Wed, October 4, 2006 - 2:04 PM
An interview with Professor Violet- October 2006
Hey everybody!
...what a whirlwind couple of months its been….here's a concise if not impressionistic picture of what’s been going on with our accelerating path.
Polly and I have been in constant motion since mid summer and are now just slowing down a bit before the SF National Halloween Holiday Month fully kicks in….
I interviewed myself as a sort of reflection exercise to ‘get it all straight’ in my head and thought I’d share it with anyone out there who may be interested.
It really gives you the full download....
Q-So I understand you’ve been working with the Japanese lately, what’s that all about?
Yeah, a connection with an old friend of mine has blossomed into a really amazing colleague- Mayumi Jingu, a really well known educator in Japan who flew me to a World Peace Summit Conference in Kobe 6 years ago ….is working with us now to bring the Social Design of Beauty Engine to Japanese culture. When I attended the conference in Kobe, Japan…I met many passionate visionaries from all around the world working to bring about a New Planetary Culture….i could see clearly then that there was a piece missing…there was no common language…and by language I mean method-system-design….to enable people to collaborate / cocreate together easily and effectively on a wide scale beyond cultural boundaries. I was currently immersed in BMAN culture, Fetish community, RenFaire/Costume society, ETC. and could see how the social conventions which flourished in those communities could easily be translated into a design that would enable self organizing, creative community to spread on a Planetary scale. Go figure.
Shortly after my original trip to Japan, I met Polly Superstar and together we began the 5 year process of honing and refining this social design. Just last week, Mayumi and our new friend Kazu, whom we have appointed as the first OFFICIAL Beauty Engine Guide, stayed here at Mission Control and together, we crafted a 40 page document which concisely details the functionality and social wisdom behind Beauty Engine. People in the Bay Area will find the wisdom in this doc all too familiar.
We are currently adding graphic design elements, proofing and adding supplementary materials…..to create our V 1.0 Beauty Engine Handbook…which we will be self-publishing shortly. Very exciting…as this book finally puts everything we’ve been going on about for years into one place….Polly has done an amazing job focusing the work on this manual….I’m ever so grateful!
Q-What are your main impressions of your work in Japan?
Well, 16 days of non-stop workshops, meeting community leaders, speaking and being received as Cultural Diplomats was totally intense. The first thing that really comes to mind about Japan was that we had to get out of our heads with Beauty Engine and really get into our hearts and feel the essence, the vision of what Beauty Engine is really about. Our trip really challenged us to be totally vulnerable and open about our real mission.
In SF we frequently have to watch our language around some communities because they just see us as freaky party promoters and get all quiet when we start talking about ‘Cocreation and Planetary Social Design’…so it took awhile for us to come out of our SF-induced shells.
These people that we were put into very close 1-2 day workshops with were all really amazing people…many of them educators, healers and such….and seemed so more capable of facilitating workshops than us! I have never before met such open and heartfelt beings…..so sweet, these people. They taught us so much- non-verbal communication skills, empathy, humility, the joy of true collaboration…..
What it all really came down to for me was reconnecting with my passion for seeing people discover and embody their truth, their real genius, their inner voice-light….call it what you will. Even here in my own community, I see so many people that I care about deeply still wandering in search of what it is that they truly love, what it is that they truly wish to live in service of….unconnected, ungrounded to any real personal connection to SOURCE power within themselves.
Beauty Engine is designed to help ignite the essential fire of creativity and personal power that exists within everyone…to be spread, to be shared…to give permission to explore and embody what we truly find beautiful…and to celebrate that together, to crack the cynical-jaded heart of the modern world…and reveal the Garden of Beauty that exists within everyone …It’s a big vision and hope we carry with Beauty Engine…and one which the Japanese have resonated with in a huge way….we’re so grateful to them and to Mayumi and all those that made our trip to Japan possible….
Q-What’s up with the Izanai Dance Troupe you just hosted at XenoDrome?
Wow. These people are embodiments of what I’m talking about.
They are totally on fire, these people. They are so in alignment..heart, body, soul….
Just being around them makes you feel good. I want to live like that.
I want every day of my life to be spent as a creative Avatar surfing waves of golden goodness, leaving Beauty in my wake. Such sincere people dedicated totally to bringing about a New World through ecstatic expression, creativity, compassionate service……
We met them at the end of our Japan trip and had our biggest connection with these guys. We share a vision of Planetary Awesomeness with these guys that have since led to us now collaborating with them on what Polly has dubbed- The Everything Festival……in Maui next March. Mayumi calls it ‘A Plenum Activation Festival and Living University”. We’re going to invite troupes of creative types from all over the world to come together and share their Beauty through performance and workshops. A festival created by everyone present for everyone, all in the name of Beauty .
Together with them we will host and Beauty Engine Social Design will provide the template for cross cultural collaboration.
Their show at Xenodrome was awesome…we had the hard core punk rock xenodrome guys in a circle at the end with their hands up, singing alongside everyone else….with the Izanai folsk yelling ‘we love you!!!”
It was so great.
Q-So what’s up with the whole PeepShowMiniGolf thing?
Ah, yes…the other end of the spectrum.
Straight up, the vision for PSMG is to create a fun, irreverent, wacky social experience that we can take to HOLLYWOOD and get a Reality TV SHoW.
PSMG is pure Superstar Avatar, the manifestation of Beauty Engine moving into Pop Culture. PSMG is real carny, lowbrow and designed to inspire the proliferation of larger than life characters to appear and breed.
We want to unleash the creativity and power our collected subculture communities and share with TV America…but on our own terms. Bring the conventions of Beauty Engine to bear down on the bullshit of scarcity and competition myths presented by current Reality TV modeling.
When it gets going full steam, the idea is for PSMG to invite folks to create Avatars, assemble CLANS that create and host HOLES and show up rival gangs with their various Superpowers. PSMG encourages rival CLANS to work out any differences or conflict in the Showdown arena. Think Thunderdome meets PeeWee’s Playhouse. With talking Tiki head, puppets, strippers, Goths and art freaks. And whatever people want to bring to it, really.
ThuderDome hall…‘Two Balls enter, One Ball Leaves”, paying the theme from Thunderball.
PSMG is about being ridiculous, having a good time and bringing a wide diversity of creative communities together. Polly and I are so uninspired of seeing SF folks segregate themselves all the time…we love seeing really diverse groups of people come together.
PSMG also has Medicine Show Overtones and a deep current of Pro-America /Founding Fathers schtick thrown in.
We flew the American flag proudly at PSMG Bman…the only one I saw, actually
Q-How did PSMG work out at BurningMan?
Well, truthfully, it was a hard year for us. We planned big and didn’t have enough lead time to rally the interest we needed to really pull it off. When the course was open and the energy was rolling, PSMG was a real blast.
Oddly enough, PSMG was almost too ‘high concept ‘ for Bman…too nuanced!
Manning the course also took way more energy than we could give and still have our own experience. Dealing with drunk after drunk, needy people, demanding people wanting ‘gifts’ and folks stumbling and breaking things got real old, real fast.
We opened about 3-4 hours a night….and did host a lot of fun during the week. We had some fun holes show up and got to take the whole thing out for a bit of a test spin. Learned lots. Rather shoot too high and hit a little low than never shoot at all.
Buts that’s our way.
Q-What are some highlights/lowlights of your BMan experience?
Highlights:
Standing on top of the PSMG stage at sunset, beautiful sky and warm wind, the signs lit up and glowing…watching a guy dressed as a giant redwood put on the Classic Hole with Polly shaking her donk through the keyhole….with my man -The Source standing nearby me, the force of nature who built the PSMG stage…playing the Appalachian HoDown music and gathering a large posse of square-dancing ravers…..later, when the course was in full swing….me jumping around with my under-lit mic, smoking my Cuban cigar, Albino Cobra whip and PeepShow Jacket…..PRAW and SUGARBUNNY invoking lewd, beautiful mojo ..howling- yelping..all hopped up on Clown Hooch, Perry and Kingsly playing along with the Meco Presents 2001 Disco Medley…and all the while two SwingClub promoters peaking on acid….holding down their beanbag chairs on the roof next to me, wide eyed and too terrified to move…I’ll never forget the look on their faces
other moments:
…..Chasing down hippies in my GIANT PLAID PANTS costume..(all you can see is a 6ft tall pair of pants with giant shoes)
…Stopping ravers and hippies flying on E on the Esplanade….and whipping out my giant sausage and giving them a proper sausage –face slapping from out my fly-zipper.
….the REALLY drunk guy carrying a small Heineken keg and singing RING OF FIRE at PSMG over Johnny Cash
……watching the Waffle burn with friends and marveling at the intensely beautiful fire elementals that came out to play…..
……bouncing on the giant POOH BALL in my Bunny Diaper costume
Lowlights:
Many friends that we thought were going to come onboard to help and get wacky with us…..would stop by briefly on their way to dance camps…mumbling amongst themselves what substances they were taking that night, then poof into the night.
This happened every night, but that’s BMAN, and we knew it…and couldn’t begrudge anyone for it. We just got a bit lonely out there.
Q-What is the difference between Beauty Engine and Superstar Avatar?
Beauty Engine is the intentional core of wisdom and design that will allow for SuperStar Avatar to occur.
Superstar will reflect Polly and I’s sense of aesthetics and humor…
Superstar is BE brought to malls and cell phones…Mix Tribe-MySPace, period re-enactment communities, Cosplay, BurningMan culture and the like together and you get a bit of an idea of what Superstar may become.
Overall….as much as we appear to be control freaks, we’re just along for the ride…its hard to tell just how Superstar and BE will roll out cuz they’re living creations…and subject to change with everyone that comes into contact with them
We have strong ideas about what we would like to see as the Stewards of them but ultimately…its not up to us.
Q-Where are things at with those projects?
Well, getting the V1.0 Beauty Engine Handbook out is key for us right now.
We’re ready to meet communities here in the US that we can develop cocreative relationships with…Ones that see the value of our design and have things to offer in return.
Its also high time for Beauty Engine sponsorship and funding.
We’ve got an amazing new gal helping with events at Mission Control but we’re getting real tired of relying on events to survive!
Ideally, we would like to meet a heart-centric business savvy individual with VISION that can help us craft the roll-out of the bigger picture .
SuperStar’s success is entirely dependent on getting BE out the gate …
Q-What continues to be the main focus of your work?
Serving Planetary Evolution through Play.
Bringing more Love and Ecstasy into the world, serving The Beauty within everyone…seeing TRUE POTENTIAL realized within everyone!
More healing, more authenticity, more ridiculousness!
Q-Any exciting events coming up at Mission Control or elsewhere you’re working on you’d like to share?
Oct 8 Burning Man Decompression …we were gonna do a whole PeepSHow MiniGolf thing but we’re still recovering from the last two months of effort! Most prob take some putters and balls however…anyone that wants to join us!
Oct 13 Midnight Cabaret at Unkle Pauls Friday the 13th Absinthe Soiree
…looking for fairies that want to play!
Oct14th- Kinky Salon, Seduction of The Orient… is a Japan influenced theme…with other Asian themes thrown in…should be awesome, we’ve got great giveaways and special acts!!
Oct 28th- The PeepShow MiniGolf booth and Savage Jungle Babe/VooDoo Witch Doctor Ensemble for the VIP Lounge at The Exotic Erotic Ball… interested parties inquire within…but no promises, this is a tough gig!
November- Triple XXX Haunted Fun House and PSMG….stay tuned!
Also, working on a Tantra influenced event at MC in the near future in cahoots with some awesome Dakini’s and Priestesses….
December- The 6th Annual Whobilation Celebration!
Spring Equinox- The Everything Festival in Maui
Q- Anything specific you are looking for?
Biz-wise, looking to take Beauty Engine to the next level….
Personally, I’m craving smaller – more intentional gatherings and events….really feel disconnected right now from SF community, feel like we’ve been in an alternate reality for a long time now…….
Dinner invites would be nice, invitations to other gatherings…which people always seem to think we know about but never do!
And of course, Faerytale excursions into Mythic Realms of enchantment with beautiful souls……
Q-Anything you would like to offer?
Compassion .....wherever i can offer and however much i can muster!
Recommendations:
Music- Nightmares on Wax, ‘In a space outta sound’…awesome downtempo dub
Film- The Illusionist was great, also upcoming ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ looks totally magical!
Book- The new Daniel Pinchbeck – ‘2012, The Return of Quetzacoatl’ is a must read!
Also The Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Tau Malachi
Haagen Daaz- Mayan Chocolate is to die for….
The 13 Moon Oracle by Ariel Spilsbury is a piece of groundbreaking wisdom technology now available.
Other offerings:
Mission Control is available for a rental to the right group for New Years Eve!
Q- Any last thoughts you’d like to share with those in BlogLand?
• Remember, a waffle is a plaid pancake.
• …still wanting to perform Wang Chung’s ‘Everybody Wang Chung Tonight” dressed as a dancing taco…with back-up dancers dressed as various junk food items.
• YOU ARE The Keeper of your own heart! ….tend to its fire, whisper to it, cuddle with it, take time to discover your own inner beauty … cultivate a secret relationship with the world within your own heart….
….court Awe and Wonder whenever possible, allow yourself to be open to receive the Beauty in others…be devoted, make a fool of yourself, take chances, BE MINDFUL ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY OF OTHERS- Karma is accelerating!!.....don't worry about 'getting it right'...START ANYWAY!!!!!
….In The Heart, the truth of your soul path is found there, in that innermost secret place …and not out in the world or in another……..trust all messengers and thank all challenges!
And lastly, this link:
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