The SA Free Culture Tour is incoming.. bringing with it the world-changing brilliance of Jimmy Wales and Lawrence Lessig (little confession: I leapt around the office like a demented fool when I heard: hunters of genius evidently have different stars in their celebrity constellation.. this doesn’t make EVERYONE’S heart pound faster but for us online mainliners, it’s huge!) There are talks at the various universities and at the Internet Society of SA ..and then there’s a PARTY!!
Heather Ford & the iCommons crew with the crowdsourced creativity & logistics of …

Easy to smirk at this, but I had many moments of disturbing recognition (my fave part is the MC Escher bit.. Weird Al is utter nutter genius without a doubt). I know we’ve all seen it 10^3 of times already, but I had to: in celebration of all things geeky to get in the mood for tonight’s geekmeet.
… I think I’m in trouble. GeekDinner tonight and I am suffering the effects of overclocking my processor – bioware not keeping up. It’s ridiculously easy to go into a temporal warp …

If you woke up, without responsibilities, anyone/anything else to support (remember this is just hypothetical of course), no heavy mortgages, company to run, job to go to. You had resources and time and the refresh button had just been pressed – you somehow stepped elegantly into another parallel life where you’d made different choices. You are completely free to invest your time & energy where you please:
Would you still choose to do what you’re doing today?
.. just out of curiosity. Hunters of genius are curious by nature..

There are two fronts at which I work as a hunter of genius:
1st the individual – to discover, develop and define the vision of the visionary so they can apply their genius in the world.
Too many brilliant ones find themselves frustrated and working at a fraction of their capacity; or worse yet, surrender to being cubicle slaves (even if the handcuffs are platinum). If you’re particularly gifted the rewards can be so much sweeter than could be expected of common existence; but the hero’s journey to get there, to birth …

V’day indeed! If I must surrender to silliness of Valentine’s day: then my untimebound valentine – verily the very essence of victory :-P the seriously ravishable Churchill (I know I’ve gone on about him before but) he truly embodied genius:

creatively (he could rival Edison in prolific applied innovation & outperform any in creative strategy – to win a megalithic war you gotta have some deep skills.. and of course he painted and wrote – damn well)
in unparalleled courage with which he impassioned a nation,
in clarity of vision &
communicating it in …

thanks so much to my friend Stii – who I suspect doesn’t sleep much because he is a PROLIFIC hunter of extraordinary bits of brilliance, webtools & webbeauty: constantly delivering gems to enjoy on StumbleUpon and beyond – this was one of his discoveries.
It hustled the muses around me whispering of heart.soaring inspiration.. siren-calling the artist in me to dive dangerously back in. This is utterly exquisite & one of those bizarrely underrated youtube offerings.
Beware it’s entrancing & quite hypnotic:
clear 10 minutes of tranquility for this1, it’s worth it
PS. …

A little homage to a wordsmith & wildman, a genius for those who were born with fire in their bellies >> “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world” – care of the blazing Walt Whitman >>
 
Perhaps it’s something in the DNA strings still resonating (there’s a poet laureate somewhere in my chemical coding) but I have a passion for potent poets (& songwriters) who can sling words with masterful ease & style. Their words lie …