What Is Psychedelic traces New York and Berlin-based artist Aura Rosenberg's (b. 1949) trajectory from early paintings to more recent works in photography, film, sculpture, and installation. Central to Rosenberg's practice are the ways images produce and reproduce notions of spectatorship, gender, family, history, and legacy—that is, the conditions of everyday life. For over five decades, her work has challenged how such vernacular images create seemingly naturalized meanings through which people understand themselves in the world. This book complements Rosenberg's joint exhibitions at the <a href="https://weissman.baruch.cuny.edu/mishkin-gallery/upcoming/" target="_blank">Mishkin Gallery</a> and <a href="https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/aura-rosenberg-what-is-psychedelic">Pioneer Works</a>, curated by Alaina Claire Feldman. It pairs full-color plates of the artist's work with essays by artists, historians, and curators that offer the first comprehensive overview of Rosenberg's oeuvre. 
What Is Psychedelic is edited by Alaina Claire Feldman featuring texts by Lena Dunham, Alaina Claire Feldman, Matt Keegan, Claire Koron Elat, Laura López Paniagua, Tim Martin, John Miller, Bob Nickas, Barbara Piwowarska, Lumi Tan, and  Alexandra Tell. 
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Head Shots: Photographs by Aura Rosenberg

As a species, we have grown comfortable eradicating ecosystems to architect spaces, cordoning ourselves off from the natural world. However, facing the consequences of the climate crisis, we must re-evaluate our ideas about what is permanent and resilient and what is fragile. Taking inspiration from nature, Medusa began with the question: is there even such a thing as non-physical architecture? What is the function of architecture without physical form? 
Medusa is a mixed reality experience produced by Tin Drum—a collective of artists, designers and technologists founded in 2016—and directed by scientist and artist Yoyo Munk in collaboration with architect Sou Fujimoto. Utilizing the medium of mixed reality, it comprises an architecture of pure sensory experience, a structure that does not physically exist and yet transforms the experience of being within a physical space. Drawing inspiration from atmospheric auroras as well as deep sea dwelling siphonophores, the experience investigates the conflicts and balances between architecture and nature, permanence and fragility, signal and noise, and individual and collective.
Published by Hurtwood Press, London in conjunction with the presentation of Medusa at Pioneer Works, this 320-page fully illustrated compendium features fascinating conversations between Yoyo and James Bridle, artist and author of Ways of Being; Veronica Strang, cultural anthropologist and recipient of UNESCO’s Water Prize; and Seirian Sumner, behavioral ecologist and author of Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps. With a poetic contribution from Octavia Bright, poet, academic and author of Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal. Featuring shots of the installation and full of beautiful imagery, Medusa is a timely and moving artist’s book about climate grief.
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The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science

Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna Levin announces the central theme of this book, which established her as one of the most direct, unorthodox, and creative voices in contemporary science. As Levin sets out to determine how big "really big" may be, she offers a rare intimate look at the daily life of an innovative physicist, complete with jet lag and the tensions between personal relationships and the extreme demands of scientific exploration. Nimbly explaining geometry, topology, chaos, and string theory, Levin shows how the pattern of hot and cold spots left over from the big bang may one day reveal the size of the cosmos. The result is a thrilling story of cosmology by one of its leading thinkers.

How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

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Before Carnival, you never sleep, always dreaming of bringing pleasure, innovation and creation.’ – Fanel Saint-Helere &amp; Frantz Denoujou (Flanbo Mardi Gras troupe)
Leagues away from the sequinned, sanitised, corporate-sponsored carnivals found elsewhere in the Americas, the Madigra troupes of the Haitian port town of Jacmel enact and subvert myth, legends and the nation’s own histories, their improvisational costumes and surreal narratives a Vodou-charged blend of folk memory, political satire and personal revelation.
Here the Zèl Maturin, satin-clad devils in papier-mâché masks, hinged wooden wings clapping on their backs, do battle against Sen Michèl Arkanj and his army of pastors; further on the Chaloska in their cows’-tooth-adorned masks transform the feared early twentieth-century police chief Charles Oscar Étienne into a metaphor for the corrupting nature of absolute power.
At the crossroads the horned Lanse Kòd, their skin shining blacker than black with a mixture of cane syrup and charcoal, perform press-ups before running amok through the crowds. Meanwhile a trouser-clad donkey, led by the leaf-skirted Atibruno troupe, speaks into a mobile phone and eats fried plantain, to show the world that the peasants are as good as anyone, that all donkeys are important.
Here too are lone, idiosyncratic characters: Geralda, the single mother of a starving child, the mermaid-in-disguise Madanm Lasirèn, and Bounda pa Bounda, who plays out a Vodou vision revealed by a treetop-dwelling spirit.
Leah Gordon has been photographing Jacmel Carnival and recording oral histories with its participants since 1995. Her photographs in ‘Kanaval’ are stripped of kinesis and exuberance. She uses a sixty-year-old Rolleicord medium-format twin-lens-reflex camera, and shoots onto black and white negative film. The camera is mechanical, and once the film is loaded the shutter has to be physically cocked and the exposure set manually. She always asks permission and pays the participants for the chance to photograph them. A consensual reciprocity between the photographer and the sitter arises which leaves behind the commotion of the street and enters the more tranquil territory of a portrait studio. The time and space created allows for some of the historical narratives of the Madigra to seep through.
Revised and expanded second edition which includes many new photographs and oral histories, eleven years after its first publication.

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Founded by board certified naturopathic doctor Maria Geyman, Masha Tea aims to create a fun, thoughtful, and sensual tea culture worldwide. Masha Tea considers tea as agriculture, makes thoughtful sourcing decisions, and prioritizes beauty.
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July 16, 2019 marked the 50 year anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch - the historic mission to the Moon where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first of humankind to set foot on the Moon. Our Moon puzzle celebrates this momentous achievement and will challenge puzzle solvers everywhere.
This 1000 piece, 26.5" (67cm) circular puzzle features the near side of the Moon in incredible detail. The image, courtesy of NASA, is the clearest image of the Moon to date and shows even the tiniest of craters in stunning clarity.Although this puzzle is a challenge, being able to see all the details on the Moon's surface and having no two pieces exactly the same shape make this puzzle enjoyable and achievable.
To learn more about the 1969 lunar landing, you can read our article <a href="https://fourpointpuzzles.com/pages/article-lunar-landing" data-mce-fragment="1" data-mce-href="https://fourpointpuzzles.com/pages/article-lunar-landing">here</a>. 
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Designed in celebration of Scientific Controversies 23: James Webb Space Telescope. This 1x1¨ enamel pin shows the telescope in the shuttle state just strapped in the shuttle on its way to unfold into its grand state of magnanimous beauty.
Designed by resident alum Andrea Lauer at Risen Division Labs

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Designed by our friends at <a data-mce-fragment="1" href="https://www.supercluster.com/" data-mce-href="https://www.supercluster.com/">Supercluster</a> , these playing cards are your guide to a set of exoplanets found across space, time, and imagination. While face cards represent speculative planets, numbered cards are ordered according to ascending distance from earth. 
We hope you enjoy the ride.
Illustrations by Michael Auer and Michael Stone.
Special thanks to astrophysicist Natalie Batalha and cosmologist and Pioneer Works Director of Sciences Janna Levin.
 
 Exclusive release at the <a href="https://pioneerworks.org/programs/scientific-controversies-exoplanets" target="_blank">Scientific Controversies</a><a href="https://pioneerworks.org/programs/scientific-controversies-exoplanets" target="_blank"> event on Exoplanets on November 7th at Pioneer Works</a>.

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyZzvWyRpSA" target="_blank">Listen</a> to the first single “Sleeping Without You Is A Dragg” Featuring Jenny Lewis, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), &amp; Channy Leaneagh (Poliça).
<a href="https://lnk.to/swampdogg-memories" target="_blank">Listen</a> to the second single “Memories” feat. John Prine. 
To order all other editions and the digital album, please visit <a href="https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/sorry-you-couldnt-make-it" target="_blank">Joyful Noise Recordings</a>.
About the Record Jerry Williams’—aka Swamp Dogg—first love was country music, listening to it as a Navy family kid growing up in Portsmouth, Virginia. “My granddaddy, he just bought country records out the asshole,” Swamp remembers. “Every Friday when he came home from the Navy yard he’d stop off and get his records, like Mule Train by Frankie Laine, or Riders in the Sky by Vaughn Monroe.” His first time performing on stage, in fact, was a country song at a talent show when he was six years old: “I did Red Foley’s version of ‘Peace in the Valley.’”
While the 77 year-old Williams’ most enduring persona is the psychedelic soul superhero Swamp Dogg—a musical vigilante upholding truths both personal and political since 1970’s immortal album, Total Destruction To Your Mind—he will tell anybody who will listen that he’s considered himself country this entire time. “If you notice I use a lot of horns,” Swamp says. “But actually, if you listen to my records before I start stacking shit on it, I’m country. I sound country.”
Swamp began his professional singing career as Little Jerry Williams back in the ‘50s before working as an A&amp;R man for Atlantic Records in the late ‘60s. His biggest hit is actually a country song: 1970’s “Don’t Take Her (She’s All I Got).” Written with his best friend Gary U.S. Bonds, the track is country in that woeful, underdog-baring-their-soul sort of way that for some reason only country songs really ever allow themselves to be. Freddie North covered it first and made it a Top 40 pop song, but Johnny Paycheck took it all the way to #2 on the country charts in 1971.
Following 2018’s critically acclaimed, Ryan Olson-produced <a href="https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/love-loss-and-auto-tune" target="_blank">Love, Loss, And Auto-Tune</a>—his first LP to debut on 11 Billboard charts (including at #7 on ‘Heatseekers’) and his first chart ink since his 1970 song “Mama’s Baby – Daddy’s Maybe”—Sorry You Couldn’t Make It allows Swamp to finally dive into the sound he grew up playing. With the support of Pioneer Works Press, they recorded the album at Nashville’s Sound Emporium with Olson as producer once again, and backed by a crack studio band led by Derick Lee, a keyboard virtuoso who worked as the musical director of BET’s Bobby Jones Gospel Show for nearly four decades. Nashville guitar firebrand Jim Oblon combusts his way through lead duties, while frequent collaborator Moogstar and special guests Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), John Prine, Jenny Lewis, Channy Leaneagh and Chris Beirden of Poliça, and Sam Amidon join the action throughout.
A band of 14 players, including Vernon, Lee, Beirden, and Moogstar, among others, provides the background for Swamp’s devastating new take on “Don’t Take Her (She’s All I Got).” Lead single “Sleeping Without You Is A Dragg” is one of Swamp’s most heartfelt songs to date and features Vernon on piano as well as backing vocals by Lewis and Leaneagh. He duets with country-folk legend Prine on two songs (“It’s the first time I seen John since the sixties!” laughs Swamp): the indelible, psychedelic ballad “Memories” and the reflective “Please Let Me Go Round Again.” Originally written and demoed in his forties, “Please Let Me Go Round Again” is a plea for one more chance at life, sung with acute emotional connection.
These are narratives about love, of missing the one you love, of compassion, family and friends, and even the kind of love that transcends death. “I was looking for a new way for Swamp Dogg to go,” he explains. “Apart from me singing and writing most of the songs, I didn’t participate—in other words, I told ‘em, ‘Don’t ask me, I wanna see what happens without my influence.’ It was hard for me to do, ego-wise.”
Sorry You Couldn’t Make It sees Swamp come full circle, and closes what has felt to him like unfinished business. “They didn’t have any blacks in country until Charlie Pride came along,” he says. “But in time, all things change and that’s what has happened to country music.” Surveying today’s Nashville reality, Swamp sees opportunity: artists as divergent as Darius Rucker and Lil Nas X are converging in a genre that he once worried might never give him his shot. “I’m anxious because it’s like I’ve taken all my money and put it on one horse,” he says. “But I believe in this horse.”
Sorry You Couldn’t Make It was made in collaboration with Joyful Noise Records.

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Minh Singer is a visual artist based in Brooklyn and a graduate from Pratt Institute. Working primarily in ceramics, she synthesizes realms of civilizations long gone, the center of the earth, natural phenomena, the cosmos, and the very present moment into timeless art objects.
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Designed by Artist Andrea Lauer, founder of Risen Division in celebration of<a href="https://pioneerworks.org/programs/scientific-controversies-no-24-body-brain-and-consciousness" data-mce-fragment="1" data-mce-href="https://pioneerworks.org/programs/scientific-controversies-no-24-body-brain-and-consciousness"> Scientific Controversies: Brain, Body, &amp; Consciousness</a>. This patch illustrates some of the longstanding and often bewildering questions we grapple with to understand consciousness and the mystifying journey along the way. Where does consciousness come from? Why do “I” experience life? Is consciousness possible without this sense of self? Where does the mind's labyrinth begin and end?
 
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