile, helpless. If we want to protest, its suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently it demands that we don’t do so. . . They took over because we are food for them, and they squeeze us mercilessly because we are their sustenance. Just as we rear chickens in chicken coops, gallineros, the predators rear us in human coops, humaneros. Therefore their food is always available . . . sorcerors believe that the predators have given us our systems of belief, our ideas of good and evil, our social mores. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed, and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routinary, egomaniacal. . . They are infinitely efficient and organized. . . . able to keep us obedient and meek through. . . a stupendous maneuver. . . A horrible maneuver [in fact] from the point of view of those who suffer it. They gave us mind! Do you hear me? The predators give us their mind, which become our mind. The predators’s mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now . . . [Like sorcerors] they see infant human beings as strange, luminous balls of energy, covered from the top to bottom with a glowing coast, something like a plastic cover that is adjusted tightly over their cocoon of energy. [It is] the glowing coat of awareness that the predators consume [until] when human beings reach adulthood, all that is left of the glowing coat is a narrow fringe. . . [The] fringe permitted mankind to continue living, but only barely.” <br/> <br/> Castaneda feigns a naturally abhorred reaction to this supposedly ‘simplest” explanation in the world: he calls it “monstrous”, “paranoiac”, “infuriating”, “repellent.” And yet, he cannot help but stay for the “blitz”, the “tremendous onslaught” of going “truthfully berserk” in the presence of all the shadows intuited according to this predator-prey mythos, as if allowing himself to witness the basic process of assimilation, eater and eaten, writ large in terms a dynamic hierarchy of inorganic awareness. This onslaught is, not incidently, the very onslaught of the shadows from which Castaneda feels he must be protected through the agglutinzing link of the proper, his proper energy body linked to his physical body, with no maurading mindful shadow-keepers preparing the scenes in order to preserve their dark festival of the human. As mental beings who prevent our cognizance of their “nefarious” activity by a bestowal of their own mentality (along with all that humans values, the “sense of convenience”, the “degree of security”, the “buffer of fear”), the shadows leaves us, to flounder on the “narrow fringe of awareness” that is “the epicenter of self-reflection. . . By playing on our self-reflection, which is the only point of awareness left to us. . . predators create flares of awareness that they proceed to consume ruthlessly.” Wonderfully compelling, best-selling, if not flatly dangerous fluff. The only thing to which the predator’s tactics are vulnerable, according to Don Juan, is the “rigors of discipline” which scatters their weak powers of concentration. <br/> <br/> That this kind of strangely rigorous form of paranoic explanation is sold, almost industrially, the kind of dissolute readership for whom discipline truly is the only answer, should not give us distaste for what is really most astonishing, however, that this blitz or onslaught of the shadows, “mysteriously positive and terribly negative at the same time, does not in practice, and despite Castaneda’s misguided apprehension, attempt to “cut the thin [agglutinizing] film”, so much as to work with its dynamisms, that is the very secret of Castaneda’s marvelous art of fear. The pragmatic thing is to “turn off the lights. Pierce the darkness, and find out what you can see.” <br/> <br/> Castaneda’s exploration of these regions of unconscious integration remains incomplete: he emerges from the darkness “screaming his head off” with a glimpse of those “fleeting images” having also heard them “buzzing” by his ears.” This is wonderfully reminiscent of a famous scene in Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books, where in approaching the mystical threshold of the caesura of language (language’s full capacity to say the human condition in its return home from the foreign, to take something home to humanity, within and despite all the inhumanity that is overcome), Prospero drowns his own book of shadows (the very fertility of his art), and Greenaway interprets this most dramatic of all Shakespearian scenes in terms of the diagrammatic transdescent or Fall of the infinity of damned to their very mortality, consecrated to the shadow lands of everyday temporality, in the very moment that their stories live on in the gymnastic strife of Caliban. There, in Shakespeare’s profound vision of the patina of shadows that characterize everyday life, as with Castaneda’s terror to fully encounter them, this same mythos, that there is a threshold of the shadows, that there is a privileged attunement to the integration of shadows into the full energetic continuum for which they were signs, which is the same as the integration of time itself, or the present, even if such a practice of the threshold must always go by way of a declension towards the human world, where, as Prospero says, “every third step will be my grave.” <br/> <br/> We might ask given these suggestions, what would have happened if Castaneda had undergone the full trial of the shadows, and had faced that mysterious threshold of the shadows with little less fear, and a little more intrepid willingness, to sort out the strange from the strange, and to find, the vision of shadows, the well or site of the genesis of a full perception of the full body of place, the worldling of the world? <br/> <br/> It is the failure to achieve this kind of relationship with the shadow that inaugurates Castaneda’s one-sided, if not historically inaccurate, introduction of the flyer’s myth: “The sorcerors of Ancient Mexico saw the predator. They called it the flyer because it leaps through the air. It is not a pretty sight.” The flyer, saps our capacity for stupendous feats of awareness, and is according to Castaneda an aspect of “inorganic awareness” that “flys forever” and is responsible for the “foreign installation” of the mind we carry with us without bearing its full presence. To free oneself from the flyer, which Castaneda calls elsewhere “the Eagle”, is the only cure to the shadowy condition of humanity, and this can only proceed through the asceticism of “inner silence”, “the art of facing infinity without flinching . . . with awe.” Then, in the silent discipline of infinite responsibilities, “sorceror succeed in grabbing onto the vibrating force that holds us together”, causing the flyer’s mind to “flee forever.” <br/> <br/> However quaint we find Castaneda’s frustrated attempts to search out and verify this central hypothesis of his grand anthropological theory, that the flyer’s mind, is the historical origin of all humanities problems, which has always explained why it has seldom if never been thought out as such, we can only frown on his lack of historical imagination on this point. The flyer, etymologically related to Gr. phugein, Ger. Flugel, is not without precursor in the sense Castaneda seeks and is unable to find during his study of myth. To name but two examples we could refer to the mysterious allusions to the winged daimons of the human spirit in third choral ode of Sophocles’s Oedipus, to Trakl’s “wingflaps of the spirit” that were brought to our attention by Heidegger and others, or to the animal spirit mythologies of Greeks and others, which often feature winged animals of the underworld, the Owl, for instance, whose patron Goddess is Athena, and who is envisioned as fleeing the Dionysian scene with the, now re-hidden, knowledge of occidental transascendescendance, to name only the instances of the flyer mythos which I am immediately familiar. <br/> <br/> Nevertheless, which we virtually name the trans-presence in and of itself, is a fantastically interesting topic, that we are still grateful to Castaneda for raising it in any form. Indeed the question has not been sufficiently answered, even where it was properly posed by Derrida and others, what is this causality, of even quasi-causality, of a genetic transcendence? Indeed, Castaneda is not capable of thinking genetic transcendence as such, such that for him, the trans-presence is invariably chalked up to an alien interference, and topos ouranious, enemy-guest from “another realm.” But what are we, who have already such intimate experience with the recent profileration of flyers in the cyberian realm, to understand those supraterranean highway travellers that jumps over every actual physical relation, while ultimately emerging from them alone, and which propagate themselves while concealing themselves with lightening speed, seeding the ground at once with the conditions of their generation and supervenience? Surely, the flyers were attributed historically, to deities that guide all that takes place on the earth, but from a realm “up over our heads”, a realm also where Plato’s Ideas were supposed to be housed? <br/> <br/> But having entered into the age of the finitude of knowing amidst the infinity of the knowledge, are we not to thank Castaneda, and many others, for having reintroduced Badness into the Sky, or are we not rather to wonder that here we have hit upon a problem which is not easily solved, let alone addressed. For as Plato is supposed to have said: “The Sky comes into being simultaneous with the Earth.” <br/> <br/> Within such an apocryphal cosmology, akin to while being infinitely far from parallelism, would there not therefore be Flyers precisely, but not only, as Castaneda describes? <br/> <br/> Flyers = the Earth’s Own TransPresences as Sky that had not yet become Light, that is, as the Shadows of this Earth on that Earth, which can only be announced from with their co-presence, the not-yet-having-come-forth of the Sky of this, singular Earth? <br/> <br/> And therefore, the announcement, unmasking, or even accusation of an Earth that gives birth too quickly for the Sky with which it is simultaneous to keep up, a hyperfertility of the Earth, and with that, a time-wave, an echo, a return-vector of the Sky to the Earth, which broke from it into its depths only to emerge as a flyer, but which must return to it each time, in the middle-world, neither above nor below nor even at the surface, but always in the median, the horizon of ontogenesis as such? <br/> <br/> The flyers would be not only the twin and winged images of a universal burrowing, they would be the earthly betrayal of a universal simultaneity, a betrayal of superabundance, and out of perennial challenge to the sky? “I defy you Sky” would mean universally, “I challenge”, I have given birth, and I continue to give birth to winged creature, and I do it out of myself, out of my depth, it is with my depths that I have explored you, and peopled my surfaces with your contours, but where you when I gave forth the Figures for which you came to me to know yourself? Where you when I gave birth to your image, you Simultaneous One, who must show me what I have given birth to in time, who must show me to make of my child an Angel, an Animal, or even a Monster, a Carrion Bird, a Vulture, which is only a creature writ large of my insatiable fecundity (I feed on myself), and your inscrutable desire to know its depths (you vicarious cannibal, and universal Narcissus? <br/> <br/> Sky + Earth, would mean the realignment of all shadows with their bodies, bodies with their shadows, in the glorious pandemonium of the full ontogenetic event . . . <br/> <br/> Perhaps then, we would have to address, as a local and strategic necessity, the Flyer’s mythos, as an intensification of awareness at the very site of earth’s supervenience of itself, an investigation of earth’s full journey, and with that a recovery of that which is ever simultaneous with the earth, even as it goes-over by going-under and going-through into itself (the mollusk as the secret of immortality, of universal simultaneity)? <br/> <br/> Castaneda’s more modest theoretical goal in these passages seems to be the establishment of a link between the congenital and transcendental flightiness of the human-out-of-sync-with-itself and the phenomena of shadow-perception, which he understands as the shadows that surround the auratic field of human perception. But what Castaneda does not see, however, at least not in these passages, is that the very interesting phenomena of the flyer, is itself involved in an ecology of flight, which goes to the very ground of the world, to the earth, as it transascends itself through transdescent, as it comes to know time as the horizon of its full simultaneity with that which can unveil it. That is why it is so difficult to learn to fly. Why there are so many monkeys, or even chickens of flight. It is because the true apprenticeship to flight is in the depth, and snails comprehended the science of aeronautics in their shells long before any birds actualized its principles. For the universal law of flight is that its actualization is quite beside the point: we are already flying with the whole history of involutionary mutation on this planet, flying in all dimension of galactic space through which the earth is hurtling. <br/> <br/> If Castaneda, with his flyer mythos, were attempting to introduce a playful deception, it would be, at least on the surface, a deception with the purpose of “sensitizing” the mind of the disciple to the presence of the foreign installation, preparing the disciple for that hour when disciple is ready to dissolve the foreign installation in a full recovery of the indigenous, but also preparing him for that hour when it “returns.” But the truth is even more terrible. We are irreconcilably and forever the foreign installation which we contemplate-contract, to the very marrow our mutant powers, and this is so because the presence of this foreign installation is the very sign of our excessive apprenticeship to flight and to birth, to birth as the birth of every possibility of movement, the foreign installation is its sign and its supreme, yet to be fully simultaneous, achievement. <br/> <br/> But rather than understand that the shadows which announce the foreign are the mark of the fertility of earth, its capacity for further ontico-ontological differentiation, Castaneda focuses exclusively and to his detriment on the dark and punitive aspects of the transcendental unconscious as a kind of ancestral superego, and correspondingly Castaneda senses, “something like the wrath of God descending on me for tampering with something veiled by God himself.” Don Juan tries to assure his disciple that it is only the flyer’s mind in us who fears God the vanquisher of shadows, but we cannot help but sense, given Castaneda’s collapse that nothing has been really won. If the flyer’s mind, capable of acting-out such epileptic and convulsive (even clairvoyant) approaches to the human who would attempt to know itself autopoetically in their midst, we would have to wonder if they were really so bereft of concentration, or whether the effect of this threshold crisis is actually, and not simply by substraction but through integration, the very arrival of the full dimensionality of the energetic body to the physical, the integration of transpresence body of human flyer as ultimate down-goer, coming to full self-presence in middle horizon of its spiritual community as a whole. <br/> <br/> It is as this “transpresence” integration of the shadows that bodies cast into the continuum of sensibility, perception, and even force of imagination, that I would wish to the interpret the ethnographically well-documented “blitz” phenomena of threshold possession, what Castaneda calls going “truthfully berserk.” This would, correspondingly shift the emphasis, in Castaneda’s attempt at rational recuperation, from “universal homogeneity” of immanent phenomena of light and darkness to their “perspectival heterogeneity” as the ground of any possible universality. To investigate the overlapping and interweaving components of this heterogeneity would be to say or territorialize, as in Heidegger, the fourfold of simultaneity, with its component twofold of metaphysical (earth-sky overlaps) and dimensional (horizonal-intensional interweaves). <br/>This would be to replace any concept of Good and Bad with the concepts of a Supportive yet Known Occasion, and Unknown yet Fertile Occasion. Furthermore, the full functionality of this fourfold would be only be accessible from out of the even more primordial, in terms of effectivity rather than of causal order, threefold of co-presence (co-presence of birth, co-presence of simultaneity, co-presence of arrival), which was historically understood in terms of the threefold of Underworld, MiddleWorld, Overworld. <br/> <br/> As quintessential sorceror of fear Castaneda associates the flyer’s strictly with the human mind’s origin as a foreign installation. But more profoundly, we would have to see the ecology of transpresences, the multiple nature of the “overgoing” and its survival on the “down-going.” But as usual, the experiences that Castaneda is concerned to topologize fall within a difficult to classify area of consciousness research. Nothing can diminish the continued relevance and perennial radicality of statements such as “The flyers are an essential part of the universe, and they must be taken for what they really are—awesome, monstrous. They are the means by which the universe tests us . . We are the energetic probes created by the universe. . ..and it’s because we are possessors of energy that has awareness that we are the means by which the universe becomes aware of itself. The flyer’s are implacable challengers. They cannot be taken as anything else. If we succeed in doing that, the universe allows us to continue.” Nor could we fail to take into the account the phenomenological validity of Castaneda’s observation of the shadows as arriving with a “peculiar buzzing, a mixture of sound of flapping wings and the buzzing of a radio dial that has not yet picked up the frequency of a station.” Or underestimate the literary and astute observation of those implicated relations that Castaneda makes when they calls the shadowy being of some of the flyers “heavy, gross, indifferent”, nor finally of the poignancy of Castaneda’s conclusions on the situation of the father and fellow man in the midst of the full dimensionality of the shadows, “they never had a chance.” Nevertheless, we would have to be harshly critical of Castaneda’s persistent tendency to articulate his valid experience in one-sided terms, in a fear-mythos that may accentuate some lineages of experiential practice, but that ultimately aid us little and even impedes us in equally necessary practice of integration, even of the nagual’s realm, with the rest of our ultimate explanations about the nature of things. It is the blitz itself which explains, according to our account, because the blitz is the blitz of the shadows as re-mergence, though not necessarily the origin of the world. The re-mergence is invariably into the world that is purely light, the world of the arche fiat (“Let there be light.” <br/> <br/> But “Let there be light” is always said on the basis of darkness. There is still not other way to approach that perennial question with which the program of radical idealism has always been halted: that there is being, must mean logically either that there is coming-to-be “prior to” or “simultaneous to”, or “after” being; if prior to then becoming must be the origin of being, if simultaneous, then being and becoming are either co-originary or one is more originary within simultaneity than the other, if after, than becoming is a descent or fall from being. How we answer these ultimate questions will obviously puzzle humanity for a long time to come. It is has been the hope of this reading of Castaneda to take us a few steps closer epistemologically, and through an analysis of the blitz integration of the shadows, as signs of co-implication of the world giving birth to itself, to the time of all times. To the time of the birth out of eternally finite fecundity to the infinite co-presentnesss of everything that there is in the universe, so as to consolidate, through the kaleiscoptic reintegration of the earth’s genetic transcendence, all metaphysical dimensionalities with each other in so far as the genetic transcendences with which we are involved demands this. This is clearly a work, however much it has a history, which must continually begin again. May the future nourish the conditions of such a perpetual re-beginning. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

mythras 2006-06-09T00:04:43Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/e5455b0b-60f9-4477-8dc0-e97ddce3d06b 2006-06-07T07:22:58Z 2006-05-27T18:22:19Z

<div>jessica &amp; i have been giving a shadowplay workshop at the sunshine coast alternative school. <br/> <br/>This coming wednesday, the alternative schools are having an arts event- kind of like a talent show. the kids will perform the shadowshows that they have created, along with a bunch of other stuff. <br/>It's called Alternative Voices, at the Seaside centre in sechelt (next to the police station), <br/>from 10:30- 2:00, weds may 31. <br/>The shadowplays will probably be on just after 1pm. <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 2 replies </div>

chloez 2006-05-27T18:22:19Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/aeb8483d-7027-4097-8639-afcb03c4697f 2006-06-02T17:14:43Z 2006-05-19T18:33:54Z

<div>Mind of a Snail Puppet Co. (me and jessica) <br/>will be performing at "In the House Festival" June 3rd at 2 pm... <br/>The festival venues are various houses in East Vancouver and there are lots of other cool performances that weekend... <br/> <br/>Here's the link : <br/>http://www.inthehousefestival.com/2006schedule.html <br/> <br/>We'll be doing a shadow puppetry peice: "Dream of a Tree" <br/>We did this one at the "Galactic Faerie Tale" with Mythmaker back in November. <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 1 reply </div>

chloez 2006-05-19T18:33:54Z AmyfritH http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/94aa410b-c7ab-4722-9b1e-8ac154d035f1 2006-04-19T19:02:51Z 2006-04-19T17:48:07Z

<div>i moved to the sunshie coast in january and keep thinking i must attend one of these events. .. and then forget. . .and maybe will attend one soon! <br/> <br/>sounds greaT.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 3 replies </div>

AmyfritH 2006-04-19T17:48:07Z chloez http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam/thread/28d579cb-fe3e-4cb0-aa7f-5494c1fc3f80 2006-04-11T20:13:46Z 2006-04-11T20:13:46Z

<div>Yes, its true. <br/>Fairies and fools will have it's very own mad hatter's shadowjam tea party. <br/>Will you be there? <br/> <br/>Will you wear a hat? <br/> <br/>Will you drink our shadow-y tea? <br/> <br/>hee hee hee...</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/shadowjam">Shadowjam !</a> - 0 replies </div>

chloez 2006-04-11T20:13:46Z