Transpondency

R.E.M. call it quits

• Reflecting on my favourite band
• Awkward teenage moments
• Influencing & inspiring my creativity

R.E.M.'s "It happened today" (Khmer Linga mix) revisioned by Ethnomite Pux

R.E.M.'s "It Happened Today" (Lucid Dreamer Remix) by J.D. Casten

• Reading short story, "Chronic Town" written in high school
• A weird blend of poetry & prose, fragments of real life & song lyrics
• L'OraStrana: "Le città sottili" & "Via Pisana Minidub"

You Say Party! We Say Die! covering R.E.M.'s “Nightswimming”

R.E.M. playing "Living Well Is The Best Revenge" while driving around Athens, GA

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A campfire story in a suburban parkinglot...

• Ron & John tell the story of a camping trip encounter with Bigfoot!

Bigfoot, also known as sasquatch, is an ape-likecryptid that purportedly inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Bigfoot is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedalhumanoid. The term "sasquatch" is an anglicized derivative of the word "sésquac" which means "wild man" in a SalishNative American language.

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"I don't call it rioting, I call it an insurrection" - Darcus Howe

• ccc / ill chemist: "Cracked Pepper" [mashup/remix of The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]
• Democracy Now headlines for August 8th & 9th, 2011
• Tinchy Stryder: "Game Over Powerful Remix1"
• Darcus Howe interviewed by BBC News
• London Urban Collective: "Problems"
• Radio Youthology: "A Life Of Grime"
• M.I.A.: "Generation NEY" & Bad Girls"
• Norman Mailer vs. Marshall McLuhan vs. Toronto High School Students
• L'OraStrana: "Le città sottili"
• Spear of the Nation: "Clap"
• Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert: "The Truth About The Holy Dial Tone"
• John Willis: "Emancipation"
• IamOMNI: "All Over"
• ResonanceFM: Novara on London Riots

"Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence." -- Marshall McLuhan

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"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist." - Marshall McLuhan

• figure... Marshall McLuhan cenntenial birthday July 21, 2011
• We feared television would swallow us but, instead, we swallowed TV
• We are anthropomorphic holograms, images projecting from within; "hollowgrams"
• Tame Impala: "Solitude Is Bliss"

"Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events." - Marshall McLuhan

• DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid: "McLuhan Remix"
• McLuhan versus Go Go Dancers: "Aren't they going to turn that down?"
• Elyse Amsterdam: "Because I'm a Hologram (30 DUB) [ft. Liz Lemon]"
• Picnic In Space: "The artist [...] is always trying to pep up perception"

"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it." - Marshall McLuhan

• The Black Lips: "Modern Art"
• Dave Newfeld: "The Medium is the Message"
• Luminato Mp3 Experiment
• Markus Floats: "Paper Plains"

"The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action," - Marshall McLuhan

• Jordan Mandel: "Marsha Marsha Marshall"
• Post Human Era: "Holograms"
• ground... MOM 21 McLuhan on Maui Monday Night Seminar

"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with." - Marshall McLuhan

They still think in the old patterns, 19th-century patterns, but they live mythically. They live surrounded by mythic monsters like go-go girls. [At the bar] Aren’t they going to turn that down? “Waiting for go-go.” “The medium is the message.” “Growing – growing up absurd.” The go-go girls ordinarily have a cage… [winces] while appearing to manifest their energies untrammelled, unconstrained, sound in this kind of world is not used as something to be listened to. It is a kind of foam rubber which you press against/it presses back against you, makes you feel kind of wanted. Sound, in the new world, of dance and song is not for listening. It’s for making. And so the go-go girls, locked up each in her little world, represents a kind of theatre of the absurd, in which all communication has broken down. In fact, no attempt is really made to communicate. Each puts on his own show in his own little straitjacket. - Marshall McLuhan

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TransCanada Transpondency

an audio travelogue of sorts

In the lobby of the Lord Elgin, Adam, Brent and the Brampton Boys discuss transmedia, video games, storytelling, movies, and pornography. Adam gives his 5 minute jolt: Transcoincidentalism, a manifesto of the posthuman raconteur. PAB goodbyes: Scarborough Dude, Brent, John Meadows, Mark Blevis, Bob Goyeche, Mark Blaseckie, Dave Broadbeck, The Dyscultured Boys [guested on DYS140], Valerie. Westject pilot sings Northwest Passage and apologies for delay. Adam arrives late in Vancouver and does a brief PAB wrap down/up.

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LeisureCo "The Pan Am Connection" (mp3) from "The Pan Am Connection"(Shameless Records Canada)

TransCanada Transpondency

an audio travelogue of sorts

A rainbow welcomes Adam as he arrives in Ottawa on Thursday, while menacing rain clouds hover over the city. After a quick stop off at Hog's Back Falls, the PAB conference weekend was set to begin. Friday afternoon, the rain off and on, a group of PABsters head out on a "Content Walk" around the Parliment buildings. That night, Scarborough Dude, Brent the Closet Geek, and Adam have a conversation in their hotel room. Bitch cake, grab a slice!

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LeisureCo "The Pan Am Connection" (mp3) from "The Pan Am Connection" (Shameless Records Canada)

TransCanada Transpondency

an audio travelogue of sorts

Adam and friends bum around downtown Toronto. A segment from Fozzy and Mr. Bown recording "I'm Done With This Podcast". Sounds from Luminato food festival. Adam recaps the last few days, talks about super hero powers, The Shadow, and transmedia. Improv Everywhere: Luminato MP3 Experiment, an intersubjective guided meditation flashmob.

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LeisureCo "The Pan Am Connection" (mp3) from "The Pan Am Connection" (Shameless Records Canada)

TransCanada Transpondency

an audio travelogue of sorts

The Scarborough Dude enthralls Adam and the Brampton Boys will his animated storytelling. They talk of his wealth of experience, Henry Miller, poetry, and podcasting. As a relevant addendum, audio of Henry Miller talking about the medium of recording, speech versus writing, and the future of creative expression.

One Almost MightWouldn't you say,Wouldn't you say: one day,With a little more time or a little more patience, one mightDisentangle for separate, deliberate, slow delightOne of the moment's hundred strands, unfrayBeginnings from endings, this from that, surveySay a square inch of the ground one stands on, touchPart of oneself or a leaf or a sound (not clutchOr cuff or bruise but touch with finger-tip, ear-Tip, eyetip, creeping near yet not too near);Might take up life and lay it on one's palmAnd, encircling it in closeness, warmth and calm,Let it lie still, then stir smooth-softly, and Tendril by tendril unfold, there on one's hand ...One might examine eternity's cross-sectionFor a second, with slightly more patience, more time for reflection?~ ASJ Tessimond

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TransCanada Transpondency

an audio travelogue of sorts

Adam wonders the streets of Toronto before Live Podcaster Night at the Imperial Pub. He meets up with Scarborough Dude and joins the Gapage podcast for their recording session. [Listen to Gapage #19 HERE] Meanwhile, Adam's hockey team, the Canucks, lose in the Stanley Cup Final and fans in Vancouver RIOT!!!

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LeisureCo "The Pan Am Connection" (mp3) from "The Pan Am Connection" (Shameless Records Canada)

TransCanada Transpondency

an audio travelogue of sorts

Adam prepares for his annual trip from Vancouver to Ontario for PAB social media conference. Coffee, cigarettes, and conversation about transcoincidentalism, effect preced cause, religion, and the Hitchhitcher's Guide to the Galaxy.

Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, cause something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order though. - Douglas Adams

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