“To our knowledge, our model is the first free-flying replica that has the same basic dimensions, mass and shape as a real insect,” says Hiroto Tanaka of Harvard University’s microrobotics lab, who designed the model with Isao Shimoyama of the University of Tokyo, Japan.”

Mystey X’s Music inspired by Robert W. Chambers’s “The King in Yellow” (1895).
Discord trumpets creepy burst of sound in lingering grey-ambience. Strange wind instruments moan and howl in the background. Eerie drawn-out soundscapes lurk like fog across dark waters on a somber evening. Clocks and dusty antiques paint the candle-lit scenes with cobwebs in opaque windows. Metallic pings echo down empty corridors, tunnels and alleys fading into static oblivion. Trills of glitchery, burst of sonic terror & frightful crescendos fall into valleys of rotting distortion and low rumbles. Feedback haunts your ears like ghostly figures of sound. This is Mystery X’s musical interpretation of the King in Yellow; it’s slow dive toward madness crawls in your skin and goes for a stroll in the shadows of night.
Download the full album:
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In anticipation of the upcoming performance of The Abattoir Pages, Joseph Matheny in conversation with John Harrigan about anything and everything that comes to their mind.
Listen here and check out Apocryphon.org for Foolish People’s upcoming performance.
After EsoZone Portland 2009, we will release the “EsoZone Protocol,” a set of guidelines similar to an open source software license that will enable organizers to host an EsoZone in their own city as long as they are free and follow the “unconference” model.
On October 9th, participants will arrive at Watershed PDX and collaboratively create the schedule. The event will be free and open to the public, and anyone will be able to propose a session, lead a workshop, or suggest a group activity. The approach is called “unconferencing,” a technique pioneered by tech-industry events.
Art is always an excellent break from information gathering.
An avant garde short film from Peter Tscherkassky.

Art and logo by Ian McEwan, design by Daniel Rafatpanah
The New Esozone
The Esozone virus is resilient. It mutates and evolves. Faced with a rapidly changing environment, Esozone has rewritten its own code.
No more admission fees, no more weekend passes, no more divide between speaker and spoken-to. The new Esozone is an unconference, an open environment with an agenda determined by its own participants.
Esozone Portland 2009 will be held on Friday night, October 9, and all day Saturday, October 10. It will bring together renegade philosophers, experimental magicians, visionary artists, outsider academics, street entrepreneurs, mad scientists, sexy satanists, conspiracy theorists, benevolent pranksters, fearless psychonauts and other shameless mutants for two days of discussions, demonstrations and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event.
Come for free, but be ready to share. Bring what you do and what you know. Bring who you are. This year, Esozone is all about you.
Esozone could also use your support in the form of a financial contribution.
Electronic instrument improv/collab. flasmob descends on Austin’s pedestrian bridge and makes some vicious noise in the name of good fun.
Video from the previous Drum machine circle:
More vids from the 09-09-09 event here. Arranged by the guys @ Awthum Empire - there should be more events in this vein more often. Nice work.
Der Erlkönig from Raymond Salvatore Harmon on Vimeo.
Business is off and we have used up the reserves in our bank account. We are desperate to pay the rent, phones, and credit card loans!
Borderland Sciences is one of the oldest alternative science organizations in the world. The staff has been working on a volunteer basis for most of the year and the Director is looking for a job to pay the rent, phones, and credit card loans but things are not happening fast enough. We need $1500.00 immediately to cover the overhead to preserve the research library, the mail order office, and keep the information available to researchers like yourselves.
The tottering 64 year old Grand Father of Alternative Science and Medicine Needs you today!
Samm says about himself:
I am a writer for the The Foolish People Website
I am a sometime contributer to Key64
I have been published in the now defunct Konton a chaos magick magazine published by the als now defunct chaosmagic.com Most of my writings were also included in the Best Of Konton anthology they put out as well.
I was published in the Magick On The Edge anthology.
I am the co-creator of the sadly neglected chaoscurrent.com
The Recorder said: “We have subpoenaed witnesses to the number of three, and up to this morning only two have arrived that I am aware of. I wrote to the Department for certain data in this case, and as to whether there were any accusations, imputations or charges against Philip K. Nixon or Wes Unruh, and in reply thereto I have received certain files which will require time to give a careful examination. There are several questions to be decided by the Court, one of which is as to the best mode of procedure, and these matters might be taken up first. I have an official copy of OSK’s application for a Court of Inquiry, and also a letter from the Adjutant General transmitting it to me, which seems to be the basis of this inquiry…”
Also see: Occulterati - S3
New PKN audio for your Enjoyment. Listen/download with headphones here. Podcast also enclosed for the lazy. PKN is not music.
FoolishPeople present
Cirxus
Written and Directed by John Harrigan
25 May - 13 June 2009 Arcola Theatre
Press Night Thursday 28 May 8.30pm
LONDON 14/04/09 - FoolishPeople present Cirxus an immersive, promenade performance in Arcola’s new industrial space, Unit K for three weeks only.
1957- Seascale, the North of England. Cirxus is an old English circus lost in the shadows of the smoke stacks of Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station.
Athalia the ballerina waits in the ring for Loudon the Clown to return with directions to the Black Pool, the mythic site of the Home Sweet Home, the final show of the season.
Join Athalia in 1957 as she begins a bizarre and wondrous search for Loudon through the irradiated secrets of Cirxus, where she must face the macabre atomic menagerie, haunted by circus animals and navigate her way through the maze of strange, hallucinogenic sideshows on the other side of time.
Immerse yourself in the world of Cirxus, where theatric arcana and Atomic fallout irradiate the sawdust arenas of our inner worlds.
FoolishPeople will use mythology, shamanism, music and dance to bring the darkness of an atomic circus to life. The performance will allow audience members to step into the world of an old English circus lost in the 1950s, explore its sideshows and meet extraordinary characters from the past and future.
Cirxus will be FoolishPeople’s first London performance run since their critically acclaimed ‘Dead Language’ which was performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2007. ‘Dead Language’ was part of the London Lates season of cultural events and selected for the Times top five events.
FoolishPeople’s core creative team for Cirxus consists of John Harrigan, Lucy Allin, Victoria Karlsson, P. Emerson Williams, Claire Tregellas & Tereza Kamenicka.
Listings Information:
‘Cirxus’
24 May- 13 June 2009
8.30pm & 9.15pm entrance times
£14/£10 concessions
Pay what you can Tuesday (tickets from 7pm, subject to availability)
Free tickets are available for under 26s on Monday-Thursday evenings for the first 2 weeks
Book online: arcolatheatre.com
Box office: 020 7503 1646
Arcola Theatre Unit K, 27 Arcola Street, E8 2DJ
Notes to editors:
Lucy Allin, FoolishPeople art@foolishpeople.org
or visit: foolishpeople.org