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Sam

samrose

About Me

Multi-instrumentalist with http://wanderjahrmusic.com (recently departed from Wanderjahr. New musical machinations coming soon!)

Self educated futurist, researcher, theorist, and conceptualizer. Writing for Social Synergy Weblog , Smartmobs , Cooperation Commons , The Humergence Weblog .

I am interested in music, art, human evolution, science, complexity theory, media ecology, foresight and futures studies, and technology.

My Interests

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - R. Buckminster Fuller

I'd like to meet:

People who realize that they have a hand in the workings of the loom that is turning out the fabric of the future.

Music:

The Gulf is home to 6 species; all of them deadly.

Movies:

A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Sandwich, Free To Be You and Me

Television:

"Technologies are not simply inventions which people employ but are the means by which people are re-invented."-Marshall McLuhan

Books:

Where The Wild Things Are, Where The Red Fern Grows, Where's Waldo?, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Where Is God When It Hurts?

Heroes:

R. Buckminster Fuller, Mike Watt and D. Boon, The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, Marshall McLuhan, Chuck D, David Berman, Clare W. Graves, John Coltrane, Stephen Wolfram, Richard Slaughter, Sohail inayatullah, Howard Rheingold, Thomas Frank, Will Oldham, Anyone who is able to do something interesting with their life.

My Blog

LiteracyOfHumanNature

when I was young, I often used to wonder "why" people do the things they do. Why do some people believe in "god",while others don't? Why do some people focus on earning money, while others focus on mo...
Posted by Sam on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:19:00 PST

Totally Hot Chick Also Way Psycho

So, back in 1999, I read this pretty hilarious article in the onion titled "Totally Hot Chick Also Way Psycho". It had this photo in it:This photo is an image that the onion bought from a stock photo ...
Posted by Sam on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:11:00 PST

Some Pics of Our Wedding and Honeymoon

Here's some pics from out wedding and honeymoon. Sorry it's taken so long, we have been MASSIVELY busy :) See Pics here
Posted by Sam on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:54:00 PST

Micro-Enterprise

A while ago, I started researching ideas about creating a new way for people to enter the realm of entrepreneurship. The ideas are collected here: The Emerging Micro-Enterprise Paradigm The idea is ...
Posted by Sam on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 03:12:00 PST