[filk] Re: Cyberia strategy is a go! (fwd)

Hi, guys!

I have been working with Dr. Richard Kirby on a project called BrainSeeds, whose details I will furnish to anyone who wants them. But Dr. Kirby has some ideas about how to market filk...we should check this out.

I met Dr. Kirby at rustycon where he spoke at closing ceremonies. He is a theologian and a scholar of science fiction, very interested in making a better connection between people who develop technology/social programs and the science fiction community. My job with his institute is to provide a revenue for this connection--hence the project tentatively entitled BrainSeeds. Dr. Kirby is the author of several books, including Temples of Tomorrow, and a very dynamic speaker--quite a lot of fun to work with. I'm hoping he can help provide a venue for filk music to help bring it into the mainstream--preferably without losing its unique character.

Anne

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Hello Anne,

When I hear your phrase, '15 or more excellent artists in the Northwest, looking for a venue...' I do think cyber-venue. And my newgenius.com science fiction product division and my aesthetics product division etc. would be glad to offer hospitality and free marketing to these folks. In fact if they would look at my Advertising division, they will see some ways I can offer a service to help them market themselves with pioneering ethical advertising.

Hope all's well...let me know.
Joy of the Lord,

Richard

'>From: aprather at u.washington.edu (A. Prather)
>
>
>Did I hear you say "music of Cyberia, songs of science..." If so, you
>should be aware of the "filk" movement--a group of people who write and
>sing music of science, space, science fiction and technology. I myself
>released three "filk" recordings, one of which I would be interested in
>re-recording and re-releasing; I have more material out there. I wrote a
>song which has worked its way through the American Society of Human
>Genetics, and have written several other genetics songs as well as some
>space and other technology songs. There are probably 15 or more excellent
>artists in the Northwest, looking for a venue...
>
>Just a thought.
>
>Anne
>
>
>On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 Dr. Kirby wrote:
>
>> Hi Moshe,
>>
>> Read this slowly, then read it again! It is long, rich (if I may) and
>> deep...with your ideas making the depth, of course! -) I copy this to
>> key colleagues as they will need to see it sooner or later.
>>
>> Yes - we'll pull out all this stops all right, & create the music of the
>> Spirit of Cyberia: Songs of the Space Age. That & much more.
>>
>> Now - as to tactics.
>>
>> Please take a look at <newgenius.com> (the home page) and you will see
>> that already I am selling shares in my corporation - for it has been an
>> "Inc." for two years. I have already sold shares to the tune of $2400
>> and I expect to create an investment fund of $1million this year. Within
>> three years I plan for the corporation to be publicly traded.
>>
>> Moshe, if it wouldn't bore you, please look at the mission statement on
>> newgenius.com. It will help you see what I am up to.
>>
>>
>> News is this: I have purchased 'Shopping Basket" technology from Wells
>> Fargo, so that the operative ('live') ones of the fifty Product Divisions
>> at newgenius (see for instance, ones of the fifty Product Divisions:
>> Science Fiction, for a relative cornucopia) will be providing a sales
>> catalog of products which - from Monday at 9am, about which more in a
>> moment - people can buy with a variety of credit cards.
>>
>> I will explain shortly what this has to do with you & with ASA, Cyberia
>> etc.
>>
>> The main thing to do is to mark your calendar for Monday March 18th at 9am
>> Pacific time; because that is the date/time at which I will symbolically
>> open the doors of my newgenius Cyber store for business. Customers can
>> purchases from that moment. Therefore I am thinking of making it a
>> symbolic event with Israel, Pakistan, USA Europe etc. linking for a
>> moment and thereafter. It is proleptic of what we will be doing in
>> Cyberia. I want to have a solemn, sacred moment to signify that high
>> tech/touch/holiness that you have identified. Launching sacred business
>> in Cyberia - in deep sense of that phrase. And preparing the way for vast
>> products I have after years of teaching financial ethics etc.
>>
>> Don't underestimate what this means, Moshe. FOR years you & Jay et al.
>> know that I have been slowly forming this corporation and preparing for
>> our old age thru it......seriously. Now it's take off time. I have some
>> backers, more will come, and I have the staff to get the Cyber store
>> firing on all thrusters and within a couple if years go public, garner a
>> couple of hundred million in investment capital, and then I can give you
>> a salary and a pension too. And I mean to.
>>
>> Of course, this is only one source of income - but I am tired of being as
>> you say a poor academic..so I am turning away from non-profit to the
>> redemption of the corporation.
>>
>> I have pretty much decided that for that reason - and so we don't have to
>> go begging for grants but can turn an honest penny as religious minded
>> businessmen in Cyberia and elsewhere
>>
>> This, so far shows you my strategic thinking in the business,
>> entrepreneurial world. WNRF will rotate around this, to some extent, in
>> the sense that our 'products' can be marketed in newgenius.com
>>
>>
>> Next point I want to make is that this Cyberia/chaplaincy initiative is a
>> celebration of my relationship with you, Moshe. It is the genius of
>> "us," our "We" which makes this possible. As so often has been the case
>> in my life as a co-author for nearly 30 years, I can take the brilliant
>> ideas of a genius such as you and work them into a collaborative
>> money-spinner or breadwinner in a joint book or in this case something
>> much bigger.
>>
>> So let's talk about your ideas and our future work.
>>
>> Moshe, in reading what follows here please keep in mind my 5 years as a
>> business prof,., and know that this included strategic management as one
>> of my topics for research.
>>
>> OK - so what is the strategy suited to our Aims/Goals for Cyberia, namely
>> its redemption, or the revelation of God in it?
>> Before I go any further in sharing my strategic thinking, know that that
>> is exactly what my silence represented: space/time for strategic
>> reasoning, the development of strategic genius for Cyberia/WNRF.
>>
>> My metaphor and my guiding principle is CHESS. Working with a man such
>> as you, Moshe and with all the pieces on the board representing Russia,
>> Pakistan, India, WNRF, Dick Spady, etc etc. etc. I find that chess gives
>> me the best strategic conceptual base. I was an OK chess player as a
>> youth. Just ok - like my piano skills - enough to appreciate it done
>> well, and enough to teach my how to think musically - as indeed I, and
>> you, do. (Let us sing a new song for the Lord - and we will).
>>
>> I am considering buying large sheets of linoleum and creating a gigantic
>> chess board on my back lawn - I mean about 15 yards square. Why - for
>> fun...and management planning. Players/staff can see the big picture from
>> the deck a few feet up.
>>
>> Once at a Mensa conference I had the satisfaction of putting a Grand
>> Master in check.. He bested me though, not bad when you consider he was
>> playing about 25 games simultaneously. For me this --- a Grand Master
>> playing about 25 games simultaneously --- is a metaphor of my life as a
>> manager....the chess grand master with many boards before my eyes. My
>> closest friends can understand this.
>>
>> So - chess/managers/masters/Grandmasters know THE question is - what must
>> be my next move.
>> Well, our next move is to awaken Cyberia to its Higher Self. We will do
>> this thru the Arts (ASA revised), cyberchaplaincy, and your hi
>> tech/touch/holiness ideas. And I want to explore some phrases (I've
>> found them scarce in cyberspace) such as Wizards of Cyberia and Cyber
>> Heroes for a Youth and Seniors program.
>>
>> Practically what does that mean?
>>
>> Well - it means announcing the Hero's Journey in Cyberia with ourselves
>> as psychopomps/hierophants, and linking this to ethics of Cyberia, cyber
>> finance etc. etc. This announcement, linked to financial specificities,
>> will come pretty soon. One possible date is June 21st - the High Noon
>> of the Year, the Summer Solstice - what do you think? It would give us
>> time to prepare.
>>
>> Also as we discussed years ago, this symbolic journey of the Spiritual
>> Path of the Moral Millionaire in Cyberia (fore example) might be
>> paralleled buy our leading an actual physical journey, in the ancient
>> sites of Jerusalem, Athens, and perhaps some other places such as Mecca,
>> London, Moscow..... but even those sites can be brought in without us or
>> me necessarily traveling physical;y to those sites: by locals entering
>> Cyberia's Sacred Realm, the enchanted grove we are going to design and
>> create and manage. It is Cyberia's equivalent of the poet John Keats'
>> Faerie Land as he describes it in his poem on First Reading Chapman's
>> Homer. I quite from memory: "Much have I traveled in realms of
>> gold.....like stout Cortez and his men [who] gazed for the first time on
>> the Pacific Ocean - with a wild surmise - silent, on a peak in Darien.
>> Of course our 'launch at high noon' will involve poetry etc. competitions
>> for best poetry about the Soul and the Spirit of Cyberia (separate
>> topics). We will be the commissioning editors par excellence of
>> spiritual cyberspace. Probably we will have a musical too. I have lots
>> of material ready for that: music, words, plots, characters....
>>
>> We will need a historian, too, for this work; I have dozens of e-mails
>> of preparation with you alone. We will have a literal archive in the old
>> sense, and will train cyber-historians also.
>>
>> We will involve hundreds of congregations in this program, for it is our
>> job to lead them to the higher places of cyber-spirit-space.
>>
>> What better metaphor for this work of emergentive creativity as a fruit
>> of WNRF's 14 years of life and preparation? Our fruit, my brother.
>> What fun for the partnership of a New York rabbi and a London
>> priest....for we are called to bring those realms of golden imagination
>> to Cyberia.
>>
>> Certainly we can announce this in Philadelphia in July, but by then it
>> will be a fact of cyberspace. And a matter of public record. For I
>> believe that June 21st is the last of the CPSI conference where Dick,
>> Marilyn and perhaps Ken Miller and I will be.
>>
>> It is well past midnight now, and I will continue this tomorrow. Here is
>> enough for you to digest.... and Amos if you want to to pass it on to him.
>>
>> Love
>> R.
>>
>> >Get some sleep-keep up your strength , RELAX and then lets pull out all of
>> >the stops and get our acts together. We CAN get this done and do it
>> >ELEGANTLY and with creativity. SOOOO , Im awating with bated breath your
>> >scenarios that will meet all of our personal needs AND the needs of WNRF.
So
>> >Lovely man and BRO in the soul and Spirit as MICA says Lets SING
together.
>> >In LIGHT and lots of LOVE
>>
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Received on 03/20/02