Hi. I used to use this blog a lot more than i do now. I don't agree with much of what i've posted here, but such is the nature of time. :) My instagram & facebook are likely to be more up to date.
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Showing posts with label pointsofprocess. Show all posts

stay strong.

>> Tuesday, March 2, 2010


things are awesome.
i've got a new daughter, violet ember gyre.
two of my all-time favorite deejays are coming into town soon...
i 'm fixing up a 95 year old house on an acre of woods within pittsburgh city limits.
replaced nearly all the utilities, removed lead & asbestos hazards
can now cook, clean, wash & sleep there...
play with the children.

also dojo. carpe noctem. u know who u r.

i'm going to try to use the internet less so i can blog more,
so look for more action soon at the event blog & here...
i owe the back catalogue of that veiled gazelle retagging...
i have tons of mp3s to post, and the sister mix to d.d.d.
.pdfs, book reviews, recipes, photos of the house, theory....

in the meantime you can join me on facebook.
note: my facebook links feed in here up top...

MORE MUSIC! MORE ART! MORE LOVE!










stay strong.



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may day today!

>> Friday, May 1, 2009

it dawned on me recently this blog is over a year old... as i'm very busy (and having a great may day) i'm just going to link to last years may day content! there is some dated election content there, but if you don't know about the history of today's holiday (or don't even know it's a holiday) check out these links...

http://thatveiledgazelle.blogspot.com/2008/05/huge-may-day-post.html
http://thatveiledgazelle.blogspot.com/2008/05/may-day-anti-war.html

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a new look...

>> Sunday, February 22, 2009


changed blog design... anyone hate it? our new spokesperson is below...


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post 001 - post 200 of "that veiled gazelle..."

>> Thursday, July 24, 2008



an introduction, a recap, an index, a pantology, an idea, a tour...

february 2008

post 001 - welcome to this blog, nature photo
post 002 - "anonymous" protest of scientology, funny caption
post 003 - blockhead's track "cheer up, you're not dead yet", disclaimer
post 004 - beautiful green roof in singapore
post 005 - world's largest christ statue hit by lightning
post 006 - skepta's track "blood, sweat & tears"
post 007 - story on obama and clinton buying votes
post 008 - the remarkable story of stanislav petrov, world saver
post 009 - tom waits' track "make it rain", wu-tang reference
post 010 - links to wild hair, still a very popular post numbers-wise
post 011 - cecelia barraza tune, 1st link to muddup
post 012 - profile of steve kurtz, his case, and my sufic history with him
post 013 - photo of my son sleeping, article on sleep technique i never did
post 014 - incredible video of crystal glass virtuoso
post 015 - the beautiful architecture of the nautilus house
post 016 - top eight treehouses, hobbit house, eliphante house
post 017 - flying lotus's track "tea leaf dancers"
post 018 - personal post about blythe, stumble upon, photo of butterflies
post 019 - getting high pt.1, photos of people up really high, monasteries
post 020 - interesting shelving ideas, 1st link to boingboing
post 021 - how to video to make self powered spinning tea light
post 022 - two green energy gems, especially the plasma arc machine
post 023 - bass pt.2 modeselektor & paul st. hillaire track
post 024 - art made out of bugs, sketchy? not necessarily, says artist
post 025 - some videos from the excellent t.e.d. talks on great ideas
post 026 - leap year history and a picture of a frog

march 2008

post 027 - video of sheep as weed control, free vectors, santogold track
post 028 - disney stole alladin from richard williams sufic animation
post 029 - flamenco kids video, slim whitman track, burne-jones painting
post 030 - erykah badu at chapel of sacred mirrors, track from album
post 031 - poster parodies of anti-photography propaganda from britain
post 032 - arabic calligraphy, history of gazelle, personal synchronicity
post 033 - arizona students stage hug-a-thon
post 034 - inspirational video of no armed guitarist
post 035 - surprisingly pretty photos of crustpunks, one i know
post 036 - how to make beautiful maple leaf "roses" that look "real"
post 037 - profile of chocoreve, a great rare album mp3 blogger
post 038 - two videos of the great band, the pentangle
post 039 - how to make a cool cd case in the style of the "flower of life"
post 040 - see if you can label the countries of africa and the middle east
post 041 - trippy interactive harmonic visualizer
post 042 - onion spoof video "diebold releases election results early"
post 043 - personal post about geeking out on computers, desktops link
post 044 - incredible visual illusions by akiyoshi kitaoka
post 045 - beach boys, betty davis, lady tigra & bunny d, beck, filastine
post 046 - heart-wrenching visualizations of statistics with piles of rice
post 047 - the recipe for edible bliss, "the phenominable snowball!"
post 048 - thought to speech technology... no, really
post 049 - bass pt. 3, a primer in dubstep
post 050 - photos of things eaten by trees
post 051 - description of the header
post 052 - shackleton's opus, "death is not final", highly downloaded
post 053 - freaky military walker robot, awesome giant unicycle bike
post 054 - arthur c. clarke memorial
post 055 - carved pencils remind me of tom freidman
post 056 - happy spring plus a collection of miniature bonsai fruit trees
post 057 - initial obama endorsement with "cumbia de obama"
post 058 - in-depth endorsement of obama with analysis and disclaimers
post 059 - photos of art made of books, awesome art crisis gun
post 060 - profile of idm trade and the magic of juju two mp3 bloggers
post 061 - announcement of sandor katz lecture, fermented foods icon
post 062 - playground equipment generates power at school
post 063 - pittsburgh man cuts off finger, regrows it like a lizard
post 064 - interactive chess shows force lines of pieces
post 065 - a study of sufi music, both traditional and modern versions
post 066 - hip hop top spinning, profile of metafilter, ask metafilter
post 067 - onion video - most important issue of campaign is bullshit
post 068 - bill cowan outs pentagon paying journalists
post 069 - all-wooden drum instruments, amazing cajon playing video
post 070 - four songs about anarchy, dead prez, john lennon, etc...
post 071 - photo of my wife and i with wall of riot police, anarchist musings
post 072 - photo set of my travels to the alhambra
post 073 - report back from sandor katz lecture, fermented veggie recipe

april 2008

post 074 - german hackers steal fingerprints of public officials
post 075 - man swims around your web browser gently
post 076 - "how to speak hip", hilarious sample mining source
post 077 - i debate the venerable takuan on the topic of remote viewing
post 078 - i tell you all that i like borges' writing
post 079 - the tiny online drum sequencer
post 080 - reasonable television journalism with paxman/olbermann
post 081 - surveillance theme/capable bird house
post 082 - squarepusher's track "hanningfield window", gushing tribute
post 083 - dubstep/techno smash "metric" from ellen allien & apparat
post 084 - article on biomimetics, or "science mimicking nature"
post 085 - three tracks i was feeling and one i intuitively knew to post
post 086 - great turkish tunes, video, photo of blue mosque
post 087 - the sad facades of clear-cutting, philip glass tune
post 088 - eight great links, only one "dated"
post 089 - brain-punishing geometrical illusion
post 090 - profile of author derrick jensen, and his thinking thoughts
post 091 - 8 songs that i play a whole lot, and a musical/spiritual diamond
post 092 - super hick hand skills video
post 093 - lolcats take on white privilege
post 094 - my sister sums it up
post 095 - obama on art and hip hop
post 096 - beautiful mostly-abstract painting of christine grey
post 097 - a glowing tribute of big bad bill ayers
post 098 - scan of an awesome iranian dome
post 099 - scan of an italian decorative paper
post 100 - scan of a goofy reader's digest "pleasure programmer"
post 101 - scans of islamic geometry how-tos
post 102 - dan tague's origami with money
post 103 - steve kurtz wins his case!
post 104 - darth vader statue of liberty and others
post 105 - benefit announcement, a mashup of kraftwerk w/ balkan music
post 106 - attorney client privilege during wiretapping cases, bad bush
post 107 - child deejays work it
post 108 - obama picks v.p. and it's an old lady with opinions
post 109 - albert hoffman dies at 102 years old... l.s.d. still a mystery
post 110 - my first post about sex, still very popular, the movie short bus

may 2008

post 111 - mayday from a pagan and anarchist perspective
post 112 - mayday anti-war compilation
post 113 - dino 5, children's hip hop group
post 114 - d.c. madam gets suicided, serious cover up here folks
post 115 - omar souleyman the talented (and weird) pop star from syria
post 116 - getting high pt. 2 people up very high, dan osman video, wow
post 117 - nik ainley's art and typography
post 118 - greenpeace victory over doves palm oil plantations
post 119 - i submit geometry piece for moleskine consideration
post 120 - eight great links, two "dated"
post 121 - extensive manuscript scan library
post 122 - questionable prank for the mail
post 123 - bone marrow donation announcement
post 124 - i declare the clintons presidential ambitions finished
post 125 - osama bin laden's son's plans for peace and great hair
post 126 - i love techno a-z abe duque - autechre
post 127 - i love techno a-z baby ford - bruce haack
post 128 - beautiful close up photos of individual grains of sand
post 129 - annoying pro obama music video i can't help but like
post 130 - more spanish obama songs
post 131 - graffiti from the wooster collective
post 132 - i draw attention to the links on the left of the blog
post 133 - link to laura's list of 100 awesome things, highly reccomended
post 134 - sierra leone fashion on the "street"
post 135 - chinese reproduction artists paint themselves
post 136 - i love techno a-z cajmere - cylob
post 137 - ed rendell hurts pennsylvania's forest
post 138 - hillary bashing of a deserved nature, funny video
post 139 - slovenian intellectual slavoj zizek interview excerpt
post 140 - beautiful, functional fractal dresser
post 141 - saddhus, great photos of these hindu mystics
post 142 - four good links from the not so great drudge report
post 143 - george w bush lies about stopping golf for the troops, good photo
post 144 - german performance artist appears to float off buildings
post 145 - exoskelton technology video
post 146 - great business card designs
post 147 - charity "shelter boxes" for disaster victims
post 148 - drumming of the great mohammed reza mortazavi
post 149 - attempted change of template announcement
post 150 - the real john mccain 2 video
post 151 - change of template fail
post 152 - goofy republican ads
post 153 - local burning man "wickerman" report back
post 154 - dubai, kinetic poetry, brain science and kj sawka drums jungle
post 155 - a re-examination of the war on drugs
post 156 - rest in peace, utah phillips
post 157 - 5 scans from my travel sketchbook, one of my favorite drawings
post 158 - sprawling post, dj ripley, cauto banger, jay electronica, politics
post 159 - stupid indiana jones crystal skulls post
post 160 - huge political post with over thirty links, some "dated"
post 161 - goofy republican ad
post 162 - kid gets crump
post 163 - review of the great "wtf nature?" community on odd nature
post 164 - a humorous bit of "fry & laurie" for my sister

june 2008

post 165 - hidden drawer, useful plants, graffiti, cute animals, robot
post 166 - scott mcclellan finally gets hard questions from jon stewart
post 167 - the gorgeous aptera, electric car of the jetsons
post 168 - i love techno a-z daft punk - drop the lime
post 169 - packard jennings super amazing mail art, don't miss
post 170 - moment of funny john mccain zen
post 171 - beautiful hair designs in the shape of animals
post 172 - spanish civil war veteran lecture report back with comments
post 173 - rest in peace teo macero, overcast radio track
post 174 - dennis kucinich impeachment with links to evidence
post 175 - dubstep show reportback, quick dubstep/etc mix, demolition
post 176 - stupendous japanese contact juggler
post 177 - the bizarre aerodynamic forms of luigi colani
post 178 - link to a gorgeously designed website
post 179 - spoof video "why i'm voting republican"
post 180 - patching ancient walls with legos
post 181 - thought provoking philosophical exam, subtle photo
post 182 - the fascinating story of luisa isabel, lesbian duchess
post 183 - personal post, photo of me and my son at new york dolls show
post 184 - giant eco post, my most well-researched and most popular post
post 185 - the enchanting sounds of the rare hang drum
post 186 - obama gets some necessary criticism
post 187 - wacky facts about my father's family, what is being informed?

july 2008

post 188 - strange maps from reader carlos's blog
post 189 - photoshopped? image of one woman resisting many police
post 190 - a geeky democratic candidate's house burns down, how to help
post 191 - a drum and bass track ruins me for the first time in a while
post 192 - impressive video of cornstarch and water on a subwoofer
post 193 - personal travel update for oregon, two great photos
post 194 - a string of personal synchronicity involving sufis and peacocks
post 195 - ridiculous example of lack of journalistic integrity at fox "news"
post 196 - reportback from the classic and excellent oregon country fair
post 197 - a few followup ditties to my giant eco post
post 198 - personal message, done with month of travels
post 199 - tambour battant track, "bleep" another drum n bass banger
post 200 - a personal story weighing art on the web vs. art face to face

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family travel

>> Thursday, June 19, 2008



that's my son river and i at the new york dolls concert in pittsburgh recently. thanks to patrice for pointing the photo out on the three rivers arts festival website.

i'll be traveling for two weeks for some family business (and some fun). i'll be busy intermittently and have tons of free time intermittently. so i'm going to try to keep the blog up... but not like normal. i owe you a few in depth posts. i've been building up a big archive for a huge eco-tech post and i want to do an in-depth analysis of radical and anarchist perspective on this elections.

any other topics you're dying to have me blather on in a somewhat intelligent way about?

more music styles you are eager for a primer on?

all talk at once, now, o.k.?

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nevermind.

>> Tuesday, May 20, 2008



i'm nixing the template change. i liked the look , but i lost a couple things:

1. my post titles didn't as a default link to the permalink of each post.

2. i lost the cool little "pencil" edit button that shows when i'm logged in.

3. i lost the navbar which made it a pain to log in, or to create a new post.

4. the tag cloud refused to "cloud" it insisted on being a list.

what i miss about the newer template is the very clear comment link, the paper look and the three column design... particularly the latter. i'm bummed that blogger doesn't have any native three column designs. i feel like functionality would be vastly improved if more width could be put into play... if anyone feels like they could overcome these obstacles, let me know. in the meantime, i'll just rebuild all the links here.

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making some changes - kinks out soon...

>> Sunday, May 18, 2008



bear with me... switching templates. i'm going to change the artwork on top and re-up the links. sorry about the wait. in the meantime, how is everybody?

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it's all in the (six) details

>> Saturday, May 10, 2008



run little lizard! run!!!

anyway, if you look down and to the left you will see some new categories of links... friends, politics, news, television, podcasts and music... i check almost all these sites at least weekly.

enjoy... there are a lot of "alexandria is open" type posts in the music category, fyi...

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about the header

>> Tuesday, March 18, 2008



so that isn't really a gazelle, it's an antelope (a kudu bull to be specific). as far as i can tell, all gazelles are antelopes (bovidae), but not all antelopes are gazelles. it's also not veiled, per se, it just goes off the edge... peering over with knowing eyes... the face is really quite serene in the original, but the title dictated the crop.

the font is the unfortunately named "bleeding cowboys". it's free from dafont.com, which has TONS of other free fonts, some of which are quite spectacular. i think the G is beautiful and it's cool how the two Ts in "that" look like two horns.

the geometry is based on the dodecahedron, of which one view can be constructed from a pentagon fairly easily. there is a fairly thorough breakdown of the mystical significance of the dodecahedron, five-sided symmetry, and basic sacred geometry here.

i used the dodecahedron because i often describe my various interests as "various sides of the dodecahedron of existence"... which isn't to say that reality is twelve-sided specifically (although hemoglobin and chlorophyll are), but just many sided, and one must observe the facets to begin to understand the core.

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welcome again...

>> Wednesday, March 5, 2008




so what in all creation is a "veiled gazelle"?

well, a (translation of a) poem by ibn arabi says...

"and among the wondrous things is a veiled gazelle:
a divine subtlety, veiled by a state of the self,
referring to the states of those who know.
unable to explain their perceptions to others,
they can only indicate them symbolically
to those who have begun to experience the like ..."

so it could be said that a "veiled gazelle" is
an intuitive non-thing, basically inexpressible...
yet can maybe be indicated to another through
symbolic gesture, but only with common "ground."

why is this blog called "that veiled gazelle..."?

well, my first post (february 11th 2008) says:

"...i hope to provide the best of what i find on
the internets and the interworlds here,
to aid you all in wasting less time,
both on- and off-line.
i get really inspired from a real stretch of content,
so i won't pigeon-hole this blog
one way or another.
enjoy!!!"

so, the "non-pigeon-holed" content of this blog,
at first appearing merely scattered and unrelated,
collectively gestures towards "that veiled gazelle..."
if reality is a1000-faceted diamond, these are faces...

so what makes your facets any better than mine?

nothing. the internet's diversity should increase.
if even one post affects you, that is beautiful.
feel free to comment, good or bad, and i'll change.
i've begun to court other authors too...

i'm convinced that we all share a love supreme,
but even i get elitist and skeptical of others.
this effort is as much for me to be changed by
public opinion as my efforts to shape the like.

and what is that image at the top of this post?

that is a piece of digital calligraphy by laura gyre
superimposed over an ancient pattern i copied.
the calligraphy is arabic/farsi, it says "ghzl"
here follows a nice piece of synchronicity:

during a shamanic trance i saw a horned animal
i knew it was a beneficial vision, there to aid me.
i was uncertain of the species until reading arabi...

i told laura i was sure the animal was a gazelle.

sufis often use a weird word in poetry because
it shares a linguistic root with other concepts,
so laura suggested we look up gazelle in arabic
and see what other words have the root, "ghzl"

they were aligned with our work (and our name):

spinner of yarn (we spread tales, sufi means wool)
spinning (we named ourselves "gyre" for a reason)
love (the greatest force in the universe, bonding us)

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welcome

>> Monday, February 11, 2008


photo by alain briot

well i hope to provide the best of what i find on the internets and the interworlds here, to aid you all in wasting less time, both on- and off-line. i get really inspired from a real stretch of content, so i won't pigeon-hole this blog one way or another. enjoy!!!

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