CoSM blog

Denver

Event was sold out!!! Nearly 4,000 people!!!

Allyson and Alex thank Denver for supporting CoSM and tell them how things are coming.  All proceeds from speaking and live painting appearances goes to build the exhibition hall.

Reading from Art Psalms

We got to spend the first hours of our wedding anniversary, December 4, together with thousands of friends immersed in a sea of creativity and love.

Johnathan Singer melted everyone's eyeballs with his stunning video projections.

Zoe stuns Denver



Celebrating with the amazing Beats Antique!!

Dance of Cannabia (so far)

We hosted a screening of CoSM the movie at the historic MAYAN theater in Denver as a benefit for CoSM and Colorado cannabis legislation.  The theater is an architectural masterpiece by Montana Fallis, with beautiful ornamentation throughout.

Rob Kampia of MPP Marijuana Policy Project who was there collecting signatures for reform in Colorado, a bill to regulate cannabis like alcohol.  Thank you to Colorado for leading the way to sensible drug policy.

Holiday Greetings from the Greys

New Orleans

Alex delivers talk on CoSM at House of Blues in New Orleans

Allyson and Alex onstage with Tipper

Eli Morgan joins us at Dithyrambelina the Music Box Shanty Town where a cluster of music shacks were built of recycled materials after the house that dwelled on that lot was demolished in Hurricane Katrina.

Brooklyn based artist, Swoon, designed Dithyrambelina as a House that can be played like many musical instruments.

Swoon's model for Dithyrambelina.

Swoon's larger model of the Dithyrambelina.

Swoon is one of the greatest artists alive - here's more of her installation.

The shantytown was erected by 23 artists and concerts were played to sold out audiences. 

Each interactive shack invites visitors to "play" music inside -- a wall is piano-wire, a floorboard is a keyboard, a swing bows a stringed shack.

One of our favorite DJ's, Tipper, with one of the empresarios of the Music Box Shantytown, dj Rusty Laser who masterminded the transformation of a condemned building into an extraordinary installation of music and sculpture. Shacks are now for sale. 

Dear friend of visionary culture and author of Tryptamine Palace, James Oroc, a.k.a. Roc, takes us to St. Roch's Shrine, patron saint of miraculous cures.  James took us to many of the special sites in New Orleans and with his fisheye lens took some incredible photos.

Praying at Marie Leveau's tomb. She was the VOODOO Queen of New Orleans.

Cemetery guide explains that if a visitor marks Marie Laveau's mausoleum with three "x's" and leaves three coins on the altar, their wish should come true, after which they should return to circle their "x's."

Allyson makes her favorite wish while marking Marie Laveau's grave with "x's." We shall return!