I'm heading off to Belize tomorrow morning. I'll be back March 11th... probably won't post anything in the meantime.
-G
February 21, 2011
Marcus Aurelius
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
-Meditations
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-Meditations
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February 20, 2011
February 19, 2011
February 18, 2011
Petri Fractal
Excerpt from The Science Behind the Art:
"These images are part of a series of remarkable patterns that bacteria form when grown in a petri dish. While the colors and shading are artistic additions, the image templates are actual colonies of tens of billions of these microorganisms. The colony structures form as adaptive responses to laboratory-imposed stresses that mimic hostile environments faced in nature. They illustrate the coping strategies that bacteria have learned to employ, strategies that involve cooperation through communication."
February 15, 2011
Refuse to Suspend Disbelief
While watching a movie, just once at least: refuse to suspend disbelief. At every moment refuse to be transported away:
- View the characters as actors, see them acting, see them as Bard Pitt and Shia LaBeouf.
- Hear the speech as element of a script and the sound as components of a soundtrack.
- View the background as a backdrop, see it as a stage.
- View the cuts and pans and shots which are edited together to form a homogeneous narrative, as the disparate elements they are.
-View the movie temporally, and see, in every scene the director saying "Action" and "cut" and the actor saying: "how was that?"
- View the editor sitting there: splicing and combining and editing.
When viewed in this light, the historical continuity of theatre (stage, play, opera) to cinema (movie) becomes very clear. The line of Cultural History is clear and linear.
Film is a play in which there was a camera on stage. I mean this literally.
There is nothing disruptive in this: this is continuity.
- View the characters as actors, see them acting, see them as Bard Pitt and Shia LaBeouf.
- Hear the speech as element of a script and the sound as components of a soundtrack.
- View the background as a backdrop, see it as a stage.
- View the cuts and pans and shots which are edited together to form a homogeneous narrative, as the disparate elements they are.
-View the movie temporally, and see, in every scene the director saying "Action" and "cut" and the actor saying: "how was that?"
- View the editor sitting there: splicing and combining and editing.
When viewed in this light, the historical continuity of theatre (stage, play, opera) to cinema (movie) becomes very clear. The line of Cultural History is clear and linear.
Film is a play in which there was a camera on stage. I mean this literally.
There is nothing disruptive in this: this is continuity.
February 14, 2011
February 13, 2011
Michelle Obama on H&M
"... on NBC’s Today Show outfitted in a $34.95 dress from... H&M! Never shying away from bold colors, Mrs. Obama gave her navy-and-white print a personal touch by adding an orange obi-style belt and pairing it with bright yellow pumps. "
via J-Walk Blog and People
via J-Walk Blog and People
February 12, 2011
February 11, 2011
February 10, 2011
Psychosis 1
"The Ohio man found guilty of holding a 13-year-old girl hostage after killing her family and stuffing their dismembered bodies in a hollow tree had an obsession with trees and leaves, police documents show"
"Pictures of Matthew Hoffman's home reveal a living room stuffed with leaves, a bathroom lined with more than 100 bags of leaves, and a freezer that contained only a couple of red popsicles and two dead squirrels."
This reminds me of Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper, who led the RCMP on a 240km long foot chase in the North West Territories and the Yukon in 1931, in the middle of winter, after blowing up his cabin and scurrying out. After he was shot dead... "RCMP officials realized that he had traveled over 85 miles away from his cabin in less than 3 days, burning 10,000 calories. 75 years later, forensics teams found that his tailbone actually was not symmetrical, causing his spine to curve left and right slightly. In addition, one foot was longer than other." Further, an examination of Johnson's body yielded... a dead squirrel, and a dead bird... " It is a great and crazy story if you do not know it, check it out.
via J-walk via ABC and Wikipedia
"Pictures of Matthew Hoffman's home reveal a living room stuffed with leaves, a bathroom lined with more than 100 bags of leaves, and a freezer that contained only a couple of red popsicles and two dead squirrels."
This reminds me of Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper, who led the RCMP on a 240km long foot chase in the North West Territories and the Yukon in 1931, in the middle of winter, after blowing up his cabin and scurrying out. After he was shot dead... "RCMP officials realized that he had traveled over 85 miles away from his cabin in less than 3 days, burning 10,000 calories. 75 years later, forensics teams found that his tailbone actually was not symmetrical, causing his spine to curve left and right slightly. In addition, one foot was longer than other." Further, an examination of Johnson's body yielded... a dead squirrel, and a dead bird... " It is a great and crazy story if you do not know it, check it out.
via J-walk via ABC and Wikipedia
Obama Inauguration
May I interject?
"Facebook averaged 4,000 status updates per minute during the [Inauguration] broadcast" while "CNN had generated more than 136 million pageviews"
... sorry, you were telling me something about the non-story and post-modernism - bemoaning the lack of narrative, etc... go on...
"Facebook averaged 4,000 status updates per minute during the [Inauguration] broadcast" while "CNN had generated more than 136 million pageviews"
... sorry, you were telling me something about the non-story and post-modernism - bemoaning the lack of narrative, etc... go on...
February 9, 2011
February 8, 2011
Communication
I probably convey less then 1% of the what I intend. But please consume it as 100% of what I mean.
February 7, 2011
Coherent Sensations
Art should make us feel more clearly and more intelligently. It should give us coherent sensations that otherwise we would not have.
-Robert Hughes Mona Lisa Curse
Thanks to Azzo for the link.
-Robert Hughes Mona Lisa Curse
Thanks to Azzo for the link.
February 6, 2011
Super Bowl Sex Traffic
"We are expecting thousands of underage domestic minors to be trafficked to the Super Bowl"
""The Super Bowl is one of the biggest human trafficking events in the United States," Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott told a trafficking prevention meeting in January."
"That campaign has also attracted heavy hitters like Dallas Cowboy Jay Ratliff, a three-time Pro Bowler, who made a public service announcement entitled "Real men don't buy children. They don't buy sex.""
Via Reuters
""The Super Bowl is one of the biggest human trafficking events in the United States," Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott told a trafficking prevention meeting in January."
"That campaign has also attracted heavy hitters like Dallas Cowboy Jay Ratliff, a three-time Pro Bowler, who made a public service announcement entitled "Real men don't buy children. They don't buy sex.""
Via Reuters
February 5, 2011
Privileged Sight
Pancake Ice, Geese, Industry, and a distant Inferior Mirage (not very clear in photos) on the horizon.
taken with smartphone...
taken with smartphone...
February 3, 2011
February 2, 2011
February 1, 2011
Shinmoedake peak
Shinmoedake began erupting Wednesday, coating nearby villages and farms with ash and prompting authorities to ask for voluntary evacuations within a 1.2-mile (2-kilometer) radius.via National Geographic
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