Sorry everyone! I promisse this will be my last post about MJ. This time I'll save you from pictures.
Next Nature
"Using childhood photo’s of Michael and knowledge on basic aging trends, forensic artists constructed a portrait of how Michael would have looked at age 50, had he never undergone plastic surgery. The difference between...
I am often struck with the absurdity of certain academic pursuits. For instance, when I encounter natural beauty I usually think how amusing it would be to model the growth of plants. I then realize that this reality is already rendered perfectly (or as perfectly as the limited senses can convey) for me right now, why would I want anything less?...
In virtual universes we may just feel and decide in a totally free will condition, if we have control over the prearranged criteria of the choice of the information presented to you.
If you are able to shape your universe you are able to really influence the world around you. You create and draw the vision of the world you want and may even...
I think a dialogue with myself is better even than dinner with Andre. I never have maintained any sort of journal before but, having played devil's advocate to myself for nearly a lifetime and a half, i'm glad to spill out of my static centrifuge or at least to expand it's trajectory into a new maddening cycle. I'd feel personally wounded were I...
Toward Brussells June 15, 2009
Streaking clusters arc across, stuttering their prescribed half-kilometer pulse along their vector, silently agreeing with a neighbour’s domain of a kilometer or so. The nap covers approximately, gradient stretching between flickering surface of Baltic sea and quilted Jutland shore. Free-soldier trenchant...
Scientists are reporting an advance toward a memory device capable of storing data for more than one billion years.
Alex Zettl and colleagues note in the new study that some of today’s highest-density experimental storage media can retain ultra-dense data for only a fraction of a second. They note that William the Conqueror’s Doomsday Book,...
And so does the conversation continue
NotMarie:” you do realize you are an unnatural construct, don’t you?”
3V:” in what way am I unnatural?”
NotMarie:” well for one, I constructed you, for second, you were not born of a womb and for third your kind is nowhere to be found in the natural world.”
3V:” you must be joking...
Although it focuses on individual action (so it kinda opposes to my structuralist views of the social world), I find Goffman's interpretation of the human action quite interesting. Those of you who have read Erving Goffman know exactly how "catchy" his sociology is, and those of you who haven't...well I can tell you this: you don't...
First post in the Space Collective. I hope I don't disappoint as posting some thoughts in this community next to some brilliant people makes one feel very humble.
For those not aware of what the Aesthetics of Failure means, and using my own words, I'd describe it as the end result of a failed attempt to produce a desired outcome from a...
I found this and thought I'd share it.
Leo Tolstoy “What Is Art?”
The art of the future is not the possession of a select minority but a means towards perfection and unity.
People talk of the art of the future, meaning by art of the future some especially refined new art which they imagine will be developed out of that exclusive art...
Times are changing so fast that we almost don't have the time to accommodate change . Most of us manage to adapt but mainly in a minimal functional level.
All information flows globally in a high level increasing speed rate, but between the huge amount, the piles and piles of terabytes massively spread, targeting all our perceptual senses, we...
June 2009,
"Sweden's Pirate Party has won a seat in the European Parliament.
The group - which campaigned on reformation of copyright and patent law - secured 7.1% of the Swedish vote. The result puts the Pirate Party in fifth place, behind the Social Democrats, Greens, Liberals and the Moderate Party. Rickard Falkvinge, the party...