The Harlem Street Fair

There was a thing that took place September 5th, 1969, called 'the Harlem Street Fair.'

None other than the inimitable Jimi Hendrix played there. Afterwards, he was interviewed by the press, although ostensibly, they were interviewing him about Woodstock, which had taken place a month before.

In part of what he said, came the rather casual prognostication, that one day, 'by that time' (those were his exact words, delivered sarcastically thus: 'by that time...!') there would be round buildings in the streets of Harlem, rather than the staid and cramped angular, rectangle and square styled ones that were there at the time of the interview.

Harlem NYC's 'Smile Building.' Right there.
Actually does exist... ...now.

Architecture is an important, a significant, marker of the prevailing mindset of human beings in any given society at any given time. The great designer, architect and polymath/poly-histor Paul Ritter spent a lot of his years introducing 'round' styles, and 'soft' texture ideas to architecture around the world where he tried to have some influence, and in some cases, did have influence. Paul was an Australia designer, and of course, one of the greatest 'curve' style architectural works of all time does exist in Australia, being namely, the Sydney Opera House on the East Coast of Australia. That was completed in 1973, having been commenced as a commission in 1957. And the architect there was Jorn Utzon, obviously, not Ritter certainly. Although both men were proponents of a similar ethos about architecture. Paul Ritter was responsible for major and serious long-term design developments across the other side of Australia, on the West Coast.

Now I have foreshadowed that there are plans for various 'people' to gather or at least briefly 'meet' at various live music and performance locations this up-coming Christmas phase. I attended one such venue and time earlier this week although no pics were taken. However things did go as planned.

All things being equal, there may be some pics in a few weeks...

His Majesty's Theatre. Were there 'special people'
there this week? Dunno. Cannot say.

Culture and entertainment is often, though not exclusively, held in examples of great architectural structures. As however, in the instance of Hendrix's street festival appearance, sometimes these things are just, well, 'out in the streets;' in the open.

'Structures' - that is, physical objects that are designed, put together - are shapes and forms of composite shapes. Because they are made from some substance, they also have materiality, and are not just empty dimensions. The human being itself is a structure, with materiality and energy. Static architecture is in fact, not so 'static' as you might think though, since to have a building stand up and stay up, you need to take into consideration the effects of mass times motion - and these are vectors because of gravity for one thing.

The human being, actually moves dynamically, all the time in obvious visible changing ways, whereas a 'static' building only moves incredibly slowly, over a lengthy duration of time, and with general wear, and earth tremors and perhaps the microscopic effects of wind and sun and rain. Thus the human being requires a different kind and flow of energy than a building requires.

Dow Corning made this - a translucent frosted
glass mobius strip.

Were you to construct a building in the 'shape' of a mobius strip, you could traverse the 'inside' and the 'outside' of it without ever actually 'going' inside or outside over a threshold.

Energy in the human is like an AC form, although it is a pulse, not actual AC, and not actual DC as such in any steady state - it pushes things around, and they then are governed so that in most cases they don't then retreat back to their original state: that is, they grow, by accretion of ingested substance. Your mind, on the other hand, has no need of having to gain physical material substance, although it does also grow, but only in data and data structuralization (if you can call it that). So it does use energy, but not energy necessarily the way all other processes of the human being utilize energy: its energy could be, in the form of something that just goes round and round without ever traversing, or having the need to traverse any threshold.

This shape is called the Lissajous Curve,
or also, the Bowditch Curve.

Now as you know, something which can move at the speed of light is very fast, and something that can go faster than the speed of light, supposedly, does not exist. 

But if it did exist, it would very likely have a definite property of the mobius strip about it.

And in that case, and because it was 'made of no substance,' you could 'see' right through it, and from where you were standing (hypothetically) you could see at the same time, the 'other side' of the plane that you were 'located upon,' whilst also being able to actually travel there to that other location but merely going forward along the surface of the mobius strip.

Interestingly, the cathode ray oscillating tube/scope can show you a wave form both on its linear path, and on its rotating apex across time (through that axis), and an oscillating wave - like a figure-of-eight on its side, is usually thought of as depicting an alternating flow... ...but if you think carefully about it, it could also be depicting a mobius strip form of 'flow.'

Now I know those of you who practice this 'Vishuddhi Yoga' stuff, certainly are able to visualize a simple figure-of-eight in your meditations. The question is, can you do that very fast so that it is as fast as the speed of light(!), or, can you even do it like a translucent mobius strip form rather than a simple figure-of-eight and would this mean you could um, well, you know... Whatever that the yogis claim to be able to do.

I only mention any of this because a few of you have been engaging in some private discussions about this kind of thing - and I'm pretty sure not too many others who are reading this particular article will have much idea what this is all about here today!

Now, when you listen - if, you listen to the video clip below, make sure you are wearing some really decent headphones, okay? If you don't do that, you really won't get the full impact.

This piece features in the up-coming new, latest, 'out there' fairy tale that will sooner or later go up onto the Inkitt free read site, y'all...