Evonne @ Amoration Studio

In a space not so far away

evonne — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:17:37 GMT

lives a girl within a woman who prefers trees and birds to cars and sidewalks.... while the visits to play are often fun there's a peace in progress a space not so far away where there is a bit more rest i feel the call to move higher up the mountain but it is not my decision to be made in collectives trusted to others and shared scary! (my dad is visiting and i'm afk, please enjoy my favorite selfportrait of 2009 from Lucent and i hope we get time to really connect very soon)

Gone to Hawaii

evonne — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:05:48 GMT

I will not get your messages here or anywhere else, except perhaps Twitter. No computers, no email, no beeps every few seconds from IMs. Love you wonderful people.....see you in December!

Headed back to work in San Francisco

evonne — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:58:57 GMT

Flying away again this morning to meet with my clients, nonprofitcommons.org and oneworld.net, nonprofit communities for global progress, building collaborative 3D web spaces. I love my job and the travel is fun, but this time I forgot to book until last minute....time to find a place to sleep tonight! If you are in San Francisco/Bay Area and want to connect before Saturday morning, email me at evoamo@gmail.com with your contact info! Open to suggestions on how to best celebrate this fall in your lovely city. Back to work I go! ~evo~

If prop 8 passes...

evonne — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:19:05 GMT

It's because of many underhanded activities, including some questionable and illegal practices captured in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv34NE8FWYc What a fun day! It doesn't feel like a time to celebrate, and yet I am more proud of my country than ever before. I feel patriotic and happy to be an American for the first time in....decades? Now to get happy about being a Californian....maybe I'm living in the wrong place! When Tribe.net is showing Yes on 8 ads the day before an election there's definitely something screwy at the station.

Time for a bus?

evonne — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:58:57 GMT

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1983-MCI-9-Bus-Partial-Conversion-MCI9-83-Prevost-GMC_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ39Q3a1Q7c66Q3a2Q7c65Q3a15Q7c240Q3a1318QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem170260968335QQitemZ170260968335#paymentmethods Making an offer on this. Anyone else want in? Converting into a mobile studio and tour home, all alt-fuel experiments. Getting very excited to make this happen!

Woohooo!

evonne — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:58:23 GMT

Send congrats to Helen when you can....this is today's news on her work: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/space-x-did-it.html A few weeks ago they sent her down to the Marshall Islands to sort out why their third launch failed in time for the fourth launch. It looks like our girl was successful in making the rocket fly! Yet another genii from this community makes good. Who will be next?

Lightning Temple, Toyshoppe Productions, Amoration Studio

evonne — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:58:16 GMT

Over the next few weeks we will be publishing many maps, designs and clues to the future experiences we will be providing for you. Suffice it to say that we have TREMENDOUS THINGS in the works for you. Some of you have received whispered clues, but here is a link for you to try too! http://lightningtemple.wetpaint.com The Toyshoppe Productions team led by Brent Heyning is coordinating the design, construction and installation of the Lightning Temple through the 2009 touring season. Please contact the Wizard Wonka Brent here on Tribe if you'd like to get more involved, or join the Toyshoppe Box group here. http://tribes.tribe.net/toyshoppe_conference/thread/157cc982-d457-45ce-ad2f-c7d822a511b4?newpostingid=bfd7853c-bb2e-4004-a106-ebf9e02a37a2#bfd7853c-bb2e-4004-a106-ebf9e02a37a2 Amoration is our nonprofit arts studio and gifts to the Lightning Temple may be tax deductible. We are looking for donations of materials and resources of all types, a list of how you can help can be found at http://lightningtemple.wetpaint.com/page/HelptheTemple

Tonight at Desert Rose Hookah

evonne — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:15:26 GMT

Some burner art, spoken, musical, costume and otherwise.... Dress up, bring a friend, bring an instrument or just be your fabulous self! 8PM Desert Rose Lounge North Hollywood 5042 Vineland Street http://www.myspace.com/desertroselounge I hear they offer great drinks and free wifi too! Suzette says: There will be happy hour in the back from 8-9, and if you want to reserve a table with a hookah, you can call Amir at 818-714-4858. See you there!

The real reason we're not going....

evonne — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:35:43 GMT

http://lightningtemple.wetpaint.com The paint is still wet and our crew is almost all here in LA this week, so we're having another design dinner on Tuesday. Brent may pick up pizza so tell him what you love on it. For the last playabounds: come back with a new name, all of you. Paint yourselves colors, take pictures, put your new name on tribe and confuse me to no end. I love it when you fuck with my brain! This week, the LA playa looks like this: * Topless day TODAY in Venice! (too bad I'm btw Beverly and Downtown today) * Swimming and hottubbing around town (tell me about your tub and we can negotiate a time ;-) * Bikeride on Friday noon, downtown LA....you gotta message me if you're coming plz, otherwise we'll lose you * A giant MAN pinata must be found, doctored, stuffed, tortured and singed before next Saturday at 10PM * Thursday at 6PM is Wine and Divine deliciousness at the Grove, ladies night out, whatever that means. * Wednesday at 8PM is the Hookah Desert Rose love with Suzette Brantley and creative friends, arts and music til late in North Hollywood * I REALLY WANT TO HAVE A PICNIC. DO YOU HAVE A GOOD PLACE FOR A PICNIC? * Tuesday Design Dinner @sugarshack for Lightning Temple core dedicates (contact Brent if you want to know more, or visit site above) XOXO we love you all! *

Events: Virtual Worlds, Nonprofits, Flickr4Good, Web 2.0 Expo

evonne — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:46:16 GMT

Hey friends! Some of you know me better from worlds other than the physical form, but this may be your chance to meet up IN PERSON and do something radical like give each other a hug! Pinch the green fairy here: September 3-4: Virtual Worlds Expo, Los Angeles Convention Center September 3 6PM: Metaverse Mix at Hotel Figueroa http://metaversemix.eventbrite.com September 12: My birthday! uWink? Supreme Beings of Leisure at the Echo? Send me a msg if you want to join in for Friday fun. September 16: NetTuesday for Nonprofits/Social Media: Flickr 4 Good with Tara from Yahoo/Flickr @sugarshack September 17-18: Amoration presenting at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC, Javitts Center October 20-22: Curating the State of Play conference, more details coming soon For those of you I haven't met....let me know if you are in NYC, Chicago or Los Angeles and would like to meet up in September/Oct. I love having tea with new friends. xox evo

Leavin on a midnight train....

evonne — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:26:58 GMT

Beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_BbsOp7wY Black, Stiller and Downey Jr. hit it as the Pips with Gladys....and tuxes. Oh, and by the way, I love you all, even those of you who are already drivin and mountin' le man as we speak. He's getting his massive erection today! Photos coming soon.....

Saluting my bike badassness

evonne — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:30:59 GMT

http://www.rikomatic.com My friend Rik came out from NYC and loved my bike so much he blogged about it! Hilarious. I do love riding my bike around town. Can we plan a bikeride for those of us nonplaya folk while the rest of you are off riding to the big art stuff out by the fence? xox come ride with me! <3 <3 <3

A tip of the hat

evonne — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:17:59 GMT

To the many of you stepping up to be real leaders in your communities now. Thank you. Everything I'm seeing and feeling around us points to the major shifts we're undergoing together. Our world is in great flux and so are we as individuals, learning new communication and life tools very quickly as the pace of life seems to accelerate. Many of us are having connected dreams come through in waking and in sleep. Do not be afraid to trust the strange signs. Keep weaving the story together, the mystics among us are on the right track. Keep following those instincts.

Shake rattle and roll....we opened up a wormhole

evonne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:58:42 GMT

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-201133370670152409&q=la+earthquake+video&ei=HiSRSKiXJaSIrAOHgf2oCA This little clip is hilarious; pretty much sums up my last few days. Happy new year, I still feel out of time and in some sort of strange new world still defining. It's time to gather the elders, the heavy feet are coming up the stairs.

there are times when i can look at you forever

evonne — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:37:17 GMT

this has not been one of those weeks. my apologies to those who deserve that attention and have not received it from me. my eyes transmit too much and my head is still clearing from the plague inside....those damn aliens from the planet phlegm came back but we've given them marching orders. no more wars in my head, this brain is not interested in war. apparently i don't sleep much, even with robust amounts of alcohol and nyquil. when the aliens finally evacuate i'll let you know, then we can meet each other again and look each other in the eyes. i should try and sleep first.

love for all of you echoes

evonne — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:56:43 GMT

in the pain..... in the long days and nights the hot ones, the cold ones through sickness health and joy comfort peace love ~ i feel so deeply tied to all of you feeling with you as you go through these movements. ~thank you to friends of scott roy who sent their links and notices, blog posts here and on myspace. i've missed Pan9 often, but never much more than now. i miss all of you and send you hugs from not too far away. ~unlikely i can make it back to VT/NH/BOS right now, too much work on the plate. i miss you all and soon will come back to visit. ~this has not been an easy summer for most of us; very rapidly accelerating synchronicities combined with the pressures of our time are intensifying all of our connections. take care of yourselves well (and i will do best to take these words to heart also). ~do not be surprised. ~we live in amazing times, and i feel very lucky to be sharing these days with you.

What to Wear: Rockstar Attire 101

evonne — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:00:56 GMT

Last night's quality research sidewalk time handling VIPs at Key Club taught me how to swagger down the red carpet like a rock star: 1) Wear an accessory in your hair ALWAYS, feathers-wood-stone-metal always work 2) Women in skimpy clothes only please, and oil everything but your face 3) Men, don't smile too much but smile when the women talk to you as if you'd fuck them right then and there 4) Go smoke a fag after the photo shoot but before your soundcheck, and after soundcheck but before you get sauced 5) Hand the VIP table a list of 200 free people to invite and ask for 30 more all access bracelets for your "family" 6) Men and women, your makeup must be perfect or nonexistent. Be absolutely clean, no asscrack showing please 7) Always keep sunglasses nearby or give them to the hot girlfriend to hold for you 8) Men and women both: have a hot girlfriend ready to hold stuff for you, and don't forget about putting her on the list 9) When in doubt, black. Let hot girlfriend wear the colorful stuff and smile for the cameras 10) Ask the DJ girls who has your choice of recreational materials (except Porter, she doesn't touch the shit) 11) Never slouch or forget that the fuckin' paparazzi are watching when you go Inspired by 8mm and Nico Vega: http://myspace.com/nicovega and http://www.myspace.com/8mm I say fuck it all! Watch the Nico Vega videos, Aja is my idea of a rockstar and she runs around in leotards and dances like a maniac! My photos, as always, are at http://flickr.com/photos/amoration From the Nico Vega myspace page....Influences: Any sort of passion, fire, or interaction between two people, or many people. Any person who has the will to lead people and sacrifice their own needs for the well being of others. Any warrior with a purpose, or a mission, and any artist who is not scared to be great. Anybody that decides to forgive themselves for the mistakes that they have made, and change for the better. We have a lot of musical influences, probably similar to the ones that you like. Oh...and, anybody who is a Lion at heart (support the pack, and be strong without judgement).

1.9.09 Circle for a special night with AMO

evonne — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:06:06 GMT

AMO Food Art Exhibition January 9th 2009 Formal art you can eat! *Meeting with fine artists working in culinary/mixed media edible creations for curated show, portfolio photos welcome *Dedicated spaces for artisan-quality food and drink vendors please contact evoamo@gmail.com *Viewing safe, quality venues in Los Angeles for 300-500 people with kitchen on site, will scout your recommendations *Volunteers welcome for logistics & security, design, food liaisons, outreach/ticketing, entertainment For the first time in three years my nonprofit organization Amoration will be hosting a large public exhibition of edible art, a topic we can all enjoy together! Artists working with food will be invited to present original edible works to be consumed by hundreds of adoring Los Angeles art fans in a feeding frenzy of fantastic flavors from around the world. Your involvement is welcome. Volunteer list above worth checking out for ideas and ways to contribute to the fun. Our last event was attended by ~200 adoring chocolatiers while our altars were dripping with goodness for hours. Bodypainted models, late night music and dancing, decadence and delight for your Friday the 9th of January....this is what we love to do. During the month of December we will be doing a food drive and will be fundraising extensively for food-related local and international causes that we've supported over the years, like the World Food Programme currently getting aid to Darfur's refugees and Food on Foot here in Los Angeles. We would like to work with other organizations around the world doing great work to bring food, permaculture, gardening and new opportunities around through healthy food products....contact me directly with your favorite orgs to support in this food awareness art. Why wait until January to celebrate? One of the tribe recommended that we give ourselves a great excuse to get dressed up and take ourselves out just after the new year, when the formal clothes want to play again but there's no good reason to see each other. 1.9.09. Now we have that excuse....start thinking about your favorite edible costumes, the cotton candy girls and the cupcakes among you waiting to leap out from the culinary closet. I only hope there are enough hungry people out there to enjoy our collective deliciousness. AMO Friends: We're doing the next few dinner parties offsite as our home undergoes some renovations; for those of you who planned to make one of our dinner parties we'll do it at the location of your choice and cook together if you want to practice a few ideas prior to January. Our kitchen is fine for culinary experimentation but we're down to daytime meetings only between now and September. You know how to find me and we're all very busy with life, the universe and everything, so ping me as you think of it and we'll go from there. No worries my loves, the fun is just beginning.

Fight for your Right

evonne — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:27:30 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEWMnynfv3Y Looking for inspiration, needing my rockstar brother to come back and save me from mediocracy. Mediacrazy? It's all muy loco. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzpxl1R8w4s Go watch Porter's hot little video to get happy for next weekend!

How to find Amoration

evonne — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:03:32 GMT

Daily aggregator, news and ways to collaborate: http://friendfeed.com/amoration skype: amoration www.twitter.com/amoration youtube.com/users/amoration Otherwise you can just email me, evoamo, at my gmail address. <3 remember that the love is always in you, it's the energy that keeps your heart beating! <3

The heart opening

evonne — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:40:38 GMT

Less than an hour into the workday a dozen occasions have popped up where openness of heart has been essential. Openness of eyes, ears, mouth are all essential (for me it's in that order, but we all sense and share differently). My hope for all of you is that your openness is led with an openness of heart that allows for flexibility of the mind and joy in every cell. Opening the heart can be easy, with practice.....some days are still easier than others. It takes PRACTICE to love more fully and beautifully! In my daily practices love is the central focal point, led by openness. I cannot reach a state of love for all without the open aperture and care to look inside myself, deal with the drama and look beyond the dashboard to the horizon again. My practices are simple....a mudra of "I love you" in sign language, held as I walk to remind myself to beam love to others I encounter daily on the streets. Openness with friends happens here and in the social media, dinner conversations and dance floors of our lives, all wonderful places to practice love in action. Meditations, chanting, contemplation and prayer, art and expression are all ways that I bring in to enhance or help myself through the stuck times, when I know that openness is harder to reach. It's in those stuck times that my personal desire for "attention, affection" can eclipse the deeper desire to love others through the little things of our lives. Every emotion in the rainbow comes then, some that make me feel ashamed to be human. Thankfully those emotions do not trap me for long anymore, but I regret every time my feelings have eclipsed an important conversation or bonding moment because I was too shortsided to see the deeper love flowing. I do not enjoy living with regret, so I practice using tools like Don Miguel Ruiz' Four Agreements and worldwide meditations on compassion to remind myself why we are so lucky to share this particular life and time together. I do believe in calming the ocean so that those natural flows are easier to recognize. I also believe in the truth of our shared energy, the love we manifest every day in big and little ways. I know that these moments are just drops in the rainstorm, but I hold them dear with all of you because I see the beauty in you, the energy you can beam out to others the same way I strive to in the little moments of the day. Since human wisdom is somewhat arrogant and warped, I'm leaving you with the kitties of LOLCATBIBLE. Enjoy. 1 iff i talkd wif teh tungz of manz n angylz, n duzzn haz luff, i are becom liek teh human, knockin down all teh potz n panz frm teh shelf, srsly.2 iff i haz powarz of liek tellin the futurez an if i has access to teh internets, an i gotz all teh missteriez an all teh knowingz an all teh faithz, enuff 2 taek all teh mowntanz awayz, an i duzzn haz luff, i gotz nuffink.3 an evn iff i givez all mai stuffz awai, n iff i delivur mai bodiz to b burnded up, and i duzzn haz luff, i gotz nuffink. 4 Luv is pashient n kind, luv haz no jelusniss or showin offz, luv no is stuck-up5 or r00dz. Luv no insistzes on doin it rite, itz not pisst off alla tiem or rezentflufflele.6 Luv izzn all happiez about doin it wrong, but is happiez about teh truthz.7 Luv putz up wiht all teh stuffz, beelivez all teh stuffz, hoepz for all teh stuffz. Luv putz up wiht all teh stuffz… i sed that areddy? 8 Luv no haz endingz. Tellin the futurez, tungz, an alla stuffz u know wil die.9 We haz knowingz a bit, an we haz profacy a bit. We no haz two much tho.10 O, wait. Win teh perfict coemz, teh not perfict will dyez, lolol.11 Wen i wuz a kitten, i meweded leik a kitten, thinkded liek a kittenz, an I chazed strings liek a kittenz. Wen i wuz becomez a cat, i NO WANT kitten waiz ne moar.12 For nao we see in teh foggy mirorr like when teh human gets out of teh shower, but tehn we see faec tow faec. Nao i haz knowingz just a bit, tehn i will haz all teh knowingz, as i haz been knownz. 13 Nao faithz an hoepz an luvz r hear, theses threes, but teh bestest iz teh luv. srsly.

in my heart...

evonne — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:04:01 GMT

Visiting my family feels like too much to tell here. It's been a tough few days in many ways, we're taking my grandma back to the hospital now. My heart is so full and not in the easy gushing way. Instead of dwelling on the tough stuff I'm sending you some of my favorite lyrics! http://cdbaby.com/cd/michaelandrews Mike Andrews' Just a Thought: hello just a thought, you're just a thought are you here to confuse me, or amuse me? if you're here to amuse me then maybe i will write you down, write you down hello, just a thought, just a crazy thought you know i can erase you, completely replace you but i'd rather embrace you and feel you deep inside my heart, in my heart you know fire in the heart where the truth shows where the mind knows where the love grows that is where, that is where i complete you that's the only place i can meet you to say hello! just a thought....

Feeling so very much alive

evonne — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:08:44 GMT

Heart throbbing alive, pulse at peace alive, deep breaths alive, long bikerides alive, hot restless nights alive, long amazing journeys alive, deep luscious love alive, electric minds alive, creatively leaping alive So much flowing lately, so much to come. The cherries tasted so delicious this morning, the grilled bread with nut butter so smooth and everything has been delightful today. I cannot wait and explore, hope and dream, manifest and make more true, more real, more bonded, more intimate with every weaving.

Intention

evonne — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:00:52 GMT

Throughout my life I have been building on a vision for a deeply rooted and integrated community center, a living space for dozens where thousands can be nourished and given space to find their loving spirit. In 2004 we formed Amoration as a nonprofit to begin the exploratory process of community-building and love research along with organizing events around sustainability, crisis aid and preparation, arts as a tool for problem solving and the essentials of digital communication for worldwide connectivity and resource sharing. We have seen many beautiful possibilities for our futures; sharing them with you is half the fun! Reading deeper into the Findhorn intentional community in Scotland I see a prototype for our future AMO community. We have identified that we want to protect, care for and live on over 100 acres with organic gardens, bamboo and other agriculture on the land along with a community center for retreats and workshops and extensive art studios for visiting scholars and professionals on sabbatical. We plan to build a small research facility on site along with a large Bed and Breakfast style home and additional living residences for long term and short term residents of AMO. When I was 7 years old I drew the first building, my future home, a very large window to the sea and sky and otherwise earthen building with round/octagonal spaces and natural features throughout; waterfalls and rock shelving along with all elements integrated (my first attempts at feng shui). At age 9 I first drew the B&B facility, which looks not unlike my current Sugar home but with no square rooms and more of a Madonna Inn customized feel....a gorgeous restaurant on site will also serve a few of my specials, soups and surprises along with a handful of resident chefs including my father, caterer to the carnivores among you. He'll have to cook outside; being in a tropical environment we want to keep our kitchen clean and organic vegetarian with separate facilities for animal products. I suspect that most of our food will be grown on site, at least 50% if soil is conducive with enough food production sold/bartered to sustain the community long term. We want to take the concepts of Growing Architecture into our living space and explore how to live more symbiotically with our natural surroundings. The AMO open space facility is designed for multipurpose gatherings in the hundreds; weddings, workshops and conferences, graduations and other celebrations of all kinds. It is based on the human chakra map and explores the use of each space as tuned for various functions, using color, light and sound to assist in creating conducive environments for gatherings. Many of our AMO partners' artwork explores sacred themes of geometries and tuning and we will create exhibition spaces for ongoing study and public dialogue on these themes. In creating this space we set forth one key intention: to grow in love and share that energy. Our process is inclusive, implementing open space consensus decisions throughout development. It has started with a wiki and a bulletin board for reimagining how we create space. Our goal is to be rooted on the land within the next two years, and we have begun an active scouting process to determine what kinds of geographic areas would be most conducive to the long term health and sustainability of this community. We can go anywhere and there are few limitations: * Access to clean water (preferably untainted underground) * Caves and other natural features * Conducive environment to growing cacao, pineapple, bamboo, nuts, banana, other organic vegetables * Not at sea level; higher elevations preferred AMO may be a root of love; it is also the root of self, the cause of creativity and expression. Amo, amor, amorous, animus, amaranimus. ;-) The Latin roots are so very close in the most primal of sounds. In Sanskrit love is transliterated as "anurag", in Ethiopia pronounced ~afaqara~. Hebrew has *ahab*, later "agape" in Greek. Amoura is ~my love~ in Arabic, I love you is "Ana Ba-heb-bak"; Al-habb becomes Ai in transliterated Chinese root pictographs. "ki-ag2" is the Sumerian root, pronounced "key ang" or to place-bond. Ami, ani, ana, ama, amo: these roots show up in more than half of the worlds languages when speaking about love. Of course, "love" means ~money~ in Romani, so it all breaks down at some point....we're just learning how to communicate clearly together. Very few languages have refined an understanding of the energy we pass in love, but a few have started: the Hawaiian language uses *Aloha* for love, as a greeting and as a way to end time together. The community we seek to create will give plenty of room for this exploration as part of a global dialogue taking place around the world. In many languages AMO takes on a deeply spiritual form, transcending the self and connecting us to the greater whole. AMO, the love we share in every conversation, is a magnifiable form of energy that we can learn to grow with the same way that a seed learns to grow with the sunlight, soil and nutrients around it. AMO, the magnetic love we give each other every day, may very well be our own sunlight and radiance in visible and sensible form. AMO, the space we create together for that love.....we still need words and expressions to fill in these blanks. At its root this love is a bond created through the exchange of energy, the same bonding action that happens on a cellular level as well as in observable solar systems. Magnetic bonds have reason for forming and breaking, and in that reason we find the love force, the energy both put in and created through this process. This AMO is what we share, this is the one fire that alchemizes the self into gold. Or as I learned from Kung Fu Panda this weekend.....there is no secret ingredient! You've already got it. We've already got it, this vision for our future. Now we ask you to join us in some real ways, both as present and future intentions. * We will be taking 5 Tekfarm journeys this year with the AMO team, assisting grassroots villages with alt-energy production and digital education tools on site. This serves as scouting expeditions for future communities while we connect with amazing villages producing new solutions in their regions. Peru, Uganda, Swaziland, Thailand, Burma and three locations on this continent have asked us to join them for short term trips (up to 3 weeks) in each region. Community partners will be welcome to join us remotely or on site as AMO adventurers. * The Tekfarm concept will be documented extensively for DIY production use in communities worldwide; we aim to build a template for future communities to grow on that allows for micro-level energy production and biofuel farming with efficiency and consensus throughout. We will need documentary partners throughout this journey at all levels; print and HDVideo professionals especially welcome. Journeys will begin late summer 2008 and continue through summer 2009. * Community partners who would like to help us envision the future of the AMO space in physical form are welcome to join me for dinner in July at my home, Sugar. Save the date: July 8th * Once we have a working proof of concept (due late 2009) I am confident that we have partners, funders and other supporters who want to be a part of this process long term; we will also have a clearer sense of where to locate and procure property to begin building. You are welcome to join that group at any level, by staying involved on our wiki, through email or on Tribe, anywhere you feel drawn to plug in and share your fabulousness. Long term there will be opportunities to come visit, short term or long term as our oasis becomes your recharging station. * Amoration will be hosting an event in the holiday season of 2008; a Food Art exhibition will feature edible astonishments from around the world. If you are a culinary or visual artist who likes to work with food please get in touch as we begin the process of curating over a dozen artists working with a perishable medium. We will make sure there are affordable tickets and plenty of ways to get involved/volunteer for all of you to plug in and have fun....it's been too long since the AMO team has done a big event with this community! If you're interested in exploring more of these themes as they explode into near future and far future perspectives find me next week at PLUMP's Alchemist Dream event; we'll be in the conference room at least half the night exploring Interactive Alchemy with the avatars I know and love. In this case and a few others, remote participation is available through Second Life, you're welcome to hop in and create an avatar to join us from anywhere around the world. Improve my weak translations, add comments; I want to hear how you want to shine and grow long term. Creating this space for our dreams is what we do best.

not abiding separation

evonne — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:15:08 GMT

In the forest alchemy it's easy to see the archetypes we play in everyday life, the ways in which we embody our fantastic selves as creative beings. There is great magic in our circles, in our friendships and the big and little things we create together. The collaboration and integration is my focus, the passion that keeps me flying around the world to share with diverse communities. Sometimes my room has 40 television documentary producers, the next week 300 nonprofit technology geeks....there's the AIDS patients, the university professors, the foundations and lawmakers, the teachers and artists all around us. Somehow in 5-15 minutes I get to tell them that we can create infinite worlds together that can change everything around us. Creative potential is rooted in love and disconnection from love is the primary root of most every problem. Looking at the macro level to poverty and water shortages, there is disconnection and lack of respect for the other as a vital part of the self. We forget how connected we are every minute of every day. We need to be creating together right now, this minute and throughout our lives. Sitting on the sofa will only end in atrophy and death. Get up, go out, do more, be your very best and shine shine shine. We love it when you do. I feel so lucky to have one gift inside: the recognition of brilliance. You are my friends because I have seen something brilliant in you that I want to nourish and help you grow. Please feed yourselves, love yourselves, know yourselves inside and out and if there's anything I can give you to help you along the way, ask and I will do my best to share. <3 and more, many hugs to all of you for supporting the quiet times, the teary times, the times of wonder and awe throughout our lives.