http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog Blog of Nicholas Roberts Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:36:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Propaganda http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/08/propaganda/ http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/08/propaganda/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:36:53 +0000 admin http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/?p=94 “I don’t want no computer chip in my arm
I don’t wanna die by a nuclear bomb
I say we all rush the pentagon, pull out guns
And grab the intercom, my first word’s will be I believe
Man made God, outta ignorance and fear
If God made man, then why the hell would he put us here?
I thought he’s supposed to be the all loving
The same God who let Hitler put the Jews in the oven
We don’t fall for the regular shit, they try to feed us
All this half-ass leadership, flippin position
They turn politcian and shut the hell up and follow tradition
For your TV screen, is telling lies to your vision
It’s a plot, but busta can you tell me who’s greedier?
Big corporations, the pigs or the media?
Sign of the times, terrorism on the rise
Commercial airplanes, falling out the sky like flies” - Dead Prez

]]> http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/08/propaganda/feed/ Lavender http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/07/lavender/ http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/07/lavender/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:20:52 +0000 admin http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/?p=85 “Lavendula officinalis is a wonderful oil for depression. It has a steadying influence on the psyche. Lavender’s balancing effect calms uncontrolled emotions, removes indecisiveness and emotional conflict, and helps to bring the feelings under conscious control. It brings a sense of rationality to the conscious mind.

Lavender Essential Oil works to calm a variety of nervous disorders including excitability, nervous tension, panic, and hysteria. It emanates a mellow peacefulness and induces sleep.” - Aromatherapist, Debra Mauldin

“During Roman times, flowers were sold for 100 denarii per pound, which was about the same as a month’s wages for a farm labourer, or fifty haircuts from the local barber. Lavender was commonly used in Roman baths to scent the water, and it was thought to restore the skin.

During the height of the Plague, glove makers at Grasse would scent their leathers with lavender oil, and this was claimed to ward off the Plague. This story could have some validity as the Plague was transmitted by fleas, which lavender is known to repel.” - Wikipedia

Photos I took at the Lavender Festival in Sequim Washington:

]]> http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/07/lavender/feed/ Olivier Morvan http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/07/olivier-morvan/ http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/07/olivier-morvan/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:38:02 +0000 admin http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/?p=67 CONTACT: agentliquide.com & escapologique.net

]]> http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/07/olivier-morvan/feed/ MUTO http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/07/muto-a-wall-painted-animation-by-blu/ http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/07/muto-a-wall-painted-animation-by-blu/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:57:26 +0000 admin http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/?p=66 The new short film by Blu: an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)

]]> http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/07/muto-a-wall-painted-animation-by-blu/feed/ Pillow Lane http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/07/pillow-lane/ http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/2008/07/pillow-lane/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:19:35 +0000 admin http://www.nicholasroberts.org/blog/?p=63 It’s said the word “makura” (eng:pillow) comes from “tamashii no kura”.

The word “pillow” means “soul vault”.

You spend almost a third of your life on your pillow,

so it was believed that your soul resided in your pillow.

“Between dreams and reality is the vault of your soul”.

No one could see the dream world without this path.

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