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from the series Earth Engines by Barry Underwood (via Fubiz)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:23:40 +0100

from the series Earth Engines by Barry Underwood (via Fubiz)

Paul Simon: American Tune (live 1975)

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:52:21 +0100

Paul Simon: American Tune (live 1975)

Dear Friday 13th,

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:52:38 +0100

hope you had fun.

"You need to exaggerate life’s strangeness only a small amount to remember how strange it..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:15:18 +0100

“You need to exaggerate life’s strangeness only a small amount to remember how strange it actually is.”

- John Hodgman, A conversation with a famous writer and minor television personality

"[The universe] cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:13:38 +0100

“[The universe] cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word.”

- Galileo Galilei: The Assayer

Jim James and Calexico: Goin’ to Acapulco (Dylan cover),...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:35:00 +0200

Jim James and Calexico: Goin’ to Acapulco (Dylan cover), from I’m Not There

Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics - a TED talk...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:37:55 +0200

Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics - a TED talk on Chladni plates and general cymatics (just because you asked)

fuckyeahthemountaingoats: Stephen Colbert’s twitter

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:47:12 +0200

fuckyeahthemountaingoats:

Stephen Colbert’s twitter

Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot - about the famous picture taken by...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:15:45 +0200

Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot - about the famous picture taken by Voyager 1 from a distance of 6 billion kilometres

Jackson Pollock, August 11, 1956 from Dean Rogers: Death Drive...

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:14:13 +0200

Jackson Pollock, August 11, 1956 from Dean Rogers: Death Drive “Rogers took the images on the anniversary of the deaths, at the exact time of day they occurred, and in the precise position the car was before impact. Whereas some of the final photographs are rendered atmospheric by darkness, many reveal the rather banal landscape witnessed by the subjects in the final seconds before their deaths. The series includes the deathplaces of artists and writers including Jackson Pollock, Albert Camus and Helmut Newton, and musicians such as Marc Bolan and Eddie Cochrane.” (via Creative Review)

from Hélène Dodet: Koukotsu…a japanese instant

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:18:44 +0200

from Hélène Dodet: Koukotsu…a japanese instant

Carl Sagan ft Stephen Hawking: A Glorious Dawn (Auto-Tune Remix)

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:18:00 +0200

Carl Sagan ft Stephen Hawking: A Glorious Dawn (Auto-Tune Remix)

"Mathematics, the proud tree with its wide crown freely unfolding in the air, actually draws with a..."

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:46:45 +0200

“Mathematics, the proud tree with its wide crown freely unfolding in the air, actually draws with a thousand roots its force from the soil of intuition and imagination. It would therefore be fatal, if one cut it with the shears of petty utilitarianism, or if one wanted to dig it up from the soil whence it springs.”

- Hermann Weyl

Andrew Bird Poster by Methane Studios (via grain edit)

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:46:44 +0200

Andrew Bird Poster by Methane Studios (via grain edit)

ordover: Tom Waits - “God’s Away On Business” There’s leak,...

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:52:29 +0200

ordover:

Tom Waits - “God’s Away On Business”

There’s leak, there’s leak, in the boiler room

Google Fastflip

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:12:11 +0200

Google Fastflip:

bildungsroman:

Google reinvents the newsstand

"Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: you listen to reggae; you watch a..."

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:46:14 +0200

“Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: you listen to reggae; you watch a western; you eat McDonald’s at midday and local cuisine at night; you wear Paris perfume in Tokyo and dress retro in Hong Kong; knowledge is the stuff of TV game shows […] Together, artist, gallery owner, critic, and public indulge one another in the Anything Goes - it is time to relax. But this realism of Anything Goes is the realism of money: in the absence of aesthetic criteria it is still possible to measure the value of works of art by the profits they realise.”

- Jean-François Lyotard: The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence 1982-1985

ordover: Synesthesia - A short film by Terri Timely

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:59:27 +0200

ordover:

Synesthesia - A short film by Terri Timely

"The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them..."

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:48:05 +0200

“The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we know we’re alive: we’re wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that – well, lucky you.”

- Philip Roth: American Pastoral

Experimental covers by Michael Kosmicki for a Faber & Faber...

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:03:50 +0200

Experimental covers by Michael Kosmicki for a Faber & Faber collection of film books (via Fubiz).