CRISPR, Germline Editing and Market-Based Eugenics (S2, E8)
Not As Crazy As You Think Podcast published on March 31, 2021. I want to share with you the following story because of my love of science, and also because I humbly respect human life in all its struggle and diversity. First off, there is natural science, and there is applied science. Science is really…
Read MoreThe Rise of AI and The Humans Left Behind: A True Short Story
Part I: The Rise of AI “Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.” –Nora Ephron End of an Era: The Free and Neutral Information Highway It’ll be two years this December 14th. Our loss of internet neutrality. It…
Read More2019 Bodypainting Season: “Themes in My Memoir”
Excerpts from and bodypainting inspired by: Not As Crazy As You Think I wanted to create art in a different way this year. To paint the images in my mind that helped me press the words of my book into being. My memoir is not just a story about seeking freedom from the psychiatric institution.…
Read MoreNaming Madness & Saving Normal
Imagining Something New They did it. They succeeded in helping me see myself as a bipolar defective again instead of the talented, strong, intelligent and beautiful human being that I really am. In the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting, starring Robin Williams and Matt Damon, psychologist Sean Macguire tries an alternative approach to reach…
Read MoreIn Loving Memory of the Taj Mahal on 9/11, Chalk Art Day
The Memories That Won’t Wash Away … For Americans in other parts of the country, it’s just an annual remembrance of a distant tragedy, not really affecting them very personally at all. But in NYC, the anniversary of September 11th marks a solemn day of unease. The shadows of yesterday are alive downtown where the…
Read MoreMy Case Against the Psychiatric Institution: The Full Report and Nothing But The Truth
A Cause Worth Fighting For: My Freedom The Politics of Psychiatry Critics of psychiatry encompass far more than the scientologists. Many are affected by the institution’s wrongdoings. Over two decades have passed since I was first labeled a bipolar mental case, and psychiatry has never evolved in its perception of the human mind. Their theories…
Read MoreOn Holocaust Remembrance Day, We Must Not Forget the Jew, the Nazi, and the Mentally Ill
We Must Remember I’m either mentally ill or Jewish. I can’t sometimes tell the difference.”—Rosanne Barr Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah, began at sundown on Wednesday night. A memorial day for those who died in the Shoah, which means catastrophe or utter destruction in Hebrew and “sacrifice by fire” in Greek, it awakens…
Read MoreThe Ultimate Violation of My Civil Liberties PART I: The Final Lockdown; I am a Jew. And I’ll prove it!
The FINAL Lockdown PART I You better watch out. You better not cry. Because I assure you, I am an expert in such affairs. They may lock you up and throw away the key, and you will have me to remember giving you a fair warning about it. We are living in ominous…
Read MoreThe Ultimate Violation of My Civil Liberties PART II: The Final Lockdown; I am a Jew. And I’ll prove it!
If you haven’t first read PART I, please click on the link below before continuing: The Ultimate Violation of My Civil Liberties PART I: The Final Lockdown Otherwise, continue reading: PART II During the end of the 19th century, there was an explosive growth of mental asylums in both America and Europe built with taxpayers…
Read MoreThe Somers Record: Somers’ Siciliano Creates Living, Breathing Art
Somers Body Painter Ready for International Competition By BRIAN MARSCHHAUSER August 3, 2016 at 12:04 PM SOMERS, N.Y. – Somers artist Jen Siciliano has an impressive body of work. For the past five years, the former English teacher has found a new career in face and body painting, earning national recognition along the…
Read MoreMy Story On Meds
The Psychiatric Sentence Yes, I’ve been laced on psychiatric medication for 22 years. After my failure of a trip to India in 1994, (where I suffered from acute dysentery and almost died, and subsequently had a near-death-experience on my plane trip home), I had a mental meltdown due to the trauma, and I landed in a…
Read MoreThe Shamanistic Nature of Psychiatric Patients: Let Them Hone Their Gifts
The Psychiatric View of the Shaman It’s true. Many “mentally ill” people are budding shamans. Especially the bipolars. I can say this openly because for over twenty years, I’ve lived with a psychiatric label attached to my name when all I’m really trying to do is enter shamanic states safely in order to tell my…
Read MoreLiving Art America’s 2016 North American Bodypainting Championship
In 2016, I had the good fortune of competing in the biggest bodypainting competition in the Western Hemisphere—Living Art America’s North American Bodypainting Championship, which was held at the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina. A panel of experts rigorously screens artists worldwide, and I was surprised as anybody that the panel thought my work worthy…
Read More“Beauty Craze” from the Video Network “Sweet” on Snapchat Discover
When Tara O’Connell, Senior Producer of the video network “Sweet,” contacted me to see if I’d be interested in collaborating on a video series her team was launching on Snapchat Discover called “Beauty Craze,” I jumped at the chance. The series is hosted by drag queen and personality Kandy Muse and the channel has 3.5M…
Read MoreDate Night with Connie and Chrissy 2018
Aired on Cablevision in Long Island on December 22, 2018 Date Night with Connie and Chrissy On Friday October 25 2018, I had the wonderful opportunity to be a special guest with Artemix’s Tina Kourkoumelis on Date Night with Connie & Chrissy! Date Night with Connie & Chrissy… “is a web-based show (recorded out of Date…
Read MoreThe Creative Evolution of the 2018 Freedom Van
Riding the Road to the Freedom Van It began as a lofty vision. Andy Golub had been talking about acquiring a van to paint for over a year and finally the vehicle had landed in his hands. Says Andy about his intended vision: “I thought it would build a community of artists and models traveling…
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