'Cognition Factor' is premiering internationally this Sunday 21st of June in New York, London, Toronto, Amsterdam, Cape Town, Byron Bay, Sonoma CA and Johannesburg.

Cognition Factor is an independent South African production with an edgy take on documentary film making. It's an experiment in conscious cinema somewhere beyond Bleep and Secret, a movie about the evolution of consciousness and the war between science and spirituality. It stars the internationally acclaimed Terence Mckenna, plus a score of interesting, smart people.

Shot in the summer of 2009 by Darius Devas from Being Films

 Chanel is pulling its flagship sponsorship project for contemporary art. A newspaper story (the Guardian 29 Dec 2008) describes how in the face of fears that the 'supposedly recession proof luxury market' is falling victim to the credit crisis, the perfume and handbag company is not only shedding 200 jobs but bringing its highly publicized global art installation 'Mobile Art' to an early end for fears that this 'quirky marketing operation' has become a luxury that the brand could no longer support.

This is stuff i have the rest of the year to write in full, im sorry for using this discussion board as a plug to get respondents for a questionnaire, but my intent here is more for the soundboarding.i am using a questionnaire, that can be found here:

http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/115690/drugs-and-music

ENTHEOGENIC EVOLUTION INTERVIEW WITH RAK RAZAM

Alternative podcaster and author Martin W. Ball from the podcast Entheogenic Evolution talks with Rak Razam, gonzo journalist and Undergrowth editor about the new book, “The Journeybook” in the first of a two part interview podcast.

UNDERGROWTH is proud to preview an excerpt from the new novella META-DETECTIVE by regular contributor LEVIN A. DIATSCHENKO.author of The Man Who Never Sleeps, comes another surreal adventure that experiments with reality.

META-DETECTIVE is a new illustrated novella is a cross between pulp fiction detective classics and Greek mythology. 

 “The vine has spread her tendrils across the world and a genuine archaic revival was underway. My bags were packed; South America beckoned, and the ancient mysteries of the rainforest awaited. I wanted in on it…”

What is Amazonian shamanism and why is it important to the world today, as we stand on the brink of environmental change and global transformation? Traveling on a magazine assignment to Peru, Rak Razam - editor and co-founder of Undergrowth.org, sets out to discover the answers. He joins a growing movement of Western tourists coming for the legal experience of ayahuasca – the “vine of souls” – a South American hallucinogenic plant that is said to heal, and connect to the divine.

'Mercury' is an excerpt form the new Undergrowth anthology of poems by Melbourne slam poet Si, winner of the 2008 Victorian Poetry Slam.

'Mercury' will be launched at the Emerging Writer's Festival in Melbourne's Thorbury Theatre - Friday May 29th.

The 29th of May at The Thornbury Theatre will see the psych-funk soul Jazz punks KAFKA.

BBC Radio 1 DJ Gilles Peterson voted "Kafka Anthem" one of the best tracks of 2009.

They be launching their international recognised album in Melbourne with a seven piece ensemble.

Also Victorian Poetry Slam Champ SI will be launching his illustrated book of poems 'Mercury' with rock musicians, actors & rappers performing and interpreting his poems, there will also be the first screening of short-film by Darius Devas, based on Si's poem 'This City Speaks to Me'.