it seems like we are discovering new things everyday. that innovations are moving everything forward, or upward. technology, medicine, science. it's all going up. but when i get into an argument, i know deep down that i am just as confused as the very first being capable of communication and thought. even though each evolutionary step has as...
Currently I am sitting in an apartment on a sunny day overlooking the river valley in Edmonton, Alberta. On July 19th we begin our trek through the Northern Canada, Alaska and the Arctic Circle that will last for 25 days. We will pass through wild and glacial terrain seeking out change as it is reflexively performed within culture and...
running a quartz composer file, converted to a wmv, through vlc, then scrubbing the hell out of the timeline. Digital video is surprisingly malleable, especially once you find a media player like vlc that refuses to stop playing a video even though errors abound. Quicktime wouldn't even touch the file. Could you imagine a movie reel projector at...
A youtube clip from a BBC episode about Bonobos
"I can't believe I just talked to a Bonobo"
LMAO
Heres another longer video (11 min) about the research Susan is doing with these Bonobos, she gave a presentation about it.
p.s their is a musical artist named Bonobo too, and he's simply fucking amazing too..
bonobo - pick up
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5. London Symphony Orchestra. For a comprehensive experience check out the full length.
I was first introduced to The Emperor Concerto while watching the film version of Kurt Vonnegut's 'Harrison Bergeron'. A science fiction short story based on the idea of an egalitarian society achieved by handicapping...
I sat in the window seat of a jumbo jet as Chicago, Illinois accepted darkness. As we lifted off, I noticed the lights lining the runway. We began to rise. Lights were speckled across vast amounts of concrete. We rose higher; we moved east. A sparkling multitude of green, red, blue, white, yellow, covered the airport ground. We rose higher,...
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the...
My father once asked me a question a long while ago. Essentially, we were talking about religion and some of the aspects of it. He's committed to his beliefs but this time, he posed a question that didn't sound like him and one I occasionally ponder.
"If God created the world and God is in control of what we consider our immediate...
Wrote this back in my sophomore year. In gym class, no less.
My rendition of what it feels like to find someone, then lose them.
*ahem*
I stared into the abyss of your eyes
Trying to see past the pretty face
Into a world where parallel lines
Intersected into infinity, where the
Impossible happened....
The impossible being me...
unfortunately i have not yet read “Love + Sex With Robots” by David Levy however the issue strikes a very deep cord , a thread of sensation which i still have to think about and truth to tell come to terms with.
Yes I want the robots here, but love making?
here are some excerpts from an interview Levy gave to andiamnotlying.com
It...
...rarely drink water. Instead, they have a highly water-efficient metabolism (their kidneys are at least four times more efficient at retaining water and excreting salt than those of humans) and manufacture water through a metabolic process called oxidative phosphorylation.
One special feature of the kangaroo rat is the animal's efficient...