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Music, video or voice recordings that relate to Life, Universes and Other Stuff

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TRANSPARENT TRANSPARENCY

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Personally, I spent many years of my pre-retirement business career in the “branding” industry.  What I observed from this kind of work sickened my soul.  I finally quit, and resolved that being a “starving artist” is infinitely more gratifying than being a “corporate whore”, regardless of the paycheck.

My clients were corporations who wanted to influence people to pay money to buy their product or service.  Usually, any method, trick, gimmick, lie, and covert strategy that money can buy is acceptable in corporate “marketing”.  However, “transparency” or “truth” are NOT acceptable. The bigger and more powerful the corporations, governments, etc., , the less “truth in advertising”, is allowed.  It’s a kind of  unwritten law like “never let the other team know your game plan”, (or your true intentions).  Corporate marketing is an “us” against “them” of mind-control game.  A “brand” is an artificially contrived “false facade” of “acceptable lies”.  On Wall Street, and in corporations and governments it’s all, and only, about money and power.  No rules apply.

The following video investigates the subject of transparency in advertising, a talk given by Morgan Spurlock (who revealed that “McFoods” do NOT decay in his film “SuperSize Me“, and are, therefore, NOT food.)

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SEVENLY DEAD SINS

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I am a great fan of the paintings of  Hieronymus Bosch and his best-known follower, Pieter Bruegel the Elder.  I appreciate the in-your-face-honesty of their paintings, which were produced during a period of extreme religious and political repression that gripped Europe.  The macabre, grotesque reality of the people and superstitions of the age are eloquently illustrated with masterfully satirical potency.  Here is a marvelous animation, constructed from “The Seven Deadly Sins”.  They were “deadly” because the Catholic priests would murder you if you refused to buy into their monstrous superstitions designed to control the population for political and financial gain.  From my perspective — 500 years later — our lives have certainly improved, but they are still essentially macabre and grotesque.

The Seven Deadly Sins (2011) is a video animation by Belgian artist Antoine Roegiers based on The Seven Deadly Sins by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.  Bruegel is the best-known Bosch follower and Karel van Mander called him “Pieter the Droll” in his Schilder-boeck:

“Oock sietmen weynigh stucken van hem, die een aenschouwer wijslijck sonder lacchen can aensien, ja hoe stuer wijnbrouwigh en statigh hy oock is, hy moet ten minsten meese-muylen oft grinnicken.”
“There are few works by his hand which the observer can contemplate solemnly or with a straight face. However stiff, morose or surly he may be, he cannot help chuckling or at any rate smiling.”

– Here reprinted in F. Grossmann’s translation (Bruegel, The Paintings, [London, Phaidon Press, n.d.], pp. 7 ff.)
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WATER REMEMBERS

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These are two important videos that reveal the fact that human thought directly influences the physical structure of our universe, including water.  Our bodies and brains are composed of about 80% water!  About 80% of our planet is water!  Laboratory experiments prove that negative, hateful, destructive vibrations, music, and  thoughts instantly change the structure of water.  The “memory” of the water structure is permanently altered by our thoughts and behavior.  The simple conclusion:  bad thoughts = bad water = bad body/brain = bad environment = bad life.  Good thoughts = good water = good life.