Abstract
Material outside of concrete realities, sparking insight and wonder. This category contains information about culture, art, films, music, spirituality, and more. If it’s ethereal, it’s here. Expect a treatise on American Idol side-by-side with a yogic breathing technique. It’s trippy like that.
By Harold on April 21, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Les Visible | Tagged awareness, meditation, spiritual survival in a temporal world |
This is the fourth chapter from Les’ online novel titled, Spiritual Survival In A Temporal World for our companion site JustGetThere. This chapter touches on intentional meditation for beginners.
Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World
Chapter 4
Trying to explain what meditation is and to autopsy the process and make recommendations is like trying to balance a bicycle [...]
By Harold on April 18, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Movies | Tagged agorism, anarchist societies, black markets, cooperative, counter economics, documentary, off-grid, self-sufficiency, video |
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The documentary Living Off The Grid: Life On The Mesa, about an agorist minded self sufficient community in the desert, is thought provoking, inspiring, and entertaining. Living off the grid, they form communities that govern themselves, and conduct commerce through barter and black markets. These are novel ideas [...]
By Harold on April 16, 2010
Posted in Comedy, Featured Posts | Tagged Bill Hicks, video |
More relevant now than ever, the immortal Bill Hicks speaks the truth about the elite, the state, religion, and the metaphysical nature of human existence.
This NSFW video clip is from one of Bill Hicks last recorded performance.
Watch the full stand-up on Youtube
By Harold on April 13, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Metaphysics, Positivity, Relationships | Tagged Jung, synchronicity |
Synchronicity can be defined as a non-causal but meaningful relationship between events or states of mind within the human psyche and events in the outside world. More simply, we could call it the experiences of “meaningful coincidence”. We have all had experiences that we intuitively recognize as meaningful, though we would be hard pressed to [...]
By Ben on April 13, 2010
Posted in Communication, Digital, Featured Posts | Tagged cartoon, copyright, IP, kids, QuestionCopyright, video |
A fantastic cartoon in kid-friendly style from QuestionCopyright.org.
The first official release of Copying Is Not Theft is now ready, with a new sound track arranged by Nik Phelps and sung by Connie Champagne.
By Harold on April 12, 2010
Posted in Les Visible | Tagged meditation, spiritual survival in a temporal world |
This is the third chapter from Les’ online novel titled, Spiritual Survival In A Temporal World for our companion site JustGetThere. This chapter touches on the power of meditation, and using it to focus on changing yourself, in order to change the world around you.
Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World
Chapter 3
First thing I’m going to [...]
By Ben on April 10, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Music, Philosophy | Tagged agorism, libertarianism, New Libertarian Manifesto, punk, Samuel Konkin, Saturday Sound-Off, Stiff Little Fingers |
This is the second installment of what I hope becomes a regular feature here on JustLive.us —
The Saturday Sound-Off: A combination of a thought-provoking essay with an equally inspiring work of music, art, design, poetry, drama, fictional prose, or film.
Today’s Sound-Off:
✎Samuel Edward Konkin III’s 1980 work, “New Libertarian Manifesto”(PDF)
♫Stiff Little Fingers’ 1978 song, “Alternative [...]
By Ben on April 8, 2010
Posted in Art, Digital | Tagged advertising, Ambivert Creative, branding, communication, design, Obama, propaganda, psychology |
This is another post originally from my design blog. Working on JustLive these recent days, I am reminded of how far I’ve come, and how far I’ve left to go. Communicating effectively is one of the most important things we can do as lovers of freedom; as it is the only viable way to spread [...]
By Harold on April 8, 2010
Posted in Abstract, Featured Posts, Music | Tagged DJ, electronic music, James Holden |
In this 2010 interview at the Red Bull Music Academy in London, Holden sheds light on his production process, the perils of the music business, and not compromising on your creative expression.
By Ben on April 7, 2010
Posted in Abstract, Books | Tagged Alongside Night, collapse, fiction, free market, J Neil Schulman, novel, science fiction |
This book is a fictional story of the triumph of the truly free market in a chaotic world on the brink of collapse.
Published in 1979, the 30th anniversary edition is now available as a free PDF from Pulpless.
What the critics are saying:
“An absorbing novel–science fiction, yet also a cautionary tale with a disturbing resemblance to [...]
By Ben on April 5, 2010
Posted in Abstract, Art, Guns and Ammo, MacGyver, Physical | Tagged Adi Zaffran, bullets, jewelry, reuse, tips box |
Designer Adi Zaffran Weisler is a student at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
He has created a set of amazing and thought-provoking rings out of spent bullets:
The rings that were created remove the bullet from its original function and they surprisingly turn into a bejeweled object and emphasize the beauty and aesthetics of [...]
By Ben on April 3, 2010
Posted in Abstract, Featured Posts, Mental, Music, Philosophy | Tagged anarchism, anti-state, Blunt Force Trauma, metal, punk, Rothbard, Saturday Sound-Off |
This is the first of what I hope becomes a regular feature here on JustLive.us —
The Saturday Sound-Off: A combination of a thought-provoking essay with an equally inspiring work of music, art, design, poetry, drama, fictional prose, or film.
Today’s Sound-Off:
✎Murray Rothbard’s 1977 essay, “Do You Hate the State?”
♫Blunt Force Trauma’s 2009 song, “Hatred for [...]
By Ben on April 1, 2010
Posted in Abstract, Art, Digital | Tagged aesthetics, Ambivert Creative, color, design, tips |
I originally posted this on my design blog, but I thought it was worthwhile to share it here. Often, people have a solid message but don’t have the necessary knowledge to communicate it in a sleek and professional way. I see dozens of examples of great message clouded by poor design on a daily basis [...]
By Harold on April 1, 2010
Posted in Mental, Metaphysics, Music, Positivity | Tagged awareness, conciousness, intention, music video |
This is a mindset we should all have as we wake up to start each day in life. Mind over matter and the power of intention are concepts that we believe work. Therefore, we are focusing our energy towards this positive message during our launch day.
Lynne McTaggart, author of The Intention Experiment suggests:
The reason [...]
By Harold on March 30, 2010
Posted in Abstract, Featured Posts, Les Visible | Tagged metaphysics, spiritual survival in a temporal world |
This is the second chapter from Les’ online novel title Spiritual Survival In A Temporal World for our companion site JustGetThere. This chapter delves into the subject matter of using meditation to open your mind and harness the untapped energy to reach your full potential.
Spiritual Survival in a Temporal World
Chapter Two
I would have liked to [...]
