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hi. i've been growing this links-page since probably 2002 or 2003, so some of the links may be grossly outdated -- my apologies in advance for any empty clicks you might encounter. Please report any broken links to a@plus1plus1plus.org. Thanks!!

 

plus: I'm still updating this Links page every now and again, but I'm also slowly growing my social bookmarks page here: http://delicious.com/overtones99

 

 

 

 

 

ATLANTA | VENUES, PRESS, & LIST-SERVS

NOTE: these are getting old now (c. 2003) - i've been away for some time, so these are not so up-to-date... check your local listings...
Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery | amazing, unpretentious space for experimetnal art, music and performance
YoungBlood Gallery | art and art boutique
Artlanta blog | community art blog, events, etc
Artspot Gallery (no longer open)
The Earl | rock
Echo Lounge | rock
Lenny's | dive bar, rock / experimental
WREK 91.1 FM | best college radio station in the world | experimental music, noise, indie rock, live performances, et al
The Electric Arts Alliance of Atlanta
The Electric Arts Alliance of Atlanta list-serv
Press | Creative Loafing (Atlanta), Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Flagpost (Athens)

 

 

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LOS ANGELES | VENUES, GALLERIES, BUSINESSES, PRESS & LIST-SERVS

[PERFORMANCE VENUES & SERIES]
Anatomy Riot | monthly dance and performance series, now at The Open Space (see below) in Downtown Los Angeles, organized by Meg Wolfe et al
Beta-Level (formerly C-Level) | former home of the LA hacker's club in Chinatown
Cold Storage | Michael Parker / Routes & Methods... | Downtown
DanceBANK | awesome weekly dance class series, led by various a who's who of LA choreographers and dancers, often with classes for dancers & non-dancers alike, at The Open Space in downtown LA (see below), organized by Meg Wolfe et al
Dangerous Curve | performance art and music | Downtown
Electric Lodge | solar powered theater for dance, performance, and more, in Venice, CA
Highways Performance Space | longtime center for theater, dance, performance art in Santa Monica
il corral | noise, sound art, etc - was just east of Hollywood near of corner Heliotrope and Melrose, but now is downtown and called 'zero-point' (see below)
Line Space Line | improv series downtown at Selah (NOTE: now only sporadic events)
The Open Space | current home of Anatomy Riot & DanceBANK, a co-op dance studio, available for rent, downtown LA
{open} | this is actually in Long Beach - but a great bookstore that does screenings, performances, etc, and is very sound art friendly
REDCAT | new music and performance venue in the basement of the Ghery building
SASSAS | The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound | composer / improviser events at the Schindler House and elsewhere
SomaFest | Weeklong Summer festival of somatic-/bodymind-based performance and workshops
The Smell | experimental / rock / punk music & gallery space in Downtown LA
the wulf. | experimental music and performance, in downtown LA
zero-point | noise, sound art, etc - the former il corral, but now in south downtown LA (temporarily closed)

 

 

[GALLERIES / ART ORGANIZATIONS]
Armory Center for the Arts | Pasadena
ART2102 | a non-profit that partners with experimental spaces and programs to fund interesting curatorial projects
David Patton Los Angeles | Highland Park
ESL: Esthetics as a Second Language (org) | Eagle Rock
High Energy Constructs | Chinatown
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) | Hollywood
Machine Project | Mark Allen's gallery in Echo Park
Newtown Arts (org) | periodic site-specific exhibitions | Pasadena
Outpost for Contemporary Art (org) | Highland Park & site-specific projects
Sea and Space Explorations | Eagle Rock/Highland Park
Tree and Space | Highland Park / Occidental College | "a space defined by a pine tree planted to serve as a location for public art practices"
Sidestreet Projects (org) | artist services (multimedia) and youth education | Pasadena
Solway Jones Gallery | Mid-Wilshire
Telic | new media gallery | Chinatown

 

 

[BUSINESS]
Keep Company | cruelty-free shoes from Margot and Una | Hillhurst
Ooga Booga | Artist bookstore and boutique, some music too, by Wendy | Chinatown

 

 

[PRESS]
LA Weekly
Flavorpill LA

 

 

[LIST-SERVS]
artPlus | for artists in LA who are also working with massage, yoga instruction, energy, somatics, and other healing modalities...
inter/meta/trans | A Mailing List for Live Art and Performance | based in LA, though international in scope
Deep Listening Listserv | not the best for event listings, more community, discussion-oriented...
LAContactImprovNewsletter | dance & contact improv events, jams, and workshops in Los Angeles
Contact Improvisation Dancers' Community of Los Angeles List-Serv | contact improv events, jams, and workshops in Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, and elsewhere nearby...
LA Culture Net Listserv | used to be good for events, but now it's not - watch it for the occasional calls for artists or workshop announcements
LAFilmForum | list-serv & org - they bring in a lot of experimental filmmakers, and screen at the Egyptian Theatre
LA Openings | art openings newsletter
Jorge Martin's Los Angeles Sound Calendar | calendar for experimental music in LA, plus links to local artists, labels, venues, etc
Microsound | international listserv, but with a lot of soCal event listings
Sexy Stacks | "Sexy Stacks is an online community listserv with the sole purpose of connecting information specialists, artists, curators and researchers who are specifically interested in gender theory, sexuality and erotica..."
Showbox | This list is for performance/event announcements by the community of contemporary dance and performance artists in Los Angeles, with a focus on experimental/investigative works, and embodied practice across disciplines and forms.
SoCalExp | listserv for experimental / new music events
SoundCommons.org | "a portal and file exchange system based in the Los Angeles experimental sound community"

 

[SOCAL CHEAP TRAVEL]
megabus.com | example: ~$30 in each direction for LA to SF

 

 

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US SOUTHWEST | VENUES & PRESS

 

[NEW MEXICO]
The Outpost | Albuquerque | experimental music
Solarts | Alb | theater / performance art
High Mayhem | Santa Fe | non-profit org / yearly experimental music festival
Press | Crosswinds (Alb), The Alibi (Alb), Santa Fe New Mexican, Pasatiempo (weekly arts pullout in the New Mexican), Santa Fe Reporter

 

[ARIZONA]
Trunkspace | Phoenix | art gallery, performance
Press | Phoenix New Times

 

 

[DENVER]
Monkey Mania
Old Curtis Street Bar
Press | The Westword (Denver), Denver Post, Boulder Weekly, Colorado Daily (Boulder)

 

 

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US NORTHWEST & NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | VENUES & PRESS

[WASHINGTON (STATE)]
Gallery 1412 | Seattle | visual arts and experimental/improv music, good PA
Press | Seattle Weekly, The Stranger (Seattle)

 

 

[OREGON]
DIVA: Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts | Eugene | visual arts, film and some sound/music
Dunes | Portland | bar with occasional experimental music shows
Press | Eugene Weekly, The Portland Mercury, The Willamette Weekly (Portland)

 

 

[NORTHERN CALIFORNIA]
21Grand | Oakland | experimental music
Espresso Roma Cafe | Davis, Ca | coffee shop with music performances
KDVS | UC Davis radio | exp music
KFJC 89.9 FM | Bay Area radio | exp music
Bay Improvisors Network

 

 

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BEIJING | MUSIC VENUES, ARTISTS, ETC

Dashanzi Art District | 4 Juixianquiao Lu, Chaoyang District | Dozens of galleries and artists' studios, plus some late night clubs
Yugong Yishan Club | bar, music venue | across the street from the Worker's Stadium northern gate, located at the back of a parking lot for RVs, campers, vans, buses... | rock, punk, jazz, experimental music
Nameless Highland | bar, music venue | rock, punk
What? | bar, music venue | rock, punk

 

 

That's Beijing | Magazine [in English] | great resource for what's going on, plus list of venues, clubs, galleries, etc
Timeout: Beijing | Magazine [in English] | good resource for what's going on, plus list of venues, clubs, galleries, etc
AsiaXpat.com | Online Magazine [in English] | good resource for what's going on, plus list of venues, clubs, galleries, etc
ZhongHaus | web-forum for the digital avant-garde in beijing

 

 

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OTHER NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL SOUND/MEDIA VENUES

Diapason (NYC)
HarvestWorks (NYC)
Engine27 (NYC)
Steim (Amsterdam)
Experimental Intermedia (Belgium)
(K-RAA-K)3 | music label, booking in europe, a festival, etc (Belgium)

 

 

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GRANTS / FUNDING / RESIDENCIES / CALLS FOR WORK / TOURING

[LIST-SERVS, OPPS LISTS, ONLINE OPPS DATABASES...]
RedProject | amazing monthly list-serv for calls for works
NYFA | searchable database of scholarships, grants, etc
Rhizome | new media & net opportunities
BEK DOT List | list for new media & other opps, based in Scandinavia
Taste-E.org | electronic arts links & opps
TransArtists.nl | international opps for artists
EMF | electronic music opportunities
GoTour.org | searchable database of US venues with ratings
also, see the performance art list-servs below

 

[RESIDENCIES]
A.I.R. | great list of artist residency programs all over the world
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship | Stuttgart | artist / composer residency (every two years)
Binaural | Nodar, Portugal | artist / sound artist / etc residency
DAAD | Germany | artist / composer residency
de Ateliers | Amsterdam | emerging-artist residency
Hall Farm Center | Vermont | artist / performer / writer residencies
Harvestworks Artist in Residence Program | NYC | media residency (video, audio recording & production, etc)
KHN Center for the Arts | Nebraska | artist / composer / writer residencies
Netherlands Media Art Institute | Amsterdam | new media residency (streaming media, wireless and 3D)
Palais de Tokyo | Paris | artist residency (see the section called Le Pavillon)
Rijksakademie | Amsterdam | artist residency
Schindler House Residency at the MAK Center | Los Angeles | residency for non-U.S. artists in Los Angeles
U.S. Fulbright Program | Worldwide | artist / composer residency
Villa Aurora | Los Angeles | residency for German artists, composers, writers, etc to come to Los Angeles

 

[LOS ANGELES]
Durfee Foundation Artists' Resource for Completion Grant | grant for LA County artists (no students)
Subito Grant | grant for composers in the LA chapter of the American Composer's Forum, 3 deadlines per year
Villa Aurora | Los Angeles | residency for German artists, composers, writers, etc to come to Los Angeles
Schindler House Residency at the MAK Center | Los Angeles | residency for non-U.S. artists in Los Angeles

 

[CALIFORNIA]
Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) | LA Arts Loan Fund & "Investing in Artists" grant for CA artists

 

[U.S]
International Touring Pilot | travel grant for festivals (no students)

 

 

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TEACHING OPPS AND LIST-SERVS

[COMMUNITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY & CHARTER SCHOOL OPPS]
CCC Registry | California Community College Registry | free | periodic mailing list for and database of open jobs, all disciplines
HigherEd Jobs | free | periodic mailing list for and database of open jobs, all disciplines
HERC | Higher Education Recruitment Consortium, SoCal | free | periodic mailing list for and database of open jobs, all disciplines
AcademicKeys.com | national, international | free | periodic mailing list for and database of open jobs, all disciplines
CalWest Educators Placement | California | free | database of open jobs, all disciplines, at local Private & Charter schools
College Art Association (CAA) | $$ - membership required | college-level art education opps, all disciplines
CSU Careers | Job opps for the Cal. State Univ system | mostly PhD-required jobs, but not all...
LA Community College District | Jobs
LA Mission College | Jobs
UCSD | Jobs

 

 

[CORPORATE / TRADE SCHOOL OPPS]
ITT Technical Institute | locations everywhere in U.S. (in LA: Anaheim, Sylmar, Torrance) | electronics, multimedia, videogames, animation, et al | they really like your MFA
The Art Institutes | locations everywhere in U.S. (in LA: Wilshire, Santa Monica, & Orange County) | 2D, 3D, multimedia, etc | they really like your MFA

 

 

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PERFORMANCE ART / CONCEPTUAL ART / GROUP ART / ACTIVIST ART / ETC

[LIST-SERVS]
inter/meta/trans | a mailing list for live art and performance, based in los angeles
fado e-list | opps and events list based in Toronto
franklin furnace | "Goings On" list | opps list, events, based in NYC
perform-l | list-serv for performance art, run by NYU | to subscribe: listproc@lists.nyu.edu, include message: subscribe Perform-L | to post: perform-l@lists.nyu.edu
performancelogia | mostly Spanish language | "All About Performance Art and Performance Artists" | main website with lots of links: http://performancelogia.blogspot.com
The Performance List | "Live Art, Performance Art and New Performance"
LIVEART List | UK-based | "Live Art, Performance Art and New Performance"
performance_art_network | the praxis of performance art
fluxlist
fluxnexus
UHD-SCA_PERFORM-L | list-serv for performance, run by the University of Houston | send an email to "listserv@gator.uhd.edu" with "subscribe UHD-SCA_PERFORM-L@gator.uhd.edu" (minus the quotes) in the body of the email
Organism | making art with living systems | a blog, moderated by Douglas Repetto

 

 

[JOURNALS]
Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodied Technology | based out of UCLA
The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest | based out of Los Angeles
Ratsalad Deluxe | art and beyond | edited by Julie PŸttgen
HZ Journal | new media, sound, etc | based in Stockholm

 

 

[FESTIVALS / ORGS / VENUES]
Anatomy Riot @ Zen Sushi | monthly dance and performance event | Los Angeles
Cold Storage | Michael Parker / Routes & Methods... | Downtown LA
Dangerous Curve | performance art and music venue | Downtown LA
Eyedrum | year-round weekly art, music, and performance events | Atlanta, GA
fado | events, festivals | Toronto
7a*11d | yearly festival | Toronto
franklin furnace | opps list, events, performance grant | NYC
Highways Performance Space | longtime center for theater, dance, performance art | Santa Monica
iLand | interdisciplinary laboratory for art, nature, and dance | NYC
il corral | noise, sound art, etc just east of Hollywood - near of corner Heliotrope and Melrose
Non-Photography Day | 17th of July
PICA | Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, TBA Fest | Portland, Oregon
Present Tense Performance Art Initiative | live performance events and festivals | Boston

 

 

[RESOURCES]
Links to Conceptual Art, Technology, Biology, everything
Ubu Web
Virtual Performance Research Area | Tons and tons of links related to performance art and technology

 

 

[ARTISTS / ARTICLES]
Marina Abramovic | Interview
Marina Abramovic | Interview
Vito Acconci
Chris Burden
William Burroughs | "The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin"
Electric Body Manipulation As Performance Art: A Historical Perspective
Fluxus
Fluxus Performance Workbook
Group Material
Jenny Holzer | Truisms
Teching Hseih | Interview
Teching Hseih & Linda Montano
Zhang Huan
Alvin Lucier
Hermann Nitsch

 

RTMark
Stelarc
Viennese Actionists, et al
The Yes Men | ... on YouTube

 

 

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EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC / SOUND ART

Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies | dashboard widget
RadiOM | Charles Amirkhanian, KPFA-FM Berekeley archive of shows dating back to 1949
UBU | archive for music & film & text & more
Upload .. Download .. Perform . net | a wiki repository of contemporary performance scores
Words & Music at textscores.co.uk | a 2-year study of text score strategies (starting 10/2008), from Bath Spa University in the UK
Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art (MIT Press) | by Liz Kotz | traces the practice of using language in visual art to its beginnings in 1950s visual art, poetry, and experimental music performance scores.

 

 

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PEOPLE

please see my friends page

 

 

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VIDEO GAMES / GAME THEORY / GAME ART

Meaningful Play | baby lions wrestling, play as learning
Homo Ludens | book on play by Johan Huizinga
Emergence | complexity resulting from the interaction of simple rules (and more)
Turing Test | Are you a robot? (robots pretending to be human)
Reverse Turing Test | Are you an asshole? (humans pretending to be robots)
ELIZA | talk to a computer online
Peter Answers | an "updated" form of ELIZA
Peter Answers Hoax | how to fool your friends
The Ludologist | game research blog
Game Studies: Internation Journal of Computer Game Research
Gamasutra | gaming industry; lots of interviews, articles, etc
la-Siggraph | Los Angeles Chapter of Siggraph - tons of events, and great events/opps mailing list
The Game Jew | Jonathan Mann as the Game Jew
Mario Opera | Jonathan Mann's opera
Fantastic Turks | Turks, as represented in video games - you too can become a Fantastic Turk
Brody Condon | artist, using video games as primary material
Eddo Stern | artist, using video games as primary material
c-level | formerlly in Chinatown, LA | created such classics as Cock Fight, Tekken Torture Tournament, and Waco Resurrection
Fictional Electronic Game Names | fictional games and game systems, as invented in movies, tv, books, etc...

 

 

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DREAMS / ASTRAL PROJECTION

Lucid Dreaming Techniques | FAQ at The Lucidity Institute - tips & techniques for taking control of your dreams
Astral Projection | a flavor of out-of-body experiences
Monroe Institute | center dedicated to out-of-body experiences

 

 

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BREATHING / LISTENING / MEDITATION / ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY

The Science of Breath | understanding and developing the breath
Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening | Sound, music and meditation
The Tuning of the World by R Murray Schafer | Acoustic Ecology | No new-aginess here - Just a great book on the history and practice of listening
Acoustic Ecology Institute | lots of AE resources
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) | mailing list
Non-Photography Day | 17th of July
My Meditation Basics Tutorial
Nada Yoga | meditation on your body's internal Anahata Sounds
Free downloadable books on Yoga, hindu religion and spiritual texts

 

 

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MEDIATION / CONFLICT RESOLUTION

 

Mediation | Wikipedia definition & history
Dorit Cypis & Foreign Exchanges | Mediation, aesthetics, and beyond
Mediators Beyond Borders | a new organization headed by Kenneth Cloke
Kenneth Cloke | amazing man; provides a fabulous yearly introduction to mediation in Santa Monica
Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) | Global org, seminars for clearer, more peaceful communication
Nonviolent Communication Wiki
Marshall Rosenberg | interviews, youtube videos | founder of CNVC
International Listening Association | ". . . the professional organization whose members are dedicated to learning more about the impact that listening has on all human activity... promotes the study, development, and teaching of listening and the practice of effective listening skills and techniques."
Centinela Youth Services | Los Angeles | volunteer mediation training and work | Victim-Offender Restitution Services (VORS) and Families Able to Resolve Situations (FARS)...

 

 

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TOUCH / INTIMACY / PROXEMICS / MASSAGE / BODYWORK / LICENSING, SCHOOLING, ETC

 

[TOUCH / INTIMACY]
Touch
Haptic
Physical Intimacy
Kissing
Tickling
Feelings
Affect (outside vs the inside)
High Fives
High Five Me | High Five resources
National High Five Day | 3rd Thursday of April
Contact Improvisation | a fabulous form of dance where two or more dancers maintain physical contact with one another while improvising
Cuddle Party (Wikipedia) | Cuddle Party (official site) | Cuddle Party (Los Angeles) | Cuddle Party (Orange County) | touch workshops for adults, providing a safe space for experimentation with non-sexual physical contact with strangers

 

 

[ TOUCH GAMES ]
**Wikipedia has a wonderful database of games, many of which involve some level of touch**
Party Games & Children's Games & Kissing Games
| see Twister, Seven Minutes in Heaven, Spin the Bottle, Duck Duck Goose, Tag, Smear the Queer, Kiss Chase, Simon Says, Wink (or Combat Kissing), Buck Buck, Squeak Piggy Squeak, Blind Man's Bluff, Red Rover, Leapfrog, Red Hands, Mercy, Thumb Wrestling, Heads Up, Seven Up,
et al

 

and a telepathy game (no touch involved, but so cool thought I'd tack it on anyways):
Willing Game
and a funny sound game:
Penis Game

 

 

[MASSAGE & BODYWORK]
Massage according to Wikipedia | nice list of modalities
Bodywork according to Wikipedia
Gray's Anatomy | the whole book, with great drawings, online, for free
Fascia | the connective tissue surrounding your muscles, connecting them to one another, and giving structure to the body (amazing stuff!!)
Tensegrity | a theory of whole-system suspension, tension, and balance... very exciting...
Myofascial Release
Trigger Points | those sensitive spots, commonly located in "knots", which are fun and useful to touch and hold...
Accupressure
Alexander Technique | structural re-patterning in order to reduce unnecessary muscular tension
Feldenkrais Method
Structural Integration | "a system of working with a human which aims to align the human body in the gravitational field"
Rolfing
Energy Therapy
List of Energy Therapies | list of various kinds of energy therapy

 

 

[AROMATHERAPY]
Aromatherapy at Wikipedia
Essential Oils at Wikipedia
List of Essential Oils at Wikipedia
AromaWeb | essential oil profiles, etc
Hippy Life | essential oil profiles, etc

 

 

[MASSAGE SERVICES - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA]
Kneaded Experience LA (KELA) | chair massage services around Los Angeles, including farmer's markets, Whole Foods Supermarkets (currently Valenica, Glendale, Woodland Hills, and Wild Oats in Pasadena), and a variety of public and private events...
Heart Touch Project | a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the training and delivery of compassionate and healing touch to homebound or hospitalized, men, women and children... training provided, volunteers needed

 

[MASSAGE SCHOOLS - LOS ANGELES]
Hands On Healing Institute, Massage Therapy School Los Angeles (Tujunga) | I went here - a fabulous, warm, inexpensive, non-corporate program with a 150-hr CMT course - super highly amazingly recommended - great CMT, chair, energy, myofascial release, and more...
IPSB - Institute of Psycho-Structural Balancing (Culver City) | I've heard good reviews...
Massage School of Santa Monica (Santa Monica & North Hollywood)
Touch Therapy Institute (Encino)
AboutMassage.com | listing of many schools of massage across the country

 

 

[MASSAGE LICENSING - LOS ANGELES]
Glendale City Clerk
City of Los Angeles - LA Police Dept Business License page | they have a pdf available in the sidebar (right-side) for massage therapists
City of Los Angeles - Office of Finance | page on police permits

 

[MASSAGE INSURANCE]
Apparently, with most Massage Organizations your membership usually comes with insurance... Check for the best price and perks before doing it... ABMP has been recommended to me by most practitioners I know... (last updated 03/2007)
ABMP - Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals |
insurance info page| $199/yr ("Practitioner Membership")
IMA - International Massage Association |
insurance info page| $199/yr
AMTA - American Massage Therapy Association |
insurance info page| $235/yr + chapter fee ?? + requires 500 hours : (

 

[MASSAGE STORES - LOS ANGELES / SANTA MONICA]
Massage Central | West Los Angeles | I've had bad experiences with the people working there everytime I've been there and will probably never go back... : (
Bodywork Emporium | locations in Sherman Oaks, Santa Monica & elsewhere | they're way expensive and kind of shady / corporate : (
The best practice might just be to find out exactly what you need and shop online for the lowest price...

 

[BOOKS]
(I highly recommend using Amazon.com to search for and examine titles, but then searching for the titles both new and used at the amazing resource for online book-buying, Bookfinder.com.)

 

+ | *  Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual and Movement Therapists, Thomas Myers | a really amazing resource for understanding fascial anatomy (i.e. how the muscle systems of the body are all connected)
+ | *  Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork, Deanne Juhan | a classic bodywork resource
+ | *  The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (2002), Shigehisa Kuriyama | totally amazing book, very academic but amazing
+ | *  Touch (2003), Tiffany Field | good, short intro to the field of therapeutic touch, and overview of recent scientific studies on the subject
+ | *  Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin (1986), Ashley Montagu | good, early book on the study of touch
+ | *  Children of the Sun (1998), Gordon Kennedy | "It clearly describes the important links between the German health and nature pioneers, and their latter day California counterparts."
+ | *  Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field (1998), Barbara Ann Brennan | great and thorough classic on energy healing, auras, psychic surgery, etc
+ | *  The Hidden Dimension (1960?), Edward T. Hall | very interesting analysis of proxemics, or personal space, in culture

 

 

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VEGETARIAN / VEGAN / MACROBIOTICS / DIET / RECIPES

[RECIPES]
VegWeb.com | vegetarian and vegan recipes online

 

[MACROBIOTICS]
... A philosophy of eating as opposed to a dogma, Macrobiotics (as I see it) is based around balancing your diet while taking into account a lot of factors surrounding your lifestyle, location, etc (hence the Macro-). It especially emphasizes eating fresh fruits and vegetables that are grown in your same latitude (climate), and recommends against consuming processed foods. In a way, it looks at your body as a sort of chemistry beaker where everything you ingest affects the processes within you, and proceeds with the hope that giving yourself a heightened awareness of these processes and understanding your body's needs more fully will enable you to make more insightful decisions about what, when and how to eat, leading to a greater well-being and the ability to make meals that cater to your long-term and immediate needs.
That's just my take on it, however, there may be lots of differing opinions on the matter...

 

Macrobiotics | definition, history and links according to Wikipedia.org
The Macrobiotic Way by Michio Kushi | a well-known book....
The Macrobiotic Guide | online database, community, list-serv
The Kushi Institute | workshops, books, etc
Google: macrobiotics | there's a lot of info, as well as a lot of fluff online; look around...

 

[VEGETARIAN / VEGAN / RAW FOOD]
Vegetarianism | definition, history and links according to Wikipedia.org
Veganism | Vegetarian + no dairy or eggs + no (or limited) use of animal products (i.e. leather, animal-tested cosmetics, etc) | definition, history and links according to Wikipedia.org
Raw Foodism | only raw foods | definition, history and links according to Wikipedia.org
Flexitarianism | a vegetarian or vegan who occasionally eats meat | definition, history and links according to Wikipedia.org

 

 

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GREEN / RECYCLING / ETC

The Story of Stuff | nice video/animation on production, consumption, and disposal of products in America...
Farmers Markets in Los Angeles County | there are markets basically everyday of the week, at all times of the day, all over town...
Recycling Pickup in Glendale | find out what can and cannot be recycled in your weekly refuse/recycle collection in Glendale, CA (more than you might think) -- for other cities, check your City of ____ Public Works website.
COOL2012 | Compostable Organics Out of Landfills

 

 

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NEWS / POLITICS

Democracy Now | daily streaming news video broadcasts

 

 

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ONLINE ACTIVISM

Free Rice.com | word games - each correct answer donates rice thru UN World Food Program

 

 

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OPEN SOURCE / GNU

[PHILOSOPHY]
GNU | free software as a way of life
Free Software Movement | "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer."
OpenSource | software with its pants down
OpenSource | the definition
Open Source vs. Free Software | "Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement."
Rasta Software

 

[OPEN SOURCE OPERATING SYSTEMS (OS'S)]
Linux | hundreds of different distributions
dynebolic | Linux, optimized for audio & video | Live CD -- you can run it of a cd, no installation required

 

[OSX-RELATED]
Apple OSX Open Source Downloads
Fink | Makes downloading and compling GNU/Unix/Linux programs on OSX super simple - have to install Fink before Fink Commander GUI
Fink Commander | OSX | GUI for Fink - super useful
X11 | OSX | Framework for running many open source programs

 

 

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OPEN SOURCE WIKIS

PmWiki | great wiki system, good for programmers, and out of the box...
Drupal | on wikipedia | very popular and well-developed wiki system
MediaWiki | on wikipedia | wiki system that wikipedia uses
wiki comparisons

 

 

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OPEN SOURCE MOBILE PHONES (CELL PHONES) / OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE

[OPEN SOURCE MOBILE PHONES (CELL PHONES)]
Openmoko | (on wikipedia) |
open source software and hardware for cellphones
Openmoko Linux | operating system for Openmoko smartphones developed by FIC
Neo1973 | smartphone that supports Openmoko Linux - soldout
Neo FreeRunner | consumer version, available in 2008(?)
TuxPhone | (on wikipedia) | Wired article |
a mobile phone which runs on free and open-source software, and is currently in the prototype stage
Green Phone | soldout
Android | (on wikipedia) |
a software platform for mobile devices based on the Linux operating system and developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance | not completely open source (yet?)
Open Handset Alliance | (on wikipedia) |
part of the Android/Google project...
Open Mobile Alliance | umbrella standards organization for mobile companies
Gumstix | Spark Fun | Electronics Suppliers for Open Source Projects

 

[OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE]
OSD recorder | NYTimes article | for recording & archiving DVDs & VHS, being able to play them on TVs, handhelds, etc | runs linux, and includes "bounties" for those who might create programs for it.
monome | open source music controller, for use with programs like pd, supercollder, max/msp, ...

 

 

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FREE & OPEN SOURCE SOUND SOFTWARE

 

SuperCollider3 by James McCartney | Interactive, Roll-Your-Own Sound | Open Source | MacOSX / Linux
SuperCollider2 by James McCartney | MacOS 9 (no longer maintained)
PD (PureData) by Miller Puckette | Interactive, Roll-Your-Own Sound | Open Source | Multiplatform
Gem (for PureData) | Image and Video Manipulation Library | Open Source | Multiplatform
SoundHack | NRT Audio Manipulation | Freeware | Mac
Audacity | Audio Editor and Multitracker | Open Source | All Platforms
ReZound | Audio Editor | Open Source | Multi-platform
MIDI Monitor | check incoming & outgoing midi messages | Open Source | MacOSX
Jack Tools | routes audio between programs | MacOSX
SoundFlower | routes audio between programs | MacOSX | by Cycling74
Audio Hijack | record audio from programs | MacOSX | free demo with major limitations, cheap beyond that...
ProToolsFree by DigiDesign | Free | MacOS9 / Win98
MacCsound | front end for Csound by Matt Ingalls | Mac
TerminatorX | "scratch" audio files like a DJ | Free / Open Source | Linux / FreeBSD
GDAM | digital DJ mixing software | Free / Open Source | Linux / maybe OSX
SoundTracker | tracking or sequencing | Free / Open Source | Most OS's except Windows

 

 

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SUPERCOLLIDER

SuperCollider3 by James McCartney | MacOSX / Linux | FREE/OpenSource
SuperCollider2 by James McCartney | MacOS 9 | FREE
SC-Users List-serv
SC-Dev List-serv
SC Swiki | SC resources main page
SC Swiki | downloading and compiling the source code
SC Swiki | source code hacking links
My SC SourceCode and Plugin Intro

 

 

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FREE & OPEN SOURCE REALTIME VIDEO SOFTWARE

Gem (for PureData)
Linux DV | Digital Video for Linux
Cinelerra | Non-linear video editing
Cinelerra for OSX | Non-linear video editing
freej
LiVES | Linux Video Editing System
PiDiP
veejay
gephex
effecTV

 

 

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FREE & OPEN SOURCE IMAGE, VIDEO, SCHEMATIC & WORD PROCESSING SOFTWARE

GIMP or GIMP.app | Open Source version of Photoshop (use FinkCommander to download) | X11 | All Platforms
Blender | 3D modeling, animation, etc | Most platforms
JavE | make ASCII Art

 

VideoLan | Open Source | Video Streaming and Mediaplayer (most formats and VCDs) | All Platforms

 

XCircuit | Open Source (use FinkCommander to download) | schematic drawing
MI-SUGAR | free schematic maker & simulator | OSX

 

Open-Office | Open Source Word Processing Suite (like MS Word) | All Platforms
AbiWord | Open Source Word Processing | Most Platforms

 

 

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WEB SOFTWARE & RESOURCES

[OPEN SOURCE]
Firefox / Mozilla | Open Source Web Browser
PHP | Server-Generated Web Pages | Open Source
Bluefish | Web Editor | Open Source | Most platforms

 

[FREEWARE / SHAREWARE / FREE ONLINE SERVICES]
Text Wrangler | Great free Text Editor w/ colored Markup | Freeware
HyperEdit | HTML/PHP Editor/Viewer | Shareware
Filezilla | FTP - Uploading files | Open Source, all platforms
RBrowser | FTP - Uploading files | Freeware
Fugu | SFTP/SSH - Uploading files | Freeware
Doodle.ch | free & easy scheduling & polls - a group can vote on which days work best | free online service
Google Groups | free & easy mailing lists | free online service
Yahoo Groups | free & easy mailing lists | free online service
Google Calendar | free & easy online calendar
Goog-411 | free telephone 411 thru Google | 1-800-GOOG-411

 

[RESOURCES]
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Web Programming Resource
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | Resource
WebMonkey | HTML Resource
w3schools.com | great resource for html, css, etc terminology
Submit your URL to Google | free
Google Webmaster Tools | free | get feedback on search engine efficiency for your site
Google Analytics | free | Track activity on your website using Google
StatCounter.com | Track activity on your website

 

 

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BINARY REPRESENTATION

 

Binary Calculator | osx windows app | free
Online Binary Conversion
Timeline of Computing History

 

Binary | according to wikipedia.org
Timeline of Computing History
Floating point numbers | definitions, intro to floating point binary (IEEE), links
IEEE floating point standard | definition, intro, links
IEEE floating point standard

 

Gray Code | according to wikipedia.org
Gray Code | a form or flavor of binary
Gray Code | explanation with algorithms for ruby
Gray Code Conversion | with some algorithms in C
Gray Code | via google

 

 

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ELECTRONICS SUPPLIES

 

Mouser | mail order
Digikey | mail order
All Electronics | cheap surplus electronics | Van Nuys store & mail order

 

 

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MICROCONTROLLERS / MIDI

Use microcontrollers to make basic, intelligent sensors. A fascinating and surprisingly accessible world awaits you...

 

C-Level (renamed recently to Beta-Level) | home of the Los Angeles Hacker's Club in chinatown (now-defunct?)... there are now periodic electronics workshops at Mark Allen's Machine Project

 

Machine Project | sporadic electronics workshops in Los Angeles, convened by Mark Allen
Microcontroller Basics | Why microcontrollers? How? Great beginner resource
Lots of Microcontroller-Related Links

 

A MIDI Out program for PBasic
Matt Rogalsky | all sorts of great information about using microcontrollers, esp. Basic Stamps, that send out MIDI
Pure Date + PIC chips
MIDI Monitor | check incoming & outgoing midi messages | Open Source | MacOSX
MIDI Links
More MIDI Info and Links

 

 

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BASIC STAMPS

Great for beginners, it's just way expensive compared to PICs. For example Stamps costs $50 each while a typical PIC of equal or better quality might cost around $3-$6 each. But, Parallax makes it very easy to get started with their Stamp, whearas PICs are a bit more cryptic. In any case, check out my page for beginners if you're interested in getting started...

 

 

See the microcontroller tutorial links above - the following mostly deals with software and hardware...

 

Parallax | you can buy basic stamps here, and download tons of free tutorials
Parallax Basic Stamp Manual & Docs | FREE
Parallax Basic Stamp Tutorials | intros to interfacing with sensors | FREE
MacBS2 | A PBasic Stamp compiler for Mac OSX
Keyspan USB-to-Serial Adaptor | You'll need one of these to program a PIC or Stamp with Mac OSX
Keyspan USB-to-Serial Driver
A MIDI Out program for PBasic
Matt Rogalsky | all sorts of great information about using microcontrollers, esp. Basic Stamps, that send out MIDI

 

 

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PIC MICROCONTROLLERS

In my opinion, PIC chips are the way to go; They're so much cheaper and more efficient than Basic Stamps; They just require slightly more know-how to harness their abilities, but not much more.
Breaking News: You can now program PICs using Mac OSX. You'll need 'gputils', 'picp', a USB-to-Serial Adaptor, a PICStartPlus PIC burner, and some knowledge of assembly or C... As I learn more about pics this summer, I will be providing tutorials and more helpful links in my Resources section... In the meantime, there's plenty of online resources out there, waiting...

 

See the microcontroller tutorial links above - the following mostly deals with software and hardware...

 

Microchip | The maker of PIC Microcontrollers
16F628 | A good multi-purpose chip to start with
gputils | GNU PIC Utilities | Program PICs using OSX, Linux and other platforms | Open Source
picp | Burns code onto PICs using the PicStart burner on OSX and Linux | Open Source
sdcc | C compiler for the PIC | OSX and Linux | Open Source
PicBasic | Commerical Basic compiler for the PIC | Windows | Commerical Software
Keyspan USB-to-Serial Adaptor | You'll need one of these to program a PIC or Stamp with Mac OSX
Keyspan USB-to-Serial Driver
PICStartPlus PIC programmer by Microchip
WARP-13 PIC programmer | cheaper PIC burner

 

 

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DIY EEG / EKG (ECG) / SENSORS

OpenEEG | open-source programs, schematics and instructions for building your own EEG instrumentation
EKG / ECG Instructions
Discount Disposables | Cheap, General-Purpose Electrodes | I have successfully used their TD-429H Reusable EEG Electrode for heart and brainwave monitoring; Some of them died unexpectedly, though...?
The Electrode Store | Cheap, General-Purpose Electrodes | I haven't used these; They are more expensive than Discount Disposables, but others have recommended them
BioPac | expensive but possibly well-made instrumentation

 

A Brief History of Brain-Wave Music
David Rosenboom | pioneering composer, researcher and author dealing with, among other things, biofeedback
David Rosenboom | Biofeedback and the Arts

 

David Rosenboom | Extended Musical Interface With the Human Nervous System | Complete Text Online!!
Alvin Lucier | Another pioneering biofeedback composer | Music for solo performer

 

My own dual-purpose EEG/EKG(ECG) schematics that I developed with David Rosenboom are now online

 

 

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CONTACT MICS / TRANSDUCERS

Furious Contact Microphone Assembly | build contact mics for cheap with radioshack parts (i have used these instructions with success)
Contact Mics | from Richard Lerman's site  (note: i haven't used these instructions yet) |
Rolen-Star Trandsducer | turn your wall (or any resonant object) into a speaker