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Preamble Post Transmission
Started Aug. 8, 2008
Who In The World Is Rich? 3rd July 2008 with Chris Rose, Jocelyn Jones & Tom Lines
Started Jul. 18, 2008
Summary & a few Links for Participants in Vision Shack 10 & anyone interested
Started Jul. 18, 2008
Louis Loizou's Videos
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A Stroke of Insight
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Rong Radio
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Profile Information
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- Single
- About Me:
- The only thing you need to know about me is that I am (and have been for most of my life) engaged in the process of dropping identity in favour of occupying reality, doing worthwhile Human Work, and finding freedom by losing more and more self every day. And not in any self-righteous "Holy" way. I am a positive fatalist, by which I mean we will make it in the end despite all appearances to the contrary, and we will achieve a just and sustainable world by understanding nature - planetary nature, human nature and universal nature.
Vision Shack began as a result of a series of synchronous events whereby I found myself working and co-hosting on a program called Brighton Phlux on RadioReverb with Sean Creed twice a week for about the first 6 months of Reverb's FM license as Brighton & Hove's Community Radio Station. During this time I was given the 2nd half of Phlux on a Tuesday to interview interesting people from musicians to people engaged in processes of change and human (as opposed to technological or market-driven) advancement.
Although I left Sean's show to concentrate on Vision Shack and other projects you can still listen to Brighton Phlux live Monday through Friday 13.00-14.00. A varied and zany, rarely serious and often interesting show about... anything - with great guests and recorded and sometimes live music and interviews. I have recently started working with Sean again for the lighter side of community broadcasting, and we like a good argument.
During this period I became involved in Healthy Concerts and met Dr. Makuanjola Olaseinde Arigbede (Seinde) at a series of Healthy Concerts discussions about his work in south-west Nigeria. I had been planning a program of my own, an idea stimulated by considering what a friend of mine, Chris Rose, had told me about his involvement with innovative and forward looking collaborative programs involving his work at Brighton University, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Science Teachers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and artists, makers and designers, at workshops hosted by him and others at Haystacks Mountain off the coast of Maine, collaborations with Shristi University, Bangalore on sustainable Design and ways forward in the face of Western-style industrial development.
This made me think "there's all this good, intelligent forward-looking truly 21st century advancement being made in quiet corners but nothing of it in the mass-media". Thus the idea of Vision Shack (the name came later from the idea of pottering about with interesting people in a garden shed) started to grow in my mind. So thanks my dear and oldest friend, Chris Rose!
Then after my second application and having "earned my wings" on Brighton Phlux, the board of RadioReverb offered me my own show, and I invited Seinde to be my first guest.
At that time I became a founding member of World Family working towards various events in the UK and Nigeria, in which I hope to be participant, and also to produce further shows from, but mostly to address the Global issues presented by Food Sovereignty. This issue of Human Survival has at last reached the attention of the mass media for the first time as newsworthy with demonstrations and riots in many of the poorer counties of the world coinciding with a G7 conference on the cracks appearing in the US, UK and world banking systems.
Future programs will address what kind of solutions to the massive global problems caused by human development to this point are being pioneered. Vision Shack is not about doom and gloom - it is about taking responsibility for the world we live in rather than expecting the impoverished worlds of commerce and politics to do it for us. There are answers to many of the problems that politicians and the mass-media like to polarise into 'either-or' scenarios. There is always a third way.
I hope to find the time to write and do further reading, but it takes a lot of research, reading, meeting etc to prepare for a monthly program when one has to do it all - research, edit, produce, host and engineer a live show. I also hope to play flute more and am having my first jam on 28th April with a group of musicians.
The (one of many) unfinished novel sitting on this hard disk stems from a near-death experience I had between approximately 04.58 and 05.01 on 21st December 2004 when I was brain dead for a few minutes. It was not the "tunnel of light and beckoning grandmother or religious figure" type of near death. It was consciousness without time, space, subject, object, identity, knowledge or self. I refer you to the words and wisdoms of Gautama Buddha.
Louis Loizou's Blog
Working Girl
Just seen the film. What a perfect theatre of opportunity for the subject of this month's coming show - Women in the 21st Century.
Melanie Griffith plays a secretary who gets back at the masculine behaviour of her female boss, coldly played by the ice beauty man-eating Sigourney Weaver with Harrison Ford as the victim and (because he is good looking and it is a man's idea - director Mike Nichols - of a woman's film) the hero at the same time, playing th… Continue
Melanie Griffith plays a secretary who gets back at the masculine behaviour of her female boss, coldly played by the ice beauty man-eating Sigourney Weaver with Harrison Ford as the victim and (because he is good looking and it is a man's idea - director Mike Nichols - of a woman's film) the hero at the same time, playing th… Continue
Posted on April 24, 2008 at 2:21am —
Preparations and thoughts for Vision Shack 7 - Women In The 21st Century
I found the following by doing a Google search on the subject - there was much to do with women in the workplace, but although this is an important issue affecting women in every culture and will figure a little in the show, we will be more concerned with what is women's work as opposed to women competing in a 'male' way (see extract definition of gender terms from Scilla Elworthy's book Power and Sex - A Book About Women) in a male-constructed world. The book by Scilla Elsworthy was lent… Continue
Posted on April 22, 2008 at 3:30pm —
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