It’s getting weirder out there everyday… Let’s start with the Faceless People.

According to Nick Burcher,

The Faceless People wear Lotus badges and the website www.facelesspeople.com is Lotus branded and collecting data before the forthcoming new Lotus launch. The Facelesspeople.com website allows users to register their email address so that they can be contacted when ‘True Character’ emerges in 18 days time.

Honestly, the coverage they’ve garnered would make any marketing exec salivate. (And here I was hoping it was a Dr. Who ARG.)

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I really enjoyed Jane Lindskold’s Child of a Rainless Year - it has most of the elements of fiction that I like: mystery, alternative history and magic worked in in an offhanded manner. Not that the treatment is offhanded - but extraordinary events are introduced in such a manner that treats them as no more extraordinary than a table or a phone call from a friend. I love books and writers that play with the boundary of what is real and believable in that fashion. There’s no heavy philosophical or sociological, but more of one woman’s account of what happens to her when she becomes a major character in a mythic tale.

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Hidden within a former shipyard, near the ruins that were once Amsterdam is the BULKHEAD. The most important place on planet Earth; the last site that remains uninfected with The FICTION… The final remaining survivors flow into the BulkHead’s safety. The place where humanity must learn to deal with the fact that its species is TERMINAL. 2 hours ago, UFOs thought to be manifested by The Fiction began appearing above the BulkHead, beaming the following message: THE END OF THE EARTH, THE END OF THE EARTH, THE END OF THE EARTH… Reality is being devoured by a surreal nightmare. The Fiction has arrived. Twenty minutes ago The Fiction, a phenomenon thought to be insentient, requested an audience with Captain L Taylor, Commanding Officer of PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS BATTALION 800 and the BulkHead. Something calling itself ‘Queen of Fiction’ has an offer for Homo-Sapien….

Immerse yourself in the immense, interconnected story manifested by FoolishPeople and over 30 visionaries and artists working together from across the world within the unique landscape of Amsterdam’s NDSM-werf. Follow living characters, absorb live transmissions from the other side of the planet, and discover the secrets, which each hold a fragment of the Terra: Extremitas myth. The surreal and beautiful experience of exploring humanity’s last day on earth. PURCHASE TICKETS NDSM-werf TT Neveritaweg 15 Amsterdam-Noord The Netherlands

THE BULKHEAD

Performance, Installation, Sculpture & Music

John Harrigan - UK - Performance Artist

 

FoolishPeople - Weaponized Art

 

Yiri T. Kohl - NL - Sequential Art & Performe

 

Maggie de Heer - NL - Sequential Art & Performer

 

Doug O’Neil - USA - Sculpture

Philippe Garcesto - USA - Live Transmission from the Phillippines

Christian Patracchini - UK - The Infra Sensual Machine

Richard Webb - UK - Terror Management

Christina Mitrentse - UK/ Greece - Secret School

Igor - Russia - Artist

Maud Bredius - NL - Performance Artist

Gaby Santcroos - NL - Performance Artist

THE WASTELAND Performance, Soundscapes, Art & Verse

Joseph Matheny - USA - La Ficción

James Curcio - USA - Writer & Sound Artist

Sonica Storm - UK - Wraithland

Ikipr - USA - Video & Lightwave Evocations

Teresa Donohoe - UK - The Anthem

Orryelle Defenestrate- Bascule - AUS - Writer & Artist

Michiel Mensingh - NL - Musician

Samm Hain - USA - Writer

Sahand Sahebdivani - NL - Musician

THE FICTION Installation, Animation, Performance, Sequential Art & Nightmare Toys

FoolishPeople

Lucy Allin - UK - Performance Artist

Claire Tregellas - UK - Performance Artist

Tereza Kamenicka - UK - Performance Artist

Reinhard Schleining - UK - Artist

Jonas Ranson - UK - The Heteroclite

Ilse Versluijs - NL - Nightmare Toys

Spax - UK - Noisician

Pieter van Oudheusden - NL - Apocalyptus Anno Hodie

Maarten Gerritsen - NL - Apocalyptus Anno Hodie

Joshua Peeters - NL - Voodoo Koedoe

Alice Kok - NL - The True Story About Wolves

Albo Helm - NL - Pure Sense May Never Conquer

Peter Moerenhout - Belgium - Steam to Ashes & Wishful Thinking

Mattt Baaij - NL - Sequential Art

Stephan Brusche - NL - Sequential Art

Swahili - Belgium - Wishful Thinking

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Today on RIPPLE:

Ray and the Rev continue their interview with filmmaker Kevin Booth of Sacred Cow Productions about his documentary American Drug War: The Last White Hope. 

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Full TERRA:EXTREMITAS line up announced Monday the 30th of June. Alien Lilith - Terra:Extremitas poster by the wondrous Reinhard Schleining.

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Looks like the move was successful. if you have any trouble accessing Greylodge or Alterati over the next few days, or know someone who is, clear your browser cache (or tell them to) and try again.

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Attrition’s 2008 album, All mine enemys whispers (The Story of Mary Ann Cotton) available via Projekt.com and Attrition.Co.Uk

There are tones and ranges of sound that can channel emotional response directly into one’s consciousness… Rhythmic entrainment and psychoacoustics are capable of eliciting specific emotional responses and constructing narrative experience.  Few musicians are able to construct tracks in such a way as to accomplish this feat successfully, and fewer still are able to sustain such an experience across an entire album. 

Attrition is certainly one of those few…  this is easily the most unsettling album I’ve heard in years, as deeply disturbing as anything I’ve come across in any piece of media.  The album’s six tracks are spaces against which the mind unfolds the full tale of Mary Ann Cotton, a soundtrack conjuring her essence.  If any sequence of music has a chance of evoking a specific entity, this is the one.

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Today on RIPPLE:

Ray and the Rev talk to filmmaker Kevin Booth of Sacred Cow Productions about his documentary American Drug War: The Last White Hope. 

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Pardon the dust and absence of regular articles, etc. while we move to a bigger, faster server, in a newer, better co-location facility. Greylodge is going with us. We’ll be back to a regular rhythm soon enough.  Cheers and have a good summer.

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Alterati/Greylodge Update News, sillyness, bad music and “lazy fare” characterize this podcast. Joseph Matheny does an impromptu GPod Radio that tells you why this site went down last week and some plans for the future or Alterati and Greylodge. Special bonus: ELO

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