Digital Narrative in an Attention Ecology
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

..using footage taken from multiple devices like phones, digital video cameras, closed-circuit television systems, news footage, and web cams, a storyline can be generated online which has the feel of a real sequence of events. These video elements would then be played back with overlying narrative in an actual filmic release, requiring fans of the [...]

Cymatics
Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Harold Cabezas (haroldcabezas) ’s status on Thursday, 03-Sep-09 15 … – “Sound Does Have Form…It Can Affect Matter And Cause Form Within Matter.” – Evan Grant on Cymatics-TED Video http://post.ly/3rkN. Attachments. http://haroldcabezas.posterous.com/sound-does-have-formit-can-affect-matter-and …
Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics (TED) « Urban … – Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics (TED). This entry was [...]

Footnote 102
Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Exercise
Write out a story, or at least a description, of the idealized version of your life. Write this in third person, seeking to objectively portray who you ideally would like to become. By then creating a storyline around this character, you begin building a model in your mind of how you might become that character. [...]

Footnote 97
Sunday, December 7th, 2008

An example of another film which uses non-linear narration to good effect is The Usual Suspects.
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Footnote 88
Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Dilts, R., Grinder, J., Bandler, R., and DeLozier, J., (1980) Neuro-linguistic Programming Vol. 1
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Footnote 82
Sunday, December 7th, 2008

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Footnote 74
Saturday, December 6th, 2008

A term coined by Saint John of the Cross in his poem “Dark Night of the Soul” from the 16th century.
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Footnote 73
Saturday, December 6th, 2008

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Footnote 71
Saturday, December 6th, 2008

We continue to promote collage work throughout this book because collage, by arranging pieces made of pre-existing media with a variety of materials into a new cohesive whole, is the same process of trimming, selecting, and arranging from various available sources that the brain naturally utilizes to make sense of its environment as it develops.
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Footnote 68
Saturday, December 6th, 2008

In astrology, the rising sign is most closely associated with the persona, with the sun and moon signs roughly analogous to one’s conscious and pre-conscious self-image.
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Footnote 65
Friday, December 5th, 2008

For further reference on these magical techniques we’ve described, we recommend Phil Hine’s book Prime Chaos in which he explains Sorcery Event Series, and Taylor Elwood’s Sigil Web explanation in the book Space/Time Magic.
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Footnote 62
Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Viral video is a recent development, having first made an impression in the search engines around 2005. Examining Google Trends for ‘Viral Video’ provides a real-world version of a meme adoption pattern. As producers heard about this idea of viral video, more and more came online looking for, as well as producing, viral video. [...]

Footnote 60
Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Much more about using triggers can be found in Kevin Hogan’s book Covert Persuasion and Joseph Sugarman’s book Triggers. Dave Lakhani released his book on Persuasion after we’d completed the manuscript for The Art of Memetics, or we would have included it in our print edition’s bibliography. We include it here to rectify [...]

Footnote 55
Thursday, December 4th, 2008

On a similar note, during the years from 1998 through until about 2004, I was exposed to an ongoing perpetual conversation within Astrology:1, one of the chat rooms at Yahoo.com —a chatroom that had a revolving cast of various chatters, and that often devolved into arguments and flame wars—it became obvious that the layer of [...]

Footnote 52
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

For an example of how ‘mere words’ can have a direct (yet unconscious) effect on physiology, see the episode in Blink by Malcolm Gladwell where the subject of a psychological experiment receives the hidden message of ‘old’ and moves slower as a result.
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Footnote 50
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Please bear in mind that we are not discounting his work, far from it. Thought Contagion, along with Richard Brodie’s Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme, are profoundly accessible works on the way that belief grows and manifests in culture. (Add MindControlMarketing and you’ve got the three books necessary to [...]

Footnote 41
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Mark, Margaret and Pearson, Carol S. (2001) The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes
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