User:Tranquileye

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[edit] About "tranquileye"

Tranquileye is the online handle I settled on in the late-1990s after several of my other identities stopped being unique.

I borrowed the word combination from a song by the Cocteau Twins, "Tranquil Eye," found on their 1996 EP/CD Violaine (red). The song has also been covered by Hong Kong diva Faye Wong.

The Twins may in turn have borrowed the phrase from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra:

When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed--and, rising one morning with the rosy dawn, he went before the sun, and spake thus unto it: "...Bless me, then, thou tranquil eye, that canst behold the greatest happiness without envy! ...

I chose "tranquileye" because it is a nice description of the one eye of mine (either one, actually) that used to have a lot of trouble looking forward; it was not lazy or turned out, but simply tranquil, and perhaps somewhat exotropian.

[edit] About John Harris Stevenson

I'm John Harris Stevenson, an Ottawa-based media and technology strategist and researcher. I currently work as a tech strategist and project manager for the International Development Research Centre, one of the world's leading international development institutions, building new knowledge sharing systems for researchers and partners.

I grew up in Truro, Nova Scotia, and spent many summers in nearby Tatamagouche, where I saw my first and only UFO. My trip to Disney World in 1973 forever effected my view of how the world can and does work. My nickname in high school was "Butch." I completed the Foundation Year Programme at the University of King's College in 1983, somehow got a BA in directing for the theatre from Dalhousie University in Halifax, as well as a MA in media studies from Concordia in Montreal, I'm currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto's Knowledge Media Design Institute.

I have worked for many years for Canadian community radio: programming jazz and hosting public affairs programs at CKDU-FM Halifax, managing CFRU-FM Guelph, and as president and later a member of the advisory board of the National Campus and Community Radio Association. I have a wide range of other interests, including interactive design, early Christian history, critical theory, the history of professional wrestling, intimate media, and the theory and practice of creating knowledge.

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