Expanding Cultural Conciousness

sleepingsleeper: Portugal. The Man- Atomic Man

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:59:49 -0400

sleepingsleeper:

Portugal. The Man- Atomic Man

ariasnicolas: John Gourley of Portugal. The Man / 0823n™

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:34:22 -0400

ariasnicolas:

John Gourley of Portugal. The Man / 0823n™

shrpenyrteeth: Portugal. The Man - live at Irving Plaza NYC

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:33:49 -0400

shrpenyrteeth:

Portugal. The Man - live at Irving Plaza NYC

arturoavargas: Modern Jesus - Portugal. The Man

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:32:40 -0400

arturoavargas:

Modern Jesus - Portugal. The Man

portugaltheman: Playing songs on top of a double decker bus...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:35 -0400

portugaltheman:

Playing songs on top of a double decker bus driving around NYC. Not the worst day.

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:50:29 -0400

Audio

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:35:44 -0400

areadersfancy: Watch the solo from 3:00-5:00… Jesus. Ruban...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:07:14 -0400

areadersfancy:

Watch the solo from 3:00-5:00… Jesus. Ruban Nielson has his own ingenious style. That guitar work is 100% Ruban Nielson. Unmistakable.

sleepingsleeper: Johnny shreds.

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:04:31 -0400

sleepingsleeper:

Johnny shreds.

caamblr: This album is going to be so good

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:04:01 -0400

caamblr:

This album is going to be so good

Portugal, The Man - Modern Jesus (acoustic)

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:58:21 -0400

Portugal, The Man - Modern Jesus (acoustic)

fujiyaygriffo: Larose SS13 5 Panel Caps.

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:00:04 -0400

fujiyaygriffo:

Larose SS13 5 Panel Caps.

theindievariety: Make no bones about it, Kirk Huffman (Kay Kay,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:04:52 -0400

theindievariety:

Make no bones about it, Kirk Huffman (Kay Kay, Wild Orchard Children) is the Real Don Music with the second track of his project “Within the Shadows.”

A few words to describe “Within the Shadows” is adventurous/ mysterious/James Bond. Beyond that? Powerful vocals, jazzy brass, and an upbeat tempo keep you engaged and on your based grind.

You can listen to this song along with “Emeralds and Angels”on Kirk Huffman’s Soundcloud.

we-are-star-stuff: The crazy world of quantum mechanics can...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:01:04 -0400

we-are-star-stuff:

The crazy world of quantum mechanics can best be summed up by Niels Bohr’s famous quote: “For those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory, cannot possibly have understood it”. As utterly strange as the behavior of particles at the subatomic level can be, there are plenty of wonderfully bizarre observations we can make at the macroscopic level of the universe as well - many of which arise from the relativistic nature of reality that Einstein first described almost 100 years ago.

Consider the following thought experiment: You are about to hop onto a spaceship that can maintain a constant speed of 99% the speed of light (known in physics as c – around 186,282 miles per second). Prior to doing so, you set two identical digital clocks to the same date and time and say goodbye to your two-year-old son. One digital clock is left at the launch site; the other is taken with you on the ship. You zip around the solar system at around 186,000 miles per second (let’s conveniently ignore the time it takes you to accelerate to that speed as well as any time spent slowing down) and arrive back at the launch site exactly 1 year later, according to your digital clock. To your amazement, the clock that was left at the launch site indicates that seven years have passed since you left. The welcome back hug you get from nine-year-old son only adds to the confusion. What happened?

You have experienced what physicists know as “relativistic time dilation”.

The explanation stems from one of Einstein’s most important discoveries - that the speed of light is constant for all observers in the universe, regardless of their frame of reference. This idea might not seem too profound at first read, so let’s take a moment and consider the implications it has on our perception of reality.

If you are driving down the freeway at a constant speed of 60mph and another car passes you traveling at a constant speed of 70mph, you would observe that car moving away from you at a relative speed of 10mph (taking into account how fast you are going while observing it). A person standing on the side of the road watching you both go by would see the car traveling away a relative speed of 70mph. This is a simple, logical example of how our perception of motion depends on our relative reference frame. Now we’ll consider the behavior of light and see things get a bit odd.

Going back to our hypothetical spaceships, let’s look at what happens when we measure the speed that light moves away from both a stationary observer and an observer traveling at nearly 186,000 miles per second. Not surprisingly, a person standing still and shining a laser into space will observe that light moving away at 186,282 miles per second (or c if we are using the aforementioned physics symbol).

What about you and that spaceship moving at 99% of c? If a laser is fired from the front of your ship, shouldn’t you observe it traveling away from you at a slower relative speed than the person on the ground did, as was the case with the cars on the freeway?

Despite moving at almost the speed of light yourself, you will still observe the light from the laser moving away from you at 186,282 miles per second. How can this be? How can your relative motion have no impact on the rate at which the emitted light is moving away from you?

The behavior of light described above has been experimentally verified numerous times and can only be explained by the fact that time itself must slow down for moving objects. While this time-dilation effect will only have dramatic impacts at speeds approaching c, it does suggest the theoretical possibility of time travel to the future – even if we are nowhere near being technically capable of traveling at the speeds required. To put this into perspective, the Russian cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev spent over 700 days in space at a velocity of around 17,000 miles per hour (about 4.2 miles per second) and aged only 20 milliseconds less than he would have on Earth. We’ve obviously got a long way to go before time-dilation affords us the possibility of checking out the distant future.

zentips: This zen tip was inspired by the following passage...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:48:00 -0400

zentips:

This zen tip was inspired by the following passage from the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse:

“I’m not joking; I’m telling you what I’ve found. Knowledge can be transferred, but not wisdom. It can be found and lived, and it is possible to be carried by it. Miracles can be performed with it, but it can’t be expressed and taught with words. This was what I sometimes suspected even as a young man, and what has driven me away from teachers. I have found another thought, Govinda, that you’ll also regard as foolishness or a joke, but which is my best thought. It says: the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything that can be thought with the mind and said with words is one-sided, it’s all just the half of it, lacking completeness, roundness, or unity. When the exalted Gotama spoke his teachings about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, deception and truth, suffering and salvation. It can’t be done any differently, and there is no other way for the person who wants to teach. But the world itself that exists around us and inside of us is never one-sided. A person or an action is never entirely Samsara or Nirvana, and a person is never completely holy or sinful. It really seems like this, of course, because we are subject to the deception that time is something real. Time is not real, Govinda; I have experienced this many times over. And if time is not real, then the divide which seems to separate the world from eternity, suffering from bliss, and evil from good, is also a deception.”

Portugal. The Man - The Beatles Cover - Session Acoustique OÜI...

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:02:33 -0400

Portugal. The Man - The Beatles Cover - Session Acoustique OÜI FM

Le Point Live : Portugal. The Man

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:54:45 -0400

Le Point Live : Portugal. The Man

crstnkn: benjamingrimes: I had the privilege of shooting...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:59:31 -0400

crstnkn:

benjamingrimes:

I had the privilege of shooting Taylor Hoff’s home in San Francisco. Such a beautiful and well organized space.

shut the fuck up

nevver: John Tottenham

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:58:45 -0400

nevver:

John Tottenham

gabriellesmusic: Purple Yellow Red and Blue || Portugal. the...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:56:50 -0400

gabriellesmusic:

Purple Yellow Red and Blue || Portugal. the Man [Buy]

Can’t wait for this album.
Enjoy!

Previous songs by Portugal. the Man: All My People / Everything You See (Kids Count Hallelujah) / Evil Friends / Got It All (This Can’t Be Living Now) / People Say / Sleep Forever / So American