We’re putting together a team of passionate, committed, creative individuals.  In the not-so-distant future, we plan to include an artist and technology exhibition space, live music, DJ’s and more.  Here are the chief roles we’re looking to fill:
•    Web-design and development
•    PR and advertising
•    Interactive wizards
•    Musicians
•    DJ’s
•    Performers of all stripes
•    Able bodies (to volunteer at events)
***Unfortunately, none of these positions are paid at the moment, but with your help that might change soon.  In the meantime, we’re just looking to create a vital community, drawing people together based on enlightened ideals.
Remember, even the smallest level of commitment is greatly appreciated.
If you’re interested in being part of our team or have more questions, email David Friedlander at dfriedlander@lucidnyc.com or call 917 710 8388.

If you’re visiting right now, thank you, but obviously something ain’t right. Come back tomorrow when Lucid get’s its head out of its ass and makes some much needed website mods. Thanks.

I was not a popular kid.  There were several factors that conspired to ensure my unpopularity:

1.    First, I moved around a lot.  While far from being an orphan, my home life wasn’t particularly stable and hence I never spent long enough to mesh with a particular peer group.
2.    I had curiosities—intellectual, artistic, etc.—bred at home (the product of hyper-intelligent, albeit questionably stable parents (at the time…they’re very cool now)), but these same curiosities were stifled and squashed at school and by my schoolmates (or at least it felt that way); being curious and different seemed anathema to most of them.
3.    Third, the intangibles:  call it karma, fate, whatever.  I just seemed to be born to be maladaptive.  Girls and boys alike—far from disliking me—were indifferent to me.  They didn’t feel strong enough to include me nor to actively cast me from their circles.

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So the good folks over at All Day Buffet determined that Lucid was worthy of their NEWYork100.  I thought it was like a NYC based Fortune 500 for people and ideas that don’t make money.  But I was wrong.  Here’s what they say about the list:

NEWYork100 highlights 100 of the most innovative, rule- breaking, model-changing ideas to come out of the Big Apple. Call it social innovation, intelligent capitalism, idealistic enterprise: We’re curating and highlighting the most creative, resourceful, and innovative people, companies and movements in New York. All rebuilding the city better and brighter and recreating the way we understand the world. These 100 are just the beginning. After all, it is a big apple, so get ready to get full on good.

Thanks guys for the props.

Wait no more:  details are set.  I’ve been doing a lot of copy writing lately, so I’m going to embed some videos to demonstrate what an awesome line-up we have.  Their official bios and pics are on the presenter bio page.  I’ll try to make something more expansive in terms of details in the coming days.

Here are our presenters:

Daniel Pinchbeck, author of bestselling book “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”,  will explain how a new consciousness can emerge out of the collapse of the self-evidently pathological economic and social systems of the status quo (see some of his writing at Reality Sandwich, a blog he helped co-found).  Check out this trailer for his forthcoming movie on the same topic.

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Dickson Despommier, Columbia Professor and founder of Vertical Farms, will presenting his vision of how to address growing urban populations with the need for feeding those populations in a sustainable manner.  Check out Dickson on the Colbert Report.

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And last but not least, Amanda Parkes of MIT’s Tangible Media Group, talking about non-anthropomorphized motion in robotics in the context of product design. In other words, she’ll be explaining how robotic motion will be as elemental in future products as their color and form.

The event will be held at SALT Art Space at 1160 Broaday (SE corner of 27th), doors open at 6:45 or so, presenter begin at 8:00 (please arrive before 8 to be seated and so forth).  $10 bucks at the door.  What else?  Wine and tap water served.  Light snacks.  BYO’s welcome.  See you there.