"The prevailing sense of diminished subjectivity is underwritten by a distinct code about the workings of human behaviour and personhood. Every culture provides a set of ideas and beliefs about the nature of human beings and what constitutes their personhood. Our ideas about what we can expect from one another, how we handle uncertainty and...
We have an urge to build. Nature is treated as a side-order, becoming an attraction and a marketing tool. At one point we came from nature, now we package and sell what is left of it in holiday safari trips. Why do we disregard nature as a habitat for humans and immediately build? Why should nature be reduced to symbolism, poetics and abstraction...
affordance mining is recycling in a sense. "the process of researching (usually hardware) technology, such as the keyboard, touchscreen, traffic lights, etc., to determine their underutilized actionable properties and developing methods of leveraging those properties into innovative forms of interaction between the actor and the technology....
7 minutes of Mckenna improv. Required listening!
...it's not outer space, it's not some kind of managed Orwellian collectivist paradise, it's something more profound than that. We are perhaps going to download ourselves into a gold ytterbium cube that we will super-cool and bury a thousand feet beneath Copernicus and there all walk on the...
So, with classes, extracurriculars, and the rest of my life sabotaging my project, I have found that the footage I find of my living atmosphere must be powerful, and perfect. However, that has proven to be difficult so far because of circumstance.
I do not have my own car to travel to possible locations, bad.
Locally, UCLA does not provide...
I'm now collaborating with Peter and Muskan in designing sounds for the project OPEN.
The goal is to have a single sound piece comprised of 4 or 5 individual arrangements transitioning into each other, with each being associated with a different event/mood one can experience while navigating around within the OPEN healing...
“that’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind….”
Flashes black, strobe.
level 1:
(voice of woman,breathless, quick paced. Urgency.
“ Our bodies became the last form of identifiable commodity- the last bit of material attachment left for ourselves to hold on to.
(echo)
And we did just that- held on to it, as if only...
I've realized that I'm obsessed with places and spaces, I know that. I'm very much a visual thinker, interesting enough one of the people I researched was a visual thinker too, Nikola Tesla, not that I'm as brilliant as him. I'm getting off the the point, I'm obsessed with these spaces, especially secret spaces, hidden places, the unknown;Deep...