062603
Announcing
The launch of
The Big Bang Tango Media Lab
by
Howard Bloom and friends
Street art has traditionally been the
mainstream art of the future. The power of street culture gave us jazz in
the 1920s, tap dancing in the 1930s, doo-wop in the 1950s, garage band rock in
1960s and 1970s, and break dancing and rap in the 1980s. There is a new form of
street art that's compelling and spontaneous. But the street this burst of
creativity is coming from is the Information
Highway--the World Wide Web. And the art it's
producing is the sort of thing that even Pixar and Lucas films could not achieve
20 years ago.
It's street animation--flash animation done without armies
of illustrators and inkers. It's done on a pc at home. And it is done dirt
cheap.
The first group to harness this art for a purpose calls itself
Howard Bloom's Big Bang Tango Media Lab.
Click on the image at: www.bigbangtango.net Amazingly, it is a
group of kids and of older folks who've never met each other, who live thousands
of miles apart, who come from wildly different backgrounds, and who dress in
ways that might horrify each other, but who meet in cyberspace
everyday.
The group spontaneously combusted in two meet-the-author chat
room sessions sponsored by two separate groups, sessions that through the magic
of IM buddy lists attracted the same participants. On March 6th this
self-assembling cyber-tribe announced its intention. On
March 29, 2003, it met without preplanning in a second
meet-the-author chat room and set out its first objective.
What is Howard
Bloom's Big Bang Tango Media Lab's aim? Ultimately to save and change humanity
by changing the way it sees. To change and save humanity by giving it a sense of
meaning.
The Big Bang Tango Media Lab's first step is an animation that
tells the tale of the cosmos' history from the first instant of the big bang to
the emotions in your brain as you read this page...all in a mere nine
minutes.
The group's next task is to tackle bit
by bit the expression of a Grand Unified Theory of Everything In the Universe
Including the Human Soul created by a brilliant mind in a
Brownstone in Brooklyn. Bloom's universal view and
with 600-books-worth of new theory and research in his computer is the author
whose chat-room appearances triggered the self-generation of the Big Bang Tango
Media Lab. His name is Howard Bloom. Gear Magazine says Bloom, "May just
be the next Stephen Hawking," and Britain's Channel4 TV has called Bloom, "The
Einstein, Freud, Buckminster Fuller, and Isaac Newton of the 21st
Century."
But Einstein, Freud, and Newton never made street culture an object of
their study and were never able to use it to express themselves. Bloom is
an expert in mass behavior. His Voyage of the Beagle was a 20-year-dive into the
seas where the Wild Ones of human nature writhe-a dive into popular culture.
Bloom worked with Michael Jackson, Prince, John Mellencamp, Bette Midler, Billy
Joel, Paul Simon, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Aerosmith, Kiss, AC/DC, Grandmaster
Flash and the Furious Five, Run DMC, Luther Vandross, and Bob Marley.
Bloom helped make many a street subculture go mainstream: heavy metal,
disco, country crossover, new age music, fusion jazz, Midwestern rock, punk
rock, and rap, to name a few.
He also climbed his way to the top of the
corporate world, helping Sony establish its first software beachhead in
North
America and
helping Disney publicize the three Bette Midler films that turned its image from
an antique to a player in the modern mind.
Unlike the collections of
evidence compiled by Darwin and Wallace, the specimens Bloom brought back to
science are very much alive. They're still influencing the flavor of our
lives.
Now Bloom is using street culture to give science a new kind of
message in a new form. He's collaborating with undiscovered cyber talents in a
cyber-medium to lunge toward a wraparound media experience that makes you feel
and taste the way this cosmos self-constructed and the implications for human
passion, love, hate, and mass convulsions like war and genocide.
"You
cannot solve a problem until you see it from a radically different point of
view," says Bloom. "We're clever piles of quarks, piles of quarks with will and
knowledge, but piles of quarks with blind spots that trip us up constantly.
Those blind spots disable us day to day, whether we are looking for a mate or
agonizing over the use of military might. Our goal," says Bloom, "is to remove
those blind spots. Our goal is to help humanity see. So books and journal
articles are not good enough. We need IMAX, we need film, we need television, we
need theme parks, and we need virtual reality."
For Howard Bloom and the Big Bang Tango Media Lab.
Dennis Reinhardt http://www.ryze.com/go/jaguar
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Howard Bloom
Bio
Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the
Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind
From The Big Bang to the 21st Century
www.howardbloom.net
Visiting
Scholar--Graduate Psychology Department, New York University
Founder:
International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member: Epic of Evolution
Society; founding council member, The Darwin Project; Founder, Big Bang Tango
Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences,
American Association for
the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society, Academy
of
Political Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, International Society
of Human Ethology; advisory board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor --
New Paradigm book series.
For two chapters from
The Lucifer
Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, see
www.howardbloom.net/lucifer
For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big
Bang to the 21st Century, see
www.howardbloom.net
For
Reinventing Capitalism: Putting Soul In the Machine, see: http://howardbloom.net/reinventing_capitalism
or
http://www.howardbloom.net/reinventing_capitalism.pdf