This a nice collection of illustrations of the contemporary mind (my tittle), by David Plunkert and Leigh Wells. The illustrations were published in Time Magazine and other places.
Enjoy :-)
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The intensive use and reliance of tools is a uniquely human characteristic. The use of tools to assist in accomplishing tasks in the analog, and now as well in digital, contexts have become essential to human existence. Furthermore the tools that we use are a reflection of our actions, our skills, our culture, and most importantly, our identity....
So... on the day we didn't have class we went to MOCA for the Lawrence Weiner exhibition. Brandon was the only one that brought a camera so we all used his to take pictures as proof that we were there. We had to be sneaky about it though because there were all these security people standing around. Hopefully there were no security cameras from...
I wrote this for my Image-Word II (that's how my school calls it but it's mainly about postmodernism and its evolution). It is an essay on how cyberpunk sees our sexual future, how humanity will not cease to exist when we can start to make of machines our "new children" and heritage as they start to be humanly-programmed. I'm sorry it's...
Modifications:
*New lighting:
The light source will still be projected from my left, it will have more contrast and it will create bigger shadow on the back wall.
*Bigger shadow:
As mentioned, I will introduce bigger shadow of me in the movie. From the presence of shadow, it communicates as a universal language. Viewers will...
Verbatim report, as related to the chairman of the planetary foreign specie relation committee of United Terra Government by the Human ambassador to the HX (The Human/Xims relation henceforth is to be related to as HX relations).
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The Ambassador seemed utterly uncomfortable; he still did not know how to relate the latest from the HX meeting...
As a complement to my last post, which was a rubric that I'm going to use for my purposes of evaluating how appropriate my project is, this post is a succint summary of all the conclusions from my research. Like my last post, it is meant to be a quick guide to help me make decisions on how my project can best reflect what I found out through my...
Evelyn Underhill, a renowned & recognized author on Christian mysticism, as well as a mystic herself, identified five steps in the mystical process. They are listed below:
1. Awakening - Subject starts to become aware of the presence of something supernatural. Their heart is filled with joy and they have never felt this kind of joy before,...
# this is a verbatim report from the second Xims/Humans meeting that took place on Phobos base station, june 2029, earth standard.
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The Xims ambassador asked: We do not understand what is this ‘self’ thing your race keeps on ranting about?
Oh! Its not much, a kind of fiction if you like, The Human ambassador replied
A fiction?...
Eroticism, as explained by French writer/philosopher Georges Bataille, is a very specific concept. Overall we can define eroticism as one of two (related) things: 1) a state where one is either sexually aroused or in anticipation of sexual arousal, and 2) the aestheticartistic spirit & depiction of sexual desire. Bataille, however, thought to...