April 2010
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WatchPas de deux (Norman McLaren, 1968, Canada)
I think this is my favorite McLaren film because its so simple and elegant yet beautiful and complex. Especially the second half. (Plus, I just wrote a term paper on implicate depth, which this film is a prime example of.)
I hope you enjoy the ensuing moment of awe and contemplation.
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Watchcopyranter:
Now that’s some black comedy. Cinestud 2010, Amsterdam’s international student film festival, concluded April 4th. This was the trailer for it, conceived and directed by Alain Friedrichs.
Well, this is fucking retarded:
UK Gov’t has passed legislation that effectively lets rightholders (i.e. profit-driven corporations) make the law. You read right; the shortsightedness is simply overwhelming. For anyone who cares, I strongly oppose this kind of batshit, and I think you should too. Read up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2010 http://www.dontdisconnect.us/the-proposals/...
10 Amazing Optical Illusions courtesy SMBC ;) →
Monsanto (and the USDA) chode it up, yet again! →
Surprise! Über-corrupt corporation Monsanto’s “safest” (and most used on the planet) weed-killer is actually a toxic soil-killer.
Oh well, at least Monsanto’s anti-ethical monopoly practices will earn them a fat paycheck! Woooo American capitalism!
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The disappointment of 'things' →
postmodernista:
bobulate:
Research shows that buying objects is ultimately more disappointing than buying experiences:
Psychological research tells us that this disappointment is particularly pronounced when people buy things like mp3 players or watches, compared with experiences like vacations or concert tickets (see: experiences beat possessions).
The researchers explore six reasons why...
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A Pledge to Resist!..using every Muse title...just... →
QFT:
What better way to spend time at work then to write a long blog entry highlighting my current view of the society I live in, using a mad lib type of writing style by inserting every Muse song title…sound like fun! I saw Muse live last Tuesday and although I praise their music, their stage show was almost too amazing. The night before I had finished watching Capitalism: A Love...
PRIBRAM: ...so there are lots of kinds of mathematics, but they all fit together, whether it be Schroedinger's equation, which is a wave equation, or Heisenberg's more matrix kind. These are not relevant to the ordinary person, but I just want to say it here, because otherwise we get stuck in the wave, as if it were all waves, and that's too simple.
MISHLOVE: But what you're saying, if I can try and simplify it, is that there's a level of reality at which things are what they appear to be. I look at you and I see a body and a face. That would be the explicate level, where things are what they appear to be. Then there's an implicate level, which is just as real, but if you were to look at it, it doesn't look at all like the other.
PRIBRAM: We experience it entirely differently -- as a spiritual aspect of our being. This implicate order is also a potential order, and we're not in it most of the time.
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MISHLOVE: Would you say creativity works the same way?
PRIBRAM: Well, creativity works the same way in the following sense: that we allow ourselves to get -- let's just be very crude here -- into this wave form, you know, in a distributed system. And this then allows the fluctuations that take place there to create new forms, which in space-time we can't really do too well. I mean, things are already formed. But if we get back into this potential, of distributed, implicate-type order, then these fluctuations have a chance to reorganize this way, or to organize new foci of activity.
MISHLOVE: And these would take the shape of mental images in our mind?
PRIBRAM: By the time they get to be mental images, it's already pretty well set into space-time form.
“You see, the beauty of science is that it’s basically based on sharing....”
– Karl Pribram (paraphrased)
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