March 2011
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“Our traditional cultural models of creativity tend to involve the wrong sort of...”
– William Gibson (& context)
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“this morning I came across an article about ‘jishin yoi (link is in Japanese...”
– Earthquake Sickness « Quirky Japan Blog
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Rasputina - 1816, The Year Without A Summer
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“Mother kept her little daughter
Twenty minutes under water
Not to save from...”
– Chastushka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via bitpunk)
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images-sans-art
a4rizm:
D’une part, en effet, il appert que la profusion exponentielle des images produits par l’industrie de masse, des images-sans-art, ait pour conséquence le renoncement de nombreux artistes au projet même de l’art moderne : la production de nouvelles images. Tout se passe dorénavant pour beaucoup comme s’il y avait déjà suffisamment d’images du monde en circulation, comme si, le monde...
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l'art, à l'ère du village mondial
les-jolies-choses:
Le musée, réservé autrefois aux personnes cultivées, est aujourd’hui le but de flux incessants de visiteurs de toutes classes sociales. Certes, beaucoup regardent mais ne voient pas, toutefois ils reçoivent malgré tout une information sur l’art de différentes cultures. En outre, les musées voyagent, les oeuvres d’art se déplacent. (…) Ira-t-on vers un goût généralisé, au point...
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Japanese culture, yakuza to thank for no looting...
metaconscious:
In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami, Japan has been noticeably absent of looting and crime. Naturally, we all assume that the Japanese are just that orderly, polite and all those other enviable traits. These things are true, but Slate and Jake Adelstein added a little more depth to why these traits exist.
Slate points out something I was never really aware of: there’s a...
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“(…) Aussi longtemps que nous ne nous sentons pas dépendre de quoi que ce soit,...”
– Nietzche (via les-jolies-choses)
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“It feels important to remind ourselves, at this point, that Facebook, our new...”
– Zadie Smith on Facebook The New York Review of Books (via somethingchanged).
Traduction de MmePastel : ça paraît important de se rappeler pour nous-mêmes, à ce stade, que Facebook, notre nouvelle interface bien-aimée avec la réalité, a été conçu par un étudiant de deuxième année d’Harvard...
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Eels - Whatever Happened To Soy Bomb
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casipajaros:
“There is no objective reality. There might be a world that has true reality. A world with genuine physics. Like Newton said, or like Einstein said. But because we’re in a world that’s made out of language, we’ll never, ever get to that place from here. There’s no way out of a world that’s made of language. We can never reach any bedrock reality. The only direction we can move is...
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The Goggles Do Nothing — Crooked Timber
dicksonland:
On Steampunk:
Hence, the initial impetus of ‘steampunk’ was in large part an effort to recapture this sense of social inquiry, bridging the gap between nineteenth century inquiries and our own. Here, I am not referring to K.W. Jeter and others who were using Victorian tropes, but to the two books which really brought steampunk to a wider audience – William Gibson and Bruce...
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Kraken: a new book about squid - Boing Boing →
Cephalopods are the original Impressionists. I often wonder if the French painters didn’t quietly study the cephalopods’ techniques. Both the Impressionists’ and the cephalopods’ light shows provide the illusion of great depth by using luminosity — the reflection of light. Both skillfully use thousands of points of light and color to trick the observer.
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“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room…Suddenly...”
– America (1986) - J. Baudrillard (via theonlyadventureleft)
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Manual - Blue Shibuya Dream
album: Lost Days,...
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“I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only human being to contemplate the...”
– Roberto Bolaño, n.31, excerpted from “Tres” (source • thanks, S.)
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Aronofsky: "No one has done the cyberpunk genre...
azeroz:
Source: Interview conducted by Jayson Whitehead from GadflyOnline.Com concerning Darren Aronofsky’s “Pi” September 1998. (link)
Darren Aronofsky’s directorial debut is a science fiction thriller about mathematician Maximillian Cohen who believes that the universal questions that have plagued humankind for centuries can be solved through a pattern of numbers. As his search progresses,...
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The Real Ideas of Philip K. Dick by Michael...
azeroz:
Moorcock’s The Elric Saga was one of my early favorite books. While in California sometime in middle school, my soon to be brother-in-law lent it to me. Quickly captivated and unable to put it down, it will always be one of my favorite works of fiction, indeed perhaps the first that truly gripped me. Brother-in-law would later introduce me to Alternity (the books, I never played), a firm...
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Umshini Wam - Umshini Wam | VBS.TV →
Korine’s sixteen-minute short brings the audience to the fringes of society where Ninja and Yo Landi of Die Antwoord star as wheelchair-bound gangsters. Residing in the outskirts of civilization, Ninja and Yo Landi play trigger-happy, gun-toting misfits who bond throughout the film by sharing cartoonishly huge joints, sticking-up business owners, and seeking refuge and shelter in the woods. It...
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