Thanks, Marcus, As a relative newcomer to Santa Fe, what amazes me is how ==>natural<== this whole enterprise is. People just keep emerging (you'll pardon the expression) out of the woodwork to do things at the Complex. "If you rent it, they will come!" seems to be the lesson. The only problem is to find some way to pay the rent. I hope others will come soon to see what is happening. It really is quite extraordinary. I think it has something to do with your observation a few days ago that Santa Fe is surrounded by attractive institutions with necessarily high fences. So the Town desperately needs a place with lower fences where the people who have been attracted here by thet scientific, cultural, and intellectual surroundings can get together and talk about what interests them. The Opening pulled in some 300 people. The "Blender" ... I would call it a colloquium, but let that go ... on Wednesday, organized by Steve Smith, was absolutely fantastic . Revived my faith in the life of the mind!
I hope others will come quickly to see the building and what is going on, there. As one person said to me, "We cannot let this fail!" Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > [Original Message] > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 6/20/2008 10:00:25 AM > Subject: Friam Digest, Vol 60, Issue 17 > > Send Friam mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Friam digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fwd: Earth energies: Messages from the earth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > 2. Fw: Re: reflexivity ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > 3. Re: reflexivity (Marcus G. Daniels) > 4. The Santa Fe Complex needs your help. (Nicholas Thompson) > 5. Re: The Santa Fe Complex needs your help. (Marcus G. Daniels) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:27:35 EDT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [FRIAM] Fwd: Earth energies: Messages from the earth > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Interesting, although crop circles may be made by FRIAMers in England. Paul > > > > ************** > Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient > used cars. > (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080619/ff4e1464 /attachment-0001.html > -------------- next part -------------- > An embedded message was scrubbed... > From: "Earl James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Earth energies: Messages from the earth > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:55:07 -0600 > Size: 17300 > Url: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080619/ff4e1464 /attachment-0001.mht > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:40:56 -0400 (EDT) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [FRIAM] Fw: Re: reflexivity > To: friam <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080619/49b365b2 /attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:20:40 -0600 > From: "Marcus G. Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] reflexivity > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > > > http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/ > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation-passing_style > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:27:02 -0600 > From: "Nicholas Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [FRIAM] The Santa Fe Complex needs your help. > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dear Friam Colleagues, > > I am writing to ask you to support the Santa Fe Complex. The Complex is Santa Fes new center for education and innovation in the applied complexity sciences. For Friam members within commuting distance to Santa Fe, it can be a workplace where you come to share your skills and knowledge with your colleagues and with the community. While you are getting your work done at the Complex, you can also attend workshops and presentations from members of New Mexicos complexity community and beyond. For those of you outside of New Mexico, it can be your home a way from home during a visit to the Santa Fe. Make the sfComplex your base of operations during a visit to the Santa Fe Institute or to one of the nearby national laboratories. Or you might make it your office during a work vacation, or a place to hide out from the kids during a family vacation. For those of you who live too distant to visit, www.sfcomplex.org can be a virtual meeting place, where you can join projects, discussions, and workshops and download presentations and performances over the internet as they occur. > > Friam members in Santa Fe have been contemplating such an initiative for nearly decade. The complexity workers of Santa Fe, and the many social, natural, and physical scientists who have retired here, live amongst three world-class centers of scientific an science and computational expertise. Yet, until now, we have had no place to collaborate, to share our insights with the general public and to welcome our colleagues from around the world. . > > All that is changing. Last year, a unique building became available in downtown Santa Fe. Formerly a workshop for refurbishing rail cars, the main hall of this building has a vaulted ceiling with clerestories that allow light to spill down on its adobe walls. In the few weeks that it has been in use, the facility has already proved itself an elegant open-plan workspace that can be adapted quickly for lectures, performances, workshops, and exhibits. (See the descriptions of events and picture gallery at www.sfcomplex.org/. Along with shade trees, plantings, ample parking and a smaller office building, this hall forms a pleasant campus just at the edge of the Rail Yard Park, soon to be Santa Fes new center for arts and culture. From the Complex, one can walk anywhere in the Rail Yard, to Santa Fes historic plaza, or to the terminus of The RailRunner, the new Commuter Rail line that will carry passengers to Albuquerque, only an hour or so to the South. > > We need your help getting this project started. You can make tax deductible donations at http://www.sfcomplex.org/zen-cart/. There are many ways to contribute. If you live nearby, we hope you will become an Affiliate of the sfComplex. Much of the costs of maintaining this facility will be contributed by Affiliates, people who work here, regular visitors who will donate a thousand dollars a year, share in the collaborative work environment of the complex, and participate in its educational activities. We have other forms of affiliation, some less expensive, for people who live out of the area and come here rarely, and others more expensive, for people who will be working here more intensively. (Please see our schedule soon at www.sfcomplex.org/donations.) A small amount of conventional office space will also available. One way or another, we hope that many of you will bring your work to the sfComplex > > Sponsors are also urgently needed. We are working on foundation support, but until our recruitment of affiliates and educational programs are fully established, donations from individuals like you will be absolutely necessary to get the sfComplex up and running. Sponsors can be confident that they will be supporting an organization that will benefit education, art, public policy, and science by focusing the enormous human resources available for complexity thinking in Santa Fe. > . > Whichever means you choose, please give us your support now. The City has offered us 29,000 dollars to help get our operations started, but we must match that with $20,000 in donations by July 1. Your sponsorship or affiliation could decide whether a center for complexity research, education, and practice will thrive here in the City of Santa Fe. > > All the best in your work, > > Nick Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology > Clark University > > For the Santa Fe Complex > > P.S. This fundraising effort is just getting under way, and I am no expert at it. The website could be a bit cranky at first. Please, if you have questions, comments and suggestions, write me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], or the Complexs Executive Director, Don Begley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), or Steve Guerin, who is the Chairman of our Board ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) . Thanks. n > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20080619/7e140c7e /attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:39:20 -0600 > From: "Marcus G. Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Santa Fe Complex needs your help. > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hey Nick, > > An outsider's first take.. I left work early today and headed down Agua > Fria for a look see. I must say it is impressive what you all have done > with that area and that building. The facility was buzzing at 7pm and > people of all ages were around. A cool and different sort of feel.. > Could definitely see having workshops or meetings there. > > Nice work! > > Marcus > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Friam mailing list > [email protected] > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > End of Friam Digest, Vol 60, Issue 17 > *************************************
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