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Recently I met Carlos Neumann of Zometool for lunch at a Thai restaurant in Denver, Colorado with my wife, Nancy. His obvious enthusiasm for Zometool's wonderful system of precision polyhedral hubs and colored struts totally re-inspired my enthusiasm for these unique and outstanding tools for geometric exploration. He brought along a 'microdo' Zometool model (see photo above) and showed how orienting it in different positions, while shining a flashlight through it, reveals fascinating 2D shadow geometries. Perhaps our 3D world is a shadow projected from 'higher' dimensions metaphorically? In any case, I highly recommend Zometool for kids from 6 to 1006 years, and now is a great time to order from Zometool, since just by mentioning the promo code "elysian" you'll receive 10% off your first order. Here are lots of Zome model examples, news about the new Zomepad software under development and more.

There are lots of neat models tucked away on the Zometool website, so I encourage exploring their website. I recommend starting with the "Products" page, then click "Project Kits", and, then, for example, "Kepler's Obsession" which relates to the image I've modeled using POV-Ray as "Homage to Kepler " based on Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum first published in his 1596 book and which ties into John Martineau's solar system models based detailed in his Little Book of Coincidence. There are many other Zometool project kits, system kits, bundles, parts by the pound, discrete and custom parts, books and other media all available from Zometool worthy of your exploration time if you haven't had the pleasure of doing so ... or just want to be re-inspired.

Hi all! On April 20, 2011 I announced the remodeling of the new GeometryCode website (and email bulletin) ... If you haven't already done so, I encourage you to take a few minutes and explore the new GeometryCode website and discover content both new and old. It's now even easier that before for me to add blog posts, since there really wasn't a blog section for GeometryCode before and now there is! I always welcome YOUR suggestions! :-)

Here's an example: making Dodecahedral luminaria (Origami lanterns) — a great construction project for kids, teachers and home-schoolers — courtesy of some local friends who made these which led to finding some already excellent articles other bloggers have written (why reinvent the wheel! :-)

If you are interested in sacred geometry workshops in the Ashland or Medford, Oregon area (or vicinity) please let me know! Here's my list of current and past events. If you have a local, regional (or global for that matter, as long as my expenses are covered) venue to suggest, please let me know that too!

Anton Grove has a new website with some lovely wire and metal polyhedral sculptures. It features 4 "Missing Archimedean Solids", which, while not true regular polyhedra, do exhibit many similar properties and are very interesting and aesthetically engaging in their own right.

The June issue of Sedona Journal of Emergence will have an article I submitted entitled Inclusive Geometry for Ascension: Finite Circles Reveal Sabotaging Inner Lamb-scape, Outer Goat-scape Thoughts. ... and the related articles department...

Music/video: Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir : Thanks to Asha D. & Ed. K. for directing me to this exquisite video of 2052 singers from 58 countries singing with incredible harmony! I like the interconnecting graphics between the spheres, too! ... It's only (slumbering) belief that holds our stars (and atoms and identities) apart, isn't it... Afterwards I clicked on the map, and listened to a handful of the individual (YouTube) performances, and while fine, just didn't have the orders of magnitude (literally and figuratively) beauty of the shared, combined choir... What a perfect metaphor for how our individual separate selves (the 'ones' we made up) are ultimately meaningless (and often make for a pretty good laugh, seen from above the battlefield of duality) while our true shared infinitely inclusive One Self is where the beauty and peace eternally resides... and we never left. To paraphrase something that Nouk Sanchez shared recently, this IS the love we all rest in together.

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