{"id":365,"date":"2012-03-22T01:39:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T01:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=365"},"modified":"2012-03-22T01:39:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T01:39:26","slug":"nick-wood-june-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Nick Wood &#8211; June 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moving on from the musical mention last month &#45; <b>Toumani Diabate<\/b>,  I was again fortunate to witness and hear some wonderful African music again &#45; this time it was the son of the late great <b>Ali Farka Toure<\/b> &#45; <b>Vieux<\/b>. Hearing his guitar play, it made me realise the father does indeed live on through the son &#45; albeit in a unique and altered way, through the inimitable style and interpretation of his son:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vieuxfarkatoure.com\/vieuxfarkatoure\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vieuxfarkatoure.com\/vieuxfarkatoure\/index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And so we survive &#45; our music, stories, dance and genes &#45; transmuted for new generations; mixed and stirred too, as people, cultures and &#39;places&#39; collide together in an increasingly mobile world.  Lots still to look forward to then, despite the planet facing an ecological crisis\u2026And talking of future near&#45;possibilities for the planet,<b> Interzone<\/b> have just published their <i>Mundane SF<\/i> issue &#45; science fiction addressing the imminent issues of the near&#45;future:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ttapress.com\/439\/interzone-216-special-mundane-sf-issue-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ttapress.com\/439\/interzone-216-special-mundane-sf-issue-2\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In July\/August, <b>Escape Velocity<\/b> is due to publish their 4th issue; for which I&#39;ve written an article entitled: <i>Right and Wrong Stuff: Psychological Factors in Space Flight.&#39;<\/i>The title itself is self-explanatory &#45; I&#39;m looking at psychological issues involved in space travel, both past, current and what may be important in the future too, if crewed missions to Mars are pursued. I have had some very helpful input from <b>Prof. Al Harrison<\/b>, who has written the book <a href=\" http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=vaFEIZMqLWgC&#038;printsec=frontcover&#038;source=gbs_summ\n ary_r&#038;cad=0\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Spacefaring<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The e-versions of <b>Escape Velocity<\/b> should still be free in July, despite the rising costs of just about everything else:<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapevelocitymagazine.com\/freedownloads.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.escapevelocitymagazine.com\/freedownloads.htm<\/a>.<br \/>  So, in the interim &#8211; happy reading, listening and dancing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pl\">Nick Wood  &#45; June 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?attachment_id=105\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/vlinec.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"vlinec\" width=\"140\" height=\"10\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving on from the musical mention last month &#45; Toumani Diabate, I was again fortunate to witness and hear some wonderful African music again &#45; this time it was the son of the late great Ali Farka Toure &#45; Vieux. 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