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Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
party
http://fluxshop.se/http://www.kimhagelind.com/
Once a month we invite 12 people to a dinner. Every participant signs up with an ingredient and a subject they’d like to discuss during the dinner. Traditional subjects as family, work and home are banned for this evening. The 12 guests are randomly picked from all the entries.
Once a month we invite 12 people to a dinner. Every participant signs up with an ingredient and a subject they’d like to discuss during the dinner. Traditional subjects as family, work and home are banned for this evening. The 12 guests are randomly picked from all the entries.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
dark roast blend blog and tweets from space
1988 visit to Moscow by President Reagan with KGB Vladimir Putin in tourist camouflage behind the child.
Soviet Communist Party boss Leonid Brezhnev, relaxing at his dacha on the Black Sea.
what the middle looks like
http://twitter.com/astro_wheels
NASA Astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock tweets images from space.
This guy knows the mythology of his job....
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Astropress and The European Graduate School
http://www.atropospress.com/publications/teletheory/
Grad School at The European Graduate School.
http://www.egs.edu/students/overview/
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
lang.
The gift of writing is the ability to convey, it transforms our bodies to the parameters of thought. I always considered music to be the most pure of art forms; nothing needed to be learned, only felt. Now I am starting to believe that art is measured by the amount of human construction contained in the object, and therefore language, the most common and heightened conceptual form, is also the most artistic. Sound is related to communication in that the body’s engagement with sound is basically a liturgical practice, the body creates sound and responds the quickest to a startling noise. Sight most thoroughly gives us our environment, the body can manipulate forms into being, and sound puts math into the world by signaling moments linked in time. Each second measured as a note. We can love the individual instant, but relationships of seconds joined together create layers with the interaction of objects at the crossroads of time and space. This moment/sound/person together with another, textures. Sound moves to our body, I can interpret some, snagged in the cup of my ear, if it’s within my range. I can make some, from my tiny, imperceptible cells and atoms bustling, to loud shouts and smashes, maybe I make others so loud that I can’t hear them? Sound moves the unconsciousness of the body thought, the manipulated perception of our environment as sculpted through unconscious behavior.
Fall outside of language. We invent and then we say. We are balanced between our house of worship, the safety of habits, our animal sense of what is known, and the accident, ‘God(s)’ and that which is beyond perception and our ability to have forethought.
The learned word is the height of art. Language is the peak of human construction, an almost formless form, it is fashioned both horizontally and vertically. Horizontally it is a common devise that automatically demands attention, and vertically it is capable of containing the most essential element of humanity, the abstract consciousness of a social being. Our use of language is the true thumbprint or snapshot that defines our development within a set moment. Words as objects do not bend the participant too far outside of their daily practice, each animal adapts to their tools with the goal of getting what they want, survival, attention and understanding, the self nurtured, safe and sustaining while thriving by expression of the will, pulling desire to herself, and from there comes everything else.
External materials used in all forms of artistic expression co-writes the end result of the creator’s expression. Language slightly escapes this dictation because the written material, devised by the will and translated through the language body, has been processed throughout the lifetime of an individual. The animal experience has adapted to the everydayness of language, and habit breeds an antimaterial-material to portray though, the power of the everyday makes a fine tool of whatever language you speak with and use to share with others. While the word exists in the liminal space between two people, it is still a quick sound or mark full of immediate sensory recognition. While being completely reliant on self-expression, words need very little support from the direct environment, it is the poor wo/man’s craft.
Sound, made by movement, causes movement. For humans movement, or growth, happens before anything else, so it would make sense that this would be the basic way that we pay attention, ‘where am I going, what am I thinking, and what is happening around me?’, we note action, friction, hustle, shift, scoot, do, say, make, think, energy, the next big thing, change, look, and…. In the womb we develop, and as we start to form our means for sensory perception we can begin to process light and dark, sound, smell, and taste. After our capacity to interpret all the other modes that artistic vision is expressed through, we finally get around to understanding language, symbolic construction. This habit of consciousness is so human, that it is the highest art form capable of conveying the mind without the material effecting its expression. Language allows you forward while aggressing on your own presence, advancing through either the seduction of the words interiority or the social obligation to be aware of what is outside your own processes. Language as a messenger is direct and quick, the easy transport comes from being nearly without a body of its own, the form was constructed in the past, the learning of vocabulary, slowly, constantly, steadily embedded itself to be one with us, renewing, alchemically we learn and become simultaneously, a mask expressed through, simple package, a framework of what someone thought they saw one time and had the need to say to you. Language makes you a believer. The interest of the buyer dictates what is said to them, and what they hear. Only wishing to please, a word is something between the individual’s necessity and a faith in their listener to be as devotional to the delivered subject as they are as the meanings architect. Perspective, a gift, the fetish. Language, the object invisible. The word is practical, utilitarian, it has mass appeal, and yet it can imprint our vision with directness and has the capability to capture abstractions, to break itself in its very use, the word can be decomposing itself and adorned simultaneously.
Adaptation: snow tigers
The world is crazy. What are these little shitters doing in the snow like that making human snow balls? So cute and weird.
'Five-year-old Siberian tigers Wassja and Mandschu play with a giant snow ball at Wuppertal Zoo in Germany.'
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
BBC
Q: Just a final thought. Do you see yourself… as some sort of messianic figure?
JA: Everyone would like to be a messianic figure without dying. We are bringing some important change about what is perceived to be the rights of people who expose abuses by powerful corporations and then to resist censorship attacks after the event. We are also changing the perception of the west.
Q: I'm talking about you personally.
JA: I'm always so focussed on my work, I don't have time to think about how I perceive myself… I had time to perceive myself a bit more in solitary confinement. I was perfectly happy with myself. I wondered what that process would do. Would I think "my goodness, how have I got into this mess, is it all just too hard?"
The world is a very ungrateful place, why should I continue to suffer simply to try and do some good in the world. If the world is so viciously against it ,why don't I just go off and do some mathematics or write some books? But no, actually, I felt quite at peace.
Q: You want to change the world?
JA: Absolutely. The world has a lot of problems and they need to be reformed. And we only live once. Every person who has some ability to do something about it, if they are a person of good character, has the duty to try and fix the problems in the environment which they're in.
That is a value, that, yes, comes partly from my temperament. There is also a value that comes from my father, which is that capable, generous men don't create victims, they try and save people from becoming victims. That is what they are tasked to do. If they do not do that they are not worthy of respect or they are not capable.
JA: Everyone would like to be a messianic figure without dying. We are bringing some important change about what is perceived to be the rights of people who expose abuses by powerful corporations and then to resist censorship attacks after the event. We are also changing the perception of the west.
Q: I'm talking about you personally.
JA: I'm always so focussed on my work, I don't have time to think about how I perceive myself… I had time to perceive myself a bit more in solitary confinement. I was perfectly happy with myself. I wondered what that process would do. Would I think "my goodness, how have I got into this mess, is it all just too hard?"
The world is a very ungrateful place, why should I continue to suffer simply to try and do some good in the world. If the world is so viciously against it ,why don't I just go off and do some mathematics or write some books? But no, actually, I felt quite at peace.
Q: You want to change the world?
JA: Absolutely. The world has a lot of problems and they need to be reformed. And we only live once. Every person who has some ability to do something about it, if they are a person of good character, has the duty to try and fix the problems in the environment which they're in.
That is a value, that, yes, comes partly from my temperament. There is also a value that comes from my father, which is that capable, generous men don't create victims, they try and save people from becoming victims. That is what they are tasked to do. If they do not do that they are not worthy of respect or they are not capable.
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