• noun 1 a social division in a traditional society consisting of linked families or communities with a common culture and dialect. 2 derogatory a distinctive close-knit social or political group. 3 (tribes) informal large numbers of people. 4 (in ancient Rome) each of several (originally three) political divisions. 5 Biology a taxonomic category that ranks above genus and below family or subfamily.

— USAGE It is best to avoid using the word tribe to refer to traditional societies in contemporary contexts, as it is associated with past attitudes of white colonialists towards so-called primitive or uncivilized peoples; alternative terms such as community or people are better. In historical contexts, as in the area was inhabited by Slavic tribes, it is perfectly acceptable.

— ORIGIN Latin tribus, perhaps related to tri- ‘three’ and referring to the three divisions of the early people of Rome.

Source:Ask Oxford.com[Oxford Dictionaries]

So here I am on the planet........
Some stuff about the place I live!

tribes.tribe.net/nottinghamfolk

A mutable water sign ruled by the planet Neptune. Pisceans are kind, psychic, sweet, romantic, friendly, and adaptable. They long for companionship and dislike being alone, so they make very effort to conform. Their empathy and diplomacy make them welcome in various social circles. They appreciate and strive to create a peaceful and harmonious work and social environment. They go out of their way to avoid arguments and conflicts due to their love peace and beauty. Pisceans are extremely intuitive and can sense danger. Noncompetitive, they don't pursue glory at the expense of their peers. They have no great desire to fight for social or political causes. Instead, they are content to enjoy the peace and quiet of the little magical circle they create. Care must be taken that their fear of conflict does not make them weak or indecisive. Pisces the fishes correlates to the gentle, diplomatic Hare (Rabbit, Cat) of Taoist astrology.

Are you just fed up with everything in life?
Want to have a good moan about anything?
Had bad service somewhere?
Fed up of your partners bad habits?........
Here is the place....Let it all out!

tribes.tribe.net/grumpyoldmen

If Teflon is so non-stick, then how come it sticks to the saucepan?
Does anybody ever vanish with a trace?
If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
If God sneezes...what should you say?
If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?
If someone has a mid-life crisis while playing hide and seek, does he automatically lose because he can't find himself?
Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.

Pub info :-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pub#Pub_names

I don't believe the things I'm seein'
I've been wonderin' 'bout some things I've heard
Everybody's crying mercy
When they don't know the meaning of the word

A bad enough situation
Is sure enough getting worse
Everybody's crying justice
Just as soon as there's business first

Toe to toe, touch and go
Give a cheer and get your own souvenir

Well you know the people running round in circles
Don't know what they're headed for
Everybody's crying peace on earth
Just as soon as we win this war

Straight ahead, gotta knock em dead
So pack your kit, choose your own hypocrite

You don't have to go to off-Broadway
To see something plain absurd
Everybody's crying mercy
When they don't know the meaning of the word

Nobody knows the meaning of the word

"The measurements of the human body are designed by Nature that 4 fingers make 1 palm, and 4 palms make 1 foot, 6 palms make 1 cubit; 4 cubits make a man's height. And 4 cubits make one pace and 24 palms make a man; and these measures he used in his buildings.

"If you open your legs so much as to decrease your height 1/14 and spread and raise your arms till your middle fingers touch the level of the top of your head you must know that the centre of the outspread limbs will be in the navel and the space between the legs will be an equilateral triangle.

"The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

"From the roots of the hair to the bottom of the chin is the tenth of a man's height; from the bottom of the chin to the top of his head is one eighth of his height; from the top of the breast to the top of his head will be one sixth of a man. From the top of the breast to the roots of the hair will be the seventh part of the whole man. From the nipples to the top of the head will be the fourth part of a man. The greatest width of the shoulders contains in itself the fourth part of the man. From the elbow to the tip of the hand will be the fifth part of a man; and from the elbow to the angle of the armpit will be the eighth part of the man. The whole hand will be the tenth part of the man; the beginning of the genitals marks the middle of the man. The foot is the seventh part of the man. From the sole of the foot to below the knee will be the fourth part of the man. From below the knee to the beginning of the genitals will be the fourth part of the man. The distance from the bottom of the chin to the nose and from the roots of the hair to the eyebrows is, in each case the same, and like the ear, a third of the face."

The reverse writing imbedded in Leonardo’s drawing is his translation into Italian from the Latin of MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO, De Architectura, Book III of X, Chapter 1, "On Symmetry in Temples and in the Human Body." Vitruvius, an architect and military engineer during the Second Triumvirate, (following the death of Julius Caesar) and in the early reign of Augustus, was strongly influenced by the Greeks, particularly Hermogenes (c.200 BCE), and wrote on topics of style, proportion, ornamentation, the directions of streets, foundations and substructures, building methods and materials, ancient inventions, acoustics, and structural harmonics.

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci, Vol. 1 pp. 182-3. Translation by Jean Paul Richter, 1883. [Dover Publications, New York.]

Quantum fluctuation. Inflation. Expansion. Strong nuclear interaction. Particle-antiparticle annihilation. Deuterium and helium production. Density perturbations. Recombination. Blackbody radiation. Local contraction. Cluster formation. Reionization? Violent relaxation. Virialization. Biased galaxy formation? Turbulent fragmentation. Contraction. Ionization. Compression. Opaque hydrogen. Massive star formation. Deuterium ignition. Hydrogen fusion. Hydrogen depletion. Core contraction. Envelope expansion. Helium fusion. Carbon, oxygen, and silicon fusion. Iron production. Implosion. Supernova explosion. Metals injection. Star formation. Supernova explosions. Star formation. Condensation. Planetesimal accretion. Planetary differentiation. Crust solidification. Volatile gas expulsion. Water condensation. Water dissociation. Ozone production. Ultraviolet absorption. Photosynthetic unicellular organisms. Oxidation. Mutation. Natural selection and evolution. Respiration. Cell differentiation. Sexual reproduction. Fossilization. Land exploration. Dinosaur extinction. Mammal expansion. Glaciation. Homo sapiens manifestation. Animal domestication. Food surplus production. Civilization! Innovation. Exploration. Religion. Warring nations. Empire creation and destruction. Exploration. Colonization. Taxation without representation. Revolution. Constitution. Election. Expansion. Industrialization. Rebellion. Emancipation Proclamation. Invention. Mass production. Urbanization. Immigration. World conflagration. League of Nations. Suffrage extension. Depression. World conflagration. Fission explosions. United Nations. Space exploration. Assassinations. Lunar excursions. Resignation. Computerization. World Trade Organization. Terrorism. Internet expansion. Reunification. Dissolution. World-Wide Web creation. Composition. Extrapolation?

Copyright 1996-1997 by Eric Schulman.

This piece was the inspiration for the book A Briefer History of Time and led to the Annals of Improbable Research Universal History Translation Project. Reprinted from the AIR, Volume III, Number 1, January/February 1997, page 27.

Serendipity, camber, synchronicity, slot, abject, gran turismo, cairn, implicit, transformational, sparkling, zest, lingering, fizz, essence, immaculate, effervescent, debonair, ecstatic, luscious, vivacious, magnanimous, eloquent, transcendental, phosphorescent, shenanigans, somnolent, innuendo, canoodling, polder....to be continued

Time has told me
You're a rare rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind.

And time has told me
Not to ask for more
Someday our ocean
Will find its shore.

So I`ll leave the ways that are making me be
What I really don't want to be
Leave the ways that are making me love
What I really don't want to love.

Time has told me
You came with the dawn
A soul with no footprint
A rose with no thorn.

Your tears they tell me
There's really no way
Of ending your troubles
With things you can say.

And time will tell you
To stay by my side
To keep on trying
'til there's no more to hide.

So leave the ways that are making you be
What you really don't want to be
Leave the ways that are making you love
What you really don't want to love.

Time has told me
You're a rare rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind.

And time has told me
Not to ask for more
For some day our ocean
Will find its shore.

We'll Never Turn Back
Mavis Staples

# Audio CD (23 April 2007)
# Label: Pinnacle
# ASIN: B000O75HHA

Track Listing
1. Down In Mississippi
2. Eyes On The Prize .
3. We Shall Not Be Moved
4. In The Mississippi River
5. On My Way
6. This Little Light
7. 99 and ½
8. My Own Eyes
9. Turn Me Around
10. We'll Never Turn Back
11. I'll Be Rested
12. Jesus Is On The Main Line

As musical activists in the 1960s civil rights movement, the Staple Singers were powerful voices for equality and change. And more than 40 years after Pops's daughter Mavis spent a night in a West Memphis, Arkansas, jail at the behest of a racist cop, she still remembers the terror of the experience, as well as the counsel of Dr. Martin Luther King. That episode is at the centerpiece of "My Own Eyes," one of the most moving offerings on this collection of songs of racial struggle in the '50s and '60s, produced by guitarist Ry Cooder and featuring backing from the original Freedom Singers and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Throughout, the album proves both emotionally chilling and spiritually uplifting. On J .B. Lenoir's "Down in Mississippi" and Marshall Jones's "In the Mississippi River," for example, Cooder makes fine use of pounding percussion and snaky electric guitar to capture the danger and fear inherent in the Deep South at the time, while the title song and "Jesus Is on the Main Line" draw on gospel and the traditional framework of church hymns to promise positive solutions. Staples, who ad-libs on several cuts, connecting the injustice of yesterday to the continuing marginalization of blacks in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, remains a remarkable performer, employing a throaty sensuality that rises from a deep well of tremulous emotion. If her album is musically uneven at times, her artistry and strength continue to shine as undimmed beacons.

Elvis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Hollies, The Everly Brothers, The Tornadoes, The Shadows, Billy Fury, Roy Orbison, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Mussorgsky, The Cream, Sergei Rachmaninov, The Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, Them, The Troggs, Procol Harum, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Bob Dylan, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Canned Heat, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Byrds, Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Mayall, The Yardbirds, Pretty Things, The Animals, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Booker T. & The MG's, Dave Clark Five, The Fortunes, The Who, The Spencer Davis Group, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Kinks, The Small Faces, Chris Farlow, Georgie Fame, Van Morrison, The Lovin' Spoonful, Bert Janch, Joe Cocker, The Incedible String Band, Nick Drake,The Nice, Rimsky-Korsakov, MC5, Derek & The Dominoes, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck, Rory Gallagher, The Band, Donovan, JJ Cale, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, Spirit, Moby Grape, The Doors, Love, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Van der Graaf Generator, Quicksilver Messager Service, Electric Prunes, Joni Mitchel, Crosby Stiills and Nash, Buffalo Springfield, Janis Joplin, Beethoven, Traffic, Free, King Crimson, Badfinger, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple,Emerson, Lake & Palmer, J.S. Bach, Blind Faith,The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Erik Satie, Cat Stevens, Solomon Burke, Long John Baldry, Robert Johnson, The Velvet Underground, Toots & the Maytals, Al Green, The Quintet of the Hot Club of Paris, Gustav Holtz, The Inkspots, The Andrews Sisters, Count Basie Big Band, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday, Dr. John, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, Santana, The Groundhogs, East of Eden, Charles Mingus, Edgar Broughton Band, Billie Holiday, Joe Cocker, Pink Floyd, Yes, Soft Machine, The Incredible String Band, Jethro Tull, Fleetwood Mac, James Brown, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Charlie Parker, Sam & Dave, The Faces, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, David Bowie, Philip Glass, Lou Reed, Percussions de Strasbourg, Humble Pie, Dr. Feelgood, Joe Walsh, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Bob Marley, Scratch Perry, The Wailers,Stevie Wonder, The Specials,The Clash, The Undertones, Madness, XTC, The Beat, Robert Palmer, Little Feat, Tower of Power, Donald Fagen, Richard Thompson, The Average White Band, Steely Dan, Bonnie Raitt, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Ry Cooder, The Pretenders, The Police, Style Council, Kraftwerk, Heaven 17, ABC, Human League, Karlheinz Stockhausen, African Drumming, John Martyn, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Brian Eno, The Stranglers, Blondie, Level 42, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, John Coltraine, Terence Trent D'Arby, Sade, Celia Cruz, The Jam, Grandmaster Flash, Prince, Eurythmics, UB40, Tracey Chapman,Charlie Parker, Fine Young Cannibals, Steve Miller Band, Talking Heads, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Peter Gabriel, Thompson Twins, Go West, Terry Riley, Paul Weller, Back Door, Scritti Politti, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Fat Boy Slim, D'Angelo, Underworld, Chemical Brothers, Blur, Primal Scream, Elastica, Nash, Black Grape, Massive Attack, Stereophonics, Moby, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Beverley Knight, MC Cole, Roger Sanchez, Neville Brothers, Gorillaz, Ludovico Einaudi, Jill Scott, Masters at Work, Basement Jaxx, Foo Fighters, Buena Vista Social Club, Jeff Buckley, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Afro Cuban All-Stars, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Miguel 'Anga' Diaz, Alicia Keys, Bebel Gilberto, Brian Eno,Pat Metheny Group, Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Madeleine Peyroux, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Jimmy Smith,Chet Baker,Us3,The Headhunters,The Black Keys..............to be continued

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head…
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

My soul is dark - Oh! quickly string
The harp I yet can brook to hear;
And let thy gentle fingers fling
Its melting murmurs o'er mine ear.
If in this heart a hope be dear,
That sound shall charm it forth again:
If in these eyes there lurk a tear,
'Twill flow, and cease to burn my brain.

But bid the strain be wild and deep,
Nor let thy notes of joy be first:
I tell thee, minstrel, I must weep,
Or else this heavy heart will burst;
For it hath been by sorrow nursed,
And ached in sleepless silence, long;
And now 'tis doomed to know the worst,
And break at once - or yield to song.

There must be something the matter with him
because he would not be acting as he does
unless there was
therefore he is acting as he is
because there is something the matter with him

He does not think there is anything the matter with him
because
one of the things that is
the matter with him
is that he does not think that there is anything
the matter with him
therefore
we have to help him realize that,
the fact that he does not think there is anything
the matter with him
is one of the things that is
the matter with him
..................................................................................................

They are playing a game. They are playing at not
playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I
shall break the rules and they will punish me.
I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

...................................................................................................

Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies.

1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

2. Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth.

3. Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.

4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

5. Go deep. The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.

6. Capture accidents. The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.

7. Study. A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.

8. Drift. Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.

9. Begin anywhere. John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.

10. Everyone is a leader. Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.

11. Harvest ideas. Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.

12. Keep moving. The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.

13. Slow down. Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.

14. Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.

15. Ask stupid questions. Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.

16. Collaborate. The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.

17. ____________________. Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.

18. Stay up late. Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world.

19. Work the metaphor. Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.

20. Be careful to take risks. Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

21. Repeat yourself. If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.

22. Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.

23. Stand on someone’s shoulders. You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.

24. Avoid software. The problem with software is that everyone has it.

25. Don’t clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.

26. Don’t enter awards competitions. Just don’t. It’s not good for you.

27. Read only left-hand pages. Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our "noodle."

28. Make new words. Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.

29. Think with your mind. Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.

30. Organization = Liberty. Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between "creatives" and "suits" is what Leonard Cohen calls a 'charming artifact of the past.'

31. Don’t borrow money. Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed.

32. Listen carefully. Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.

33. Take field trips. The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.

34. Make mistakes faster. This isn’t my idea -- I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.

35. Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.

36. Scat. When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else ... but not words.

37. Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.

38. Explore the other edge. Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.

39. Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms. Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces -- what Dr. Seuss calls "the waiting place." Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference -- the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.

40. Avoid fields. Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.

41. Laugh. People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I've become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.

42. Remember. Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.

43. Power to the people. Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can't be free agents if we’re not free.



The Incomplete Manifesto