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THE POI STUDIO AND PLAYPOI.COM!
Vancouver is now home to the Poi Studio. Yes, a full fledged poi studio, complete with mirrors, black lights, and video feedback. Learn more on the new website: www.playpoi.com.

April 10th, 2003
SmoothieResearch.Org
Originally known as the GarudaRoom Smoothie Research Division, SmoothieResearch.Org is the GarudaRoom's first full scale exploratation into the Internet's potential to promote activities that encourage peaceful enjoyment.

February 28, 2003
"Love: An Essay For The Divine Committee In Charge Of Planet Earth."

January 13, 2003
Nick and Josh's Holiday Adventure

December 23, 2002
Report on the results of my one-year experiment with the Mayan Calendar.

March 1st, 2002
Seeing Stone Soup: A show in the Vancouver Planetarium! Basically, we're telling the history of energy as a musical... but this is more than just theater. It's an exciting experiment in building bridges between science, spirituality, and culture.

December 9, 2001
Published in Momentum Magazine: Poi: Unraveling the Mysteries of Movement. My last article for Momentum was The Mayan Calendar: Saving the World, in Time.

October 23, 2001
Yahoo!!! Here's a three minute Fire Dancing video clip. Left click should stream it. Right click will give you the "save target as" option. It's about 6MB.

October 13, 2001
Way overdue for posting: "The New Time," my documentary on the Mayan Calendar, aired on Tapestry on May 27th, 2001. Big thanks to Jose Arguelles, Bob Everton, and everybody else who supported me in this project. The New Time was aired with three other short radio pieces, so you'll have to skip forward about 40 minutes to get to it.

March 8, 2001--
"Dancing With The Divine" aired on national CBC Radio on March 6, 2001. It's a one-man radio play about battling the demons of depression. (Hint: It's funny.) Judging from the emails I received, it resonated with many people. If you don't have the RealAudio player, you can try an older version as an mp3 file.

Feb 15, 2001
Here is a copy of my CBC radio piece concerning independent artists and the dotcom bust. It was part of series of shows recently hosted on the Morning Edition.

November 15th, 2000--
I was commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to create a series of animated"poetic reports" on the Fall2000 Canadian national elections. You can see part one, two, and three as Flash versions via 120seconds.com

September 11, 2000--
Today we're sending out our parody news release, "Notorious Music Pirate Behind Bars". Read, enjoy, pass along... you may even want to print it out for your office bulletin board!



Emails from (Over?) the Edge

By Nick Woolsey

Check out the first few chapters, and be sure to visit the book page.