EDIT: video unsurprisingly re-banned. filed fair use complaint. except at least two week wait for response /bs. will update.

All credit to Seth Rosen — Original video (no seizures/music) can be found here: http://vimeo.com/13725496

song: Excision – Know You

Since this video was unjustly banned from youtube (they ignore parady fair use exemptions, apparantly), I fair-used it up some more with some fancy music and video effects. :)

I’ve also started making videos for the TVPMusicProject. This is my first contribution. The song is… hectic, to say the least, and I tried to make a video to match. :)

song: TVP Planet Earth – Czar Gomez
video: Aaron Moritz (http://youtube.com/saydaysago2008)

No, it’s much more convenient for the power elites to keep nations sovereign and fighting. To enhance stereotypes and highlight differences in the media, creating cultures of fear and separation. They’ve even created a fantasy NWO Illuminati for the people smart enough to see past the bullshit to fight against. They’re smart. But we are too. And there’s more of us.

I want to think faster, I want to remember everything I do and be able to call it up in no time at all. I want to be able to do seven things at once and still have some spare brain power to multiply 24,567 by 678,903. Our current brain-computer interface technology is messy, big, and inefficient… implanting a chip in your brain. I don’t want to implant a chip in my brain, but the fact that we can do it (brain computer interface) is really a stunning achievement.

But what I’m interested in putting into my brain, (well… i’m not in line for testing or anything… when and if they work all the bugs out, of course) nano-bots, are not so invasive. There’s no surgery, just computer guided super-neurons that intermingle with and (again I use the word) upgrade our brains.

I think it’s important to point out that the terminology ‘nano-bots’ really misrepresents what this technology is. Once we get down to the molecular level, these ‘nano-bots’ are made of the same atoms as the organic molecular machinery that symbiotically work together to form our bodies. It’s not like I’ll have micro-sized robots in my head, this is more like a redesign of the neuron. A more efficient design.

But then I got to thinking that perhaps how fast time moves will be directly affected when, or if, we are able to increase the speed of our minds. I was bored this morning and watching some video’s on youtube explaining Einstein’s theory of relativity. It was nothing I didn’t already know, but it really drove home the fact how ‘fast’ time ‘moves’ is all based on perspective and perception. “Time flies when you’re having fun,” they say, it also speeds up and slows down depending on how fast you are moving through space. So time is anything but fixed, especially when it comes to how we perceive it.

If, for example,  it only takes you 5 seconds to count to 1000 when an unaltered human would take about 500 seconds (made up numers), does it still ‘feel’ like five hundred seconds to you, even though any clock will say only five seconds has passed? How will we perceive the amount of time that has passed? And if we are continually improving and upgrading our brains to go faster and faster, will time continue to ‘slow down’ in this way? Could the advent of these technologies literally mean the end of ‘time’, at least, as we know it? Some great new understanding of how what time is and how it works (or even what it is, for that matter).

This whole idea of a radical shift in time perception is almost incomprehensible. However, we do have a basis for comprehending it, as we already have some control over our perception of time. Spend an hour watching your favorite show and compare it to spending an hour staring at your computer mouse. Which one takes longer? From your perspective? Under the influence of certain psychoactive chemicals (be safe now!!!), you can sometimes experience quite radical shifts in time perception.

Experiencing time from different perspectives could give us new ways to study and understand what time is… I can’t even speculate on the ramifications… time travel?  Stopping time?  I know there is much research into time going on already, especially in the quantum physics world.

This is all speculation, really just an attempt to imagine the future, an attempt at greater understanding. But knowing that we have such wonderful mysteries to unpuzzle fills me with elation. The great conundrum of the unknown. That’s one thing religion can’t offer, the unknown. Religion is all about knowing, stripping the ability to wonder away from people. Wherever a non-theist sees remarkable unknowns to probe and study, a theist sees God. I have to say I kinda feel bad for them.

Time, and it’s passing is one of the most fascinating unknowns, in my opinion. It is often referred to as another dimension, or the fourth dimension, which makes sense, in a way. We often refer to spacetime, because the two are inextricably linked, though we all know there is some fundamental difference in how we experience the two. You have to move through time in order to move through any of the three spacial dimensions. However, it seems to me that there is something fundamental about our understanding of time that is missing. And that’s great. I wonder how long it will take us to figure it out.

“Me and my friends are like the drums on “Lust for Life”
We pound it out on floor toms
Our psalms are sing-along songs

And this whole town is like this
Been that way our whole lives
Just work at the mill until you die
Work at the mill, and then you die

We’re gonna build something, this summer
We’re gonna build something, this summer
We’ll put it back together- raise up a giant ladder
With love, and trust, and friends, and hammers (This summer! )
We’re gonna lean this ladder up against the water tower
Climb up to the top, and drink and talk (This summer! )

Me and my friends are like “Double-whiskey-coke-no-ice.”
We drink along in double time; might drink too much, but we feel fine
We’re gonna build something, this summer.
Gonna build something, this summer.

This summer, grant us all the power to drink on top of water towers,
With love, and trust, and shows, all summer (Get hammered! )
Let this be my annual reminder that we can all be something bigger

I went to your schools, I did my detention
But the walls are so gray, I couldn’t pay attention
I heard your gospel- it moved me to tears,
But I couldn’t find the hate, and I couldn’t find the fear

I met your Savior, I knelt at his feet,
And he took my ten bucks, and he went down the street
I tried to believe all the things that you said,
But my friends that aren’t dying are already dead.

Raise a toast to St. Joe Strummer
I think he might’ve been our only decent teacher
Getting older makes it harder to remember… we are our only saviors
We’re gonna build something, this summer”

Actually, if Shambhala taught me one thing, it’s that it’s ok to take a break, and that it’s fun to be nice to people.

I want to try and have more fun.

I am working on some new videos.

Peace. :)

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This is my new year. The middle of the summer is my birthday, and it used to be the divider between grades, so this time of year has always felt that way to me. This has always been my new year.

From tomorrow until next Monday I’ll have barely any cellphone service, definitely no internet access, and probably some chemicals flowing through my system, though I’ll admit, I’m not really the type of person who ‘parties’ very hard. This ‘retreat’ gives me the most of both socialization (there are people everywhere, friends, friends of friends, stranger friends) and contemplation, because inside the solitude of my tent, and even with the distant beat of four or five different stages at nearly 24 hours of the day, my mind is rarely so calm and clear.

Shambhala is a vibrant, and I’ll admit, sometimes overwhelming display of the human spirit. People there are rarely afraid to talk to strangers, they’ll make eye contact, we don’t know what it is, but when we’re there, we all understand it (anyone who’s ever done mushrooms or acid knows that feeling…), even if that understanding is sometimes fleeting, forever striving for it allows each new experience to teach me something. And shambhala is an experience I look forward to every year.

peace. be back on monday :)

and while I’m away don’t be scared to share any of these video’s and posts with your friends.

let alone that making these video’s would become an obsession of mine:

Some are better than others, some are more popular than other, and they’re done is a few different styles, but I’m just amazed I was able to make all of these in the timespan of four months. And while I’m re-pimping, here are some of my favorite written-type posts:

- Science, Wonder, and the Beauty of What’s Real
- the answer to 1984 is not 1776
- is it really spiritual if it doesn’t do anything?
- telescoping evolution
- any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
- …complains that more guys don’t experiment (ie. want to have sex with me)
- they’d let us play with markers, but i keep trying to draw infinity

So, like I’m about to say in my next post (about shambhala), this is my new year. I just turned twenty-three and a whole lot of new possibilities seem to keep presenting themselves to me. But with each new possibility comes new fears and new obstacles.

“The Infinit Yes” started as a small sub-section on the ‘dope creatures’ band website which I used to share my ‘thoughts’, just before 2010, I reformatted it into a more standard blog, and 4 months ago I started my youtube channel. The Infinit Yes keeps changing, and I’m hoping my next major update to the site will reflect this change (check end of summer 2010), and I hope my videos will continue to evolve and branch out, and MOST OF ALL I’d like to thank everyone and anyone who’s watched, shared, commented on, or otherwise shown your support for what I do. I’ve spent a lot of time on this site and these videos, and you guys make it all worth it.