- excerpt from the New York Times, The Universe, Expanding Beyond All Understanding
"Forget the implied mortality of our species and everything it has or has not accomplished. If you are of a certain science fiction age, like me, you might have grown up with a vague notion of the evolution of the universe as a form of growing...
Final animation for SCI-Arc 3GB design studio co-taught by Hernan Diaz-Alonso and Benjamin Bratton.
Designers: Kristopher Conner, Matthew Majack, Joshua Sprinkling
Sonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.
Sonoluminescence may or may not occur whenever a sound wave of sufficient intensity induces a gaseous cavity within a liquid to quickly collapse. This cavity may take the form of a pre-existing bubble, or may be generated...
...a quote from this very interesting article that Claire gave us...
The surrealists believed that objects in the world possess a certain but unspecifiable intensity that had been dulled by everyday use and utility. They meant to reanimate this dormant intensity, to bring their minds once again into close contact with the matter that made up...
"The moral rejection of doping cannot be explained by that fact that someone simply broke a rule or that it may be unhealthy. The moralisation of the debate is based on a strange understanding of ‘natural’ performance. Considering that human performance – and human life in general – is all about continuously going beyond natural...
funny how naive i was to think that by changing environemnts I could change the way people think. And so naive of me to think everything is black and white. but now, i realize how relevent artificiality and misinterpretation is in my life. irony of being immersed in nature and beauty tangiblity, but living like robots. programmed to work, do what...
This is the name of a 1986 sonic entrainment piece composed by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, which combines brainwave entrainment frequency patterns with music:
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Articles on entrainment:
+ via Wikipedia
+ via Jonathon Goldman's Healing Sounds