This is brilliant. Thank you to Ariane and Lauren for posting this. This makes so much sense!
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First Person Tetris
Now this is off topic for Isopop.com but it’s pretty clever. So here it is, First Person Tetris. Thanks Brock for posting this.
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Please help find Elias Sorokin
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FROM HIS BUSINESS PARTNER
Tue July 28th, 2009:
ELIAS SOROKIN MISSING
DOB July 5, 1980, just had his 29th birthday
Plate number 8H92932 (2007 Toyota Tacoma, 4D Pickup with shell, color gold/beige)
Last seen 7/20 monday in Santa Cruz with a friend at 11:15pm.
A prayer request from Anna, the mother of Elias
“To all who love Elias,
Elias mother here. Among Elias’ friends are a few people who have contacted psychics about Elias and several of them are giving me reason to hope that Elias is alive – but he is in danger. They think that he has been taken by some people, probably two men and a woman, and that they are in over their heads, are unstable and irrational, and do not know what to do at this point.
One of these psychics – and I was assured she had not been given this information – said that Elias has three women’s names on his mind. Those names are Anna, Marie and Nina. Those are me and his two sisters. If this psychic could see this, it gives me a lot of hope.
I am asking everyone, PLEASE, send thoughts of love and forgiveness to these people, that their negative energy may dissolve and they may see a way out and listen to their conscience and not do anything rash.
It is very important to gather yourselves, and find your deepest wisdom for this. It is counterintuitive – but do not send anger their way. Send love, send calm, and send forgiveness.
And to Elias, send loving support.
Thank you very much. We all love Elias.
Anna”
***ANOTHER NOTE FROM ANNA, THE MOTHER OF ELIAS***
“To any people who may be holding our beloved son Elias:
I would like to assure you that we understand that you may have gotten into this situation and do not know how to get out. We have no interest in pursuing any charges against you. We forgive you completely. Please let Elias go free.
- We promise, legally declare not to press any charges or to pursue you for any criminal acts against Elias
- You may be in over your heads right now, and you may wish this whole thing had never gotten started, and it can be erased! End it peacefully and quietly as soon as possible
Family of Elias”
Last night, Anna had a very special experience that she would like to share with those who love and care for him. The following is her writing about that experience:
—A PSYCHIC TRANSMISSION FROM ELIJAH—
Elias has been in psychic contact on a spirit-soul level with a woman who knows him and I am going to transmit to everyone what he has said. I have decided that we will all call him Elijah now. She was not paid. She said she is doing this as a service to humanity and she loved Elias. She contacted him last night after our prayer vigil.. She says she has been in contact with him ever since she heard about this, but he was scattered like “shards of glass.” He had to process a lot of darkness. But, last night, she says, she was able to get a clear communication with him for several hours, and again while we were on the phone. Last night he said, “the prayers helped me.” For those who don’t know, we had a powerful prayer and guided meditation vigil last night, which she knew nothing about. And, I also said last night that Elijah was born into this world for a purpose, and that purpose is to teach love to humanity. So imagine getting this transmission today:
Elias says repeatedly that what happened was like an unfortunate accident. It shouldn’t have happened. The person involved needs compassion.
Elias is adamant that he wants everyone to react with love and compassion. He wants a circle of people, whoever is capable, to hold space at the same time every day for compassion meditation and to let him know what time that will be so that he can join us.
He does not want so much energy put on what happened. Put energy into love and compassion. People are digging, he says, seeking with too much frustration to find out what happened. Surrender and allow it to be revealed. Taking action is good, but don’t focus too much on seeking. [It is clear he is not against our search, but wants us to remain in control of our attitudes.]
The risks he may have taken have nothing to do with what happened. Extra drama can be created by grabbing at facts about his life, but isn’t needed. This can lead to people accusing each other. People should not dive in where it isn’t needed.
He says that this whole event is a lesson. He wants us to learn the lesson! If we focus on the wrong things we may not learn the lesson. The lesson is about love.
All will be revealed. We must be patient. Be present with love and compassion. If we allow the truth to appear in an authentic way, it allows things to shift. He wants there to be complete forgiveness.
He wanted to let me know how much he loves me, that I touch his soul and that I was a wonderful goddess to come through. At this point he made the psychic look at roses in her garden!
He is grateful that I am open to allowing this lesson to be learned through me. There should be no vindictiveness. He wants us to show love for all – not just him.
[I said, I am going to write all this down and put it on the internet for everyone!]
Speak from your heart, Mom. Write like a Sufi, and be my muse. Be my instrument. A lute. Start it with a Sufi poem. You will find the perfect poem. [But I will end with it instead.]
[I said, I don’t want him to feel guilty for taking risks that might have allowed this to happen].
He said he does not feel guilty but he has had some frustration about attachments to do certain things, but it doesn’t matter.
[Is he giving up?] He isn’t giving up on anything!
It was ridiculous. It shouldn’t have happened but it happened for the lesson. It was necessary for it to happen. Sometimes we have to be taught extreme lessons. We can read books but not really understand.
Elias wants us to proceed with compassion every step of the way. Use less intellect. Keep returning to the love or we will miss the lesson.
Emotions need to be released, to be honored and allow them to flow through like a stream, but don’t let them constrict you. So the key is to honor your emotions without holding them inside.
He wants to raise the vibration.
Have compassion on someone who may have had an accident with Elias.
He wants me to nurture myself and be his muse. [Should I hang up now and go write this?]
Go find a poem and write from your heart.
And a final reminder about the compassion circle.
A poem of Hafiz
When
The violin
Can forgive the past
It starts singing.
When the violin can stop worrying
About the future
You will become
Such a drunk laughing nuisance
That God
Will then lean down
And start combing you into
His Hair.
When the violin can forgive
Every wound caused by
Others
The heart starts
Singing.”
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Rich Porter
This blog entry is a little experiment to see if I can make the first page of a google search for the name “Rich Porter”. If you can link to this entry, it will bump me up in the google rankings.So I’ve found that when I post a blog entry with something in the title, it tends to rank pretty high on google. I’ve always been bothered by the fact that when I look up “Rich Porter”, the main thing I get back is a notorious New York City drug kingpins who was shot and killed in 1990. You can imagine my shock the first time I heard my name in a 50 cent track on the radio (lyric’s here).
Some other places you can find Rich Porter:
Rich Porter on Twitter
Rich Porter on Facebook
Rich Porter on YouTube
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Hoop Convergence 2009 – Flickr Snapshots
Definitely not my finest photography but here are some snapshots from Hoop Convergence 2009.
Opulent Temple Massive: Thoughts on performance part 2
Friday night I made it the Opulent Temple Massive on Treasure Island. It was an amazing and slightly strange party. It didn’t feel like what I have come to expect of a Burning Man party. It felt much more like a rave. Vick’s Vapor Rub on a dance floor… seriously? Plus there were a lot of overly aggressive guys. It was not not really my scene, so I hid behind my hoops. I took the occasion as an excuse to practice performing. It was an expansive warehouse and there was plenty of room that we weren’t inconveniencing anyone so I hooped all night with Rosie, Nicole and Laurie. I owe those three big thanks for being my hoop buddies for the night. Rosie and I arrived at 9:30 PM. I left at 4:00 am and I had only set my hoops down for about an hour.
It was a great night to hoop because there was plenty of room but often I’ve seen people push there way onto the dance floor with a hoop when there was barely room to stand. Once I saw someone carry a hoop into the Root Society Dome at Burning Man when no one could even stand because it was so packed. In that space it was ludicrous to even bring a hoop. I’m not even sure what they thought would happen.
Sometimes enough space can be created on a bustling dance floor to hoop. This is the grey area that takes some tact to know if it’s appropriate to hoop. I strongly feel that if you are going to take up valuable space on a crowded dance floor, you better be capable of putting on a show and entertaining the audience. It always makes me uncomfortable when I see a hooper walk into a dance floor with a hoop, expecting others to move out of the way, then proceed to waste hoop for 15 minutes irritating everyone on the dance floor. It makes us all look bad.
On the other end of the spectrum, I saw Stefan take a hoop to the center of a hugely crowded dance floor at L.I.B. last year and light up the audience. Everyone stopped dancing to watch the show. We’re talking 200, maybe more watching in awe. It was impressive as hell and frankly quite amazing. The guy can work a crowd. I think Meg the Cat was playing with him too.
Photographer Tev Lee caught some nice shots at the Opulent Temple fundraiser last Friday. Nice guy too. Check his work out here.
Free track. Glitched up and whompy just how I like it.
Hoop Isolations Class – Code Red Circus Conspiracy
The isolation scientists are at it again, this time bringing their technical skills to the hoop dance community. This is a unique opportunity to study isolations with two of the most skilled object manipulation style hoopers in the world.
Code Red Circus Conspiracy is Brian Thompson and Matt McCorkle. They live and play at the Vulcan in Oakland, CA. Together they create unique entertainment by using a blend of juggling, dance, theater, comedy, and object manipulations.
This class will introduce you to object manipulation (OM) style hooping.
Mar. 7th, 2009
City Dance Studio
10 Colton Street, San Francisco
4:30-6:30 PM
$40
Playlist
I thought I’d post some of the music that’s getting heavy rotation on my ipod right now. All of this music is available on iTunes.
Beat’s Antique, “Collide” – Check out Roustabout. We just saw them perform down in San Diego with Bassnectar and they put on an awesome show as usual. The new album is even better than their last, “Tribal Derivations.”
Evil Nine, “All the Cash (feat. EL-P) – EP” – In particular I like the Alex Metrix Remix & the Glitch Mob Remixs.
Kraddy, “Android Porn/Steppin’ Razor – SIngle” – I like the Android Porn song. It’s a good track to hoop to if you want to work on changing your speed with the music.
I’ve also been loving Janaka Selekta’s live set’s in San Francisco. His album hasn’t been released yet but you can here some of his music at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Janaka-Selekta/41732490966 . He’s also playing New Year’s Eve in Chicago , http://www.freakeasy.net/.