From: "Jeff Stark" <jstark@nonsensenyc.com>
Subject: nonsensenyc: 11.27 to 12.3
Date: November 27th 2009

Friday, November 27
* Escape to Brooklyn, Brooklyn
* Phat, Manhattan
* Flashing Lights, Manhattan
* Gratuitous Art Film Event, Brooklyn

Sunday, November 29
* 10th Anniversary of the Seattle World Trade Organization Protests, Williamsburg * A Cryptic Carousel, Brooklyn

Monday, November 30
* Open City Dialogue, Williamsburg
* Darmstadt: In C, Brooklyn

Tuesday, December 1
* Bushwick Book Club, Brooklyn
* Sex Crimes Cabaret, Manhattan

Wednesday, December 2
* Metro Metro�s Fifth Annual Holiday Office Party, Manhattan

Thursday, December 3
* Aligned Creative�s Mixed Media Party, Brooklyn * Anagorisis Fine Art Presents N400, Williamsburg

Ongoing
* Now monthly

Wishlist
* Same

Spectre
* Evolutionary Tactics

Learning
* Yogurt Making and Almond Milk

Help
* A Leaky Roof

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Carpet the color of spoiled mayonnaise

NOTE: Please take a look at the new online gallery documenting the Nonsense 10-year anniversary poster show. We know that not everyone got to come to the party, and looking at the work on the internet certainly isn't the same thing as being there, but we're still really excited about the show and we wanted to share it with those of you who didn't make it. Here:

nonsensenyc.com/features/postershow/pages/gallerynav.html

XXXXX FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 XXXXX

Surreal Estate presents:

Escape to Brooklyn

Because the Bronx is full of cops, Manhattan is full of con artists, Queens is full of pollution, and Staten Island is full of garbage, well, it's time to Escape to Brooklyn. Join us for a diverse lineup of spoken word poets, live bands, and multiple DJs, delighting us on two stages and the radical roof deck.

Featuring: Abdoulaye Alhassane, Amy Colbin, Last Internationale, Dave Clive's Howling Funk Band, Spirit Child, Eartheater, King Dane, Kendra, Advaita Vera, and Big Tasty's Funk Party.

Surreal Estate
15 Thames Street, Brooklyn
9p-4a; $10, proceeds in part benefit the People's Institute

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Phat

Please join us at a brand new soon-to-be-not-so-secret uber awesome private basement loft location in Tribeca that features a 15 foot slide into the sunken dance floor, stripper pole, chill space, gourmet kitchen, and pizza oven.

We haven't barely figured out all the crazy cool crafty shit we are gonna start doing here, but we just had to open the doors to our friends as soon as possible. With beats by Joro Boro, DJ Barney Iller, Tektite. Artists performing: Fire Massage by Madamn Burnz, flame feats and urban hoop ballet by FaBeXulous, 0H10M1ke will livedraw a visual backdrop projecting via wacom tablet drawings in realtime to the rhythm of the scene, and a live video jam by Kurt Rita.

109 Reade Street, right door/buzzer
11p-late; $10 reduced entry with RSVP, before midnight, or fab costume, $15 otherwise OneGoodReasonParty@gmail.com

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Meanred and Good Peoples present:

Flashing Lights

With Todd Edwards and DJ Kingdom. Come to Chinatown. We'll be in minimall-turned-rave-den full of bass, chops, dubs, and bleeps. Built by MeanRed.

Flashing Lights is the neon brainchild of some of the city's most beloved selectors: DJ Ayres, Nick Catchdubs, and Jubilee. Over the past year, these three constantly-touring DJs have worked tirelessly to launch a genuinely fun and unpretentious electronic dance party in their own hometown. House, disco, techno, and rave as the block-letter flyers plainly state: no hype, just tunes.

88 Palace
88 East Broadway, Manhattan
10p-4a; $7 or $10 with RSVP
flashinglightslightslights.com/

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Gratuitous Art Films Gratuitously presents:

The Gratuitous Art Film Event

Gratuitous Art Productions presents a fiscally responsible evening filled with gratuity, films and popcorn. Featuring works by Max Evry, Jim Sebor, and Gratuitous Art Productions. Bring your chopsticks.

Jimmy�s Diner
577 Union Avenue, Brooklyn
8:25p-midnight; $free
gratuitousartproductions.com
youtube.com/gratuitousartfilms

XXXXX SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 XXXXX

10th Anniversary of the Seattle World Trade Organization Protests

With This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000) and Battle in Seattle (2007). Screenings, drinking, and discussion. With Rick and Jacquie of Big Noise Films. Recommended reading: Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up, by Naomi Klein for the Nation.

On the 10th Anniversary of the protests that shut down the WTO in Seattle, join your friends from Big Noise and Not An Alternative as we reflect back and look forward. Celebrate the anniversary of our victory, hang out and play drinking games while we laugh at Ray Liotta playing Mayor Paul Schell with a bit too much eyeliner, and Andre 3000 cribbing lines from Hop Hopkins. Join Seattle vets and the Copenhagen-bound as we trace the trajectory from then to now, and beyond.

The Change You Want to See Gallery
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 6-10p; BYOB encouraged, popcorn provided thechangeyouwanttosee.org

***** Also on SUNDAY *****

Division of Human Works is proud to be hosting:

A Cryptic Carousel

It shall be a Noisegiving Weekend Celebration. Cryptic Carousel has just released its first compilation cassette, People Skills. This is Cryptic Carousel's 28th release and biggest yet. If you are in town Brooklyn and looking for something to do this Saturday, well then we hope to see you here. We're kicking off the evening at with a Tea Ceremony Sound Installation. Performances will follow with 11 awesome noise sets.

Live music from: Dub Know Dub, Millions, Fluorescent Vibes, the Hex Breaker Quintet (Grasshopper/Telecult Powers), Henry Hynes, Makhir de Narbonne, Towering Heroic Dudes, James Christie Thow III, and Decapitated Hed. Live video sets by Sunglasses and Irene Moon.

Division of Human Works
1501 Broadway, Brooklyn
J train to Halsey station
5p; $free
divisionofhumanworks.org

XXXXX MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 XXXXX

Open City Dialogue

David Byrne lecture.

Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
7:30p; $free

***** Also on MONDAY *****

Darmstadt: In C

Brooklyn new music series Darmstadt: Classics of the Avant-Garde celebrates its fifth-anniversary with an annual, all-star reading of Terry Riley's 1964 work, In C. For the past five years, Darmstadt curators Nick Hallett and Zach Layton have gathered a Who's-Who of the downtown experimental music community at Galapagos for an interpretation of the work like no other. This year's lineup includes a battery of avant-guitar gods (David Grubbs, Alan Licht among them), veteran composer-performer Jon Gibson (who played in the very first performance of In C), singers, instrumentalists across a wide span of tones and timbres, electronic musicians, all keeping to the beat of drummer Ryan Sawyer. Visuals will be provided by the Joshua Light Show.

Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street, Brooklyn
7p doors, 8p show; $10
galapagosartspace.com

XXXXX TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 XXXXX

Bushwick Book Club

It's been a year of Bushwick Book Club, and to celebrate our year of ground-breaking, literary songwriting dare-devilry, we're having a night of highlights from the whole year. Come hear songs about Breakfast of Champions, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Flatland, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Watchmen, James and the Giant Peach, No One Belongs Here More Than You, the Bible, Confederacy of Dunces, and the Origin of Species.

All proceeds from the night will go toward production costs of The Bushwick Book Club compilation CD to be released in January 2010. With Anna Leuchtenberger, Ben Krieger, Dave Novak, Dibson T. Hoffweiler, Maria Sonevytsky, Susan Hwang, Sweet Soubrette, Victor Varnado, Liv Carrow, Laura Brenneman, Joe Crow Ryan, Rachel Devlin, Buffie Roseanne, Corn Mo, and Phoebe Kreutz.

Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway, Brooklyn
8p; $free
myspace.com/goodbyebluemondayinc

***** Also on TUESDAY *****

Collective Unconscious presents:

Sex Crimes Cabaret

Sex laws through history and the inevitable human reaction. Directed by Katherine Valentine.

Cinematic music theater. With video performances from New York notables Nicole Blackman, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Tigger!, Machine Dazzle, Raven Solano, Heather Litteer, Deity, Ammo, Vanessa Walters, Gia Mele, Porno Jim, the Mangina, Zero Boy, Flambeaux, and Julie Atlas Muz.

Walkerspace Theatre
46 Walker Street, between Church and Broadway, Manhattan 8p; $20
Continues THURSDAY-SATURDAY through December 12 sexcrimescabaret.com

XXXXX WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 XXXXX

Metro Metro�s Fifth Annual Holiday Office Party

Despite the climate of frozen bonuses, company cutbacks, and employee layoffs, we here at Metro Metro have noticed what a good job you�ve done this year. And we�d like to reward you with our Fifth Annual Holiday Office Party.

We�re dusting of the Xerox machine and busting out the nametags. You show up and write down the job title you�ve always wanted (or wanted to pretend to be). Act it out as much or as little as you like, and the top two vote-getters win fabulous prizes.

Fabulous prizes. That includes four tickets to ASSSCAT at the UCB, possibly some free cell phones, some special Metro Metro gifts, and maybe even a secret big ticket item to be announced soon.

Also, everyone who participates gets a free chance to win a door prize. Also also, everyone gets to enjoy drink specials: one free drink to start, and then 2-for-1 thereafter.

Bar 82
136 2nd Avenue, between St. Marks and 9th Street, Manhattan 7p; $10
metrometroland.com/events.htm

XXXXX THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 XXXXX

Aligned Creative�s Mixed Media Party

The night will feature an exclusive premiere of AC�s new web series, Krazdale, a Sm�rg�sbord of Absurdity. It�s a new interactive web series that gives the viewer an opportunity to write their own episodes and incorporate themselves into the show's universe and AC will help produce them. Our goal is to help foster the originality and creativity of young filmmakers, by giving them a platform to produce short form creative content. Along with Krazdale the night will also include Aligned Creative produced music videos from the Middle Eight and the Blaire Reinhard Band, a showcase of AC handpicked short films by up and coming filmmakers Cai Hall, Kieran O�Hare, Chris King and Matt Farrell and live performances by the Middle Eight and Emily Mure.

Galapagos
16 Main Street, Brooklyn
9p; $10
allied-creative.com
youtube.com/watch?v=lk9LpfQ1iNA

***** Also on THURSDAY *****

Anagorisis Fine Art Presents N400

Anagnorisis is excited to welcome three artists to the White Rabbit in December. Jarvis Earnshaw, Matthew Brennan and Joe Rugilio have teamed up to make a brilliant mess on our walls. Including paintings, film, music, and sculpture.

The White Rabbit Lounge
145 East Houston Street, between Eldridge Street and Forsyth, Manhattan 7-10p;
artanagnorisis.com/
whiterabbitnyc.com/

XXXXX UPCOMING XXXXX

• La Superette, December 5-6
• Santacon, December 12
• Transmutation, December 31

XXXXX ONGOING XXXXX

Nonsense is too long. The great thing about the internet is that it doesn't really cost much to run long listings and exhaustive descriptions. It turns out that's ... exhausting. After several complaints and a little deliberation, we're trying a new format: On the first Friday of the month we will run updated ongoing listings in each section: events, learning, and help. Other weeks we're going for leaner, meaner sections. If you're desperate for something to do on an off-Tuesday night we suggest you either look back a few issues ago in your inbox, or poke through our online archives, which you can find under the subscribe page.

XXXXX WISHLIST XXXXX

What have you been wishing for? Collaborators, grant monies, a new home? Please send brief listings to Alita at alitanonsensenyc.com. We only list available apartments, lofts, studios, and one-off rentals -- not spaces wanted.

***** ARTY STUFF *****

• I am looking for someone who would like to collaborate with me on a film/theater project as a DP or film director. I am a writer/director of plays who works in the downtown theater milieu. The film aspect of the project will involve shooting a 10-20 minute long silent film on either super8 or 16mm or visually altered DV. The idea is to make this thing look semi-convincingly old-- like from 1917. In terms of look I'm hoping for something along the lines of Guy Maddin, D. W. Griffith, Pola Negri vehicles, Edison films of vaudeville sketches, Woody Allen's Zelig. The film quality can be totally distressed, the picture can be distorted at times. I work in the theater and not in film. I don't really know the first thing about how to achieve these kinds of effects. The film will be projected as a part of performance of a play that is being presented at a festival in the East Village in late January. The concept of the play is basically that the woman who directed/starred in this silent film in her youth is now much older. She is attending a showing the film and providing a sort of cracked and drunken director's commentary. In terms of our collaboration, I am flexible: If you want to take the whole film aspect of the project on, I would say go for it. I would also be happy to provide support by producing/ casting/ location scouting/costuming and let you worry about the camera, the directing within scenes, the editing. I would even be happy to have you just do the shooting. In any case, I will provide the written scenario. As far as money goes, I am working on it. You will be paid something, but sadly it will not be an awful lot. On the other hand, no one will be paid very much: that's the theater! But if you are interested in this project please let me know what you would need to make it work and I will see what I can do. With any luck the project will expand and will have future iterations. As it is, there are four guaranteed screenings and you would get something from the box office haul. Upper level undergraduate and graduate film students welcome. If you are interested in experimenting with DIY old-fashioned film looks, this could the project for you. Please send me a link to your reel or portfolio or youtube if possible. I will return the favor with more info about myself. Contact me at normandyraven(at)gmail.com.

***** SPACES *****

• I'm jumping into the rental of a floor of an old warehouse in Bushwick. It's an old LIRR terminal from the 30s and its second floor is home to Refuge. The first floor is open and after some trash removal, it's ready for action. It's 5,000 square feet. The dream: a very well-stocked workshop for wood and metal craft, room for performances and whatever social oddities pass through with living spaces lofted around. The reality: It's just a clean empty warehouse (or will be after a day and a dumpster). If you're interested in: a place to live, a place to work, a place to hang out, a place to have group events or if you just want to ride a dangerous freight elevator up and down, then get in touch. I could use help and need roommates. Lease starts in December, but I'm open to any ideas. Contact mikey.ot(at)gmail.com.

*The last party at Refuge has come and gone. Our spacious warehouse on the Brooklyn/Queens border is becoming an arts space/community living space and you may be just the right person to join us. We will be building rooms that range in size and will cost $800-950 per month. One and one-half blocks from L train, sunny, custom-size rooms, 4,500 square foot rooftop with Manhattan view, huge common area with kitchen plus living room, high ceilings, awesome roommates. No pets allowed, no exceptions. To move in, we require first and last month's rent, and a security deposit. Also there are no walls yet so you can build them, or have Junglez do it. Contact kevin(at)newmindspace.com.

• I am seeking a responsible, reliable and clean professional of any gender to share a two-bedroom apartment in the Prospect Park area, available December 1. The apartment is located on the corner of Parkside Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, right across the street from the Q train. Utilities are not included; they run roughly about $100 a month. The bedroom is about 10 by 14 and completely unfurnished. It has high ceilings, a hardwood floor, a closet, two large windows, and steam heat. The kitchen is fairly large, with a brand new fridge and stove. The living room is also large, and there is room for your furniture. The apartment is a totally smoke and drug free zone (yes, that includes 420). Social drinking is fine, but nothing excessive. Please don't be allergic to cats; I have one. One more cat is welcome to the household as long as it's friendly to both humans and other cats, and non-destructive. Sorry, no dogs. Contact melissa.s.cohen(at)gmail.com.
• Room in four-bedroom apartment available, December 1. $600 plus utilities (about $50). Hugenormous sunny room with Victorian moulding and nooks and crannies and closet. Share with three friendly, responsible folks and a big lovable dog. Kitchen and storage closet, but no living room. Great backyard. Dog or open-minded cat OK. Two blocks from Gates J stop - 15 minutes to Manhattan; 25 by bike. Bushwick - close to 99 cent store paradise and Goodbye Blue Monday. Need someone mature, responsible, easygoing. Email Tanya at pollymorfus(at)yahoo.com.
• Room available in three-bedroom apartment in Crown Heights right next to the Franklin stop of the 2/3/4/5, for December 1. Rent is $710 per person (still rent-stabilized!). Security deposit is $710. The apartment is on the third floor of a walk-up building. Shared utilities are gas, electric, and wireless internet, which usually comes out to $45 each per month. The apartment is about a ten-minute walk to Prospect Park, the Botanic Gardens, the Brooklyn Museum and the giant library. There is a bus that goes right to Williamsburg too. The available room is really quiet, since it doesn't face Eastern Parkway. It has one window, gets good light, and well-heated in the winter. The apartment is chill, cozy, and clean. No cigarette smoke inside, but otherwise we're laidback and easy to live with. Once in a while we grab a beer together but mostly do our own things and keep pretty busy. You would be living with: two twenty-something queers. One is a lesbian librarian who works nigh ts, and weekends but is often home during the day. The other works for a labor union, and does the 9-5 thing, so is home some evenings. We are looking for someone who is laidback, neat, responsible, queer/friendly, etc. Please write us a little bit about yourself and what you look for in a living situation. We can show the room during the day or evening. Contact 327EasternParkway(at)gmail.com.
• I am moving out of my well-loved place in Gowanus on December 1 because I am moving in with friends. This big room is actually one small room and one medium room, connected. The building is a little junky: crooked angles, crumbly molding, radiators, hallway clutter, bad paint jobs. The landlord lives here and is very sweet and the other three female roommates keep to themselves. Big kitchen with gas stove and tiny refrigerator, one and a half bathrooms, no common space otherwise. One roommate has a cat that stays in her room. You could have a cat or other non-dog pet too. It's on 8th Street - very convenient to many Gowanus studios and practice spaces as well as the Bell House and Can Factory, G/F/R/M/and sometimes other trains at night. Best of all: $560/month plus a month and a half security deposit. Great if you want quiet privacy without the expense of your own place. Live/work depending on what you do. Not for lovers of new condos. Contact Annie, endannie(at)gmail.com.
• I am looking for two long-term (year-plus) subletters -- one to begin December 1st, the other with more flexible dates, but to start no later than mid-January 2010. The total rent is $1800 plus utilities -- perfect for one or two easy-going, low key professional / academic / artist type individuals or a couple. This has been my home since 2002. I am very much hoping to find one or two super trustable people to take good care of it while I am in India. This furnished loft is in the Navy Yard area, Grand Avenue between Flushing and Park, along the water surrounded by Hasidic Williamsburg, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene and DUMBO. The large common area has an entire wall of windows facing the trees in a yard on the edge of the water between the Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges. Post office, laundry, dry cleaner, organic groceries, art supply store, Pratt, cafes, bars, shops, etc. are all within blocks from our industrial building (in front of which the landlord is about to plant trees!) Both rooms are approximately 12 by 12, with lots of built-in storage, closet, dressers, and shelves. One has double door entry; the other is stacked on top with steps leading to it. The common area is the entire rest of the space, kitchen counters line the back corner, kitchen table, pantry shelves, juicer, espresso, microwave, dishes/cookware, pull-out futon couch, petite drum kit, desk/workspace areas, video projector, lots of bookshelves. The bathroom is large also with lots of natural light and claw-foot tub. The loft also has rooftop access (good for bbqs, outdoor screenings, yoga, hanging out, etc.), lovely views and seven floors of friendly, creative neighbors. Two months' deposit required -- one month will go to my roommate who is moving out, the other can be a separate check I only cash if something goes wrong. Contact nicole(at)relativelylocal.com.
• We have a shared workspace available for $263 in our 1200 foot work studio in Williamsburg near South 11th and Bedford. The bit that's opening up is 160 square feet with three work walls, two large windows, 16 foot ceilings, wood floors. The other occupants are two other painters who are very, very rarely there --you'd usually have it to yourself and if you were inclined you could turn this bit completely private. There's also a jeweler and a writer. It's on the top floor of the building occupied by artists and such with communal slop sinks, two elevators, gorgeous views from space and rooftop. This space has very good light and a storage ledge in the back. The building is a huge old toy factory from the 1800s on the river (used to publish the old Wizard of Oz books here), quite eccentric. Basquiat worked here, there's circuses and such, as well as a few floors of mixed Hasidic and hipstersque residents (the first floors are residential). We're looking for someone quiet and considerate--quiet is very important so no musicians, carpenters, etc. Rent is $263, heat included (awesome heater) but not electric (usually around $6-7 a month). Located near South 11th and Berry, near first L subway stop or first JMZ stop; two minutes to the bridge if you bike. Huge lumber yard/hardware one block away, supermarket as well. Contact Stewart at devilsgarden2003(at)yahoo.com or 917 750-2709.
• DIYbio, biohacking group looking for a home. Basically we need a place with low rent, a door, a sink, and a little space for some lab equipment (table top centrifuge, freezer, etc). The experiments we'd be doing would fall within the lowest biosafety level, that's the safety level of high school labs, i.e. nothing dangerous going on. Contact leevonk(at)gmail.com, see: diybionyc.blogspot.com/

XXXXX SPECTRE PRIORITY XXXXX

Before we had a name, the Spectre Event Horizon Group used to meet at a bar to commiserate about the news and trade what our business friends call best practices. The group has expanded since then, but it remains premised on smartening the crowd mind. There are no subject limits; our favorite is our sci-fi present, and we like anything that goes toward a better understanding of human behavior and ecology. Our basic idea is to connect minds with mind-blowing information and create a space for the informal trade of specialized investigative research, presented for the non-specialist.

The Spectre email list, which is a separate group from this column, is a moderated open forum. People are encouraged to join and to post. This section is compiled for Nonsense by J. Sinopoli. Contact us at spectre.event.horizon.groupgmail.com or spectregroup.org. Some of what came in this week:

***** Evolutionary Tactics *****

http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/first-earth-battalion/

Theme Party Proposal [Field Manual]
http://www.dareland.com/field_manual.pdf

1st Earth Battalion
http://www.firstearthbattalion.org/
http://www.firstearthbattalion.com/
http://www.neweartharmy.com/

Origins
http://firstearthbattalion.com/frequently-asked-questions/what-is-the-first-earth-battalion-and-how-did-it-originate.php "Post Vietnam 1978 was a time when military morale and enrollment were at an all time low. Army leaders called upon officers to develop needed creative approaches to dealing with this challenge. They were encouraged to fully explore the Army's Be All That You Can Be philosophy. In response, U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon created the First Earth Battalion, that collected new technologies to support a conceptual prototype of the soldier of the future. Channon was inspired by the human potential and advanced human performance movements and drew many of his ideas from these fields and from the time he spent at Esalen Institute. Channon delivered his ideas through his illustrated field manual, Evolutionary Tactics, which was published by the Army in 1978. The manual was modeled after the popular Whole Earth Catalog with illustrations of advanced human performance skills. It is credited with kick-starting a very creative surge of activity in the U.S. Army. Army commanders adopted the elements that served them. There was no one cookie-cutter solution. Original copies have become something of collector's item."

Spoiler Alert
http://www.firstearthbattalion.org/?q=node/96 A viewers guide to the Goats movie : True or False? BY John B. Alexander / U.S. Army (retired) "Facts and Fiction
- Remote Viewing � REAL- and was a 20 year official program - Use of Remote Viewing in Gen Dozier kidnapping by Red Brigade - REAL - Concern about Soviet psychic research � REAL - JEDI projects � REAL � but ad hoc (I had one of them with multi-agencies) - Spoon bending � REAL � was taught to hundreds - Cloud busting �REAL � though never as fast as done by Clooney - Computer crashing � REAL � incident did happen - Fire walking -REAL
- New Age exploration � REAL
- Running into walls � NOT REAL (is the opening scene of the movie) - Use of LSD � not only NO, BUT HELL NO - Hamster staring �ATTEMPTED - by Guy Savelli (a civilian martial artist) - Goat Lab � REAL � used to train medics - Goats � Hit by martial artists � It did die hours later - Goats � Staring � no credible evidence to support this allegation - Dim mak � PROBABLY REAL � supported by physical evidence - References to a hollow army �REAL � post Vietnam was a traumatic period"

New Earth Army
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/05/1 The armies of the world should unite to save Earth BY Jim Channon / 5 November 2009
"It is often overlooked, but the Marshall Plan executed after the second world war may have been the largest humanitarian exercise in the history of the planet. The allied armies decided to put Europe back together. Military forces had, and have, the tools and proper organisation to help reconstruct the very things they have destroyed. The army would properly reforest and clean the fresh water sources. The navy would control over-fishing and recycle the ocean waste. The marines would tend the shorelines and restore the coral reefs and wetland areas. Then the air forces would sense the environment from above and detect polluters while also having the instant mass transport of rescue villages for all the displaced refugees likely to surface during climate change. The many national guard units would reconstruct the countryside with the assistance of the youth to bring nature back to her fullness for a more decentralised and sustainable world. The internet will become our worldwi de exchange system, and former power centres will just be support services. The world is already one culture. Countries are obsolete and have been for 30 years."

Jedi Training
http://wisdomatwork.com/WisdomAtWork/JEDIWARRIOR.html Special Forces of the Mind
"In 1982 we were approached by the US. Army to design and direct the "Ultimate Warrior Training Program", AKA "Jedi Warrior," for two A Teams of Special Forces, Green Berets. This six month-long, full-time program came about through the efforts of a number of concerned and high-ranking officers who were inspired by the vision of the First Earth Battalion. Our advisors and collaborators ranged from Vietnam veterans and respected military leaders, to leading martial artists, noted researchers like Elmer Green from the Menninger Foundation, Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, and Nobel Peace Laureate, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. By the time the program began, we had woven the best of our own experience with the insights of many others to deliver what Michael Murphy, founder of the Esalen Institute, and Esquire editor George Leonard, once called, "the most intensive leadership and human development program to be offered in modern times." Our advanced Biocybernaut traini ng combined technologies of biofeedback, neurofeedback, cyberphysiology, and contemplative inner methods of mastery drawn from the vast array of contemplative science traditions. In our lab the soldiers developed the skill and confidence necessary to sense and control many previously unconscious physiological functions: they learned to recognize and control muscle tension, to control blood circulation in order to keep their hands warm in cold environments, manage the intensity and physiology of their responses to stress. For many visiting dignitaries to the base, the Jedi Biocybernaut Lab became a first stop on the tour of the base, where they learned that it was actually possible to recognize and control the level of their blood pressure. The lab included the world's first multiple-synchrony brainwave feedback system, which we helped to design, in order to teach up to sixteen people at a time to "synchronize" their brain waves in order to move toward a team resonance and flow state of deep attunement to each other's inner state of being."

Battlefield Acupuncture
http://www.n5ev.com/battlefield_acupuncture.htm http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2008-12-11/news/0812100207_1_battlefield-acupuncture-pain-with-acupuncture-traditional-chinese-acupuncture

C.I.A. In-House Acid Tests
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0802130623/bizarrehistorica http://www.historyhouse.com/c/in_history/?lsd "Lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, has been a sacrament of artists, would-be prophets, and other such social chaff since the 1960s. Invented in 1938 by chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann while looking for an analeptic (circulatory stimulant), he found it had no effect on lab animals and forgot all about it. Years later, on the fateful day 16 of April, 1953, he accidentally absorbed a little through his fingertips and went flying on the first acid trip. By then the CIA had a ten-year-old program running, looking for interrogation drugs and truth serums. They'd played with caffeine, barbiturates, peyote, and marijuana. Gottlieb knew that giving LSD to people in the lab was a lot different than just passing it out, and felt the department did not have an adequate grasp on its effects. So the entire operation tripped to learn what it was like, and, according to Lee and Shlain, "agreed among themselves to slip LSD into each other's drinks. The target never knew when his turn would come, but as soon as the drug was ingested a ... colleague would tell him so he could make the necessary preparations (which usually meant taking the rest of the day off). Initially the leaders of MK-ULTRA restricted the surprise acid tests to [their own] members, but when this phase had run its course they started dosing other Agency personnel who had never tripped before. Nearly everyone was fair game, and surprise acid trips became something of an occupational hazard among CIA operatives.... The Office of Security felt that [MK-ULTRA] should have exercised better judgment in dealing with such a powerful and dangerous chemical. The straw that broke the camel's back came when a Security informant got wind of a plan by a few [MK-ULTRA] jokers to put LSD in the punch served at the annual CIA Christmas office party ... a Security memo writer... concluded indignantly and unequivocally that he did 'not recommend testing in the Christmas punch bowls usually present at the Christmas office parties.'"

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We look for the sort of classes you circled in college course catalogs but never managed to fit into your schedule. And we also look for the kind of things that no college could teach. Cheap and eclectic is the rule, though all rules get broken occasionally, and we especially love workshops, round-tables, and teachers who won't take your work out of your hands and show you how to do it right. One-time listings are categorized, with general recurring classes at the end. We thrive on your suggestions, so make sure to tell us about upcoming classes that you think are nifty-keen.

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We look for the sort of classes you circled in college course catalogs but never managed to fit into your schedule. And we also look for the kind of things that no college could teach. Cheap and eclectic is the rule, though all rules get broken occasionally, and we especially love workshops, round-tables, and teachers who won't take your work out of your hands and show you how to do it right. One-time listings are categorized, with general recurring classes at the end. We thrive on your suggestions, so make sure to tell us about upcoming classes that you think are nifty-keen.

Learning is compiled and edited weekly by Libby Sentz. Send listings, announcements, and corrections to her at libbysentz(at)me.com.

***** LEARNING: SATURDAY *****

Turkey Dance Off

Two hours of dance, drills, bellydance combos, push-ups, sit-ups, Pilates/yoga, meditation, and the best kind of sweat with Sera Solstice. Open level bellydance: We will be working from advanced beginner through intermediate levels with options for more advanced movements. Pre-registration required to reserve a space by 8p Friday. Open to all.

Solstice Studio
66 West 39th Street, 3rd Floor
Manhattan
11a-1p; $25
Preregister: info(at)boldbellydance.com

***** LEARNING: Also on SATURDAY *****

Hack Classic Nintendo Games

Foxx D'Gamma teaches a session on how to hack games for the classic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) using modern emulators. We will be explaining how to use emulators to reverse engineer NES games to find memory addresses and values in which you can create cheat codes and also map out how the game was put together. This class will teach the basics of 8-bit computing, memory addressing, explanation of buffer overflows, and how memory works. This will also explain how to use debugging tools to reverse engineer a software to take it apart and see whats really inside the ROM. Students should bring a laptop to run their own NES emulators. Demos wil be done on hacked XBox consoles.

NYC Resistor Hackspace
397 Bridge Street, Floor 5
Brooklyn
2:30-4:30p; $50
nycresistor.com

***** LEARNING: MONDAY *****

Earrings Level 1

This beginner-level class will show you how to attach your earring designs onto ear wires. You'll learn the "hangman's noose" wrap, which is one of the basic staples in jewelry design. The cost of this class includes headpins and base metal earwires. Beads not included.

Brooklyn Bead Box
244 Smith Street, Brooklyn
5-6:30p; $35
brooklynbeadbox.com

***** LEARNING: Also on MONDAY *****

Free Sweatshop Social: Bagmaking

Food-shopping fashionistas and creative environmentalists alike should join Bags for the People in a night of custom cotton bag making. You bring the fun and the fabric; we'll provide the sewing machines, instruction, drinks, food from Nha Toi, and live music curated by Pendu Ors Arts & Actions. 'Cause everybody knows plastic is passe. Held every last Monday of each month.

3rd Ward
195 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn
7-10p; $free
718-715-4961
3rdward.com

***** LEARNING: TUESDAY *****

Found Object Jewelry

Learn to make unique jewelry with everyday and extraordinary objects. No previous experience necessary. Led by Pamela Isaac, a self-taught artist and jewelry designer.

Materials for the Arts
33-00 Northern Boulevard, 3rd Floor
Long Island City
10-noon; $10
mfta.org

***** LEARNING: Also on TUESDAY *****

Yogurt Making and Almond Milk Workshop

This class is back by popular demand. Processed nut and rice milks are pasteurized to the point of needing nutrients artificially added back in, plus they contain many emulsifiers and preservatives. Homemade nut and rice milks taste better, are more nutritious, cheaper, contain only food ingredients, and use less packaging and travel-time than their store-bought alternatives. Bring a dish to share and stay for the potluck. Space is limited, so please reserve your spot via Paypal. Hosted by Amber Kusmenko.

The Be Hive
170 Norfolk Street, Apt. 11
7:30-9:30p; $10 recommended donation
Prepay via Paypal to behivethrives(at)gmail.com

***** LEARNING: Also on TUESDAY *****

HoopSkool

In three weeks you can be spinning, twirling, tossing, and jumping through your hoop like a pro. Learn to hoop dance with grace, power, flow and control, and blow your friends and family away with your amazing new skills! HoopSkool is an exciting new hoopdance series that will push you to learn way faster than you could figure it out on your own. Each series features a different guest instructor for a day to pass on his or her best gems of "hoopocity". We'll cover everything from technique to learning skills to stretching, choreography, and storytelling through dance. Take the shortcut, learn the right way. Our guest teacher this time will be hoop genius Malcolm Stuart.

Bring one small and one adult-size hoop, in decent condition. Hoops will also be available to rent ($3/class) or buy ($30) if you don't have one. Wear comfortable, breathable clothes that you don't mind sweating in. Shorts and a T-shirt (or top with no sleeves) are ideal, because the hoop sticks best to skin. Form-fitting clothes work well too. Looser clothes and slick materials like spandex make the hoop slippery.

Theatre Row Studios
411 West 41st Street
Manhattan
7:30-9p Tuesdays and Thursdays through Dec. 17 $100 for six sessions for those who register by Nov. 28 RSVP: thefunnestbootcamp@gmail.com

***** LEARNING: Also on TUESDAY *****

Hatmaking

Participants will explore the making of hats from different time periods and cultures inspired by the materials. Examples include crowns, bonnets, firefighter hats, hats from paper bags, and more. A variety of construction methods appropriate for all ages will be introduced. Led by Joy Suarez, a teaching artist and educator.

Materials for the Arts
33-00 Northern Boulevard, 3rd Floor
Long Island City
4:30-7p; $10
mfta.org

***** LEARNING: THURSDAY *****

Free: Create Your Website and Internet Marketing

Publishing a website doesn't need to be complicated or expensive. Get the inside track at this workshop, presented by CAMBA Small Business Services, on free or low-cost methods to build a professional site for your business. Learn what makes a great small business website and how you can promote it. No registrations are being taken for this program. Seating is limited; first come, first seated.

Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL) 188 Madison Avenue, Room 018
Manhattan
5:30p-?; $free
212-592-7000
nypl.org

***** LEARNING: Also on THURSDAY *****

Producing Public Programs

Lecture by Alan Pally with video selections from the programs at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, featuring Alan Bennett, Barbara Cook, Katherine Dunham, Christine Ebersole, Bobby Short, and others.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Bruno Walter Auditorium Manhattan
6p; $free
212-870-1630
nypl.org

***** LEARNING: Also on THURSDAY *****

Play It Cool? In Search of an Ethics and Aesthetics for Dealing with Climate Change

A workshop with Eyebeam resident Marina Zurkow and NYU faculty members Una Chaudhuri and Fritz Ertl. The science of climate change seems finally to have silenced all but the most benighted of global-warming naysayers; today, few doubt that it's time for governments worldwide to take action. Yet the changes that are needed are happening at a glacial pace and at insufficient scale. What will raise awareness to the point of meaningful action? This workshop will use performance, discussion, and art analysis to explore this and other questions and to help formulate creative solutions.

Eyebeam
540 West 21st Street, Manhattan
6:30-9p; $5
eyebeam.org/events/play-it-cool

***** LEARNING: OPEN CALL FOR TEACHERS*****

Teach at Madagascar Institute

Classes are coming back to Madagascar Institute this winter! This is your opportunity to become a revered (and paid) teacher at the most badass shop in Brooklyn. Popular classes in the past have included welding, screenprinting, machining, sewing, craft workshops, and more advanced technique classes. Classes generally run two or three hours, but you determine how much time you need to teach your class. If you are teaching a skill that requires more knowledge/practice, make it a multi-week class. Also feel free to think of creative class formats. If you are working on, say, a jet engine, it is perfectly permissible to teach �How to Build a Jet Engine� as a longer running class, schooling your students as they help you with your project. Visit the site for full details and to apply.

Madagascar Institute
217 Butler Street, Brooklyn
madagascarinstitute.com/2009/11/17/teach-a-class-at-mada-this-winter/

***** LEARNING: OPEN CALL FOR TEACHERS*****

Lead a DIY Paper Project Workshop

The Museum of Arts and Design is hosting its third DIY salon December 10 and needs artists to lead some workshops. They are looking for interesting DIY paper projects to be taught in the salon to complement MAD�s latest exhibition, Slash: Paper Under the Knife. All types of paper manipulation will be considered (folding, cutting, twisting, etc.). The project must be completed within 20 minutes and interesting for beginners as well as experienced crafters. Expect to repeat your project demonstration multiple times during the evening. Each teaching artist will receive an honorarium of $100 for their participation, and all materials will be provided. Email proposals to jessica.sucher@madmuseum.org before Monday.

Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan
collections.madmuseum.org/html/exhibitions/485.html

XXXXX HELP XXXXX

It is a wonderful thing, to help. Helping strengthens communities and allows you to meet new friends. With that in mind, we look for one-day volunteer opportunities with no long-term commitment required. We want to be open to fresh ideas and think of help in a broad way. These listings could include anything from a large-scale day-long service project to a local theatre company that needs volunteers for load-in; from an artist looking for film extras to a community garden that needs a few extra hands. Our goal is simply to help groups or individuals that serve the greater good in small but significant ways. Unique and interesting job opportunities are acceptable fare for this section as well. Looking for ways to help out? Need volunteers to get your own community project off the ground? Know of any existing opportunities? Send your requests to Rob Voigt at robpastyvoigt(at)gmail.com.

XXXXX HELP XXXXX

It is a wonderful thing, to help. Helping strengthens communities and allows you to meet new friends. With that in mind, we look for one-day volunteer opportunities with no long-term commitment required. We want to be open to fresh ideas and think of help in a broad way. These listings could include anything from a large-scale day-long service project to a local theatre company that needs volunteers for load-in; from an artist looking for film extras to a community garden that needs a few extra hands. Our goal is simply to help groups or individuals that serve the greater good in small but significant ways. Unique and interesting job opportunities are acceptable fare for this section as well. Looking for ways to help out? Need volunteers to get your own community project off the ground? Know of any existing opportunities? Send your requests to Rob Voigt at robpastyvoigt(at)gmail.com.

***** HELP: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 *****

Adoption Day (second chance)

Have you been thinking about adopting a cat? Well, now�s the perfect time to make the move. This Sunday, take a drive out to Jersey for an adoption day hosted by Animals Need You/Kindness Corps. There�s lots of cats in need of good homes! Animals Need You is a non-profit humane organization, dedicated to alleviating the plight of homeless and abandoned animals, and is staffed entirely by volunteers. They rescue animals in need, and provide them with food, shelter, and medical treatment as they prepare for adoption into suitable homes.

Event at Petco, 201 Prospect Ave., West Orange, NJ 11a-4p
973-420-2981

***** HELP: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 *****

Book Distribution -- Choose What You Read NY

CWYRNY is a non profit organization that offers free books to New Yorkers, encouraging its residents to read more, giving them an alternative to the free papers that get tossed out and even the digi-trash that crowds our time. In doing so, we help to recycle used books that would have unfortunately been thrown away.

We need volunteers to help distribute books this Tuesday. Volunteers need to show up on time, help us carry books and banners from a central location to his or her designated station, hand out books to the public and engage them in conversation about our program and the values of reading. It�s super fun and a great cause.

Various Locations
5-7:30p
choosewhatyoureadny(at)gmail.com
choosewhatyoureadny.org

***** HELP: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 *****

Bailey House Craft Volunteer

Creative volunteer needed to help organize and facilitate a creative arts workshop for Bailey House in honor of World Aids Day. We�re looking for an arts-and-crafts activity for the adult clients and a corporate volunteer group. Bailey House will purchase all art materials that are needed.

1751 Park Avenue, Manhattan
2-4p
April McKenzie, 212-633-2500 ext 460
volunteerbaileyhouse(at)gmail.com

***** HELP: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 ******

Ubuntu Fund Holiday Mailing Pizza Party

Nope, not the Linux distro, you geek. Ubuntu Education Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to working with the people of the Eastern Cape Province to develop quality education and healthy communities in the New South Africa. The philosophy of ubuntu conceives of humanity as a universal community of equals, a worldwide network of family. Since our inception we have built 10 computer centers, 5 libraries, 1 career center and empowered over 24,000 children and 13,000 adults with health and AIDS education.

We are sending out a newsletter and need your help. Come and be a part of a worthy cause while getting to know some amazing people over some delicious pizza and soda.

32 Broadway, Suite 414, Manhattan
6-9p
http://bit.ly/5iHXtx

***** HELP: WHENEVER *****

A Leaky Roof

The Sisters of Life Convent on West 51st Street has an ongoing problem with a roof leak and they do not have the money to fix it. They are a group that welcomes pregnant guests to live with them in one of their convents and provides help to pregnant women in need of practical assistance through their visitation mission. They pray every day for some way to fix the problem. If anyone who reads this has experience repairing leaks in a flat roof or knows of someone who could help, please contact them or visit.

Sisters of Life Convent
450 West 51st Street, Manhattan
212-397-1396

***** HELP: UPCOMING *****

• January 25-26. The NYC Department of Homeless Services will hold its annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE). Thousands of volunteers are needed to canvass parks, subways and other public spaces to survey the number of people living unsheltered in the city. Just one night of your time will help us collect vital information that is used by outreach teams to help homeless people leave the streets for a better life. Go to the DHS homepage at www.nyc.gov/dhs for more information and registration. One night, 3,000 volunteers, let�s make it count. Please consider joining us today.

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