Sunday 29 November 2009

HOME

Just got round to watching this ... I don't know what to think of it yet but it's worth watching ... very beautiful footage, I'm so cynical it just worries me more!

See the whole film here on youtube

Saturday 28 November 2009

Sunday 22 November 2009

Friday 30 October 2009

African Apparel — JOHN MARLEY T SHIRT

Genius t-shirt designs here! I want one!


http://africanapparel.bigcartel.com/

Brains


Niji Dura

Yoshino | MySpace Video

Monday 26 October 2009

Nick Griffin at Klu Klux Klan rally

"And the British National Party isn't about selling out its ideas, which are your ideas too. "

Wow... the most worrying thing about Peak Oil for me is that extremists like Griffin will gain more followers as we hit recession after recession.



Also - good Times article on Nick's recent talk on the BBC about his parties supposed "170,000 year old British indigenous people" here:
Nick Griffins Bad Science

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Full transcript, my emphasis:

"There's a difference between selling out your ideas and selling your ideas. And the British National Party isn't about selling out its ideas, which are your ideas too. But we are determined now to sell them.

"And that means, basically, to use the saleable words, as I say - freedom, security, identity, democracy. Nobody can criticize them. Nobody can come at you and attack you on those ideas. They are saleable.

"Perhaps one day, once by being rather more subtle, we've got ourselves into a position where we control the British broadcasting media.

"Then perhaps one day the British people might change their minds, and say: Yes, every last one must go!

"Perhaps they will one day. But if you hold that out as your sole aim to start with, you're gonna get absolutely nowhere.

"So, instead of talking about 'racial purity', we talk about 'identity'."

(Griffin is addressing the American Friends of the BNP at a meeting hosted by ex-KKK leader, David Duke)

Saturday 3 October 2009

Candy ravers get loose

wow.. ran into 1000's of teen candy ravers last night, they'd all been dancing to random kiddie chiptunes at the O2 Islington. Why no DJ Scotchegg? Shame the musics a load of crap. Cute kids tho!!

http://www.myspace.com/unicornkid

Thursday 1 October 2009

Transition Town Initiative

Good slideshow here:

ClubOrlov: Elephant, Anyone?

ClubOrlov: Elephant, Anyone?

Thanks to Dmitri Orlov for this one :D

Monday 21 September 2009

Rap Lyrics Explained With Charts and Graphs (aclevercookie.com)



omg that is pretty funny! only on the web archive now so a bit slow!



Rap Lyrics Explained With Charts and Graphs (aclevercookie.com)

Sunday 13 September 2009

The Age of Stupid

Saw this a while back, thought it was pretty good - they're doing the global premiere now, so anyone reading this outside the UK / Australia give it a look as it's coming to you!



Thursday 10 September 2009

Crash Course - Chris Martenson

Just watched the last few chapters of this - heavy stuff but clearly done:



From here:
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/chapter-17a-peak-oil

Tuesday 18 August 2009

JOIN THE FUCKING ARMY!



In a shopping mall near you ...

Tuesday 4 August 2009

Pork's Dirty Secret: Rolling Stone

In case ya wondering why they called it 'swine flu':

pigs Photo

Saw this article linked while reading up on the Mexican farms where the flu was born. Nice...

Pork's Dirty Secret: Rolling Stone

Monday 27 July 2009

CBC Radio | Ideas | Features | Climate Wars

Wow I just listened to 3 hours of climate change! Gwynne Dyer talks like some posh character in Futurama but he's done some amazing research here and is an amusingly droll host:

Listen to Part 1 of Climate Wars


Listen to Part 2 of Climate Wars


Listen to Part 3 of Climate Wars



From here:

CBC Radio | Ideas | Features | Climate Wars

Monday 6 July 2009

Sally Cruikshank - Quasi at the Quackadero

omg wtf! Amazing 70's cartoon, just saw a bit of it in Futurama "Bender's Game" (also excellent! -- a feature length animation that doesn't suck what the hell?)




YouTube - Quasi at the Quackadero

Tuesday 30 June 2009

Kunstler on Michael Jackson

"America was a fat man jerking off on the sofa watching a vampire of no particular sex 'vogue' deliriously on the boob tube."
The Man in the Mirror - Clusterfuck Nation

Monday 29 June 2009

ClubOrlov: The Slope of Dysfunction

Dmitri Orlov laying it down like he does:

"Ever eager to present a hopeful vision, I will say here and now that I believe this scenario to be entirely plausible... but it requires alien intervention. As Russian oil production was saved by foreigners, so Earthling oil production must be be saved by aliens from outer space."


ClubOrlov: The Slope of Dysfunction

Wednesday 24 June 2009

Three Wolf Moon "Official" T-Shirt 100% Cotton Short Sleeve Shirt KIDS - TEENS & ADULTS: Apparel



Go here and read some reviews. Then check the 'Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought' section!

2,251 of 2,300 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great compliment for my skin art, May 19, 2009
By overlook1977 (Raleigh, NC United States)
"Unfortunately I already had this exact picture tattooed on my chest, but this shirt is very useful in colder weather."

Amazon.com: Three Wolf Moon "Official" T-Shirt 100% Cotton Short Sleeve Shirt KIDS - TEENS & ADULTS: Apparel

Thursday 11 June 2009

DEAD WAYS

Wanted to post up some photos from recent visit to New York but rather than fill this whole page with them I started a new photo blog: Dead Ways


ENJOY - AMERICAN DREAM


AMERICA'S MOST CONVENIENT BANK

Click for more

Life Inc. The Movie on Vimeo

Didn't this guy write 'Cyberia'? ... ah well, this one might be a bit better...

Life Inc. The Movie from Douglas Rushkoff on Vimeo.

Monday 8 June 2009

Foreign Policy: The Land of No Smiles

Mind-blowing photo essay!

"SHOP GIRL: This is shopping in North Korea. The clerk sits in the dark, unheated special store, waiting to turn on the lights for foreigners, the only permitted customers. “She’s wearing a ski jacket or parka; the rest of this time they’re sitting there with the lights off, freezing,” van Houtryve says. The goods—toys, televisions, and the like—are imported from China. The store only accepts euros."

"When van Houtryve approached North Koreans, they walked off or averted their eyes. He never once photographed a smile. Even children ran away from him. “They’d turn and notice me and immediately bolt off—as if a wolf had come up to them.”
Foreign Policy: The Land of No Smiles

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NEOMEDIEVALISM

"The world is fragmenting, badly. Gird yourself for a new Dark Age."
Nice article by Parag Khanna:

"Many see the global economic crisis as proof that we live in one world. But as countries stumble to right the wrongs of the corporate masters of the universe, they are driving us right back to a future that looks like nothing more than a new Middle Ages, that centuries-long period of amorphous conflict from the fifth to the 15th century when city-states mattered as much as countries."
(more)
Foreign Policy: The Next Big Thing: Neomedievalism

Wednesday 3 June 2009

The Onion: Sources Warn Miley Cyrus Will Be Depleted by 2013

Forget oil - it's teen stars I'm worried about:



Nice also - Brasscheck on how the markets work - from 2007!



Also some scary time-lapse videos here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/03/watch-earth-disappear-in_n_210790.html

Saturday 30 May 2009

Enough already

Thursday 21 May 2009

Doug Stanhope - Deadbeat Hero

I'm not down with all his politics but this guy is a f*ckin genius!

Thursday 14 May 2009

Feels good

My mates videos go from fnar to lulz. So wrong it's right:





Tuesday 12 May 2009

The End of Capitalism



Tuesday 28 April 2009

Ammo Scarce: Americans Prep For Gun Bans, Chaos, Terrorism, Civil Unrest, Economic Collapse

Wow... glad I'm not in the U.S. There's rumours of a tax on ammunition! Imagine the pain! How could I get buy without firing off my assault-rifle every day at pictures of our dumb commie president??

YouTube - Ammo Scarce: Americans Prep For Gun Bans, Chaos, Terrorism, Civil Unrest, Economic Collapse



Checkout the collapse... heard the other day from these guys that we can expect the stock-markets to go down 90% over the next 10 years of the depression! (on Radio Ecoshock - MP3 of the show here)

Fun playlist here with footage from California and Detroit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeOUFNXPCi8&feature=PlayList&p=40E44861DDE22523&index=65&playnext=3&playnext_from=PL

Saturday 25 April 2009

Link Gets Hungry For Japanese McDonald's



This one is so wrong!



In fact, ads are just plain wrong in general...






Goddamn I think I wanna kill myself... Ok I'll stack some food on animals:

Thursday 9 April 2009

USA


In America for kicks... right now listening to Son House 'Empire State' and it's blowing my mind... got limited internet access so here's a log:

5th April
NY is a bizarre place - feels like I'm witnessing the end of an era right in the heart of the Empire here... as the oil price creeps back up again and the high-streets get boarded up - already! Seems like a
quarter of the shops have foreclosed downtown.

Fascinating city though, Chinatown and Little Italy are bursting with colour and you get the feeling the people aren't going to quit no matter how bad things get... be interesting to see how things pan out
for the 150 million suburban folk in this country as the energy runs out..

7th April
Visiting my mate Christian Nold's art project in Bethlehem PA, an excellent community focused physiological stress map something along these lines... it's a post-industrial town and the current development plan focuses around, can you believe it - a CASINO, in this economic climate! Interesting to see the wider community's thoughts on the situation develop.

8th April
Just been chatting onna email with Caryl Johnston who I will visit next week in Philly - she wrote a very interesting post-peak-oil book, "After the Crash"...

Also, will be playing a matinee solo gig at Silent Barn in Brooklyn on Friday:

Friday, April 10th
Matinee show! - doors 4pm
$5 cover

MRS. (Brooklyn)
http://www.myspace.com/houseghosts

Doog (Indiana)
http://www.myspace.com/brotherdolphin

Bill Infant (London)
http://www.myspace.com/billinfant

The Cook Sisters from Brooklyn:
http://www.myspace.com/safebankaccounts


Directions:

915 Wyckoff Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11385
L train to Halsey
M train to Myrtle/Wyckoff

Friday 27 March 2009

Age of Stupid

Also... saw this film the other day, well changed my view on climate-change, great stuff, go see:



http://www.ageofstupid.net/

Gotta love the UK

Cardiff at it's finest. Click if you dare...

Monday 23 March 2009

Stephen Colbert's Doom Bunker

It's not if, but when folks:


(spoof's Glenn Beck's "War Room")

Tuesday 3 March 2009

Orlov smackdown on William Halal

Pretty hilarious interview here featuring William Halal and Dmitri Orlov. Halal seems to think such mind-numbing wonders as space-tourism are the wave of the future (thanks, Branson) and is generally cut down to size by Orlov - it sounds like he's starting to doubt his mantra-like rhetoric of "the experts, the experts" by the end of the show, but it's a pity his air-headed sensibilities can't fully appreciate the biting satire that Orlov lays down for him.
"I don't care what these billionaires do with their money - if they pile it on the ground and burn it or fly themselves around in a rocket - they're obviously not doing anything useful with it."
(Paraphrased from Orlov)

Techno-wonderland or Collapse:
Two Visions of the US' future (Part 1 of 3)










23:43 minutes (10.86 MB)
February 23, 2009. Part 1.

Techno-wonderland or Collapse:
Two Visions of the US' future (Part 2 of 3)











17:55 minutes (8.21 MB)
February 23, 2009. Part 2.

Techno-wonderland or Collapse:
Two Visions of the US' future (Part 3 of 3)






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10:57 minutes (5.01 MB)
February 23, 2009. Part 3.

From Vermont's excellent Equal Time Radio

Friday 27 February 2009

PowerSwitch :: View topic - The case for a slow transformation rather than a fast crash

Persuasive post on an excellent forum:
"Future historians might indeed call the coming transformations of our societies a "crash", but it is not unthinkable that it will be a slow and gradual process, and that the generations who live trough it dont percieve it as a crash at all. We have a tremendous way to go before we actually start to die off on a grand scale. Our material standard of living could propably be reduced to less than 5% of what it is today before we get to starvation. "
PowerSwitch :: View topic - The case for a slow transformation rather than a fast crash

Friday 13 February 2009

Ed Balls: Labour minister fears rise of fascism amid economic gloom


Well, I'm glad people in government have started talking about this terrifying prospect at least - if no-one with any say talks about it, it's bound to happen:
Ed Balls: minister fears rise of fascism amid economic gloom - Telegraph

Tuesday 10 February 2009

Peak Oil Game

This game is kind of old already (last summer) but I just came across it. Scary:
Frontlines: Fuel of War Trailer

Interview with Mike Klare, contributor to TomDispatch

Bit of an abrupt interviewer but this guy makes a good summary of the basics of the short-term geopolitical situation:

Mike Klare discusses his latest article, "The Problem with Cheap Oil."

Play:
For cable:
For dial-up:

Download: MP3 File

Interview with Mike Klare, contributor to TomDispatch

Short Term Invstment - Long Term Security

This website blew my mind - they are marketing this warplane like it's some kind of charity mission...
"That's right brothers and sisters - old, fat, black, or female - you too can find a GREEAT job making hi-tech death for Infidels.... and America NEEDS these jobs - reach out in your heart, and just pray, children - repeat after me -

'Verily, we will have this Rrraptor .... and yay, it will preserve the right to buy twinkies on credit for Americans everywhere, and yay, it will deliver high yield explosives unto the heads of non-believers, it will produce 10000's of USEFUL JOBS for TRUE BELIEVERS.... Nations of Evil-Doers will quake in FEAR before our might, but yay, they will love us, for we are The Land of The Free, and the Home of DISNEYLAND - SAY AMEN!"
An advocacy page? Unbelievable... Thankfully preserveraptorjobs.com doesn't work - let's hope their jumble sale to raise the funds was a flop.

F-22 Raptor

Link from here: Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Economic Death Spiral at the Pentagon

Monday 9 February 2009

UK Companies Sort it All Out

Panic's off - Richard Branson's on the case. No worries, nothing to see here, get back in your car and drive to Virgin Megastore, er I mean Zavvi - no, didn't they shut already?:


Tuesday 3 February 2009

Nice Maps

Oh man, here we go again - time to invent your enemy folks, know him well: The new boogy man



Here's one we took control of earlier:



Meanwhile in Africa... The oil protection agencies (sorry, I mean U.S. military) work continues...

Click this for an interactive version:Africom on Google Maps

I wish I was making this up.

Slo-mo Splat | Post Carbon Institute


Heinberg laying it down like he does:

"Remember the wall that environmentalists (like the 1972 "Limits to Growth" authors) have long been saying that industrial society would eventually hit?

Permit me to make the formal introduction: Industrial society, meet wall; wall, meet industrial society."


Slo-mo Splat | Post Carbon Institute

Also good:
The shape of the recovery | Post Carbon Institute

Alternative Fuels

You never know, renewable resources just might save the day:

"Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital reportedly has signed a deal to supply Norwegian entrepreneur Lauri Venoy with 3,000 gallons-per-week of liposuction leftovers harvested by its clinics. This bio-fat could produce 2,600 gallons of biodiesel, sufficient to fuel a Hummer for a year."

Is this really how desperate things are getting!?

On America's New Energy Future / Tapping the fat of the land

Monday 2 February 2009

Failing ocean current raises fears of mini ice age - environment - 30 November 2005 - New Scientist

This was a while ago but made interesting reading this morning - horizontal snowfall outside! Anyone heard of an update? Couldn't find any..

"The last shutdown, which prompted a temperature drop of 5°C to 10°C in western Europe, was probably at the end of the last ice age, 12,000 years ago. There may also have been a slowing of Atlantic circulation during the Little Ice Age, which lasted sporadically from 1300 to about 1850 and created temperatures low enough to freeze the River Thames in London."

Failing ocean current raises fears of mini ice age - environment - 30 November 2005 - New Scientist: "... prompted a temperature drop of 5�C to 10�C in western Europe, was probably at the end of the last ice age, 12,000 years ago. There may also have been a slowing of Atlantic circulation during the Little Ice Age, which lasted sporadically from 1300 to about 1850 and created temperatures low enough to freeze the River Thames in London."

Saturday 31 January 2009

Comic Relief

This guy's band parody shots are pretty funny:
Andersen Ben-Hilliens Rock Paparazzi: The Pixies


"My Flashgun GOOONE to HEAVENS
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$5318008"

Wisdom of the Elders

This guy is heavy.

Some great quotes in here: “Fate is what happens when innumerable people make innumerable small decisions about other matters that have a collective cumulative effect that nobody intended.”
C. Wright Mills

Content is pretty terrifying, but I like his attitude, and the way he points out that feeling guilty about the situation we are in as a species is not a very useful way to go... he makes the analogy of a friend's dying mother who got involved in a religion that taught her she had contracted her disease due to lack of faith - and spent her final weeks in guilt-ridden misery.

He suggests that there's not much point in humanity doing the same - we children of the fossil-fuel age were pretty innocent in our decisions. Obviously we still need to do anything we can to mitigate the crash we are now facing, but we might as well do it with a smile on our faces!

He's definitely not an 'entertainer' but I recommend you put this on while you're doing the washing up or something.

Interview with William R. Catton, Jr.

Friday 30 January 2009

YouTube - Peak Oil & The Four Futures - Tim Hudson

Interesting summary of future scenarios at the "Michigan's Future
Energy, Economy & Environment Conference" in Nov 2007:

YouTube - Peak Oil & The Four Futures - Tim Hudson - Parts 1 and 2


Thursday 29 January 2009

Beards get radical

Don't let appearances put you off, this man talks an amazing amount of sense:

YouTube - The Twilight of an Age

YouTube - AMERICANS ARE NOT DUMB

Lulz. Please prove this video wrong, yanks:

Tuesday 27 January 2009

Temporary School of Thought Forever!

Thanks to everyone who came down, had a real blast and it was great to meet so many interesting folk.

For anyone who missed it - I wasn't able to tape the seminar, but you can enjoy the Powerpoint presentation below! No notes - I did the talk off the top of my head, but hopefully this will still be entertaining:


Thursday 22 January 2009

The Fun Side of Petrocollapse

Hey, doing another talk this Saturday at the excellent Temporary School of Thought - http://temporaryschool.org/
in Mayfair. It's a heavy subject but hey, you gotta laugh eh?

The Fun Side of Petrocollapse
A light-hearted take on the end of the world as we know it

Why did the economy just start falling apart? Where are we headed and what can we do about it? While the media blather on about the latest bailouts, the real story continues to unfold. Amazingly, there is a connection between the Mayan empire, cheez doodles and the Energy/Economic/Climate Crises!
Featuring clip from 'Crude Awakening' (Switzerland, 2006)

5pm Sat 24th Jan
39A Clarges Mews, Mayfair (right near Green Park tube)

Hope to see you there!

Cheers, Bill.

http://realfeal.blogspot.com


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PS.
An amusing video of the Temporary School below:

http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/a-quick-look-around-the-temporary-school-of-thought-1149
Not a bad article from the Londonist too:
http://londonist.com/2009/01/temporary_school_of_thought.php

Friday 9 January 2009

End of Empire seminar

I'm doing a talk, 3pm this Sat (10th) here: http://temporaryschool.org/

My flyer / info below in case you missed it.

Also - Yeah we're in the paper!! (pretty much all the papers, today in London anyway ;)
Artists evicted from Mayfair squat move to �22.5m property round the corner | Society | The Guardian

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I'm gonna be giving a talk on the economic/energy crisis at The Temporary School of Thought. It's a week of free workshops/lectures/film screenings/life drawing classes etc. being put on by a bunch of young people in an unused building in Mayfair, from 5th-11th of Jan. Link below for listings + photos:
http://temporaryschool.org/

End of Empire Seminar - Bill Trible
3pm, Sat 10th Jan
39A Clarges Mews, Mayfair (right near Green Park tube)

I'll be screening a bit of this film as part of it: http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/ It's a barrel of laughs so come along!

They're looking for more folks to get involved so if you wanna do a talk, screen a film or run a workshop get in touch!



flyer