Tuesday, May 31, 2011
ENTER THE VOID Opening Credits
FIRST OFF, this movie was the craziest shit i ever did see. these are the opening credits (they show the credits are the beginning, not the end). the main character dies in the first 20 minutes of this two and a half hour movie. check your sobriety at the door, please
this is automatically one of my favorite movies, really an art piece and completely mindblowing.
highly recommended. plus its on netflix CHECK THAT SHIT OUT, if you dare. you might need a hug when its over though
(well done kanye)
manhattanhenge
semiannual occurence where the setting sun aligns with the east/west streets
via nythroughthelens.com
Friday, May 27, 2011
"My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day."
- Tom Waits
Thursday, May 26, 2011
filter bubble
theres a book on the subject, i want to read it. this is a bit worrisome, no? im bothered
this is justin beibers new perfume
little girls love justin beiber
this will sell alot
poor little girls, poor justin beiber, poor little girls parents. so many people being taken advantage of right now.
and the winner ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
this guy
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Top Ten Myths About the Human Brain
1. We use only 10 percent of our brains.
This one sounds so compelling—a precise number, repeated in pop culture for a century, implying that we have huge reserves of untapped mental powers. But the supposedly unused 90 percent of the brain is not some vestigial appendix. Brains are expensive—it takes a lot of energy to build brains during fetal and childhood development and maintain them in adults. Evolutionarily, it would make no sense to carry around surplus brain tissue. Experiments using PET or fMRI scans show that much of the brain is engaged even during simple tasks, and injury to even a small bit of brain can have profound consequences for language, sensory perception, movement or emotion.
True, we have some brain reserves. Autopsy studies show that many people have physical signs of Alzheimer’s disease (such as amyloid plaques among neurons) in their brains even though they were not impaired. Apparently we can lose some brain tissue and still function pretty well. And people score higher on IQ tests if they’re highly motivated, suggesting that we don’t always exercise our minds at 100 percent capacity.
2. “Flashbulb memories” are precise, detailed and persistent.
We all have memories that feel as vivid and accurate as a snapshot, usually of some shocking, dramatic event—the assassination of President Kennedy, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, the attacks of September 11, 2001. People remember exactly where they were, what they were doing, who they were with, what they saw or heard. But several clever experiments have tested people’s memory immediately after a tragedy and again several months or years later. The test subjects tend to be confident that their memories are accurate and say the flashbulb memories are more vivid than other memories. Vivid they may be, but the memories decay over time just as other memories do. People forget important details and add incorrect ones, with no awareness that they’re recreating a muddled scene in their minds rather than calling up a perfect, photographic reproduction.
3. It’s all downhill after 40 (or 50 or 60 or 70).
It’s true, some cognitive skills do decline as you get older. Children are better at learning new languages than adults—and never play a game of concentration against a 10-year-old unless you’re prepared to be humiliated. Young adults are faster than older adults to judge whether two objects are the same or different; they can more easily memorize a list of random words, and they are faster to count backward by sevens.
But plenty of mental skills improve with age. Vocabulary, for instance—older people know more words and understand subtle linguistic distinctions. Given a biographical sketch of a stranger, they’re better judges of character. They score higher on tests of social wisdom, such as how to settle a conflict. And people get better and better over time at regulating their own emotions and finding meaning in their lives.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Top-Ten-Myths-About-the-Brain.html#ixzz1NI2kUAqY
Read the rest here.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Brastemp, the Whirlpool whitegoods manufacturer in Brazil, is running an advertising campaign with the tagline “Inspiration changes everything. And life becomes just like a Brastemp.” “Sorriso” (Smile), a television commercial viewed over 2 million times online since its launch in 2010, shows what happened when eleven Sao Paulo radio stations ran a simultaneous call for inspirational smiles. Drivers caught in early morning peak traffic were invited to smile at the person in the car next to them. The commercial catches the moment and shares the inspiration.
via theinspirationroom
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Bliss Dance
“Bliss Dance” by Marco Cochrane is a 40 foot tall sculpture of a dancing female figure composed of geodesic struts with a skin of steel mesh. Currently residing at the Great Lawn on Treasure Island near San Francisco, the sculpture originally debuted at Burning Man 2010 festival. Black Rocks Arts Foundation is hosting an opening reception for Bliss Dance on May 26, and is raising funds to extend the sculpture’s stay, which is currently scheduled to end in October.
"The sculpture, of a dancing woman, stands 40 feet tall, weighs 7000 pounds and is ingeniously constructed of triangulated geodesic struts. By day, the dancer’s ‘skin’, made of stainless steal mesh, shimmers in the sun. By night, it alights brilliantly with a complex array of 1000 slowly changing l.e.d. colored lights. Viewers may interact with and manipulate the lighting effects with an iphone application. The dancer’s delicate, graceful form precariously balances on one foot, adding to the astonishing impression of imminent movement and lifelike presence."by marco cochrane
via laughingsquid
Music that blew Esperanza Spalding's Mind
Wayne Shorter's Atlantis
Each song on this album is teeming with so much life. One absolutely must listen over and over and over to taste all the inner story lines. Every time, I hear a new line, a new melody, a new character.
Milton Nascimento's Minas
I like all the experimentation on this record—with song forms, with arrangements, with sounds. Milton seems to be channeling a lot of Beatles, and he takes the African musical influences from bluesy sixties rock and Brazilian folk music and has them form a perfect symbiosis. When I’m reaching for something a little out of bounds in my own writing, when I’m in a period of unease, this record inspires me.
Betty Carter's The Modern Sound of Betty Carter
Ms. Carter adds more pages to the singers' bible. These are amazingly original interpretations of the American Songbook. And while the arrangements themselves might not sound revolutionary to the modern ear, Ms. Carter's way of singing is free of its time.
Juan Falú and Liliana Herrero's Leguizamón - Castilla
Cuchi Leguizamón is my king of melody, and Liliana Herrero channels the storytelling power of the sage. She and Falú radiate tremendous beauty and sincerity. I feel this record in my bones and blood even stronger than I enjoy it for its aesthetic beauty.
Jack DeJohnette's Music for the Fifth World
Put this record in your stereo, turn the speakers to full volume, look at the cover, and press play. I don't know what "the Fifth World" is, but this music is definitely divined from another planet. It sounds like the superhuman characters from dream thoughts realized through music.
via vulture
Each song on this album is teeming with so much life. One absolutely must listen over and over and over to taste all the inner story lines. Every time, I hear a new line, a new melody, a new character.
Milton Nascimento's Minas
I like all the experimentation on this record—with song forms, with arrangements, with sounds. Milton seems to be channeling a lot of Beatles, and he takes the African musical influences from bluesy sixties rock and Brazilian folk music and has them form a perfect symbiosis. When I’m reaching for something a little out of bounds in my own writing, when I’m in a period of unease, this record inspires me.
Betty Carter's The Modern Sound of Betty Carter
Ms. Carter adds more pages to the singers' bible. These are amazingly original interpretations of the American Songbook. And while the arrangements themselves might not sound revolutionary to the modern ear, Ms. Carter's way of singing is free of its time.
Juan Falú and Liliana Herrero's Leguizamón - Castilla
Cuchi Leguizamón is my king of melody, and Liliana Herrero channels the storytelling power of the sage. She and Falú radiate tremendous beauty and sincerity. I feel this record in my bones and blood even stronger than I enjoy it for its aesthetic beauty.
Jack DeJohnette's Music for the Fifth World
Put this record in your stereo, turn the speakers to full volume, look at the cover, and press play. I don't know what "the Fifth World" is, but this music is definitely divined from another planet. It sounds like the superhuman characters from dream thoughts realized through music.
via vulture
haha i wrote this in college - "SCHOOL"
I detested detention
i'm guessing the mission
was to assert their aggression
validate their position
because they sucked at their profession
its not my fault
xeroxed lessons in a copied curriculum
couldnt hold my attention
how dare you even mention
my name in context of troublemakers
your methods did nothing to educate me
they made my troubles greater,
i forgot what you fed me,
it all ended up shit
and now i gotta unlearn
subliminal messages
that you really taught kids
who gave you the authority
to report on my progress
your grade is N/A cuz guess what?
i was taught by a talking textbook
which we had to buy anyway
so what the fuck is your objective?
i'm guessing the mission
was to assert their aggression
validate their position
because they sucked at their profession
its not my fault
xeroxed lessons in a copied curriculum
couldnt hold my attention
how dare you even mention
my name in context of troublemakers
your methods did nothing to educate me
they made my troubles greater,
i forgot what you fed me,
it all ended up shit
and now i gotta unlearn
subliminal messages
that you really taught kids
who gave you the authority
to report on my progress
your grade is N/A cuz guess what?
i was taught by a talking textbook
which we had to buy anyway
so what the fuck is your objective?
Monday, May 16, 2011
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
-Andre Gide
easier said than done haha
easier said than done haha
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
we hope that you choke
Radiohead - Exit Music (for a Film)
if you like it, it's INFLUENCE, if you don't its BITING
Frederic Chopin - Prelude No. 4 in E Minor
if you like it, it's INFLUENCE, if you don't its BITING
Frederic Chopin - Prelude No. 4 in E Minor
Lady Gaga - Judas
Ok. let me explain. i know its lady gaga, some of you might be disappointed in me. but i dont hate her as much as some of you might. let me explain.
shes full of controversy - done ON PURPOSE. she's a pop star and she knows what she's doing. madonna wore the torpedo bra to fluster people. she's sitting back yukking it up while people are up in arms.
sidebar((i think that its INTERESTING that the chorus can be summed up one way, the video can be summed up another, and the lyrics another. seems like theyre directed at different people))
its not brainwashing, its not satanic. she's playing the media, and, by extention, people who follow it blindly. and its this dull minded lemming like behavior that causes so many problems, culturally. see
ill give it to anyone that is listening to this CRITICALLY, she's obviously trying to make a point. i just hardly think its a religious one. she's been critical of pop culture from the get go. i dont know if shes going to be successful in her message or not, but its entertaining to me. people really hate her, like people hated kobe bryant for a while, like people hated jim morrison, like people hated TUPAC for gods sake. celebrity martyr du jour
from what i can tell she's aim's to be in the medias crosshairs, that's her soapbox. im not really a fan but i think she's putting some thought into her moves. (im not that intelligent, its just not that DEEP) I may be giving her too much credit here, but though her methods are debatable, her point is a valid one.
and musically - some of her melodies are just bad ass, dont lie.
---edit: i just found out she released this on easter... yeah thats a little obnoxious ---
shes full of controversy - done ON PURPOSE. she's a pop star and she knows what she's doing. madonna wore the torpedo bra to fluster people. she's sitting back yukking it up while people are up in arms.
sidebar((i think that its INTERESTING that the chorus can be summed up one way, the video can be summed up another, and the lyrics another. seems like theyre directed at different people))
its not brainwashing, its not satanic. she's playing the media, and, by extention, people who follow it blindly. and its this dull minded lemming like behavior that causes so many problems, culturally. see
ill give it to anyone that is listening to this CRITICALLY, she's obviously trying to make a point. i just hardly think its a religious one. she's been critical of pop culture from the get go. i dont know if shes going to be successful in her message or not, but its entertaining to me. people really hate her, like people hated kobe bryant for a while, like people hated jim morrison, like people hated TUPAC for gods sake. celebrity martyr du jour
from what i can tell she's aim's to be in the medias crosshairs, that's her soapbox. im not really a fan but i think she's putting some thought into her moves. (im not that intelligent, its just not that DEEP) I may be giving her too much credit here, but though her methods are debatable, her point is a valid one.
and musically - some of her melodies are just bad ass, dont lie.
---edit: i just found out she released this on easter... yeah thats a little obnoxious ---
Monday, May 9, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
and so the story goes...
ok this is a personal post. and im gonna try to write it in 10 minutes
ive been broke, ive been working. ive been going home. ive been staying mostly to myself.
mostly because i havent done anything and i have nothing to talk about. there a life update. now.
i have this idea in my head that im some kind of agent. like im on a deep undercover mission. but im way too deep undercover, and i cant keep contact with the outside without compromising their safety.
ive pretty much gotten over the "all my fucking parents fault" thing and ive went out on a limb with my life, a little bit. i was so sure this was the right thing - the only thing - to do.
when i made that decision i didnt have a clue what itd really be like. that being said i dont regret it for one second, i just say that to remove all though of "courage" or "risk taking" that not me at all. i needed some freedom, i needed to wake up, and i needed to fucking make a decision for my self for once
i told myself that im on a mission, like this is all part of the plan. yeah it sucks for now but, one day soon, ill have my space, my freedom. ill be able to do beautiful things and connect with beautiful people and go beautiful places. i just have to deal with this throbbing, pulsating, steam engine machine for a few years
but sometimes i feel like im too deep undercover. ive never been grounded in reality, and im worried that if i dont come down some from this fantasy im gonna completely fucking lose it. im starting to lose track of that feeling of confidence about what i want to do. thats the fucking dream and if i lose that, im up shit creek.
because ive chosen this path, whether i like it or not, and this is the lifestyle ive allowed to happen. there is literally no turning back.
the only thing i can do is stop being a double agent. this is not an easy mission to stay committed to. but i promised myself i would. that voice just gets quiet sometimes.
i guess theres no point to this. i just hope i dont run out of gas before im ever able to do anything positive
phew, ok
ive been broke, ive been working. ive been going home. ive been staying mostly to myself.
mostly because i havent done anything and i have nothing to talk about. there a life update. now.
i have this idea in my head that im some kind of agent. like im on a deep undercover mission. but im way too deep undercover, and i cant keep contact with the outside without compromising their safety.
ive pretty much gotten over the "all my fucking parents fault" thing and ive went out on a limb with my life, a little bit. i was so sure this was the right thing - the only thing - to do.
when i made that decision i didnt have a clue what itd really be like. that being said i dont regret it for one second, i just say that to remove all though of "courage" or "risk taking" that not me at all. i needed some freedom, i needed to wake up, and i needed to fucking make a decision for my self for once
i told myself that im on a mission, like this is all part of the plan. yeah it sucks for now but, one day soon, ill have my space, my freedom. ill be able to do beautiful things and connect with beautiful people and go beautiful places. i just have to deal with this throbbing, pulsating, steam engine machine for a few years
but sometimes i feel like im too deep undercover. ive never been grounded in reality, and im worried that if i dont come down some from this fantasy im gonna completely fucking lose it. im starting to lose track of that feeling of confidence about what i want to do. thats the fucking dream and if i lose that, im up shit creek.
because ive chosen this path, whether i like it or not, and this is the lifestyle ive allowed to happen. there is literally no turning back.
the only thing i can do is stop being a double agent. this is not an easy mission to stay committed to. but i promised myself i would. that voice just gets quiet sometimes.
i guess theres no point to this. i just hope i dont run out of gas before im ever able to do anything positive
phew, ok
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
"America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve."
- Tom Morello, of Rage Against the Machine
Monday, May 2, 2011
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