You all know Steve Barr blackmailed me, but you helped him escape a trial. The reason I'm readying myself for court is tens of thousands of dollars of lost income. VUW, Red Scare and Mr. Barr are the people responsible for this lost income. My expectation is that you will deny them income in a similar fashion. - I want to see some clear wording from the NZ Film Commission regarding IP. It must state that there have been a number of projects with uncertain provenance being

Intrinsic Motive Pulse, Relational Perception, and Object-Mediated Synchrony. 1. Abstract This document proposes a unified framework for Distributed Non-Verbal Synchrony (DNS) : a mode of cognition in which intention, affect, timing, and expectation become aligned across individuals through phase-locking of embodied rhythmic processes. DNS is grounded in developmental psychology via Trevarthen’s Intrinsic Motive Pulse (IMP)  and supported by evidence from elite musical perf

Putting it on the record diminishes the effectiveness slightly, but it's a no-brainer. All organising should be done by handwritten notes, with devices in another room. Almost all notes should be burned after the meeting, unless it's for the activists. Sweep for hidden cameras. They're almost pinhole-sized now. With written notes, that's barely an issue. Ensure that it's done in a huddle. Came up with this re: Minto and PSNA, but it wasn't necessary.

Weeded Out , Polynesian Third Genders, and the Refusal of Spectacle Abstract This essay examines the relationship between gender nonconformity and celebrity through a comparative framework that juxtaposes Western visibility-based gender politics with Polynesian third-gender ontologies. Using the screenplay Weeded Out  as a primary creative–philosophical text, the essay argues that contemporary celebrity culture functions as a technology of exposure that is structurally incom

I believe that the most, perhaps only, complete way to take in the news without spin is to rely almost entirely on written accounts. That's a habit I formed in 2019. Sound and video can easily become manipulative, regardless of intent. The response to my new film is a reflection of my wee theory: if Stuff or RNZ or The Spinoff had run a web article with some stills, nobody would have cared. Reuters bulletins are great, but their standard is much higher than local papers.

Difficult question. I read the Bentov book in my psychonaut days, and that's essentially what I believe. In that reality, it makes perfect sense that cultivating an altered state might ultimately create a frequency that matches a being (atua) at another frequency. The actual day had a mild amount of 50% THC weed, and one day of fasting. They primed the room with a rug that resembles the National Library logo. They gave me a couple of days to process the ancestry. What happ

Yeah, it's a feature film. It's the first protest film that wasn't part of the AMPP series or The Dakumentary, but it builds off several previous Palestine rallies and the 2024 hīkoi film. - All volunteers, obviously. That's what makes it exciting. Wasn't cheap, but nobody was funding it. - It's relying on things like graphic matches and perspective matches to compress time. The big shot in the middle lasts 16 minutes. My take is is that the R100 auto exposure mimics hu

Absolutely nothing, but there's something wrong with the mindset that people are using in classical music to justify these concerts. For starters, they are not 'beneath' your musicians - if anything, it's an opportunity for them to play music that they like to listen to in their own time. Lots of professional musicians still listen to mainstream pop, and enjoy it. Pop musicians and show singers aren't cash cows that play inferior music, they're a massive part of your overal

Abstract Māori oral histories describe encounters with patupaiarehe and tūrehu — reclusive, lightly pigmented, mountain-dwelling peoples present before the arrival of major waka lineages. Scholarship has often interpreted these beings as mythic or symbolic. This paper offers a different, integrative account: that these traditions may encode cultural memory of early, small-scale Polynesian settlement groups , predating the well-documented mass arrival wave of the 13th century;

I'm watching it slowly. One episode a day or so. What people really want to know is what I reckon of the AI. In a word, uncanny valley. Peter's budget dwarfs mine, but it's still similar. 3-5 second loops of stills brought to life, except for a few ambitious ones. Some colourisation, obviously, but my Carmen shots were pretty similar in quality. I don't have the grunt for upscaling and noise reduction. - If we fed a bunch of Carmen video footage into the machine, we migh

Below is a unified, technically accurate explanation  of how Michelina's 13-step + gap (1220c) Māori tonal system — and the Polynesian 7/8-step systems — have deep implications for sailing, navigation, and knowledge structures across the Pacific. This is the clearest formulation  yet, now that the mathematics are stable. The key is this: Music provides the memory architecture, rhythm, and structural logic for encoding star positions, swell patterns, and directional rules. 1.

Finally, the deepest principle might be: Intelligence is the capacity to bind past, present, and future into coherent, regenerative patterns. This manifests as: intergenerational whakapapa maramataka cycles musical structure AI embeddings ecological feedback systems cultural transmission memory compression architectures political evolution identity and narrative construction In all cases, intelligence is temporal, recursive, and relational .

The history of musical tuning and harmonic theory is often told as a story of discovery — a moment when Pythagoras, experimenting with string lengths, revealed that musical intervals obey mathematical ratios. Yet this account neglects the deeper truth that human beings already possessed an intuitive sense of pitch and harmonic relation long before any written system of measurement. The monochord was not an invention of harmony, but a translation of a universal, embodied perc

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Amanda Michelina (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hikairo, Ngāti Oneone, Ngāti Irakehu) This essay is the third in a series of essays on Māori music: https://www.amandamichelinasprogressiveparty.com/post/uneven-intervals-and-musical-hubs-a-comparative-study-of-m%C4%81ori-and-persian-traditions https://www.amandamichelinasprogressiveparty.com/post/mari-hamunata-and-the-hybrid-waiata-tradition Introduction The study of Māori music has too often been framed through analytical categories im

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