left to right, then top to bottom- and then what? a composition of 28 stills, each...

If you are so inclined . . . Excerpt from this: “The overall purpose of reconstructivism...

Featured in The Standard Hotel New York. From Architecture Newspaper Blog: During our...

There's a lot going on lately, and I've been meaning to write something about the structural...

"What do we see today?"My last entry was about to extremism. I've asked If we are even able to change anything, and now I answer; Yes, we are. But we have to look closer where to find the most important things to change. Is that industry, car industry, ecology, medicine, philosophy, arts...? No, these segments of society will change...

House/Egg/Body/Soul/Horror Socio-Foundation Competition Entry: Michael Vlasopoulos...

THE CONCRETE CIRCUS The circus as ‘the ghost’ of...

Hi, I'm Joseph, friends call me "jesus". I've came here, because i believe. I believe we can change something. Not all of us will do it. I'm sad about "normal" people. They are kinda blind. But some of us, chosen people if you wish, are able to do it. Some of us are able to change the way we look at things. Some of us...

I want to Consume Less, Create More; to Speak Less, Communicate More; and if “every child is...

Individualism is a subject the fascinates me and the comparison between societies based on...

SCRIBD-DOCUMENT-Hronoya-Bible-Revelation-11-the-Two-Witnesses-Return-of-Christ The...

THE RAINBOW BRIDGE - ANTAHKARANA There is the material world and the spiritual. Between lies...

Omega Point and the Noosphere By Jonathan Bethel - With the convenience of modern...

"So if you never read OUT OF CONTROL, here is a user-generated remix that shortens and focuses...

IV. Ideological Similarities "People who wear Halloween costumes are sometimes...

From Dr. David Deak, formerly of NASA: This is an acoustic levitation chamber I designed and...

Designers are energised and fed by place. Where they choose to work, live and visit feeds the designer's mind, and their creative processes. My advice to designers seeking new places is to forget about the authentic. It's a sideshow, and a diversion. It's important, no doubt - but it is not everything. Consider, instead, what is actually going...

cloud seeding awareness project

“A philosopher’s ontology is the set of entities he or she assumes to exist in reality, the types of entities he or she is committed to assert actually exist. Although in the history of philosophy there are a great variety of ontological commitments, we can very roughly classify these into three main groups. For some philosophers reality...

by Manuel DeLanda One constant in the history of Western philosophy seems to be a certain conception of matter as an inert receptacle for forms that come from the outside. In other words, the genesis of form and structure seems to always involve resources that go beyond the capabilities of the material substratum of these forms and structures....

via things: By committing our memory to Google or the 'cloud' we have inadvertently created a great hunger for the intangible and ephemeral, the scraps and minutae of everyday life that get sucked into the circuitry and instantly forgotten. Already we are lamenting the loss of the unknown landscape as a result of global satellite imagery, gps...

Can't stop listening to this. Composed by this guy:

You draw a triangle on a surface of a sheet of circular shaped paper. You swirl and twist it by...

an 11 page wired article of one computer scientist's attempt at coming to terms with the looming dangers of advanced technology The Drives of Artificial Intelligence I am hopeful of the future. It seems to be the sanest way to continue living into the next day. But I still have my worries. Our leaders are pulling us into this insane...

Last night we tested out some of the Goggles on the street. We visited all the drunk people to see...

Our physical environments are gaining intelligence as our geography transcends the analog. Before...

As a kid, books like Wolverton's "The Golden Queen" hit me with extreme force. Therein...

I've just had the sudden urge to highlight some music videos from the past year or so... My...

The Interlace, one of the largest and most ambitious residential developments in Singapore,...

With this almost infinite informational web, regarding human proportions, we are controversially feeling more and more caged in this tiny round world, choked mainly by social rules and all sorts of socially induced wars and prohibitions that stops us from trying to rehearse and live different ways of living with much more wisdom and pleasure....

(from wildcat's blog) Building Brains: The Molecular Logic of Neural Circuits Memories are Made of This

What if the revolution doesn't need a name? Or leaders? Or a formal agenda? The most wonderful thought could be this: shit happens. Perhaps this is a uniquely Australian idiom, perhaps not - and I don't wish to offend with profanity, we Australians swear a lot, and this phrase has even been used by a Parliamentarian in a memorable impromptu...

The Mesmerized Mind - Study of Hypnosis “The motor cortex is connected to the idea that it cannot move the left hand, So even if you try to move, it will neglect to send signals to the motor execution areas.”

This is a clip from Modern Marvels on the History Channel

Recently I had the thought: Perhaps there are just too many people on the planet to sustain a good life for individuals? Now, this was an interesting moment for me. The 'overpopulation' thesis is neither original nor novel, and arriving at this as a personal insight made me question the assumed lack of value in having unoriginal thoughts. I...

Within our mythological sphere an epic-edge is unfolding, disclosing the current narration: we as...

As many have documented, the foundations of our current state of the Internet (namely the TCP/IP protocols) were developed by Leonard Kleinrock at UCLA in late 1969, with the first Internet connection formed between the UCLA and Stanford campuses. It's good to keep in mind this initial connection, as it summarizes the essence of the Internet: a...

Here I sit at 11.31 AEST 27 September 2009, on a cold spring Sunday morning beneath the great dome of the La Trobe Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Australia. I am here to soak up the atmosphere. Yes, I know that sounds flippant, but to a large extent it is true. My underlying motivation in being here is to find a...

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes...

Now, what I want to do in--certainly this first part of the seminar--is to call in question, very fundamentally, all of our basic ideas about what is sickness, what is health, what is sanity, what is insanity. Because I think we have to begin from this position of humility; that we really don't know. It's reported that shortly before he died,...

A list of quotes from many nobel prize winners who hated school, and one quote from one who liked the educational establishment (But he diddled kids). My family line goes back on one branch of teachers. My dad recently became one without knowing that our family in Chile has teachers, teachers, teachers going way back - Teaching is in our blood....

Hello reader of the future. I was born in 1971 in Cairns, Australia, and somehow over the last 38 years (it's 25 September 2009 right now, just after 21.46pm AEST) I have developed a strong sense of history. For this reason I am aware that the written word can cross the ages, enduring long after the writer has perished and turned to dust. Of...

I believe if time travel were possible (I am not making any decision I'm unsure, more to the side...