Update on FourYearsGo

Thank you everyone for the input that you have added in this direction, whatever it may be. generally it seems that most are interested in trying to put together this project--i apologize if it seems to be stumbling blindly forward(if at all). i've been hesitant to grab the reins of plotting the project, kind of letting people step up in the project however they feel is appropriate--but realize that it could at least use a structure. in regards to the contest itself, i'm not sure exactly what the guidelines are for responding to the video they posted i believe that it may be similar to sierra club's best summer job video contest that chris applied for (its archived in the blog). Also i'm not exactly sure when the contest begins or when it ends.

--with all of that said--

///Chris mentioned last night that we may as well ask mark about the project and see if he'll give out any more info--especially what the contest will entail.

///i was thinking that since we have so many great community members around us that we should come up with a set of outline-ish questions, a survey, an interview kind of thing--that could be used at dinners, lunches, or breakfasts. especially in regards to chris and i and our free time--i would love to use this project as an excuss to have dinner with friends and talk. the intention being that we could record either written or tape the conversations and ideas. so for this we need to come up with a set of questions/directions that could be used to explore "the fouryearsgo" concept ----which leads me to-->

///FourYearsGo is a fairly large webiste and we need to go through it and check out all of the alliances, philospohy, videos, all of the stuff on their website to understand what their intention is so that we can allign our project to the same


-so we need to go through the website( if everyone could make a small post about something cool they found on the site )

-so we need to come up with some questions and directions (if everyone could post a little about that too)

tedtalks

Brain Waves

I just posted this link in my comment to Dante's last post, but I couldn't hyperlink or embed the video so here it is again. The video shows Ken Wilber entering different states of consciousness and the concurrent reading on an electroencephalogram (EEG); there's narration, so I won't say anymore. But your mind will be blown.

Impacts and Influences 4YG

so to facilitate the first step of the fouryearsgo contest i think it would be great if we started to amass a reference list. let us just post all of the great educational tools, sites, videos, people, books, that we know that have influenced us in regards to this concept of redefining our culture, in regards to what you think would be applicable to this contest. have you watched any tedtalks that may relate, any random youtube videos that are inciteful, any podcasts, any books. If you could when posting the book or site please provide a quick description of what it is and why...( i don't want this to be forced ) but it would be successful if every one (that means YOU) posted four references that you felt could be helpful



also if so one wants to click around on the website itself and explore some of the awesome videos and repost them on the blog that would be great too!!!

FOURyearsGO

So i'm trying to push this forward a bit more. for those who haven't heard: this group is going to be hosting a video contest--inviting people to define what can happen in four years--they hired a professional design team to produce the above commercial(they've done nike ads and so on) to give the challengers something to bounce off of. i had a great conversation with chris and corbin this weekend and feel that this competition could push us in that direction!

-so to start i would like to begin a dialogue about our future (click here for the site)--what threatens it --what is at stake--and so on and so forth--i'm posting this as i head home from work so i'll facilitate it better when i get some more comp. time BUT i would love for anyone to jump on and move it forward--this may seem labor intesive and redundant--as all of us have been plowing this concept for some time but REALLy this is a great in if we put in some hard work!!