Creations of a Human Kind

manifesto for true living

heliopath — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:29:36 +0000

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Christian Busch – The Emergence of Impact Business [tedx]

heliopath — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:37:21 +0000

Open Cinema

heliopath — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:09:02 +0000

Flying Lotus at Roundhouse

heliopath — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:44:25 +0000

God Father of the LA beat scene and Low End Theory frequenter came to london saturday night and performed a sweet audio/visual set in camden.

Hosted by the awesome soundcrash who always put on a great show with solid supporting djs. Another great night out in london that reminded me why i love this place. White shirt for AV transparency was a neat detail.

Perspectives On Sound

heliopath — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:20:13 +0000

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India Rising

heliopath — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:28:37 +0000

During my one and a half years in India i was constantly inspired. Anyone who has been to India will tell you the same. It’s all in the richness of culture and spiciness of people. It’s not about beauty, order or efficiency. It’s not about being gentle and delicate. Its gritty, chaotic, emotional, frustrating and back-breaking. But amongst all of that there are moments of unexpected warmth and kindness, and small pockets of profound bliss (sitting in an auto mad traffic all around but shuffle plays the perfect song, or unexpected conversations). It all goes together with the adrenaline rush of being in a new exciting place thats morphing every single day. It’s all still under construction, it’s being built. But in that it needs to be built well in an all-rounded manner.

Growing up in Europe and the US I have always been surrounded by vast field of artistic creative energy. Its something I have always taken for granted. Innovations in music, film, art that seeks to push boundaries in different directions. Taking things apart, remixing and reinterpreting them as something new. All of this to express new ideas.

In India I felt this to be missing. There was a slight murmur but it was barely audible. Musicians generally don’t have the balls or ambition to try something different, they keep it safe. This results in a lot of amazing covers or copycats but nothing new can stand on its own two feet. At the same time Clubs that play good music shutdown to be replaced by more lucrative table service venues. Listeners there tend to have lower expectations and are happy with recycled garbage or artists who don’t really feel the need to evolve. The experts say the market isn’t ready for it. The same has been happening in the film industry for a long time. It’s always about quantity rather than quality and no one is put off by bad technique or recycled ideas. In fact its encouraged and applauded, so lets make the sequels!

How do you get people to care about the quality of a product? They seem to do it here. How did that start?

It is something to explore because I maintain that it is important for the healthy Development of India’s emerging society that these things should matter.

But even amongst the clutter there is to be found some small pockets of brilliance. There are a few true Indian Cinema artists who trying to push the boundaries as to what is to be expected. And recently I have been pointed towards a new TV show called The Dewartists that seeks to uncover the passion of real musicians who live, breath and think in sound. Filmed really nicely, it captures the mystical soul of India while uncovering the less known talents. The show brings together different musicians and gets them to collaborate with each other. This is what I have been talking about, I am very excited.

Check out the trailer above. Besides goosebumps it gives me great hope that something like this is aired on prime time television. I just hope it doesn’t get canceled to make way for more mindless serials. If you are intrigued watch the first and second episode in full below, it’s simply incredible.

check out their weekly episodes online on their youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/DewarsIndia

GLK telling it like it is

heliopath — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:03:51 +0000

Talking about the heat coming from LA’s underground beat scene.
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banksy film

heliopath — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:06:16 +0000

The Mixing Bowl

heliopath — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:44:59 +0000

I was talking to my friend recently about how to make the world a better place. One conclusion we came to was to fuse education by experience and cultural awareness to people around the world at an early age. If you had a socio-economic-cultural exchange between kids from different societies, they could work together to bring about realistic lasting change. To use extreme example: a boy from a big developed city and a girl from a small rural village swap positions for a month or two to gain an experience in an alternative reality. This would lead to widening of perspectives and bring about variants of growth (a drop of unusual magic) that would change both the society and the child forever. Extrapolate for beautiful results.

Separately, through the networks today I came across this: PenPall News. A web app to connect people from different cultures and societies to debate and discuss recent news items, thereby actively interacting with people different from themselves.

what a neat idea!

Amon Tobin – ISAM Video Cube live in london

heliopath — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:47:38 +0000

Back in June I went to see Amon Tobin’s live rendition of his latest album. Apart from the album itself being created from non-existent instruments (Tobin mucking around with boxes, buttons, recorded material and lots of tweaking), his live show promised to take things to the next level.

A large abstract cubic structure built around a dj box was commissioned by Tobin to create an immersive experience to go along with his new album tour. Some of the world’s finest design and technical experts at V Squared Labs took to its innovation.

The result was insane. Rather than a concert it was like watching a digital play about space exploration through lights and sounds. The 3D projection morphed around this cubic structure and took us on an adventure that begins with a space craft taking off, blasting us all into space. With each new song we encounter different conditions: colors, textures, machines, creatures, serenity, hostility, space-cold loneliness. But instead of it just being visuals to accompany the music, it almost feels like Amon had these vision in his head before working on these abstract sounds he created. The whole experience was a total stimulation of the senses, leaving you with that speechlessness of a really great play or film or better: an experience.

Below you can see them showing off, flexing their muscles, demonstrating what they are capable of during the encore with my favorite song Horsefish

the best part is no stupid glasses! I am very excited to see what others can learn from this and build on top of it.