(1519,2,'2009-09-30 12:44:26','2009-09-30 12:44:26','<img class=\"alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-1518\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"channon_shirt_05\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/channon_shirt_05.gif\" alt=\"channon_shirt_05\" width=\"177\" height=\"190\" />\n\n<em><strong>\'If you want to be a member, you already are\'</strong></em>\nLt. Col. Jim Channon\n\nSA co-founder John Lundberg has printed up a fresh batch of his fantastic First Earth Battalion T-Shirts, inspired by the legendary US Army unit featured in <a href=\"http://www.jonronson.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Ronson</a>\'s book <em>The Men Who Stare at Goats, </em> now, as they say, a major motion picture.\n\nThese t-shirts have been created with the encouragement and blessings of FEB\'s founder, Jim Channon, seen here in one of the original batch (handsomely modified by himself).\n\nJim Channon writes about <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/02/men-who-stare-at-goats1\" target=\"_blank\">FEB</a> in the <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/02/men-who-stare-at-goats1\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian</a>. Get your own FEB shirt <a href=\"http://www.offkilter.co.uk/feb/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nAnd we\'ve heard from Jim Channon himself who says: \'Your friends may want to know there is a fine batch of New Earth Army gear to be found at <a style=\"color: #2277dd; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" title=\"http://neweartharmy. \" onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(\'/outbound/comment/neweartharmy.com\');\" href=\"http://neweartharmy.com/\" target=\"_blank\">neweartharmy.com</a> . Goplanet! Jim Channon cmdg.\'','First Earth Battalion T Shirts!','','publish','open','open','','first-earth-battalion-t-shirts-2','','','2009-09-30 12:44:26','2009-09-30 12:44:26','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1519',0,'post','',0),(1525,2,'2009-10-20 08:56:43','2009-10-20 08:56:43','<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1524\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"dellschau\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/dellschau.jpg\" alt=\"dellschau\" width=\"400\" height=\"387\" /></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px;\">[image by <a href=\"http://www.charlesdellschau.com/images.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none;\">Charles Dellschau</span></a>]</p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px;\">\"On 13 April 1844, the New York Sun published a breathless account of a great step for mankind: \"The air, as well as the earth and the ocean, has been subdued by science, and will become a common and convenient highway for mankind . . . The Atlantic has been actually crossed in a balloon . . . and in the inconceivably brief period of 75 hours from shore to shore!\"</p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px;\">...The account was cooked up by Edgar Allan Poe, a hoax-lover in an age of hoax-lovers; he perpetrated five others. Poe seems to have rather enjoyed the fuss: \"On the morning (Saturday) of its announcement,\" he later wrote in the Columbia Spy, \"the whole square surrounding the Sun building was literally besieged, blocked up from a period soon after sunrise until about two o\'clock PM . . . I never witnessed more intense excitement to get possession of a newspaper. . . I tried, in vain, during the whole day, to get possession of a copy.\"</p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px;\">Full story at the <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/oct/20/edgar-allan-poe-balloon-hoax\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian</a></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px;\"></p>','Poe&#039;s Balloon Hoax','','publish','open','open','','poes-balloon-hoax','','','2009-10-20 08:56:43','2009-10-20 08:56:43','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1525',0,'post','',0),(1527,2,'2009-10-25 10:11:09','2009-10-25 10:11:09','<img class=\"alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-1526\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"1\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"230\" height=\"268\" />\n\nA thoughtful piece from SA contributor Gary Lachman on harmonic convergences, millennarian expectations, and what happens when the world doesn\'t end...\n\n<em>What troubled me... is what I call the “apocalyptic gesture,” ... the desire for some once-and-for-all break with the given conditions of life seems, to me at least, to be embedded in our psyche and is a form of historical or evolutionary impatience. Social, political, or cultural conditions may trigger it, but in essence it’s the same reaction as losing patience with some annoying, mundane business and, in frustration, knocking it aside with the intent to make a “clean start.” While in our personal lives this may result in nothing more than a string of false beginnings and a lack of staying power, on the broader social and political scale it can mean something far more serious.</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j44/lachman.asp?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">2013: Or, What to Do When the Apocalypse Doesn’t Arrive</a>','Waking up in 2013','','publish','open','open','','waking-up-in-2013','','','2009-10-25 10:11:09','2009-10-25 10:11:09','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1527',0,'post','',0),(1530,2,'2009-10-27 09:07:50','2009-10-27 09:07:50','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1529\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Krautrock-E-invite\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Krautrock-E-invite.jpg\" alt=\"Krautrock-E-invite\" width=\"480\" height=\"338\" />\n\nBlack Dog Publishing are about to release <a href=\"http://blackdogonline.com/music/krautrock.html\" target=\"_blank\">their book</a> on Kosmische and krautrock music, with essays by Erik Davis, Ken Hollings, Michael Faber, David Keenan and entries by many other writers and musicians.\n\nTo celebrate they\'re having a part this Thursday, 29 October, at Rough Trade East on Dray Walk, off Brick Lane, London E1. From 6.30 until 8.30pm.\n\nMusic from DJs Cherrystones and myself.\n\nThose who didn\'t see it could also do themselves a favour and watch BBC4\'s <a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nf10k/Krautrock_The_Rebirth_of_Germany/\" target=\"_blank\">Krautrock documentary</a>, aired last week, which serves as an excellent primer to some of these incredible sounds, times people.','Krautrock book launch @Rough Trade East','','publish','open','open','','krautrock-book-launch-rough-trade-east','','','2009-10-27 09:07:50','2009-10-27 09:07:50','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1530',0,'post','',0),(1533,2,'2009-10-27 09:20:02','2009-10-27 09:20:02','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1532\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"visions2\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/visions21.jpg\" alt=\"visions2\" width=\"424\" height=\"600\" />\n\nSunday 1 November at The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern Street<strong> </strong>London EC2A 3JL.\nFrom 7pm. Entry free.\n\nJoin us this Day of the Dead for an evening of cinematic ritual performance.\'Visions of the <em>Al Azif</em>\' is a cinematic meditation of the altered states explored by the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, author of the Necronomicon.  The <em>Al Azif </em>(H.P. Lovercraft\'s famed <em>Necronomicon</em>) was a massive collection of the madness induced poetic hallucinations of its author. Similar in structure to other Sufic works of the period the <em>Al Azif </em>speaks of unheard of eons before man walked the earth.\n\nPopulated with demons and other creatures of questionable age who had come to earth seeking refuge from the emptiness of space.  The evening\'s performance will be the first screening of these rare and illusive documents of the visionary states that must be obtained in order to communicate with the Great Old Ones of mankind\'s forgotten past. These detailed organic abstractions illustrate the vivid hallucinatory states and madness inducing transcendental experiences that led to the author\'s untimely death.\n\nVisuals by Raymond Salvatore Harmon\nLive sound by RSH, Mark Pilkington (Raagnagrok), Andy Sharp (English Heretic).\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Courier, courier, monospace;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal; white-space: pre; font-size: x-small;\">\n</span></span></div>','Visions of the Al Azif','','publish','open','open','','visions-of-the-al-azif','','','2009-10-27 09:20:02','2009-10-27 09:20:02','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1533',0,'post','',0),(1537,2,'2009-11-02 13:35:14','2009-11-02 13:35:14','<a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/02/men-who-stare-at-goats\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1536\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"guardian\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/guardian.jpg\" alt=\"guardian\" width=\"303\" height=\"283\" /></a>\n\nA short piece by myself on myth-making in the military has been published over at <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/02/men-who-stare-at-goats\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian</a> Online. There are of course several other stories I\'d like to have told, but space was tight!\n\nThe site is running a series of articles to tie in with the opening of <em>The Men Who Stare at Goats</em>, a new film inspired by Jon Ronson\'s book. I\'ve seen the film and it\'s very funny indeed – Jeff Bridges is on top form as <a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1519\" target=\"_blank\">First Earth Battalion</a>\'s Jim Channon, while the FEB training scenes are affectionately done and all too believable.\n\nMeanwhile, I\'m just making the finishing touches to my own book, <em>Mirage Men</em>, which greatly expands on some of the material mentioned in the <em>Military Myths</em> piece and is due next Summer from Constable Robinson.','Military Myths','','publish','open','open','','military-myths','','','2009-11-02 13:35:14','2009-11-02 13:35:14','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1537',0,'post','',0),(1541,2,'2009-11-03 10:08:24','2009-11-03 10:08:24','Spanish ufologist Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos has put together a sober and timely summary of UFO information officially released by the world\'s governments.\n\nThis is not to be confused with the American \'Disclosure\' movement that seeks to have its beliefs about an ET presence on Earth confirmed by the US government.\n\nWrites Olmos:\n\n<em>This is the first synthesis or synopsis ever done of the status of declassification or release of official UFO archives by every government in the world, accurately updated to May 2009.</em>\n\n<em>In this context by “UFO disclosure” I mean the revelation, declassification or release of official UFO reports from governmental files, placed in the public domain either directly or via the news media, researchers, and UFO organizations.</em>\n\n<em>It is true that the term “disclosure” has been lately associated to a certain movement which is not really grounded in reality, but I want to reclaim possession of this word for use in rational discourse.</em>\n\n<em>With the publication of this essay, I plan to achieve several objectives; firstly, I would like to provide a compilation of historical data that illuminates a generally obscure subject. Then, I hope it will generate feedback to expand this table and improve its accuracy. Also, government officials may be inspired to commence similar release processes in their countries.</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.anomalia.org/disclosure.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download the article here</a>','UFO Disclosure: The story so far','','publish','open','open','','ufo-disclosure-the-story-so-far','','','2009-11-03 10:08:24','2009-11-03 10:08:24','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1541',0,'post','',0),(1543,2,'2009-11-03 12:00:06','2009-11-03 12:00:06','<a href=\"http://highmountaintempel.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1542\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"pilgrimage-outside\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pilgrimage-outside.jpg\" alt=\"pilgrimage-outside\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" /></a>\n\n<em>Pilgrimage to Thunderbolt Pagoda</em> is a beautiful new album from San Diego\'s enigmatic High Mountain Tempel, in collaboration with the UK\'s <a href=\"http://www.earthlingsociety.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Earthling Society</a>. Also present on the recording are Charles Curtis on strings, synthesis from the Asterism and voices from Isis Aquarian, Alpha-Crone and Logos of <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Yod\" target=\"_blank\">Father Yod and The Source Family</a>. Wyrd electronics, blissed-out strings and incandescent spacerock carry the Tempel monks to kaleidoscopic new planes. Listen to the light.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.aquariusrecords.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Aquarius Records</a> in San Francisco are calling it \'another glorious expansive collection of meditative psychedelic abstract dronefolk ambience\', and they ought to know. The album is available now from <a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/hmt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Strange Attractor Shoppe</a>, or if you are in the US, from the <a href=\"http://www.lotushouserecords.com/\" target=\"_blank\">HMT</a> site.','New High Mountain Tempel CD in the Shoppe','','publish','open','open','','new-high-mountain-tempel-cd-in-the-shoppe','','','2009-11-03 12:00:06','2009-11-03 12:00:06','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1543',0,'post','',0),(1549,2,'2009-11-06 11:35:36','2009-11-06 11:35:36','<a href=\"http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1548\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"091030-01-whale-eating-jumbo-squid_big\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/091030-01-whale-eating-jumbo-squid_big.jpg\" alt=\"091030-01-whale-eating-jumbo-squid_big\" width=\"461\" height=\"307\" /></a>\n\n<em>Carrying the remains of a roughly 30-foot (9-meter) giant squid in her jaws, a female sperm whale, with a calf at her side, swims near the surface off Japan\'s Bonin Islands (map)in the northwestern Pacific. Taken on October 15, this and other \"absolutely sensational\" new pictures offer rare proof of the sperm whale\'s taste for giant squid, said giant squid expert Steve O\'Shea of the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.</em>\n\nMore stunning photographs over at <a href=\"http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">National Geographic</a>','Archetuthis to go','','publish','open','open','','giant-squid-are-on-the-menu','','','2009-11-06 11:35:36','2009-11-06 11:35:36','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1549',0,'post','',0),(1554,2,'2009-11-10 14:20:26','2009-11-10 14:20:26','<a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/projects/war-noble-savage/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-1553\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"war-noble-savage-cover-sidebar\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/war-noble-savage-cover-sidebar.jpg\" alt=\"war-noble-savage-cover-sidebar\" width=\"188\" height=\"265\" /></a>\nSA Pal and Dreamflesh guru Gyrus has just uploaded an excellent talk he recently gave at London\'s October Gallery. Based on his new bookette, <em><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/projects/war-noble-savage/\" target=\"_blank\">War &amp; the Noble Savage</a></em>, the presentation queries currently prevalent ideas about violence amongst \'uncivilised\' peoples, as espoused by Stephen Pinker and Lawrence H. Keeley. Along the way Gyrus questions contemporary notions about society, progress and what it means to be us.\n\nThe presentation is available as both an <a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/audio/2009-10-27-war-noble-savage-gyrus.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">MP3</a> and an audio <a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/projects/war-noble-savage/#slidecast\" target=\"_blank\">slidescast</a>, for the fully immersive experience!','Gyrus: War &amp; The Noble Savage','','publish','open','open','','gyrus-war-the-noble-savage','','','2009-11-10 14:20:26','2009-11-10 14:20:26','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1554',0,'post','',0),(1568,2,'2009-11-18 09:50:19','2009-11-18 09:50:19','<img class=\"alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-1567\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"antiq-cover\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/antiq-cover.jpg\" alt=\"antiq-cover\" width=\"250\" height=\"412\" />\n\n<em>Antiquaries and Archaists</em> is a new book from Megan Aldrich and SAJ contributor Robert J. Wallis, based on a fascinating day conference held at the Society of Antiquaries.\n\nFrom the Spire Books web site:\n\n<em>Explore the ever-changing view of the past, from Saxon times to the present day, from the British Isles to modern-day China - how the Middle Ages populated ancient sites with dragons and elves; how people responded to the historic landscape many centuries ago; how the landscapes and buildings of the past came to be interpreted and codified by the great antiquarians William Stukeley and Thomas Rickman. </em>\n\n<em>The modern perception and appreciation of the past is seen through the rise of antiquarianism in Japan; the founding of the Church Monuments Society in Britain; the way modern ‘pagans’ have rediscovered mystery and magic in ancient sites; and how a Chinese woodblock printer has subtly reworked traditional techniques and motifs into contemporary settings.</em>\n\nAnd from the <a href=\"http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6912314.ece\" target=\"_blank\">TLS</a>:\n\n<em>The interplay of past and present, knowledge and belief, is complex and in raising as many questions as they answer the authors of Antiquaries and Archaists have done their job well. This is an inspiring, original and thought-provoking book.</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.spirebooks.com/antiq.html\" target=\"_blank\">Available here</a>\n(N.B. the book is available now, not in February as the site suggests)','Antiquaries &amp; Archaists','','publish','open','open','','antiquaries-archaists-2','','','2009-11-18 09:50:19','2009-11-18 09:50:19','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1568',0,'post','',0),(1571,2,'2009-11-20 10:23:55','2009-11-20 10:23:55','<a href=\"http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/18/waterboardings-curio.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-1570\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"waterboarddddddwood\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/waterboarddddddwood.jpg\" alt=\"waterboarddddddwood\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\n<em>As a child of World War Two who remembers its limitless horrors, my revulsion at the practices of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib was so great that it took me a while to realize the more positive implications: if our henchmen used waterboarding, a practice so primitive it placed us in the same hateful historical imagery as the caves of the Inquisition and the cellars of the Nazi, this can only mean that all the fancy interrogation drugs developed in classified labs in the 60s and 70s have failed: there is no truth serum. We should be relieved about that.</em>\n\nJacques Vallée, computer scientist and ufological philosopher, presents an interesting take on contemporary torture methods over at <a href=\"http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/18/waterboardings-curio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing</a> in the first of what will hopefully be a series of guest posts.\n\nThanks David Pescowitz!','Waterboarding with Jacques Vallée','','publish','open','open','','waterboarding-with-jacques-vallee','','','2009-11-20 10:23:55','2009-11-20 10:23:55','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1571',0,'post','',0),(1576,2,'2009-11-26 10:32:40','2009-11-26 10:32:40','<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1577\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"salon-events\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/salon-events.jpg\" alt=\"salon-events\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" /></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">Planning for Strange Attractor\'s residency at <a href=\"http://www.viktorwyndfineart.co.uk/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Viktor Wynd Fine Art</span></a> is moving at tachyon-like speeds. We now have a full programme of discussions, films, music and performance for your edification and delectation.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\">Details after the break...</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\"><!--more--><em>To book tickets for any of these events visit </em><a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/\"><span style=\"color: #551e8d;\"><em>The Last Tuesday Society</em></span></a><em> web site.</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong> </strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"><strong> **14th January - Salon Discussion**</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><em>Mind, Art and Magic: Visions of Inhabited Worlds</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">with Phil Baker, Blue Firth, Gavin Semple, Robert Wallis</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>Phil Baker</strong> is the author of <em>The Devil is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley</em>, <em>William S Burroughs</em> and the forthcoming <em>Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London\'s Lost Artist</em>.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Artist <strong>Blue Firth</strong> has a long-standing interest in the nature of local communities and how their histories are recorded through vernacular crafts and practices. Through research of local history and customs, she seeks out arcane and often neglected information with which she aims to rediscover the forgotten character of a place. She is currently studying at the Royal Academy.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>Gavin Semple</strong> is a writer, artist and musician with a deep understanding of magical practice. He is the author of<em> Zos Kia: An Introductory Essay on the Art and Sorcery of Austin Osman Spare</em> (Fulgur 1995) and other texts on Spare, and is a co-founder of magical publishing house Fulgur.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Robert Wallis is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Richmond University in London and a Research Fellow in Archaeology of Southampton University. He is the author of a number books on shamanism, \'sacred sites\' and heathen magic, including <em>Shamans/neo-Shamans: Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans</em>, <em>Galdrbok: Practical Heathen Runecraft, Shamanism and Magic</em> (with Nathan Johnson) and <em>Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights: Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments</em> (with Jenny Blain).</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>**15th January: Luminous Pleasures**</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Short films from contributing artists including:</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Richard Brown, Disinformation, Tessa Farmer and Sean Daniels, Blue Firth, Julian House, John Lundberg, Eleanor Morgan, Drew Mulholland, Cathy Ward  &amp; Eric Wright.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>**21st January - Salon Discussion**</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><em>Man, Myth and Music: Occult Traditions in Popular Music from Mozart to Mayhem</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">with Gary Lachman, Frances Morgan,  Edwin Pouncey</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>Gary Lachman</strong> is the author of several books of esoteric cultural history including <em>Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius</em>; <em>A Secret History of Consciousness</em>; <em>The Dedalus Book of the Occult: A Dark Muse and The Dedalus Occult Reader</em>:<em> The Garden of Hermetic Dreams</em>. As a musician Gary was a founder member of Blondie and played guitar with Iggy Pop, a period described in his book <em>New York Rocker</em>. Gary was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>Frances Morgan</strong> is the former editor and publisher of independent music magazine Plan B and has written for publications including <em>The New Statemsan</em>, <em>Frieze</em>, <em>Loops</em> and <em>The Quietus</em>. As a musician she performs in underground experimental groups including Morgen und Nite, Macroprosopus Dancehall Band and Time.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>Edwin Pouncey</strong> is an artist, writer and musician. As Savage Pencil, Edwin\'s unmistakable illustrations have been a mainstay of the underground UK music scene for over three decades, adorning album sleeves for bands including The Fall, Sonic Youth and Sunn O))) while his writing has appeared in music magazines from <em>Sounds</em> to <em>The Wire</em>. Edwin has lectured on the role of magick in black metal and also performs in the improvising noise band Pestrepeller and duo, with Sharon Gal, Meltaot.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>**22nd January: Astounding Stories**</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Live performances from <strong>English Heretic</strong> and <strong>Welcome to Mars</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>English Heretic</strong> creates verdant, darkly humorous soundscapes for the darkest recesses of the English imagination. The magical texts of Kenneth Grant and the occult fictions of Sax Rohmer form an uneasy alliance, accompanied by a musical backdrop that glides effortlessly from Motown to 70s progressive horror rock.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>Ken Hollings</strong> reads from his book <em>Welcome to Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century</em> with a live, improvised soundtrack of 1950s electronica for analogue synthesisers, reel-to-reel tapes and theremin from <strong>Simon James</strong> and <strong>Bruce Woolley</strong>.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>**28th January - Salon Discussion**</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><em>Natural Allies: Art and Other Lifeforms</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">with Tessa Farmer, Alison Gill, Eleanor Morgan, Bridget Nicholls</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>Tessa Farme</strong>r\'s fantastical, often disturbing sculptures, films, installations and drawings depict an inhabited world that exists just out of sight of our own. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Saatchi Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum and The Natural History Museum.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>Alison Gill</strong> studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London. She has shown widely in solo and group exhibitions in the UK and internationally including: Brink, Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Brussels; Alison Gill, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; In the Society of London Ladies, Dispari &amp; Dispari Project, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Dream Machines, [Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition curated by Susan Hiller].</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>Eleanor Morgan</strong> has exhibited in Europe and North America. Using video, sculpture, performance and drawing she explores the relationship between nature and culture and attempts to create art that hovers between the two. This has included sculpting with spider\'s silk, encouraging ants to draw self-portraits and a close encounter with a giant green sea anemone.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>Bridget Nicholls</strong> is a writer, naturalist and broadcaster whose work has featured on BBC radio, Discovery Channel and <em>The Ecologist</em>. She is a founder and director of Pestival, an international arts festival dedicated to \'Insects in the arts and the art of being an insect\'.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>\n\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"><strong>\n</strong>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>**29th January: Voltage Control**</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Sounds from <strong>Man From Uranus</strong>, <strong>Disinformation vs USURP</strong>, <strong>Oscillatorial Binnage</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Three unique, very different explorations of electronic sound and music:</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Electroacoustic neo-primitivists <strong>Oscillatorial Binnage </strong>tease and torment home-made and circuit-bent electronic devices.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>Disinformation vs USURP</strong> mutate and subvert natural and man-made acoustic phenomena from microwave recordings of tube trains to ancient Indian observatories.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>Man From Uranus</strong> brings his warped, electronic jazz rock from Outer Space to you.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 13.0px Georgia;\"><em>To book tickets for any of these events visit </em><a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/\"><span style=\"color: #551e8d;\"><em>The Last Tuesday Society</em></span></a><em> web site.</em></p>','SA Salon events 7-31 January 2010','','publish','open','open','','sa-salon-events-7-31-january-2010','','','2009-11-26 10:32:40','2009-11-26 10:32:40','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1576',0,'post','',0),(1588,2,'2009-11-27 10:04:55','2009-11-27 10:04:55','<a href=\"http://www.manfromuranus.com/videos.htm?\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1590\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"MFU_1\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/MFU_1.jpg\" alt=\"MFU_1\" width=\"357\" height=\"249\" /></a>\n\nUh oh there goes the Solar System...\n\nLongtime SA pal and musical collaborator <a href=\"http://www.manfromuranus.com\" target=\"_blank\">Man From Uranus</a> has got his hands on a video camera – MFU has put a number of short films <a href=\"http://www.manfromuranus.com/videos.htm?\" target=\"_blank\">online</a>, including an ongoing series set on his lunar base. Here MFU experiences <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPWhrTQvGMo\" target=\"_blank\">existential solitude</a>, <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKQA2YAcO_Y\" target=\"_blank\">hijacks a moon buggy</a> and goes hunting for <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhz0jlnkKSo\">lunar lizards</a>.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.manfromuranus.com/videos.htm?\" target=\"_blank\">Roll \'em</a>\n\n<em>MFU will be performing live as part of the </em><a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1576\" target=\"_blank\"><em>SA Salon</em></a><em>\'s Voltage Control night on 29 January 2010. </em>','Moon Movies','','publish','open','open','','moon-movies','','','2009-11-27 10:04:55','2009-11-27 10:04:55','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1588',0,'post','',0),(1594,2,'2009-11-27 13:35:38','2009-11-27 13:35:38','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1595\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"unicaZurn\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/unicaZurn.jpg\" alt=\"unicaZurn\" width=\"325\" height=\"290\" />\n\nWe\'re pleased to announce that <em>Temporal Bends</em>, the debut CD from Unicazürn is now available to buy from the <a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/\" target=\"_self\">Strange Attractor Shoppe</a> – just in time for Xmas!\n\nA collaboration between UK underground music veterans David Knight (Shock Headed Peters, Lydia Lunch) and Stephen Thrower (Cyclobe, Coil) – both of the improvising avant-rock outfit Amal Gamal Ensemble – <em>Temporal Bends </em>transports the listener into the depths though, as its title hints, you\'re never quite sure whether you\'re drowning or dreaming, stretched or squeezed, coming down or going up. Vintage synthesisers, guitars, sax and clarinet drift, shimmer and swarm, bubbles and blinking lights luring you ever further, ever deeper...\n\nHear a cut from <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zJ6OkJ1PXU\" target=\"_blank\">Six Fabulous Mutilations</a>.\n\n<em>\'Knight and Thrower bring a deep intuition to the performances, allowing treated guitar, saxophone and clarinet to blend with analogue synthesizers, mellotron and organ... Only occasionally does a locked snippet of sound repeat itself enough to suggest anything like an insistent beat: otherwise the tempo is kept low and slow\' Ken Hollings, <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">The Wire</span></em>\n\n<em>\'exactly the sort of music that I would expect to hear if I was rapidly losing consciousness in a pool of my own blood aboard a haunted submarine... This is an impressively ambitious, harrowing, and complex album.\' Anthony D\'Amico, </em>Brainwashed.\n\n<em>\n</em>','Unicazürn at the Shoppe','','publish','open','open','','unicazurn-at-the-shoppe','','','2009-11-27 13:35:38','2009-11-27 13:35:38','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1594',0,'post','',0),(1599,2,'2009-11-30 12:17:55','2009-11-30 12:17:55','<a href=\"http://www.fivestoreyprojects.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1600\" title=\"FSP_Small\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/FSP_Small.jpg\" alt=\"FSP_Small\" width=\"540\" height=\"382\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.raagnagrok.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Raagnagrok</a> perform for the first time since February as part of <em>The Object of The Attack</em> at the David Roberts Art Foundation, 111 Great Titchfield St, London W1W 6RY.\n\nWe expect this to be a full audio-visual spectacular involving mesmeric analogue video feedback techniques devised by Zali Krishna at his laboratory deep beneath Brent Cross Shopping Centre.\n\nAlso part of the night will be an installation and performance from Charlesworth, Lewandowski &amp; Mann, who work with sound samples generated from Ballard’s short story, collaboratively creating sculptural resonances to create an encapsulating parallel universe.\n\nMore info at <a href=\"http://www.fivestoreyprojects.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Five Storey Projects</a>','The Object of the Attack','','publish','open','open','','the-object-of-the-attack','','','2009-11-30 12:17:55','2009-11-30 12:17:55','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1599',0,'post','',0),(1608,2,'2009-12-02 09:07:06','2009-12-02 09:07:06','<a href=\"http://www.thehorsehospital.com/archives/000630.html\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1609\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Pulp-thumb\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Pulp-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Pulp-thumb\" width=\"442\" height=\"534\" /></a>','Pulp at the Horse Hospital','','publish','open','open','','pulp-at-the-horse-hospital','','','2009-12-02 09:07:06','2009-12-02 09:07:06','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1608',0,'post','',0),(1613,2,'2009-12-03 14:47:08','2009-12-03 14:47:08','<a href=\"http://viktorwyndfineart.co.uk/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1612\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"house14\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/house14.jpg\" alt=\"house14\" width=\"526\" height=\"450\" /></a>\n\n<strong>WINTER EXHIBITION - 3rd to 30th DECEMBER 2009 </strong>\n\n<strong></strong>The Horn of Plenty explores folk tales, fables, myths and legends, all cousins of the fairy tale. Beauties and beasts are plentiful in fairy tales and are often the key subject in many of these artists’ work. To celebrate the midwinter season there will be evenings of wine and candlelit stories, music and mystery guests amidst the curiosities of Viktor Wynd’s Little Shop of Horrors.\n<em>\n</em>The House of Fairy Tales presents a fundraising exhibition of objects and artworks by international artists, designers and film directors, many of whom have contributed to the Exquisite Trove exhibition currently at The New Art Gallery Walsall or have been part of HoFT’s hugely successful 2009 tour of festivals across the country.\n\nAt <span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, \'Times New Roman\', \'Bitstream Charter\', Times, serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"http://www.viktorwyndfineart.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Viktor Wynd Fine Art Inc</a>, 11 Mare St, London E8 4RP</span>\n\n<!--more-->List of Artists :\nFrida Alvinzi, Fiona Banner, Simon Bill, Sir Peter Blake, Jim Bond, Christopher Brown, Ellen Cantor, Spartacus Chetwynd, Natasha Chambers, Cedric Christie, Oliver Clegg, Mat Collishaw, Dexter Dalwood, Adam Dant, Enrico David, Ian Dawson, Jeremy Deller, Tatiana de Stempel, Carol Ann Eason, Phoebe Eason, Rohan Daniel Eason, Jill Tegan Doherty, Rina Donnersmarck, Annabel Elgar, Simon English, Gordon Faulds, Nancy Fouts, Jen Franklin, Maria Teresa Gavazzi, Bert Gilbert, Jeff McMillan, Rob Goodwin, Carolyn Gowdy, Lynn Hatzius, Alice Herrick, Dan Hillier, Georgie Hopton, Jimp, Nicola Jones, Alan Kane, LEO, Damien Meade, Harland Miller, Annie Morris, Richard Niman, Orly Orbach, Cornelia Parker, Simon Periton, Raul Pina, Max Reeves, Paula Rego, David Roberts, Paul Sakoilsky, Elinor Seath, Lindsay Sekulowicz, Jane Simpson, Bob &amp; Roberta Smith, Kiki Smith, Samantha Sweeting, Katherine Tulloh, Gavin Turk, Francis Upritchard, Raisa Veikkola, Julie Vermeille, Jessica Voorsanger, Jon Welsh, Simon Willems, Rachel Whiteread, E C Woodard.','Horn of Plenty at Viktor Wynd Fine Art','','publish','open','open','','horn-of-plenty-at-viktor-wynd-fine-art','','','2009-12-03 14:47:08','2009-12-03 14:47:08','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1613',0,'post','',0),(1617,2,'2009-12-04 09:48:45','2009-12-04 09:48:45','Barack Obama has received the ultimate subcultural accolade - he is now LSD blotter art...\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1618\" style=\"border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"obamaLSD\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/obamaLSD.jpg\" alt=\"obamaLSD\" width=\"400\" height=\"318\" /> [<a href=\"http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/show_image.php?image=lsd/lsd_blotter_obama__i2009e0716_disp.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">erowid</a>]\n\nAnd ecstasy:\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1619\" style=\"border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"1805_lg_obama\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1805_lg_obama.jpg\" alt=\"1805_lg_obama\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /> [<a href=\"http://ecstasydata.org/viewtablet.php?ID=1805\" target=\"_blank\">ecstasy data</a>]\n\nVia <a href=\"http://www.badscience.net\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Science</a>','Obamaahhhhhhh','','publish','open','open','','obamaahhhhhhh','','','2009-12-04 09:48:45','2009-12-04 09:48:45','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1617',0,'post','',0),(1625,2,'2009-12-07 10:52:52','2009-12-07 10:52:52','<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1626\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"2816441064_7bea5643201\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/2816441064_7bea5643201.jpg\" alt=\"2816441064_7bea5643201\" width=\"288\" height=\"400\" /></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">The Light &amp; Shadow Salon presents...</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">BIZARRE, SURREAL AND HORROR IN THE MOVING IMAGE</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">An evening of open conversation and exchange</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Tuesday 8 December 2009, 7:30- 11:00 pm at</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">The Horse Hospital, 30 Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1JD</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">(£3 contribution at the door)</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">featuring moving image work by</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><strong>RUDOLF BUITENDACH // OLIVER CHEETHAM // MARTIN EARLE // SARA ELIASSEN // YUI HAMAGASHIRA // SHELLY LOVE // MATTEO PIZZARELLO // JAMES ROGAN // CARL STEVENSON</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">compositions and soundscapes by <strong>JAMES HESFORD</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">and the participation of writer and editor<strong> MARK PILKINGTON</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">and painter <strong>NICHOLAS McARTHUR</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">plus live music by <strong>GEORGES KAPLAN</strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">\'So when you hear yourself invited to \'see\', it is not the sight of this eye (of the flesh) that I would have you think about. You have another eye within, much clearer that that one, an eye that looks at the past, the present, and the future all at once, which sheds the light and keenness of its vision over all things, which penetrates things hidden and searches into complexities, needing no other light by which to see all this, but seeing by the light that it possesses itself.\' (Hugh of St Victor)</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">More info <a href=\"http://thelightandshadowsalon.wordpress.com/ \" target=\"_blank\">here</a></p>','Light &amp; Shadow Salon : 8 December','','publish','open','open','','light-shadow-salon-8-december','','','2009-12-07 10:52:52','2009-12-07 10:52:52','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1625',0,'post','',0),(1630,2,'2009-12-09 15:05:00','2009-12-09 15:05:00','<a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/uvta.html\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1631\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"UVTA_murmurations\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/UVTA_murmurations.jpg\" alt=\"UVTA_murmurations\" width=\"400\" height=\"401\" /></a>\n\nFurther Recordings are immodestly pleased to announce their fifth CD release, <em>Murmurations</em>, the first collaboration between <a href=\"http://urthona.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Urthona</a> and The Asterism.\n\n<em>Murmurations </em>is less of a soundclash than the fallout from two worlds in collision: Urthona\'s rural guitar-based heaviness slams into The Asterism\'s towering analogue electronics, somewhere in space between Princetown and Fitzrovia.\n\n<!--more-->The album features two instrumental pieces:\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">River Severn Bore</span> (24.20) is an infinitely cascading surge of sound that makes you wonder what would have happened if an angry Neil Young had interned at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. RSB began life as a pulsating Asterism synthline that was guitared-up, trampled under foot and re-assembled by Urthona.\n\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Murmurations</span> (19.50) was inspired by the annual starling swarms that invade the Somerset levels each Winter. Initially a gently-flowing, aetheric Urthona guitar piece, it was quickly savaged by The Asterism\'s synthesised sparrowhawks who left only a shower of blood and feathers in their wake.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/sounds/UVTA_RSB_snippet.mp3\">River Severn Bore <em>sample</em></a><em> </em>(mp3 1.5 MB)\n\n<em>Murmurations</em> comes in a three panel sleeve featuring original artwork and inserts by <a href=\"http://www.catharyneward.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Catharyne Ward</a> and is available from the<a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/uvta.html\"> Strange Attractor Shoppe</a>.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/sounds/uvta_murm_snip.mp3\">Mumurations <em>sample</em></a> (mp3 1.2 MB)\n\nUrthona\'s music has been described as \"the Barrett Floyd hammering Tangerine Dream’s early 45 ‘Ultima Thule’\". Not much is known about The Asterism, other than that it has collaborated with California\'s <a href=\"http://highmountaintempel.com/\" target=\"_blank\">High Mountain Tempel</a> and is contained somewhere in Central London.','Murmurations: Urthona and The Asterism','','publish','open','open','','murmurations-urthona-and-the-asterism','','','2009-12-09 15:05:00','2009-12-09 15:05:00','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1630',0,'post','',0),(1651,2,'2009-12-10 09:35:18','2009-12-10 09:35:18','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1655\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"keelcard2\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/keelcard2.jpg\" alt=\"keelcard2\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" />\n\nThis year saw the passing of the iconic fortean writer and adventurer John Keel.\n\nAs a tribute to his friend, Doug Skinner, writer, musician, SAJ contributor and all-round renaissance man has set up a web site to gather up the mountains of memories and Keeliana that he rescued from John\'s apartment, such as this great business card. Every fortean should carry one.\n\nI visited Keel\'s apartment only once, in the late \'90s, so I know what a brave man Doug must be to rummage amongst the mountains of books and rubbish piled up in there!\n\nTake a peek at <a href=\"http://www.johnkeel.com/\" target=\"_blank\">JohnKeel.com</a>','Not an authority on anything','','publish','open','open','','not-an-authority-on-anything','','','2009-12-10 09:35:18','2009-12-10 09:35:18','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1651',0,'post','',0),(1642,2,'2009-12-11 08:50:27','2009-12-11 08:50:27','<em>UPDATE 3: </em>OK, forget that last explanation, here\'s the TRUTH from <a href=\"http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner%7Ey2009m12d12-Two-researchers-attribute-Norway-light-to-HAARP-antiET-spacebased-weapon-of-mass-destruction\" target=\"_blank\">exopolitics.com</a>:\n\n\'... two researchers have independently posited that HAARP, a space-based weapon of mass destruction one of whose antenna fields is close to the site of the Norwegian spiral light ...part of Project Blue Beam.\n\nOne of the alleged purposes of Project Blue Beam is the use of advanced electromagnetic imaging such as that produced by HAARP and exhibited in the Norway spiral light as a psychological mass conditioning device in aid of the implementation of a global corporate new world order.\'\n\n<em>UPDATE 2:</em> \'Currently - it is believe this [sic] was caused by a Chinese Long March 2D vehicle launched earlier on the same day, from China, on a polar orbit.\'\n\nThis information from the same people who bring us the following video explanation – clearly a disinformation source and not to be trusted. Further\'s own reliable informants tell us that we are about to be invaded by the spiral beings from <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzumaki\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Uzumaki</em></a>...\n\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Zx8i5EfmYU4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/Zx8i5EfmYU4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/5Fgn7-AoQtI&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/5Fgn7-AoQtI&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nOne of many videos shot on 8 December all over Norway\'s northwestern coastline. It appears to show a swirling spiral of light, apparently projected from a single light source.\n\nThere are some more very striking photographs (that I\'m not reproducing for copyright reasons) <a href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nIt looks artificial, and some have speculated that it might be some kind of weapons test (perhaps a giant hypno-ray?). The White and Barents Seas are regularly used as launching grounds for Russsian missiles, though there has been no comment from their Defence Ministry as yet.\n\n<em>UPDATE:</em> The Russians are now saying that it was a failed missile test – presumably one that accidentally opened a gateway into another dimension. Really, just what sort of missile <em>was</em> that?!\n\nThanks Gnat Ward!','Puzzling Norwegian light spiral /update','','publish','open','open','','puzzling-norwegian-light-spiral','','','2009-12-11 08:50:27','2009-12-11 08:50:27','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1642',0,'post','',0),(1663,2,'2009-12-14 11:30:11','2009-12-14 11:30:11','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/pBXb-8YoR0E&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/pBXb-8YoR0E&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nIn the venerable tradition of the Christmas ghost story, here\'s a clever adaptation of Saki\'s <em>The Open Window</em>, directed by James Rogan. It was screened last week at the <a href=\"http://thelightandshadowsalon.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Light and Shadow Salon</a> at the <a href=\"http://www.thehorsehospital.com\" target=\"_blank\">Horse Hospital</a>.','The Open Doors','','publish','open','open','','the-open-doors','','','2009-12-14 11:30:11','2009-12-14 11:30:11','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1663',0,'post','',0),(1668,2,'2009-12-15 10:01:08','2009-12-15 10:01:08','<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http://www.ufohowto.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1667\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"MHD1\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/MHD1.jpg\" alt=\"MHD1\" width=\"492\" height=\"209\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">How-To save the economy!</span></strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"center\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">How-To save the planet!</span></strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"center\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http://www.ufohowto.com/\" target=\"_blank\">How-To build a UFO!</a></span></strong></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"center\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Thanks <a href=\"http://kenhollings.blogspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Hollings</a></span></p>\n\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span>\n</span></span></span>','How to save the planet... leave it!','','publish','open','open','','how-to-save-the-planet-leave-it','','','2009-12-15 10:01:08','2009-12-15 10:01:08','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1668',0,'post','',0),(1678,2,'2009-12-18 11:17:47','2009-12-18 11:17:47','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"420\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/0hCJB1ERueQ&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"340\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/0hCJB1ERueQ&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nTake a look inside SA pal Joanna Ebenstein\'s <a href=\"http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Morbid Anatomy</a> library, which was recently featured on US TV. SAP is planning a Morbid Anatomy book with Joanna, so watch this space...','Morbid Anatomy on TV!','','publish','open','open','','morbid-anatomy-on-tv','','','2009-12-18 11:17:47','2009-12-18 11:17:47','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1678',0,'post','',0),(1684,2,'2009-12-22 12:41:56','2009-12-22 12:41:56','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1683\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"xmas_09\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/xmas_09.jpg\" alt=\"xmas_09\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" />\n\nfrom Further and Strange Attractor Press...\n\n[Cows on Dartmoor, 21 December 2009]','Merry Solstmas','','publish','open','open','','merry-solstmas','','','2009-12-22 12:41:56','2009-12-22 12:41:56','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1684',0,'post','',0),(1686,2,'2009-12-29 12:10:06','2009-12-29 12:10:06','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/9vcO5Agst0M&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/9vcO5Agst0M&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nAn awesome 1979 animation from a young Roger Mainwood (pictured <a href=\"http://freespace.virgin.net/roger.mainwood/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> with Alan Bennett!) set to Kraftwerk\'s <em>Autobahn. </em>Very much in the style of Laloux and Topor\'s<em> La Planète Sauvage.</em>\n\nAnd while we\'re in the mood for kraftwerk, I hope you heard <a href=\"http://resonancefm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Resonance</a>\'s Krautrock Kristmas Special, featuring Ken Hollings, <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;\">Nikos</span> Kotsopoulos, David Knight, Frances Morgan,  David Stubbs and myself. It should get a repeat sometime soon.\n\nThanks Ben Furstenberg!','Autobahn animé','','publish','open','open','','autobahn-anime','','','2009-12-29 12:10:06','2009-12-29 12:10:06','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1686',0,'post','',0),(1557,2,'2010-01-03 12:19:41','2010-01-03 12:19:41','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1689\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Salon-banner2\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Salon-banner2.jpg\" alt=\"Salon-banner2\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" />\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">The first Strange Attractor Salon will be held at <a href=\"http://www.viktorwyndfineart.co.uk/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Viktor Wynd Fine Art</span></a> (incorporating The Little Shoppe of Horrors), 11 Mare Street, London, UK, E8 4RP, between 7 and 31 January 2010.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">See some photos from the exhibition <a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1709\" target=\"_blank\">here</a></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">The exhibition will gather together, for the first time, a selection of art and illustration from Strange Attractor\'s contributors, friends, allies and inspirations.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Like our books and events the Salon will incorporate a wide range of media (painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, sound and video) from both trained and untrained artists. The assembled exhibitors all share Strange Attractor\'s fascinations with inner space, craft, science (natural and unnatural) and the fantastic.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Confirmed contributing artists are:</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Phil Baker * Joel Biroco * Richard Brown * Ossian Brown * John Coulthart * Rod Dickinson * Disinformation * English Heretic * Tessa Farmer * Blue Firth * Alison Gill * Doug Harvey * Josephine Harvatt * Ken Hollings * Stewart Home * Julian House * Ali Hutchinson * Alyssa Joye * Maud Larsson * Gary Lachman * Xtina Lamb * John Lundberg * Man From Uranus * Eleanor Morgan * Frances Morgan * Drew Mulholland * Bridget Nicholls * Oscillatorial Binnage * Katie Owens * Edwin Pouncey * Arik Roper * Gavin Semple * Martin Sexton * USURP * Robert Wallis * Catharyne Ward  * Eric Wright *</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><sub>[The image above is a detail from </sub><em><sub>The Electrochemical Glass</sub></em><sub> (1997-2009) by Richard Brown, a living artwork featured on</sub><span style=\"color: #551e8d;\"><sub><a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/SAJ3_sell.html\"> the cover of SAJ3</a>,</sub></span><sub> that will be on display during the Salon.]<!--more--></sub></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><sub>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</sub></p>\n\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><sub>\n</sub>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">A series of discussions, screenings and performances are also scheduled as part of the residency:</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">**14th January - Salon Discussion**</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1721\" target=\"_blank\">Mind, Art and Magic: Visions of Inhabited Worlds</a></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">with Phil Baker, Blue Firth, Gavin Semple, Robert Wallis</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Phil Baker is the author of The Devil is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley , William S Burroughs and the forthcoming Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London\'s Lost Artist .</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Artist Blue Firth has a long-standing interest in the nature of local communities and how their histories are recorded through vernacular crafts and practices. Through research of local history and customs, she seeks out arcane and often neglected information with which she aims to rediscover the forgotten character of a place. She is currently studying at the Royal Academy.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Gavin Semple is a writer, artist and musician with a deep understanding of magical practice. He is the author of Zos Kia: An Introductory Essay on the Art and Sorcery of Austin Osman Spare (Fulgur 1995) and other texts on Spare, and is a co-founder of magical publishing house Fulgur.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Robert Wallis is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Richmond University in London and a Research Fellow in Archaeology of Southampton University. He is the author of a number books on shamanism, \'sacred sites\' and heathen magic, including Shamans/neo-Shamans: Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans, Galdrbok: Practical Heathen Runecraft, Shamanism and Magic (with Nathan Johnson) and Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights: Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments (with Jenny Blain).</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">**15th January: Luminous Pleasures**</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Short films from contributing artists including:</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Richard Brown, Disinformation, Tessa Farmer and Sean Daniels, Blue Firth, Stewart Home, Julian House, John Lundberg, Eleanor Morgan, Drew Mulholland, Cathy Ward  &amp; Eric Wright.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">**20th January - Salon Discussion**</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Man, Myth and Music: Occult Traditions in Popular Music from Mozart to Mayhem</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">with Gary Lachman, Frances Morgan,  Edwin Pouncey</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Gary Lachman is the author of several books of esoteric cultural history including Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius; A Secret History of Consciousness; The Dedalus Book of the Occult: A Dark Muse and The Dedalus Occult Reader: The Garden of Hermetic Dreams. As a musician Gary was a founder member of Blondie and played guitar with Iggy Pop, a period described in his book New York Rocker. Gary was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Frances Morgan is the former editor and publisher of independent music magazine Plan B and has written for publications including The New Statemsan, Frieze, Loops and The Quietus. As a musician she performs in underground experimental groups including Morgen und Nite, Macroprosopus Dancehall Band and Time.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Edwin Pouncey is an artist, writer and musician. As Savage Pencil, Edwin\'s unmistakable illustrations have been a mainstay of the underground UK music scene for over three decades, adorning album sleeves for bands including The Fall, Sonic Youth and Sunn O))) while his writing has appeared in music magazines from Sounds to The Wire. Edwin has lectured on the role of magick in black metal and also performs in the improvising noise band Pestrepeller and duo, with Sharon Gal, Meltaot.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">**22nd January: Astounding Stories**</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Live performances from English Heretic and Welcome to Mars</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">English Heretic creates verdant, darkly humorous soundscapes for the darkest recesses of the English imagination. The magical texts of Kenneth Grant and the occult fictions of Sax Rohmer form an uneasy alliance, accompanied by a musical backdrop that glides effortlessly from Motown to 70s progressive horror rock.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Ken Hollings reads from his book Welcome to Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century with a live, improvised soundtrack of 1950s electronica for analogue synthesisers, reel-to-reel tapes and theremin from Simon James and Bruce Woolley.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">**28th January - Salon Discussion**</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Natural Allies: Art and Other Lifeforms</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">with Tessa Farmer, Alison Gill, Eleanor Morgan, Bridget Nicholls</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Tessa Farmer\'s fantastical, often disturbing sculptures, films, installations and drawings depict an inhabited world that exists just out of sight of our own. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Saatchi Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum and The Natural History Museum.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Alison Gill studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London. She has shown widely in solo and group exhibitions in the UK and internationally including: Brink, Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Brussels; Alison Gill, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; In the Society of London Ladies, Dispari &amp; Dispari Project, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Dream Machines, [Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition curated by Susan Hiller].</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Eleanor Morgan has exhibited in Europe and North America. Using video, sculpture, performance and drawing she explores the relationship between nature and culture and attempts to create art that hovers between the two. This has included sculpting with spider\'s silk, encouraging ants to draw self-portraits and a close encounter with a giant green sea anemone.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Bridget Nicholls is a writer, naturalist and broadcaster whose work has featured on BBC radio, Discovery Channel and The Ecologist. She is a founder and director of Pestival, an international arts festival dedicated to \'Insects in the arts and the art of being an insect\'.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">**29th January: Voltage Control**</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Sounds from Man From Uranus, Disinformation vs USURP, Oscillatorial Binnage</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Three unique, very different explorations of electronic sound and music:</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Electroacoustic neo-primitivists Oscillatorial Binnage tease and torment home-made and circuit-bent electronic devices.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Disinformation vs USURP mutate and subvert natural and man-made acoustic phenomena from microwave recordings of tube trains to ancient Indian observatories.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Man From Uranus brings his warped, electronic jazz rock from Outer Space to you.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">**********</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">To book tickets for any of these events visit The Last Tuesday Society web site: http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"></p>\n\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><sub>\n</sub>\n\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><sub>\n</sub>','Strange Attractor Salon 7-31 January 2010','','publish','open','open','','strange-attractor-salon-7-31-january-2010','','','2010-01-03 12:19:41','2010-01-03 12:19:41','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1557',0,'post','',0),(1695,2,'2010-01-04 23:31:43','2010-01-04 23:31:43','<img class=\"alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-1696\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"00000202_t\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/00000202_t.jpg\" alt=\"00000202_t\" width=\"149\" height=\"240\" />\n\nA revised and expanded edition of SA contributor Gary Lachman\'s excellent history of the rise of the occult counterculture in the 1960s, <em>Turn Off Your Mind</em>, is now available as <em>The <a href=\"http://www.dedalusbooks.com/catalog.php?id=00000202&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\">Dedalus</a> Book of the 1960</em>s.\n\nGary will be discussing occultism and music alongside Frances Morgan and Edwin Pouncey  at the <a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1557\">Strange Attractor Salon</a> on 20th January.\n\nBook tickets <a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/manmythmusic.html\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>\n\nWrites Gary:\n\n\'How did the <em>Morning of the Magicians</em> become the <em>Night of the Living Dead</em>? In my revisionist history of the 1960s counterculture, I explore the occult roots of the love generation, and show how they reached into practically every aspect of the mystic decade’s life. Alan Watts, Hermann Hesse, the Beach Boys, the Beats, Aldous Huxley, Led Zeppelin, Krishnamurti, H.P. Lovecraft, Jimi Hendrix, R.D. Laing, the Maharishi, the Church of Satan, Tolkien: these are only some of the 60s icons whose contribution to our occult counterculture is re-examined and re-assessed as I try to unravel how the dawning of the Age of Aquarius led to some dark knights of the soul.\n\nThis edition, revised and enlarged, includes more than a hundred pages of new material on subjects ranging from the Harmonic Convergence and 2012, to the suicide cult surrounding Carlos Castaneda, and the C.I.A.’s experiments with hallucinogens. In an Afterword I reply to critics of the book and explain why it was acclaimed by fundamentalist Christians and Satanists alike. And a in new chapter on “Murder in the Aquarian Age” I introduce readers to the notorious hippy serial murderer, Charles Sobhraj, a.k.a. the Serpent, and the enigmatic 60s activist, paranormal researcher, and convicted killer, Ira Einhorn, known as ‘the Unicorn’. You may have been around in the 60s and you may remember them, or maybe your grandparents do, but I suspect that either way <em>Turn Off Your Mind </em>will give you a whole new view on what was really going down. Namaste.\'\n\nMore over at <a href=\"http://www.dedalusbooks.com/catalog.php?id=00000202&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\">Dedalus</a>','&#039;Turn off You Mind&#039; rides again!','','publish','open','open','','turn-off-you-mind-revised','','','2010-01-04 23:31:43','2010-01-04 23:31:43','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1695',0,'post','',0),(1703,2,'2010-01-07 00:41:56','2010-01-07 00:41:56','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/j5L7AnELNIM&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/j5L7AnELNIM&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n<em>Nest of the Skeletons</em> by Tessa Farmer &amp; Sean Daniels, with sound design by Mark Pilkington, will be screened as part of Luminous Aephemera, the <a href=\"http://viktorwyndfineart.co.uk/strangerattractor.html\" target=\"_self\">Strange Attractor Salon</a>\'s film night on 15th January. Also showing shorts will be Disinformation, Blue Firth, Julian House, John Lundberg, Eleanor Morgan, Martin Sexton, Cathy Ward &amp; Eric Wright, and hopefully some surprise guests from the other side...\n\nTessa\'s faeries will also be appearing in the flesh as part of the exhibition, no doubt wreaking havoc with the gallery\'s menagerie of stuffed animals...\n\nMore info and ticket booking <a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/lumniferous.html\" target=\"_self\">here:</a>','Salon film preview: Nest of the skeletons','','publish','open','open','','salon-film-preview','','','2010-01-07 00:41:56','2010-01-07 00:41:56','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1703',0,'post','',0),(1709,2,'2010-01-08 12:39:03','2010-01-08 12:39:03','A few quickie photos of parts of the <a href=\"http://viktorwyndfineart.co.uk/strangerattractor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Strange Attractor Salon</a> at Viktor Wynd Fine Art - poor shots but hopefully they will serve as a teaser!\n\nThe Salon runs at <a href=\"http://viktorwyndfineart.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Viktor Wynd Fine Art</a>, 11 Mare St, London E8 4RP, until 31 January. The gallery is open Wednesay to Sunday from 12am until 6pm. Please call ahead if you are coming far: (0)20 7998 3617. The nearest tube is Bethnal Green.\n\nTickets for the <a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/\" target=\"_blank\">events</a> are selling now so if you plan to attend please <a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/\">book ahead</a> to ensure a place:\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1716\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"salon4\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/salon4.jpg\" alt=\"salon4\" width=\"450\" height=\"324\" />\n\n[Tessa Farmer]\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1712\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"salon1\" src=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/salon11.jpg\" alt=\"salon1\" width=\"400\" height=\"378\" />\n\n[Cathy Ward, Arik Roper, Alison Gill, Katie Owens, Julian House, Tessa Farmer]\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1713\" style=\"border: 0;\" title=\"salon2\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/salon2.jpg\" alt=\"salon2\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" />\n\n[Joel Biroco, Ossian Brown, Maud Larsson]','Salon snaps','','publish','open','open','','salon-snaps','','','2010-01-08 12:39:03','2010-01-08 12:39:03','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1709',0,'post','',0),(1721,2,'2010-01-11 13:28:54','2010-01-11 13:28:54','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1722\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"dejavubiroco\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/dejavubiroco.jpg\" alt=\"dejavubiroco\" width=\"320\" height=\"446\" />\n\n[<em>Deja Vu</em> by Joel Biroco, on display at the Salon]\n\nThe first Strange Attractor Salon event takes place this Thursday, 14 January at <a style=\"color: #2277dd; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(\'/outbound/article/viktorwyndfineart.co.uk\');\" href=\"http://viktorwyndfineart.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Viktor Wynd Fine Art</a>, 11 Mare St, London E8 4RP. Doors open at 6pm and admission is £5.\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ;\"><em>Mind, Art and Magic: Visions of Inhabited Worlds</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ;\">with Phil Baker, Blue Firth, Gavin Semple, Robert Wallis</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ;\">In which we consider questions about art and magick and discuss magical art of the past, present and future. Are art and magic inseparable? Can we categorise different forms of magical art? Was Picasso a magician? Was Aleister Crowley an artist? How is magical art different to religious art? Is all art a magical act? What about non-visual magical art?</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ;\">The panel will speak for 45 minutes followed by an open discussion with the audience and some of the artists displaying at the Salon.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ; min-height: 14.0px;\">Tickets for all the <a style=\"color: #2277dd; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(\'/outbound/article/www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org\');\" href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/\" target=\"_blank\">events</a> are selling now so if you plan to attend please <a style=\"color: #2277dd; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(\'/outbound/article/www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org\');\" href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/\">book ahead</a> or call the gallery on (0)20 7998 3617 to ensure a place.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ; min-height: 14.0px;\"><strong><!--more-->Phil Baker</strong> is the author of <em>The Devil is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley </em>, William S Burroughs and the forthcoming <em>Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London\'s Lost Artist</em> .</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px;\">Artist<strong> Blue Firth</strong> has a long-standing interest in the nature of local communities and how their histories are recorded through vernacular crafts and practices. Through research of local history and customs, she seeks out arcane and often neglected information with which she aims to rediscover the forgotten character of a place. She is currently studying at the Royal Academy.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px;\"><strong>Gavin Semple</strong> is a writer, artist and musician with a deep understanding of magical practice. He is the author of <em>Zos Kia: An Introductory Essay on the Art and Sorcery of Austin Osman Spare</em> (Fulgur 1995) and other texts on Spare, and is a co-founder of magical publishing house Fulgur.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px;\"><strong>Robert Wallis</strong> is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at Richmond University in London and a Research Fellow in Archaeology of Southampton University. He is the author of a number books on shamanism, \'sacred sites\' and heathen magic, including <em>Shamans/neo-Shamans: Ecstasy, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans</em>, <em>Galdrbok: Practical Heathen Runecraft, Shamanism and Magic</em> (with Nathan Johnson) and <em>Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights: Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments</em> (with Jenny Blain).</p>','Art, Mind and Magic @ SA Salon','','publish','open','open','','art-mind-and-magic-sa-salon','','','2010-01-11 13:28:54','2010-01-11 13:28:54','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1721',0,'post','',0),(1731,2,'2010-01-13 09:29:23','2010-01-13 09:29:23','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://warp.net/rss/rss.xml%3Fpl_type%3D2%26pl_id%3D8&amp;playerType=embed&amp;playlist=bottom&amp;fullscreen=true&amp;controlbar=over\" /><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://warp.net/swf/warp_embed.swf\" /><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" src=\"http://warp.net/swf/warp_embed.swf\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" flashvars=\"file=http://warp.net/rss/rss.xml%3Fpl_type%3D2%26pl_id%3D8&amp;playerType=embed&amp;playlist=bottom&amp;fullscreen=true&amp;controlbar=over\"></embed></object>\n\nHere\'s a new video from SA Salon contributor Julian House of the Focus Group, for <em>I See, So I See So</em>. It\'s a track from the <a href=\"http://warp.net/records/broadcast/new-mini-album-broadcast-and-the-focus-group-investigate-witch-cults-of-the-radio-age-out-now-to-download\" target=\"_blank\">album</a> <em>Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of The Radio Age,</em> just voted <em>Wire </em>magazine\'s album of the year for 2009. Well done chaps!\n\nJulian will be showing two short films on Friday 15th at the SA Salon as part of our film night,<em> Luminous Aephemera, </em>along with Tessa Farmer and Sean Daniels (<a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1703\" target=\"_blank\">preview here</a>), Blue Firth, John Lundberg, Eleanor Morgan,  Drew Mulholland, Cathy Ward &amp; Eric Wright, and a unique screening of a film brought to you from the Other Side...\n\n<em>Some of the film makers will be in attendance to discuss their work.</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/lumniferous.html\" target=\"_blank\">Book here</a> (advance booking recommended)','I See, So I See So / Broadcast &amp; The Focus Group','','publish','open','open','','1731','','','2010-01-13 09:29:23','2010-01-13 09:29:23','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1731',0,'post','',0),(1735,2,'2010-01-18 09:53:43','2010-01-18 09:53:43','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1734\" style=\"border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"1601_haiti\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/1601_haiti.jpg\" alt=\"1601_haiti\" width=\"370\" height=\"235\" />\n\nArtist and SA Pal John Cussans was in Haiti last December as part of the first <a href=\"http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/arts/visual-arts/story/1404980.html\" target=\"_blank\">Haitian Art Bienniale</a>, an event that seemed to offer a great deal of hope and help to people in the troubled Cité Soleil district of Port-au-Prince. John\'s photos of the Ghetto Biennale are <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/11997561@N04/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nIf you\'re wondering who to donate to following last week\'s devastating earthquake, John suggests <a href=\"http://www.avaaz.org/en/\" target=\"_blank\">Avaaz</a>, a global online fund-raising activist group who are sending money directly to long-standing local groups working in Port-au Prince. Via <a href=\"http://www.avaaz.org/en/\" target=\"_blank\">Avaaz</a>:\n\n<em>Based on expert advice from leading humanitarian NGOs who have been working in Haiti for over 30 years, we\'ll offer donations to trusted local organizations, includingHonor and Respect for Bel Air, a big community-based network in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, which is also supported by our friends at the respected Brazilian NGO Viva Rio Coordination Régionale des Organisations de Sud-Est (CROSE), which brings together some of the most active community groups in the South of Haiti where the earthquake struck hardest. These groups include women\'s groups, schools networks and local cooperatives.</em>\n\nAvaaz are also supported by the London-based Haiti Support Group. You can donate via paypal here - <a href=\"https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_haiti\">https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_haiti</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti\" target=\"_blank\">Stand With Haiti</a>, who have been in Haiti for 20 years, look like another good option.','Haiti: help on the ground','','publish','open','open','','haiti-help-on-the-ground','','','2010-01-18 09:53:43','2010-01-18 09:53:43','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1735',0,'post','',0),(1740,2,'2010-01-20 11:25:03','2010-01-20 11:25:03','<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1739\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"tales-advert\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/tales-advert.jpg\" alt=\"tales-advert\" width=\"400\" height=\"397\" /></p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Live narrative performances from <em>English Heretic</em> and <em>Welcome to Mars</em>:</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #551e8d;\"><a href=\"http://www.english-heretic.org.uk/\">English Heretic</a></span> creates verdant, darkly humorous soundscapes for the darkest recesses of the English imagination. The magical texts of Kenneth Grant and the occult fictions of Sax Rohmer form an uneasy alliance, accompanied by a musical backdrop that glides effortlessly from Motown to 70s progressive horror rock. From the liner notes to <em>Tales of the New Isis Lodge</em>:</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\"><em>Probably the first Musical inspired by the creative occultism of Kenneth Grant, Tales Of The New Isis Lodge presents 65 minutes of lush and occult exotica issuing from a transplutonic transmitter. Drawing its structure from the ultra decadent and ornate rituals described in Grant\'s book Hecate\'s Fountain English Heretic guide you through Egyptian pre-history to the fungi of yuggoth, re-imagine flower power in an indian tantric idiom, describe the workings of Chinese sorcerers, realise the neither-neither hidden within the jump rhythms of Count Basie and invoke Choronzon in the Crimson Desert. Aeons in its reification and packaged in delicious artwork, stylised as a homage to Grant\'s Typhonian tomes.</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Ken Hollings reads from his book <a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/shop_WTM.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #551e8d;\"><em>Welcome to Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century</em></span></a> with a live, improvised soundtrack of 1950s electronica for analogue synthesisers and theremin from Mark Pilkington and Bruce Woolley. The reading will be accompanied by a special prepared film of footage culled from the amazing <a href=\"http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #551e8d;\">Prelinger Archives</span></a>.</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Part of the Strange Attractor Salon at</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Viktor Wynd Fine Art, 11 Mare St, London E8</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px;\"></p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Doors at 6 pm - Performance commences at 7 pm</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica;\">Book tickets  <a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/collision.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #551e8d;\">here</span></a></p>','SA Salon: Astounding Stories, 22 January','','publish','open','open','','sa-salon-astounding-stories-22-january','','','2010-01-20 11:25:03','2010-01-20 11:25:03','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1740',0,'post','',0),(1746,2,'2010-01-25 11:14:35','2010-01-25 11:14:35','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1745\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"28jansalon\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/28jansalon.jpg\" alt=\"28jansalon\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" />\n\nThursday 28 January, 7pm, £6\n\n<em>Natural Allies: Art &amp; Other Life Forms</em>\nTessa Farmer, Alison Gill, Eleanor Morgan, Bridget Nicholls\nThree Salon contributing artists will talk about their work and their relationships with the other-than-human world, while Bridget Nicholls discusses if we should be consider animal behaviours as artworks, and whether we can make artists out of animals.\n\nMore info and tickets <a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/naturalallies.html\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>\n\n<em>(Above: Tessa Farmer top left, Eleanor Morgan, bottom left, Alison Gill, right)</em>\n\nFriday 29 January, 7pm, £6\n\n<em><span style=\"font-style: normal; \"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/SN4rxM2ovZI&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/SN4rxM2ovZI&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object></span></em>\n\n<em>Voltage Control\n</em>Live sonic arts from The Man from Uranus, Disinformation and Oscillatorial Binnage.\nThe closing event of the Salon is a night of raucous experimental performance - join us!\n\nMore info and tickets <a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/voltage.html\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>\n\nAbove: MFU in <em>One Man in the Band</em>','SA Salon final week events','','publish','open','open','','sa-salon-final-week-events','','','2010-01-25 11:14:35','2010-01-25 11:14:35','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1746',0,'post','',0),(1750,2,'2010-02-01 11:19:01','2010-02-01 11:19:01','<img class=\"alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-1749\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 0px;\" title=\"albiondreaming\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/albiondreaming.jpg\" alt=\"albiondreaming\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" /><em>“I don’t think psychedelic research can be separated from the matrix of political, legal, economic, religious and social forces.. The ‘Establishment’ will, I think, never allow science to properly research LSD etc. because it is afraid – literally – of the Pandora’s box of possibilities it opens up for individuals to see beyond the tightly controlled society we live in and in which we think we are ‘free’.”</em>\n\nAn interview with Albion Dreaming author <a href=\"http://psypressuk.com/2010/01/28/interview-andy-roberts/\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Roberts</a> over at <a href=\"http://psypressuk.com/2010/01/28/interview-andy-roberts/\" target=\"_blank\">PsypressUK</a>','Albion Dreaming: Andy Roberts interviewed','','publish','open','open','','albion-dreaming-andy-roberts-interviewed','','','2010-02-01 11:19:01','2010-02-01 11:19:01','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1750',0,'post','',0),(1753,2,'2010-02-01 12:41:05','2010-02-01 12:41:05','<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangeattractor/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1752\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 00px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"wayin\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/wayin.jpg\" alt=\"wayin\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nSeveral of my photos from the Strange Attractor Salon are now up on <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangeattractor/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr</a>. They\'re just snaps but hopefully provide a sense of occasion for those who couldn\'t make it.\n\nThe exhibition is now officially over: a huge thanks to everyone who contributed their work, time and energy to this wonderful event, and to everyone who came.\n\nMeanwhile, I made field recordings of some of the discussions and performances; if the audio quality is good enough then I plan to post these on the web in the near future.\n\nSee the photos <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangeattractor/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>\n\nPS if you have good photos of any of the events do please let me know!','SA Salon photos','','publish','open','open','','sa-salon-photos','','','2010-02-01 12:41:05','2010-02-01 12:41:05','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1753',0,'post','',0),(1757,2,'2010-02-02 10:18:21','2010-02-02 10:18:21','<img class=\"alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-1756\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"pcs\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/pcs.jpg\" alt=\"pcs\" width=\"254\" height=\"400\" />\n\n<em>Since its appearance, the so-called Rider-Waite deck has sold gazillions of copies, inspiring brooding hermeticists and teenage Goths alike, and stamping its enigmatic images onto such key 20th century artifacts as T. S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland,” the classic noir Nightmare Alley, and the inner gatefold of Led Zeppelin’s fourth album.</em>\n\n<em>The Rider-Waite deck earns a so-called because the name — which has been trade-marked by US Games, the current (and controversial) copyright holder — ignores the artistic contribution of Pamela Colman Smith, an American illustrator and occult initiate whose nickname, Pixie, seems preternaturally on target in light of the most widely-reproduced photograph of the woman.</em>\n\nErik Davis on the history of the iconic Rider Waite tarot deck and its artist Pamela Colman Smith, over at <a href=\"http://hilobrow.com/2010/01/30/the-comic-book-of-thoth/\" target=\"_blank\">Hilobrow</a>.','The Comic Book of Thoth','','publish','open','open','','the-comic-book-of-thoth','','','2010-02-02 10:18:21','2010-02-02 10:18:21','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1757',0,'post','',0),(1759,2,'2010-02-04 09:44:12','2010-02-04 09:44:12','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/R1e6tnpKK0M&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/R1e6tnpKK0M&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nA Shell country guide film to Avebury, narrated by John Betjemen – I think from the mid-1950s. It\'s amazing how little the views around the town have changed, I felt a shiver of recognition as we swung past the burial mounds before Silbury Hill. And dig that \'sinister atmosphere\'!\n\nThanks<a href=\"http://urthona.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\"> Neil Mortimer</a>!','Discovering Britain: Avebury','','publish','open','open','','shell-country-guides-avebury','','','2010-02-04 09:44:12','2010-02-04 09:44:12','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1759',0,'post','',0),(1766,2,'2010-02-05 09:47:52','2010-02-05 09:47:52','<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/sirmildredpierce/39152122/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1765\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"39152122_53a7f3577b\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/39152122_53a7f3577b.jpg\" alt=\"39152122_53a7f3577b\" width=\"450\" height=\"325\" /></a>\n\n[photo by <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/sirmildredpierce/39152122/\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Mildred Pierce</a>]\n\nA nice transatlantic response to the Avebury film:\n\n<em>The <a href=\"http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_guidestones?currentPage=1\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia Guidestones</a> [are] a mystery—nobody knows exactly who commissioned it or why. The only clues to its origin are on a nearby plaque on the ground—which gives the dimensions and explains a series of intricate notches and holes that correspond to the movements of the sun and stars—and the \"guides\" themselves, directives carved into the rocks. These instructions appear in eight languages ranging from English to Swahili and reflect a peculiar New Age ideology. Some are vaguely eugenic (GUIDE REPRODUCTION WISELY—IMPROVING FITNESS AND DIVERSITY); others prescribe standard-issue hippie mysticism (PRIZE TRUTH—BEAUTY—LOVE—SEEKING HARMONY WITH THE INFINITE).</em>\n\nFull article on these mystery megaliths at <a href=\"http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_guidestones?currentPage=1\" target=\"_blank\">Wired</a>, where you can also download a handy guidebook to the site.\n\nThanks <a href=\"http://www.techgnosis.com\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Davis</a>!\n\nPS: \'America\'s Stonehenges\' page at <a href=\"http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/OVERhenges.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roadside America</a>','American Henge','','publish','open','open','','american-henge','','','2010-02-05 09:47:52','2010-02-05 09:47:52','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1766',0,'post','',0),(1769,2,'2010-02-09 10:18:06','2010-02-09 10:18:06','<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/paul-nash-haunted-by-the-past-1892135.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1768\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"08536\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/08536.jpg\" alt=\"08536\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" /></a></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><em>Event on the Downs</em>, Paul Nash 1934 [Tate]</p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><em>...do you believe in ghosts?</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><em> Ghosts. All right, it\'s not the right word. I don\'t mean something white and flitting, or an armoured man with his head held under his arm. The presences in Nash-world are something far less defined and less definable. It is haunted all through. Or that\'s partly it. But I\'m not sure that even Nash found the right words for his spell.</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><em>In his essay \"The Life of the Inanimate Object\", he wrote about \"the endowment of natural objects, organic but not human, with powers or personal influences...\" The hills are alive – and the rocks and stones and trees are too! Yes, with any English outdoor art, especially one that is set in a handful of favourite locations, these Wordsworthian terms are going to be tempting.</em></p>\n\nPaul Nash, hauntologist? A nice piece from the <a href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/paul-nash-haunted-by-the-past-1892135.html\" target=\"_blank\">Independent</a> announcing a new exhibition at the <a href=\"http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/exhibitions/coming_soon/paul_nash_the_elements.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Dulwich Picture Gallery</a>','Paul Nash: The Haunted Land','','publish','open','open','','paul-nash-the-haunted-land','','','2010-02-09 10:18:06','2010-02-09 10:18:06','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1769',0,'post','',0),(1770,2,'2010-02-10 09:17:18','2010-02-10 09:17:18','<a title=\"English Heretic consults the oracle by Mark Pilkington, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangeattractor/4321428703/\"><img style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2784/4321428703_1c57c050d7.jpg\" alt=\"English Heretic consults the oracle\" width=\"450\" height=\"325\" /></a>\n\nAndy Sharp, aka the <a href=\"http://www.english-heretic.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">English Heretic </a> talks magick and neuroscience with Erik Davis on his excellent <a href=\"http://davis.progressiveradionetwork.org/2010/02/04/expanding-mind--020410.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Expanding Mind</a> radio show.','Expanded Minds: Andy Sharp &amp; Erik Davis','','publish','open','open','','expanded-minds-andy-sharp-erik-davis','','','2010-02-10 09:17:18','2010-02-10 09:17:18','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1770',0,'post','',0),(1774,2,'2010-02-12 10:38:03','2010-02-12 10:38:03','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1773\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Maitreya_en_genezeres_1988\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Maitreya_en_genezeres_1988.jpg\" alt=\"Maitreya_en_genezeres_1988\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" />\n\n<em>“It is absurd to be put in this position, when I’m just some bloke,” Mr. Patel said.</em>\n\n<em>A native of London now living on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, Mr. Patel suddenly finds himself an unlikely object of worship, proclaimed the messiah Maitreya by followers of the New Age religious sect Share International.</em>\n\n<em>He was raised as a Hindu and had never heard of the group. He has no desire for deification. But he may not have a choice.</em>\n\nFrom <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/us/05sfmetro.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times</a>, via <a href=\"http://www.anomalist.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Anomalist</a>\n\n[Above pic is of  the Maitreya taken in Nairobi in 1988 - he doesn\'t look much like <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/02/05/us/05sfmetro_CA0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Patel</a>... and more on the Maitreya from <a href=\"http://www.share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_main.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Share International</a>]','He&#039;s not the messiah...','','publish','open','open','','hes-not-the-messiah','','','2010-02-12 10:38:03','2010-02-12 10:38:03','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1774',0,'post','',0),(1776,2,'2010-02-14 16:25:41','2010-02-14 16:25:41','<img class=\"alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-1775\" style=\"border: 0; float: left; margin: 8px;\" title=\"SA Salon 029.JPG\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/SA-Salon-029.JPG.jpeg\" alt=\"SA Salon 029.JPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" /> A live recording of <a href=\"http://www.kenhollings.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Hollings</a> reading from <em><a href=\"Agent Jbot\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome to Mars</a> </em>at the Strange Attractor Salon on 29 January 2010 is now <a href=\"http://www.archive.org/details/WelcomeToMars\" target=\"_blank\">available</a><em>. </em>\n\nKen was accompanied by Bruce Woolley on Moog Etherwave Pro theremin and Moog Voyager, Mark Pilkington on Chimera Synthesis BC8 &amp; BC16 and by Simon James, <em>in absentia</em>, who provided the original score for the DVD projected as part of the performance.\n\nThe audio can be found at <a href=\"http://www.archive.org/details/WelcomeToMars\" target=\"_blank\">archive.org</a> or you can grab it directly here: <a href=\"http://www.archive.org/download/WelcomeToMars/WTM_SASalon.mp3\">Welcome to Mars</a> [approx 35 mins, 72MB]\n\n[photo by Agent Jbot]','Welcome to Mars live @ SA Salon','','publish','open','open','','welcome-to-mars-live-sa-salon','','','2010-02-14 16:25:41','2010-02-14 16:25:41','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1776',0,'post','',0),(1782,2,'2010-02-18 11:18:11','2010-02-18 11:18:11','Do some cave art markings represent a Paleolithic alphabet?\n\n<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1781\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"27481202\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/27481202.jpg\" alt=\"27481202\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />\n\nI\'m not entirely sure why we should be surprised that early humans, who could after all paint stunning and complex artworks, were also capable of communicating visually, but hey...\n\nWhat\'s really interesting, however, is <a href=\"http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2748/27481201.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this chart</a>, which suggests that their pictographic system was used over a wide geographic area. Was this an \'internationally\' recognised system, or are these the primal building blocks of visual language?\n\n<em>What emerged was startling: 26 signs, all drawn in the same style, appeared again and again at numerous sites (see <a href=\"http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2748/27481201.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">illustration</a></em><em>). Admittedly, some of the symbols are pretty basic, like straight lines, circles and triangles, but the fact that many of the more complex designs also appeared in several places hinted to von Petzinger and Nowell that they were meaningful - perhaps even the seeds of written communication.</em>\n\n<em>...</em><span style=\"line-height: 18px;\"><em>The real clincher came with the observation that certain signs appear repeatedly in pairs. Negative hands and dots tend to be one of the most frequent pairings, for example, especially during a warm climate period known as the Gravettian (28,000 to 22,000 years ago). One site called Les Trois-Frères in the French Pyrenees, even shows four sign types grouped together: negative hands, dots, finger fluting and thumb stencils (a rare subcategory of the negative hands).</em></span>\n\n<span style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Full story over at <a href=\"http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527481.200-the-writing-on-the-cave-wall.html?full=true\" target=\"_blank\">New Scientist</a></span>','The word in the cave','','publish','open','open','','the-word-in-the-cave','','','2010-02-18 11:18:11','2010-02-18 11:18:11','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1782',0,'post','',0),(1786,2,'2010-02-22 09:39:25','2010-02-22 09:39:25','<img class=\"alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-1785\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"andy_letcher\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/andy_letcher.jpg\" alt=\"andy_letcher\" width=\"200\" height=\"268\" />\n\n<em>The time is right for psychedelia to undergo a critical and reflexive self-examination. Quite understandably given the legal situation, it has adopted a defensive attitude, seeing itself as a persecuted and misunderstood minority which, nonetheless, possesses privileged access to the truth. To question any of its tenets is to risk being branded ‘anti’, but not to do so, I would argue, is to leave ourselves open to the much more serious accusation of embracing irrationalism.</em>\n\nSA pal, Shroom! author and folk musician Andy Letcher is interviewed over at <a href=\"http://psypressuk.com/2010/02/18/interview-andy-letcher/\" target=\"_blank\">Psychedelic Press UK</a>, a new/ish site that seems to be building up a potent head of steam.','Shroom&#039;s Andy Letcher interviewed','','publish','open','open','','shrooms-andy-letcher-interviewed','','','2010-02-22 09:39:25','2010-02-22 09:39:25','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1786',0,'post','',0),(1788,2,'2010-02-28 11:24:12','2010-02-28 11:24:12','<img class=\"alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-1787\" style=\"border: 0; float: left; margin: 8px;\" title=\"americas-army-arcade-game\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/americas-army-arcade-game.jpg\" alt=\"americas-army-arcade-game\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" />\n\nKen Holling\'s<em> </em>BBC Radio Three documentary on the role of video games in shaping modern warfare is now available via <a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qps1j/Sunday_Feature_From_Gameboy_to_Armageddon/\" target=\"_blank\">BBC iPlayer</a>.\n\nVia Ken: <em>contributions from Tim Lenoir, Ed Halter and Tom Chatfield on the relationship of games and simulations to Past and Future War; P W Singer of the Brookings Institute on current deployments of UAVs and robots; some vintage archive material from RAND’s Tom Schelling on the Cuban Missile Crisis as a game; plus Michael Macedonia and Jim Korris on the founding of STRICOM and the Institute of Creative Technologies, the amazing Jim Dunnigan on Clausewitz and Kriegspiel, Skip Rizzo on ‘Virtual Iraq’ and a rare interview with the legendary Jack Thorpe – responsible while seconded to DARPA from the USAF for devising SIMNET, the first real-time, practical version of cyberspace. Acronyms totally rule on this one.</em>\n\nGet blasted on <a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qps1j/Sunday_Feature_From_Gameboy_to_Armageddon/\" target=\"_blank\">iPlayer</a>','Ken Hollings: From Gameboy to Armageddon','','publish','open','open','','ken-hollings-from-gameboy-to-armageddon','','','2010-02-28 11:24:12','2010-02-28 11:24:12','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1788',0,'post','',0),(1791,2,'2010-03-02 12:22:10','2010-03-02 12:22:10','<img class=\"alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-1790\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"ufo\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ufo.jpg\" alt=\"ufo\" width=\"278\" height=\"170\" />\n\nAs my book <a href=\"http://www.constablerobinson.com/?section=books&amp;book=mirage_men_9781845298579_paperback\" target=\"_blank\">Mirage Men</a> (the dummy cover – not the image left!  – and subtitle will be changing soon) finally makes its first steps towards publication in July 2010, the MOD announce that not only are they closing their UFO hotline, but they will <a href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/7336622/UFO-reports-to-be-destroyed-in-future-by-MoD.html\" target=\"_blank\">destroy any future UFO reports</a> 30 days after receiving them.\n\nThe indefatigable Dr David Clarke and Joe McGonagle have obtained the relevant documents through a FOIA request, and David discusses them over at his <a href=\"http://drdavidclarke.blogspot.com/2010/02/mod-endgame-new-ufo-reports-destroyed.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog</a>. As David points out, the situation is analogous to the US Air Force\'s closure of Project Blue Book in 1969, an attempt to wash their hands of the UFO problem.\n\nOf course, this didn\'t stop the UFOs from coming – world sightings would peak with the release of <em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</em> less than a decade later – and, as I show in <em>Mirage Men</em>, certain departments of the Air Force may have deliberately staged some 1970s UFO incidents and, by the mid 1970s, were certainly encouraging people to believe that UFOs were both real <em>and</em> extraterrestrial in nature.\n\nWhat will result from the MOD\'s recent decisions only time will tell, but I agree with David that it may well turn out to be a \'somewhat short-sighted policy\'.\n\nPS. As an aside, my favourite aspect of the<a href=\"http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/434.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> latest batch of MOD UFO releases</a> is that part of what was blacked out on the documents was not Top Secret information about the alien menace, but <a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8526871.stm\" target=\"_blank\">insults about the civilians making the reports</a>. This surely says more than anything else about official MOD attitudes towards the UFO problem.\n\nvia <a href=\"http://www.drdavidclarke.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">David Clarke</a>','Yoofows in the news','','publish','open','open','','yoofows-in-the-news','','','2010-03-02 12:22:10','2010-03-02 12:22:10','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1791',0,'post','',0),(1794,2,'2010-03-03 09:31:22','2010-03-03 09:31:22','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1793\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"PhoenixLights1997model\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/PhoenixLights1997model.jpg\" alt=\"PhoenixLights1997model\" width=\"375\" height=\"308\" />\n\nThe 13 March 1997 Phoenix incident doesn\'t get a mention in <em>Mirage Men</em>, but this article by a journalist who spent months investigating the case for <em>Readers\' Digest</em> raises some valid questions.\n\nThe lights certainly belonged to something/s, though I lean towards a misguided, <em>Independence Day</em>-inspired hoax rather than a psyops job. Either option remains a possibility however, while the media storm and trail of blown minds that followed would be an A+ result for whoever was responsible.\n\n<em>People either thought they saw a gigantic vehicle visiting from another world, or else a formation of planes that was behaving oddly. Were there observers in the ‘extraterrestrial craft’ category of witnesses who trained binoculars on the lights that night?  If so, I never found them. Everyone I know of who studied the lights through binoculars came away insisting that the lights were five separate objects that appeared to be planes.</em>\n\nRead the full article <a href=\"http://www.examiner.com/x-27763-Skepticism-Examiner~y2010m2d24-Were-the-1997-Arizona-Lights-a-psychological-warfare-experiment-Part-One\" target=\"_blank\">Part one</a> / <a href=\"http://www.examiner.com/x-27763-Skepticism-Examiner~y2010m2d28-Part-Two-Were-the-1997-Arizona-Lights-a-psychological-warfare-experiment?cid=examiner-email\" target=\"_blank\">Part Two</a>\n\n<em>\n</em>','Were 1997&#039;s Phoenix lights a Psyops job?','','publish','open','open','','were-1997s-phoenix-lights-a-psyops-job','','','2010-03-03 09:31:22','2010-03-03 09:31:22','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1794',0,'post','',0),(1798,2,'2010-03-04 09:17:00','2010-03-04 09:17:00','<a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/uvta.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1631\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"UVTA_murmurations\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/UVTA_murmurations.jpg\" alt=\"UVTA_murmurations\" width=\"280\" height=\"281\" /></a>\n\nThe Urthona vs the Asterism album <a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/uvta.html\" target=\"_blank\">Murmurations</a> (Further 05) has been popping up in strange places. An <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/visit-south-west/ten-green-breaks-in-somerset\" target=\"_blank\">advertorial feature</a> on eco-breaks in Somerset mentions it when describing the starling swarms that inspired the recording:\n\n<em>The starlings murmuration is the Somerset equivalent of the northern lights. Westhay Moor often plays centre stage. This phenomenon is based on one million birds playing by the same rule - don\'t be the first to go down to roost. The result is a swirling mass of utter beauty. The sound is spectacular, too. It\'s even sparked a \"heavy rural\" album by Urthona.</em>\n\nThe album has also garnered a great review by Ectogram\'s Alan Holmes over at <a href=\"http://freq.powweb.com/freq_wp/?p=631\" target=\"_blank\">Freq</a>:\n\n<em>side one’s 24 minute “River Severn Bore” incarnates the relentless natural power of the said tidal current, layers of distorted guitar and analogue electronic drones melting into a fluid and enveloping rush of sound... By the end of the piece, the grainy sonic surfaces become so visceral, you can literally scratch them with your nails, like a feral snotty nephew of </em><em>John Cale</em><em>’s pre-</em><em>Velvets</em><em> drone experiments or perhaps </em><em>Merzbow</em><em> at his most ‘rock’. </em>\n\nNice!\n\nListen to a snippet or buy the CD here: <a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/uvta.html\" target=\"_blank\">Murmurations</a>','&#039;Murmurations&#039; hits the (ad)news','','publish','open','open','','murmurations-hits-the-adnews','','','2010-03-04 09:17:00','2010-03-04 09:17:00','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1798',0,'post','',0),(1801,2,'2010-03-08 10:34:49','2010-03-08 10:34:49','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9819387&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9819387&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nWarning: may result in spontaneous dystopian premonitions.\n\nThank Ben Furstenberg!','The future has already been written','','publish','open','open','','the-future-has-already-been-written','','','2010-03-08 10:34:49','2010-03-08 10:34:49','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1801',0,'post','',0),(1807,2,'2010-03-11 10:44:47','2010-03-11 10:44:47','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1809\" style=\"border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"philsalon\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/philsalon.jpg\" alt=\"philsalon\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" />\n\nAs part of the SA Salon\'s closing night jamboree on 29 January 2010, The <a href=\"http://www.archive.org/details/ManFromUranusLiveAtStrangeAttractorSalon29Jan2010\" target=\"_blank\">Man From Uranus</a> beamed down to Viktor Wynd Fine Art inc for a majestic performance of Outer Space exotica and synth jazz.\n\nAnd now as a special gift, From Outer Space to You, here\'s a recording of the entire 25 minute performance:\n\n<a href=\"http://www.archive.org/download/ManFromUranusLiveAtStrangeAttractorSalon29Jan2010/MFU_SASalon.mp3\">Man From Uranus @ SA Salon</a> (18MB)\n\nMore on the <a href=\"http://www.manfromuranus.com\" target=\"_blank\">Man From Uranus</a>','Man From Uranus: recorded live at the Salon','','publish','open','open','','man-from-uranus-recorded-live-at-the-salon','','','2010-03-11 10:44:47','2010-03-11 10:44:47','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1807',0,'post','',0),(1815,2,'2010-03-12 15:29:27','2010-03-12 15:29:27','<img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1814\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"online postcard1\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/online-postcard1.jpg\" alt=\"online postcard1\" width=\"223\" height=\"280\" />\n\nAli Hutchinson, SAJ designer and illustrator <em>extraordinaire</em> for <em><a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Medical-London-City-Diseases-Cures/dp/0955876109/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268407629&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Medical London</a></em> and <em>Park Stories</em> has her first solo show of artworks opening next week.\n\nThe exhibition runs from 20 March to 30 April at <a href=\"http://www.chikichic.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Chiki Chic</a>, 85 Leonard St, Shoreditch EC2A 4QS.\n\nMore info and examples of Ali\'s beautiful work at <a href=\"http://www.alihutchinson.com\" target=\"_blank\">alihutchinson.com</a>','The Magic Theatre: Ali Hutchinson','','publish','open','open','','the-magic-theatre-ali-hutchinson','','','2010-03-12 15:29:27','2010-03-12 15:29:27','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1815',0,'post','',0),(1818,2,'2010-03-15 16:06:12','2010-03-15 16:06:12','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8805194&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8805194&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nGlobe-trotting SA pal Dave \'Blather\' Walsh has put together this sublime photographic slideshow of arctic mirages or <em>fata morgana, </em>set to a menacing track by <a href=\"http://www.dacianos.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Dacianos</a>.\n\nLots more  information about the images and mirages over at Dave\'s <a href=\"http://www.davewalshphoto.com/blog/2010/01/fata-morgana.html\" target=\"_blank\">site</a>','Arctic Fata Morgana','','publish','open','open','','arctic-fata-morgana','','','2010-03-15 16:06:12','2010-03-15 16:06:12','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1818',0,'post','',0),(1824,2,'2010-03-16 10:12:05','2010-03-16 10:12:05','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1823\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"2greys\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/2greys.jpg\" alt=\"2greys\" width=\"355\" height=\"208\" />\n\n...is a prop alien.\n\nSigh, another one bites the dust.\n\nThe image<em> left</em> is a behind-the-scenes shot from the 1992 TV movie <em>Intruders </em>(based, I believe, on the genre-forming non-fiction alien abduction book by Budd Hopkins). The image was found by Mexican researcher <a href=\"http://marcianitosverdes.haaan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Ruiz Noguez</a>.\n\nThe image <em>right</em> is from the 1998  TV documentary <em>UFOs: Fifty Years of Denial</em> and features on the cover of <em>Exempt From Disclosure</em>, an Air Force insider\'s <a href=\"http://ufoconspiracy.com/reports/three_second_eben.htm\" target=\"_blank\">account</a> of the UFO conspiracy, now in its third edition (more on this in my forthcoming book <em>Mirage Men).</em>\n\nSo a prop movie alien inspired by real-life eyewitness accounts ends up being mistaken for a genuine ET whose image, distributed in books and on the Internet, will inspire<em> </em>more real-life accounts, and  these one day will become another TV movie featuring a better prop alien that will, in another 15 years, be mistaken for another real ET... and so the circle remains unbroken.\n\nCan we ask for a better demonstration of the way that myth and folklore work, and how the multiple strands of our  individual experiences, no matter how fantastical, can shape consensus reality?\n\nvia <a href=\"http://forgetomori.com/2009/aliens/the-3-second-eben-intruder/\" target=\"_blank\">Forgetomori</a>','The only good alien','','publish','open','open','','the-only-good-alien','','','2010-03-16 10:12:05','2010-03-16 10:12:05','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1824',0,'post','',0),(1827,2,'2010-03-16 18:09:01','2010-03-16 18:09:01','<a href=\"http://atlasobscura.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1826\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"obscura_day_banner_600px\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/obscura_day_banner_600px.gif\" alt=\"obscura_day_banner_600px\" width=\"450\" height=\"234\" /></a>\n\nStrange Attractor is overseeing two London events for <em>Obscura Day</em>, 20th March 2010, organised by the wonderful <a href=\"http://atlasobscura.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Atlas Obscura</a>. There are walks, presentations and events taking place at 80 locations from Alaska to India, so keep your eyes peeled for one in your area.\n\nSadly/happily, both the London strands sold out within an hour or two of being announced, but I\'ll tell you about them anyway.\n\nAt 11am <em><a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0955876109/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&amp;pf_rd_s=center-1&amp;pf_rd_r=1ETDH117Q7RNXN7EHZ0H&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=467198433&amp;pf_rd_i=468294\" target=\"_blank\">Medical London</a></em> author Richard Barnett picks up his stethoscope and walks us on a tour of Bloomsbury\'s medical curiosities: \'Where in the world could you find transplant surgery on cockerels, hop-head anaesthetists, a graveyard which holds the key to London\'s first great public hospital, a medical trade union in the citadel of Theosophy, and the gory story of Samuel Pepys\' paperweight?\'\n\nThen at 2.30pm, Tom Bolton, author of the forthcoming SAP title <em>London\'s Lost Rivers: A Surface Dweller\'s Guide </em>charts a route along the old River Fleet: \'This walk unpeels the London layers to trace the course of the lost river, rediscovering its influence on the landscape and the forgotten neighbourhoods along its banks. Go with the flow and walk three miles of the Fleet\'s course, from Kentish Town to the Thames\'.\n\nIt\'s just possible that there may be dropouts on the day, so<a href=\"http://atlasobscura.com/obscura-day#Walk_the_Lost_River_Fleet_London__UK\" target=\"_blank\"> here\'s the info</a> if you want to take a chance.\n\nSo three cheers to Atlas Obscura for making 20 March Wold Curiosity Day and hopefully see some of you here in London-town.\n\n<strong>STOP PRESS! Tom Bolton has announced an overflow Fleet tour for the following weekend, Saturday 27th March, 2.30pm-5pm</strong>\n\nMeet outside Kentish Town tube\nFinish at Blackfriars, four miles long. Cost is £3 (You can book ahead using this Link:\n\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/GB/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" />\n<img src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" />\n</form>','Strange Attractor on Obscura Day','','publish','open','open','','strange-attractor-on-obscura-day','','','2010-03-16 18:09:01','2010-03-16 18:09:01','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1827',0,'post','',0),(1833,2,'2010-03-19 10:49:26','2010-03-19 10:49:26','<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1832\" style=\"border: 0; float: left; margin: 8px;\" title=\"flea\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/flea.gif\" alt=\"flea\" width=\"240\" height=\"225\" />\n\nFollowing  the January Salon, Strange Attractor will be hosting regular events at Viktor Wynd Fine Art aka <a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Little Shoppe of Horrors</a>. We\'re very happy therefore to present the first in this new series:\n\nTHE BIG ITCH\nThursday 25 March 2010, 6 for 7pm start\nThe Little Shoppe of Horrors\n11 Mare St\nLondon\nE8 4RP\n\nAmoret Whitaker, forensic entomologist at the <a href=\"http://www.nhm.ac.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Natural History Museum</a>, bemoans the nation\'s declining flea population and tells us more than we need to know about these  magnificent micro-critters. Meanwhile, entomologist <a href=\"http://www.bed-bugs.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">David Cain</a> alerts us to the ongoing bed bug invasion, tells us why we should be afraid and whether there\'s anything we can do to stop them. Members of both families will be in attendance.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user?query=search&amp;category=misc&amp;search=last+tuesday+society&amp;region=xxx&amp;beginmonth=02&amp;beginday=23&amp;beginyear=2010\" target=\"_blank\">Book tickets here</a>\n\nOur second event, in May, will be a talk by medievalist Dr William Maclehose, looking at the manufacture, trade and beliefs surrounding Christian relics, with special reference to the foreskin of the baby Jesus.','The Big Itch at The Little Shoppe of Horrors','','publish','open','open','','the-big-itch-at-the-little-shoppe-of-horrors','','','2010-03-19 10:49:26','2010-03-19 10:49:26','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1833',0,'post','',0),(1837,2,'2010-03-22 09:05:31','2010-03-22 09:05:31','<img style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Fleet2\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Fleet2.jpg\" alt=\"Fleet2\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" />\n\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1835\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Fleet1\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Fleet1.jpg\" alt=\"Fleet1\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" />\n\nFollowing the success of last weekend\'s walks, Tom Bolton (above) has announced an overflow <em>London\'s Lost Rivers, The Fleet </em>tour for Saturday 27th March, 2.30pm-5pm\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\'This walk unpeels the London layers to trace the course of the lost river, rediscovering its influence on the landscape and the forgotten neighbourhoods along its banks. Go with the flow and walk three miles of the Fleet\'s course, from Kentish Town to the Thames\'.</span>\n\nMeet outside Kentish Town tube at 2.15pm. We finish at Blackfriars.\nThe walk is four miles long.\n\nCost is £3  - Please book ahead using this Paypal  link:\n\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_US/GB/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" /> <img style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" /></form>','River Fleet overspill tour: 27 March','','publish','open','open','','river-fleet-overspill-tour-27-march','','','2010-03-22 09:05:31','2010-03-22 09:05:31','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1837',0,'post','',0);
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1840,2,'2010-03-22 11:38:18','2010-03-22 11:38:18','<span style=\"line-height: 13px; font-size: small; \"> </span>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">When Pc Alex Deeprose was called to Glasgow\'s sprawling Southern Necropolis on the evening of 23 September 1954, he expected to be dealing with a simple case of vandalism.</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Titles like Tales from the Crypt were accused of corrupting young children</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">But the bizarre sight that awaited him was to make headlines around the world and cause a moral panic that led to the introduction of strict new censorship laws in the UK.</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Hundreds of children aged from four to 14, some of them armed with knives and sharpened sticks, were patrolling inside the historic graveyard.</div>\nHow a school-yard rumour became a full-blown panic...\n\n<em>When Pc Alex Deeprose was called to Glasgow\'s sprawling Southern Necropolis on the evening of 23 September 1954, he expected to be dealing with a simple case of vandalism. But the bizarre sight that awaited him was to make headlines around the world and cause a moral panic that led to the introduction of strict new censorship laws in the UK.</em>\n\n<em>Hundreds of children aged from four to 14, some of them armed with knives and sharpened sticks, were patrolling inside the historic graveyard.</em>\n\n<em>Full story over at the <a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8574484.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC</a></em>\n\nThis great tale from the crypt shows us how even the most unlikely rumours can escalate into something potentially more serious. Back in the 1930s, Halifax suffered a panic at the hands of a phantom assailant, the Halifax Slasher (detailed by Tim Chapman in <em><a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/SAJ2_sell.html\" target=\"_blank\">SAJ2</a></em>), while in the mid-1970s sheriffs had to persuade students at a Montana high-school that the cattle mutilators said to be plaguing the region weren\'t about to turn their scalpels on humans – more on this in <em>Mirage Men</em>.\n\nAnd then of course, there\'s the alleged attack of the <a href=\"http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=9555\" target=\"_blank\">killer smurfs</a> in Houston Texas...\n\n<em>\n</em>','Glasgow&#039;s metal-toothed vampire panic','','publish','open','open','','glasgows-metal-toothed-vampire-panic','','','2010-03-22 11:38:18','2010-03-22 11:38:18','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1840',0,'post','',0),(1841,2,'2010-03-23 08:16:07','2010-03-23 08:16:07','A dramatisation with harp music of Owen Barfield\'s 1929 novella: <em>The Rose on the Ash-Heap</em><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" /><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" /><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Thursday 25th March 2010</strong><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" />1.30 pm to 5.30 pm St. Ethelburga’s, <br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" />78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG|\n£25 in advance or £35 on the door.\n\n<strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">Owen Barfield</strong> is one of the twentieth century’s most significant writers and philosophers. He is known as \"<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">the first and last Inkling</em>\", and was one of the initial members of the Inklings literary discussion group based in Oxford, of which J.R.R Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were also important members. Barfield’s ideas and literary artistry influenced the thinking of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, and won praise from many other leading literary figures of the century.\n\n<em>The Rose on the Ash Heap </em>is the epilogue from English People - Barfield’s ambitious unpublished novel of English life between the First and Second World Wars. At once fairy tale, societal critique, romance and apocalyptic vision, it discloses the redemptive powers of love and imagination. Written in the late 1920s, a time of widespread societal and economic instability,  <em>The Rose on the Ash Heap </em>is also a tale for the twenty-first century.\n\nSpeakers include Gary Lachman, Owen A Barfield (grandson to author Owen Barfield), Simon Blaxland-de Lange\n\nMore info at <a href=\"http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/928-Owen_Barfield_event.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Tolkein Society</a> (25 march is also International Tolkein Reading Day!)','Owen Barfield: The Rose on the Ash Heap','','publish','open','open','','owen-barfield-the-rose-on-the-ash-heap','','','2010-03-23 08:16:07','2010-03-23 08:16:07','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1841',0,'post','',0),(1845,2,'2010-03-25 14:41:08','2010-03-25 14:41:08','<a href=\"http://neitherami.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1844\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"4skulls-on-poles_1\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/4skulls-on-poles_1.jpg\" alt=\"4skulls-on-poles_1\" width=\"159\" height=\"240\" /></a><em>The “Kraftwerk of low-brow literary fiction” return with a live performance of original fiction that only a mother could love.</em>\n\n<em>Following a sell-out performance at the glitzy Peckham Literary Festival in November, the anonymous Neither Am I collective return to launch the brand-new hard-copy edition of their collected short works of celebrity-obsessed gurglings from the very hinterlands of popular taste.</em>\n\n<em>This masked reading will feature a randomised selection of personnel from Neither Am I’s extensive contributor-base that features the editor of a national newspaper, a bestselling Mills and Boon author and a bulbous-headed, universally-loathed, high-brow literary prick. Each will read original verbal dubplates of drum’n’prose, verse-core and frankly annoying atonal sound poems.</em>\n\nFriday 26 March, 8pm – 1am (literary performance starts at 9.30pm)\n\nThe Cavendish Arms, Hartington Road, London SW8\n\nFREE ENTRY\n\nIntrigued? <a href=\"http://neitherami.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Neither Am I</a>','Neither Am I too','','publish','open','open','','neither-am-i-too','','','2010-03-25 14:41:08','2010-03-25 14:41:08','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1845',0,'post','',0),(1847,2,'2010-03-30 10:25:04','2010-03-30 10:25:04','<img style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"300px-A-12_Avenger_Concept\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/300px-A-12_Avenger_Concept.jpg\" alt=\"300px-A-12_Avenger_Concept\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" />\n\nAn interesting <a href=\"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011461015_area51vets28m.html\" target=\"_blank\">article</a> about Area 51 veterans finally emerging in public includes this wonderful image:\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px;\"><em>Barnes believes the Air Force and the \"Agency\" didn\'t mind the stories about alien spacecraft. They helped cover up the secret planes that were being tested.</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px;\"><em>On one occasion, he remembers, when the first jets were being tested at what Muroc Army Air Field, later renamed Edwards Air Force Base, a test pilot put on a gorilla mask and flew upside down beside a private pilot.</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px;\"><em>\"Well, when this guy went back, telling reporters, \'I saw a plane that didn\'t have a propeller and being flown by a monkey,\' well, they laughed at this guy — and it got where the guys would see [test pilots] and they didn\'t dare report it because everybody\'d laugh at them,\" says Barnes.</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px;\">Read the full <a href=\"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011461015_area51vets28m.html\" target=\"_blank\">piece</a> at the<em> Seattle Times.</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px;\">A fascinating full-length <a href=\"http://digital.library.unlv.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/nts&amp;CISOPTR=1225&amp;CISOBOX=1&amp;REC=7\" target=\"_blank\">interview</a> with A51 vet TD Barnes, conducted as part of the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project, can also be found <a href=\"http://digital.library.unlv.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/nts&amp;CISOPTR=1225&amp;CISOBOX=1&amp;REC=7\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> , in which he talks about working on the CIA/NSA Palladium project, which I identify in <em>Mirage Men</em> as the probable source for a number of UFO incidents.</p>','Area 51&#039;s flying gorilla','','publish','open','open','','area-51s-flying-gorilla','','','2010-03-30 10:25:04','2010-03-30 10:25:04','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1847',0,'post','',0),(1849,2,'2010-03-31 09:28:53','2010-03-31 09:28:53','<a href=\"http://codeless88.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1848\" style=\"border: 0; float: left; margin: 8px;\" title=\"tele-geto-poster-for-web\" src=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/tele-geto-poster-for-web-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"tele-geto-poster-for-web\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\n<em>During the 1960s US agricultural imports began to undermine the traditional agricultural economy of Haiti... Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier took over in 1971. In 1972 he was exposed for selling Haitian blood to private American hospitals for $3 a litre. In 1978 the indigenous Haitian pig was diagnosed as having the African Swine Fever and, under pressure from the US government, was almost entirely eradicated and replaced by an American pig that cost almost as much to feed as a Haitian human.</em>\n\nLast night, in a brilliant presentation at London\'s Cabinet Gallery, SA pal John Cussans outlined Haiti\'s troubled history, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 and the decimation, within a decade, of the indigenous Taino people, to the catastrophic earthquake late last year.\n\nToday the UN will be <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/world/americas/31haiti.html?hpw\" target=\"_blank\">laying the foundations for Haiti\'s future</a>, with reconstruction plans that are already proving controversial. Critics state that the measures being discussed will do little to help the beleaguered nation achieve the economic and cultural independence that it needs and deserves.\n\nOver at his blog <a href=\"http://codeless88.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Zombie Diaspora</a>, Cussans writes about Haiti\'s past, its potential futures and the ongoing work begun with the <a href=\"http://www.yoonsoo.com/ghetto/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghetto Biennale</a>, which took place just a couple of weeks before the quake struck.\n\nOne small victory would be the widespread return of Haiti\'s indigenous <a href=\"http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/misctopic/pigs/gaertner.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Creole pig</a> which, as well as being a vital part of the food chain and ecosystem, plays a key role in Haitian voodoo and the folklore of its revolt against the French. The pig\'s reintroduction would be a fantastic symbol of Haiti\'s renewed cultural and economic independence.\n\nMore over at <a href=\"http://codeless88.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Zombie Diaspora</a>.\n\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">\n</span>','Rebuilding Haiti from the pig up','','publish','open','open','','rebuilding-haiti-from-the-pig-up','','','2010-03-31 09:28:53','2010-03-31 09:28:53','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1849',0,'post','',0),(1851,2,'2010-04-06 09:47:21','2010-04-06 09:47:21','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1850\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"MAPS\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/MAPS.jpg\" alt=\"MAPS\" width=\"350\" height=\"103\" />\n\n<em>Playboy</em> magazine recently ran <a href=\"http://www.maps.org/media/playboy_the_psychedelic_renaissance_CT_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this admirably sober article</a> about the state of psychedelic research, with a focus on the work of MAPS, the <a href=\"http://www.maps.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies</a>. Amongst the current projects run by MAPS are those looking at  the use of MDMA in palliative care and as part of therapy for post traumatic stress. Read the <em>Playboy</em> piece <a href=\"http://www.maps.org/media/playboy_the_psychedelic_renaissance_CT_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> (PDF).\n\nAlso over at MAPS is an <a href=\"http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v20n1/v20n1-44to45.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">essay</a> by green undertaker and SA pal <a href=\"http://www.thegreenfuneralcompany.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Ru Callender</a>. Ru talks about the role that MDMA has played in helping him to deal with his own grieving process, and to better understand that of others.\n\n<em>I am so grateful for the optimism and hope that MDMA has enabled me to feel, for the part it played in healing my own grief and for the opportunity to take the best of that experience back into the straight world. All who work with the dying and the bereaved would beneﬁt from the sheer, death-defying physical pleasure that MDMA gives, if only for an hour or two. As thirty odd years of authoritarian hostility towards psychedelic culture begins to thaw, maybe they’ll get the chance.</em>\n\nHere\'s <a href=\"http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v20n1/v20n1-44to45.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Ru\'s piece</a> (PDF).\n\nIn other psychedelic news, <em><a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hofmanns-Elixir-LSD-New-Eleusis/dp/0954805496/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1270546769&amp;sr=8-4\" target=\"_blank\">Hofmann\'s Elixir: LSD and the Road to Eleusis</a></em>, by Albert Hofmann et al is finally at the printers. A co-production by <a href=\"http://beckleyfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Beckley Foundation</a> and SAP, it\'s a handsome tome collecting essays by and about the good doctor Hofmann and his problem child.  You can advance order a copy <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hofmanns-Elixir-LSD-New-Eleusis/dp/0954805496/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1270546769&amp;sr=8-4\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nAnd while we\'re on the subject of LSD: <a href=\"http://www.cio.com/article/589362/Tech_Visionaries_and_LSD_Turn_On_Tune_In_Geek_Out?page=1#slideshow\" target=\"_blank\">Turn on, Tune in, Geek Out! </a>\nHow LSD helped give birth to the computer industry at <a href=\"http://www.cio.com/article/589362/Tech_Visionaries_and_LSD_Turn_On_Tune_In_Geek_Out?page=1#slideshow\" target=\"_blank\">CIO.com</a>','Bunny takes a trip','','publish','open','open','','bunny-takes-a-trip','','','2010-04-06 09:47:21','2010-04-06 09:47:21','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1851',0,'post','',0),(1857,2,'2010-04-07 16:33:23','2010-04-07 16:33:23','<a href=\"http://www.usurp.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1856\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Cathy_Ward_sm\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Cathy_Ward_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Cathy_Ward_sm\" width=\"350\" height=\"244\" /></a>\n\n<strong><em>Usurp Art Gallery presents \"TEEN-AGE\" by Cathy Ward</em></strong>\n\nLaunch event Friday 16th April 6.30 to 9.30pm\n\nCathy Ward intertwines mysterious drawings of convoluted masses of hair with symbol-laden landscape installations. For her show at the Usurp Gallery, Ward transforms the space into cascades of entrancing evocations of that which is hidden, plucked out and forbidden.\n\n<em>If the scent of her hair were to blow across my dust when I had been dead a hundred years, my mouldering bones would rise and come dancing out of the tomb...</em> Hafiz of Shiraz (Khwaja Shams ud-Din Hafiz-i Shirazi 1326-1390)\n\nExhibition 17th April to 31st May 2010\nThurs to Sun 2pm to 8pm\n\n<a href=\"http://www.usurp.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Usurp Art Gallery</a> &amp; Studios, 140 Vaughan Road, London HA1 4EB','Cathy Ward: Teen Age at USURP','','publish','open','open','','cathy-ward-teen-age-at-usurp','','','2010-04-07 16:33:23','2010-04-07 16:33:23','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1857',0,'post','',0),(1859,2,'2010-04-09 08:54:23','2010-04-09 08:54:23','<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T5gQHa2pq4\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1858\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"drunktesla\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/drunktesla.jpg\" alt=\"drunktesla\" width=\"578\" height=\"295\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T5gQHa2pq4\" target=\"_blank\">Drunk History: Nikola Tesla</a>\n\nDuncan Trussell drinks six cans of beer and half a bottle of abshinthe then narratesh the amazing history of Nikola Teshla... complete with hazy re-enactments shtarring amongst othersh Crishpin Glover... Yesh, thatsh really Crishpin Glover!\n\nThanksh <a href=\"http://mikejay.net\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Jay</a>','Nikola Teshla (with pineapple chunks)','','publish','open','open','','nikola-teshla-with-pineapple-chunks','','','2010-04-09 08:54:23','2010-04-09 08:54:23','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1859',0,'post','',0),(1862,2,'2010-04-12 09:39:57','2010-04-12 09:39:57','<a href=\"http://www.anomalistbooks.com/ta14.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1861\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"ta14\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ta141.jpg\" alt=\"ta14\" width=\"200\" height=\"307\" /></a>\n<em>ELECTRICITY OF THE MIND\n<span style=\"font-style: normal; \"><a href=\"http://www.anomalistbooks.com/ta14.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Anomalist</a> 14\nGuest Edited by Ian Simmons</span></em>\n\nArticles include:\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em>Mike Jay </em>on Samuel Taylor</span> Coleridge\'s fragmentary writings on the paranormal.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em>Bryan Williams, Annalisa Ventola</em></span> and<em> </em><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em>Mike Wilson</em></span> provide a basic primer for exploring temperature and magnetic fields in cases of haunting.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em>Aeolus Kephas</em></span> examines the similarities between two of the 20th Century\'s most popular and charismatic \'literary shamen\' Carlos Castaneda and Whitley Strieber.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em>Mark Pilkington</em></span> discovers that the first cinematic crop circle appeared three years before Doug Bower and Dave Chorley went to work in the fields of Hampshire.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em>Gary Lachman</em></span> shares some thoughts on politics and the occult.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em>Richard Wiseman</em> tells</span> tales from his research into stage magic, including his discovery of the first ever film of a magic trick.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tim Cridland</span> takes a long, hard, critical look at the career of leading skeptic James Randi and some of the inconsistencies it seems to contain.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933665394/\" target=\"_blank\">Available now</a>','Electricity of the Mind','','publish','open','open','','electricity-of-the-mind','','','2010-04-12 09:39:57','2010-04-12 09:39:57','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1862',0,'post','',0),(1866,2,'2010-04-13 10:42:42','2010-04-13 10:42:42','<a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/11/oklahoma-bombing-15-years-on\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1865\" style=\"border: 0; float: left; margin: 8px;\" title=\"OKbomb\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/OKbomb.jpg\" alt=\"OKbomb\" width=\"272\" height=\"400\" /></a>Next Monday, 19 April, the <a href=\"http://www.teapartypatriots.org/\" target=\"_blank\">US Tea Party</a> movement will hold a national day of protest against Obama\'s health care reforms.\n\nThe date marks the 17th  anniversary of the disastrous climax to the siege of David Koresh\'s compound at Waco, Texas. It\'s also the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the federal building at Oklahoma City.\n\nWhat\'s message are the Tea Party organisers trying to get across?\n\nThere are clear parallels to be drawn between the growing anti-Obama movement - such as the <a href=\"http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/oath-keepers\" target=\"_blank\">Oath Keepers</a> group for serving and former military and police officers - and the militia movements of the mid-\'90s that informed the actions of Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, Michael Fortier  and others.\n\nThis <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/11/oklahoma-bombing-15-years-on\" target=\"_blank\">Observer</a> article recalls the bombing, considers its current absence from the US media, and speaks to some of the survivors and victims.\n\n<em>On Monday week, 19 April, the national Tea Party protests will be held across America, venting anger at the Federal government. In Oklahoma City, however, their protest will be held four days earlier, so as not to coincide with the memorial at what was the site of the federal government building – almost an admission by the Tea Party that they are playing with fire. \"They\'ll say they\'re coming here to protest Obama\'s health care programme,\" says Keith Simonds, \"but that\'s not what it is. They\'re here to spew their hatred, vomiting their political agenda. How dare they come here?\"</em>\n\n<em>[Last month] nine people appeared in court in Detroit, members of an offshoot of McVeigh\'s Michigan militia called Hutaree, charged with \"seditious conspiracy\" to kill a police officer and then bomb the funeral cortege, in order to spark insurrection akin to that sought by McVeigh. The previous week, congresswoman Louise Slaughter, who voted for President Barack Obama\'s health care reform, received one of many threats of violence to elected representatives, this one pledging that snipers would \"kill the children of the members who voted for health care reform\". Such language makes the blood run cold in Oklahoma; and the fact that most people in Oklahoma are deeply conservative makes the irony of both the bomb and their disgust at this language all the more cogent.</em>\n\nRead the <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/11/oklahoma-bombing-15-years-on\" target=\"_blank\">full article</a>','America&#039;s Tea Party and the OK Bomb','','publish','open','open','','americas-tea-party-and-the-ok-bomb','','','2010-04-13 10:42:42','2010-04-13 10:42:42','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1866',0,'post','',0),(1870,2,'2010-04-14 16:00:02','2010-04-14 16:00:02','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1869\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"WorldsFair_1964\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/WorldsFair_1964.jpg\" alt=\"WorldsFair_1964\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" />\n\nVia <a href=\"http://kenhollings.blogspot.com/2010/04/hollingsville-tx-112-future.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Hollings</a>: Hollingsville TX1/12, ‘The Future\'\n\n‘Suddenly it’s 1960!’\n\n<em>The inaugural episode of my new series ‘Hollingville’ is scheduled to go out live and unscripted at 7.00 pm, Thursday April 15 on </em><a style=\"color: #99aadd; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://resonancefm.com/\"><em>Resonance 104.4 FM</em></a><em>. My main studio guest will be writer</em><a style=\"color: #99aadd; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Beard\"><em>Steve Beard</em></a><em>, plus – if we can swing it in time – designer and infonaut</em><a style=\"color: #99aadd; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://magicalnihilism.com/\"><em>Matt Jones</em></a><em> in pre-recorded conversation from somewhere in deep space. Expect live and unscripted wanderings around voodoo science parks, examinations of cities as battle suits and thoughts on pods, capsules and world expos. Specially commissioned musical interludes will be by the ‘Hollingsville’ composer in residence, </em><a style=\"color: #99aadd; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.myspace.com/grahammassey\"><em>Graham Massey</em></a><em>, with ins and outs by Indigo Octagon. This programme will be taking place in your future: so you’d be crazy to miss it.</em>','Hollingsville begins 15 April','','publish','open','open','','hollingsville-begins-15-april','','','2010-04-14 16:00:02','2010-04-14 16:00:02','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1870',0,'post','',0),(1872,2,'2010-04-16 09:17:18','2010-04-16 09:17:18','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1871\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"17_EnterEther_Lydia_Kavina\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/17_EnterEther_Lydia_Kavina.jpg\" alt=\"17_EnterEther_Lydia_Kavina\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" />\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">A day of performances, masterclasses and demonstrations with some of the UK\'s leading thereminists coming together to explore and celebrate this pioneering instrument championed by Varese.</p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Kicking off the day is a performance by Lydia Kavina, one of the world\'s leading thereminists, followed by public workshops, masterclasses and a range of performances including a giant theremin improvised jam. <em>(the jam features Ninki V, Bruce Woolley and other SA pals)</em>.</p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Highlights include: Lydia Kavina (1pm); performances by Beat Frequency, Jonathan Golove and Natasha Farny on theremin cellos, Chris Conway and Alexander Thomas (1.40pm onwards); a specialist masterclass (3.40pm); a public workshop (4.45pm); and a grand finale of 21 thermeminists improvising together.</p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">From 6.30pm onwards, there is the first chance for public to explore and enjoy the Enter the Ether installation in full.</p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\">More <a href=\"http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/classical/tickets/enter-the-ether-hands-off-52511\" target=\"_blank\">info</a></p>','Theremania - 17 April, South Bank Centre, London','','publish','open','open','','theremania-17-april-south-bank-centre-london','','','2010-04-16 09:17:18','2010-04-16 09:17:18','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1872',0,'post','',0),(1875,2,'2010-04-19 11:50:36','2010-04-19 11:50:36','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1873\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"_wikipedia_commons_c_c4_Crop_circles_Swirl-3\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/wikipedia_commons_c_c4_Crop_circles_Swirl-3.jpg\" alt=\"_wikipedia_commons_c_c4_Crop_circles_Swirl-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" />\n\nCrop Circle season is almost upon us. Plans are being drawn, fences are being strengthened, black boxes are being turned on to check that the blinky lights still work.\n\nOver at <a href=\"http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/08/crop-circles-part-de.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing</a> Jacques Vallée, the brilliant French computer scientist and UFO researcher, has posted <a href=\"http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/08/crop-circles-part-de.html\" target=\"_blank\">a sanguine riposte</a> to the hostility he receieved from an earlier <a href=\"http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/in-search-of-alien-g.html\" target=\"_blank\">post</a>, in which he suggested that some crop circles were produced by the military using lasers mounted on satellites or other aerial platforms:\n\n<em>The specific hypothesis offered--that crop circles are the result of a U.K. defense electronics development project--only elicited 19 responses discussing the facts or arguing for or against the idea itself. Among the other 40 responses ... 15 asserted their authors\' strongly-held pre-existing belief ... 14 simply expressed a flat rejection with no arguments, and fully 11 responses can only be described as cyber-bullying.... What does that say for the ability of new web-based media to support intelligent debate on controversial scientific issues, censored or strongly discouraged in the scientific environment?</em>\n\n<em><!--more--><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><a href=\"http://www.greatdreams.com/crop/mndlbrt/mandlbrt.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1874\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"cropmand\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/cropmand.jpg\" alt=\"cropmand\" width=\"370\" height=\"254\" /></a></span></em>\n\nThe formation that I believe Jacques was originally referring to is the Mandlebrot Set that appeared on 11 August 1991 in a field at Ickleton, about 11 miles south of Cambridge (<em>pictured above</em>). There are of course lots of mathematicians in Cambridge but, as far as I\'m aware, the identity of the team behind this iconic image remains unknown. Contrary to what many circle enthusiasts believe, most veteran circlemakers know who made what, or at least have a good idea who did, so such anonymity is quite uncommon in the field.\n\nIn 2006 <a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/fieldguide/\" target=\"_blank\">Field Guide</a> authors Rob Irving and John Lundberg were asked to <a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/content/articles/2006/09/22/feature_inside_out_crop_circles_20060922_feature.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">recreate</a> the Mandlebrot formation <a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/content/articles/2006/09/22/feature_inside_out_crop_circles_20060922_feature.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">for the BBC</a>. They found the job surprisingly challenging, though they did manage to complete it working in rather adverse weather conditions. While the anonymity of the original authors certainly leaves the glowing window of outrageous possibility open a crack, I don\'t think that crack is big enough to squeeze a defence satellite, or even a drone, through.\n\nThe laser calibration theory, originally proposed in 1990 by another French ufologist, Jean Jacques Valesco, is a novel and, for the time, reasonable one. But, as a former crop-circle maker, I don\'t think it\'s necessary to resort to advanced technologies to account for <em>any</em> crop formation. If lasers have been used to make some crop circles, and they have been, then they were the sort that you can buy in terrestrial hardware shops, or on the Internet (as always, see <a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/fieldguide/\" target=\"_blank\">The Field Guide</a> for a full run down of crop circle making technology).\n\nThanks to John and Rob we know that the Mandlebrot formation <em>can </em>be made in the pissing rain<em> <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">by just two experienced crop circle makers, even if </span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">it\'s not easy. So,</span></em> from my fringe-dweller\'s perspective I\'d put my money on mischievous mathematicians as the source of the 1991 formation  – they\'re much cheaper to run than satellite lasers. And besides, if our military was going to make a crop circle, I imagine it would look more like <a href=\"http://www.korncirkler.dk/02cc/02.5a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this</a>.','Crop circles, lasers and mystery mathematicians','','publish','open','open','','crop-circles-lasers-and-mystery-mathematicians','','','2010-04-19 11:50:36','2010-04-19 11:50:36','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1875',0,'post','',0),(1881,2,'2010-04-19 16:33:48','2010-04-19 16:33:48','<a href=\"http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/beckley_press/hofmann.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1880\" style=\"border: 0; float: left; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Hofmann_web\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Hofmann_web.jpg\" alt=\"Hofmann_web\" width=\"180\" height=\"293\" /></a>\n\nToday is bicycle day and, after some time in limbo, <em><a href=\"http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/beckley_press/hofmann.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hofmann\'s Elixir: LSD and the Road to Eleusis</a></em> is finally back from the printers.\n\nThis beautifully produced book - a tribute to Dr Hofmann and his problem child - is a co-production between <a href=\"http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Beckley Foundation</a> and Strange Attractor Press. Here\'s the press release:\n\n<em>Dr Albert Hofmann died in 2008 aged 102. The philosopher-chemist would have been a remarkable man even if he hadn’t discovered the chemical compound that changed the course of the 20th century – LSD. Voted the greatest living genius in a 2007 poll, the self-described ‘little Swiss chemist’ was as much loved and respected for his personal nobility and modesty as he was for his chemical creations, which besides LSD, included chemicals used every day in maternity and geriatric wards the world over.</em>\n\n<em>This unique book collects, for the first time, a number of his later essays and lectures. Between them they present a comprehensive overview of Hofmann’s relationship to his controversial creation, and reveal his profound mystical outlook, informed both by his own LSD experiences, and by a life lived through one of the most turbulent centuries in human history.</em>\n\n<em>The second section contains essays and memoirs from some of the world’s leading psychedelic thinkers, including Huston Smith, Myron Stolaroff, Ralph Metzner, Jonathan Ott, Stanislav Grof and Amanda Feilding. The book is also is illustrated throughout with many rare photographs from the Hofmann archives.</em>\n\n<em> Hofmann’s Elixir is at once an important cultural and historical document, and a rare glimpse inside a visionary mind.</em>\n\n<em style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hofmann\'s Elixir: Talks &amp; Essays by Albert Hofmann and others.\nTranslation by Jonathan Ott, edited by Amanda Feilding.</em>\n<div>More info <a href=\"http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/beckley_press/hofmann.html\" target=\"_blank\">here</a></div>\n<a href=\"http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/beckley_press/hofmann.html\" target=\"_blank\"></a>Meanwhile over on BBC Radio 4 Susan Blackmore and Mike Jay discuss Dr Hofmann and his legacy - <em><a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rzv0v\" target=\"_blank\">In the Footsteps of Giants</a></em>','On yer bike!','','publish','open','open','','on-yer-bike','','','2010-04-19 16:33:48','2010-04-19 16:33:48','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1881',0,'post','',0),(1884,2,'2010-04-21 09:26:32','2010-04-21 09:26:32','<a href=\"http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/315/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1883\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"COVER315\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/COVER315.jpg\" alt=\"COVER315\" width=\"244\" height=\"296\" /></a>I\'ve written an <em>Epiphanies</em> column for the current issue of music magazine <a href=\"http://www.thewire.co.uk\">The Wire</a>.\n\nTaking the slot\'s title literally I recall a synaesthetic experience while listening to Kraftwerk as a teenager, and a more recent reality-processing glitch while watching Charles Hayward in action.\n\nThe Wire\'s <a href=\"http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/web_exclusive/\" target=\"_blank\">web portal</a> also features <em><a href=\"http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">Wyndham Hill</a></em><em>,</em> an Asterism dematerialisation of a forthcoming track by Xylitol, and brief texts about some favourite web sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Further will be quiet until Monday 26th April as I\'ll be away, volcano gods willing.','Robot Epiphany: The Wire 315','','publish','open','open','','robot-epiphany-the-wire-315','','','2010-04-21 09:26:32','2010-04-21 09:26:32','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1884',0,'post','',0),(1887,2,'2010-04-26 09:13:05','2010-04-26 09:13:05','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1886\" style=\"border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"teen-age-3\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/teen-age-3.jpg\" alt=\"teen-age-3\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" />\n\n<em>I grew up in a time of defiant youth culture. One could move into different groups of people that were mostly defined by their hairstyle and music taste. The 70’s were fantastically experimental, a fertile breeding ground for creating strong individuals. My defiant sensibilities were well established by the time punk arrived. A reaction initially teased out by the greaser-bikers I’d hung out with in my ween-teens. Motorbikes, Heavy Metal, ‘Snake bites’ (cider and lager), Hickies and those illicit parties in  straw-cut fields accompanied by exciting police raids. My hair was short by the age of 14, and for some inexplicable reason I started collecting and bagging the trimmings.</em>\n\nRead the full piece over at <a href=\"http://www.theculturalpick.com/webzine/teenagecathyward/\" target=\"_blank\">Plectrum</a>\n\nCathy Ward\'s <em>Teen Age (above) </em>is at the <a href=\"http://www.usurp.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">USURP Gallery</a> until 30 May','Cathy Ward on hair, music and art','','publish','open','open','','cathy-ward-on-hair-music-and-art','','','2010-04-26 09:13:05','2010-04-26 09:13:05','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1887',0,'post','',0),(1889,2,'2010-04-27 12:34:19','2010-04-27 12:34:19','<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: #000000;\"><em> </em></p>\n\n<em>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">For more than two years, Ali Hussain Sibat of Lebanon has been held in a prison in Saudi Arabia, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. His head is to be chopped off by an executioner wielding a long, curved sword.</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">His crime: manipulating spirits, predicting the future, concocting potions and conjuring spells on a call-in television show called “The Hidden” on a Lebanese channel, Scheherazade. It was, in effect, a Middle Eastern psychic hot line.</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">“Sorcery is the ability to influence matters that affect people’s lives through the use of spirits,” said Abdulaziz AlGasim, a retired Saudi judge. “It is impossible to prove such an act except through confession, and confessions are suspect.”</div>\nFor more than two years, Ali Hussain Sibat of Lebanon has been held in a prison in Saudi Arabia, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. His head is to be chopped off by an executioner wielding a long, curved sword.\n\nHis crime: manipulating spirits, predicting the future, concocting potions and conjuring spells on a call-in television show called “The Hidden” on a Lebanese channel, Scheherazade. It was, in effect, a Middle Eastern psychic hot line.\n\n“Sorcery is the ability to influence matters that affect people’s lives through the use of spirits,” said Abdulaziz AlGasim, a retired Saudi judge. “It is impossible to prove such an act except through confession, and confessions are suspect.”\n\nFull story at the <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/world/middleeast/25saudi.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times</a> via <a href=\"http://www.anomalist.com/\">The Anomalist</a>\n\n</em>','Ali Hussain Sibat: A Saudi witch hunt','','publish','open','open','','ali-hussain-sibat-a-saudi-witch-hunt','','','2010-04-27 12:34:19','2010-04-27 12:34:19','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1889',0,'post','',0),(1892,2,'2010-04-30 08:13:31','2010-04-30 08:13:31','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/s2Vdr1DKPQ0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/s2Vdr1DKPQ0&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\n<em>[NB 1 May 2010, a good explanation for these objects can be found </em><a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1892\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here</em></a><em>]</em>\n\nOne of <a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?s=zoom+in+my+friend\" target=\"_blank\">my favourite UFO videos</a> of recent years – the sinister looking objects filmed off the coast of Kumburgaz, just west of Istanbul in 2008 and 2009 above - may have a mundane explanation after all... they were IMOs - Identifiable Marine Objects.\n\nBooooo!\n\nOver at the excellent <a href=\"http://forgetomori.com/2010/ufos/kumburgaz-turkey-ufo-yacht-window-reflections/#more-1527\" target=\"_blank\">Forgetomori</a> site, a translation of an article by Chilean researcher <a href=\"http://usuarios.multimania.es/aduarte/investigaciones/kumburgaz/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrés Duarte</a> reveals that the biomechanoid UFOs were quite likely yachts off the tourist-heavy coast reflecting lights from the shore.\n\nBoooo again!\n\n<a href=\"http://forgetomori.com/2010/ufos/kumburgaz-turkey-ufo-yacht-window-reflections/#more-1527\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1891\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"figura10\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/figura101.jpg\" alt=\"figura10\" width=\"387\" height=\"400\" /></a>\n\n<em>\'We can summarize the probable characteristics of these alleged UFOs to suggest a specific hypothesis: the objects are straight or just slightly bent specular surfaces, there are different designs for them, they could be part of a bigger object that can’t be seen given the circumstances, they are possibly sheets of transparent material, they are probably in the sea.... <span style=\"font-style: normal; \"><em>All of this takes us to the following hypothesis: </em><em>the objects are lateral ‘shark’ or ‘moth’ style windows in some boats or small yachts</em><em>.”</em></span></em>\n\nMuch as it pains me to accept that Giger-esque ETs haven\'t weren\'t among the hordes of Summer visitors to  the Anatolian coast, Duarte\'s theory seems entirely sensible. Now he should be encouraged to try to recreate the effect with a video of his own.\n\nThe other, and perhaps most important point to be made about this discovery is that the original videoegrapher, night security guard Yalcin Yalman, was probably filming what he believed to be genuine UFOs, and not conducting a hoax as some have declared.\n\nWhile I\'m an advocate of the theory that some UFO events and beliefs have been deliberately fostered and encouraged by military and intelligence organisations around the world – I\'ve just written a book, <em>Mirage Men</em> about it! - this story is a timely reminder that people will continue to see UFOs and ET spacecraft with or without government assistance.\n\nVia <a href=\"http://forgetomori.com/2010/ufos/kumburgaz-turkey-ufo-yacht-window-reflections/#more-1527\" target=\"_blank\">Forgetomori</a> - thanks <a href=\"http://www.ianridpath.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Ridpath</a>!','Turkish UFOs were IMOs?','','publish','open','open','','turkish-ufos-were-yachts','','','2010-04-30 08:13:31','2010-04-30 08:13:31','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1892',0,'post','',0),(1899,2,'2010-05-04 00:09:28','2010-05-04 00:09:28','<a title=\"London 13 by Mark Pilkington, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangeattractor/sets/72157623861791089/\"><img style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/4576500292_0b199d6e9e.jpg\" alt=\"London 13\" width=\"450\" height=\"326\" /></a>\n\nAn <em>English Heretic </em>photostory, over at <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangeattractor/sets/72157623861791089/\" target=\"_self\">Flickr</a>','London 13','','publish','open','open','','london-13','','','2010-05-04 00:09:28','2010-05-04 00:09:28','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1899',0,'post','',0),(1904,2,'2010-05-06 12:04:02','2010-05-06 12:04:02','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/JHt7EZ460l8&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/JHt7EZ460l8&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nThe full, awful extent of the BP oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is caught in this laconically-narrated fly-over.\n\nVia <a href=\"http://io9.com\" target=\"_blank\">IO9</a>','A black death, from horizon to horizon','','publish','open','open','','the-black-death-from-horizon-to-horizon','','','2010-05-06 12:04:02','2010-05-06 12:04:02','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1904',0,'post','',0),(1906,2,'2010-05-07 09:29:29','2010-05-07 09:29:29','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"430\" height=\"335\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/XWcQei3hPz4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"430\" height=\"335\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/XWcQei3hPz4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nIt\'s that kind of day...\n\nThanks Joe Banks!','Bimbo&#039;s Initiation','','publish','open','open','','bimbos-initiation','','','2010-05-07 09:29:29','2010-05-07 09:29:29','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1906',0,'post','',0),(1908,2,'2010-05-10 10:28:56','2010-05-10 10:28:56','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1907\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"UVTA_murmurations\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/UVTA_murmurations.jpg\" alt=\"UVTA_murmurations\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" />\n\nWorlds will collide on 29 May 2010 when <a href=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/uvta.html\" target=\"_blank\">Urthona and the Asterism</a> join forces for a performance at the <a href=\"http://www.firestationartscentre.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fire Station Arts Centre</a>, Windsor, preceding a solo show by the  Arch-drude himself,  <a href=\"http://www.headheritage.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Cope</a>.\n\nThe dynamic duo harness elemental technologies to create a cascading surge of raw noise, undulating harmonics and some serious cognitive dissonance.\n\nMore on UATA <a href=\"http://urthona.co.uk/releases/murmurations-asterism/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>, and a review of their album <em>Murmurations</em> <a href=\"http://freq.powweb.com/freq_wp/?p=631\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> at Freq.\n\nTickets for the show, priced £17.50 (phew!) are available <a href=\"http://www.firestationartscentre.com/index.php?view=details&amp;id=2548%3Ajulian-cope&amp;option=com_eventlist&amp;Itemid=12\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nThe <a href=\"http://www.firestationartscentre.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fire Station Arts Centre</a> is on St Leonards Road Windsor SL4 3BL.','Urthona and the Asterism live: 29 May 2010','','publish','open','open','','urthona-and-the-asterism-live-29-may-2010','','','2010-05-10 10:28:56','2010-05-10 10:28:56','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1908',0,'post','',0),(1910,2,'2010-05-11 10:28:34','2010-05-11 10:28:34','<em>Strange Attractor Press will have a stall at this event.\nI recently found a stash of collectors\' copies of SAJ3, so will take a few along, as well as new postcards and other goodies. </em>\n\n<strong>Work in Progress</strong><br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" /><em>Sunday, 16 May 2010 at 12pm – 6pm</em><br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" /><a href=\"http://www.thelexington.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lexington</a>, 96 - 98 Pentonville Road, N1 9JB, London, United Kingdom <br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" /><br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" />\"Work in Progress is a space for small publishers and authors to display and sell their work in a words-friendly environment. It\'s also a space for discussion and debate, with readings, Q&amp;A sessions and possibly some heated opinions on poetry, translation, music criticism and much more.\"<br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" /><br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" /><em>Featuring readings, talks and Q&amp;A sessions with:</em><br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" />Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor Press<br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" />Nina Power, academic, author and blogger<br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" />Rosalind Harvey and Gwen Mackeith, translators<br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" />Julia Calver, publisher and writer<br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" />James Bridle, publisher and designer<br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" /><br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" /><em>Featuring wares from:</em><br style=\"line-height: 1.22em;\" />Zer0 books, Strange Attractor, Monster Emporium Press, Vertigo of the Modern, Antepress, CB Editions, David Rule, Henningham Family Press, Smoke, Amy Prior, Stingray, Savage Messiah','Work in Progress: Sunday 16 May','','publish','open','open','','work-in-progress-sunday-16-may','','','2010-05-11 10:28:34','2010-05-11 10:28:34','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1910',0,'post','',0),(1912,2,'2010-05-12 08:17:46','2010-05-12 08:17:46','<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1911\" style=\"float: left; border: 00px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Ctulu\" src=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Ctulu-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Ctulu\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" />...unless he\'s your own.\n\n<em>The more you study [HP Lovecraft\'s] Mythos, the closer you come to losing your marbles.</em>\n\n<em>And so it has come to pass... Lovecraft is one of those rare writers to have achieved immortality not only as an author but as a genre originator. Thousands of authors, filmmakers, comic book writers and game designers have adapted and elaborated his narrative tropes, atmospheric imagery, and monster lore into an intertextual web that, like all realized genres, congeals into an archetypal reality more powerful than any specific instantiations of the material....</em>\n\n<em>And still the dread conundrum: why and how did Cthulhu become cute? How did his eons-old awfulness become awwwwww….?</em>\n\nErik Davis on the cuddlification of the Great Old Ones. Over at <a href=\"http://hilobrow.com/2010/05/03/cthulhu-is-not-cute/\" target=\"_blank\">HiLoBrow</a>','Cthulhu is not cute!','','publish','open','open','','cthulhu-is-not-cute','','','2010-05-12 08:17:46','2010-05-12 08:17:46','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1912',0,'post','',0),(1915,2,'2010-05-13 12:23:13','2010-05-13 12:23:13','<a href=\"http://www.dazeddigital.com/view/default.aspx?Category=27&amp;ArticleID=7376&amp;PageNum=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1914\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"246965\" src=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/246965-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"246965\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nPhotographer and SA Pal <a href=\"http://www.ruthbayer.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth Bayer</a> has put together a delightful book of photographs of people under the influence of room odouriser amyl nitrate.\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 59px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">To capture a moment in which the subject loses control, or at least slackens their grip on the reins, is a frequent goal in photography...</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 59px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">In \'Poppers\' , photographer Ruth Bayer achieves a simple but effective frisson between the composed, formal relationship of camera and subject, and the rogue element introduced by her subjects\' inhalation of Poppers - the street name for a legal compound belonging to the alkyl nitrate family; a muscle relaxant which causes the dilation of blood vessels, leading to increased blood flow and a rush of heat and euphoria.</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 59px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Fascinated by the watery, dilated eyes and sensually heightened faces of those she saw taking Poppers in nightclubs, Ruth set out to capture those fleeting moments of euphoric aware/unawareness in the series of photographs presented in this book.</div>\n<em>To capture a moment in which the subject loses control, or at least slackens their grip on the reins, is a frequent goal in photography...In \'Poppers\' , photographer Ruth Bayer achieves a simple but effective frisson between the composed, formal relationship of camera and subject, and the rogue element introduced by her subjects\' inhalation of Poppers - the street name for a legal compound belonging to the alkyl nitrate family; a muscle relaxant which causes the dilation of blood vessels, leading to increased blood flow and a rush of heat and euphoria.</em>\n\nYou can read an interview with Ruth, and see some of her pictures <a href=\"http://www.dazeddigital.com/view/default.aspx?Category=27&amp;ArticleID=7376&amp;PageNum=1\" target=\"_blank\">here</a> at <em>Dazed &amp; Confused</em> magazine, or buy the book at <a href=\"http://www.ruthbayer.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth\'s own site</a>.','The Popper effect','','publish','open','open','','the-popper-effect','','','2010-05-13 12:23:13','2010-05-13 12:23:13','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1915',0,'post','',0),(1917,2,'2010-05-14 10:40:13','2010-05-14 10:40:13','<a href=\"http://www.tomvater.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1916\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"rednight\" src=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/rednight-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"rednight\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>\n\nBangkok resident and SAJ1 contributor <a href=\"http://www.tomvater.com\">Tom Vater</a> dispatches from a city under siege.\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\"><em>It´s not easy to write about war. Harder still to write about war at home. Bangkok is my home and tonight, parts of the city were on the verge of giving way to total chaos. After eight weeks of street protests by the so-called Red Shirts aiming to force the Thai government to resign and call elections, the incessant heat, both political and sweat inducing, is catching up with both the demonstrators and the military. The walls of restraint built deeply into Thai culture are crumbling. The city is on the edge.</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\"><em>This afternoon, the government announced it would cut of electricity to the Ratchaprasong area, Bangkok’s flashiest shopping district, where the Red Shirts have been camped out for weeks. At the Siam Square entrance to the Red zone, where I’d come to meet a friend,  a motorcycle taxi driver tells us that there had been bombs and shooting in Sala Daeng and that the infamous Sae Daeng, a renegade major general working for the Red Shirts, known to have an alleged penchant for death squads, and one of the more radical elements of the Red movement, has been shot by a sniper.</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\"><em>I arrive in the Sala Daeng area (near the famous Patpong go-go bar strip) at about 19.30pm. Soldiers are patrolling with automatic weapons near the Surawong entrance to Patpong. The restaurants are not full, but the street is still fairly busy with girls in hot-pants and ageing western sex tourists, undeterred by the threat of violence. Keen one might say...</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;\">More at <a href=\"http://www.tomvater.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Vater.com</a></p>','Tom Vater: Bangkok Dangerous','','publish','open','open','','tom-vater-bangkok-dangerous','','','2010-05-14 10:40:13','2010-05-14 10:40:13','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1917',0,'post','',0),(1918,2,'2010-05-17 08:48:44','2010-05-17 08:48:44','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/yL-z-uwdk08&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/yL-z-uwdk08&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\n\'Well it\'s hard to believe I know,\nBut I hear her singing in the sighing of the wind\nBlowin\' in the tree tops way above me\'','Phantasms of the living room','','publish','open','open','','phantasms-of-the-living-room','','','2010-05-17 08:48:44','2010-05-17 08:48:44','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1918',0,'post','',0),(1919,2,'2010-05-17 10:42:53','2010-05-17 10:42:53','UFO Hacker McKinnon\'s extradition order is to be reassessed in the High Court on 25 May, under a new Home Secretary.  Let\'s hope they see sense and recognise that he has been punished enough for his harmless, if foolish, crime.\n\n<em>Cyberspace doesn\'t exist any more than never-never land. I was no more in America than anyone who is on a long-distance telephone call. The fiction of cyberspace should be properly tested in a British court because it is no more real than Santa Claus. They cannot \"return\" me to a country I wasn\'t in, yet they continually refer in court to \"returning me\". If I was being returned to the place where my crime was committed, I would be returned to Crouch End. I am not a fugitive, I was physically in North London and have remained in North London.</em>\n\n<em>I was arrested in March 2002 and was allowed to remain on the internet until June 2005, which shows that my presence on the internet was not considered any risk whatsoever. Only after the US requested my extradition several years later once the UK was using the one-sided extradition treaty where no evidence was required to extradite any UK citizen was I told not to use the internet.</em>\n\nIn <em>Mirage Men </em>I suggest that  McKinnon fell into an ET honey-trap, similar to the one that caught another UK hacker, <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Bevan\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Bevan</a>, back in 1996. We\'ll probably never know why the US decided to come down so hard on McKinnon, though I don\'t believe it has anything to do with space navies or the suppression of free energy. My guess is that it was probably  a face-saving exercise that has now grown out of all proportion to the original crime. I wish him luck anyway.\n\n<em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Full interview at <a href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/gary-mckinnon-they-cant-return-me-to-a-place-i-wasnt-in-1974573.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent</a></span></em>\n\n<em>STOP PRESS! 20 May 2010: Mckinnon\'s case is now formally under review and his extradition is on hold, according to <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/20/computer-hacker-gary-mckinnon-extradition-on-hold\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian</a>: A<em> Home Office spokesperson said: \"The home secretary has considered the proposal from Gary McKinnon\'s legal team and has agreed an adjournment should be sought. An application to the court is being made today.\"</em></em>','Gary McKinnon&#039;s return to fictional space','','publish','open','open','','gary-mckinnons-return-to-fictional-space','','','2010-05-17 10:42:53','2010-05-17 10:42:53','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1919',0,'post','',0),(1921,2,'2010-05-18 08:19:49','2010-05-18 08:19:49','<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1920\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"relics\" src=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/relics-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"relics\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" />\n\nStrange Attractor presents:\n\n<strong>MEDIEVAL RELICS  WITH DR WILLIAM MACLEHOSE</strong>\n\n20th May 2010\nAt The Little Shoppe of Horrors, 11 Mare St, London, UK <a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/map.html\" target=\"_blank\">(map)</a>\nDoors at 6 pm, Talk commences at 7 pm\n\nChristian belief in the power of relics, the physical remains of a holy site or holy person, or objects with which they had contact, is as old as the faith itself and developed alongside it. Relics were more than mementos. The New Testament refers to the healing power of objects that were touched by Christ or his apostles. The body of the saint provided a spiritual link between life and death, between man and God and the veneration of relics in the Middle Ages came to rival the sacraments in the daily life of the medieval church. From the foreskin of baby Jesus to to a piece of the Virgin Mary\'s veil, Dr William MacLehose explores the everlasting might of relics and their reliquaries.\n\n<em>Dr William MacLehose works on the connections between medical, natural philosophical, and religious thought in western Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries</em>\n\nClick here for <a href=\"http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/tickets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets</a>','Medieval relics talk','','publish','open','open','','1921','','','2010-05-18 08:19:49','2010-05-18 08:19:49','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1921',0,'post','',0),(1925,2,'2010-05-21 08:55:45','2010-05-21 08:55:45','<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><em>Here\'s a hypothesis: denial is largely a product of the way normal people think. Most denialists are simply ordinary people doing what they believe is right. If this seems discouraging, take heart. There are good reasons for thinking that denialism can be tackled by condemning it a little less and understanding it a little more.</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><em>Whatever they are denying, denial movements have much in common with one another, not least the use of similar tactics. All set themselves up as courageous underdogs fighting a corrupt elite engaged in a conspiracy to suppress the truth or foist a malicious lie on ordinary people. This conspiracy is usually claimed to be promoting a sinister agenda: the nanny state, takeover of the world economy, government power over individuals, financial gain, atheism.</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><em>...Many denialist movements originate as cynical efforts by corporations to cast doubt on findings that threaten their bottom line. Big Tobacco started it in the 1970s, recruiting scientists willing to produce favourable data and bankrolling ostensibly independent think tanks and bogus grass-roots movements... </em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Full article at <a href=\"http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627606.100-living-in-denial-why-sensible-people-reject-the-truth.html\" target=\"_blank\">New Scientist</a></p>','Understanding denialism','','publish','open','open','','understanding-denialism','','','2010-05-21 08:55:45','2010-05-21 08:55:45','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1925',0,'post','',0),(1928,2,'2010-05-25 08:01:21','2010-05-25 08:01:21','<h4 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; color: #ff3399; padding: 0px;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1927\" style=\"border: 00px solid black; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"C.Ward.sunk_detail\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/C.Ward_.sunk_detail.jpg\" alt=\"C.Ward.sunk_detail\" width=\"283\" height=\"283\" /></h4>\n<h4 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.2em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; color: #ff3399; padding: 0px;\">\"The Last Sunday\" Monthly Music Adventures</h4>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px;\">Free improv + electronic + noise +spoken word + experimental</p>\n\n<h3 style=\"font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><strong> </strong>Sunday 30 May 4 to 8pm</h3>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px;\"><strong>Performances by:</strong>\nAdam Bohman (Amplified objects), Leila Badriya (Theremin &amp; FX) Mark Pilkington (Synthesiser), Rodrigo Montoya (Shamisen), Steve Beresford (electronics /objects), Tania Chen (electronics / objects), Zali Krishna (Guitar &amp; FX)\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px;\"><a href=\"http://www.usurp.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">USURP GALLERY</a> as part of Cathy Ward\'s <em style=\"font-style: italic;\">Teen Age</em></p>\n\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">FREE ADMISSION</span>\n140 Vaughan Road, London HA1 4EB\n0208 426 6264 | 07956 817038</em>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=140+Vaughan+Road,+London+HA1+4&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=45.601981,76.113281&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=140+Vaughan+Rd,+Harrow,+Greater+London+HA1+4,+United+Kingdom&amp;ll=51.579703,-0.350457&amp;spn=0.002334,0.005901&amp;z=17&amp;iwloc=A&amp;output=embed?iframe=true&amp;width=550&amp;height=350\">Map &amp; Directions</a></em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px;\">This should provide a live feed on the day:</p>\n\n<object id=\"lastsundaylive\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"330\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" /><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" /><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" /><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.mini-haha.com/lastsundaylive.swf\" /><param name=\"name\" value=\"shell\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed id=\"lastsundaylive\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"330\" src=\"http://www.mini-haha.com/lastsundaylive.swf\" name=\"shell\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" quality=\"high\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" align=\"middle\"></embed></object>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px;\">But if it doesn\'t work, try <a href=\"http://mini-haha.com/lastsundaylive.html\" target=\"_blank\">this link</a> instead</p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px;\"></p>','The Last Sunday @ USURP','','publish','open','open','','1928','','','2010-05-25 08:01:21','2010-05-25 08:01:21','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1928',0,'post','',0),(1936,2,'2010-06-01 11:10:58','2010-06-01 11:10:58','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1935\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"ww_steve_0\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ww_steve_0.jpg\" alt=\"ww_steve_0\" width=\"336\" height=\"504\" />\n\nContinuing a tradition begun with the 1991 Milk Hill code (whose true meaning is revealed in our own <a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/fieldguide/\" target=\"_blank\">Field Guide</a>) this deceptively simple crop formation, placed near Marlborough, Wilts, contains an important message for humanity.\n\nAccording to Richard Andrews of the <a href=\"http://dailygrail.com/Essays/2010/5/Planck-found-Eulers-Identity-Crop-Circle\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Grail</a>, the horizontal bars can be decoded using ASCII and contain a reference to <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_constant\" target=\"_blank\">Planck\'s constant</a>, a foundation stone of the quantum physics that allows us to understand the weft and warp of our energetic universe.\n\nHmm... Planck\'s...plancks....planks... Nice one guys!\n\nVia <a href=\"http://forgetomori.com/2010/fortean/circlemakers-say-hi-heres-a-plank-to-stomp-with/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+forgetomorifeed+%28forgetomori%29&amp;utm_content=Netvibes\" target=\"_blank\">Forgetomori</a>','Planks, constant','','publish','open','open','','planks-constant','','','2010-06-01 11:10:58','2010-06-01 11:10:58','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1936',0,'post','',0),(1937,2,'2010-06-04 08:37:54','2010-06-04 08:37:54','<object id=\"flashObj\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"380&quot;\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" /><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=89322524001&amp;playerID=2227271001&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" /><param name=\"base\" value=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" /><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" /><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/2227271001?isVid=1\" /><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashObj\" /><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=89322524001&amp;playerID=2227271001&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed id=\"flashObj\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"380&quot;\" src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/2227271001?isVid=1\" name=\"flashObj\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" flashvars=\"videoId=89322524001&amp;playerID=2227271001&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"></embed></object>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">No, it\'s not the batteries running out on a Casio VL Tone: this is the sound of the hottest material ever made in a laboratory. The fireball of fireball of quarks and gluons is trillions of degrees hot and exists in conditions considered close to those one millionth of a second after the Big Bang.</p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Full story and extended remix over at the <a href=\"http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18998-what-does-the-hottest-matter-ever-made-sound-like.html\" target=\"_blank\">New Scientist</a></p>','Not with a bang...','','publish','open','open','','not-with-a-bang','','','2010-06-04 08:37:54','2010-06-04 08:37:54','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1937',0,'post','',0),(1940,2,'2010-06-07 09:10:26','2010-06-07 09:10:26','<a title=\"Old Daylight/Underpass by Mark Pilkington, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangeattractor/197493976/\"><img style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http://farm1.static.flickr.com/66/197493976_e2d8e4937c.jpg\" alt=\"Old Daylight/Underpass\" width=\"450\" height=\"325\" /></a>\n\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"320\" height=\"26\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" /><param name=\"cachebusting\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" /><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=\'key\':\'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8\',\'playlist\':[\'url\':\'http://www.archive.org/download/MovingThroughOldDaylight/Old_Daylight_5june10.mp3\',\'autoPlay\':false],\'clip\':\'autoPlay\':true,\'canvas\':\'backgroundColor\':\'#000000\',\'backgroundGradient\':\'none\',\'plugins\':\'audio\':\'url\':\'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.2.0.swf\',\'controls\':\'playlist\':false,\'fullscreen\':false,\'height\':26,\'backgroundColor\':\'#000000\',\'autoHide\':\'fullscreenOnly\':true,\'scrubberHeightRatio\':0.6,\'timeFontSize\':9,\'mute\':false,\'top\':0,\'contextMenu\':[\'Listen+to+MovingThroughOldDaylight+at+archive.org\':,\'-\',\'Flowplayer v3.2.1\']\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"320\" height=\"26\" src=\"http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf\" flashvars=\"config=\'key\':\'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8\',\'playlist\':[\'url\':\'http://www.archive.org/download/MovingThroughOldDaylight/Old_Daylight_5june10.mp3\',\'autoPlay\':false],\'clip\':\'autoPlay\':true,\'canvas\':\'backgroundColor\':\'#000000\',\'backgroundGradient\':\'none\',\'plugins\':\'audio\':\'url\':\'http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.2.0.swf\',\'controls\':\'playlist\':false,\'fullscreen\':false,\'height\':26,\'backgroundColor\':\'#000000\',\'autoHide\':\'fullscreenOnly\':true,\'scrubberHeightRatio\':0.6,\'timeFontSize\':9,\'mute\':false,\'top\':0,\'contextMenu\':[\'Listen+to+MovingThroughOldDaylight+at+archive.org\':,\'-\',\'Flowplayer v3.2.1\']\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" cachebusting=\"true\" quality=\"high\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\n[If the player doesn\'t work, you can download it <a href=\"http://www.archive.org/details/MovingThroughOldDaylight\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>]\n\n<a title=\"Old Daylight/Underpass by Mark Pilkington, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangeattractor/197493976/\"></a><em>Moving Through Old Daylight</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Fisher</a>, Jim Jupp and Julian House of <a href=\"http://ghostbox.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost Box</a> Records and <a href=\"http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Iain Sinclair</a> in conversation at the Roundhouse, Camden, London, 5 June 2010.\n\nSubjects under discussion included Nigel Kneale, TC Lethbridge, John Fox, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, alchemies of sound, re-imagined space, the homogenisation of culture and the impersistence of memory.\n\nFile under popular modernism.\n\nFull file at <a href=\"http://www.archive.org/details/MovingThroughOldDaylight\" target=\"_blank\">archive.org</a>','Voices in Old Daylight','','publish','open','open','','voices-in-old-daylight','','','2010-06-07 09:10:26','2010-06-07 09:10:26','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1940',0,'post','',0),(1947,2,'2010-06-08 09:31:43','2010-06-08 09:31:43','<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1946\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"a-love-craft-press-527x1024\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/a-love-craft-press-527x1024.jpg\" alt=\"a-love-craft-press-527x1024\" width=\"316\" height=\"614\" />\n\n<strong>A LOVE CRAFT</strong>: Art Inspired by Monsters, Madness and Mythos\nJune 11th - July 23rd, 2010\n\n543 Union Street (at Nevins), Brooklyn, NY 11215\n\n<em>Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Fridays 3-6; Saturdays and Sundays 12-6</em>\n\n<em> </em>The “cosmic horror” of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, all written between 1917 and 1935, has become more popular and seemingly more contemporary with each year. OBSERVATORY and Dylan Thuras are excited to announce “A LOVE CRAFT: ” a group show of art inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and the themes of monsters, madness and mythos. On view from June 11th through July 26th, prepare to look beyond space and time and into vistas of a new reality…\n\nFull details at the <a href=\"http://observatoryroom.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Observatory</a> site.','Love Craft art show @ Observatory Room NYC','','publish','open','open','','love-craft-art-show-observatory-room-nyc','','','2010-06-08 09:31:43','2010-06-08 09:31:43','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1947',0,'post','',0),(1949,2,'2010-06-09 08:32:53','2010-06-09 08:32:53','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1948\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"ingramsAC\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ingramsAC.jpg\" alt=\"ingramsAC\" width=\"375\" height=\"332\" />\n<h5 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1667em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Library Rock: Magick on Film, with Gary Lachman</span></span></h5>\n<h6 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Friday 11 June, 6.30pm – 8.00pm\nWestminster reference library,\n35 St. Martin\'s Street\nLondon WC2H 7HP </span></span></h6>\nGary discusses Aleister Crowley\'s appearances in and influences upon cinema, with glimpses at rare films including Rex Ingram\'s <em>The Magician</em> (1926, above), based on Somerset Maugham\'s 1910 novel.\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Entry is free but booking is recommended: <strong> </strong><span style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Tel 020 7641 525 </span>or <a href=\"mailto:referencelibrarywc2@westminster.gov.uk\">email</a></span>','Lachman on Crowley on film (in Westminster)','','publish','open','open','','lachman-on-crowley-on-film-in-westminster','','','2010-06-09 08:32:53','2010-06-09 08:32:53','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1949',0,'post','',0),(1952,2,'2010-06-10 16:01:55','2010-06-10 16:01:55','<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1951\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"181127-radio-ghost-mystery-at-former-raf-station-410x230\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/181127-radio-ghost-mystery-at-former-raf-station-410x230.jpg\" alt=\"181127-radio-ghost-mystery-at-former-raf-station-410x230\" width=\"410\" height=\"230\" /></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><span style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\"><em>A 70-year-old radio at a Scottish heritage centre has been picking up vintage broadcasts featuring Winston Churchill and the music of Glen Miller.</em></span></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><em>The Pye valve wireless at Montrose Air Station, a heritage centre that tells the story of the men and women who served there, has no power and is not connected to any source of electricity. The vintage radio set is kept in a recreation of a 1940s room. Several people have heard Second World War era broadcasts including the big band sound of the Glenn Miller orchestra and speeches by Winston Churchill. The broadcasts come on at random and can last for up to half an hour...</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><em>Technicians who examined it removed the back, but found \"nothing but cobwebs and spiders\".</em></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><em><a href=\"http://news.stv.tv/scotland/tayside/181127-radio-ghost-mystery-at-former-raf-station/\" target=\"_blank\">STV</a> via T<a href=\"http://www.theanomalist.com\" target=\"_blank\">he Anomalist</a></em></p>','Ghost Box','','publish','open','open','','the-real-ghost-box','','','2015-11-21 18:38:55','2015-11-21 18:38:55','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1952',0,'post','',0),(1956,2,'2010-06-11 07:35:35','2010-06-11 07:35:35','<a href=\"http://www.freakingnews.com/Giant-Squid-Pictures--1352-0.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1955\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Giant-Squids--27261\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Giant-Squids-27261.jpg\" alt=\"Giant-Squids--27261\" width=\"300\" height=\"467\" /></a>\n\n<em>\'Why does Dr. [Oliver] Sacks love cephalopods so much? They’re very smart. He says, \"Cuttlefish have enormous eyes, they are curious and, I think, even affectionate. One cannot help feeling that they have individuality and consciousness, and the basis of an inner life. Cephalopods can learn by observation, as higher mammals do. They are richly endowed with nerve cells: an octopus has 300 million or more neurons, about half in its cerebral ganglia, and the rest distributed among its tentacles. I like cephalopods because they are so removed from us and yet, in some fundamental ways, so like us. They are my favorite aliens.</em>\n\n<em>...if we were in charge, June would be National Cephalopod Month...We\'re not quite sure how many humans are on the planet these days, but there are even more squid.  Just sayin...\'</em>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.oliversacks.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Oliver Sacks.com</a> via <a href=\"http://mikejay.net\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Jay</a>\n\n<span>\n</span>','The Squid Doctor','','publish','open','open','','oliver-sachs-patron-saint-of-squid','','','2015-11-21 18:38:49','2015-11-21 18:38:49','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1956',0,'post','',0),(1963,2,'2010-06-15 09:35:38','2010-06-15 09:35:38','<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1962\" style=\"border: 0; float: left; margin: 8px;\" title=\"starroot-ufo-cat-large\" src=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/starroot-ufo-cat-large-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"starroot-ufo-cat-large\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" />\n\n<a href=\"http://www.truth-out.org/the-strange-story-sally-hartman60306\" target=\"_blank\">The Strange Story of Sally Hartman</a> : a sad 1950s tale of the CIA-out-of-control, LSD and... UFOs.\n\nIn <em>Mirage Men </em>I touch on the possibility that some early UFO encounters, particularly the case of Antonio Villas Boas, Abductee Zero, and perhaps even some of the contactees, were connected to MKULTRA and similar programmes.\n\nReading HP Albarelli\'s <em><a href=\"//www.aterriblemistake.com/\" target=\"_blank\">A Terrible Mistake</a>, </em>from which this is extracted, I wonder if one day documentation to this effect might not bubble up from the depths of the intelligence archives. That said,  by all accounts those involved were rigourously careful not to leave a paper trail, and almost everything that did exist was ordered destroyed by Richard Helms in the early 1970s. Until then the connection between UFOs and MKULTRA will just have to remain an intriguing possibility.\n\n<em>On one or two occasions, she felt that she had fallen into a \"strange state, like sleepwalking while awake,\" and once, while on the West Coast for work, she woke up in a hotel room \"unsure of where I\'d been for the last twenty-four hours.\" She said, \"I recalled getting unto a hotel elevator and there was a group of people already in it and someone nodded and said something and that was it. Later, I thought I remembered waking up in my room and finding someone standing there looking at me, telling me everything was just fine, not to worry about a thing.... I think it was a man who looked Asian ... I don\'t remember any more than that.\"</em>\n\n<em>On the same trip to the West Coast, Sally met a middle-aged woman in a restaurant who told her that she had had an encounter with a UFO the previous month while hiking near Sausalito. The woman remarked that, after this encounter, she had experienced strange blackouts and incidents of missing time.</em>\n\nFrom <a href=\"http://www.truth-out.org/the-strange-story-sally-hartman60306\" target=\"_blank\">Truthout</a>, via <a href=\"http://www.ufomystic.com/2010/06/13/mkultra-the-strange-story-of-sally-hartman/\" target=\"_blank\">UFO Mystic</a>','&#039;Like Sleepwalking While Awake&#039;','','publish','open','open','','like-sleepwalking-while-awake','','','2015-11-21 18:38:44','2015-11-21 18:38:44','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1963',0,'post','',0),(1966,2,'2010-06-24 07:59:20','2010-06-24 07:59:20','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/QTsbI3MI_FQ&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/QTsbI3MI_FQ&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\n<a href=\"http://urthona.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Urthona</a> (aka Neil Mortimer) has posted this short extract from a back projection shot by himself and the Asterism (aka yours truly) over six years on Dartmoor. The soundtrack is from a lofi improvisation that became part of our first live performance in May. We plan to record a \'studio\' version of this and to feature the full 50 minute projection as part of future performances.\n\nYou can buy the <a href=\"http://urthona.co.uk/releases/murmurations-asterism/\" target=\"_blank\">Murmurations</a>, the first Urthona &amp; The Asterism album, <a href=\"http://urthona.co.uk/releases/murmurations-asterism/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>','Urthona &amp; The Asterism: Hit the Moors','','publish','open','open','','urthona-the-asterism-hit-the-moors','','','2015-11-21 18:38:38','2015-11-21 18:38:38','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1966',0,'post','',0),(1968,2,'2010-06-24 09:01:08','2010-06-24 09:01:08','<a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangeattractor/307048419/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1967\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"307048419_6f7b3eb042\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/307048419_6f7b3eb042.jpg\" alt=\"307048419_6f7b3eb042\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\n[photo: <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangeattractor/307048419/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Pilkingto</a>n]\n\n<em>THE eccentric known as The Mole Man, who spent 40 years digging a 60-foot network of tunnels beneath his £1 million Hackney house, has died without repaying the £350,000 of taxpayers\' money he owes the council for saving it from collapse.  And town hall chiefs, who re-housed William Lyttle in a top-floor flat, have been landed with an even costlier repair bill after it was discovered the oddball pensioner had carried out some of his unorthodox \"home improvements\" there, too.  The 79-year-old had knocked a huge, tunnel-shaped hole in the dividing wall of the living room and kitchen of the flat in St Lawrence Court on the De Beauvoir estate.</em>\n\n<em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">I used to live close to the William Lyttle\'s incredible house, and would often peer over the fence onto the debris and vaulted tunnel entrances below. </span></em>A psychiatrist friend of mine once examined Lyttle and declared him eccentric, but not insane. <em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">All sorts of rumours circulated about why he started digging, the most sinister, and improbable, being that he had buried his wife and children in the back yard, prompting him to dig obsessively for the rest of his days.</span> </em>\n\nFull story at <a href=\"http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/content/hackney/gazette/news/story.aspx?brand=HKYGOnline&amp;category=news&amp;tBrand=northlondon24&amp;tCategory=newshkyg&amp;itemid=WeED17%20Jun%202010%2017%3A44%3A59%3A757\" target=\"_blank\">Hackney Gazette</a>\n\nThanks <a href=\"http://allumination.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Al Robertson</a>!\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 83px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">THE eccentric known as The Mole Man, who spent 40 years digging a 60-foot network of tunnels beneath his £1 million Hackney house, has died without repaying the £350,000 of taxpayers\' money he owes the council for saving it from collapse.  And town hall chiefs, who re-housed William Lyttle in a top-floor flat,</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 83px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">William Lyttle</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 83px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">have been landed with an even costlier repair bill after it was discovered the oddball pensioner had carried out some of his unorthodox \"home improvements\" there, too.  The 79-year-old had knocked a huge, tunnel-shaped hole in the dividing wall of the living room and kitchen of the flat in St Lawrence Court on the De Beauvoir estate.</div>','RIP Moleman','','publish','open','open','','rip-moleman','','','2010-06-24 09:01:08','2010-06-24 09:01:08','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1968',0,'post','',0),(1970,2,'2010-06-28 08:36:06','2010-06-28 08:36:06','<em>The phrase “mind-body connection” has many connotations. For some, it’s shorthand for New Age quackery. For others, it’s a source of hope and a way to reconcile their spiritual life with modern science...</em>\n\n<em>Increasingly, placebo effects are being viewed as real and tangible, if mysterious. In various surveys, 45 percent to 85 percent of American and European practitioners say they have used placebos in clinical practice, and 96 percent of academic physicians in the United States say they think placebos have therapeutic effects...</em>\n\n<em>One common effect involves the assumption that a particular pill is responsible for easing pain or discomfort that is actually subsiding naturally. Another is classic Pavlovian conditioning, in which a patient is so accustomed to feeling better after a shot that it works no matter what is in it. Another is the relief a patient like Dr. Wager’s mother feels when a doctor offers a concrete solution.</em>\n\nFull story at the <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/health/22prof.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times</a>','Placebo Power','','publish','open','open','','the-power-of-the-placebo','','','2015-11-21 18:38:31','2015-11-21 18:38:31','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1970',0,'post','',0),(1974,2,'2010-06-29 09:16:12','2010-06-29 09:16:12','<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1973\" style=\"border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"P1030684\" src=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/P1030684-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1030684\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1972\" style=\"border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"P1030687\" src=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/P1030687-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1030687\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />\n\nThe amazing artist <a href=\"http://www.laurielipton.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Laurie Lipton</a> (<em>left</em>) and I (<em>right, [photos by Ken Hollings]</em>) were recently guests on Ken Hollings\' <a href=\"http://kenhollings.blogspot.com/search/label/Hollingsville\" target=\"_blank\">Hollingsville</a> radio show on Resonance FM. On the menu were Godzilla and other famous monsters of fifties filmland, Laurie\'s beautiful drawings and her suburban childhood, <em>Mirage Men</em>, our new <a href=\"http://miragemen.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/when-the-reapers-come/\" target=\"_blank\">drone overlords</a> and a whole lot more, all illustrated by sublime sounds from the <a href=\"http://www.houseofmccarrick.com/home/\" target=\"_blank\">McCarricks</a>.\n\nYou can now download or stream the transmission from <a href=\"http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/4063?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+resonancefm+%28Resonance+FM+Podcasts%29\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>.\n\nMeanwhile, we wish Ken a very speedy recovery from his <a href=\"http://kenhollings.blogspot.com/2010/06/polyphemus-navigation.html\" target=\"_blank\">eye operation</a>.','Hollingsville podcast','','publish','open','open','','hollingsville-podcast','','','2015-11-21 18:38:26','2015-11-21 18:38:26','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1974',0,'post','',0),(1977,2,'2010-07-01 08:54:17','2010-07-01 08:54:17','<img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1976\" style=\"border: 0; float: left; margin: 8px;\" title=\"FBL-WC2010-GER-ARG-ANIMALS-THEME-OCTOPUS-OFFBEAT\" src=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/image-105119-galleryV9-biid-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"FBL-WC2010-GER-ARG-ANIMALS-THEME-OCTOPUS-OFFBEAT\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" />\n\n<em>Strange Attractor doesn\'t usually cover sporting news, but this caught our attention...</em>\n\nPaul, an octopus in Germany, has made international headlines with his perfect record predicting the outcome of Germany\'s World Cup matches. On Tuesday, the cephalopod chose the national squad to defeat Argentina on Saturday. But it could be a tight game. Game over, Argentina -- Paul has picked Germany...\n\nPaul has gained a sizable following in Germany by amassing a perfect 4-0 record in calling Germany\'s World Cup clashes. First, he tipped Germany to beat Australia, and then followed it up by correctly predicting Serbia\'s upset over Germany. Paul went on to call a <span><a style=\"color: #990000; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"German win\" href=\"http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,702349,00.html\">German win</a></span> against Ghana and made waves across the English Channel when he foresaw Germany taking down England.\n\n<em>Full story at </em><a href=\"http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,703609,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Der Spiegel</em></a><em>, via </em><a href=\"http://www.anomalist.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Anomalist</em></a>\n\n<em>Update 8 July: Paul\'s run of success continues with a prediction of Germany\'s defeat in the semi-finals, story at the </em><em><a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/08/soccer-octopus-world-cup-final\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian</a></em>','Germany win, suckers!','','publish','open','open','','germany-win-suckers','','','2015-11-21 18:38:20','2015-11-21 18:38:20','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1977',0,'post','',0),(1981,2,'2010-07-01 09:37:37','2010-07-01 09:37:37','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1980\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"deerwolfwolf2\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/deerwolfwolf2.jpg\" alt=\"deerwolfwolf2\" width=\"350\" height=\"748\" />','Ali Hutchinson Open Studios this weekend','','publish','open','open','','ali-hutchinson-open-studios-this-weekend','','','2015-11-21 18:38:14','2015-11-21 18:38:14','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1981',0,'post','',0),(1984,2,'2010-07-01 15:19:27','2010-07-01 15:19:27','<a href=\"http://miragemen.wordpress.com/about-the-book/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-1983\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"mmusuk\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/mmusuk.jpg\" alt=\"mmusuk\" width=\"450\" height=\"328\" /></a>\n\nI will be giving a talk entitled \'The Abuses of Enchantment\' at the fantastic <a href=\"http://www.selfs.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">South East London Folklore Society</a> next Thursday, 8 July. The presentation is a spin-off talk from <a href=\"http://miragemen.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mirage Men</a> that looks at various incidents of folkloric abuse, both documented and speculative, by the world\'s military and intelligence services, incorporating ghosts, UFOs, vampires, yetis and more.\n\nThe evening starts at 8pm and can be found upstairs at <a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #6f862c;\" href=\"http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/10/1072/Old_Kings_Head/Borough\">The Old King\'s Head</a>, Kings Head Yard, 45-49, Borough High St., London SE1 1NA.\n\nThis is as good a time as any to announce the launch of the <a href=\"http://miragemen.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mirage Men site</a>. It  discusses and expands upon material featured in the book, published at the end of July by Constable and Robinson in the UK, and early September in the US by Skyhorse.\n\nMeanwhile, if you\'d like me to give a <a href=\"http://miragemen.wordpress.com/talks-events/\" target=\"_blank\">talk</a> to your meeting group, conference, music festival, revivalist gathering or radio audience no matter how large or small, do get in touch as I\'ll be happy to do it for the cost of travel expenses and, ideally, something to eat and drink!','The Abuses of Enchantment at SELFS, 8 July','','publish','open','open','','the-abuses-of-enchantment-at-selfs-8-july','','','2010-07-01 15:19:27','2010-07-01 15:19:27','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1984',0,'post','',0),(1994,2,'2010-07-05 10:15:44','2010-07-05 10:15:44','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1992\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"WEB07\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/WEB071.jpg\" alt=\"WEB07\" width=\"367\" height=\"367\" />\n\n[photo: Leah Gordon]\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">the flamboyant, technicolour parades of Rio de Janeiro. But the carnival (or \"kanaval\" in Haiti\'s native creole) of Jacmel is quite radically different: a spontaneous, popular and mysterious mixture of theatre and masquing, voodoo and history that reaches a climax in this former French colonial port on Shrove Tuesday, or Mardi Gras. \'</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Related articles</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">More Americas News</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Search the news archive for more stories</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">For a few wild days, boys and men career round the crumbling, picturesque by-ways of Jacmel, often in marauding groups, wearing home-made costumes or in sinister, eye- popping drag. Some outfits have meanings that extend back centuries, others are entirely idiosyncratic and personal to their creators. It is no mere street party, then, but rather a carnival by and for the largely impoverished people of Jacmel, which tells, in its own way, the tumultuous history of Haiti, from the slave rebellion that freed the country from its French masters in 1804 to this year\'s catastrophic earthquake, via the bloody dictatorships of the Duvaliers and much else besides.</div>\n<em>[Haiti\'s] carnival (or \"kanaval\" in Haiti\'s native creole) of Jacmel is ...a spontaneous, popular and mysterious mixture of theatre and masquing, voodoo and history that reaches a climax in this former French colonial port on Shrove Tuesday, or Mardi Gras...</em>\n\n<em>For a few wild days, boys and men career round the crumbling, picturesque by-ways of Jacmel, often in marauding groups, wearing home-made costumes or in sinister, eye- popping drag. Some outfits have meanings that extend back centuries, others are entirely idiosyncratic and personal to their creators. It is no mere street party, then, but rather a carnival by and for the largely impoverished people of Jacmel, which tells, in its own way, the tumultuous history of Haiti, from the slave rebellion that freed the country from its French masters in 1804 to this year\'s catastrophic earthquake, via the bloody dictatorships of the Duvaliers and much else besides.</em>\n\n<em>Political commentary, voodoo street theatre, religious pageantry – Jacmel carnival has been juggling these myriad roles for two centuries. But whether it can survive in the form so vividly captured by Leah Gordon is in doubt. Already there is pressure to introduce parades and more music, which, according to Gordon, is largely an attempt to control and commercialise the event, with sponsorship, and licensed food and drink concessions. Jacmel carnival is unusual because, unlike other Haitian carnivals, it has so far resisted this fate.</em>\n\nFull story at <a href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/sex-death-and-slaves-welcome-to-haitis-horror-carnival-2016522.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent</a>\n\n\'The Invisibles\', An exhibition of Haiti-inspired art and photography by Leah Gordon and others opens 5 July at London\'s <a href=\"http://www.riflemaker.org/s-now\" target=\"_blank\">Riflemaker</a> gallery','Haiti, kanaval and the Invisibles','','publish','open','open','','haiti-kanaval-and-the-invisibles','','','2010-07-05 10:15:44','2010-07-05 10:15:44','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1994',0,'post','',0),(1996,2,'2010-07-08 08:11:14','2010-07-08 08:11:14','<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/x6mPFpyxzcU&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/x6mPFpyxzcU&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nFantastic footage of the<a href=\"http://www.museumofwitchcraft.com/\" target=\"_blank\"> Museum of Witchcraft</a> in Boscastle, Cornwall in the late 1960s, under the ownership of Cecil Williamson.\n\nThe collection originally resided in Castletown on the Isle of Man, where Gerald Gardner, father of Wicca, could be found as Witch in Residence. From here Williamson moved it to Windsor, but after complaints from the locals (perhaps too close to the  royal reptilian neighbours?) he took it to Gloucestershire, where it was damaged in an arson attack, and finally to Boscastle in Cornwall, where it remains to this day.\n\n[As an aside, the last time I visited Boscastle was the day before the terrible flood of 2004. The deluge swept away the fundamentalist christian shop just up the road from the Museum, which, while badly damaged, remained structurally sound.]','Museum of Witchcraft, 1960s','','publish','open','open','','museum-of-witchcraft-1960s','','','2015-11-21 18:38:07','2015-11-21 18:38:07','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1996',0,'post','',0),(1999,2,'2010-07-12 08:36:42','2010-07-12 08:36:42','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1998\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"28stra.xlarge1\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/28stra.xlarge1.jpg\" alt=\"28stra.xlarge1\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" />\n\nA treat from <a href=\"http://speechification.com\" target=\"_blank\">Speechification</a>, a 30 minute BBC Radio 3 Jazzfile documentary about the legendary New York musician Louis Hardin, aka <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog\" target=\"_blank\">Moondog</a>. Here\'s what the producer has to say about the programme:\n\n<em>The budget for these 30min jazzfile docs was very low so it was basically an illustrated talk but we managed to find two people who had actually experienced Moondog on the streets of New York: Charles knew musician Patti Palladin from way back and I was friendly with composer John Zorn. I think their eye witness statements bring this piece alive alongside the incredible Moondog interview I found buried in the BBC archive. The hardest thing to source when we were making the show was the Moondog / Julie Andrews collaboration. It\'s since been reissued but at the time it seemed as if someone had invented it just to give me something to search for. We eventually tracked down a copy via a Julie Andrews completist in Holland - the things we do for radio! Hope you enjoy Moondog - spread the word about him and if you\'re going buy some of his music get the early stuff.</em>\n\nGet it <a href=\"http://speechification.com/2010/07/01/moondog/\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>','Moondog radio','','publish','open','open','','moondog-radio','','','2010-07-12 08:36:42','2010-07-12 08:36:42','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=1999',0,'post','',0),(2000,2,'2010-07-15 07:56:20','2010-07-15 07:56:20','<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Plants are able to \"remember\" and \"react\" to information contained in light, according to researchers.</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Plants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems.</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">These \"electro-chemical signals\" are carried by cells that act as \"nerves\" of the plants.</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">In their experiment, the scientists showed that light shone on to one leaf caused the whole plant to respond.</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">And the response, which took the form of light-induced chemical reactions in the leaves, continued in the dark.</div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">This showed, they said, that the plant \"remembered\" the information encoded in light.</div>\n<em>Plants are able to \"remember\" and \"react\" to information contained in light, according to researchers.</em>\n\nPlants, scientists say, transmit information about light intensity and quality from leaf to leaf in a very similar way to our own nervous systems...\n\nIn their experiment, the scientists showed that light shone on to one leaf caused the whole plant to respond.\n\nAnd the response, which took the form of light-induced chemical reactions in the leaves, continued in the dark.\n\nThis showed, they said, that the plant \"remembered\" the information encoded in light...\n\nHe said that plants used information encrypted in the light to immunise themselves against seasonal pathogens.\n\n\"Every day or week of the season has… a characteristic light quality,\" Professor Karpinski explained.\n\n\"So the plants perform a sort of biological light computation, using information contained in the light to immunise themselves against diseases that are prevalent during that season.\"\n\n<em>Full story at </em><a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10598926\" target=\"_blank\"><em>BBC </em></a>','Calculating Plants','','publish','open','open','','calculating-plants','','','2015-11-21 18:38:01','2015-11-21 18:38:01','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=2000',0,'post','',0),(2002,2,'2010-07-16 08:35:56','2010-07-16 08:35:56','<a href=\"http://www.almias.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2001\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"almias\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/almias.jpg\" alt=\"almias\" width=\"331\" height=\"336\" /></a>\n\n<em>SAJ4</em> (yes, it\'s coming!) contributor and English Heretic member Phil Legard and friends present what looks to be an intriguing rural mystical psychogeographical adventure: <a href=\"http://www.almias.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">ALMIAS</a>\n\nYou can download the accompanying PDF book and music from the Almias web site.','Almias: 25 July 2010','','publish','open','open','','almias-25-july-2010','','','2010-07-16 08:35:56','2010-07-16 08:35:56','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=2002',0,'post','',0),(2003,2,'2010-07-16 10:41:03','2010-07-16 10:41:03','<p style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #444444; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px;\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #444444; line-height: 1.5; max-width: 640px; float: left; display: inline; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"FT-COVER265\" src=\"http://miragemen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/ft-cover265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"400\" />Issue 265 of <a style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #0066cc; line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http://www.forteantimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fortean Times</a> magazine features a cover article adapted from <em><a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1845298578?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=1845298578\" target=\"_blank\">Mirage Men</a></em><em>.</em></p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #444444; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px;\"><em>\'</em>Weapons of Mass Deception\' looks at the events leading to and surrounding the great Washington DC UFO flap of July 1952, a turning point in America\'s UFO history.</p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #444444; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px;\">Drawing on political and cultural history, declassified government documents, emerging military technologies and the writings of Leon Davidson and Edward J Ruppelt, the piece asks whether the epoch-making sightings were deliberately engineered and, if so, why, and by who?</p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #444444; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 24px;\"><em>FT 265 is available in the UK on 22 July. You can also win copies of the book over at </em><em><a href=\"http://www.forteantimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fortean Times.com</a></em></p>','Fortean Times 265: Weapons of Mass Deception','','publish','open','open','','fortean-times-265-weapons-of-mass-deception-2','','','2015-11-21 18:37:55','2015-11-21 18:37:55','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=2003',0,'post','',0),(2007,2,'2010-07-19 10:20:36','2010-07-19 10:20:36','<a href=\"http://www.litro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/LITRO-Paradise1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-220\" style=\"border: 0; float: left; margin: 8px;\" title=\"LITRO-Paradise1-218x300\" src=\"http://miragemen.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/litro-paradise1-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" /></a>\n\nI\'ll be discussing the background to Mirage Men and reading an extract from it at <a href=\"http://www.litro.co.uk/index.php/2010/07/12/litro-live-summer-party-22nd-july/\" target=\"_blank\">Litro Live</a>, Thursday 22nd July.\n\nThe event is at <a href=\"http://theparadise.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Paradise</a>,\n19 Kilburn Lane\nLondon, W10 4AE.\n\nI’ll be kicking the night off at about 6.30-7pm, and the event continues until midnight. Tickets are £5.\n\nAlso on the bill are Joe Dunthorne, Siân Melangell Dafydd, Sabina Mahfouz, Brigitte Voutsa, Murray Lachlan Young\n\n<a href=\"http://www.litro.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Litro</em></a><em> is a free monthly literary magazine that publishes new, original short fiction that excites us and offers a creative alternative to disposable free papers.</em>','Mirage Men at Litro, 22 July','','publish','open','open','','mirage-men-at-litro-22-july','','','2010-07-19 10:20:36','2010-07-19 10:20:36','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=2007',0,'post','',0),(2010,2,'2010-07-20 08:39:28','2010-07-20 08:39:28','<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2009\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Laura&amp;AldousOnTheBed\" src=\"http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/LauraAldousOnTheBed-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Laura&amp;AldousOnTheBed\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" />\n\nThe Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness lecture series, in association with the Scientific and Medical Network presents:\n\n<em>Huxley on Huxley</em>: Documentary film and Q&amp;A with Producer/Director Mary Ann Braubach\n\nLaura Huxley’s candid recollections offer a compelling glimpse into her life with one of the greatest writers and visionaries of the 20th century. She was a teenage violin virtuoso who met Aldous soon after leaving the concert stage for Hollywood.  His 1932 novel Brave New World established him as an undisputed literary giant.  They married in 1956.  Sharing an interest in the evolution of human consciousness, the Huxleys pioneered the use of LSD.  Their lives and work impacted generations and gave shape to an important chapter of American cultural history.\n\nThe film is narrated by Peter Coyote and includes interviews with Laura Huxley, drummer John Densmore (whose band, the Doors, was named after Huxley’s book The Doors of Perception), spiritual leader Ram Dass, Esalen co- founder Michael Murphy, artist Don Bachardy, philosopher Huston Smith and actor Nick Nolte, star of the adaptation of Huxley’s novel The Genius and The Goddess.\n\nHuxley on Huxley is an intimate portrait of a compelling personal and professional union.\n\nWednesday, 28th July , 2010\nBirkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck University of London, WC1H 0PD.\nEntry £10 /£8 Concessions, FREE WINE. Arrive 6pm for a 6:30pm Start - Wine available','28 July 2010: Huxley on Huxley','','publish','open','open','','28-july-huxley-on-huxley','','','2010-07-20 08:39:28','2010-07-20 08:39:28','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=2010',0,'post','',0),(2014,2,'2010-07-21 10:34:59','2010-07-21 10:34:59','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-2013\" style=\"vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;\" title=\"2006_noyfb_patch\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/2006_noyfb_patch.jpg\" alt=\"2006_noyfb_patch\" width=\"312\" height=\"352\" />\n\nFilm-maker Errol Morris asks whether Donald Rumsfeld\'s infamous quote was a sign of his intelligence, or of his ignorance and talks to psychologist David Dunning, co-author of the 1999 paper \'Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties of Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments\'.\n\n<em>\'Is an “unknown unknown” beyond anything I can imagine?  Or am I confusing the “unknown unknowns” with the “unknowable unknowns?”  Are we constituted in such a way that there are things we cannot know?  Perhaps because we cannot even frame the questions we need to ask?\'</em>\n\nMany of the issues raised here can be applied directly to our studies of the scientific and epistemological fringes, even to military and intelligence secrets - how can you come up with an answer when you don\'t even know what the question is?\n\nRead the piece over at the <a href=\"http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times</a>','Anosognosia and the unknown unknowns','','publish','open','open','','anosognosia-and-the-unknown-unknowns','','','2015-11-21 18:37:48','2015-11-21 18:37:48','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=2014',0,'post','',0),(2017,2,'2010-07-28 09:03:24','2010-07-28 09:03:24','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-2016\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"mm-launch-flyer\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/mm-launch-flyer.jpg\" alt=\"mm-launch-flyer\" width=\"540\" height=\"399\" />\r\n\r\nAll are welcome - copies of the book will be on sale for £5.\r\n\r\nSee you in space!','Mirage Men launch at The Horse Hospital','','publish','open','open','','mirage-men-launch-at-the-horse-hospital','','','2010-12-07 14:55:57','2010-12-07 14:55:57','',0,'http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/?p=2017',0,'post','',0),(2869,2,'2011-01-13 09:06:48','2011-01-13 09:06:48','<blockquote>\"Beautifully packaged...Barnett and Jay have produced a wonderful history both of Londoners\' lives and the medical profession\" <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">The Observer</span>\r\n\r\n\"This is London\'s real heritage…all human life, and human death, is here\" <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Peter Ackroyd, The Times</span>\r\n\r\n\"A box of deadly delights\"<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> Independent on Sunday</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> </span></blockquote>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Medical London: City of Cures, City of Diseases</span></em>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> by Richard Barnett and Mike Jay</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> ISBN: 978-0-9558761-0-3</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Published in November 2008</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> In Collaboration with </span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http://http://www.medicallondon.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellcome Collection</a></span>\r\n\r\nA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\n<strong>\'Medical London\' comprises three parts:</strong>\r\n\r\nA <strong>volume of essays</strong> exploring some of the threads that medicine has woven through London life, from its earliest beginnings to the multicultural metropolis of today: its roles in contagion and sanitation, in wealth and its consumption, in empire and immigration, in pleasure and in madness.\r\n\r\nA <strong>definitive guide to London\'s medical landscape</strong>: its museums and hospitals, its grand monuments and secret corners, and the characters and events that lie behind them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Six elegantly designed maps</strong> for self-guided walks, from Daniel Defoe\'s Plague Year wanderings to the druggists of Soho\'s night haunts, the homeopaths of bohemian Chelsea to the naval surgeons of maritime Greenwich.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><strong>Buy it from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0955876109?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0955876109&quot;&gt;Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=\" target=\" mce_src=\">Amazon</a></strong></span>\r\n\r\n<strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\">\r\n</span></div>','Medical London','By Richard Barnett & Mike Jay\r\nCommissioned by Wellcome Collection\r\nHB/PB/Maps, A5, 500pp+,b/w & colour illus, £24','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2011-01-13 09:06:48','2011-01-13 09:06:48','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-65/',0,'revision','',0),(2870,2,'2011-01-20 11:25:06','2011-01-20 11:25:06','<blockquote>\"Beautifully packaged...Barnett and Jay have produced a wonderful history both of Londoners\' lives and the medical profession\" <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">The Observer</span>\r\n\r\n\"This is London\'s real heritage…all human life, and human death, is here\" <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Peter Ackroyd, The Times</span>\r\n\r\n\"A box of deadly delights\"<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> Independent on Sunday</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> </span></blockquote>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Medical London: City of Cures, City of Diseases</span></em>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> by Richard Barnett and Mike Jay</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> ISBN: 978-0-9558761-0-3</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Published in November 2008</span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> In Collaboration with </span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http://http://www.medicallondon.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellcome Collection</a></span>\r\n\r\nA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\n<strong>\'Medical London\' comprises three parts:</strong>\r\n\r\nA <strong>volume of essays</strong> exploring some of the threads that medicine has woven through London life, from its earliest beginnings to the multicultural metropolis of today: its roles in contagion and sanitation, in wealth and its consumption, in empire and immigration, in pleasure and in madness.\r\n\r\nA <strong>definitive guide to London\'s medical landscape</strong>: its museums and hospitals, its grand monuments and secret corners, and the characters and events that lie behind them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Six elegantly designed maps</strong> for self-guided walks, from Daniel Defoe\'s Plague Year wanderings to the druggists of Soho\'s night haunts, the homeopaths of bohemian Chelsea to the naval surgeons of maritime Greenwich.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><strong>Buy it from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0955876109?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0955876109&quot;&gt;Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=\" target=\" mce_src=\">Amazon</a></strong></span>\r\n\r\n<strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\">\r\n</span></div>','Medical London','By Richard Barnett & Mike Jay\r\nCommissioned by Wellcome Collection\r\nHB/PB/Maps, A5, 500pp+,b/w & colour illus, £24','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2011-01-20 11:25:06','2011-01-20 11:25:06','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-66/',0,'revision','',0),(2871,2,'2011-01-18 12:34:59','2011-01-18 12:34:59','<div>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2699\" title=\"SA2\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA2-300x235.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" />\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2698 alignnone\" title=\"SA1\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA1-300x207.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" /><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2702\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;\" title=\"SA3\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA3-300x290.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A brief history of Strange Attractor Press</strong>\r\n\r\nIn <strong>2001</strong> John Lundberg and Mark Pilkington instigated a series of events at London\'s <a href=\"http://www.thehorsehospital.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Horse Hospital</a> that ran for two years under the title \'Strange Attractor\' (<em>see images of our early events above</em>). Since then Mark has continued to organise sporadic Strange Attractor events and to work on larger collaborative projects.\r\n\r\nIn <strong>2003</strong>, along with designer Ali Hutchinson, Mark edited and published <em>Strange Attractor Journal One</em>, an anthology (now out-of-print) of writing on neglected and esoteric cultural, historical and anthropological themes in keeping with the original events, that marked the first appearance of Strange Attractor Press.\r\n\r\nIn <strong>2010</strong>, after publishing six more books, the Press took on two new core members, Nadia Katz Wise, as production director, and Frances Morgan, as co-publisher and editor. With our team in place, Strange Attractor Press plans to dramatically expand its publishing schedule, and to continue in its mission of celebrating unpopular culture.\r\n\r\n∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞\r\n\r\n<strong>A long history of Strange Attractor</strong>\r\n<strong>by Ken Hollings </strong>\r\n(published in <a href=\"http://www.thewire.co.uk/\"><em>The Wire</em></a> magazine #<a href=\"http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/275/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2695 alignright\" title=\"The Wire #275 January 2007\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Wire-275-January-2007-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" /></a>, January 2007)\r\n\r\n<em>Ken Hollings rides the world’s subcultural currents mapped by London’s Strange Attractor.</em>\r\n\r\nStrange Attractor is well named. There’s really no escaping it. Starting out as a series of live events, it has slowly transmuted into an annual publication, set up an online clearing house for the weird and the wonderful and recently made its first move towards establishing itself as a publishing house. “Strange Attractor celebrates unpopular culture,” runs its mission statement. “We declare war on mediocrity and a pox on the foot soldiers of stupidity. Join us.” Who could possibly resist such a challenge? Sooner or later you have to get involved. (In the interests of full transparency: the writer of this article has taken part in a number of Strange Attractor evenings and is a regular contributor to Strange Attractor Journal.)\r\n\r\nWith orders for the Strange Attractor publications coming in from all over the world, and mainstream media like The Independent On Sunday praising it for producing “one of the most weirdly beautiful, beautifully weird magazines of the past hundred-odd years” a bigger problem presents itself. How do you celebrate unpopular culture without losing its unpopularity?\r\n\r\n“There’s certainly no business plan,” admits Strange Attractor Journal’s publisher and chief editor, Mark Pilkington. “We’re really making it all up as we go along. I hope thatStrange Attractor’s approach to culture is simultaneously that of the archaeologist, the ethnographer, the anthropologist, the occultist, the showman and the curator.”\r\n\r\nIt’s a heady mix. The first two issues, both book-sized anthologies running to more than 200 and 400 pages apiece, have presented material ranged across such elusive topics as mind control experiments, mould art, hair sculpture, cargo cults, neglected gods and forgotten waxworks. Such a list limits more than it clarifies, however. Strange Attractor Journal is concerned less with the unexplained than with the unexpected. You never know what it will cover next.\r\n\r\n“I think Strange Attractor is refreshing to people in that it manages to straddle several cultural channels while still following its own agenda,” Pilkington admits, “and it’s one not driven by the same obvious memes. But at the same time it’s important that it doesn’t become obscurantist for its own sake—some things are lost for a reason, others will only resurface when the time is right.”\r\n\r\nStrange Attractor’s wayward eclecticism dates back to a series of monthly events begun in the summer of 2001 by Pilkington in collaboration with artist John Lundberg and continuing over the next two years. Staged at London’s Horse Hospital venue, they gave an early indication of the loose network of experimental enterprises that was starting to come into existence, linking outsider artists with cultural anthropologists, textual hackers and practising occultists.\r\n\r\n“We’d mix talks, films, music, presentations, each night being themed around a different topic,” Pilkington recalls. “I rather pretentiously called them ‘information happenings’. Subjects ranged from conspiracy theory to theremins, Esperanto to magick, hoaxes, illusions and psychic deceptions: basically anything that interested us and could draw people that we liked or wanted to meet into one place.” Highlights included a live and bloody demonstration of psychic surgery, sci-fi movie themes played on vintage electronic instruments and a live Lovecraft-influenced Chaos Magick ritual with a soundtrack performed “by a band who couldn’t see what was going on.”\r\n\r\nAfter Lundberg enrolled at the National Film and Television School, Pilkington went solo but eventually grew tired of doing regular live events, deciding instead to do something that would last longer: hence the Journal.\r\n\r\nThe notion of outliving the moment, of being around for more than just a quick cultural fix, is very much a part of SAJ’s overall look and feel. The first thing you notice is that the front and back cover of each issue is devoid of text or title, which only appears on the book’s spine. If you want to know who the contributors are, you’ll have to look inside.\r\n\r\n“For me, it was about giving as much space as possible to striking images and therefore making them stand out on the bookshelf,” Pilkington explains. “I imagined people being aware that something was wrong with the cover but perhaps not being able to put their finger on it.”\r\n\r\nThe absence of cover copy also binds together the Journal’s various contributors in the anonymity of a collective endeavour. “We’re lucky enough to live in an age where we can clearly trace the influences of the past on our present,” Pilkington continues, “and it’s not always today’s most celebrated ideas, musicians and writers who will be remembered. This notion of timelessness is very important to what SAJ is and does. I’d like the books to be as irrelevant to a reader 100 years in the future as it would be to someone 100 years in the past. It’s a re-manipulation of the notion of built-in obsolescence.”\r\n\r\nThe Journal’s pages teem with old woodcuts, antiquated typefaces and intricate layouts, giving the impression of having been produced in some parallel past: one that runs counter to established tenets of historical development. Having previously worked as a journalist for periodicals as varied as Fortean Times, Bizarre and The Guardian, Mark Pilkington remains keenly aware of what’s going on around him.\r\n\r\n“There’s a particularly vibrant, very loose cultural network in London at the moment,” he remarks, “one that incorporates music and sound, ideas and information, visual arts and almost anything else you’d care to imagine. It’s inevitable that these people, places and events all bounce off and influence each other in a kind of subcultural Brownian motion.”\r\n\r\nAs well as working closely with designer Alison Hutchinson, readying volume three for publication, Pilkington has also been getting Strange Attractor Press up and running. Its first book to date, The Field Guide: The Art, History And Philosophy Of Crop Circle Making by Rob Irving and John Lundberg, is a particularly cerebral blend of art theory, paranormal phenomena, hoaxes and speculations, ruggedly bound and designed to fit snugly inside your knapsack while out exploring the British countryside. Conventional wisdom says it shouldn’t work, but Strange Attractor’s own particular blend of parlour magic proves that it does.\r\n\r\n“I sometimes see myself as a medium,” Mark reveals, “a channel for all the material that has formed Strange Attractor. I’ve been incredibly lucky with the amazing contributions the Journal has attracted so far.”\r\n\r\nThere’s no escaping it. Strange Attractor really is well named.\r\n\r\n</div>','About','','inherit','open','open','','2624-revision-v1','','','2011-01-18 12:34:59','2011-01-18 12:34:59','',2624,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2624-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(2032,2,'2010-08-22 01:58:36','2010-08-22 01:58:36','','photo','','inherit','open','open','','photo','','','2010-08-22 01:58:36','2010-08-22 01:58:36','',0,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/photo.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2875,2,'2011-01-20 11:36:45','2011-01-20 11:36:45','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Strange Attractor Studios</strong> offer a range of production, publishing and consultation services covering all aspects of book creation, including design, layout, editing, proof-reading, printing and distribution.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We offer professional services at competitive rates and can work on projects of any size, from high-quality multipart productions to booklets and postcards.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Drawing on an carefully-chosen pool of experienced and talented editors, writers, designers, illustrators, production specialists and printers, <strong>Strange Attractor Studios</strong> work in close collaboration with our clients to produce exactly the books that they want.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Our past clients include:</strong></em></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Beckley Foundation</a> : <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0954805496?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0954805496\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hofmann\'s Elixir</em></a> (2010)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.dynastypress.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Dynasty Press</a> : <em>Daughter of Narcissus</em> (2009), <em>Lord of Love</em>, <em>Weimar to Westminster</em> (both 2010)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.royalparks.gov.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal Parks</a> : <em>Park Stories</em> (2009)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.wellcomecollection.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellcome Collection</a> : <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0955876109?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0955876109\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Medical London</em></a> (2008)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Our current clients include:</strong></em></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #0066cc; line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http://www.galerietoxic.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Gallery Toxic</a>, Luxembourg : <em>Tender Vessels</em>, 2011</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Natural Death Centre</a> : <em>The Natural Death Handbook</em> (5th Edition, 2011)<em> </em></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong> </strong></em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Contact us via <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">studios[at}strangeattractorpress.co.uk</span></strong></em></p>','Studio Homepage','','inherit','open','open','','2342-revision-v1','','','2011-01-20 11:36:45','2011-01-20 11:36:45','',2342,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2342-revision-44/',0,'revision','',0),(2876,2,'2011-01-20 11:37:26','2011-01-20 11:37:26','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Strange Attractor Studios</strong> offer a range of production, publishing and consultation services covering all aspects of book creation, including design, layout, editing, proof-reading, printing and distribution.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We offer professional services at competitive rates and can work on projects of any size, from high-quality multipart productions to booklets and postcards.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Drawing on an carefully-chosen pool of experienced and talented editors, writers, designers, illustrators, production specialists and printers, <strong>Strange Attractor Studios</strong> work in close collaboration with our clients to produce exactly the books that they want.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Our past clients include:</strong></em></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Beckley Foundation</a> : <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0954805496?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0954805496\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hofmann\'s Elixir</em></a> (2010)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.dynastypress.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Dynasty Press</a> : <em>Daughter of Narcissus</em> (2009), <em>Lord of Love</em>, <em>Weimar to Westminster</em> (both 2010)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.royalparks.gov.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal Parks</a> : <em>Park Stories</em> (2009)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.wellcomecollection.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellcome Collection</a> : <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0955876109?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0955876109\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Medical London</em></a> (2008)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Our current clients include:</strong></em></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #0066cc; line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http://www.galerietoxic.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Gallery Toxic</a>, Luxembourg : <em>Tender Vessels</em>, 2011</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Natural Death Centre</a> : <em>The Natural Death Handbook</em> (5th Edition, 2011)<em> </em></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong> </strong></em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Contact us via </em>studios[at}strangeattractorpress.co.uk</strong></p>','Studio Homepage','','inherit','open','open','','2342-revision-v1','','','2011-01-20 11:37:26','2011-01-20 11:37:26','',2342,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2342-revision-45/',0,'revision','',0),(2874,2,'2011-01-20 11:36:24','2011-01-20 11:36:24','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Strange Attractor Studios</strong> offer a range of production, publishing and consultation services covering all aspects of book creation, including design, layout, editing, proof-reading, printing and distribution.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We offer professional services at competitive rates and can work on projects of any size, from high-quality multipart productions to booklets and postcards.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Drawing on an carefully-chosen pool of experienced and talented editors, writers, designers, illustrators, production specialists and printers, <strong>Strange Attractor Studios</strong> work in close collaboration with our clients to produce exactly the books that they want.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Our past clients include:</strong></em></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Beckley Foundation</a> : <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0954805496?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0954805496\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hofmann\'s Elixir</em></a> (2010)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.dynastypress.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Dynasty Press</a> : <em>Daughter of Narcissus</em> (2009), <em>Lord of Love</em>, <em>Weimar to Westminster</em> (both 2010)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.royalparks.gov.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal Parks</a> : <em>Park Stories</em> (2009)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.wellcomecollection.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellcome Collection</a> : <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0955876109?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0955876109\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Medical London</em></a> (2008)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Our current clients include:</strong></em></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #0066cc; line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http://www.galerietoxic.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Gallery Toxic</a>, Luxembourg : <em>Tender Vessels</em>, 2011</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Natural Death Centre</a> : <em>The Natural Death Handbook</em> (5th Edition, 2011)<em> </em></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong> </strong></em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Contact us via <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">studios[at}strangeattractorpress.co.uk</span></strong></em></p>','Studio Homepage','','inherit','open','open','','2342-revision-v1','','','2011-01-20 11:36:24','2011-01-20 11:36:24','',2342,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2342-revision-43/',0,'revision','',0),(2873,2,'2011-01-20 11:35:38','2011-01-20 11:35:38','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Strange Attractor Studios</strong> offer a range of production, publishing and consultation services covering all aspects of book creation, including design, layout, editing, proof-reading, printing and distribution.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We offer professional services at competitive rates and can work on projects of any size, from high-quality multipart productions to booklets and postcards.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Drawing on an carefully-chosen pool of experienced and talented editors, writers, designers, illustrators, production specialists and printers, <strong>Strange Attractor Studios</strong> work in close collaboration with our clients to produce exactly the books that they want.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Our past clients include:</strong></em></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Beckley Foundation</a> : <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0954805496?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0954805496\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hofmann\'s Elixir</em></a> (2010)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.dynastypress.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Dynasty Press</a> : <em>Daughter of Narcissus</em> (2009), <em>Lord of Love</em>, <em>Weimar to Westminster</em> (both 2010)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.royalparks.gov.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal Parks</a> : <em>Park Stories</em> (2009)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.wellcomecollection.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellcome Collection</a> : <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0955876109?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0955876109\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Medical London</em></a> (2008)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Our current clients include:</strong></em></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #0066cc; line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http://www.galerietoxic.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Gallery Toxic</a>, Luxembourg : <em>Tender Vessels</em>, 2011</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Natural Death Centre</a> : <em>The Natural Death Handbook</em> (5th Edition, 2011)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Contact us via <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">studios[at}strangeattractorpress.co.uk</span></strong></em></p>','Studio Homepage','','inherit','open','open','','2342-revision-v1','','','2011-01-20 11:35:38','2011-01-20 11:35:38','',2342,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2342-revision-42/',0,'revision','',0),(2872,2,'2010-12-20 10:52:32','2010-12-20 10:52:32','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Strange Attractor Studios</strong> offer a range of production, publishing and consultation services covering all aspects of book creation, including design, layout, editing, proof-reading, printing and distribution.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We offer professional services at competitive rates and can work on projects of any size, from high-quality multipart productions to booklets and postcards.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Drawing on an carefully-chosen pool of experienced and talented editors, writers, designers, illustrators, production specialists and printers, <strong>Strange Attractor Studios</strong> work in close collaboration with our clients to produce exactly the books that they want.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Our past clients include:</strong></em></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The Beckley Foundation</a> : <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0954805496?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0954805496\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hofmann\'s Elixir</em></a> (2010)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.dynastypress.co.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">Dynasty Press</a> : <em>Daughter of Narcissus</em> (2009), <em>Lord of Love</em>, <em>Weimar to Westminster</em> (both 2010)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.royalparks.gov.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal Parks</a> : <em>Park Stories</em> (2009)</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.wellcomecollection.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellcome Collection</a> : <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0955876109?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0955876109\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Medical London</em></a> (2008)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Our current clients include:</strong></em></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a style=\"font-family: Georgia, \'Bitstream Charter\', serif; color: #0066cc; line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http://www.galerietoxic.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Gallery Toxic</a>, Luxembourg : <em>Tender Vessels</em>, 2011</li>\r\n	<li><a href=\"http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">The Natural Death Centre</a> : <em>The Natural Death Handbook</em> (5th Edition, 2011)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Contact us at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sastudios[at}strangeatttractorpress.co.uk</span></strong></em></p>','Studio Homepage','','inherit','open','open','','2342-revision-v1','','','2010-12-20 10:52:32','2010-12-20 10:52:32','',2342,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2342-revision-41/',0,'revision','',0),(3690,2,'2011-06-21 11:06:29','2011-06-21 11:06:29','<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/bees2.jpg\"><img src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/bees2-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bees2\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3687\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYesterday\'s oddest Twitter/London story was probably this report from radio station LBC, which was tweeted by the London Air Ambulance charity and thence by city theorists/publishers <a href=\"http://www.thisisnotagateway.net/\">This Is Not A Gateway</a>.\r\n\r\nLike most London insect \'invasion\' news stories, this one\'s <a href=\"http://www.lbc.co.uk/swarm-of-bees-shuts-regent-street-41361/album/regent_st_a__hive__of_activity/1240#19408\">pretty localised</a>, but the swarm of bees that descended upon Regent Street was scary enough to merit beekeeper intervention and close the street.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/bees.jpg\"><img src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/bees-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bees\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3680\" /></a>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n','Bees attack West End','','inherit','open','open','','3679-revision-3','','','2011-06-21 11:06:29','2011-06-21 11:06:29','',3679,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/3679-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(2387,2,'2010-12-16 16:37:00','2010-12-16 16:37:00','<strong>ISBN: 978-0-9558761-0-3\r\nPublished in November 2008\r\nIn Collaboration with <a href=\"http://http://www.medicallondon.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellcome Collection </a></strong>\r\n<blockquote>\"Beautifully packaged...Barnett and Jay have produced a wonderful history both of Londoners\' lives and the medical profession\" <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">The Observer</span>\r\n\r\n\"This is London\'s real heritage…all human life, and human death, is here\" <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Peter Ackroyd, The Times</span>\r\n\r\n\"A box of deadly delights\"<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> Independent on Sunday</span></blockquote>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">A unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.</span>\r\n\r\nbuy it from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0955876109?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=stranattra-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0955876109&quot;&gt;Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src=\" target=\" mce_src=\">Amazon</a>','Medical London','By Richard Barnett & Mike Jay\r\nCommissioned by Wellcome Collection','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2010-12-16 16:37:00','2010-12-16 16:37:00','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-30/',0,'revision','',0),(2386,2,'2010-12-16 16:35:23','2010-12-16 16:35:23','<strong>ISBN: 978-0-9558761-0-3\r\nPublished in November 2008\r\nWith <a href=\"http://http://www.medicallondon.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellcome Collection </a></strong>\r\n<blockquote>\"Beautifully packaged...Barnett and Jay have produced a wonderful history both of Londoners\' lives and the medical profession\" The Observer</blockquote>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">A unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. 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A fabulous boxed  collection of maps and informative brochures in addition to the text I  had expected to receive. A real surprise.\"</blockquote>\r\n<cite>— Ralph Cowling, October 21st 2010</cite>\r\n\r\nA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. 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It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\nTODO: Perhaps some more text and some links and some other bits and pieces?','Medical London','','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2010-09-19 22:29:04','2010-09-19 22:29:04','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(2081,2,'2010-09-19 22:29:28','2010-09-19 22:29:28','<blockquote>\"This is the best value purchase I\'ve made in years. A fabulous boxed  collection of maps and informative brochures in addition to the text I  had expected to receive. A real surprise.\"</blockquote>\r\nA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\nTODO: Perhaps some more text and some links and some other bits and pieces?','Medical London','','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2010-09-19 22:29:28','2010-09-19 22:29:28','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(2082,2,'2010-09-19 22:30:20','2010-09-19 22:30:20','<blockquote>\"This is the best value purchase I\'ve made in years. A fabulous boxed  collection of maps and informative brochures in addition to the text I  had expected to receive. A real surprise.\"</blockquote>\r\nA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\nTODO: Perhaps some more text and some links and some other bits and pieces?\r\n\r\nA giant wurst-and-bun statue can be found at the main intersection of <a title=\"Wachsenburggemeinde\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachsenburggemeinde\">Holzhausen</a>, the location of the <a title=\"German Bratwurst Museum (page does not exist)\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_Bratwurst_Museum&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">German Bratwurst Museum</a> (<em>Deutsches Bratwurstmuseum</em>). The museum, run by the Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst, opened in 2006 and is devoted only to the Thuringian sausage.\r\n\r\nThe oldest document in the museum mentions bratwurst for the first time in 1404 in Thuringia. In 1410 followed the County of <a title=\"Katzenelnbogen\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzenelnbogen\">Katzenelnbogen</a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-2\">[3]</a></sup>','Medical London','','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2010-09-19 22:30:20','2010-09-19 22:30:20','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(2096,2,'2010-10-14 13:05:15','2010-10-14 13:05:15','','eclipse-bg-angleo90','','inherit','open','open','','eclipse-bg-angleo90','','','2010-10-14 13:05:15','2010-10-14 13:05:15','',0,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/eclipse-bg-angleo90.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(2084,2,'2010-09-19 22:32:31','2010-09-19 22:32:31','<blockquote>\"This is the best value purchase I\'ve made in years. A fabulous boxed  collection of maps and informative brochures in addition to the text I  had expected to receive. A real surprise.\"</blockquote>\r\nA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\nTODO: Perhaps some more text and some links and some other bits and pieces?\r\n\r\nA giant wurst-and-bun statue can be found at the main intersection of <a title=\"Wachsenburggemeinde\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachsenburggemeinde\">Holzhausen</a>, the location of the <a title=\"German Bratwurst Museum (page does not exist)\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_Bratwurst_Museum&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">German Bratwurst Museum</a> (<em>Deutsches Bratwurstmuseum</em>). The museum, run by the Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst, opened in 2006 and is devoted only to the Thuringian sausage.\r\n\r\nThe oldest document in the museum mentions bratwurst for the first time in 1404 in Thuringia. In 1410 followed the County of <a title=\"Katzenelnbogen\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzenelnbogen\">Katzenelnbogen</a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-2\">[3]</a></sup>\r\n<h4>Regional variations<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-3\">[4]</a></sup></h4>\r\n<dl> <dt>Coburger Bratwurst</dt> <dd>Bratwurst originating in the city of <a title=\"Coburg\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg\">Coburg</a> in <a title=\"Bavaria\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria\">Bavaria</a>.  It is made from a minimum of 15% veal or beef, and its seasonings  include only salt, pepper, nutmeg, and lemon zest. It is coarse in  texture and measures about 25 cm in length. Traditionally it is grilled  over pinecones and served in a bread roll (Brötchen).</dd> <dt>Fränkische Bratwurst</dt> <dd>A relatively long (10–20 cm), thick, coarse sausage, originating from the <a title=\"Franconia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia\">Franconia (Franken)</a> region. It dates back to 1573. The Fränkische Bratwurst is  traditionally served with sauerkraut or potato salad, but with no  mustard.</dd> <dt>Kulmbacher Bratwurst</dt> <dd>The Kulmbacher Bratwurst, from the city of <a title=\"Kulmbach\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulmbach\">Kulmbach</a> in Bavaria, is made mainly from finely ground veal. It is long and thin.</dd> <dt>Nürnberger Rostbratwurst</dt> <dd>A small, thin bratwurst from the city of <a title=\"Nürnberg\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrnberg\">Nürnberg</a>.  It is no longer than 7–9 cm and weighs no more than 25 g. It is  traditionally grilled over a beechwood fire and served in sets of 6 or  12 with horseradish and sauerkraut or potato salad. Perhaps the most  popular sausage in Germany, <em>Nürnberger Bratwürste</em> / <em>Nürnberger Rostbratwürste</em> is also protected under EU law with <em>PGI</em> status.<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-4\">[5]</a></sup> Traditionally roasted and served three abreast on a bun with mustard, this <a title=\"Pork\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork\">pork</a>-based <em>wurst</em> is recognized in markets and restaurants across Germany. Fresh <a title=\"Marjoram\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjoram\">marjoram</a> and ground <a title=\"Caraway\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caraway\">caraway</a> seed are attributed to being among the important ingredients in this distinctive sausage.</dd></dl>\r\n<h2>See also</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Bockwurst\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockwurst\">Bockwurst</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Sausage Race\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Race\">Sausage Race</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Blood sausage\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage\">Blood sausage</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Wurst mart\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurst_mart\">Wurst mart</a></li>\r\n</ul>','Medical London','','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2010-09-19 22:32:31','2010-09-19 22:32:31','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(2083,2,'2010-09-19 22:31:44','2010-09-19 22:31:44','<blockquote>\"This is the best value purchase I\'ve made in years. A fabulous boxed  collection of maps and informative brochures in addition to the text I  had expected to receive. A real surprise.\"</blockquote>\r\nA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\nTODO: Perhaps some more text and some links and some other bits and pieces?\r\n\r\nA giant wurst-and-bun statue can be found at the main intersection of <a title=\"Wachsenburggemeinde\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachsenburggemeinde\">Holzhausen</a>, the location of the <a title=\"German Bratwurst Museum (page does not exist)\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_Bratwurst_Museum&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">German Bratwurst Museum</a> (<em>Deutsches Bratwurstmuseum</em>). The museum, run by the Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst, opened in 2006 and is devoted only to the Thuringian sausage.\r\n\r\nThe oldest document in the museum mentions bratwurst for the first time in 1404 in Thuringia. In 1410 followed the County of <a title=\"Katzenelnbogen\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzenelnbogen\">Katzenelnbogen</a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-2\">[3]</a></sup>\r\n<h4>Regional variations<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-3\">[4]</a></sup></h4>\r\n<div>\r\n<div><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3%BCrnberger_Rostbratw%C3%BCrste.JPG\"><img src=\"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/N%C3%BCrnberger_Rostbratw%C3%BCrste.JPG/220px-N%C3%BCrnberger_Rostbratw%C3%BCrste.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"146\" /></a>\r\n<div>\r\n<div><a title=\"Enlarge\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N%C3%BCrnberger_Rostbratw%C3%BCrste.JPG\"><img src=\"http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" /></a></div>\r\nNürnberger Rostbratwurst</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<dl><dt>Coburger Bratwurst</dt><dd>Bratwurst originating in the city of <a title=\"Coburg\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg\">Coburg</a> in <a title=\"Bavaria\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria\">Bavaria</a>.  It is made from a minimum of 15% veal or beef, and its seasonings  include only salt, pepper, nutmeg, and lemon zest. It is coarse in  texture and measures about 25 cm in length. Traditionally it is grilled  over pinecones and served in a bread roll (Brötchen).</dd><dt>Fränkische Bratwurst</dt><dd>A relatively long (10–20 cm), thick, coarse sausage, originating from the <a title=\"Franconia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia\">Franconia (Franken)</a> region. It dates back to 1573. The Fränkische Bratwurst is  traditionally served with sauerkraut or potato salad, but with no  mustard.</dd><dt>Kulmbacher Bratwurst</dt><dd>The Kulmbacher Bratwurst, from the city of <a title=\"Kulmbach\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulmbach\">Kulmbach</a> in Bavaria, is made mainly from finely ground veal. It is long and thin.</dd><dt>Nürnberger Rostbratwurst</dt><dd>A small, thin bratwurst from the city of <a title=\"Nürnberg\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrnberg\">Nürnberg</a>.  It is no longer than 7–9 cm and weighs no more than 25 g. It is  traditionally grilled over a beechwood fire and served in sets of 6 or  12 with horseradish and sauerkraut or potato salad. Perhaps the most  popular sausage in Germany, <em>Nürnberger Bratwürste</em> / <em>Nürnberger Rostbratwürste</em> is also protected under EU law with <em>PGI</em> status.<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-4\">[5]</a></sup> Traditionally roasted and served three abreast on a bun with mustard, this <a title=\"Pork\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork\">pork</a>-based <em>wurst</em> is recognized in markets and restaurants across Germany. Fresh <a title=\"Marjoram\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjoram\">marjoram</a> and ground <a title=\"Caraway\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caraway\">caraway</a> seed are attributed to being among the important ingredients in this distinctive sausage.</dd><dt>Nordhessische Bratwurst</dt><dd>The Nordhessische Bratwurst (from Northern <a title=\"Hessen\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessen\">Hessen</a>)  is similar to the Thüringer Rostbratwurst in taste. It is made from  coarsely ground pork and is heavily seasoned. It measures around 20 cm  in length. Traditionally, it is grilled over a wood fire and served on a  cut-open roll with mustard.</dd><dt>Rote Wurst</dt><dd>The Rote Wurst is a favorite Bratwurst of the Swabian region. It is similar to the <a title=\"Bockwurst\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockwurst\">Bockwurst</a>,  and is made from finely ground pork and bacon. Its taste is spicy. To  prevent splitting during grilling or pan frying, an X is cut into the  ends of the sausage. The ends open during cooking, but the rest of the  sausage remains intact, giving it its traditional shape.</dd><dt>Thüringer Rostbratwurst</dt></dl>\r\n<div>Main article: <a title=\"Thuringian sausage\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuringian_sausage\">Thuringian sausage</a></div>\r\n<dl><dd>The Thüringer Rostbratwurst is a spicy sausage from Thüringen. It is  the oldest known Bratwurst in Germany and dates back to 1404. It is  long (15–20 cm) and thin in shape. Traditionally, it is grilled over a  charcoal fire and eaten with mustard and bread.</dd><dt>Würzburger Bratwurst</dt><dd>The Würzburger Bratwurst, also known as the Winzerbratwurst, comes from the city of <a title=\"Würzburg\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrzburg\">Würzburg</a>. Its size is similar to the Thüringer Rostbratwurst, but its ingredients include white <a title=\"Franconia (wine region)\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia_%28wine_region%29\">Franken-Wine</a>.</dd></dl>\r\n<h3>[<a title=\"Edit section: In the United States\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bratwurst&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4\">edit</a>] In the United States</h3>\r\nBratwurst is a common type of sausage in the <a title=\"United States\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States\">United States</a>, especially in the state of <a title=\"Wisconsin\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin\">Wisconsin</a>, where the largest ancestry group is German.<sup id=\"cite_ref-census.gov_5-0\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-census.gov-5\">[6]</a></sup> Originally brought to North America by German immigrants, it is a  common sight at summer cookouts, alongside the famous hot dog. It is  also the origin of the \"beer brat\", a regional favorite where the  bratwurst are poached in beer (generally a combination of a pilsner  style, with butter and onions) prior to grilling over charcoal.\r\n\r\nThe bratwurst was popularized in <a title=\"Sheboygan County, Wisconsin\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheboygan_County,_Wisconsin\">Sheboygan County, Wisconsin</a> in the 1920s. In general, each local butcher shop would take orders and  hand make bratwurst fresh to be picked up on a particular day. The fat  content of the sausages was substantial, making daily pick up necessary  to avoid spoilage. Much of the fat was removed during the cooking over  charcoal. Usually one kept a pan of cold water handy to the grill, so it  was easy to dip one\'s fingers in and fling the water onto the flames  caused by the burning of the excess fat.\r\n\r\nThe bratwurst (or \"brat\") also became popular as a mainstay of sports stadiums after Bill Sperling introduced bratwurst to <a title=\"Major League Baseball\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball\">Major League Baseball</a> in <a title=\"Milwaukee County Stadium\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_County_Stadium\">Milwaukee County Stadium</a> in 1953. The bratwurst were such a hit, Sperling said, that <a title=\"Duke Snider\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Snider\">Duke Snider</a> of the <a title=\"Brooklyn Dodgers\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers\">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> took a case back to New York, and the rest is history.<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-6\">[7]</a></sup> Currently <a title=\"Miller Park (Milwaukee)\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Park_%28Milwaukee%29\">Miller Park</a> in <a title=\"Milwaukee, Wisconsin\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee,_Wisconsin\">Milwaukee, Wisconsin</a> is the only baseball stadium that sells more bratwurst than hot dogs.\r\n<h2>See also</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Bockwurst\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockwurst\">Bockwurst</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Sausage Race\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Race\">Sausage Race</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Blood sausage\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage\">Blood sausage</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Wurst mart\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurst_mart\">Wurst mart</a></li>\r\n</ul>','Medical London','','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2010-09-19 22:31:44','2010-09-19 22:31:44','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(2121,2,'2011-01-10 10:16:18','2011-01-10 10:16:18','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/welcome-to-mars-5/\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2244\" title=\"wtm\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wtm.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"312\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>by Ken Hollings</strong><strong>\r\n</strong><strong> 312pp, pb, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">£9.99</span>, illustrated, index</strong><strong>\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9780954805487</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/welcome-to-mars-5/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>BUY HERE</strong></span></a>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>About the book</strong></em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nA remarkable book... quite simply, essential reading.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Fortean Times</span>\r\n\r\n</div></blockquote>\r\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\"><em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.</span></div>\r\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Furtherfield</a>\r\n<blockquote>...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder... <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Gyrus,</span><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Dreamflesh.com</span></a></blockquote>\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Welcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.  <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Erik Davis</span></blockquote>\r\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\r\n<blockquote>Ken Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. 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Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder... <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Gyrus,</span><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Dreamflesh.com</span></a></blockquote>\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. 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Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Adam Curtis</span></blockquote>\r\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.\r\n\r\n<strong>Buy for Kindle on <a href=\"http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=stranattra-21&amp;o=2&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B0067MDIWC\">Amazon UK</a> or <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0067MDIWC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mirmen-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=B0067MDIWC\">Amazon USA</a></strong>','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\r\nPB, 312pp, illus, index, £9.99 (was £11.99)\r\nISBN: 978-0954805487','inherit','closed','closed','','2121-revision-v1','','','2016-05-23 11:46:50','2016-05-23 11:46:50','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/2121-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(4665,2,'2013-06-07 14:43:01','2013-06-07 14:43:01','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2244\" title=\"wtm\" alt=\"\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wtm.gif\" width=\"217\" height=\"312\" />\r\n\r\n<strong>by Ken Hollings</strong><strong>\r\n</strong><strong> 312pp, pb, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">£9.99</span>, illustrated, index</strong><strong>\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9780954805487</strong>\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_cart\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"business\" value=\"strangeattractorpress@googlemail.com\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"lc\" value=\"GB\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name\" value=\"Welcome to Mars\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"button_subtype\" value=\"products\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"no_note\" value=\"0\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"GBP\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"add\" value=\"1\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"bn\" value=\"PP-ShopCartBF:btn_cart_LG.gif:NonHostedGuest\" />\r\n<table>\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Postal options\" />Postal options</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td><select name=\"os0\"><option value=\"UK\">UK £9.99</option><option value=\"EU\">EU £10.99</option><option value=\"ROW AIR\">ROW AIR £13.99</option></select></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"GBP\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_select0\" value=\"UK\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_amount0\" value=\"9.99\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_select1\" value=\"EU\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_select3\" value=\"ROW AIR\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_amount3\" value=\"13.99\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_index\" value=\"0\" /> <input type=\"image\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/btn/btn_cart_LG.gif\" />\r\n\r\n<form target=\"paypal\" action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"GXQN7NBMMBCD2\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Postal Options\">Postal Options</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"UK\">UK £9.99 GBP</option>\r\n	<option value=\"EU AIR\">EU AIR £11.99 GBP</option>\r\n	<option value=\"ROW AIR\">ROW AIR £13.99 GBP</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"GBP\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/btn/btn_cart_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>About the book</strong></em>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nA remarkable book... quite simply, essential reading.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Fortean Times</span>\r\n\r\n</div></blockquote>\r\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 24px; 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Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder... <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Gyrus,</span><strong></strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Dreamflesh.com</span></a></blockquote>\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. 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font-size: 16px;\"><em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.</span></div>\r\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\r\n<blockquote>...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder... <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Gyrus,</span><strong></strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Dreamflesh.com</span></a></blockquote>\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Welcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.  <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Erik Davis</span></blockquote>\r\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\r\n<blockquote>Ken Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Adam Curtis</span></blockquote>\r\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.\r\n\r\n<strong>Buy for Kindle on <a href=\"http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=stranattra-21&amp;o=2&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B0067MDIWC\">Amazon UK</a> or <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0067MDIWC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mirmen-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=B0067MDIWC\">Amazon USA</a></strong>','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\r\nPB, 312pp, illus, index, £9.99 (was £11.99)\r\nISBN: 978-0954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-revision-v1','','','2012-12-07 12:11:51','2012-12-07 12:11:51','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-revision-45/',0,'revision','',0),(2147,2,'2011-01-10 10:12:53','2011-01-10 10:12:53','<strong>Edited by Mark Pilkington\r\nA5, PB, 405pp, £14.99 UK\r\nISBN 978-0954805418</strong>\r\n<blockquote>A second helping of high strangeness from the acclaimed Strange Attractor anthology series.\r\n\r\n<strong>OUT OF PRINT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE</strong></blockquote>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><strong>Contents</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><strong>About the Book</strong>\r\n\r\n</form><strong>My Travels with Münchausen </strong><em>Richard Burdett\r\n</em>In which the author deceives his friends on an adventure of the mind\r\n\r\n<strong>Enter the Jaguar</strong> <em>Mike Jay\r\n</em>Digging up the ancient psychedelic temple cults of Peru’s Chavínde Huantar\r\n\r\n<strong>School for Shamans </strong> <em>JasonLouv\r\n</em>Our intrepid young author braves Maoist rebels and astral collapse to learn the secrets of Nepalese sorcery\r\n\r\n<strong>The Temple at the End of Time</strong> <em>John Rowe\r\n</em>Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and its role in all our ends\r\n\r\n<strong>Haunts of the Halifax Slasher </strong> <em>Tim Chapman\r\n</em>A gentlemanly tour of the city’s dark past\r\n\r\n<strong>Admiral Byrd, Atlantis &amp;the Hollow Earth </strong><em>Theo Paijmans\r\n</em>A letter, a legend and a flight beyond the poles\r\n\r\n<strong>Under Petticoat Rule\r\n</strong>An anonymous manuscript reveals one boy’s restrictive upbringing.\r\nIntroduction <em>by Peter Farrer &amp;Cathy Ward</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>An Animist Manifesto </strong><em>Graham Harvey\r\n</em>A call to arms. And antennae, branches, tentacles etc\r\n\r\n<strong>Dr Price’s Final Transmutation</strong> <em>Guy Ogilvy\r\n</em>How the Royal Society found, then lost, the secrets of alchemy\r\n\r\n<strong>Life from Earth: The Golem and Homunculi </strong><em>Gary Lachman\r\n</em>The mystical origins of artificial life. Photography by <em>Maud Larsson</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Robot Power, Robot Pride </strong><em>Ken Hollings\r\n</em>How the robot found its self\r\n\r\n<strong>Should they Live:on the Use of Dead Babies </strong><em>Don Mader\r\n</em>The hidden meaning of a sinister 19th century religious print\r\n\r\n<strong>Mould Art</strong> Discovered by <em>Doug Harvey\r\n</em>Beauty grows in unexpected places\r\n\r\n<strong>The Court of Lust </strong><em>John Branston\r\n</em>Waldo Sabine: parapsychologist, poet, feminist, martyr\r\n\r\n<strong>Sandoz in the Rain: The Life and Art of Wilfried Sätty\r\n</strong><em>John Coulthart </em>on a lost visionary hero of the psychedelic revolution\r\n\r\n<strong>Boris Vian for Anglophones</strong> <em>Doug Skinnner\r\n</em>The scandalous oeuvre of the man who shocked his world\r\n\r\n<strong>Richard Jefferies and the Agitated Pool of Life\r\n</strong><em>Neil Mortimer </em>introduces this early, apocalyptic ecologist\r\n\r\n<strong>Anagrams for Maya Deren </strong><em>Kevin Jackson\r\n</em>Artist, film maker, voodoo priestess\r\n\r\n<strong>Change in a Parallel World: CFRussell, Louis </strong><strong>Culling and the Book of Changes </strong>\r\n<em>Steve Moore presents </em>an eccentric history and a new <em>I Ching</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Spirits of Place:Strange Encounters of an Anglican </strong><strong>Kind </strong><em>Alan Walker\r\n</em>How the Church of England answered <em>The Exorcist</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>One More Nightmare calling... the Heathen</strong> <em>Robert J Wallis\r\n</em>Loki the ‘pervert god’, <em>Seidr</em>sorcery and the Left Hand Path.\r\nIllustrations by <em>Arik Roper </em>and <em>Carina Thorén</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Terror by Night: the Sleeping Partner </strong><em>Roger Dobson\r\n</em>Memoirs of a hag-ridden man\r\n\r\n<strong>Folklore of Underground London </strong><em>Antony Clayton\r\n</em>What rumours lie beneath the city’s streets?\r\n\r\n<strong>Cesare Thodol</strong> <em>Mark Samuels\r\n</em>On brain fungus and other horrors. 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And antennae, branches, tentacles etc\r\n\r\n<strong>Dr Price’s Final Transmutation</strong> <em>Guy Ogilvy\r\n</em>How the Royal Society found, then lost, the secrets of alchemy\r\n\r\n<strong>Life from Earth: The Golem and Homunculi </strong><em>Gary Lachman\r\n</em>The mystical origins of artificial life. 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And antennae, branches, tentacles etc\r\n\r\n<strong>Dr Price’s Final Transmutation</strong> <em>Guy Ogilvy\r\n</em>How the Royal Society found, then lost, the secrets of alchemy\r\n\r\n<strong>Life from Earth: The Golem and Homunculi </strong><em>Gary Lachman\r\n</em>The mystical origins of artificial life. 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A fabulous boxed  collection of maps and informative brochures in addition to the text I  had expected to receive. A real surprise.\"</blockquote>\r\nA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\nTODO: Perhaps some more text and some links and some other bits and pieces?\r\n\r\nA giant wurst-and-bun statue can be found at the main intersection of <a title=\"Wachsenburggemeinde\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachsenburggemeinde\">Holzhausen</a>, the location of the <a title=\"German Bratwurst Museum (page does not exist)\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_Bratwurst_Museum&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">German Bratwurst Museum</a> (<em>Deutsches Bratwurstmuseum</em>). The museum, run by the Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst, opened in 2006 and is devoted only to the Thuringian sausage.\r\n\r\nThe oldest document in the museum mentions bratwurst for the first time in 1404 in Thuringia. In 1410 followed the County of <a title=\"Katzenelnbogen\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzenelnbogen\">Katzenelnbogen</a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\"><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-2\">[3]</a></sup>\r\n\r\n<dl> <dt>Coburger Bratwurst</dt> <dd>Bratwurst originating in the city of <a title=\"Coburg\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg\">Coburg</a> in <a title=\"Bavaria\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria\">Bavaria</a>.  It is made from a minimum of 15% veal or beef, and its seasonings  include only salt, pepper, nutmeg, and lemon zest. It is coarse in  texture and measures about 25 cm in length. Traditionally it is grilled  over pinecones and served in a bread roll (Brötchen).</dd> <dt>Fränkische Bratwurst</dt> <dd>A relatively long (10–20 cm), thick, coarse sausage, originating from the <a title=\"Franconia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia\">Franconia (Franken)</a> region. It dates back to 1573. The Fränkische Bratwurst is  traditionally served with sauerkraut or potato salad, but with no  mustard.</dd></dl>\r\n<h2>See also</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Bockwurst\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockwurst\">Bockwurst</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Sausage Race\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Race\">Sausage Race</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Blood sausage\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage\">Blood sausage</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Wurst mart\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurst_mart\">Wurst mart</a></li>\r\n</ul>','Medical London','','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2010-09-19 22:33:12','2010-09-19 22:33:12','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(5949,2,'2017-06-13 16:09:38','2017-06-13 16:09:38','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/we-cant-stop-thinking-about-the-0/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5945\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-5945 size-medium\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/9781907222542-300x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"398\" /></a><em>Artist Aleksandra Mir Speaks With The Space World</em>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/we-cant-stop-thinking-about-the-0/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5945\">\r\n</a><strong>Aleksandra Mir</strong><strong>\r\n</strong><strong> Paperback\r\n300mm x 200mm\r\n144pp, 44 images\r\n£13.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222542</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/we-cant-stop-thinking-about-the-0/\">ORDER HERE!</a>\r\n\r\nThis book expands Aleksandra Mir\'s latest body of work <i>Space Tapestry: Faraway Mission</i>s, exhibited at Tate Liverpool and Modern Art Oxford.\r\n\r\nInspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and the anonymous artists who depicted Halley’s Comet in 1066, the <i>Space Tapestry </i>is a large-scale, hand-drawn monochrome wall-hanging that forms an immersive environment. Much like a graphic novel, <i>Space Tapestry</i> tells an episodic visual story of space travel.\r\n\r\nOver the past three years, Mir has maintained dialogues with professionals in the space industry and academia who have informed and inspired her. The work draws on themes relating to current debates, recorded events, scientific discoveries, technological innovations and predictions of imagined futures that currently affect all our lives.\r\n\r\nThis book contains both reproductions of the finished work and images from its collaborative creation with twenty-five young artists. It also contains sixteen in-depth new interviews with a wide range of professionals working in the space industries today, providing an intimate and informative insight into the present and future of space exploration.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Interviewees include:</strong></em>\r\n<strong>Jan Woerner</strong>, Director General of the European Space Agency, Paris\r\n<strong>Marek Kukula</strong>, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London\r\n<strong>Clara Sousa-Silva</strong>, Quantum Astrochemist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA\r\n<strong>Chris Welch</strong>, Director of the interdisciplinary MSc in Space Studies, International Space University in Strasbourg\r\n<strong>Sanjeev Gupta</strong>, Strategic Planner, NASA Mars Rover Mission\r\n<strong>Alice Gorman</strong>, Space Archeologist, Flinders University, Adelaide\r\n\r\n<em><strong>About the Author:</strong></em>\r\nBorn 1967 in Lubin, Poland, a citizen of Sweden and the United States, and based in London, the artist Aleksandra Mir has an international practice of twenty-five years, with numerous exhibitions worldwide, including <em>The Space Age</em>, a retrospective at M-Museum, Leuven, 2013, and the 34m mural Drawing Room, London, 2014. She has developed many large-scale collaborative projects on space exploration. Her most well-known project, <em>First Woman on the Moon</em> (1999), has been touring for seventeen years and is included in the collections of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Tate.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/we-cant-stop-thinking-about-the-0/\">ORDER HERE!</a>','We Can\'t Stop Thinking About the Future','300 x 200 mm\r\n144pp, 44 images\r\n£13.99\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','5943-revision-v1','','','2017-06-13 16:09:38','2017-06-13 16:09:38','',5943,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5943-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(2533,2,'2011-01-07 15:57:39','2011-01-07 15:57:39','','SAJ4','','inherit','open','open','','saj4','','','2011-01-07 15:57:39','2011-01-07 15:57:39','',0,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SAJ4.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(2099,2,'2010-10-14 13:30:29','2010-10-14 13:30:29','<blockquote>[gallery link=\"file\" columns=\"2\"]\r\n\r\n\"This is the best value purchase I\'ve made in years. A fabulous boxed  collection of maps and informative brochures in addition to the text I  had expected to receive. A real surprise.\"</blockquote>\r\nA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\nTODO: Perhaps some more text and some links and some other bits and pieces?\r\n\r\nA giant wurst-and-bun statue can be found at the main intersection of <a title=\"Wachsenburggemeinde\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachsenburggemeinde\">Holzhausen</a>, the location of the <a title=\"German Bratwurst Museum (page does not exist)\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_Bratwurst_Museum&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">German Bratwurst Museum</a> (<em>Deutsches Bratwurstmuseum</em>). The museum, run by the Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst, opened in 2006 and is devoted only to the Thuringian sausage.\r\n\r\nThe oldest document in the museum mentions bratwurst for the first time in 1404 in Thuringia. In 1410 followed the County of <a title=\"Katzenelnbogen\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzenelnbogen\">Katzenelnbogen</a>.<sup><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-2\">[3]</a></sup>\r\n\r\n<dl> <dt>Coburger Bratwurst</dt> <dd>Bratwurst originating in the city of <a title=\"Coburg\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg\">Coburg</a> in <a title=\"Bavaria\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria\">Bavaria</a>.  It is made from a minimum of 15% veal or beef, and its seasonings  include only salt, pepper, nutmeg, and lemon zest. It is coarse in  texture and measures about 25 cm in length. Traditionally it is grilled  over pinecones and served in a bread roll (Brötchen).</dd> <dt>Fränkische Bratwurst</dt> <dd>A relatively long (10–20 cm), thick, coarse sausage, originating from the <a title=\"Franconia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia\">Franconia (Franken)</a> region. It dates back to 1573. The Fränkische Bratwurst is  traditionally served with sauerkraut or potato salad, but with no  mustard.</dd> </dl>\r\n<h2>See also</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Bockwurst\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockwurst\">Bockwurst</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Sausage Race\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Race\">Sausage Race</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Blood sausage\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage\">Blood sausage</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Wurst mart\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurst_mart\">Wurst mart</a></li>\r\n</ul>','Medical London','','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2010-10-14 13:30:29','2010-10-14 13:30:29','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(2101,2,'2010-10-14 13:34:21','2010-10-14 13:34:21','<blockquote>\r\n\r\n\"This is the best value purchase I\'ve made in years. A fabulous boxed  collection of maps and informative brochures in addition to the text I  had expected to receive. A real surprise.\"</blockquote>\r\nA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\nTODO: Perhaps some more text and some links and some other bits and pieces?\r\n\r\nA giant wurst-and-bun statue can be found at the main intersection of <a title=\"Wachsenburggemeinde\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachsenburggemeinde\">Holzhausen</a>, the location of the <a title=\"German Bratwurst Museum (page does not exist)\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_Bratwurst_Museum&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">German Bratwurst Museum</a> (<em>Deutsches Bratwurstmuseum</em>). The museum, run by the Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst, opened in 2006 and is devoted only to the Thuringian sausage.\r\n\r\nThe oldest document in the museum mentions bratwurst for the first time in 1404 in Thuringia. In 1410 followed the County of <a title=\"Katzenelnbogen\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzenelnbogen\">Katzenelnbogen</a>.<sup><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-2\">[3]</a></sup>\r\n\r\n<dl> <dt>Coburger Bratwurst</dt> <dd>Bratwurst originating in the city of <a title=\"Coburg\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg\">Coburg</a> in <a title=\"Bavaria\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria\">Bavaria</a>.  It is made from a minimum of 15% veal or beef, and its seasonings  include only salt, pepper, nutmeg, and lemon zest. It is coarse in  texture and measures about 25 cm in length. Traditionally it is grilled  over pinecones and served in a bread roll (Brötchen).</dd> <dt>Fränkische Bratwurst</dt> <dd>A relatively long (10–20 cm), thick, coarse sausage, originating from the <a title=\"Franconia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia\">Franconia (Franken)</a> region. It dates back to 1573. The Fränkische Bratwurst is  traditionally served with sauerkraut or potato salad, but with no  mustard.</dd> </dl>\r\n<h2>See also</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Bockwurst\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockwurst\">Bockwurst</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Sausage Race\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Race\">Sausage Race</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Blood sausage\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage\">Blood sausage</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Wurst mart\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurst_mart\">Wurst mart</a></li>\r\n</ul>','Medical London','','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2010-10-14 13:34:21','2010-10-14 13:34:21','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(2323,2,'2010-11-09 17:48:12','2010-11-09 17:48:12','<strong>Edited by Mark Pilkington\r\nA5, PB, £13.99 UK\r\nISBN 978-0954805418</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2233\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" title=\"saj2\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/saj2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"314\" />\r\n<blockquote>A second helping of high strangeness from the acclaimed StrangeAttractor anthology series.</blockquote>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><strong>Contents</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<strong>My Travels with Münchausen</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong><em>Richard Burdett\r\n</em>In which the author deceives his friends on an adventure of the mind\r\n\r\n<strong>Enter the Jaguar</strong> <em>Mike Jay\r\n</em>Digging up the ancient psychedelic temple cults of Peru’s Chavínde Huantar\r\n\r\n<strong>School for Shamans </strong> <em>JasonLouv\r\n</em>Our intrepid young author braves Maoist rebels and astral collapse to learn the secrets of Nepalese sorcery\r\n\r\n<strong>The Temple at the End of Time</strong> <em>John Rowe\r\n</em>Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and its role in all our ends\r\n\r\n<strong>Haunts of the Halifax Slasher </strong> <em>Tim Chapman\r\n</em>A gentlemanly tour of the city’s dark past\r\n\r\n<strong>Admiral Byrd, Atlantis &amp;the Hollow Earth </strong><em>Theo Paijmans\r\n</em>A letter, a legend and a flight beyond the poles\r\n\r\n<strong>Under Petticoat Rule\r\n</strong>An anonymous manuscript reveals one boy’s restrictive upbringing.\r\nIntroduction <em>by Peter Farrer &amp;Cathy Ward</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>An Animist Manifesto </strong><em>Graham Harvey\r\n</em>A call to arms. And antennae, branches, tentacles etc\r\n\r\n<strong>Dr Price’s Final Transmutation</strong> <em>Guy Ogilvy\r\n</em>How the Royal Society found, then lost, the secrets of alchemy\r\n\r\n<strong>Life from Earth: The Golem and Homunculi </strong><em>Gary Lachman\r\n</em>The mystical origins of artificial life. Photography by <em>Maud Larsson</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Robot Power, Robot Pride </strong><em>Ken Hollings\r\n</em>How the robot found its self\r\n\r\n<strong>Should they Live:on the Use of Dead Babies </strong><em>Don Mader\r\n</em>The hidden meaning of a sinister 19th century religious print\r\n\r\n<strong>Mould Art</strong> Discovered by <em>Doug Harvey\r\n</em>Beauty grows in unexpected places\r\n\r\n<strong>The Court of Lust </strong><em>John Branston\r\n</em>Waldo Sabine: parapsychologist, poet, feminist, martyr\r\n\r\n<strong>Sandoz in the Rain: The Life and Art of Wilfried Sätty\r\n</strong><em>John Coulthart </em>on a lost visionary hero of the psychedelic revolution\r\n\r\n<strong>Boris Vian for Anglophones</strong> <em>Doug Skinnner\r\n</em>The scandalous oeuvre of the man who shocked his world\r\n\r\n<strong>Richard Jefferies and the Agitated Pool of Life\r\n</strong><em>Neil Mortimer </em>introduces this early, apocalyptic ecologist\r\n\r\n<strong>Anagrams for Maya Deren </strong><em>Kevin Jackson\r\n</em>Artist, film maker, voodoo priestess\r\n\r\n<strong>Change in a Parallel World: CFRussell, Louis </strong><strong>Culling and the Book of Changes </strong>\r\n<em>Steve Moore presents </em>an eccentric history and a new <em>I Ching</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Spirits of Place:Strange Encounters of an Anglican </strong><strong>Kind </strong><em>Alan Walker\r\n</em>How the Church of England answered <em>The Exorcist</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>One More Nightmare calling... the Heathen</strong> <em>Robert J Wallis\r\n</em>Loki the ‘pervert god’, <em>Seidr</em>sorcery and the Left Hand Path.\r\nIllustrations by <em>Arik Roper </em>and <em>Carina Thorén</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Terror by Night: the Sleeping Partner </strong><em>Roger Dobson\r\n</em>Memoirs of a hag-ridden man\r\n\r\n<strong>Folklore of Underground London </strong><em>Antony Clayton\r\n</em>What rumours lie beneath the city’s streets?\r\n\r\n<strong>Cesare Thodol</strong> <em>Mark Samuels\r\n</em>On brain fungus and other horrors. 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It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\nTODO: Perhaps some more text and some links and some other bits and pieces?\r\n\r\nA giant wurst-and-bun statue can be found at the main intersection of <a title=\"Wachsenburggemeinde\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachsenburggemeinde\">Holzhausen</a>, the location of the <a title=\"German Bratwurst Museum (page does not exist)\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_Bratwurst_Museum&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">German Bratwurst Museum</a> (<em>Deutsches Bratwurstmuseum</em>). The museum, run by the Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst, opened in 2006 and is devoted only to the Thuringian sausage.\r\n\r\nThe oldest document in the museum mentions bratwurst for the first time in 1404 in Thuringia. In 1410 followed the County of <a title=\"Katzenelnbogen\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzenelnbogen\">Katzenelnbogen</a>.<sup><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-2\">[3]</a></sup>\r\n\r\n<dl> <dt>Coburger Bratwurst</dt> <dd>Bratwurst originating in the city of <a title=\"Coburg\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg\">Coburg</a> in <a title=\"Bavaria\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria\">Bavaria</a>.  It is made from a minimum of 15% veal or beef, and its seasonings  include only salt, pepper, nutmeg, and lemon zest. It is coarse in  texture and measures about 25 cm in length. Traditionally it is grilled  over pinecones and served in a bread roll (Brötchen).</dd> <dt>Fränkische Bratwurst</dt> <dd>A relatively long (10–20 cm), thick, coarse sausage, originating from the <a title=\"Franconia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia\">Franconia (Franken)</a> region. It dates back to 1573. The Fränkische Bratwurst is  traditionally served with sauerkraut or potato salad, but with no  mustard.</dd> </dl>\r\n<h2>See also</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Bockwurst\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockwurst\">Bockwurst</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Sausage Race\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Race\">Sausage Race</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Blood sausage\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage\">Blood sausage</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Wurst mart\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurst_mart\">Wurst mart</a></li>\r\n</ul>','Medical London','','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2010-10-14 13:35:35','2010-10-14 13:35:35','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(2379,2,'2010-12-07 15:31:46','2010-12-07 15:31:46','<strong>Edited by Mark Pilkington\r\nA5, PB, £13.99 UK\r\nISBN 978-0954805418</strong>\r\n<blockquote>A second helping of high strangeness from the acclaimed StrangeAttractor anthology series.</blockquote>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><strong>Contents</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<form target=\"paypal\" action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_cart\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"business\" value=\"strangeattractorpress@googlemail.com\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"lc\" value=\"GB\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name\" value=\"SAJ2\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"button_subtype\" value=\"products\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"no_note\" value=\"0\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"add\" value=\"1\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"bn\" value=\"PP-ShopCartBF:btn_cart_LG.gif:NonHostedGuest\">\r\n<table>\r\n<tr><td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Postal options\">Postal options</td></tr><tr><td><select name=\"os0\">\r\n	<option value=\"UK\">UK £14.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"EU\">EU £15.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"ROW\">ROW £16.00</option>\r\n	<option value=\"ROW AIR\">ROW AIR £18.00</option>\r\n</select> </td></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"GBP\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_select0\" value=\"UK\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_amount0\" value=\"14.00\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_select1\" value=\"EU\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_amount1\" value=\"15.00\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_select2\" value=\"ROW\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_amount2\" value=\"16.00\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_select3\" value=\"ROW AIR\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_amount3\" value=\"18.00\">\r\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_index\" value=\"0\">\r\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/btn/btn_cart_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\">\r\n<img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\r\n</form>\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>My Travels with Münchausen</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong> </strong><em>Richard Burdett\r\n</em>In which the author deceives his friends on an adventure of the mind\r\n\r\n<strong>Enter the Jaguar</strong> <em>Mike Jay\r\n</em>Digging up the ancient psychedelic temple cults of Peru’s Chavínde Huantar\r\n\r\n<strong>School for Shamans </strong> <em>JasonLouv\r\n</em>Our intrepid young author braves Maoist rebels and astral collapse to learn the secrets of Nepalese sorcery\r\n\r\n<strong>The Temple at the End of Time</strong> <em>John Rowe\r\n</em>Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and its role in all our ends\r\n\r\n<strong>Haunts of the Halifax Slasher </strong> <em>Tim Chapman\r\n</em>A gentlemanly tour of the city’s dark past\r\n\r\n<strong>Admiral Byrd, Atlantis &amp;the Hollow Earth </strong><em>Theo Paijmans\r\n</em>A letter, a legend and a flight beyond the poles\r\n\r\n<strong>Under Petticoat Rule\r\n</strong>An anonymous manuscript reveals one boy’s restrictive upbringing.\r\nIntroduction <em>by Peter Farrer &amp;Cathy Ward</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>An Animist Manifesto </strong><em>Graham Harvey\r\n</em>A call to arms. And antennae, branches, tentacles etc\r\n\r\n<strong>Dr Price’s Final Transmutation</strong> <em>Guy Ogilvy\r\n</em>How the Royal Society found, then lost, the secrets of alchemy\r\n\r\n<strong>Life from Earth: The Golem and Homunculi </strong><em>Gary Lachman\r\n</em>The mystical origins of artificial life. Photography by <em>Maud Larsson</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Robot Power, Robot Pride </strong><em>Ken Hollings\r\n</em>How the robot found its self\r\n\r\n<strong>Should they Live:on the Use of Dead Babies </strong><em>Don Mader\r\n</em>The hidden meaning of a sinister 19th century religious print\r\n\r\n<strong>Mould Art</strong> Discovered by <em>Doug Harvey\r\n</em>Beauty grows in unexpected places\r\n\r\n<strong>The Court of Lust </strong><em>John Branston\r\n</em>Waldo Sabine: parapsychologist, poet, feminist, martyr\r\n\r\n<strong>Sandoz in the Rain: The Life and Art of Wilfried Sätty\r\n</strong><em>John Coulthart </em>on a lost visionary hero of the psychedelic revolution\r\n\r\n<strong>Boris Vian for Anglophones</strong> <em>Doug Skinnner\r\n</em>The scandalous oeuvre of the man who shocked his world\r\n\r\n<strong>Richard Jefferies and the Agitated Pool of Life\r\n</strong><em>Neil Mortimer </em>introduces this early, apocalyptic ecologist\r\n\r\n<strong>Anagrams for Maya Deren </strong><em>Kevin Jackson\r\n</em>Artist, film maker, voodoo priestess\r\n\r\n<strong>Change in a Parallel World: CFRussell, Louis </strong><strong>Culling and the Book of Changes </strong>\r\n<em>Steve Moore presents </em>an eccentric history and a new <em>I Ching</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Spirits of Place:Strange Encounters of an Anglican </strong><strong>Kind </strong><em>Alan Walker\r\n</em>How the Church of England answered <em>The Exorcist</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>One More Nightmare calling... the Heathen</strong> <em>Robert J Wallis\r\n</em>Loki the ‘pervert god’, <em>Seidr</em>sorcery and the Left Hand Path.\r\nIllustrations by <em>Arik Roper </em>and <em>Carina Thorén</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Terror by Night: the Sleeping Partner </strong><em>Roger Dobson\r\n</em>Memoirs of a hag-ridden man\r\n\r\n<strong>Folklore of Underground London </strong><em>Antony Clayton\r\n</em>What rumours lie beneath the city’s streets?\r\n\r\n<strong>Cesare Thodol</strong> <em>Mark Samuels\r\n</em>On brain fungus and other horrors. 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A fabulous boxed  collection of maps and informative brochures in addition to the text I  had expected to receive. A real surprise.\"</blockquote>\r\nA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\nTODO: Perhaps some more text and some links and some other bits and pieces?\r\n\r\nA giant wurst-and-bun statue can be found at the main intersection of <a title=\"Wachsenburggemeinde\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachsenburggemeinde\">Holzhausen</a>, the location of the <a title=\"German Bratwurst Museum (page does not exist)\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_Bratwurst_Museum&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">German Bratwurst Museum</a> (<em>Deutsches Bratwurstmuseum</em>). The museum, run by the Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst, opened in 2006 and is devoted only to the Thuringian sausage.\r\n\r\nThe oldest document in the museum mentions bratwurst for the first time in 1404 in Thuringia. In 1410 followed the County of <a title=\"Katzenelnbogen\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzenelnbogen\">Katzenelnbogen</a>.<sup><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-2\">[3]</a></sup>\r\n\r\n<dl> <dt>Coburger Bratwurst</dt> <dd>Bratwurst originating in the city of <a title=\"Coburg\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg\">Coburg</a> in <a title=\"Bavaria\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria\">Bavaria</a>.  It is made from a minimum of 15% veal or beef, and its seasonings  include only salt, pepper, nutmeg, and lemon zest. It is coarse in  texture and measures about 25 cm in length. Traditionally it is grilled  over pinecones and served in a bread roll (Brötchen).</dd> <dt>Fränkische Bratwurst</dt> <dd>A relatively long (10–20 cm), thick, coarse sausage, originating from the <a title=\"Franconia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia\">Franconia (Franken)</a> region. It dates back to 1573. The Fränkische Bratwurst is  traditionally served with sauerkraut or potato salad, but with no  mustard.</dd> </dl>\r\n<h2>See also</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Bockwurst\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockwurst\">Bockwurst</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Sausage Race\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Race\">Sausage Race</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Blood sausage\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage\">Blood sausage</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Wurst mart\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurst_mart\">Wurst mart</a></li>\r\n</ul>','Medical London','','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 16:35:54','2010-10-21 16:35:54','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(2116,2,'2010-10-21 19:25:13','2010-10-21 19:25:13','<blockquote>\"This is the best value purchase I\'ve made in years. A fabulous boxed  collection of maps and informative brochures in addition to the text I  had expected to receive. A real surprise.\"</blockquote>\r\n<cite>— Ralph Cowling, October 21st 2010</cite>\r\nA unique, stunningly-presented guide to London\'s past and a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals and tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city\'s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine.\r\n\r\nTODO: Perhaps some more text and some links and some other bits and pieces?\r\n\r\nA giant wurst-and-bun statue can be found at the main intersection of <a title=\"Wachsenburggemeinde\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachsenburggemeinde\">Holzhausen</a>, the location of the <a title=\"German Bratwurst Museum (page does not exist)\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=German_Bratwurst_Museum&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">German Bratwurst Museum</a> (<em>Deutsches Bratwurstmuseum</em>). The museum, run by the Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst, opened in 2006 and is devoted only to the Thuringian sausage.\r\n\r\nThe oldest document in the museum mentions bratwurst for the first time in 1404 in Thuringia. In 1410 followed the County of <a title=\"Katzenelnbogen\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzenelnbogen\">Katzenelnbogen</a>.<sup><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwurst#cite_note-2\">[3]</a></sup>\r\n\r\n<dl> <dt>Coburger Bratwurst</dt> <dd>Bratwurst originating in the city of <a title=\"Coburg\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg\">Coburg</a> in <a title=\"Bavaria\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria\">Bavaria</a>.  It is made from a minimum of 15% veal or beef, and its seasonings  include only salt, pepper, nutmeg, and lemon zest. It is coarse in  texture and measures about 25 cm in length. Traditionally it is grilled  over pinecones and served in a bread roll (Brötchen).</dd> <dt>Fränkische Bratwurst</dt> <dd>A relatively long (10–20 cm), thick, coarse sausage, originating from the <a title=\"Franconia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franconia\">Franconia (Franken)</a> region. It dates back to 1573. The Fränkische Bratwurst is  traditionally served with sauerkraut or potato salad, but with no  mustard.</dd> </dl>\r\n<h2>See also</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Bockwurst\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockwurst\">Bockwurst</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Sausage Race\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Race\">Sausage Race</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Blood sausage\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage\">Blood sausage</a></li>\r\n	<li><a title=\"Wurst mart\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurst_mart\">Wurst mart</a></li>\r\n</ul>','Medical London','','inherit','open','open','','2064-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 19:25:13','2010-10-21 19:25:13','',2064,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2064-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(2120,2,'2010-07-28 09:03:24','2010-07-28 09:03:24','<img class=\"size-full wp-image-2016\" style=\"border: 0; vertical-align: top; margin: 8px;\" title=\"mm-launch-flyer\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/mm-launch-flyer.jpg\" alt=\"mm-launch-flyer\" width=\"540\" height=\"399\" />\n\nAll are welcome - copies of the book will be on sale for £5.\n\nSee you in space!','Mirage Men launch at The Horse Hospital','','inherit','open','open','','2017-revision','','','2010-07-28 09:03:24','2010-07-28 09:03:24','',2017,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2017-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(2236,2,'2010-10-26 10:12:13','2010-10-26 10:12:13','<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wtm.gif\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2154\" title=\"wtm\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wtm.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"330\" /></a></div>\r\n<div><strong>by Ken Hollings</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>ISBN: 9780954805487</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.\r\n<blockquote>A remarkable book<em>...</em><em> quite simply, essential reading.\r\n</em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Fortean Times</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><!--more--></span></blockquote>\r\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\r\n<blockquote>...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder... <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Gyrus,</span><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> </span></strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Dreamflesh.com</span></a></blockquote>\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Welcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.  <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Erik Davis</span></blockquote>\r\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\r\n<blockquote>Ken Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Adam Curtis</span></blockquote>\r\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\r\n312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index\r\nISBN: 9780954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-revision-v1','','','2010-10-26 10:12:13','2010-10-26 10:12:13','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(2123,2,'2010-10-21 19:50:50','2010-10-21 19:50:50','<em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.\n\nA remarkable book<em>...</em><em> quite simply, essential reading.\n</em>Fortean Times\n\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\n\n...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder...\nGyrus,<strong> </strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\">Dreamflesh.com</a>\n\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\n<blockquote>Welcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.\nErik Davis</blockquote>\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\n<blockquote>Ken Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. 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Welcome to Mars is a searingly accurate and deeply disturbing exposé of the fantasies of American modernism that have inspired the many nightmares and the few hopeful visions of our new Millennium.\n<em> Dr Jacques Vallée</em></blockquote>\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>CHEQUES</strong></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\">Send a cheque (UK sterling only, sorry) to:</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\">STRANGE ATTRACTOR SHOPPE\nBM SAP\nLONDON\nWC1N 3XX\nUK.</span>','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\n312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index\nISBN: 9780954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 19:50:50','2010-10-21 19:50:50','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(2124,2,'2012-12-07 12:10:44','2012-12-07 12:10:44','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2244\" title=\"wtm\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wtm.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"312\" />\n\n<strong>by Ken Hollings</strong><strong>\n</strong><strong> 312pp, pb, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">£9.99</span>, illustrated, index</strong><strong>\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9780954805487</strong>\n\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_cart\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"business\" value=\"strangeattractorpress@googlemail.com\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"lc\" value=\"GB\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name\" value=\"Welcome to Mars\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"button_subtype\" value=\"products\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"no_note\" value=\"0\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"GBP\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"add\" value=\"1\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"bn\" value=\"PP-ShopCartBF:btn_cart_LG.gif:NonHostedGuest\" />\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Postal options\" />Postal options</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><select name=\"os0\"> <option value=\"UK\">UK £9.99</option> <option value=\"EU\">EU £10.99</option> <option value=\"ROW\">ROW £11.99</option> <option value=\"ROW AIR\">ROW AIR £13.99</option> </select></td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"GBP\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_select0\" value=\"UK\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_amount0\" value=\"9.99\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_select1\" value=\"EU\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_amount1\" value=\"11.99\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_select2\" value=\"ROW\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_amount2\" value=\"13.99\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_select3\" value=\"ROW AIR\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_amount3\" value=\"13.99\" /> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"option_index\" value=\"0\" /> <input type=\"image\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/btn/btn_cart_LG.gif\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online.\" />\n\n</form><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"></form><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"></form><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"><em><em>Or pay by cheque, £UK only, payable to </em>Strange Attractor Press Ltd<em> and sent to </em>BM SAP, London, WC1N 3XX, UK<em>.</em></em>\n\n</form><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"></form><form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"></form><strong>Buy for Kindle on <a href=\"http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=stranattra-21&amp;o=2&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B0067MDIWC\">Amazon UK</a> or <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0067MDIWC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mirmen-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=B0067MDIWC\">Amazon USA</a></strong>\n\n<em><strong>About the book</strong></em>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n\nA remarkable book... quite simply, essential reading.\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Fortean Times</span>\n\n</div></blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\"><em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.</span></div>\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\n<blockquote>...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder... <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Gyrus,</span><strong></strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Dreamflesh.com</span></a></blockquote>\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\n<blockquote>Welcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.  <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Erik Davis</span></blockquote>\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\n<blockquote>Ken Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today.\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Adam Curtis</span></blockquote>\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.\n\n<strong>Buy for Kindle on <a href=\"http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=stranattra-21&amp;o=2&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B0067MDIWC\">Amazon UK</a> or <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0067MDIWC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mirmen-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=B0067MDIWC\">Amazon USA</a></strong>','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\nPB, 312pp, illus, index, £9.99 (was £11.99)\nISBN: 978-0954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-autosave-v1','','','2012-12-07 12:10:44','2012-12-07 12:10:44','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(2125,2,'2010-10-21 19:51:18','2010-10-21 19:51:18','<em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.\r\n\r\nA remarkable book<em>...</em><em> quite simply, essential reading.\r\n</em>Fortean Times\r\n\r\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\r\n\r\n...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder...\r\nGyrus,<strong> </strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\">Dreamflesh.com</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Welcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.\r\nErik Davis</blockquote>\r\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\r\n<blockquote>Ken Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today. <em>Adam Curtis</em></blockquote>\r\n<blockquote>Ken Hollings has placed his critical focus at the precise point where the high technologies of information control and social manipulation intersect the passionate search for scientific ways to probe the human mind. Welcome to Mars is a searingly accurate and deeply disturbing exposé of the fantasies of American modernism that have inspired the many nightmares and the few hopeful visions of our new Millennium.\r\n<em> Dr Jacques Vallée</em></blockquote>\r\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>CHEQUES</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\">Send a cheque (UK sterling only, sorry) to:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\">STRANGE ATTRACTOR SHOPPE\r\nBM SAP\r\nLONDON\r\nWC1N 3XX\r\nUK.</span>','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\r\n312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index\r\nISBN: 9780954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 19:51:18','2010-10-21 19:51:18','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(2126,2,'2010-10-21 19:52:27','2010-10-21 19:52:27','<em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.\r\n<blockquote>A remarkable book<em>...</em><em> quite simply, essential reading.\r\n</em>Fortean Times</blockquote>\r\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\r\n\r\n...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder...\r\nGyrus,<strong> </strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\">Dreamflesh.com</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\r\n\r\nWelcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.\r\nErik Davis\r\n\r\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\r\n\r\nKen Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today. <em>Adam Curtis</em>\r\n\r\nKen Hollings has placed his critical focus at the precise point where the high technologies of information control and social manipulation intersect the passionate search for scientific ways to probe the human mind. Welcome to Mars is a searingly accurate and deeply disturbing exposé of the fantasies of American modernism that have inspired the many nightmares and the few hopeful visions of our new Millennium.\r\n<em> Dr Jacques Vallée</em>\r\n\r\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>CHEQUES</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\">Send a cheque (UK sterling only, sorry) to:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\">STRANGE ATTRACTOR SHOPPE\r\nBM SAP\r\nLONDON\r\nWC1N 3XX\r\nUK.</span>','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\r\n312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index\r\nISBN: 9780954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 19:52:27','2010-10-21 19:52:27','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(2128,2,'2010-10-21 19:54:44','2010-10-21 19:54:44','<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>by Ken Hollings</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>ISBN: 9780954805487</strong></div>\r\n<em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.\r\n<blockquote>A remarkable book<em>...</em><em> quite simply, essential reading.\r\n</em>Fortean Times</blockquote>\r\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\r\n\r\n...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder...\r\nGyrus,<strong> </strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\">Dreamflesh.com</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\r\n\r\nWelcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.\r\nErik Davis\r\n\r\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\r\n\r\nKen Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. 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Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder...\r\nGyrus,<strong> </strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\">Dreamflesh.com</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\r\n\r\nWelcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.\r\nErik Davis\r\n\r\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\r\n\r\nKen Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today. <em>Adam Curtis</em>\r\n\r\nKen Hollings has placed his critical focus at the precise point where the high technologies of information control and social manipulation intersect the passionate search for scientific ways to probe the human mind. Welcome to Mars is a searingly accurate and deeply disturbing exposé of the fantasies of American modernism that have inspired the many nightmares and the few hopeful visions of our new Millennium.\r\n<em> Dr Jacques Vallée</em>\r\n\r\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>CHEQUES</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\">Send a cheque (UK sterling only, sorry) to:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\">STRANGE ATTRACTOR SHOPPE\r\nBM SAP\r\nLONDON\r\nWC1N 3XX\r\nUK.</span>','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\r\n312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index\r\nISBN: 9780954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 19:54:35','2010-10-21 19:54:35','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(2130,2,'2010-10-21 19:58:27','2010-10-21 19:58:27','<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>by Ken Hollings</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>ISBN: 9780954805487</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.\r\n<blockquote>A remarkable book<em>...</em><em> quite simply, essential reading.\r\n</em>Fortean Times</blockquote>\r\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\r\n\r\n...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder...\r\nGyrus,<strong> </strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\">Dreamflesh.com</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\r\n\r\nWelcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.\r\nErik Davis\r\n\r\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\r\n\r\nKen Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today. <em>Adam Curtis</em>\r\n\r\nKen Hollings has placed his critical focus at the precise point where the high technologies of information control and social manipulation intersect the passionate search for scientific ways to probe the human mind. Welcome to Mars is a searingly accurate and deeply disturbing exposé of the fantasies of American modernism that have inspired the many nightmares and the few hopeful visions of our new Millennium.\r\n<em> Dr Jacques Vallée</em>\r\n\r\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.\r\n\r\nCHEQUES\r\n\r\n>Send a cheque (UK sterling only, sorry) to:\r\n\r\nSTRANGE ATTRACTOR SHOPPE\r\nBM SAP\r\nLONDON\r\nWC1N 3XX\r\nUK.','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\r\n312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index\r\nISBN: 9780954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 19:58:27','2010-10-21 19:58:27','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(2129,2,'2010-10-21 19:55:10','2010-10-21 19:55:10','<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>by Ken Hollings</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>ISBN: 9780954805487</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.\r\n<blockquote>A remarkable book<em>...</em><em> quite simply, essential reading.\r\n</em>Fortean Times</blockquote>\r\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\r\n\r\n...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder...\r\nGyrus,<strong> </strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\">Dreamflesh.com</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\r\n\r\nWelcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.\r\nErik Davis\r\n\r\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\r\n\r\nKen Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today. <em>Adam Curtis</em>\r\n\r\nKen Hollings has placed his critical focus at the precise point where the high technologies of information control and social manipulation intersect the passionate search for scientific ways to probe the human mind. Welcome to Mars is a searingly accurate and deeply disturbing exposé of the fantasies of American modernism that have inspired the many nightmares and the few hopeful visions of our new Millennium.\r\n<em> Dr Jacques Vallée</em>\r\n\r\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>CHEQUES</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\">Send a cheque (UK sterling only, sorry) to:</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; color: black; font-size: x-small;\">STRANGE ATTRACTOR SHOPPE\r\nBM SAP\r\nLONDON\r\nWC1N 3XX\r\nUK.</span>','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\r\n312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index\r\nISBN: 9780954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 19:55:10','2010-10-21 19:55:10','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(2131,2,'2010-10-21 19:59:06','2010-10-21 19:59:06','<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>by Ken Hollings</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>ISBN: 9780954805487</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.\r\n<blockquote>A remarkable book<em>...</em><em> quite simply, essential reading.\r\n</em>Fortean Times</blockquote>\r\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\r\n\r\n...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder...\r\nGyrus,<strong> </strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\">Dreamflesh.com</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. 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Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today. <em>Adam Curtis</em>\r\n\r\nKen Hollings has placed his critical focus at the precise point where the high technologies of information control and social manipulation intersect the passionate search for scientific ways to probe the human mind. 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Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder...\r\nGyrus,<strong> </strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\">Dreamflesh.com</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. 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Welcome to Mars is a searingly accurate and deeply disturbing exposé of the fantasies of American modernism that have inspired the many nightmares and the few hopeful visions of our new Millennium.\r\n<em> Dr Jacques Vallée</em>\r\n\r\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.\r\n\r\nCHEQUES\r\n\r\n&gt;Send a cheque (UK sterling only, sorry) to:\r\n\r\nSTRANGE ATTRACTOR SHOPPE\r\nBM SAP\r\nLONDON\r\nWC1N 3XX\r\nUK.','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\r\n312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index\r\nISBN: 9780954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 19:59:49','2010-10-21 19:59:49','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(2145,2,'2010-10-25 16:21:53','2010-10-25 16:21:53','<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/WTM.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2122 alignright\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"WTM\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/WTM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"330\" /></a></div>\r\n<div><strong>by Ken Hollings</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>ISBN: 9780954805487</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.\r\n<blockquote>A remarkable book<em>...</em><em> quite simply, essential reading.\r\n</em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Fortean Times</span></blockquote>\r\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\r\n<blockquote>...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder...\r\nGyrus,<strong> </strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\">Dreamflesh.com</a></blockquote>\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. 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Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Adam Curtis</span></blockquote>\r\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\r\n312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index\r\nISBN: 9780954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-revision-v1','','','2010-10-25 16:21:53','2010-10-25 16:21:53','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(2133,2,'2011-04-10 10:10:46','2011-04-10 10:10:46','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-field-guide/\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2239\" title=\"fg\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fg.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"348\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>by Rob Irving &amp; John Lundberg</strong><strong>\r\n</strong><strong> PB, 288pp, 162 x 162mm, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">£8.99</span> UK</strong><strong>\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 978-0954805425</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-field-guide/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>BUY HERE</strong></span></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>A very beautifully laid out book and certainly the best crop circle book that I have read... </em>The Field Guide<em> will become a cult classic... I really think it deserves to win the Turner Prize on behalf of all the artists that have facilitated this extraordinary experience.</em></span>\r\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Allan Brown, co-author of </span>How The World Is Made<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">.</span></strong></blockquote>\r\nThree decades ago, two men in their fifties began flattening circles into the fields of Hampshire and Wiltshire. Little did they know that their Friday night antics would seed an international phenomenon that continues to change people\'s lives to this day.\r\n\r\nNow, in the first book of its kind - part history and part how-to guide - the secrets of the crop circle world are revealed, by the people behind the modern era\'s most astounding art practice.\r\n\r\nWhether you think crop circles represent a genuine mystery, a new kind of art, or an elaborate practical joke, The Field Guide is sure to leave a lasting impression. Join us in the fields for a unique exploration of this very English artform.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>A particularly cerebral blend of art theory, paranormal phenomena, hoaxes and speculations, ruggedly bound and designed to fit snugly inside your knapsack while out exploring the British countryside.</em></span>\r\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Ken Hollings, in </span>The Wire</strong></blockquote>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>Finally, the definitive telling of one of the strangest tales of our times: eye-witness testimony to its birth, razor-sharp critique of the baroque pseudoscience that it spawned, and by far the closest analysis yet of the artistic negotiation between the circlemaker and the believer. Designed and laid out to perfection, this is the book that the phenomenon needs and deserves.</em></span>\r\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Mike Jay, early circlemaker, author of </span>The Air Loom Gang<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> and </span>The Unfortunate Colonel Despard<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">.</span></strong></blockquote>\r\n<form style=\"text-align: left;\" action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"></form>','The Field Guide','by Rob Irving & John Lundberg\r\nPB, 288pp, illus, index, £6.99 (was £8.99) \r\nISBN: 978-0954805425','publish','closed','closed','','2133','','','2022-01-11 14:51:00','2022-01-11 14:51:00','',0,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/?p=2133',0,'post','',0),(5646,2,'2016-05-24 15:54:03','2016-05-24 15:54:03','<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/2133/\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2239\" title=\"fg\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fg.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"348\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>by Rob Irving &amp; John Lundberg</strong><strong>\r\n</strong><strong> PB, 288pp, 162 x 162mm, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">£8.99</span> UK</strong><strong>\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 978-0954805425</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/2133/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>BUY HERE</strong></span></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>A very beautifully laid out book and certainly the best crop circle book that I have read... </em>The Field Guide<em> will become a cult classic... I really think it deserves to win the Turner Prize on behalf of all the artists that have facilitated this extraordinary experience.</em></span>\r\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Allan Brown, co-author of </span>How The World Is Made<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">.</span></strong></blockquote>\r\nThree decades ago, two men in their fifties began flattening circles into the fields of Hampshire and Wiltshire. Little did they know that their Friday night antics would seed an international phenomenon that continues to change people\'s lives to this day.\r\n\r\nNow, in the first book of its kind - part history and part how-to guide - the secrets of the crop circle world are revealed, by the people behind the modern era\'s most astounding art practice.\r\n\r\nWhether you think crop circles represent a genuine mystery, a new kind of art, or an elaborate practical joke, The Field Guide is sure to leave a lasting impression. Join us in the fields for a unique exploration of this very English artform.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>A particularly cerebral blend of art theory, paranormal phenomena, hoaxes and speculations, ruggedly bound and designed to fit snugly inside your knapsack while out exploring the British countryside.</em></span>\r\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Ken Hollings, in </span>The Wire</strong></blockquote>\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>Finally, the definitive telling of one of the strangest tales of our times: eye-witness testimony to its birth, razor-sharp critique of the baroque pseudoscience that it spawned, and by far the closest analysis yet of the artistic negotiation between the circlemaker and the believer. Designed and laid out to perfection, this is the book that the phenomenon needs and deserves.</em></span>\r\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Mike Jay, early circlemaker, author of </span>The Air Loom Gang<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> and </span>The Unfortunate Colonel Despard<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">.</span></strong></blockquote>\r\n<form style=\"text-align: left;\" action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"></form>','The Field Guide','by Rob Irving & John Lundberg\r\nPB, 288pp, illus, index, £6.99 (was £8.99) \r\nISBN: 978-0954805425','inherit','closed','closed','','2133-revision-v1','','','2016-05-24 15:54:03','2016-05-24 15:54:03','',2133,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/2133-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(2211,2,'2011-01-11 17:33:04','2011-01-11 17:33:04','<strong>Further 005\nCD, 44 mins\n</strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #bbbbbb; font-family: serif; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: -3px; line-height: normal; word-spacing: 1px;\">❦</span>\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #bbbbbb; font-family: serif; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: -3px; line-height: normal; word-spacing: 1px;\">\n</span>\n\n<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/uta_murmurations.gif\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2229\" title=\"uta_murmurations\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/uta_murmurations.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"330\" /></a>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">...like a feral snotty nephew of John Cale\'s pre-Velvets drone experiments... Merzbow at his most \'rock\' ...early Tangerine Dream had they favoured the horse-drawn cart to the space rocket.</div></blockquote>\nAlan Holmes, <a href=\"http://www.freq.org.uk/\">Freq</a>\n\nFurther Recordings are immodestly pleased to announce their fifth CD release, <em>Murmurations</em>, the first collaboration between Urthona and The Asterism.\n\nMurmurations is less of a soundclash than the fallout from two worlds in collision: Urthona’s rural guitar-based heaviness slams into The Asterism’s towering analogue electronics, somewhere in space between Princetown and Fitzrovia.\n\nThe album features two instrumental pieces:\n\n<em>River Severn Bore</em> (24.20) is an infinitely cascading surge of sound that makes you wonder what would have happened if an angry Neil Young had interned at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. RSB began life as a pulsating Asterism synthline that was guitared-up, trampled under foot and re-assembled by Urthona.\n\n<em>Murmurations </em>(19.50) was inspired by the annual starling swarms that invade the Somerset levels each Winter. Initially a gently-flowing, aetheric Urthona guitar piece, it was quickly savaged by The Asterism’s synthesised sparrowhawks who left only a shower of blood and feathers in their wake.\n\n<em>Murmurations</em> comes in a three panel sleeve featuring original artwork and inserts by Catharyne Ward.','Urthona/The Asterism: Murmurations','Further 005\nCD \n44 mins\n\n                   ','inherit','open','open','','2173-autosave-v1','','','2011-01-11 17:33:04','2011-01-11 17:33:04','',2173,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2173-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(2136,2,'2010-10-21 20:05:52','2010-10-21 20:05:52','','Auto Draft','','inherit','open','open','','2133-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 20:05:52','2010-10-21 20:05:52','',2133,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2133-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(2140,2,'2010-10-21 20:11:03','2010-10-21 20:11:03','Quality paperback, 288pp,162x162mm, heavily\r\nillustrated. Price: £9 UK\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-2135 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"fgcoversmall\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fgcoversmall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"348\" />\r\nISBN 0954805429\r\n\r\nA very beautifully laid out book and certainly the best crop circle book that I have read...<em>The Field Guide</em><em> will become a cult classic... I really think it deserves to win the Turner Prize on behalf of all the artists that have facilitated this extraordinary experience. </em><em>Allan Brown, crop circle author and researcher</em><strong>.</strong>','','by Rob Irving & John Lundberg\r\nQuality paperback, 288pp,162x162mm, heavily\r\n illustrated. Price: £9 UK','inherit','open','open','','2133-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 20:11:03','2010-10-21 20:11:03','',2133,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2133-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(2139,2,'2010-10-21 20:10:13','2010-10-21 20:10:13','Quality paperback, 288pp,162x162mm, heavily\r\n illustrated. Price: £9 UK\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-2135 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"fgcoversmall\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fgcoversmall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"348\" /><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">ISBN 0954805429</span></strong>\r\n\r\nA very beautifully laid out book and certainly the best crop circle book that I have read...<em>The Field Guide</em><em> will become a cult classic... I really think it deserves to win the Turner Prize on behalf of all the artists that have facilitated this extraordinary experience. </em><em>Allan Brown, crop circle author and researcher</em><strong>.</strong>','','by Rob Irving & John Lundberg\r\nQuality paperback, 288pp,162x162mm, heavily\r\n illustrated. Price: £9 UK','inherit','open','open','','2133-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 20:10:13','2010-10-21 20:10:13','',2133,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2133-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(2137,2,'2016-05-24 15:53:49','2016-05-24 15:53:49','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2239\" title=\"fg\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fg.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"348\" />\n\n<strong>by Rob Irving &amp; John Lundberg</strong><strong>\n</strong><strong> PB, 288pp, 162 x 162mm, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">£8.99</span> UK</strong><strong>\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 978-0954805425</strong>\n\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>BUY HERE</strong></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>A very beautifully laid out book and certainly the best crop circle book that I have read... </em>The Field Guide<em> will become a cult classic... I really think it deserves to win the Turner Prize on behalf of all the artists that have facilitated this extraordinary experience.</em></span>\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Allan Brown, co-author of </span>How The World Is Made<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">.</span></strong></blockquote>\nThree decades ago, two men in their fifties began flattening circles into the fields of Hampshire and Wiltshire. Little did they know that their Friday night antics would seed an international phenomenon that continues to change people\'s lives to this day.\n\nNow, in the first book of its kind - part history and part how-to guide - the secrets of the crop circle world are revealed, by the people behind the modern era\'s most astounding art practice.\n\nWhether you think crop circles represent a genuine mystery, a new kind of art, or an elaborate practical joke, The Field Guide is sure to leave a lasting impression. Join us in the fields for a unique exploration of this very English artform.\n\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>A particularly cerebral blend of art theory, paranormal phenomena, hoaxes and speculations, ruggedly bound and designed to fit snugly inside your knapsack while out exploring the British countryside.</em></span>\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Ken Hollings, in </span>The Wire</strong></blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>Finally, the definitive telling of one of the strangest tales of our times: eye-witness testimony to its birth, razor-sharp critique of the baroque pseudoscience that it spawned, and by far the closest analysis yet of the artistic negotiation between the circlemaker and the believer. Designed and laid out to perfection, this is the book that the phenomenon needs and deserves.</em></span>\n<blockquote><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Mike Jay, early circlemaker, author of </span>The Air Loom Gang<span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> and </span>The Unfortunate Colonel Despard<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">.</span></strong></blockquote>\n<form style=\"text-align: left;\" action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"></form>','The Field Guide','by Rob Irving & John Lundberg\nPB, 288pp, illus, index, £6.99 (was £8.99) \nISBN: 978-0954805425','inherit','open','open','','2133-autosave-v1','','','2016-05-24 15:53:49','2016-05-24 15:53:49','',2133,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2133-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(2200,2,'2010-10-26 11:00:47','2010-10-26 11:00:47','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2156\" title=\"fg\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fg.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"330\" />\r\n<blockquote>A very beautifully laid out book and certainly the best crop circle book that I have read...The Field Guide will become a cult classic... I really think it deserves to win the Turner Prize on behalf of all the artists that have facilitated this extraordinary experience. Allan Brown, crop circle author and researcher<strong>.</strong></blockquote>','The Field Guide','by Rob Irving & John Lundberg\r\nPB, 288pp, 162 x 162mm\r\n£9 UK ISBN 0954805429','inherit','open','open','','2133-revision-v1','','','2010-10-26 11:00:47','2010-10-26 11:00:47','',2133,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2133-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(2157,2,'2010-10-25 16:18:40','2010-10-25 16:18:40','<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2135\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"fgcoversmall\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fgcoversmall1-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"330\" />\r\n\r\nQuality paperback, 288pp,162x162mm, heavilyillustrated. Price: £9\r\n\r\nUK ISBN0954805429\r\n<blockquote>A very beautifully laid out book and certainly the best crop circle book that I have read...The Field Guide will become a cult classic... I really think it deserves to win the Turner Prize on behalf of all the artists that have facilitated this extraordinary experience. <em>Allan Brown, crop circle author and researcher</em><strong>.</strong></blockquote>','The Field Guide','by Rob Irving & John Lundberg\r\nQuality paperback, 288pp,162x162mm, heavily illustrated. \r\n£9 UK\r\nISBN 0954805429','inherit','open','open','','2133-revision-v1','','','2010-10-25 16:18:40','2010-10-25 16:18:40','',2133,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2133-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(2138,2,'2010-10-21 20:08:46','2010-10-21 20:08:46','<blockquote><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Quality paperback, 288pp,162x162mm, heavily</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"> illustrated. Price: £9 UK</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-2135 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"fgcoversmall\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fgcoversmall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"348\" /><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">ISBN 0954805429</span></strong>\r\n\r\nA very beautifully laid out book and certainly the best crop circle book that I have read...<em>The Field Guide</em><em> will become a cult classic... I really think it deserves to win the Turner Prize on behalf of all the artists that have facilitated this extraordinary experience. </em><em>Allan Brown, crop circle author and researcher</em><strong>.</strong></blockquote>','','','inherit','open','open','','2133-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 20:08:46','2010-10-21 20:08:46','',2133,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2133-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(2141,2,'2010-10-21 20:11:36','2010-10-21 20:11:36','Quality paperback, 288pp,162x162mm, heavily\r\nillustrated. Price: £9 UK\r\nISBN 0954805429\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-2135 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"fgcoversmall\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fgcoversmall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"348\" />\r\n\r\n\r\nA very beautifully laid out book and certainly the best crop circle book that I have read...<em>The Field Guide</em><em> will become a cult classic... I really think it deserves to win the Turner Prize on behalf of all the artists that have facilitated this extraordinary experience. </em><em>Allan Brown, crop circle author and researcher</em><strong>.</strong>','','by Rob Irving & John Lundberg\r\nQuality paperback, 288pp,162x162mm, heavily illustrated. \r\n£9 UK\r\nISBN 0954805429','inherit','open','open','','2133-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 20:11:36','2010-10-21 20:11:36','',2133,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2133-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(2158,2,'2010-10-25 16:41:09','2010-10-25 16:41:09','<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/saj3.gif\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2151\" title=\"saj3\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/saj3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"330\" /></a>','Journal Three','A5 PB, 350pp\r\nEdited by Mark Pilkington\r\nISBN 9780954805432','inherit','open','open','','2150-revision-v1','','','2010-10-25 16:41:09','2010-10-25 16:41:09','',2150,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2150-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(2142,2,'2010-10-21 20:11:50','2010-10-21 20:11:50','Quality paperback, 288pp,162x162mm, heavily\r\nillustrated. Price: £9 UK\r\nISBN 0954805429\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-2135 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;\" title=\"fgcoversmall\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fgcoversmall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"348\" />\r\n\r\n\r\nA very beautifully laid out book and certainly the best crop circle book that I have read...<em>The Field Guide</em><em> will become a cult classic... I really think it deserves to win the Turner Prize on behalf of all the artists that have facilitated this extraordinary experience. </em><em>Allan Brown, crop circle author and researcher</em><strong>.</strong>','The Field Guide','by Rob Irving & John Lundberg\r\nQuality paperback, 288pp,162x162mm, heavily illustrated. \r\n£9 UK\r\nISBN 0954805429','inherit','open','open','','2133-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 20:11:50','2010-10-21 20:11:50','',2133,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2133-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(2144,2,'2010-10-21 20:00:26','2010-10-21 20:00:26','<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/WTM.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2122 alignright\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"WTM\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/WTM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"400\" /></a></div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>by Ken Hollings</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>ISBN: 9780954805487</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.\r\n<blockquote>A remarkable book<em>...</em><em> quite simply, essential reading.\r\n</em>Fortean Times</blockquote>\r\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\r\n\r\n...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder...\r\nGyrus,<strong> </strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\">Dreamflesh.com</a>\r\n\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\r\n\r\nWelcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.\r\nErik Davis\r\n\r\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\r\n\r\nKen Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today. <em>Adam Curtis</em>\r\n\r\nKen Hollings has placed his critical focus at the precise point where the high technologies of information control and social manipulation intersect the passionate search for scientific ways to probe the human mind. Welcome to Mars is a searingly accurate and deeply disturbing exposé of the fantasies of American modernism that have inspired the many nightmares and the few hopeful visions of our new Millennium.\r\n<em> Dr Jacques Vallée</em>\r\n\r\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.\r\n\r\nCHEQUES\r\n\r\n&gt;Send a cheque (UK sterling only, sorry) to:\r\n\r\nSTRANGE ATTRACTOR SHOPPE\r\nBM SAP\r\nLONDON\r\nWC1N 3XX\r\nUK.','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\r\n312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index\r\nISBN: 9780954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-revision-v1','','','2010-10-21 20:00:26','2010-10-21 20:00:26','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(2146,2,'2010-10-25 16:23:28','2010-10-25 16:23:28','<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/WTM.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-2122 alignright\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"WTM\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/WTM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"330\" /></a></div>\r\n<div><strong>by Ken Hollings</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index</strong></div>\r\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>ISBN: 9780954805487</strong></div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\n</strong></div>\r\n<em>Welcome to Mars</em> is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.\r\n<blockquote>A remarkable book<em>...</em><em> quite simply, essential reading.\r\n</em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Fortean Times</span></blockquote>\r\n<em>...an exemplary exercise in cross-specialism history... a rollercoaster ride through the dreamtime of post-war American esoteric, technological and mass culture with a wealth of often amazing and sometimes shocking information on every page.</em>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325\" target=\"_blank\">Furtherfield</a>\r\n<blockquote>...like the LSD that plays a fascinating supporting role in the proceedings, this book rewards persistence... soon the connections filter through, offering more and more frequent glimmers of golden insight. Hollings’ acausal roller coaster is cumulative, gathering aesthetic and imaginative potency with each chapter. By the end, you feel breathless with panic and wonder... <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Gyrus,</span><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> </span></strong><a href=\"http://dreamflesh.com/library/ken-hollings/welcome-to-mars-fantasies-of-science-in-the-american-century-1947-1959/\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Dreamflesh.com</span></a></blockquote>\r\n<em>Welcome To Mars</em> draws upon newspaper accounts, advertising campaigns, declassified government archives, old movies and newsreels from this unique period when the future first took on a tangible presence. Ken Hollings depicts an unsettled time in which the layout of Suburbia reflected atomic bombing strategies, bankers and movie stars experimented with hallucinogens, brainwashing was just another form of interior decoration and strange lights in the sky were taken very seriously indeed<em>.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Welcome to Mars is a map of the post-war Zone, a non-fiction Gravity’s Rainbow that follows the arc of Germany’s V2 rocket to the end of the rainbow – to America.  <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Erik Davis</span></blockquote>\r\nSeamlessly interweaving developments in technology, popular culture, politics, changes in home life, the development of the self, collective fantasy and overwhelming paranoia, Hollings has produced an alarming and often hysterically funny vision of the past that would ultimately govern all of our futures.\r\n<blockquote>Ken Hollings shows brilliantly how the extraordinary web of technologies that drove the Cold War have shaped not just our culture but the very way we think of ourselves as human beings. Welcome to Mars offers a rare and fascinating glimpse of the roots of the strange humanoid culture we live in today.\r\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Adam Curtis</span></blockquote>\r\nAll orders of the book will receive a free hour-long CD of classy analogue Outer Space exotica by Simon James, while stocks last.','Welcome to Mars','by Ken Hollings\r\n312pp, pb, £11.99, illustrated, index\r\nISBN: 9780954805487','inherit','open','open','','2121-revision-v1','','','2010-10-25 16:23:28','2010-10-25 16:23:28','',2121,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2121-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(2228,2,'2010-10-29 11:50:27','2010-10-29 11:50:27','<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/urthona_alps.gif\"></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/urthona_alps.gif\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2224\" title=\"urthona_alps\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/urthona_alps.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"330\" /></a>\r\n<em>Amid Devonia\'s Alps</em> is the second release from Urthona, a fresh helping of elemental, heathen guitar worship from deepest Dartmoor.\r\n<blockquote>\'There’s a holy beauty within the fiery soul of this Urthona music that transcends its many contemporaries, as colossal guitars intertwine around the base of listeners’ minds, lifting them skywards as though upon a magical beanstalk ride... Urthona’s music is both the Ult in meditation AND a freight-train ride to oblivion.\'\r\nJulian Cope, Head Heritage</blockquote>\r\n<em>\'Waves of deep, grinding, spaced out guitar, so heavy indeed. Blissful at low volumes, vibrationally destructive at louder ones... seriously you need to be carefully turning this disc up!\'</em>','Urthona: Amid Devonia\'s Alps','Further 004\r\nCD \r\n57 mins                   ','inherit','open','open','','2169-revision-v1','','','2010-10-29 11:50:27','2010-10-29 11:50:27','',2169,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2169-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(2149,2,'2010-10-25 16:35:44','2010-10-25 16:35:44','<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/saj2.gif\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2148\" title=\"saj2\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/saj2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"330\" /></a>','Journal Two','','inherit','open','open','','2147-revision-v1','','','2010-10-25 16:35:44','2010-10-25 16:35:44','',2147,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/2147-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(2150,2,'2011-01-11 10:17:09','2011-01-11 10:17:09','<strong>Edited by Mark Pilkington<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2237\" title=\"saj3\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/saj3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"314\" /></strong><strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A5 PB, 286pp, £13.99 UK\r\n</strong><strong>ISBN 978-0954805432</strong>\r\n<blockquote>A third helping of high strangeness from the acclaimed Strange Attractor anthology series.\r\n\r\n[cover image, The Electrochemical Glass by <a href=\"http://www.mimetics.com\">Richard Brown</a>]</blockquote>\r\n<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" />\r\n<em><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">NOW OUT OF PRINT</span></strong></em>\r\n<img src=\"https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" /></form><strong>Contents\r\n<strong>| <em>Contra Genesis</em> </strong>- <em>Catherine Eisner</em></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Unusual cases of extra-genital conception, extra-uterine gestation, and other anomalous exits</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><strong>| <em>Burmese Daze</em></strong> - <em>Erik Davis</em>\r\nIn which the author submits to the pleasures of a transgender spirit possession festival</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><strong><em>| Adventures in the Fourth Dimension</em></strong> - <em>Mike Jay</em>\r\nA Victorian time machine and history’s first theme park ride</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><strong><em>| Ego in Exotica Sum</em></strong> - <em>Ken Hollings</em>\r\nIn memoriam Martin Denny, crown prince of the exotica sound</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><strong><em>| A Psychoactive Bestiary</em></strong> - <em>Richard Rudgley</em>\r\nThe joy of zootoxins, from the ant to the giraffe</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><strong><em>| Liberté, Légalité, Éternité</em></strong> - <em>David Luke</em>\r\nSome notes on psychonautic misadventures in time</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><strong><em>| Kandinsky’s Thought Forms</em></strong> - <em>Gary Lachman</em>\r\nThe occult roots of modern art</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><em>| Magic Words</em></strong> - <em>Steve Moore</em>\r\nVirgil the Necromancer in mediæval legend\r\n\r\n<strong><em>| Abu’l-Qasim al-Iraqi</em></strong> - <em>Robert Irwin</em>\r\n12th century Arab alchemists on the edge\r\nof knowledge\r\n\r\n<strong><em>| The Electrochemical Glass</em></strong> - <em>Richard Brown</em>\r\nA slow-evolving artwork from a living alchemist\r\n\r\n<strong><em>| The Man Behind the Screen</em></strong> - <em>David Rothenberg</em>\r\nHans Christian Andersen’s greatest and least-known work\r\n\r\n<strong><em>| The Mole of Edge Hill</em></strong> - <em>John Reppion</em>\r\nJoseph Williamson, Liverpool’s tunnelling philanthropist\r\n\r\n<strong><em>| La Maison de Poupées</em></strong> - <em>Robert Ansell</em>\r\nA photographic study of a magnificent compulsion\r\n\r\n<strong><em>| The Dirty Thirties</em></strong> -<em> Alexis Lykiard</em>\r\nFrom Arthur Koestler’s Encyclopædia of Sexual Knowledge\r\n\r\n<strong><em>| Paint it Black</em></strong> - <em>Stewart Home</em>\r\nAutohagiography of an artist\r\n\r\n<strong><em>| Redonda and Her Kings</em></strong> - <em>Roger Dobson</em>\r\nThe island life of early science fiction author MP Shiel\r\n\r\n<strong><em>| Magic in Paris</em></strong> - <em>Phil Baker</em>\r\nDemons of the opium den in Thirties Paris\r\n\r\n<strong><em>| The Dark Man’s Dreams</em></strong> -<em> Doug Skinner</em>\r\nAn introduction to Xavier Forneret, Surrealism’s lost poet\r\n\r\n<strong><em>| Ghosts: A short Story</em></strong>\r\n<em>by Lady Vervaine</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Plus original artworks by Alison Gill, Josephine Harvatt, Betsy Heistand, Katie Owens, Arik Roper.</em></strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/saj3.gif\"> </a>','Strange Attractor Journal Three','Edited by Mark Pilkington\r\nA5 PB, 286pp, £13.99\r\nISBN 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