Producing 2D/3D CGI artwork and animations, Writing and recording music, Playing Guitar (Bass/6 string acoustic and electric), Drawing and painting, Reading and writing, Collecting Star Wars memorabilia (vintage and new), Collecting books, Ecology, Digital photography, Film and video production, Meeting people and socialising, Theatre, Poetry, Animal Welfare, Cooking and eating vegetarian food, Bush Craft, Transcendental exploration of the imagination, Martial Arts, Sunsets and Sunrises, Colour, World Mythology, Irish Gaelic folklore, Environmental issues, Holistic/Alternative therapies, Social gatherings and feasting with friends, Peace and harmony, Shapes, Fun and laughter, Ancient history, Rhythm, Mother Nature, Wisdom and knowledge, Raiki healing, Symbology, Long walks and bike rides in the countryside, Stillness, Movement, Thunder storms (especially at night), Equilibrium, Earth sciences, Dreamtime, Native tribal culture including - Native American / Native Australian / Native African etc., Small things, Large things, Medium sized things, psychology, Teaching, Learning, Sharing, The physics and philosophy of sound and vibration, Theoretical physics, Superstring Theory, Quantum Theory, Hyperspacial Theory, Traveling, Philosophy of mind, Anthropology, Cosmology, Astronomy,... and above all, LOVE SWEET LOVE.
Artists and designers of influence:
Doug Chiang,
Ralf Mcquarry,
Joe Johnston,
Ryan Church,
Bob Ross (Happy little tree),
Jim Burns,
Keith Thompson,
Chris Foss,
Todd Lockwood,
Syd Mead,
Vaughn Oliver,
Luis Royo,
Frank Frazetta,
Brian Froud,
Dave Mackeen,
Marja Lee Kruijt,
William Blake,
Francis Bacon,
Paul Cézanne,
Vincent van Gogh,
Gustav Klimt,
Tony Hart,
Henri Matisse,
Ron Cobb,
Nene Thomas,
Hans Rudi Giger,
Claude Monet,
Gustave Moreau,
Edvard Munch,
Rolf Harris,
Jackson Pollock,
Raphael,
Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
Auguste Rodin,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
Jean-François de Troy
I'd like to meet:
'Earthlings'
"In their behavior towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplify the most extreme rasist theories the principle that might is right."
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." — Arthur Schopenhauer (German philosopher, 1788-1860)
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Music:
Music as an extension of the soul evokes every human emotion and is a valid form of story telling, which acts as an ongoing reference for local, national and international events, such is my perception. Music is a universal language and is reflective of the underlying vibration within our universe, being that all things are based on varying frequencies. I like to listen to the music inherent in nature; Birds singing their eloquent songs of courtship, The wave breaking its crest on the shore, even the crack of the lightning bolt. Music is ubiquitously entwined within all that we experience and has the ability to heal and influence our personal well-being. Being that all things in the universe are based on frequency and vibration, when we experience music we become part of its harmonious waves just as it becomes part of us, such that it is a catalyst for dissolving the illusion of separation. Raised on a healthy dose of Reggae, Blues, Folk, Psychedelia, Rock, Punk, Classical Baroque and expanded my listening pallett as my appreciation and love for music grew.
In no particular order:
The Police, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, John Carpenter, Joni Mitchell, Tim Exile, Hawkwind, Obituary, Leaf Hound, The Jam, Peter Tosh, Paa'tal, Groundhogs, The Doors, Elite, Ahleesah, Frankie Paul, Tiger, Ozric Tentacles, Frank Zappa, The Who, Disposable Heroes of Hiphopracy, Karen Marshalsay, Celtic Shores, Bob Dillan, Suzanne Vega, Lead Belly, Pregnant Soul, Led Zeppelin, Soundgarden, Schubert, Mozart, Andy Mckee, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Sarah McLachlan, Winter, Augustus Pablo, Horas Andy, KT Tunstall, Memphis Slim, Eleven, Future Sound of London, Bad Brains, Portishead, KRS 1 (Boogie Down Productions), Alice in Chains, Grandmaster Flash, Peter_Paul_and_Mary, Free, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Suffocation, Gregory Isaacs, Joan Armatrading, Lunasigh, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Venetian Snares, Squarepusher, Celtic Frost, Unida, Big Joe Turner, Extreme Noise Terror, György Ligeti, Deep Purple, Eric B and Rakim, Tori Amos, Blondie, Simon and Garfunkel, igor stravinsky, Citadel of the Stars, Old Basford, Carcass, Bo Diddley, De La Soul, Kirsty MacColl, Hiroshima Project, Popol Vuh, U2, My Dying Bride, Donovan, A Perfect Circle, Public Enemy, Napalm Death, Eagles, Lenny Kravitz, Elmore James, Gallowglass, Tracey Chapman, Jodee James, Christene LeDoux, Syren, Morbid Angel, The Levellers, Sinead O'Connor, Queen, Blackrock, The Specials, Terrorizer, Roni Size, Cathedral, Electric Light Orchestra, The Cure, Sore Throat, The Beatles, Minor Threat, Circulus, Amorphous Androgynous, Kyuss, Plaid, Queens of the Stone Age, Minor Threat, Sick of it All, Cat Stevens, Biosphere, Zero 7, Morcheeba, Prong, Fu Manchu, Fugazi, Santana, Sleeping Prophet, Cocteau Twins, Hezzakya, Hypnopilot, Low Road Revival, Whoremoan, Orange Goblin, Black Sabbath, Jepherson Airplane, Boards of Canada, Rob Rich, Tangerine Dream, Alanis Morrisette, Damon Aaron, Aphex Twin/Polygon Window, John Denver, Red Hawk and Nino Reyos, Pendulum, Diffraction, Zacheous Jackson, Dieselboy, Tokyo Bullet, Simulacra, Aphrodite, RX, All Out War, Mahiigun, Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Premonitions of War, The Hope Conspiracy, Earth Crisis, Fu Fighters, Numeric Plague,...Frank Zappa quote for the 21st century:
" Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
Panditji Ravi Shankar & Ustadji Alla Rakha
NEeMA - Masi
Frank Zappa - Stinkfoot
Jimi Hendrix - Woodstock
Andy Mckee plays 'Drifting'
Squarepusher
A Perfect Circle - Judith
Frank Zappa - Inca Roads
Ozric Tentacles
The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (for Ellie)
Movies:
The degree of concern towards the sequencially determined order is hitherto diminished
Star Wars saga, Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138:4EB (Original short film and theatrical release), Halloween, Escape from New York, Bladerunner, Easy Rider, All Monty Python Movies (satirical genius), Fluent Dysphasia, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Martin, Night of the Living Dead (original and remake), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Document of the Dead, Knightriders, Creepshow, Dune, 12 Monkeys, Ringu, Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara, The Hamster Factor, Magnus Opus, The Number 23, Scanners, 200 Motels, Deep Red, America; from freedom to facism, Jaws, Tenebrae, The Deer Hunter, What the bleep do we know, Batoru Rowaiaru 1&2, The Fifth Element, Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Trading Places, American Graffiti, Kung Fu Hustle, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1984, Blues Brothers, Man Bites Dog, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Anonymity, Dreamscape, The Thing (Original & remake), Raiders of the Lost Ark (and sequels), Stephen Kings World of Horror: He Knows What Scares you, Trainspotting, Ghostbusters, Laurel and Hardy (Shorts and full length), Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Taxi Driver, Anna 1&2, Logan's Run, Shallow Grave, Il Ciclo, My Name Is Yu Ming, Jabberwocky, Funny Games, Q, The Haunting (Original), Seven Swords, Fight Club, Joyuu-Rei, Romper Stomper, Prison Warz, The Brood, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Highlander, Bangkok Dangerous, Ab-Normal Beauty, American History X, Amadeus, One Million Years B.C., Planet of the Apes (1968), Excalibur, Frankenstein (Boris Karloff), Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula (Christopher Lee), The Fisher King, Nosferatu (Original and remake), Vital, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Labyrinth, Kuchu Teien, Emperor And The Assassin, Jacob's Ladder, Kairo, Return of the Living Dead, The Dark Crystal, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Clash of the Titans, Switchblade Romance, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Elephant Man, Opera, The Raven, Shikoku, Mission to Mars, Delicatessen, Lolita, Trauma, Uzumaki, Bruce Almighty, Mean Streets, V for Vendetta, Contact, Eric the Viking, Mars Attacks!, Silent Running, Angel Guts: Red Vertigo, Made in Hong Kong, Cure, 2046, La Cité des Enfants Perdu, Young Frankenstein, The Mummy (1959), Electric Dragon 80000V, Phantasm 1&2, Eraserhead, Naked Lunch, Videodrome, eXistenZ, Full Metal Jacket, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), The Great Dictator, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Henry V, Monkey Shines, Suspiria, Asylum, Niku Daruma, Sleepy Hollow, Crash, House of Usher, Bimil, Gozu, The Passion of the Christ, Dead Zone, Psycho (1960), Dog Day Afternoon, Jigoku, Westworld, The Deer Hunter, The Curse of the Werewolf, Seven Samurai, Audition, The Masque of the Red Death, The Wicker Man, Pi, The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The fog, The Doors, The Beyond, Evil dead 1, 2 and 3, Strange Circus, American Werewolf in London, Cronos, King Kong (1933), Saturday the 14th, Cape fear (original and remake), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 remake), 10 Rillington Place, The Truman Show, Yotsuya Kaidan, This is Spinal Tap, Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Alien Ressurection, Equilibrium, The Cell, To be or not to be, Love and Death, Sleeper, Take the Money and Run, House of Flying Daggers, Zatoichi, Zombi 4, Metropolis, Annie Hall, Altered States, Everything you Always wanted to know about Sex but were afraid to ask, Cube, Cube 2: Hypercube, Omen 1, 2 and 3, Way of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon, Fist of Fury, Once upon a time in America, Game of Death, The Big Boss, Quadrophenia, ...the list goes on...
'Do or do not; there is no try.' - Master Yoda
Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers, America: From Freedom to Fascism, Loose Change, Shamans of the Amazon, Terrorstorm, What the Bleep do we Know?, Greatest Story Ever Denied, Quest for Lost Civilization, David Icke: Secrets of the Matrix, Magical Egypt, ..., ...
Television:
Institutionalised Hypno-Disinfotisement farce contraption,
polluter of the conscious landscape. Dumbed down corporate propaganda under the guise of mass entertainment, with filtered mainstream media biases re-enforcing the veil of indoctrination. Force-feeding a transparent, superficial 'reality', producing a perverted consensus for modeling societal violence. Effective in its influence on public opinion. Co-ordinated control of manipulated news bulletins. Exclusive ownership for Elite media moguls, tilting issues while prominence is given to one-sided views. Sculpting the minds of children within a perpetual pseudo-intellectual playground. No time this time to evaluate the rapid action. The Sun never shines on TV, it veritably blisters and burns. Enticing the viewing public into its chromophoric regimen, herded and branded with the logo of industry. The age-old act of smearing and distorting of the the truth to discredit individuals, increasing The gap between real-world and fake-world events. Versing mantras, precursing distractions, hidden-in-plain-view corporate symbolism, wielding the potential for counterfeit power. Encrypted shorthand decoded and imprinted behind the retina. Decreasing merits and standards, while pitching its deception, changing trends to be deconstructed and rebuilt that adhere to specific curricula. Sleepwalking into the arms of surrogate celebrity families with mellifluous voices.
Books:
The listed order of arrangement doesn't really matter in the slightest.
NON-FICTION:
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth dimension - Michio Kaku.
The Atlantis Blueprint - Rand Flem-Ath.
The Path of Perfection - His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Bhagavad Gita - His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Light of the Bhagavata - His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
The Supergods - Maurice M. Cotterell.
You Are Becoming A Galactic Human - Virginia Essene and Sheldon Nidle
Keeper of Genesis - Robert Bauval & Graham Hancock.
In Search of Immortals - Howard Reid.
Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past' - Erik Von Daniken
The Home Planet - Kelley/ASE
The Tutankhamun Prophecies - Maurice Cotterall.
Life on Mars: The Complete Story - Paul Chambers.
Fingerprints of the Gods - Graham Hancock.
Universe - Kaufman.
The Ancient Wisdom of Atlantis - Murry Hope.
The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking.
Grays Anatomy
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking.
Book of the Cosmos - Edited by David H. Levy.
Heavens Mirror: Quest for the lost Civilization - Graham Hancock & Santhia Faiia.
The Stars in Their Courses - Isaac Asimov.
Extraterrestrial Civilizations - Isaac Asimov.
And the Truth Shall Set You Free - David Icke.
Atlas of the Universe - Patrick Moore.
The Sirius Mystery - Robert Temple.
Alien Update - Timothy Good
Earth Odyssey - Mark Hertsgaard.
Supernature - Lyall Watson.
The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene.
Gods of Air and Darkness - Richard
Perspectives - John Spencer.
A Vision of the Aquarian Age - George Trevelyan
Inner Adventures - E. Lester Smith
Psychology and Kabbalah - Ben Shimon Halevi
The Pleiadian Agenda - Barbara Hand Clow
The Origin of Dreams - Joseph Griffin
Patrick Moore on Mars - Patrick Moore
The End of Time - Julian Barbour.
Ancient Egypt - Lorna Oakes & Lucia Gahlin.
The Mars Mystery - Graham Hancock.
Frontiers of Complexity - Peter Coveney & Roger Highfield.
Black Holes and Time Warps - Kip S. Thorne.
Colony: Earth - Richard Mooney.
The Language of the Genes - Steve Jones.
The God Particle - Leon Lederman with Dick Teresi.
Lots of Star Wars Saga 'Making of', 'Behind the Scenes' and 'Art of' type books. (My prefered choice of reading material)
CLASSIC FICTION and OTHER VARIOUS STUFF:
H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds
Jules Verne - 20,000 Leagues under the sea
Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (My all time favorite literary masterpiece)
Al-Hakim - Return of the spirit
James Joyce - Ulysses
The works of Edgar Alan Poe
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
The works of William Shakespeare
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Homer - The Illiad
Homer - The Odyssey
The works of Friedrich W. Nietzsche
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Netochka Nezvanova
Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
The works of Euripides
George Orwell - 1984
Yukio Mishima - Kinu to Meisatsu
Yukio Mishima - Kinjiki
Monty Pythons Papper Bok
The Beano 1980 Annual
Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo
Howard Pyle - King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
James Joyce - Ulysses
Sumerian Ur-Nammu codex
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Hesiod - Theogony
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Epictetus Enchiridion
The Analects of Confucius
Bharata's Natyasastra
Psychomachia by Prudentius
Mricchakatika
To be continued
Heroes:
These include my Soul Mate, Ellie and our circle of wonderful friends,,, Mum and Dad and our totally cool and rather vast family,,, Animals for having to put up with human stupidity for far too long,,, people I've worked with,,, The students I've taught and from whom I've learned,,, Those of you who've given constructive and positive messages / comments, whose correspondence are much appreciated,,,Humanity in general, accepting all our faults.
A few 'famous' names, the particular order of which has no corollary discernment:
George Lucas, Frank Zappa, Tom Savini, Bob Marley, Freddy Mercury, Tracy Chapman, John Lydon, Steve Irwin, Christopher Walken, John Anthony West...and a few others.
Go raibh maith agat agus go n-eiri leat!
