POST-MAC BLUES: UFO? Cosmic Bioplasma?

Monday, July 11, 2011

UFO? Cosmic Bioplasma?

No... Jellyfish!

Are there any animals on this planet as cool and as marvelous to watch? I think not. A Scottish reader once informed Mac that "tonnies" was the Scottish word for jellyfish. I don't know if this is true or not, but Mac was thrilled.

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LINKS TO MAC'S INTERVIEWS (Mixed Media)

VIDEOS

Blogging the Singularity - 9/6/07

(YouTube)

Red Star Films with Paul Kimball - 5/06

Mac Tonnies... the Crytpoterrestrials

PODCASTS

Coast to Coast with George Noory - 9/28/09

Alien Hypothesis

(for subscribers only - for others, try Mac's YouTube video link )

Radio Misterioso 7/27/09

The Cryptoterrestrials

Radio Misterioso 6/5/06 - Parts 1 & 2

Can Ufology be saved?

w/ Paul Kimball

Eerie Radio 9/10/07

The Cryptoterrestrial theory vs. the ETH

(Note: Long Introduction)

Binnall of America - 3/17/07

Mac Tonnies (Part 1)

Mac Tonnies (Part 2)

The Book of Thoth - 2006

Interview with Mac Tonnies

Virtually Strange - 10/7/06

# 413, New Frontiers Symposium

Speaking of Strange - 6/3/06

Mac on Mars

(link no longer available)

The Paracast Interviews

w/ Gene Steinberg and David Biedny:

The Paracast - 11/25/06
Mac on Mars (Mac is the 2nd guest)

The Paracast - 5/6/2007
More Crypto-chat with Gene and Dave

The Paracast - 12/3/2007
Mac's Cryptoterrestrial Proposal

The Paracast - 12/16/07

Regarding the reformation of Ufology, with Jeff Ritzman

The Paracast - 10/26/08

On Mars, Aliens, UFO's... and Sarah Palin

The Paracast - 2/1/2009
Mac on Terraforming Mars w/ Robert Zubrin

The Paracast - 11/1/2009
A Mac memorial by the remaining members of "The Cabal"

TEXT

Universe Today

If ET Calls, Would We be Told?

Room 101 w/ Richard Thomas 12/26/08

An Interview with a Transhumanist

FutureBlogger - 2/29/08

Fearless Futurist Mac Tonnies Goes Off on Mars

FutureBlogger - 1/10/08

Interview with Mac Tonnies

Upsidedownbackwards - 5/8/08

Little Boy Blue and the Man on the Moon

Ballardian - 7/3/07

Mac Tonnies' Strange Blue World

The Book of Thoth - 2006

Interview with Mac Tonnies

Alterati with Joseph Matheny - 3/7/07

They Came From Earth...?

Never-used Email Interview

- 9/15/2005

Mac Interviews Mac

"Flocks of teenagers materializing like thought-forms borne on the cool night air. An edge of autumn -- brisk but not cold. The Cancer Survivors' Park like an apocalyptic oracle, its touch-activated television screen locked against the encroaching chill, its statues frozen copper silhouettes.

A couple making out in the passenger side of a new Porsche; I glide by clutching my coffee, libido twitching sullenly somewhere in my skull. I find myself rediscovering a close-knit labyrinth of fountains and staircases and charming apartment buildings named after long-dead writers. The lights of Saturday traffic and gaudy horse-drawn carriages are mercifully eclipsed. The world is all shadowed architecture, suddenly shattered as I reenter the realm of the living, coffee cooling steadily. The usual anonymous hordes and casual lovers refracted through caffeinated synapses.

I buy a smoothie at a coffeeshop (Depeche Mode playing in the background) and gradually lose myself in John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider." The immaculate sidewalks, sparkling as if pregnant with diamond, steer me home, past hotels, across the dark scabrous flow of Brush Creek. My apartment building has a new entry keypad, sans telephone handset. Made of reinforced stainless steel, it has the worrying appearance of something designed to survive an imminent nuclear attack.

Through the abandoned lobby with its fading pink carpet and neatly arranged couches.

Into the elevator.

I punch 9."

- Mac Tonnies, PHB post 10/5/03

"Thank you for taking the time to compile this wonderful tribute to Mac. He connected with so many people in a very direct and meaningful way regardless of whether one had the opportunity to meet him in the physical world. I enjoy visiting this site now and especially when I'm reminded of something that Mac might have tweeted about or blogged about. Your tribute here is a perfect digital gathering spot to take a moment and reflect on the vision and talent and timelessness of Mac Tonnies."

- Joshua Fouts, 12/10/09

As an artist, my "nom de plume" seems to change as time goes by, and I suspect it always will.. I previously signed my earlier graphic images as "Dia" with the year the image was completed, that is, when Mac was still alive, and I was contributing images to his blog, Posthuman Blues. At the same time, I referred to my digital "workshop" as Araqinta... after a fictional planet I invented for an unfinished sci-fi novel of mine: A Matter of Increments. (The image above was an attempt at "branding"...) My online name during this period was "Zindra", also harkening back to a fictional planet I invented for yet another sci-fi story... also unfinished. (Do we see a pattern here?)

That being said, Mac Tonnies was a real inspiration to me in those days - a type of muse, if you will... and many of the images I created from 2006-2009 probably wouldn't have existed without his influence. Needless to say, many of them wound up on PHB... some of which appear in the body of this blog, and on the sidebar, linked to the PHB pages on which they can be found.

I was an artist for many years before approaching the digital medium; I don't know if I would have ever really fully taken that plunge without Mac's encouragement. And, in some strange sense - and I know I'm not alone in this - Mac continues to be the presiding spirit over much of my work. So, this blog was created for Mac and in his memory, but it also serves as a monument to our friendship - that magical series of synchronistic events that enables two individual psyches to cross the barriers of time, space, and sociological conditioning, and inevitably create a unique bond... a safe haven unaltered by any circumstance, including the illusion of death.