the darkerside to rants

Every year people meet at the Vancouver Art Gallery and start smoking up to celebrate Pot and all it means to them.

Of course I was there this year, you can find a photo gallery on Flickr.

Or you can watch a slideshow I set up below the fold (on a variety of different hosting platforms).

This, btw, is my favourite shot I took:

Now, light up and enjoy the show:

Of course you can download the file directly to your computer form blip.tv

It has come up in discussions with others in the past and the one thing that pretty clear to me is that most people are not able to comprehend a “sudden” collapse in the Earth’s biosphere.

It shouldn’t really be too surprising, we do exist as part of something bigger but we usually do not realize the complexity that goes on around us, we’re not “made to see” these kinds of things and when it comes to timescales things get even more wobbly.

100 years in human time is a long long time. In the age of the Earth it is less than a blink of the eye, so talking of “sudden collapse” strikes most people as odd because it can still take a hundred years.

Still, there are no lifeboats for us to “abandon ship” on, so maybe we need to understand this, or have future generations live with the consequences.

Like the song, not so sure about the video (yet), may need to watch again.

Clever.

Obviously this is a fake CGI shot, but it does make me a bit dreamy.