Former Business Offices Of Prokop Babiy, Burkaniv. INFINITE DREAMS (БЕЗКОШТОВНІ МРЕЖІ). “How can you be in two places at once when you’re not anywhere at all”? --The Firesign Theatre.. Isn’t that what “Dreaming” is - being cognitively in separate spaces at the same Time - “Anywhere” and “Nowhere” at once? Life then, like the song lyric, may indeed be a Dream, infinitely intertwined along a continuum of separate realities. How many of us right now at this instant are alive on this planet; seven plus billions? Life then, might be a projection of seven...

FIN de SIECLE Two Thousand Eighteen was a year filled with both joy and sorrow; buoyed by success yet scarred by tragedy; suffused with hope but plagued by pessimism; our Future obfuscated by humanity's obsession with personal gain often at the potential risk of species Omnicide.  We have become the personification of an Ouroboros...obsessed with the Past, its lessons ignored, trapped by our own hubris in a repetitive cycle of self-annihilation.

Remembrance For Patrick Hickey I first met Patrick when we were both students at UCLA in the mid 1970's. At the time I was employed at the Film School as a graduate assistant, teaching a class in beginning filmmaking techniques called "Project One" in which undergrads learned how to make a film project utilizing Super 8 cameras and editing equipment while at the same time working on one of my own Earth-shattering "masterpieces" which would usually keep me occupied into the wee hours of the morning.

_____________________________________________________________________ The News. Ever see the musical "Newsies"? It's a Disney Theatrical Productions stage musical based on the 1992 musical film Newsies, which in turn was inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City.

Daylight Savings Time (DST). Every year in the Spring we get to perform this ritual where we give up an hour of our precious sleep time - an hour sorely needed to detach from the grid, spend some self-oriented QT pounding our ears, and renew our energies for yet another foray into the productivity war for the sole benefit of the neoliberals who created this cruel insanity of getting billions of hard working peons to surrender more of their precious freedoms in the first place.