Sunday, March 30, 2014

“Mountain Man” Wilderness Fugitive May Take Plea Deal



A wilderness fugitive accused of burglarizing remote cabins across Utah is scheduled to take a plea deal in early April on federal firearm charges.






Troy James Knapp, 46, is set to be in a federal court April 7 in St. George for a change-of-plea hearing, court records show. The terms of the agreement are not disclosed, and federal prosecutors say no plea deal is finalized.





The Spectrum


Friday, March 28, 2014

Suck The Balls!



“Suck the Balls!” lets people escape the daily grind and immerse into an endless, ecstatic play with thousands of little yellow plastic balls.






The installation consists of a ball pit and an 80 meters long pneumatic tube transport, which fills up the entire historic staircase of the Potocki Palace in Kraków. When entering the ball pit, the cabin’s lights switch on and the ball suction action starts! The visitor can operate the peculiar machinery with a suction spout. When sucking the balls which are surrounding his feet, the balls race through the transparent pipe system, creating a visually stunning scene. The journey of the little balls ends in a container above the ball pit, waiting for the climax of the operation: When the visitor pulls the release handle of the container, a fountain of balls splashes down onto his head in a joyful shower.

A helmet is provided to keep the hairstyle in excellent condition throughout the whole experience.








Niklas Roy


MESOAMERICA RESISTE

Saturday, March 22, 2014

The Weight of Mountains





We don't usually think of mountains as having life spans, but these colossal geologic entities live and die in cycles like countless other forms of matter (albeit on much larger time scales). The Weight of Mountains is a short film by Temujin Doran that explores this process through stunning geophysical imagery.






io9


Food Fight !



...and I feel fine...







Submedia tv


The legend of Chile Verde....




... tells of men and women who became slaves to their passions. They paid the price here under the blistering, burning, blazing, scorching, roasting, toasting, baking, boiling, broiling, steaming, searing, sizzling, grilling, smoldering, VERY HOT New Mexico sun. For there is a saying in these parts: those who lust in the dust shall die in the dust.














Historic "Pulse Flow" Brings Water to Parched Colorado River Delta




Thanks to a landmark agreement between the United States and Mexico, the parched Colorado River Delta will get a rejuvenating shot of water this spring for one of the first times in five decades, just in time for World Water Day on March 22.






National Geographic


Danger: Humans

Friday, March 14, 2014

OMEGA TRIBE - No Love Lost




"Beware the beast man, for he is the devil’s pawn.
Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport, or lust or greed.
Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land.
Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours.
Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair, For he is the harbinger of death.”


Thursday, March 13, 2014

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Ancient petroglyphs found by drone in southern Utah



A video recently posted on YouTube claims “Drone discovers ancient petroglyphs in Utah"






fox13


New study suggests Mummy Lake was built to hold rituals, not water



A new analysis of a sandstone-walled pit in Mesa Verde National Park, known as Mummy Lake, has suggested that the channels were used by the Ancestral Puebloans for holding rituals, not for harvesting rainwater as has been believed for nearly a century.






Western Digs






Ancient Origins


Saturday, March 8, 2014

What did the lettuce say to the celery?






Are you stalking me?


Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages





Originally filmed in 1922, this version was updated in the mid 1960's to include english narration by William S Burroughs. The writer and director Benjamin Christensen discloses a historical view of the witches through the seven parts of this silent movie. First, there is a slide-show alternating inter-titles with drawings and paintings to illustrate the behavior of pagan cultures in the Middle Ages regarding their vision of demons and witches. Then there is a dramatization of the situation of the witches in the Middle Ages, with the witchcraft and the witch-hunts. Finally Benjamin Christensen compares the behavior of hysteria of the modern women of 1921 with the behavior of the witches in the Middle Ages, concluding that they are very similar.


Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Would you rather be bitten by a venomous rattlesnake or touch a poisonous dart frog?





While both of these animals are capable of doing some serious damage to the human body, they deliver their dangerous toxins in different ways. Rose Eveleth sheds light on the distinction between poison and venom (and why you shouldn't treat either one like you've seen in the movies).


Saturday, March 1, 2014

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi



By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of this people, this bulletin proposes to show that an intimate connection exists between their ritual acts, their moral standards, their social organization, even their practical activities of today, and their myths and tales—the still unwritten legendary lore






The myths and legends of primitive peoples have always interested the painter, the poet, the thinker; and we are coming to realize more and more that they constitute a treasure-trove for the archaeologist, and especially the anthropologist, for these sources tell us of the struggles, the triumphs, the wanderings of a people, of their aspirations, their ideals and beliefs; in short, they give us a twilight history of the race.






As the geologist traces in the rocks the clear record of the early beginnings of life on our planet, those first steps that have led through the succession of ever-developing forms of animal and plant life at last culminating in man and the world as we now see them, so does the anthropologist discover in the myths and legends of a people the dim traces of their origin and development till these come out in the stronger light of historical time. And it is at this point that the ethnologist, trying to understand a race as he finds them today, must look earnestly back into the "realm of beginnings," through this window of so-called legendary lore, in order to account for much that he finds in the culture of the present day.








The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
by Hattie Greene Lockett


Monsieur COK