Tibet in Song is both a celebration of traditional Tibetan folk music and a harrowing journey into the past fifty years of cultural repression inside Chinese controlled Tibet. Director and former Tibetan political prisoner, Ngawang Choephel, weaves a story of beauty, pain, brutality and resilience, introducing Tibet to the world in a way never before seen on film.
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here’s ± 4 hours of the highest quality research by adam curtis, with tons of original material from the bbc archives. i hope you get hooked on this documentary, just as i am – enjoy!
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Yesterday saw the death of Jose Arguelles. Jose was the man who first brought the idea of 2012 and the Mayan Calendar to public attention through his 1987 book The Mayan Factor.
For insiders: he departed this Planet on Solar Moon 17 (March 23), Red Spectral Moon, at 6:10 a.m (the exact same time that he was born in 1939 in the Red Spectral Moon year).
Part 1 of a documentary, shot by two young artists this documentary will take you on a vision quest that bridges many cultures together at their core. This qausi-spiritual, hedonistic, and new-media documentary dares to reach towards the fringes of reality.
Personally I disagree with 2012. No mayan evidence of this. It’s more likely to be 2011. This is scientifically proven by Carl Calleman.
Silent footage of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and others in New York, Summer 1959. The location is in and around the Harmony Bar & Restaurant at E 9th St. and 3rd Ave. Others seen are Mary Frank (wife of film-maker Robert Frank) and children Pablo and Andrea, as well as Lucien’s wife Francesca Carr and their three sons, Simon, Caleb and Ethan.
On March 19, the moon will swing around Earth more closely than it has in the past 18 years. It’s just 221,567 miles (356,577 kilometers) away. On top of that, it will be full. In Amsterdam (The Neatherlands) the moon is full at 22.23 PM.
Previous supermoons took place in 1955, 1974, 1992 and 2005 — all years that had extreme weather events. There is a huge gravitational pull of moon. Although there are scientific laws that say the moon affects the Earth (tides), it’s still ambiguous whether the lunar perigee and natural disasters is coincidence or not.
