Persistence Of Context

Persistence of vision is the phenomenon of the eye by which
an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one
twenty-fifth of a second on the retina. (Wikipedia)
Cinematographers trick you into seeing fluid movement by letting you fill in the gaps yourself.

Persistence of context is the phenomenon of the mind by which a connection is sought while viewing unrelated events as a series of linked realities.

In these (Click for larger version) examples we illustrate:

hello little guy

The Dr. has made a friend on the other side

Greenish Waves Time

15 Frames from Steel

Undreamscape

Found with note attached:
Sometimes it seems easier to reflect on reality. These are Transmissions from a non-dream state. It is what it is understood to be. A close and unobstructed view of the un/dreamscape.

Advance On Dream State

A night at the Tesla-K.Organization's Secret Dream Lab (SDL) facility might be helpful.

The upside of the Soul Representative's "Continuous State Of Substance Enhanced Being" is his unique ability to communicate with Dr.Tesla-K. (who is a metaphysical reality, as we all know).

But there is a downside too.
Due to that state, the Soul Representative does not have dreams during sleep.

Our work is difficult and often presents us with problems that seem insurmountable or at least very, very hard to solve.
And as we all know, if a solution isn't staring you in the face all along, it will usually come to you in a dream.
Some adjustments seem necessary.

Report to follow.

No Picture

Listen!
I'll tell you a funny story about Dr. Tesla-K. and his obsession with Time (and the need to Time-Travel).
Or maybe it's not such a funny story.
Anyway. It involves The Soul Representative, and although he's gotten over it, it's a good thing he's not here.

You see, The Doctor is bothered by something that happened when The Soul Rep. was a boy.

This is what happened:
The Soul Rep's mother suffered from involuntary urine loss and after consulting her physician she decided to have some "routine" surgery to correct this (she felt) embarrassing defect.

And then...
She died of "complications" resulting from this otherwise successful and undoubtedly skillfully executed operation.

Now
If only The Doctor could find a way to transport The Soul Representative back to the day before the doomed medical procedure... The Soul Rep. could then urge his mom to not have the operation, but instead bide her time, as the invention of "Tena Lady" or "Depend-Slips" would save her from further embarrassment in just a few years...
"Don't do it mom!" he'd say... and everything would have been different.

Come to think of it, The Doctor knows of a lot of things that would benefit from a second chance or a re-run with different results.

Some other things however: he wouldn't change a bit ;-)
Those are our happy days.

(Sorry for the lack of a picture, The Graphics Department is taking a short break)

Paradise Sketched

We've had some strange times here. Nobody had seen the Doctor for days, he hung a sign on the door that simply said "working" and then he locked himself into Room 1 of Lab Nº. 3.
This is one of the oldest buildings on The Tesla-K.Organization's campus. Nobody uses it for anything serious anymore.
I know the boys and girls of the Graphics Department go there to smoke weed sometimes, but that is really all it is used for.

But "the Doctor was in" and we saw occasional flashes of light coming from the windows. We heard intermittent banging and the sounds of heavy machinery. Booms and electric hums. And sounds nobody recognized (maybe something very, very heavy being dragged across a room very, very slowly).
And, ominously: The sound of one song (Wayfaring Stranger, as performed by Johnny Cash), played REPEATEDLY, coming from some very good loudspeakers.
Do I even need to mention it: LOUD. (like I said, The Graphics Dept. gets stoned in Building Five).

At first we all really liked the song we heard, but then some of us began to worry, as the lyrics seemed to hint of someone nearing the end of his life. Perhaps dead already.
This notion became more widespread as the hours progressed to become days, and since "Wayfaring Stranger" is a relatively easy tune to remember, pretty soon everyone was whistling, humming or singing the song.
But a feeling of unease, of imminent sadness crept into our music and the need to form a committee was expressed.

The committee discussed it at length, and The Soul Representative was elected to approach Building Three, walk up to the door and knock.
Nobody expected the door to open, so that was all the plan there was.
Another committee had already formed to discuss the next step, but they were as surprised as anyone when they saw the door fly open before The Soul Representative could lift his hand to knock. It seemed he was dragged in by his shirt, then the door shut behind him. It was all over in a few short moments.
The delegate was inside.

The Soul Representative observed The Doctor in the hallway.
Thankfully, he looked like his usual peaceful self. This did not rule out the possibility of his nearing death, but The Doctor appeared healthy and happy.

When The Doctor opened the door to Room 1 a strange light bathed the pair... they stepped over the threshold and entered (as The Soul Representative would later describe it) "The World's Weirdest Mood Board".
The room's many projectors beamed imagery of every kind of happiness on every surface. They lit up the walls with scenes of wholesome food, abundant nature, sexual abandon, smiling people, frolicking animals and so on. Scattered around the room were soft pillows, a few piles of dirt, some heaps of leaves and two easy chairs. Sketches depicting "paradise" were pasted to the walls.
And "Wayfaring Stranger" blasted all thoughts away, and so The Soul Representative heard what the Doctor had been hearing all along:
"There's no sickness, toil, or danger/In that bright world to which I go/Beauteous fields arise before me/Where God's redeemed their vigils keep".
And The Soul Representative understood: "The Wayfaring Strangers' concept of "Heaven" was The Doctor's Ideal Real World.
The place where we will all be living soon!

The Doctor had become very exited meanwhile, and he was hopping around the room in a crazed and almost out-of-control manner. "Soil!", he shouted as he threw handfulls of dirt in the air... "Fertility!"
The Soul Representative observed his mentor and guide as he dived into a large heap of leaves. The Dr. wallowed around and writhed like a happy pig in a pool of mud.
"Nature!", he exclaimed..."Our Mother, but also our Child!".
Electronically projected visions of uninhabited bliss still surrounded the disconcerting and very real sight of the drooling and almost orgasmic guru. The Doctor seemed to have gone mad.

Just as The Soul Representative began to worry, something changed, The Doctor jumped to his feet and, as he dusted himself off, approached one of the easy chairs. He directed The Soul Representative to the other.
They sat down and there was nothing around them but the sound of that ever repeating song.
The Doctor stared at The Soul Representative. A minute elapsed. Another minute began. The Doctor spoke: "You saw it", he said... "Now show it!"

With that, The Soul Representative found himself outside once again, with no idea of how much time had elapsed, or what had really happened.
But he was filled with a New Energy.

He related his adventure to The Graphics Department, and this is what they returned, in convenient downloadable, 1440x900 px form...
New World

Earth Tones

If you know what you do and have the right equipment you can hear our planet emit a soft continuous hum.
After fine-tuning and perfecting your instruments you will notice that if you move around a little on the spot you are listening, the tone or volume of the hum changes slightly.
You'll discover that each tiny little portion of the surface of our planet has its own individual sounding hum, and when heard simultaneously, they produce a friendly low murmur of a hum.
Nice enough in itself.

So one day the Doctor and his good friend The Soul Representative took their equipment up in their balloon, to listen to the Earth Tone from above, record it, and do some thinking.
They brought sandwiches and enough to drink. Each found the other an enjoyable companion on these flights. They would certainly be comfortable for about 24 hours.

After the ascent they "fixed" the balloon so it would remain motionless in the sky, with the earth rotating below at its slow speed of one rotation per 24 hour day.
Then they aimed their directional microphones with pinpoint precision at the precise spot directly under the balloon.
They powered on their recording equipment and switched its output to the speakers inside the balloon's small cabin.

What they heard surprised and exited them in a way they'd never imagined.
The earth rotated slowly below them so they were listening to a sequence of hums, played at the exact right speed.
To their amazement they were listening to Earth Tones music. It was beautiful.

Earth Tones

Inside The Soul Representative

Well, not literally inside. The Soul Representative does not intend to eat you.
We will take a closer look into his mind and work, just so you know *why* you love him so much.

I know you'd be more interested to know about his love or perhaps his lust, sex or minor perversions, but we'll get to that later.

The Soul Rep. is producing an enormous quantity of data in these particular areas.
Too much information for The Tesla-K.Org's Research Dept. to process in it's usual precise and timely manner.

Let me get this out of the way first: Love is not a static thing. It moves and it lives and it sometimes dies.

This is always a sad thing.
The Tesla-K.Organization carefully monitors The Soul Rep's state of being.
And he's producing a *lot* of data.
He's draining the Org's resources terrifyingly quick. Reports to follow.

his mind:
-Is in a state of flux
-Is many things... leaves much to be desired. Is his mind an imaginary thing itself?
-Hops through space and time in a seemingly random manner, but with purpose and intention...
-Can compartimentalize, so there is always time for work:

his work:
-The Soul Rep. knows The Work is of significance and too important to be overlooked
-The Soul Rep. works towards a philosophy that will propel humankind and civilization forward, while not ignoring the progress of nature or neglecting the fact that we are mere specks of inignificant dust blowing past something slightly more important, carried by the wind of time.

As always please feel free to click these links (mind, work)and download the 1440x900 images to your desktop.
Do as you please.
I do too.

Love, Freedom.

Sleep State

Doctor Tesla-K. is an inspiring leader of men.
His dedication to The Great Work is the stuff of legend.
He's usually the first to arrive at The Laboratories, and often the last to leave. The Dr. is known for not leaving his experiments for weeks, working long hours between a few winks of sleep.

So you'd say that his research on T*I*M*E-alteration should probably be nearing its conclusion by now.
But Time is a metaphysical monster, and it is not easily tamed.
As Tesla-K. is a metaphysical reality too, we can rest assured that all is well.
Another thing we can be sure of: the Doctor is also easily distracted.

One of those distractions involves his personal research into the Soul of Man.
As a metaphysical being the Doctor can only imagine what is like to be real: He doesn't need sleep. We do. Doesn't know hunger or thirst or boredom, anxiety, bliss or the feeling of mild unease.
He wouldn't feel love if we rammed it with a red hot poker up his behind, so to speak. He would perhaps experience it on some meta-level, but we all understand: that is *not* what is like to be real.

His trusted assistant, The Soul Representative, on the other hand, does.
The Soul Rep. lost his mother when he was himself still very much a son. And then, when that un/child finally became a man... he lost his son, and he became kind of an un/father too.
And, naturally, he lost many, many Great Loves while he was on that path. There's been other shit too. You know, the fucked up kind. Seen it all.
However, The Soul Rep. considers himself to be much, much better at being happy than he is at being sad.
An ideal guinea pig for the Doctor's experiments!
The Soul Representative is a "consenting adult".

DISCLAIMER:
The Tesla-K.Organization is "proefdiervrij".

So The Soul Representative volunteered to be the subject of a sleep-state / dream-state / wake-state experiment. He also suggested piggybacking a tiny but important aspect of his personal research into love.
This proved to be "interesting".
The experiment took place in Rm. 26, Ward 10A of the Slotervaart Ziekenhuis - a.k.a. The Secret SleepLab...
While there, The Soul Representative (disguised as M.Koppenberg) also subjected himself to a thorough clinical examination of his sleep-state.

The metaphysical part (the clinical results are not in yet) is pictured below this text.
We'd like to thank the graphics dept. of the Tesla-K.Org for their fine work. Please click the pictures or the links to the graphics to view or download them in glorious full resolution. As always, they are released with a Creative Commons License (attribution, share alike, non commercial use). Slap 'em on your desktop!
Explanation:
The first graphic shows the Soul Representative's mental and emotional state a few hours before the experiment.
The second graphic shows us the difference between expectation and reality.
The final graphic does a good job of explaining The Process in our trade mark "Three Easy Steps".
This is what it's all about, people!

Sincerely, your lovin' dolphin.

Nothing to see here

The Dr. and his team have been too busy researching a revolutionary time altering method to report to the outside world, so this blog has not had an update for a while.

Sorry about that.

However, this will change when they succeed... which will be soon.


yours sincerely,

M.Koppenberg
Soul Representative of
The Tesla-K.Organization

Take A Good Look

...So You Can See A Better Future.

Holistic Earth Analysis Laboratory

Please use your Red/Green glasses to maximise your viewing pleasure. And a happy New Year!

Advance Through Science

Everything Is Easy If You Know What You're Doing.

The Unconventional Approach

Think Outside, Act Inside.

About New Energy

New Pastures Of Plenty From Dry Desert Land.

The Sky Is The Limit

We Have The Technology

The Way Forward

The Way Forward Is Unpaved

A New Energy

A New Energy In Nature

Podcast 04: Courting Misfortune

Courting Misfortune tells the true story of the Tesla-K.Organization Space Program. Two brave astronauts visit the moon in their organically powered spaceship. Then trouble kicks in...
This fourth podcast by the TKBA is just a pleasant five minute cartoon to relax you before the serious stuff that is about to follow. Enjoy!

Good Question

One day the Doctor and I were walking along a busy street. It was rush hour. People were in a hurry.
Suddenly he stopped me and stared at me intently.
I was very aware of the roadblock we formed but I could not get myself to move out of the way.
He asked me to close my eyes and open my mind a little.

"Imagine yourself at the end of a stressful day." he said. "You're running, maybe you feel hunted or you are short of time. Maybe you are lost, or late, or both."
"You slept badly the night before and now you're really, really tired. Your muscles ache and your feet burn. It's been a long day."

He paused and I noticed I actually did feel tired.
Such days are not too hard to imagine. We all know what those days can be like!

"But now that day is almost over", he continued, "and you know of a secret passageway, just a small door that only you know about and through which you can slip unnoticed."
"On the other side of that door is your safe place, where you can enjoy some peace and the possibility of relaxation."
"In fact, you are almost there...you arrive at your safe place, where you feel comfort and safety... You open that door... Tell me what does that pleasant place look like?"

With my eyes still closed I described my soft and safe surroundings. I could see rolling hills of luscious green. I heard the singing of birds over the gentle rustling of leaves on large trees gently swaying in the cool evening breeze.

Then he asked me to open my eyes and look around.
Rush hour... a busy street. People were passing us left and right.
Reality was noisy and not at all like my imaginary paradise.

"Nobody ever mentions stone or concrete and steel and glass or the sound of howling metal when I ask that question.", he said.
"So why do we live in a world built like that?"

Nature-Pleasure-Progress

The Three Magic Words

Pillars Of Progress

Just add clean air, some sunshine and of course your friends: you're set!

New Pastures Of Plenty

Diameter: 20,6 Km

The Meat Processing Analogy

This dark and sombre piece is atypical of our organization's work: we usually present solutions, not problems.

Clocking in at nearly 14 minutes, The Meat Processing Analogy is a movie that certainly takes its time to explain the flaws in our educational system.

Dr. Tesla-K. presented this movie in person at Testportal 2003.
He would disappear soon after that event.

What's next

Situation
Our future, and the future of the planet we happen to live on...it's all about sustainability.
The Tesla-K.Organization is extremely concerned about that.
They tell us we are doomed.
But we are no alarmists. Things go as they go. The future proceeds... the way it happens.

Solution
The Tesla-K.Organization proposes a solution that will continue to improve civilization towards perfection, while at the same time restore it (us) to the natural values we lost. We'll tell you about that later.

Cost
History teaches us that many have tried the same thing. Through revolution or political chicanery, through war and through terror. They tried it with democracy. With nepotism. With oppression and with anarchy. They tried it every which way.
Every system failed.
Our economy is about to fail, you know.

Imagine a world without money.

Bloop Signal - Karaoke For The Mind

The Soul Representative presented Bloop Signal - Karaoke For The Mind to the public during "Amsterdam Film Experience".
The 6'10 short movie was screened three times as part of the "Dark Journeys And Other Worlds" program.
Bloop Signal - Karaoke For The Mind was Runner-Up in the "Jury Award" category.

Podcast 01: Un/Time

First Podcast by The Tesla-K.Organization Broadcasting Authority.
Soundtrack: a resample(Tesla-K.Organization) of BLINDNESS, as performed live, by The Fall!
see:http://www.visi.com/fall/

Welcome

As in: Hello World