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Goran Levi — Guide Tones (Segell Microscopi)

Photo by Gaizka Taro

Jazz players (and presumably other musicians) use guide tones, which are deduced from chords, as a basis for melodic accompaniment. By titling his debut recording Guide Tones, Goran Levi, a guitarist born in Bulgaria but raised and based in Spain (Mallorca), signals his thorough grasp of theory and nods to his role as a music educator. His music, though, is accessible rather than academic, with strong melodies and alternately tight and loose interplay with the members of his band — Joan Garcias Tur on double bass, Josep Servera on drums, and Carlos Medina on tenor saxophone. This strong debut highlights Levi’s skills as a guitarist, composer, and bandleader.

The set begins with a pair of trio tracks without Medina. “Que Se Yo” features some distortion on the guitar and a brief but compelling solo from Tur, while “Forget Me Not-Simbelmyë” features cleaner guitar and a more leisurely pace. On the lovely single “Waltz for Tomeu-Fisherman’s Tale,” Levi switches to acoustic steel string somewhat in the manner of Tim Stine. “Yo Thelonious” captures the spirit of the titular figure with angular lines, loping bass, a quick solo from Servera, and Medina channeling Charlie Rouse. The smoky ballad “Remembrance” also gives Medina a chance to shine and, like “Forget Me Not,” shows that Levi’s playing is especially compelling when he slows things down.

Levi has clearly listened deeply to generations of jazz guitarists—among other influences, that of Pat Metheny seems evident, and, among younger players, he reminds me a little of Javier Subatin — but his voice is distinctive. While not fusion, the music shows the influence of rock. As the official video for “Song for Marius” (also featuring a fine solo by Tur) demonstrates, Levi’s formidable chops remain in service of the tune, rather than the tune serving as a platform for shredding, and he is generous toward his bandmates. In fact, my only complaint about Guide Tones is that, at barely 30 minutes long, it’s too short.

Jim Marks

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Below you will find links to sorted screencaps from Doctor Who (2005) season 12 for the following one shot characters:

Alex Austin - Yedlarmi

Amy Booth-Steel - Hyph3n

Aruhan Galieva - Tahira

Aurora Marion - Noor Inayat Khan

Buom Tihngang - Tibo

Clare-Hope Ashitey - Rakaya

Gia Lodge-O’Meally - Bella

Goran Visnjic - Nikola Tesla

Haley McGee - Dorothy Skeritt

Ian Gelder - Zellin

Ian McEthinney - Ko Sharmus

Jacob Collins-Levy - Lord Byron

James Buckley - Nevi

Jo Martin - Ruth Clayton

Joana Borja - Gabriela Camera

Julie Graham - Ravio

Kirsty Besterman - Solpado

Lenny Henry - Daniel Barton

Lewin Lloyd - Sylas

Lili Miller - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Matt Carver - Ethan

Matthew McNully - Adam Lang

Michael Bgley - All Ears Allan

Molly Harris - Suki Cheng

Nadia Parkes - Claire Clairmont

Neil Stuke - Lee Clayton

Lewis Rainer - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rhiannon Clements - Bescot

Ritu Arya - Gat

Robert Glenister - Thomas Edison

Selyan Baster - Tecteun

Stephen Fry - C

Sylvia Briggs - Ada Lovelace

Warren Brown - Jake Williow

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BLOGTOBER 10/1/2022: YOU WON'T BE ALONE

Not all folk horror movies are horror movies.

I don't usually like to wade into the mire of arguing about what is and is not included in the horror genre, because there is rarely a sound motivation for the argument; the not-horror accusation is usually levied by either gorehounds who expect a narrowly predictable set of thrills, or snobs sneakily trying to acquit themselves of having liked a horror movie by proving that said movie "isn't really horror". As per a recent Miskatonic Institute lecture by Tony Burgess on holocaust narratives within the horror genre: "If you have to say it's not a horror movie, it's because you know it is." But all that said, things are a little more slippery with folk horror. I'm thinking of the Australian coming of age story CELIA, which I couldn't recommend as a horror movie, but whose particular use of magic realism earns its place in the indispensable All Haunts Be Ours collection. Similarly, the grim Italian drama IL DEMONIO is more a study of time and place than anything legitimately demonic, but its setting and focus on occult traditions make it fine folk horror fodder. Last year's heartbreaking Icelandic fantasy LAMB also isn't likely to satisfy someone asking for horror recommendations, but if you've seen it, you know why I'm bringing it up in this conversation. With his feature film debut (!) YOU WON'T BE ALONE, writer-director Goran Stolevski provides us with another exercise in dividing horror from folk horror, although there is a little more of something for everyone in this outing.

The denizens of a 19th century Macedonian village are haunted by rumors of Old Maid Maria, a shape-shifting, blood-drinking "Wolf-Eateress" with a hankering for babies. This rumor becomes a sad reality for Nevena (Sarah Klimoska), whose mother is forced to donate her to the the terrifying old hag (Annamaria Marinca as sort of a fabulous cross between Grýla and Freddy Krueger). Feral and mute, Nevena roams the woods with her adoptive mother, but never quite gets the hang of their spartan and solitary existence, and Maria eventually spurns the young woman when she won't stop making pets out of their food. Luckily, Nevena learned Maria's shapeshifting talent—a spectacular trick that involves tearing a hole in one's chest with one's long black witch talons, and inserting the entrails of whatever one wishes to become, in what I'm going to call an exciting new form of cannibalism. This way, Nevena adopts the form of a series of villagers, and learns about life from a variety of perspectives.

Þrándur Þórarinsson's Grýla, just for fun.

It may not surprise you to hear that YOU WON'T BE ALONE is all about responses to loneliness. The title refers to Nevena's mother bargaining for her child's youth: She promises to give Nevena away as a companion if the witch doesn't eat the baby, but returns on her sixteenth birthday. The reprieve is not so pleasant for Nevena, who is stowed away in a barren cave for the next 15 years by her terrified mother, who so fears her inevitable loss that she doesn't even enjoy the time she has bought. The peaceful and lonely Nevena makes lousy company for the Maria, but the witch haunts the girl as she shapeshifts her way through the village, insisting that she will never find happiness in human society. Admittedly, the humans aren't often impressive: Nevena learns the hard way that life as a poor farmer's wife (Noomi Rapace) is often brutal, and as a handsome young stud (Carloto Cotta of the extremely fun DIAMANTINO) life is more fun (and sex more consensual), but he doesn't enjoy greater fellowship from the other men, who disdain his simplicity and pretty face. Nevena finally finds some semblance of happiness when she starts life over as a young girl, discovering that idyllic childhood is a real possibility, as is a happy marriage later on (to Félix Maritaud, late of KNIFE+HEART). Of course, Maria is never far behind, and in the meantime, Nevena learns her origin story, which is predictably appalling. The young woman may have found her own way to hold on to hope in the face of deprivation, but to be totally fair, she didn't get the same rough start as Maria.

So, back to my argument about folk horror: YOU WON'T BE ALONE is probably going to be too horrific for those who Don't Like Horror Movies, with its grisly series of disembowelments and reembowelments, but it still eschews feelings of fear and revulsion in favor of an innocent questing for one's own humanity. In a sense, the folk horror label does the film a great service by admitting to its darkness, while allowing it to pursue purposes other than terror and doom. Nevena's shapeshifting technique may require her to become a sort of serial murderer, but the film forgives her that, focusing instead on her journey through a lovely bucolic setting where humans are often treacherous, but not beyond salvation. It's a funny moral trick to play, but it works, offering an uplifting viewing experience—as long as you can handle all the rape, cannibalism, and violence against babies, of course.

PS I love that the witches have dewclaws in this.

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“He’s Out There” - Character Intros + picrews

ALRIGHT. I was gonna wait until I’d posted more writing of these characters, especially because I haven’t even introduced most of them yet 🤪

But I’m really excited abt these and I’m taking too long on the next pieces, so you’ll just get to know them a little now!

If you have any questions about them, or wanna see snippets/drabbles featuring any of them, my asks are open and I would kiss you on the mouth <3 (open to non-canon compliant asks/requests).

I’ll start with the precious boy we all know and love and want to see destroyed:

Marcus~

Extras:

Full name: Marcus Pearce

Age: 22

Height: 5’10”

Mbti/enneagram: INFJ/4w5

Birthday: June 7

Actual favorite film (the picrew gave limited choices): Star Wars Ep. V

Primary Role: Whumpee

Fun fact: Marcus plays the violin and is first chair/soloist for his college’s symphony….or he was. :(

Also, he doesn’t really have a hand tat, I just thought it fit his aesthetic for the picrew, and he DOES have a half sleeve on his right forearm (easily covered by a tux when performing).

Caleb ~

Extras:

Full name: Caleb Levi

Age: 22

Height: 6’2”

Mbti/enneagram: ENTP/8w7

Birthday: April 25

Orientation: Bisexual/Aromantic

Actual favorite film: Best in Show

Fun fact: He is a criminal justice major with a minor in behavioral psychology. He’s basically super scary and super smart. Many find him intimidating, but once you get to know him a little bit, it’s easy to see he’s a big goofball teddy bear angel.

Caleb has been Marcus’s best friend since they were kids living in the same neighborhood. There’s nothing. Nothing Caleb wouldn’t do for Marcus.

Jake ~

Extras:

Full name: Jacob Settler

Age: 23

Height: 6’0”

Mbti/enneagram: ESFP/6w7

Birthday: March 2

Actual favorite film: He doesn’t watch many actual movies. He’s more of a TV show guy. Faves are Arrested Development and Downton Abbey (he used to hide this fact, but when he got to college he decided, what the hell! so he’s got refined tastes, sue him!). He also loves Napoleon Dynamite.

Primary role: Whumpee

Fun fact: He has two sisters, one older, one younger. Ever since his dad died tragically, he’s taken all the emotional responsibilities of father onto himself. His mom wishes he wouldn’t, but he feels guilt over his dad’s death. He tries to use humor to throw people off from the fact that he’s incredibly self critical and struggles with his mental health. He’s been feeling a little better since meeting Marcus and Caleb, but he’s in a pit he can’t seem to get out of. Really fun fact, right??

Elena ~

Extras:

Full name: Elena Sherwin

Age: 22

Height: 5’7”

Mbti/enneagram: ENFP/4w3

Birthday: October 19

Actual favorite film: Pan’s Labyrinth

Primary role: Caretaker

Fun fact: She has a beautiful singing voice. She hopes to be a film actress someday, but she’d also love to get to sing for the rest of her life.

The Man (+name reveal..?) ~

Extras:

Full name: Daniel Stane (alias?), (Other known aliases: Daniel Goran, John Landry, Elliot Golfinder, Barrett Cork).

Age: 51

Height: 6’1”

Mbti/enneagram: INFP/6w5

Birthday: February 5

Actual favorite film: *sigh.* It’s Pride and Prejudice (1995). Look I’m not happy about it either, but it’s true.

Primary role: Whumper

Fun fact: He has a cat. His name is Marcus—no I’m kidding, lol. The cat is very sweet. He doesn’t have a name.

p.s. while this picrew is ridiculously adorable, it portrays one body type. So just for the record! Marcus actually is a fairly skinny boy, Caleb and the Man are both reasonably buff, Jake is as well, but less so than they are, and Elena is mid-plus sized. <3

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fc suggestions for the owners of the borderline hotel?

okay,      i am simply overjoyed that you’ve shown interest in my beloved owners of the borderline hotel.     some faceclaim suggestions i could see working well would be:      angela sarafyan,    michelle yeoh,    jamie chung,    hugh jackman,     tommy flanagan,     gong yoo,     sandra oh,    juliette binoche,     bradley cooper,     lucy liu,     levy tran,     sandra bullock,    patrick wilson,     matteo martari,    monica bellucci,    milo ventimiglia,    paul rudd,    lee pace,     liev schreiber,    kevin costner,     gil birmingham,    tom ellis,    oscar isaac,    jd pardo,     lee dong wook,    jake gyllenhaal,    keanu reeves,    karl urban,    lee je hoon,    jon hamm,    al pacino,    mads mikkelsen,   fan bingbing,    viggo mortensen,    timothy olyphant,    brian tee,  mark consuelos,    sebastian  stan,    andrew lincoln,   giancarlo esposito,    sienna miller,    jon bernthal,    gerard butler,    henry cavill,    liv tyler,    nikolaj coster waldu,    pedro pascal,    boyd holbrook,    gabrielle union,    ben barnes,    george clooney,    pablo schreiber,    benicio del toro,    adrien brody,     cillian murphy,     sophia bush,    clive owen,    aishwarya rai,    goran visnjic,    tom hiddleston,     nicole kidman,    cate blanchett,    bethany joy lenz,   aidan gillen,   lupita nyong’o,    dwayne johnson,    viola davis,    tony dalton,   rachel mcadams,    amy adams,    james marsden,    bobby cannavale,    taraji p henson,    ryan gosling,    danai gurira,    denzel washington,    jason sudeikis,   laurence fishburne,    idris elba,    steven yeun,    marisa tomei,    alberto ammann,    martin sensmeier,   rami malek,    jim carrey,    jude law,     berk  cankat,    brendan fraser,    angela bassett,    riccardo scamarcio,    alexander skarsgard,     javier bardem,    ian mcshane,    catherine zeta-jones,     cho yeo jeong,    travis fimmel,     son yejin,    michelle pfeiffer,    miranda otto,    golshifteh farahani,     cara gee,     and jessica matten. 

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Nexus Studios - 'Silent Running' by Gorillaz, directed by Jamie Hewlett & Fx Goby from Nexus Studios on Vimeo.

Directors: Jamie Hewlett & Fx Goby Executive Producers: Jamie Hewlett & Damon Albarn Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn are managed by Eleven Management A Nexus Studios & Gorillaz Production

London Studio Executive Producers: Charlotte Bavasso & Chris O'Reilly, Mike Bell, Fx Goby CG Supervisor: Dave Hunt VFX Supervisor: Germán Díez Director of Photography: Ricky Patel Lead Compositor: Sacha Danjou Editor: Dave Slade Producer: Isobel Conroy, Jo Bierton Production Manager: Ruyi Meer Production Coordinator: Tyler Antin Head of Pipeline: Tom Melson Systems Engineer: Ryan Cawthorne Character Modeller: Andrew Hickinbottom Character Texture Artist: Florian Caspar Lead 3D Animator: William Lorton 3D Animators: Marylou Mao, Tom Lowe 3D Generalist: Josh Barlow, Matilde Vinther 2DFX Animator: Bethany Levy Compositors: Sander Saks, Gareth Tredrea Storyboard Artists: Emmanuelle Walker, Louis Kynd Lead Rigger: Niko Rossi Rigger: Nayla Nassar VFX Editors: Andrea Zantiras, Zaki Fulford Designer: Ieuan Lewis Creative & Talent Development: Delfina Maria Head of Production: Rachel Moss Head of Resourcing: Natalie Busuttil Studio Resourcing Coordinator: Meg Dupont Studio Systems Administrator: Rory Bedward IT Support: Vinicius Donadio PR & Marketing: Valentina Tarelli, Nancy Edmondson, Steph Anjo

Sydney Studio Executive Creative Producer: Darren Price Executive Producer: Tina Braham Producer: Diana Angelius Head of Studio: Ben Seager IT Manager: Jason Yee Head of 2D: Gary Fouchy Lead Compositor: Navid Bagherzadeh Compositor: Mat McCosker, Daniel Alvarez, Chris Charlton Digital Matte Painter: Jamie Phillips Junior Compositor: Wendy Lu Head of Lighting: Mike Lomas Lighting: Trent Rogan, Cosmo Park

3D Tracking: PEANUT Roto: Team VFX Artist

Sound FX Designer: JM Finch Additional Sound FX elements recorded at Brain Audio

Grade Company: Black Kite Studios Colourist: George K Colour Assist: Billy Dawson Colour Producer: Jade Denne

Live Action Service Production Company: Tuna Icon Executive Producer: Ivana Antic Line Producer: Diana Bojovic Production Manager: Janko Djoric Production Coordinators: Igor Milakov, Jovana Krnic PAs: Tara Koljkovic, Aleksandar Jelic 1st AD: Ivan Grbin 2nd AD: Boris Obrenov Production Designer: Goran Joksimovic PD Assistants: Nevena Mijuskovic, Izabela Radovanovic SFX Coordinator: Zamal M'Barek Costume Stylist: Ivana Ivic Stylist Assistants: Ivana Djuric, Sofija Jaksic Hair Stylist: Jelena Dujovic Makeup Artist: Irena Miletic Lead Prosthetic makeup artists: Katarina Bugarski Gajic, Nenad Gajic Prosthetics (workshop): Kosta Kolaric, Kristina Tekic, Milan Mihailovic 1st assistant prosthetic makeup artist: Olga Baturan 2nd assistant prosthetic makeup artist: Teodora Davidovic 3rd assistant prosthetic makeup artist: Nikola Rakovic Key Grip: Ivan Lekovic Gaffer: Igor Pavlovic Light Desk Operator: Nikola Uzelac Stunt Supervisor: Slavisa Ivanovic Rigging: Djole Alavanja Tras Coordinator: Pedja Mos Focus Puller: Milan Kostic 2nd AC: Nikola Cojcic Video Assistant: Zeljko Nikolic Q-take: Ivan Tanaskovic DIT: Jovan Nikolic Playback Operator: Aleksa Racic Unit Manager: Oliver Rnjak Transport Coordinator: Nikola Kopilanovic Stunts: Jelena Bakovic, Dejan Popadic

Cast: 2D, Noodle, Russel Hobbs, Murdoc Niccals

Supporting Cast: Milica Tepavac, Dejan Kolarov, Jelena Tjapkin, Budimir Stosic, Anisja Stojkovic, Ljubica Ikic, Dimitrij Ponkratenko

Eleven Management are: Niamh Byrne, Regine Moylett, Tanyel Vahdettin, Stars Redmond, Astrid Ferguson, Gaby Power, Ellie Nolan, Katherine Nash, Suzi Grossman, Selena Dion, Saskia Blow, Clare Moss, Hannah Norris

Official Biographers: Ed Caurana & Tom O’Malley

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‘Doctor Who Season 12’ Release date, cast, plot and more

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The culminating prime: Doctor Who Season 12 has created a buzz among the viewers as an eminent show based on science concoction. The series embarks the arrival of the thirteenth doctor and the offsiders as they meet a new embodiment of the master and his demolition of Gallifrey, the return of Jack Harkness, the advent of an unrevealed incarnation of the Doctor from before the Time War, the Cybermen, and the secret of the “Timeless Child”.

‘Doctor Who Season 12’ Release Date and Cast

The series was aired on March 1’, 2020 and the premier was put forth on January 1′, 2020. The unification of different character arcs is a key feature of ensemble casting in a series; which includes the main cast reprising their roles, Jodie Whittaker impersonating The Doctor, Ryan Sinclair executed by Tosin Cole, Yasmin Khan portrayed by Mandip Gill whereas Bradley Walsh plays Graham O’Brien.

Dominique Maher and Darron Meyer played Agent Browning and Seesay, Goran Višnjić and Robert Glenister have also been cast as Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, respectively.

Sacha Dhawan appeared unannounced and was revealed as the Master. Aurora Marion portrayed Noor Inayat Khan whereas James Buckley appeared as Nevi along with Laura Fraser as Kane, and Julia Foster as Vilma.

Anjli Mohindra, who had previously been Rani Chandra in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, played Queen Skithra. John Barrowman returned to his role as Jack Harkness in addition to Jo Martin who took the part as a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor using the alias ‘Ruth Clayton’. Neil Stuke, Stephen Fry and Lenny Henry appeared and Nicholas Briggs as Judoon’s voice.

Molly Harris turned up as Suki Cheng as Warren Brown Sharon D. Clarke took her role as Graham’s late wife, Grace. Maxim Baldry performed as Dr John Polidori and Jacob Collins-Levy additionally as Lord Byron. Julie Graham, Ian McElhinney, and Steve Toussaint guest star in the two-part finale, “Ascension of the Cybermen” / “The Timeless Children”.

RECEPTION

The Timeless Children has an official rating of 5.17m which is 7% down.  Ascension of the Cybermen had a concluding inspecting figure of 5.55m. 1.46m viewers amalgamated the audience in the month after broadcast, equated to the average of 1.83m for the season overall. The point viewing figures had been decreasing for five seasons consistently, by an average of 0.28m a series. Based on that, a rating of somewhat around 5m might have been more predictable by Series 12, So being up a little is a minor success story.

At a recent event, BBC Drama boss Piers Wenger said “I worked on Doctor Who myself, I produced it for many years, and I can honestly say that I don’t think it’s been in better health, editorially. I think it’s fantastic and I think the production values obviously have never been better. It’s also not just funded by the BBC, it’s funded by lots of international partners, it’s an incredibly important show for younger audiences, still watched by families in a world where there are fewer and fewer shows that have the power to do that.”

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September, 2014, Seoul National University.

    More often than not, Joohyun ends up eating lunch by herself. She is not bullied, university students are ( mostly ) above that, but she does get a little ostracized a little. She’s used to it. Her hobbies are unconventional, and she is not very talkative in class. The rare times that she does speak are when she gets excited about something, and even that is a rare event. She likes her classes, enough to get stellar grades, but she can’t force herself to fit in with her classmates.

Today is no exception. The weather is pleasant, warm for late September, and the courtyard is packed with students. Joohyun is about to dig into her lunch when, by chance, her eyes fall upon a particular person’s bag. A white and blue logo of the Survey Corps stands out against the faux worn, brown leather of a bag. It is the logo of her favorite Shingeki no Kyoujin division, and Joohyun can’t help but stare. 

She has never seen anyone else on campus with anime merchandise, and the sight of it alone is enough to get her riled up. She wants to move closer, and possibly talk to this person, but her shyness prevents her from doing anything more than staring. She is sure he has noticed by now, and she either has to rip her gaze away, or get closer. Both options sound incredibly scary, because even if she looks away, there is still a chance the boy will approach her instead. Gathering what little courage she has, she packs her lunch, and gets up from her seat. It is now or never, Bae Joohyun. Time to speak to this kindred soul.

“Hey, nice bag,” that is a nice start. Very proper. Very normal. Good approach. “Don’t you think Levi is one of the coolest characters ever created? I mean, of course his personality gets highlighted better in the manga, the anime characterization falls a bit flat, but that’s forgiven considering the limited number of episodes they were able to produce. The Survey Corps is most definitely the most interesting division if you ask me. What do you think?”

So much for being discreet.

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Serbia protests point to crisis of legitimacy for Vučić government

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Serbia protests point to crisis of legitimacy for Vučić government

Peaceful protest in Belgrade, 10 July 2020. Photo by Wikipedia user OakMapping, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Over the past several years, Belgrade has been the setting for mass protests demanding transparency and accountability from the government led by President Aleksander Vučić of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). Protests against gentrification and non-transparent development such as the initiative Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own (Ne da(vi)mo Beograd) brought thousands to the streets and made international headlines, while mass movement “1 out of 5 million” marched for weeks on end against corruption and for free and fair elections. Yet none of these mass anti-government protests were touched by state violence—that changed in early July of this year. On the night of July 6 and for several nights afterward, police broke up protests in front of the national parliament with tear gas, stun grenades and beatings. Witnesses like Goran Sandić, an associate at the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, saw indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force even blocks away from the parliament—violence that was caught by cellphones in several instances and was widely distributed on Serbian social media.

Kakva je ovo sramota! Zauvek obrukali srpsku uniformu! Zauvek! pic.twitter.com/PRkZ39UgkU

— Balša Božović (@Balshone) July 7, 2020

What a shame! Serbian uniform disgraced forever! Forever!

“We saw with our own eyes and on video that the police attacked people physically,” says Sandić, who attended the second night of protests as an observer. Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) mapped numerous incidents of attacks against both protesters and journalists and an umbrella of NGOs has filed complaints with the public prosecutor and ombudsman calling for an investigation into the incidents. Why did these protests, unlike the waves of mass protests during the years prior, evoke such a violent crackdown from the authorities? Observers point, on the one hand, to the nature of the protest that was initially underestimated as being mainly anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists and supporters of the far-right before swelling to thousands of citizens from all different ages and backgrounds. A vanguard group of protesters surrounded the parliament and were able to enter it before the police began to break up the scene. “The 5th of October [2000, when Slobodan Milošević's regime collapsed] was finished by entering the parliament, so it is very symbolic”, says Zdravko Janković, an activist with Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own who has attended numerous public protests in the last decade.

On the other hand, though, these protests represent a unique threat to a president voted in by a minority, plagued by accusations of corruption, and presiding over an unfolding public health and economic emergency. As Sandić notes, “This is literally a life or death situation.”

False Reporting of the COVID-19 Numbers

After months of a strict nationwide lockdown, President Vučić announced that the country had successfully contained the pandemic and enacted a loosening of measures in late May, coinciding with the run-up to rescheduled parliamentary elections. OSCE's election observatory body commented on the campaign, “A notable aspect was the meshing of the SNS’s campaign with media coverage of the president and the government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis.” The ruling party received considerably more media coverage than any other and benefited from having their supposedly successful combating of COVID-19 repeated by all major media channels. Meanwhile, normal life resumed in some measure, and Belgrade even hosted Europe's first football derby since the lockdown, with 25,000 fans in attendance. This made it all the more jarring when Vučić announced, a mere two weeks after highly contested elections that were boycotted by close to 50% of the electorate, that the country would head back into a strict lockdown. This gave the impression that the lifting of the sanctions had been a political move to enable elections. In the meantime, new information started to cast significant doubts about the government’s rush to reopen the country. An investigation by BIRN showed that authorities significantly under-reported the number of deaths from COVID-19, according to information from the government’s own database. It appeared that “they had one report for the government and one report for the public,” says Janković. Numbers on international tracking sites like the World Health Organization still reflect the government's numbers—they list a total of 491 deaths as of July 24 for Serbia, whereas the data reported by BIRN showed 632 death as of June 1. Despite denials by the government and accusations of fake news, the report apparently managed to reach a large number of people, who felt that the government had manipulated them for political ends. “The real journalism has found its way to crawl up in the pile of rubbish journalism,” adds Sandić.

Infiltrators or Agitators

The presence of right-wingers as well as hooligans at the protests on July 6 and the days following is indisputable, but the government's claims that the protests were dominated by such forces, or even foreign agitators, are highly suspect. Attendees and observers, as well as video footage, show a wide range of protesters from all walks of life.

#NoviSad pic.twitter.com/Vpmo3lfvyj

— Goran Radojev (@RadojevGoran) July 8, 2020

“I was there to monitor and what I could see … the demographics of the protest were such that there were older people, younger people, middle-aged people with children, etc., but from the moment where the clashes started it was mostly young males, dressed in black who started provoking the police,” says Sandić. “What is clear is that there was an attribution of the scenes of violence to all citizens in the protest instead of to hooligans.”

“The only opposition is reality”

Despite attempts by Vučić and some in the media to cast the protests as the work of anti-science conspiracy theorists and people angry exclusively (and irrationally) about lockdown measures, the scenes of police brutality and tear-gassing of journalists that were widely broadcast both on public and social media have jolted Serbian society, and apparently deeply threatened the government's ability to control the narrative about the pandemic. The doubts over the official coronavirus numbers have reached members of the medical community, a large group of which has called for the resignation of the government task force and an investigation into possible concealment efforts by the regime. A planned reintroduction of a curfew was revoked. Suspicions over the legitimacy of the elections and the presence of irregularities continue to dog the SNS, even as they dominate the parliament with a super-majority. And long-standing suspicions of the party's connections to organized crime were re-awakened by a report by investigative outlet KRIK that caught the president's son watching the Belgrade derby together with a “football hooligan” who has suspected ties to a Montenegrin crime klan. The continuous drip of bad news for this government undermines their ability to gain public cooperation at a moment when the country faces an unprecedented double threat of an out-of-control pandemic and roiling economic turmoil. “They are facing a problem of their legitimacy—which is quite complicated at this stage of the pandemic in Serbia,” notes Janković. The link between trust in the government and the ability to impose measures to combat these threats has been observed in other countries like the United States, but coming on top of years of anger and despair over corruption as in Serbia, it amounts to a potentially dangerous situation, particularly if the government continues to show itself unwilling to address the mounting accusations levied against it by outraged members of the public. For observers like Sandić, the concern that the government will fight hard to maintain its grip over authority is as much a concern as the ongoing threat from COVID-19. “I am afraid that the spark that will light up the fire of change could end up in deaths, and that would be the worst scenario.” The violence and lack of accountability bared openly for the nation to witness during July's protests after years of restraint suggest these fears may not be unfounded.

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New Post Tina and Nik's stunning sun-drenched celebration at Witchmount Winery has been published on our website - check it out at https://www.millgrovephotography.com.au/witchmount-estate-wedding-tina-nik/

A new Post has been published on https://www.millgrovephotography.com.au/witchmount-estate-wedding-tina-nik/ - Tina and Nik's stunning sun-drenched celebration at Witchmount Winery - 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/ePCMApjEJlI/0.jpg -

In October 2018, Tina and Nik tied the knot in a traditional ceremony at St. Petka’s Macedonian church in Mill Park, followed on by a dancing-filled reception at Witchmount Estate. I was lucky enough to have been booked to photograph these two lovely people as they shared their wedding day with their kind and friendly family and friends.

Check out the little sneak peek here, and there’s more stories and memories from the day included in the captions below.

Congratulations Tina and Nik 🙂

  Tina and Nik’s wedding and winery celebration

It wouldn’t be a real wedding without having about 50 of your close family around for some amazing home made food and a few shots for breakfast! 🙂

Shaving of groom Nik by his close family. Traditionally this was because the groom was too nervous to shave himself – going by the beard, I’m not sure his assistants were doing a great job either :p

Bride Tina about to change into that amazing dress …

One of my personal faves from the day – quick bit of setup with a carefully placed window, curtain and flash to highlight the “perfume shot” …

Another of my personal favourites – this archway just framed Tina so perfectly.

A quiet moment while they check each other out in the wedding clothes – looking good guys 🙂

Witchmount Estate Winery Photo Shoot

What a stunning Witchmount Estate Winery wedding.

With the vines just coming into leaf, it’s just such a great time for a winery wedding – New(ish) season, new growth on all the vines, new life together as a married couple.

I really loved this little fellow – forgot to ask what the significance of him being a goat is – anyone want to tell me in the comments?

Seriously, one of the most stressful moments for me at a reception – I REALLY want to get that shot of the ribbon dropping down after it’s cut. Gotcha 😉

We ducked outside for a few quick sunset shots – who doesn’t love that golden hour light.

    Tina and Nick got ready at home, and were married at Sveta Petka Macedonian Orthodox Church in Mill Park – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sveta-Petka-Macedonian-Orthodox-Church/212290112130099

The photo session and awesome reception were held at Witchmount Estate Winery in Plumpton – https://www.witchmount.com.au/

Great work by DJ Goran and drummer Daniel on keeping everyone entertained, high energy and loving it – https://www.facebook.com/goranr.dj

Flowers by Niddrie Flowers – https://www.facebook.com/Niddrie-Flowers-144747432207324/

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Inside the Race to Hack the Human Brain

In an ordinary hospital room in Los Angeles, a young woman named Lauren Dickerson waits for her chance to make history.

She’s 25 years old, a teacher’s assistant in a middle school, with warm eyes and computer cables emerging like futuristic dreadlocks from the bandages wrapped around her head. Three days earlier, a neurosurgeon drilled 11 holes through her skull, slid 11 wires the size of spaghetti into her brain, and connected the wires to a bank of computers. Now she’s caged in by bed rails, with plastic tubes snaking up her arm and medical monitors tracking her vital signs. She tries not to move.

The room is packed. As a film crew prepares to document the day’s events, two separate teams of specialists get ready to work—medical experts from an elite neuroscience center at the University of Southern California and scientists from a technology company called Kernel. The medical team is looking for a way to treat Dickerson’s seizures, which an elaborate regimen of epilepsy drugs controlled well enough until last year, when their effects began to dull. They’re going to use the wires to search Dickerson’s brain for the source of her seizures. The scientists from Kernel are there for a different reason: They work for Bryan Johnson, a 40-year-old tech entrepreneur who sold his business for $800 million and decided to pursue an insanely ambitious dream—he wants to take control of evolution and create a better human. He intends to do this by building a “neuroprosthesis,” a device that will allow us to learn faster, remember more, “coevolve” with artificial intelligence, unlock the secrets of telepathy, and maybe even connect into group minds. He’d also like to find a way to download skills such as martial arts, Matrix-style. And he wants to sell this invention at mass-market prices so it’s not an elite product for the rich.

Right now all he has is an algorithm on a hard drive. When he describes the neuroprosthesis to reporters and conference audiences, he often uses the media-friendly expression “a chip in the brain,” but he knows he’ll never sell a mass-market product that depends on drilling holes in people’s skulls. Instead, the algorithm will eventually connect to the brain through some variation of noninvasive interfaces being developed by scientists around the world, from tiny sensors that could be injected into the brain to genetically engineered neurons that can exchange data wirelessly with a hatlike receiver. All of these proposed interfaces are either pipe dreams or years in the future, so in the meantime he’s using the wires attached to Dickerson’s hippo­campus to focus on an even bigger challenge: what you say to the brain once you’re connected to it.

That’s what the algorithm does. The wires embedded in Dickerson’s head will record the electrical signals that Dickerson’s neurons send to one another during a series of simple memory tests. The signals will then be uploaded onto a hard drive, where the algorithm will translate them into a digital code that can be analyzed and enhanced—or rewritten—with the goal of improving her memory. The algorithm will then translate the code back into electrical signals to be sent up into the brain. If it helps her spark a few images from the memories she was having when the data was gathered, the researchers will know the algorithm is working. Then they’ll try to do the same thing with memories that take place over a period of time, something nobody’s ever done before. If those two tests work, they’ll be on their way to deciphering the patterns and processes that create memories.

Although other scientists are using similar techniques on simpler problems, Johnson is the only person trying to make a commercial neurological product that would enhance memory. In a few minutes, he’s going to conduct his first human test. For a commercial memory prosthesis, it will be the first human test. “It’s a historic day,” Johnson says. “I’m insanely excited about it.”

For the record, just in case this improbable experiment actually works, the date is January 30, 2017.

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At this point, you may be wondering if Johnson’s just another fool with too much money and an impossible dream. I wondered the same thing the first time I met him. He seemed like any other California dude, dressed in the usual jeans, sneakers, and T-shirt, full of the usual boyish enthusiasms. His wild pronouncements about “reprogramming the operating system of the world” seemed downright goofy.

But you soon realize this casual style is either camouflage or wishful thinking. Like many successful people, some brilliant and some barely in touch with reality, Johnson has endless energy and the distributed intelligence of an octopus—one tentacle reaches for the phone, another for his laptop, a third scouts for the best escape route. When he starts talking about his neuroprosthesis, they team up and squeeze till you turn blue.

And there is that $800 million that PayPal shelled out for Braintree, the online-­payment company Johnson started when he was 29 and sold when he was 36. And the $100 million he is investing into Kernel, the company he started to pursue this project. And the decades of animal tests to back up his sci-fi ambitions: Researchers have learned how to restore memories lost to brain damage, plant false memories, control the motions of animals through human thought, control appetite and aggression, induce sensations of pleasure and pain, even how to beam brain signals from one animal to another animal thousands of miles away.

And Johnson isn’t dreaming this dream alone—at this moment, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are weeks from announcing their own brain-hacking projects, the military research group known as Darpa already has 10 under way, and there’s no doubt that China and other countries are pursuing their own. But unlike Johnson, they’re not inviting reporters into any hospital rooms.

Here’s the gist of every public statement Musk has made about his project: (1) He wants to connect our brains to computers with a mysterious device called “neural lace.” (2) The name of the company he started to build it is Neuralink.

Thanks to a presentation at last spring’s F8 conference, we know a little more about what Zuckerberg is doing at Facebook: (1) The project was until recently overseen by Regina Dugan, a former director of Darpa and Google’s Advanced Technology group. (2) The team is working out of Building 8, Zuckerberg’s research lab for moon-shot projects. (3) They’re working on a noninvasive “brain–computer speech-to-text interface” that uses “optical imaging” to read the signals of neurons as they form words, find a way to translate those signals into code, and then send the code to a computer. (4) If it works, we’ll be able to “type” 100 words a minute just by thinking.

As for Darpa, we know that some of its projects are improvements on existing technology and some—such as an interface to make soldiers learn faster—sound just as futuristic as Johnson’s. But we don’t know much more than that. That leaves Johnson as our only guide, a job he says he’s taken on because he thinks the world needs to be prepared for what is coming.

All of these ambitious plans face the same obstacle, however: The brain has 86 billion neurons, and nobody understands how they all work. Scientists have made impressive progress uncovering, and even manipulating, the neural circuitry behind simple brain functions, but things such as imagination or creativity—and memory—are so complex that all the neuroscientists in the world may never solve them. That’s why a request for expert opinions on the viability of Johnson’s plans got this response from John Donoghue, the director of the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva: “I’m cautious,” he said. “It’s as if I asked you to translate something from Swahili to Finnish. You’d be trying to go from one unknown language into another unknown language.” To make the challenge even more daunting, he added, all the tools used in brain research are as primitive as “a string between two paper cups.” So Johnson has no idea if 100 neurons or 100,000 or 10 billion control complex brain functions. On how most neurons work and what kind of codes they use to communicate, he’s closer to “Da-da” than “see Spot run.” And years or decades will pass before those mysteries are solved, if ever. To top it all off, he has no scientific background. Which puts his foot on the banana peel of a very old neuroscience joke: “If the brain was simple enough for us to understand, we’d be too stupid to understand it.”

Goran Factory

I don’t need telepathy to know what you’re thinking now—there’s nothing more annoying than the big dreams of tech optimists. Their schemes for eternal life and floating libertarian nations are adolescent fantasies; their digital revolution seems to be destroying more jobs than it created, and the fruits of their scientific fathers aren’t exactly encouraging either. “Coming soon, from the people who brought you nuclear weapons!”

But Johnson’s motives go to a deep and surprisingly tender place. Born into a devout Mormon community in Utah, he learned an elaborate set of rules that are still so vivid in his mind that he brought them up in the first minutes of our first meeting: “If you get baptized at the age of 8, point. If you get into the priesthood at the age of 12, point. If you avoid pornography, point. Avoid masturbation? Point. Go to church every Sunday? Point.” The reward for a high point score was heaven, where a dutiful Mormon would be reunited with his loved ones and gifted with endless creativity.

When he was 4, Johnson’s father left the church and divorced his mother. Johnson skips over the painful details, but his father told me his loss of faith led to a long stretch of drug and alcohol abuse, and his mother said she was so broke that she had to send Johnson to school in handmade clothes. His father remembers the letters Johnson started sending him when he was 11, a new one every week: “Always saying 100 different ways, ‘I love you, I need you.’ How he knew as a kid the one thing you don’t do with an addict or an alcoholic is tell them what a dirtbag they are, I’ll never know.”

Johnson was still a dutiful believer when he graduated from high school and went to Ecuador on his mission, the traditional Mormon rite of passage. He prayed constantly and gave hundreds of speeches about Joseph Smith, but he became more and more ashamed about trying to convert sick and hungry children with promises of a better life in heaven. Wouldn’t it be better to ease their suffering here on earth?

“Bryan came back a changed boy,” his father says.

Soon he had a new mission, self-assigned. His sister remembers his exact words: “He said he wanted to be a millionaire by the time he was 30 so he could use those resources to change the world.”

His first move was picking up a degree at Brigham Young University, selling cell phones to help pay the tuition and inhaling every book that seemed to promise a way forward. One that left a lasting impression was Endurance, the story of Ernest Shackleton’s botched journey to the South Pole—if sheer grit could get a man past so many hardships, he would put his faith in sheer grit. He married “a nice Mormon girl,” fathered three Mormon children, and took a job as a door-to-door salesman to support them. He won a prize for Salesman of the Year and started a series of businesses that went broke—which convinced him to get a business degree at the University of Chicago.

When he graduated in 2008, he stayed in Chicago and started Braintree, perfecting his image as a world-beating Mormon entrepreneur. By that time, his father was sober and openly sharing his struggles, and Johnson was the one hiding his dying faith behind a very well-protected wall. He couldn’t sleep, ate like a wolf, and suffered intense headaches, fighting back with a long series of futile cures: antidepressants, biofeedback, an energy healer, even blind obedience to the rules of his church.

Bryan Johnson has long been obsessed with “reprogramming” the operating system of the world.

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In 2012, at the age of 35, Johnson hit bottom. In his misery, he remembered Shackleton and seized a final hope—maybe he could find an answer by putting himself through a painful ordeal. He planned a trip to Mount Kilimanjaro, and on the second day of the climb he got a stomach virus. On the third day he got altitude sickness. When he finally made it to the peak, he collapsed in tears and then had to be carried down on a stretcher. It was time to reprogram his operating system.

The way Johnson tells it, he started by dropping the world-beater pose that hid his weakness and doubt. And although this may all sound a bit like a dramatic motivational talk at a TED conference, especially since Johnson still projects the image of a world-beating entrepreneur, this much is certain: During the following 18 months, he divorced his wife, sold Braintree, and severed his last ties to the church. To cushion the impact on his children, he bought a house nearby and visited them almost daily. He knew he was repeating his father’s mistakes but saw no other option—he was either going to die inside or start living the life he always wanted.

He started with the pledge he made when he came back from Ecuador, experimenting first with a good-government initiative in Washington and pivoting, after its inevitable doom, to a venture fund for “quantum leap” companies inventing futuristic products such as human-­organ-­mimicking silicon chips. But even if all his quantum leaps landed, they wouldn’t change the operating system of the world.

Finally, the Big Idea hit: If the root problems of humanity begin in the human mind, let’s change our minds.

Fantastic things were happening in neuroscience. Some of them sounded just like miracles from the Bible—with prosthetic legs controlled by thought and microchips connected to the visual cortex, scientists were learning to help the lame walk and the blind see. At the University of Toronto, a neurosurgeon named Andres Lozano slowed, and in some cases reversed, the cognitive declines of Alzheimer’s patients using deep brain stimulation. At a hospital in upstate New York, a neuro­technologist named Gerwin Schalk asked computer engineers to record the firing patterns of the auditory neurons of people listening to Pink Floyd. When the engineers turned those patterns back into sound waves, they produced a single that sounded almost exactly like “Another Brick in the Wall.” At the University of Washington, two professors in different buildings played a videogame together with the help of electroencephalography caps that fired off electrical pulses—when one professor thought about firing digital bullets, the other one felt an impulse to push the Fire button.

Johnson also heard about a biomedical engineer named Theodore Berger. During nearly 20 years of research, Berger and his collaborators at USC and Wake Forest University developed a neuroprosthesis to improve memory in rats. It didn’t look like much when he started testing it in 2002—just a slice of rat brain and a computer chip. But the chip held an algorithm that could translate the firing patterns of neurons into a kind of Morse code that corresponded with actual memories. Nobody had ever done that before, and some people found the very idea offensive—it’s so deflating to think of our most precious thoughts reduced to ones and zeros. Prominent medical ethicists accused Berger of tampering with the essence of identity. But the implications were huge: If Berger could turn the language of the brain into code, perhaps he could figure out how to fix the part of the code associated with neurological diseases.

When one professor thought about firing digital bullets, the other one felt an impulse to push the Fire button.

In rats, as in humans, firing patterns in the hippocampus generate a signal or code that, somehow, the brain recognizes as a long-term memory. Berger trained a group of rats to perform a task and studied the codes that formed. He learned that rats remembered a task better when their neurons sent “strong code,” a term he explains by comparing it to a radio signal: At low volume you don’t hear all of the words, but at high volume everything comes through clear. He then studied the difference in the codes generated by the rats when they remembered to do something correctly and when they forgot. In 2011, through a breakthrough experiment conducted on rats trained to push a lever, he demonstrated he could record the initial memory codes, feed them into an algorithm, and then send stronger codes back into the rats’ brains. When he finished, the rats that had forgotten how to push the lever suddenly remembered.

Five years later, Berger was still looking for the support he needed for human trials. That’s when Johnson showed up. In August 2016, he announced he would pledge $100 million of his fortune to create Kernel and that Berger would join the company as chief science officer. After learning about USC’s plans to implant wires in Dickerson’s brain to battle her epilepsy, Johnson approached Charles Liu, the head of the prestigious neurorestoration division at the USC School of Medicine and the lead doctor on Dickerson’s trial. Johnson asked him for permission to test the algorithm on Dickerson while she had Liu’s wires in her hippocampus—in between Liu’s own work sessions, of course. As it happened, Liu had dreamed about expanding human powers with technology ever since he got obsessed with The Six Million Dollar Man as a kid. He helped Johnson get Dickerson’s consent and convinced USC’s institutional research board to approve the experiment. At the end of 2016, Johnson got the green light. He was ready to start his first human trial.

Goran Factory

In the hospital room, Dickerson is waiting for the experiments to begin, and I ask her how she feels about being a human lab rat.

“If I’m going to be here,” she says, “I might as well do something useful.”

Useful? This starry-eyed dream of cyborg supermen? “You know he’s trying to make humans smarter, right?”

“Isn’t that cool?” she answers.

Over by the computers, I ask one of the scientists about the multi­colored grid on the screen. “Each one of these squares is an electrode that’s in her brain,” one says. Every time a neuron close to one of the wires in Dickerson’s brain fires, he explains, a pink line will jump in the relevant box.

Johnson’s team is going to start with simple memory tests. “You’re going to be shown words,” the scientist explains to her. “Then there will be some math problems to make sure you’re not rehearsing the words in your mind. Try to remember as many words as you can.”

One of the scientists hands Dickerson a computer tablet, and everyone goes quiet. Dickerson stares at the screen to take in the words. A few minutes later, after the math problem scrambles her mind, she tries to remember what she’d read. “Smoke … egg … mud … pearl.”

Next, they try something much harder, a group of memories in a sequence. As one of Kernel’s scientists explains to me, they can only gather so much data from wires connected to 30 or 40 neurons. A single face shouldn’t be too hard, but getting enough data to reproduce memories that stretch out like a scene in a movie is probably impossible.

Sitting by the side of Dickerson’s bed, a Kernel scientist takes on the challenge. “Could you tell me the last time you went to a restaurant?”

“It was probably five or six days ago,” Dickerson says. “I went to a Mexican restaurant in Mission Hills. We had a bunch of chips and salsa.”

He presses for more. As she dredges up other memories, another Kernel scientist hands me a pair of headphones connected to the computer bank. All I hear at first is a hissing sound. After 20 or 30 seconds go by I hear a pop.

“That’s a neuron firing,” he says.

As Dickerson continues, I listen to the mysterious language of the brain, the little pops that move our legs and trigger our dreams. She remembers a trip to Costco and the last time it rained, and I hear the sounds of Costco and rain.

When Dickerson’s eyelids start sinking, the medical team says she’s had enough and Johnson’s people start packing up. Over the next few days, their algorithm will turn Dickerson’s synaptic activity into code. If the codes they send back into Dickerson’s brain make her think of dipping a few chips in salsa, Johnson might be one step closer to reprogramming the operating system of the world.

But look, there’s another banana peel­—after two days of frantic coding, Johnson’s team returns to the hospital to send the new code into Dickerson’s brain. Just when he gets word that they can get an early start, a message arrives: It’s over. The experiment has been placed on “administrative hold.” The only reason USC would give in the aftermath was an issue between Johnson and Berger. Berger would later tell me he had no idea the experiment was under way and that Johnson rushed into it without his permission. Johnson said he is mystified by Berger’s accusations. “I don’t know how he could not have known about it. We were working with his whole lab, with his whole team.” The one thing they both agree on is that their relationship fell apart shortly afterward, with Berger leaving the company and taking his algorithm with him. He blames the break entirely on Johnson. “Like most investors, he wanted a high rate of return as soon as possible. He didn’t realize he’d have to wait seven or eight years to get FDA approval—I would have thought he would have looked that up.” But Johnson didn’t want to slow down. He had bigger plans, and he was in a hurry.

Goran Factory

Eight months later, I go back to California to see where Johnson has ended up. He seems a little more relaxed. On the whiteboard behind his desk at Kernel’s new offices in Los Angeles, someone’s scrawled a playlist of songs in big letters. “That was my son,” he says. “He interned here this summer.” Johnson is a year into a romance with Taryn Southern, a charismatic 31-year-old performer and film producer. And since his break with Berger, Johnson has tripled Kernel’s staff—he’s up to 36 employees now—adding experts in fields like chip design and computational neuroscience. His new science adviser is Ed Boyden, the director of MIT’s Synthetic Neurobiology Group and a superstar in the neuroscience world. Down in the basement of the new office building, there’s a Dr. Frankenstein lab where scientists build prototypes and try them out on glass heads.

When the moment seems right, I bring up the purpose of my visit. “You said you had something to show me?”

Johnson hesitates. I’ve already promised not to reveal certain sensitive details, but now I have to promise again. Then he hands me two small plastic display cases. Inside, two pairs of delicate twisty wires rest on beds of foam rubber. They look scientific but also weirdly biological, like the antennae of some futuristic bug-bot.

I’m looking at the prototypes for Johnson’s brand-new neuromodulator. On one level, it’s just a much smaller version of the deep brain stimulators and other neuromodulators currently on the market. But unlike a typical stimulator, which just fires pulses of electricity, Johnson’s is designed to read the signals that neurons send to other neurons—and not just the 100 neurons the best of the current tools can harvest, but perhaps many more. That would be a huge advance in itself, but the implications are even bigger: With Johnson’s neuromodulator, scientists could collect brain data from thousands of patients, with the goal of writing precise codes to treat a variety of neurological diseases.

In the short term, Johnson hopes his neuromodulator will help him “optimize the gold rush” in neurotechnology—financial analysts are forecasting a $27 billion market for neural devices within six years, and countries around the world are committing billions to the escalating race to decode the brain. In the long term, Johnson believes his signal-reading neuromodulator will advance his bigger plans in two ways: (1) by giving neuroscientists a vast new trove of data they can use to decode the workings of the brain and (2) by generating the huge profits Kernel needs to launch a steady stream of innovative and profitable neural tools, keeping the company both solvent and plugged into every new neuroscience breakthrough. With those two achievements in place, Johnson can watch and wait until neuroscience reaches the level of sophistication he needs to jump-start human evolution with a mind-enhancing neuroprosthesis.

Liu, the neurologist with the Six Million Dollar Man dreams, compares Johnson’s ambition to flying. “Going back to Icarus, human beings have always wanted to fly. We don’t grow wings, so we build a plane. And very often these solutions will have even greater capabilities than the ones nature created—no bird ever flew to Mars.” But now that humanity is learning how to reengineer its own capabilities, we really can choose how we evolve. “We have to wrap our minds around that. It’s the most revolutionary thing in the world.”

The crucial ingredient is the profit motive, which always drives rapid innovation in science. That’s why Liu thinks Johnson could be the one to give us wings. “I’ve never met anyone with his urgency to take this to market,” he says.

When will this revolution arrive? “Sooner than you think,” Liu says.

Now we’re back where we began. Is Johnson a fool? Is he just wasting his time and fortune on a crazy dream? One thing is certain: Johnson will never stop trying to optimize the world. At the pristine modern house he rents in Venice Beach, he pours out idea after idea. He even took skepticism as helpful information—when I tell him his magic neuroprosthesis sounds like another version of the Mormon heaven, he’s delighted.

“Good point! I love it!”

He never has enough data. He even tries to suck up mine. What are my goals? My regrets? My pleasures? My doubts?

Every so often, he pauses to examine my “constraint program.”

“One, you have this biological disposition of curiosity. You want data. And when you consume that data, you apply boundaries of meaning-making.”

“Are you trying to hack me?” I ask.

Not at all, he says. He just wants us to share our algorithms. “That’s the fun in life,” he says, “this endless unraveling of the puzzle. And I think, ‘What if we could make the data transfer rate a thousand times faster? What if my consciousness is only seeing a fraction of reality? What kind of stories would we tell?’ ”

In his free time, Johnson is writing a book about taking control of human evolution and looking on the bright side of our mutant humanoid future. He brings this up every time I talk to him. For a long time I lumped this in with his dreamy ideas about reprogramming the operating system of the world: The future is coming faster than anyone thinks, our glorious digital future is calling, the singularity is so damn near that we should be cheering already—a spiel that always makes me want to hit him with a copy of the Unabomber Manifesto.

But his urgency today sounds different, so I press him on it: “How would you respond to Ted Kaczynski’s fears? The argument that technology is a cancerlike development that’s going to eat itself?”

“I would say he’s potentially on the wrong side of history.”

“Yeah? What about climate change?”

“That’s why I feel so driven,” he answered. “We’re in a race against time.”

He asks me for my opinion. I tell him I think he’ll still be working on cyborg brainiacs when the starving hordes of a ravaged planet destroy his lab looking for food—and for the first time, he reveals the distress behind his hope. The truth is, he has the same fear. The world has gotten way too complex, he says. The financial system is shaky, the population is aging, robots want our jobs, artificial intelligence is catching up, and climate change is coming fast. “It just feels out of control,” he says.

He’s invoked these dystopian ideas before, but only as a prelude to his sales pitch. This time he’s closer to pleading. “Why wouldn’t we embrace our own self-directed evolution? Why wouldn’t we just do everything we can to adapt faster?”

I turn to a more cheerful topic. If he ever does make a neuroprosthesis to revolutionize how we use our brain, which superpower would he give us first? Telepathy? Group minds? Instant kung fu?

He answers without hesitation. Because our thinking is so constrained by the familiar, he says, we can’t imagine a new world that isn’t just another version of the world we know. But we have to imagine something far better than that. So he’d try to make us more creative—that would put a new frame on everything.

Ambition like that can take you a long way. It can drive you to try to reach the South Pole when everyone says it’s impossible. It can take you up Mount Kilimanjaro when you’re close to dying and help you build an $800 million company by the time you’re 36. And Johnson’s ambitions drive straight for the heart of humanity’s most ancient dream: For operating system, substitute enlightenment.

By hacking our brains, he wants to make us one with everything.

John H. Richardson is the author of My Father the Spy. This is his first piece for WIRED.

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