tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56924738099109846452024-03-14T00:38:22.211-07:00Interconnected EchoesMatthew STONE interviews.Matthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-927699758225815322009-11-07T04:12:00.000-08:002009-11-07T04:15:35.303-08:00NEW URL - Please Update Your Links<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 382px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/SvVkYnyrNNI/AAAAAAAABlo/vifr6WGj53c/s400/InterconnectedMove.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401333702261945554" />My new website: <a href="http://www.matthewstone.co.uk/">MatthewStone.co.uk</a> is home to the new and updated <a href="http://www.matthewstone.co.uk/interconnectedechoes/">Interconnected Echoes</a>.<div>Please update your links, rss feeds and bookmarks.</div>Matthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-58304421751828099412008-11-23T17:36:00.000-08:002008-11-23T17:49:30.398-08:00Susanne Oberbeck<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wNTNWWz3Dd0/SSoFdAOIasI/AAAAAAAAACM/rafLWrii0TA/s1600-h/Susanne.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wNTNWWz3Dd0/SSoFdAOIasI/AAAAAAAAACM/rafLWrii0TA/s320/Susanne.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272032309624203970" border="0" /></a><br />Matthew Stone and friends interview<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.nobra.co.uk"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </span></a><a href="http://www.nobra.co.uk/"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Susanne Oberbeck</span></a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Matthew Stone: How can we change the world and what is there to be done?</span><br /><br />People need to be made aware that trying to prove they are men or women destroys them and others.<br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/03/nicola-lane.html"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Nicola Lane: What does success mean to you?</span></a><br /><br />Success is to be free from constraints, not be oppressed or abused by those in power, and be able to stick to your dreams and beliefs.<br /><br />Success is also if the thing you do leaves an impact on people, moves or inspires them, makes them fancy you, or changes the world, but that’s obvious.<br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/steph-raynor.html"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Steph Raynor: Are we anywhere near where we need to be?</span></a><br /><br />I don’t like the use of the word ‘we’. Who is ‘we’? ‘We’ seems to have been used to justify all kinds of atrocities and banalities. Trying to answer your question anyway, I don’t think anybody needs to be anywhere. An ideal or fixed state would be boring.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">MS: What should not be left unimagined?</span><br /><br />Matthew this question is too complicated! I have written two pages and feel like I’m sounding like an absolute twat.<br /><br />All I can suggest is Bin Laden and people like that should be banned from having an imagination, and people who don’t normally say anything should be able to tell us about their dreams.<br /><br />I think the less you are a part of existing institutions and structures, the easier it probably is to imagine something that people are trying to tell you is impossible. Why take anything for granted? And what is really “real”?<br /><br />It kind of comes back to your first question, which I think is mostly about power and conformity. Conforming in order to be powerful, or so they think. If people forgot about the need to prove that they are someone, or someone powerful, it might be possible for example for world leaders or even ordinary people to have an online discussion like this instead of fighting a war. And this is where we arrive at John Lennon’s “Imagine”.<br /><br />Discuss! <a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/09/ebe-oke.html"><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Ebe Oke: What unique gifts do you have to offer to this world?</span></a><br /><br />A unique perspective. BIG Balls.<br />I like to think I have a unique musical and lyrical instinct. But maybe this is something only Ebe can really answer.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">MS: What question should be added to this list?</span><br /><br />What is your vision for a future society, I mean in terms of political system, families, human relations, architecture, reproduction and so on?Interconnected Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268389432872834362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-15325999637229328102008-10-19T16:36:00.000-07:002008-10-28T04:04:46.204-07:00Catherine Borra<div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wNTNWWz3Dd0/SPyqEZ2VLMI/AAAAAAAAACE/G5aTulqdIqU/s1600-h/Catherine_Borra.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259265457496861890" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wNTNWWz3Dd0/SPyqEZ2VLMI/AAAAAAAAACE/G5aTulqdIqU/s320/Catherine_Borra.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Portrait by Matthew Stone.<br /><br /><br /></div><div></div>Matthew Stone and friends interview <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" href="http://www.supercream.org.uk/">Catherine Borra</a>.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Matthew Stone: What is most important to you?</span><br /><div><br />I don't know, it depends on what level you are asking! I think there is no one single thing but big groups (or symbols) of values/objects/behaviours and people reflecting into each other that I put together and love. Among these, I think the most important for me is blood.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">MS: What do you have faith in?<br /><br /></span>I believe that people will always go forwards, and even if sometimes it seems that all energy has gone and that this is "the endpoint of mankind's ideological evolution" (Francis Fukuyama), I have faith in cycles and I know that it is going to change again.<br /><div>Sometimes, though, I don't believe it at all.<br /></div><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/todd-hart.html"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></span></a><a style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/todd-hart.html">Todd Hart: What's the best example of Art really changing the world for the better?</a><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/todd-hart.html"><br /></a><br />One kind (I don't know if it's the BEST example) of art that I think can change the world is Jiri Kovanda's series of slight and persevering actions, aimed to reach that space in between invisibility, memory and oddness - or everyday surrealism, and Yoko Ono's Grapefruit book as well as other of her works. This is because it's important to me to revive faith, even just for the sake of it, and creativity as a consequence of it; because faith is an extremely important factor of life although currently tends to be discarded.<br /><div>I believe that art should be active for change now, but I'm not so sure that 'propaganda' works and that it allows the freedom of language that art making deserves - every discipline has its own field of action, and given that art isn't one, it shouldn't have one in particular... </div><br /><br /><br /><div></div><div></div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wNTNWWz3Dd0/SPyp-aZnL4I/AAAAAAAAAB8/uy6-esZ7YyQ/s1600-h/0w-yono.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259265354565627778" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wNTNWWz3Dd0/SPyp-aZnL4I/AAAAAAAAAB8/uy6-esZ7YyQ/s320/0w-yono.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wNTNWWz3Dd0/SPyp6bzr7dI/AAAAAAAAAB0/yrmU9ZePjSQ/s1600-h/grapefruit.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259265286223949266" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 233px; height: 250px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wNTNWWz3Dd0/SPyp6bzr7dI/AAAAAAAAAB0/yrmU9ZePjSQ/s320/grapefruit.jpg" border="0" height="266" width="248" /></a><br /> Image courtesy of <a href="http://static.flickr.com/122/288558640_70ee35d340.jpg">http://static.flickr.com/122/288558640_70ee35d340.jpg</a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wNTNWWz3Dd0/SPyp2ATLJQI/AAAAAAAAABs/UFRQwKX0Rw4/s1600-h/JiriKovanda,19%5B1%5D.11.1976.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259265210120348930" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 228px; height: 288px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wNTNWWz3Dd0/SPyp2ATLJQI/AAAAAAAAABs/UFRQwKX0Rw4/s320/JiriKovanda,19%5B1%5D.11.1976.jpg" border="0" height="275" width="217" /></a> Image courtesy of <a href="http://www.socialeast.org/Images/JiriKovanda,19.11.1976.jpg">http://www.socialeast.org/Images/JiriKovanda,19.11.1976.jpg</a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wNTNWWz3Dd0/SPypy0guzBI/AAAAAAAAABk/FlTmTExA_gs/s1600-h/kiss.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259265155416378386" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wNTNWWz3Dd0/SPypy0guzBI/AAAAAAAAABk/FlTmTExA_gs/s320/kiss.jpg" border="0" /></a></div> <br /> Image courtesy of <a href="http://www.frieze.com/images/middle/kiss.jpg">http://www.frieze.com/images/middle/kiss.jpg.</a><br /><br /><div></div><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/02/sir-norman-rosenthal.html"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Norman Rosenthal: Why are we alive at all? It is after all a very strange state to find ourselves in.</span></a><br /><br /><div>I've just finished reading a book by J.G. Ballard, one of his catastrophe series about a drowned world (The Drowned World, so to reference it). Time and space after it, seem to be an even more relative set of dimensions to rely upon, because being alive involves an immediacy between past and future that can just not be grasped (by me, at least). In his book, he depicts these human beings that are undergoing the process of rotating their memory so that, because of the environment they are living in, their immediate recollections - or their most recent past, is the revival of their biological memory from millions of years ago, leading to face regression as a prospective and almost as an acknowledged aim. This crashes the present time of subjectivity to something totally irrelevant in the face of the universe and of the infinity of misperception - I highly doubt that we can state with precision that we are alive at all! </div><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/04/iphgenia-baal.html"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Iphgenia Baal: What is the one thing about you that undermines all the opinions you have made above?</span></a><br /><br />They aren't opinions, it's true! All, apart from the question regarding the best example of Art really changing the world for the better, and the one about being alive (that is a confusing subject anyway).<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">MS: What question should be added to this list?</span><br /><div><br />Out of all the possible languages (English, Latin, Spanish, visual, sign, irony, empathy, facial expressions, music, archetypes etc.) available on this earth, which one do you feel you express/would express yourself better in, and why?<br /><br /></div><br /><div>---all images supplied by Catherine---<br /></div></div></div></div></div>Interconnected Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268389432872834362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-15443574350976170042008-09-30T19:21:00.001-07:002008-09-30T19:45:12.916-07:00Ebe Oke<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/SOLe0Pfu0YI/AAAAAAAAA4U/UQbUI30XNMU/s1600-h/ebe.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/SOLe0Pfu0YI/AAAAAAAAA4U/UQbUI30XNMU/s320/ebe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252005104561607042" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Matthew Stone and friends interview <a style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" href="http://myspace.com/ebeokemusic">Ebe Oke</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Matthew Stone: What do you have faith in?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ebe Oke: Love, friendship, the overriding benevolence of the universe and the inherent goodness of every human being no matter how wounded or flawed - also, we can heal ourselves of illnesses great and small, I've done it!<br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/boo-saville.html"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Boo Saville: What do you think happens when we die?</span></a><br /><br />EO: I'm not afraid of dying having come close before - I am in love with and lust for life but death is a comforting thought - I believe my spirit will remain, my intelligence will become a feeble footnote and I will harmonise with friends and loved ones: those of the same frequency or spiritual family - I don't believe in heaven or hell unless it's self imposed - the inability to forgive is a surefire anchor to the flames.<br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/03/nicola-lane.html"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Nicola Lane: What does success mean to you?</span></a><br /><br />EO: Ultimately for me it means to accept myself and to love without reservation or fear - it also means to have the freedom to work with whomever I choose whenever I choose and to have access to great resources for my work in different mediums, be it musical, visual or literary - finally it means to have the financial freedom to travel and explore, homes in a city and isolated countryside of my choosing and being able to share it all with the one I love.<br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/04/jack-brennan.html"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Jack Brennan: </span></a></span></span></span><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/04/jack-brennan.html"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">What film fits your vision of the future best and why? (The film needn't be set in the future)</span></a><br /><br />EO: Orlando: the opening scene! I would like to spend my future writing poetry on a rolling hill under a great oak! Tilda Swinton is the ageless, time traveling, gender bending, noble hero(ine) and I can think of no better ticket to the future than that - exploring your anima and animus with lovers of both sexes as both a man and a woman, possessing an otherworldly beauty and charm and being portrayed through the eyes of a brilliantly poetic female director; you can't go wrong.<br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/04/iphgenia-baal.html"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Iphgenia Baal: What is the one thing about you that undermines all the opinions you have made above?</span></a><br /><br />EO:<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB"></span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> I have a pronounced dark side that through years of honest investigation I have become more conscious of - I faced a lot of adversity earlier in life which caused me to accumulate fears and insecurities which once seemed insurmountable - simply recognising this dark side and the minions in its thrall is a start but something has to occur which grants you enough perspective to see that you actually have a choice not to act from your shadow but from your shine (so to speak) - having mapped out the terrain of my dark side through poems, songs, visions and the mirror of intimate relationships (etc.. ) and realising I have a choice has freed me immensely to embrace a lighter spirit and personality - It's been a real blessing to visit such extremes.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">MS: What question should be added to this list?</span><br /><br />EO:</span> What unique gifts do you have to offer to this world ? <br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB"><br /></span>Matthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-7873041731522751032008-04-30T09:41:00.000-07:002008-12-08T15:08:28.255-08:00Iphgenia Baal<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/SBiimusyDcI/AAAAAAAAAvc/MzURveQDaK4/s1600-h/gems.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/SBiimusyDcI/AAAAAAAAAvc/MzURveQDaK4/s400/gems.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195080956426456514" border="0" /></a><br />Matthew Stone and friends interview <a href="http://younevergivemeyourmoney.blogspot.com/">Iphgenia Baal</a>.<br /><br />Matthew Stone: How can we change the world and what is there to be done?<br /><br />Iphgenia Baal: It is impossible not to change the world. But, I reckon you are asking how to change the world for the better which I just have to be mainstream about and relate back to Star Wars. No, I could do Hindis and Christians. Someone once explained Hindi to me (I bet I miss loads of things). Essentially you are reincarnated time after time after time and the purpose of each life is to have as little effect on the world as possible, to change things as little as possible, to focus your energies inside instead of making other’s understand your point of view. Depending on how well you do, your reincarnation makes things more or less easy. If you have hardly any impact on the world, you come back as tree, then an ant, then a gnat, then as an amoeba (I missed out some stages but you get the idea) and then eventually, one day you die and, if the life you have just lived has changed nothing, effected nothing you die and then you cease to exist. Ping! Nirvana. Christians on the other hand have marched all over the world pillaging villages in the attempt to ‘spread enlightenment’. Christians march and conquer and preach. Which essentially means they fight and lie. I think the problem is that, if you want to get noticed in this world, you have to start early, put in the time to promote whatever it is you are doing from a young age when, in fact, that is the time you should be figuring out what it is you mean. But, if you take that time to figure out what it is you mean, by the time you have figured it out you will probably dead. And so, have no time to tell everyone else about it.<br /><br />I think you just have to trust everyone else. I mean, there are exceptions to these rules. I mean, you need Ghandi. And Kapil. So, you can make exceptions in certain lifetimes based on trust. Change the world for the better one this time round and then make up for it in the next by shutting the fuck up. But screw it, no one needs the Catholic Church.<br /><br />I guess my answer is, you don’t have to change the world, just make sure you don’t fuck it up anymore. And yes, that includes ridiculous attempts at self-promotion for “the good of the world”.<br /><br />MS: Can we ever be truly free?<br /><br />IB: I don’t think any group of people can ever be truly free. The provisos protecting human rights and freedom which any entity governing a body of people, by their very existence detract from the freedom they are protecting. But, any one individual can indeed be free. Find the middle of yourself, arrange the rest of it in an order which allows you to exist. Congratulations. You are free. Now, what are you gonna do?<br /><br />MS: What do you have faith in?<br /><br />IB: That lies, deceit and bad intentions always reveal themselves. And the learning of a collective consciousness. I mean, that’s not something I believe in, I don’t have to. You can just see it and it’s awesome. Like how people learned to draw. Crazy.<br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/03/nicola-lane.html">Nicola Lane: What does success mean to you?</a><br /><br />IB: No idea.<br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/04/jack-brennan.html">Jack Brennan: What film fits your vision of the future best and why? (The film needn't be set in the future.)</a><br /><br />IB: The future? Or my future? The future - Doom Generation My future, I can’t give you the plot, but the setting (it’s not a film) is described perfectly in The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman by J.P. Donleavy. Only, I hope less lonely.<br /><br />MS: What question should be added to this list?<br /><br />Iphgenia Baal: What is the one thing about you that undermines all the opinions you have made above?Matthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-41342870190546001462008-04-11T11:09:00.000-07:002008-12-08T15:08:28.424-08:00Jack Brennan<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R_-p6rG4tFI/AAAAAAAAAvU/Uw1KtEAzn04/s1600-h/Jack_Chupacabra.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R_-p6rG4tFI/AAAAAAAAAvU/Uw1KtEAzn04/s400/Jack_Chupacabra.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188052121223214162" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Photo Ellis Scott.</span><br /></div><br /> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />Matthew Stone and friends interview <a href="http://bltc.com/">Jack Brennan</a><a href="http://bltc.%20com/">.</a></span><br /><br />Matthew Stone: What do you have faith in?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jack Brennan: Not much. Maths. Some Science. I like Darwinism.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br />MS: How can we change the world and what is there to be done?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">JB: Here I'm slightly fatalistic. We are changing the world, by heating it up for instance. In this area we need to achieve controlled nuclear fusion power production, because no one is going to change.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If the question means "how can we young leftists change the world for the better?", then I think that we have to chuck out the notion of slipping through the cracks of our crappy society whilst enjoying an interstitial bohemian lifestyle. I'm against this slogan from 1968: "Be realistic: demand the impossible"; it's a recipe for impotence, because it's easy to refuse the impossible. When you make a just demand for a freedom, it should be impossible to refuse! Then you highlight something negative in a government. I think what needs to be done is more action, maybe violence, and certainly a willingness to take leadership. So, strange as the idea of revolution in the UK is, maybe we should all start doing push-ups in case things get rough.</span><br /><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/01/kate-moross.html"><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Kate Moross: If you had the choice between either being able to manipulate space or time which one would you choose, and what would you do?</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">JB: I think that there is a way to show that these two powers are fairly equivalent in Special Relativity, but I'm just going to go for TIME. I'd use all of the extra TIME I had to learn languages and then fly to other countries in seconds. If I got bored, I'd speed up my bodyclock and die of old age, tomorrow.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/03/nicola-lane.html">Nicola Lane: What does success mean to you?<br /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">JB: I'm really stumped by this one. I think I'd rather not succeed, just have a good reason for not doing so.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/04/terence-koh.html">Terence Koh : NOTHING MORE NEED BEE SAID?</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">JB: I like this question. That's kind of the state I am aiming for... </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">MS: What question should be added to this list?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">JB: What film fits your vision of the future best and why? (The film needn't be set in the future)</span>Matthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-42329598631972092272008-04-02T03:17:00.000-07:002008-12-08T15:08:28.717-08:00Terence Koh<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R0aqG2y573I/AAAAAAAAAkI/H1N-L9-eubM/s1600/34830029.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R0aqG2y573I/AAAAAAAAAkI/H1N-L9-eubM/s1600/34830029.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R_NdrHd69PI/AAAAAAAAAvM/T7Jfofi4Fww/s1600-h/90140033.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R_NdrHd69PI/AAAAAAAAAvM/T7Jfofi4Fww/s400/90140033.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184590591353877746" border="0" /></a><br />Matthew Stone and friends interview <a href="http://www.asianpunkboy.com/">Terence Koh.</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Matthew Stone: What is most important to you?</span><br /><br />Terence Koh: THAT IS AN INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT ANSWER TO ANSWER. IT SAT IN MY BRAIN FOR A FEW DAYS LIKE AN ALMOST DEAD CAT TRYING TO FIND TUNA. ULTIMATELY THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO FIND SOMEBODY THAT LOVES YOU AND THAT LOVES YOU BACK. AND TO HAVE IT FOR ETERNITY. LOVE FOR ETERNITY.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">MS: If you could say one sentence to future generations, what would it be?</span><br /><br />TK: TO GRASP THE CONCEPT OF THE ETERNAL.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/todd-hart.html">Todd Hart: What's the best example of Art really changing the world for the better?</a><br /><br />TK: THAT'S AN INDIVIDUAL THING REALLY. ART CAN BE ANYTHING. BUT I CONCLUDED THAT MY OWN ART I WANT TO AFFECT PEOPLE SO THAT THEY ARE HAPPIER. NOTHING COMPLICATED ABOUT THAT, TO DO SOMETHING THAT MAKES THEM FEEL GOOD. ACTUALLY TO MAKE THEM FEEL LOVE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT LOVE IS, ITS JUST THAT THING YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHEN YOU FEEL IT. ITS ALMOST AN IMPOSSIBLE AIM.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/03/nicola-lane.html">Nicola Lane: What does success mean to you?<br /></a><br />TK: THE OPPOSITE WHAT YOU SUPPOSE IT SHOULD FEEL. I ALWAYS THE MORE SUCCESSFUL YOU GET, THE MORE YOU SHOULD BE TORTURED.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/02/sir-norman-rosenthal.html">Norman Rosenthal: Why are we alive at all? </a><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/02/sir-norman-rosenthal.html">It is after all a very strange state to find ourselves in.<br /></a><br />TK: NORMAN YOU KNOW WE CAN'T, I CAN'T ANSWER THAT. CAUSE WE ASK OURSELVES THAT VERY QUESTION EVERY SECOND. AND OBVIOUSLY THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN'T ANSWER. AND YES OF COURSE ITS COMPLETELY STRANGE. WHY ELSE WOULD WE SOLDIER ON IF WE DIDN'T FEEL WEIRD, IF WE FELT STRANGE, IF WE FELT QUEASY. ITS A FEELING THAT EXISTED SINCE WE KNEW WHAT THE CONCEPT OF, I, WAS. WE ARE ALIVE BECAUSE YOU KNOW AS AN, I, YOU ARE THE ONLY REASON FOR BEING. BEING COMPLETELY A SELFISH CUNT.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">MS: What question should be added to this list?</span><br /><br />TK: NOTHING MORE NEED BEE SAID?Matthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-64134980818432571122008-03-29T07:32:00.000-07:002008-12-08T15:08:28.874-08:00Nicola Lane<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R-5TY3d69MI/AAAAAAAAAu0/WBNOq0Wc8hw/s1600-h/Nicola.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R-5TY3d69MI/AAAAAAAAAu0/WBNOq0Wc8hw/s400/Nicola.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183171907821434050" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Nicola Lane pictured with Jack Birkett (The Incredible Orlando).</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span></span>Nicola Lane’s 2006 film SPLITSCREEN funded by Arts Council England will be showing throughout April 19th –20th at the Lighthouse, the Chubb Building, Wolverhampton, as part of the 2008 Wolverhampton Disability Film Festival.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.artsunwrapped.com/artsunwrapped_studio">www.artsunwrapped.com</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.kingsgateworkshops.com">www.kingsgateworkshops.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.adornequip.com">www.adornequip.com</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Matthew STONE and friends interview Nicola Lane:</span></span></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />Matthew Stone: What is most important to you?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Nicola Lane: Love for my family and friends and making art.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: How can we change the world and what is there to be done?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">NL: The world is being changed all the time- change is the engine that drives the universe. What needs to be done is more thinking about change: can we co-exist with each other, other animals and environments?</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/02/sir-norman-rosenthal.html">Norman Rosenthal: Why are we alive at all? It is after all a very strange state to find ourselves in.</a><br /><br />NL: To me being alive means consciousness and I remember the moment when I was 4 years old and realized I was me and nobody else. It was very strange and wonderful. One theory is that consciousness is the firing between connections in the brain. Whatever it is, it is marvellous and I do not know why it exists.<br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/steph-raynor.html"><br />Steph Raynor:</a><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/steph-raynor.html"> Are we anywhere near where we need to be?</a><br /><br />NL: The planet is having a mid-life crisis.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/boo-saville.html">Boo Saville: What do you think happens when we die?</a><br /><br />NL: I think that the moment of death (perhaps as long or as short as a dream) is a journey away from consciousness and that the journey is meaningful.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Matthew Stone: What question should be added to this list?</span><br /><br />NL: What does success mean to you?</span></span><br /></div></div>Matthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-73216133986429886772008-02-01T06:12:00.000-08:002008-12-08T15:08:29.143-08:00Sir Norman Rosenthal<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R6MrLlLN-YI/AAAAAAAAAq8/0OinRaDDKWA/s1600-h/NormanRosenthal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R6MrLlLN-YI/AAAAAAAAAq8/0OinRaDDKWA/s400/NormanRosenthal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162017075854440834" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Matthew Stone and friends interview <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2008/01/without_rosenthal_the_ra_is_do.html">Sir Norman Rosenthal</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Matthew Stone: What do you have faith in?</span><br /><br />Sir Norman Rosenthal: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Love, art, music and letters.<br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />MS: How can we change the world and what is there to be done?</span><br /><br />NR: </span><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">By converting everyone in the world to love, art and music.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: </span></span></span><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Do you hope to be remembered and what for?</span><br /><br />NR: </span>I believe in the ephemeral, which is why I like making exhibitions. They disappear as everything will sooner or later.<br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/todd-hart.html">Todd Hart: What's the best example of Art really changing the world for the better?</a><br /><br />NR: I don't really believe in the concept of best, except at the subjective moment of confrontation with a work of art when maybe there is an illusion of "best". My tastes in art happen to be very eclectic as they also are in music.<br /><br />So one minute before doing this little blog for you I was listening to Beethoven's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabelli_Variations">Diabelli Variations</a> and if everybody would listen to that simultaneously it would change the world for the better, but equally it might be a drawing or a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys#Politics">social sculpture</a> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span>of Joseph Beuys.<div class="Ih2E3d"><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/boo-saville.html">Boo Saville: What do you think happens when we die?</a><br /><br />NR: </span><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">Almost certainly nothing but maybe it could be everything that would be a beautiful surprise.<br /></span><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2008/01/kate-moross.html">Kate Moross: If you had the choice between either being able to manipulate space or time which one would you choose, and what would you do?<br /></a><br />NR: <span style="border-collapse: collapse;">I suppose I would like to be able to go back into history at will and even fast forward into the future.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: </span></span><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">What question should be added to this list?</span><br /><br />NR: </span></span><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">Why are we alive at all? It is after all a very strange state to find ourselves in.</span></div></span></div></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span>Matthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-13997277688668948242008-01-05T10:42:00.000-08:002008-12-08T15:08:29.293-08:00Kate Moross<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R4BHZ5s55zI/AAAAAAAAAnE/mGdy7daLQhY/s1600-h/KateMoross.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R4BHZ5s55zI/AAAAAAAAAnE/mGdy7daLQhY/s400/KateMoross.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152196484023314226" border="0" /></a>Photo by <a href="http://www.scottee.co.uk">Scottee</a><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);" href="http://www.scottee.co.uk/"></a><br /></div><br />Matthew Stone and friends interview<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <a href="http://www.katemoross.com">Kate Moross</a>.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Matthew Stone: What do you have faith in?</span><br /><br />Space, time and complex carbohydrates. Right now they are the only three things I trust. I am not a spiritual person. Instead I indulge in science and theory to satisfy my curiosities and answers to life's questions. Carbs, carbs are amazing, if they didn't exist myself and the rest of the human population would have withered away.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: How can we change the world and what is there to be done?</span><br /><br />I have no interest in all this global-warming-save-the-planet bullshit. Its going to happen. Yes the world will end. I'm sure "destroy the earth" is written into our genetic code. We are the selfish race after all. So I say, lets go DIY, and start at home. Say please and thank you, be nice to the bus driver, care for our old, care for our young and our sick. Its simple really, the only effects we can really have day to day are through the little things, the beauty is in the details, right?<br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);" href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/steph-raynor.html"></a><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/steph-raynor.html">Steph Raynor: Are we anywhere near where we need to be?</a><br /><br />I'd say, Yes. If we substitute "we" for "human race" I think we are pretty awesome. Focus on the bad things, corruption, war,bla bla bla and you are likely to think that we are a complete mess. However look at what good is happening, it seems that as a race, collectively, we are reaching even higher levels of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs">Maslow's pyramid</a>. I think there are a lot of amazing investigations and experiments ongoing in science and the arts, that make me proud to be a human. You only have to watch a handful of the <a href="http://www,ted.com/talks">TED talks</a> to realise that it is genuinely really exciting to be alive.<br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/todd-hart.html">Todd Hart: What's the best example of Art really changing the world for the better?</a><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/todd-hart.html"><br /></a><br />Art will never change the world. It may nudge it and morph it in places, but like matter it can never be created or destroyed. Art it is formed out of what is going on and is then eventually reabsorbed, in one way or another.<br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/boo-saville.html"><br />Boo Saville: What do you think happens when we die?</a><br /><br />Sweet Fuck All. We die. We get eaten by worms, and then we make the grass greener. Dying is simple. Its the grieving thats the hard part.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: What question should be added to this list?</span><br /><br />Kate Moross: If you had the choice between either being able to manipulate space or time which one would you choose, and what would you do?Matthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-39135586441794128102007-12-15T11:31:00.000-08:002008-12-08T15:08:29.467-08:00Boo Saville<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R2Qtzps55xI/AAAAAAAAAmY/GLJxowEI_pQ/s1600-h/BooSaville.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R2Qtzps55xI/AAAAAAAAAmY/GLJxowEI_pQ/s400/BooSaville.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144287039754725138" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Interview with <a href="http://www.myspace.com/BooSaville">Boo Saville.</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Matthew Stone: What do you have faith in?</span><br /><br />BS: Magic, pleasure, positivity, gravity and instinct.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">MS: If you could say one sentence to future generations, what would it be?</span><br /><br />BS: Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">MS: Do you hope to be remembered and what for?</span><br /><br />BS: I would like to be remembered for my paintings, but I'll probably be remembered for being Jenny's sister.<br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/steph-raynor.html">Steph Raynor: Are we anywhere near where we need to be?</a><br /><br />BS: Don't know how to answer that. Probably not. Maybe.<br /><br /><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/todd-hart.html">Todd Hart: What's the best example of Art really changing the world for the better?</a><br /><br />BS: I couldn't think of just one so....<br /><br />Fra Angelico - 'Annunciation' 1450<br />Picasso - 'Guernica' 1937<br />Joseph Beuys - ''7000 oaks' 1982<br />Damien Hirst - 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living' 1992<br />Olafur Eliasson - 'The Weather Project' 2003<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">MS: What question should be added to this list?</span><br /><br />BS: What do you think happens when we die?<br /></div><br /><span></span><span> <div><br /></div></span>Matthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-20076626899417373622007-12-04T06:59:00.000-08:002008-12-08T15:08:29.600-08:00Todd Hart<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R1Vr0K7tChI/AAAAAAAAAlg/MH1NMMI4auM/s1600-h/ToddHart.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R1Vr0K7tChI/AAAAAAAAAlg/MH1NMMI4auM/s400/ToddHart.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140133093745429010" border="0" /></a><br />Interview with <a href="http://dalstonoxfamshop.blogspot.com/">Todd Hart</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: How can we change the world and what is there to be done?</span><br /><br />TH: I think the preliminary question is why should we change the world?<br /><br />My parents were christian missionaries in Africa and they tried to change the world because they believed that everyone needed to believe in Jesus so they could go to a perfect paradise in the next life. I no longer believe that. And in some respects it seems as if with the ever-increasing population things could actually get worse. But fundamentally I am an optimist and am excited about new technologies and changes in medicine, genetic discoveries, ways of making my skin look younger :) So I guess I would say that fundamentally I want to change the world because it is the only thing that makes me feel better about myself and which makes me feel that we as people can some day achieve on our own the thing that centuries of people living in fear have sought in religion - a fairly trouble free world. But unfortunately this means that I believe in everyone learning as much as possible and becoming as aware as they can be about how life works and its incredible complexities so they can better contribute to improving things step by step. This begs the question of whether I would be happier making "art" or "music" which I might have difficulty showing a direct link to some concrete thing which I can see makes the world better (i.e., less carbon emissions, or water in rural Africa) or whether I would simply rather enjoy the years I have living in a bath of pleasure making things that create a community etc. And of course, this begs the question "What is really a better world?" and where does the "soul" that we have as humans fit into this world. Sometimes the future which is perfect seems cold? Also, a lot of people are disenchanted with "science" as a way of looking to a better future because it has been misused and because of the people who use it. This doesn't change the fact that understanding all of the complexities of science and how our world works, including how the mind works, is the magic key to all.<br /><br />And I also think it is important to fight for these beliefs because the more people that believe in something which is completely untrue, the harder it may become for me to make the world better in a way that I think is true. Things DO matter.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: What do you have faith in?</span><br /><br />TH: I have faith in the laws of nature. Though we might not understand them completely and we constantly get them wrong, I have faith that they work consistently and we can understand them if we try and it will explain most everything from the way we feel to the way our lifestyles form. And because of this, I know that certain things will always give me pleasure even if I do them over and over and other people think they are boring. Because I know that's the way I work. And I think everyone should learn this about themselves and accept it.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: Do you hope to be remembered and what for?</span><br /><br />TH: I hope to be remembered as someone who had an idea that was really unique, any idea, and it made the world better. There's nothing wrong with being a big chimp in a sea of chimps and enjoying life until I die, but I'd like to be remembered for more.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: What is most important to you?</span><br /><br />TH: Ideas and being happy. But sometimes people think that being happy is feeling some kind of ecstasy or laughing/smiling. Whereas in some ways I might be happiest in a state of some kind of angst because it is counterbalanced with the knowledge that I'm stretching myself and it's a difficult but I believe I will do something new and fun and that will make me even happier. I also find these days that often I am very happy in a moment of some little nostalgia, such as walking by a spot and remembering someone or some feeling I had that made me excited or warm.<br /><br />It is also a shame that I realized so late in life that when you have an idea and you think that it's a great one you have to just do it even if the people you know will think it's strange, or it will feel odd. Eventually people get used to everything and the strangest thing becomes common. When I finally got old enough to not care and started just doing things because I was bored with everything else, I finally started to feel that life was actually pretty great. There is WAY too much repetition and not nearly enough people saying "I've had enough. I'm going to try it a new way." So many people are starting new bands or doing art and doing EXACTLY what everyone else is doing because they want success in a little way for here and now. But what's most important is to do something that you really think is a genuinely good idea, not just different, but really good and throw it out there for the world to see. If you think you would come to me with your idea and I would say, "But this is obviously just [blank]" than maybe you should spend some time in the library or searching the Internet, or travelling. Anything to give you a really good new idea.<br /><a style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);" href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/steph-raynor.html"><br /></a><a href="http://interconnectedechoes.blogspot.com/2007/12/steph-raynor.html">Steph Raynor: Are we anywhere near where we need to be?</a><br /><br />TH: No. This is obvious.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: What question should be added to this list?</span><br /><br />TH: "What's the best example of Art really changing the world for the better?"Matthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-85884626911327028352007-12-03T06:00:00.000-08:002008-12-08T15:08:29.850-08:00Steph Raynor<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R1QMj67tCfI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/Xuz1rkPguQQ/s1600-R/StephRaynor.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R1QMj67tCfI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/5zgSifgOkC0/s400/StephRaynor.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139746885991205362" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R1QMkK7tCgI/AAAAAAAAAlY/piIaaH_8_Pk/s1600-R/StephRaynor2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NDOtb6Fojn8/R1QMkK7tCgI/AAAAAAAAAlY/cpOnfcVP4yQ/s400/StephRaynor2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139746890286172674" border="0" /></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><a href="http://optimismasculturalrebellion.blogspot.com">Matthew Stone</a> interviews <a href="http://www.myspace.com/boylondon">Steph Raynor</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: How can we change the world and what is there to be done?</span><br /><br />SR: Achieve the impossible, open all doors of perception - step through the threshold of enlightenment, free ourselves and minds through the power of art.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: What do you have faith in?</span><br /><br />SR: Dark Angels, immortality, sacred philosophy and pleasure, symbolic art, the infinite divine spirit.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: If you could say one sentence to future generations, what would it be?</span><br /><br />SR: No rules, Stay innocent, Embrace Experience, What's in your head is more important than the external.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: Do you hope to be remembered and what for?</span><br /><br />SR: Using Art's power through political and radical change to penetrate and destroy mediocrity, transcending everything.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: What is most important to you?</span><br /><br />SR: Using life as Art, putting my heart and soul into it like a knife, getting far away from unhappy, dumbed down people, being defiantly different, searching for the disturbing, dangerous extraordinary and exquisite.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">MS: What question should be added to this list?</span><br /><br />SR: Are we anywhere near where we need to be?Matthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.com0