Put aside my “finding my voice / be yourself” bent I’ve been on lately.
I want to write like Baudrillard.
Read his article on Global Debt and Parallel Universes.
More importantly, I think I need to observe like Baudrillard.
Baudrillard, walking through Time Square observed an electronic billboard displaying a skyrocketing public debt counter for the US, rising $20,000/sec.
He then connected ....
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K-Street, by Soderbergh and Clooney, is a reality show on HBO about the life of political consultants.
Very engrossing series, I highly recommend it. It really brings you there. The most notable feature is all the noise and stress induced by following the show, which in a way, keeps you glued.
Read my Excel Blog on K-Street, it elaborates my thought process on why I enjoy it so much.
posted by phil on Saturday Nov 29, 2003 5:54 PM
Art, infographics, interesting use of a medium, personal projects
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She sits there, empty gazing beyond this man, calculating the trajectories of various words. Bowling balls to sack the pins of genetic probability... the question is asked: does this man carry good genetic fitness? Silence,,,, the machine cannot see its own gears lest it lose its bearings.
Still, he has not budged. The empty gazes don't shiver his still desire, his solid desire for the wet.
The empty cannot be slippery for there is nothing, no substance to become slick.
But the void has its allure of silence: a lack of weakness (and strength), a lack of criticism (and genuine praise), a lack of lacks ad infinitum.
I was just reading some Baudrillard, this is why I'm talking weird like this, nonetheless, it feels like the wick of the candle of my passion, hence its posted.
idealismo.... it is a pickle no doubt about it. 3GB in the hand is better than 3GB tomorrow. After your hard drive is formatted, don't forget to take a shower. And by the way, your 2nd favorite band stinks, your 1st favorite band is my downloads folder, and everything else sounds like noise. By the way, when you find Thoreau, let me know and I'll show you a pond of chocolate. Don't choke, you might need to stretch before you make out. And speaking of making out, pucker up.
The red lights mean anxiety, the green lights mean think about tomorrow. After time has had her way about you, you may find a choice. Not talking about the choice between Pepsi or Coke, but more between Blond v. Brunette. I personally like Chrome, and your electric barbarella might like it too. Don't forget to change her gyros, just like you shouldn't forget to change your mind.
Some art for the kids today...
PHILOSOPHISTRY SUPPORTS ANY ENDEAVOR THAT INCREASES THE QUANTITY, QUALITY AND VELOCITY OF INFORMATION EXCHANGED IN THE UNIVERSE.
hence... check out Photoshop Tennis, an orgy of pixelated fandango.
AND AS WELL, WE SUPPORT PROGRAMMERS BECAUSE PROGRAMMERS CREATE THE MEDIUM THAT SPEEDS UP INFORMATION EXCHANGE. EMIN!
and likewise thenceforward, check out ColorMatch Remix... you know I'll be using this to generate some fruity blog fabric coloursz
Some awesome art for the new media age. I hope the Singularity will be as colorful as this.
Credit: Boing Boing
Sometimes I get nervous watching the time.. to watch the seconds progress one step at a time.
Sometimes I imagine every action of the earth taking place simultaneously at that second, the earth rotating a few milidegrees, somebody picking up a glass of water, a couple kissing, somebody getting ready to shoot.
Like clockwork, everything on earth moves synchronously to the same clock of time. We all, all billions of us, take a step at the same time, every second.
7*10^9 people holding hands simultaneously taking one step forward into time. Every second the earth etches a gazillion bits of new information into the irrevocable timeline.
And my heart stops for a second, worried that this fleet of elephants will trip up and explode. But they don't. Like clockwork, every action has a reaction and it all balances out, one second at a time.
Imagine every Playboy centerfold superimposed on each other. The result is an amazing merge that gives you a "wiff" of what it means to be a femme sex object...
Also interesting is this River of Blood photo
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Art has reached an impasse for sure. Or rather, art that has ever been selected for a gallery or a museum has a natural ability to deliver nausea. Maybe it's because I'm such a carnivore of aesthetics, but there is such a thing as too much harmony. Nature provides the most visual symphonic harmony, and artists by the laws of color matching attempt to imitate. But with the Singularity coming up, it's time for humans to stop congratulating themselves for how well they can mirror, imitate, or represent the *.* experience.
Anyways, this all relates somehow to the design of Philosophistry. I feel like I'm at a passion-impasse. Everybody likes the current design for obvious reasons. This is making me nervous because I can also simultaneously feel that it's not doing too much for me as well.
So, in honor of Che and my newfound (sarcastic) interest in "Rage against the machine" there'll be a new, braver design for Philosophistry coming up that will risk being as ugly as possible. I might also make it an ode to .PNG and CSS. Cheers!
Maybe 2012 is not too optimistic
UPDATE: On second thought...
When Jackson Pollock splattered his brush, he marked a shift in art: from determinism to non-determinism.
From structure to chaos.
Blogging is kind of an extension of that RE writing.
The question: is the shift from control to un-control a signal of the Singularity? When the primary modes of order have been wrested from the creative, magical minds of man and placed in the hands of codeified fomula, rules, and science, does that mean that the torch of progress is being handed to another species?
Of course it does! Thank you... good bye!
Maybe 2012 is not too optmistic
Phil recommends OutKast's new album, Speakerboxxx/Love Below... go get GrabIt and then try alt.binaries.sound.mp3.complete_cd or alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.full_albums to get the album... I only found Love Below, but my guess is that Andre, the producer of that cd, is the better half.
The Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery
portfolio of galleries contains thousands of full color photomicrographs (photographs taken through a microscope) and digital images selected from our many image collections.
Mitsi has consented to a simple experiment: We will play a career-spanning selection of Radiohead songs; the kids, equipped with Sharpies and blank sheets of paper, will simply draw whatever the music suggests to them. We don't even give them the name of the band. They don't know anything about Radiohead, the mountain of criticism, the mythology. Their thoughts and interpretations are pure, unsullied, literally unique.
Click on NATO Experience, very good flash. Guess what OTAN means.
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Graphics Artist Mastor (Mon. Sep. 08) Very good, long review of Contact (Fri. Sep. 05) Kinetic Scupltures (Sun. Aug. 31) The Propaganda Remix Project (Tue. Jul. 22) Prodigy Sample Sources (Sat. May. 10) An amazing flash piece that (Thu. Apr. 17) Dope Flash Clock (Thu. Apr. 03)