Longing for Floyd

Ahh spring is in the air, the little red buds are about to explode into flowers as nature's process of re-creation starts up. It'll be about 5 more months until FloydFest 2011 and I'm looking forward to it...

I'm looking forward to it so much, I've decided to change some words around on Joni Mitchel's "Woodstock" and call for Global Human Freedom Concerts to happen around the world to sync up with Floyd.

I made this Yesterday


I'm working with my Jam tribe now to do a larger cover of this...

more soon... for now, I gotta get ready to start my next class.

-Peace

Springing Up to the next milestone

So I've been taking classes again and thus, I have been splitting my "mindforce" between my incredibly evolving jam band and my Early Childhood Education classes.

I've been writing a lot of papers, working on a lot of group projects and learning a lot of really useful things.

On Thursday nights I meet up with my jam group and each day we have met up, we have learned a little more and improved our talents.

So there has been little room for art.

I did manage to make these...

These 2 illustrations were for a quick PowerPoint on the need for more men in Early Childhood Education.

(Though it looked more like a 5 second highlight on the issue of how men fear being judged the wrong way for working with young children...)

I've been going over different studies in anthropology, census data, history, academics and a bunch of other fields. The results are indicating to me that very young humans around the world basically do better if they have an equal balance of honest men and women in their lives.

So hopefully I can do what I can to restore balance (aka: Social Equilibrium)

I made it through my first ECE introduction course pretty successfully. The course was not easy. But I mean that in a good way because it was designed to give you a taste of what you can expect in workloads should you seek a career in Early Childhood Education. In some ways it felt more like a gatekeeper course because only hard workers and team players are going to make it through. Another good thing about the introducation class was it's ability to be done while working a full 9-5 on the side. Yes it was worth it! The teacher is one of the few I have had in my life who is quite honest with the class and knows what she is talking about. She is also very approachable and communicates a lot with her students.

I feel confident that I can continue my education in ECE and eventually work in the field (Though I'm still not quite certain on where my talents could serve best...).

Oh well, I've reached another milestone on the path, I can see the next one on the top of yonder hill... I lift my foot and move forward.

-Peace, Love and Blessings

-R, Mar11

To the people of Libya

I no longer have a message for the "leader" because you have none. The Tyrant Ghadafi has sealed his fate, the sands of the desert await the return of his body.

I call upon all Libyan's to join together as ONE. This is your new dawn. This is your crossroads.

Look to your children. You now have all the power to see that they live in peace and freedom.

Let us all join together with ONE LOVE and heal the world so that our children, and thier children and all the generations beyond the sight of your dreams have a chance to live in peace with one another in gardens such have never been seen since the dawn of creation.

Let us help the Earth to become ONE with the paradise that awaits in the after life.

May the Creator and Sustainer of life aid you in your struggle to live in peace.

To Bahrain

To the king of Bahrain...

God sees all that you have done and will collect the debt you owe in this life or the next, you have no choice but surrender and do the right thing.

To the people of Bahrain... Trust in yourselves, organize as one. Light a Peace of flame in your hearts and glow brightly in your unity. Let the light expose the haters in the dark so that the world may see them. Surround them with love and force them to surrender. You are at the crossroads...like your brothers and sisters in Egypt, Tunisia and in free nations around the world.

Oppressed peoples of the world, stand together for your human rights! You have nothing to loose but your chains!

FREE-Jam

This is a clip from a free jam I did with my friends at our secret studio (Voodoo Cookie Jamroom)

All the artists in the jam taught themselves how to play the instruments that they play. Most of us can't read or write in classical music notation, we just play by ear. We have a basic melody that we grow into elaborate rhythms for some of our material, but a lot of this is made up on the fly.

How do we communicate?

Well, sometimes I can hear someone change their beat or key and I adjust my own playing to harmonize. Sometimes I make eye contact, but honestly it's getting to the point where where all the senses and changes happen so quickly, it's almost as if everything is done through a 6th sense of cognitive communication.

it's another miracle of human evolution, people just need to learn to tap it.

to the pharaho in Egypt.

-GOD command's you pharaoh, set His Children FREE!

and to the people of Egypt;

Peace is the flame we hold in our hands...
use it as a torch to guide, not a torch to burn.

look to yourselves, look to the brothers and sisters around you.

UNITE AS ONE

ONE LOVE

ONE HEART

Beat the song of One Love upon your heart;
If you beat it always in Truth, you will have freedom.

And the rest of us will be inspired to join you.
You have reached the crossroads now.

Musical Improv

Every now and then, I try to record an improv solo performance as an musical evolution marker. This one I made last night I was pretty happy with because I did it in one take and was able to preform without being conscious of the camera recording.

So here is "One Love-One Take" also known as "One Take-One Love"