April 2011
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Alright, I just queued up a bunch of stuff upon discovering a handful of great blogs this morning, including The Demo Scene which could not be anymore up my alley. Only slight bummer is the music choice in a lot of these videos…but I did recently download Cinema 4d which I intend to fool around with this summer and amend the musical ailment! Until then: finals.
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Tumblrr (clickyclick) →
via Triangulation Blog
“Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little...”
– William Faulkner (via ahmedsalman)
Forever reblogging Mr. Salman. But I just finished watching the episode of The Walking Dead in which this is paraphrased. Serendipity?
Also, to this I add the excellent Radio Lab podcast on time:
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Des coins de l'esprit: lol@you →
tarynasaurusrexxx:
I’ve only met you once in my entire life. I was pretty much over the fact that you are a jerk and I was never going to see you ever again. But sometimes I actually can’t believe I went the whole semester without bumping into you since I have managed to bump into everyone else from that night. That is until today. I can’t believe it. My last day at SMFA, and I see you...
“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”
– Carl Sagan (via ahmedsalman)
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Riding the MBTA
Not getting off the bench for every passing subway at the Museum of Fine Arts stop, not until they halt completely. Watching the novices approach the slowing train’s doors only to see it ignore their existence completely, and speed away. Crack a noticeable smile every time - like you’re bonding with fellow commuters over the misery of human existence.
Getting on via the side doors...
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moon in the water. →
ask-ve-obur-cinler:
The phenomenon of moon-in-the-water is likened to human experience. The water is the subject, and the moon the object. When there is no water, there is no moon-in-the-water. And likewise when there is no moon. But when the moon rises, the water does not wait to receive its image, and when even the tiniest drop of water is poured out, the moon does not wait to cast its...
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WatchYou can see the pixels. All the grays are blue.
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5 Great Modern Movies with Cliché Club Sequences:
Black Swan:
The Social Network:
The Dark Knight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Oy0oK38gc&feature=related (embedding disabled)
The Matrix Revolutions:
Babel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b22S1J1lbo&feature=related (embedding disabled (and alright, this scene is beautiful and totally not cliché.))
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“What savage manners, what people! What wasted evenings, what tedious, empty...”
– Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog
atomicballroomcalamity:
“The reports of all the precogs are analyzed by a computer and, if these reports differ from one another, the computer identifies the two reports with the greatest overlap and produces a majority report, taking this as the accurate prediction of the future. But the existence of majority reports implies the existence of a minority report.”
I hope you...
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I just got out of a showing of some Samuel Beckett presentations. It appears to have been put on by the Humanities and Social Sciences people at my school, but took place in a Mass Art auditorium.
Not I: A lip-sticked mouth giving her inner and outer monologue for FIFTEEN MINUTES at ‘lawnmower’ pace.
An excerpt from Molloy: A long riff by a man set on sucking his stones...
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“Every intimacy, which at first so agreeably diversifies life and appears a light...”
– Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog”
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chrismongeauphoto.com: Fiat currency →
untitledfragment:
“Fiat money is money declared by a government to be legal tender. The term derives from the Latin “fiat”, meaning “let it be done.” In a fiat money system, money is not backed by a physical commodity (like gold). Instead, the only thing that gives the money value is its relative scarcity, and the faith placed in it by the people that use it. Historically, societies that have...
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The Mountain
ahmedsalman:
The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo. - Awestruck.
I’ve pledged my allegiance to the Google Gods and all, but only Vimeo hosts this kind of quality stuff.
The Power of the Sun
ahmedsalman:
via Datavisualization.ch
I fucking love that companies have to get REALLY artsyfartsy in order to really make their ad stick. To the creative directors at GE: props.
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Light
Consider the irony of color-filtered lights. The photons that which render color are themselves biased in application.
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Recursive Birth and Death of Audacity
Audacity application by L’Embarras du Choix
Unins000 by L’Embarras du Choix
Finally I’ve done something! Even if it took < 2 minutes.
As introduced in a previous post, these are the raw data files of Audacity as read by the music editing software, Audacity. I ignored the extraneous stuff, but this is the application file (runs the program) and the uninstall (wipes it...
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Truth is a Model
“The most common misunderstanding about science is that scientists seek and find truth. They don’t — they make and test models.
Kepler packing Platonic solids to explain the observed motion of planets made pretty good predictions, which were improved by his laws of planetary motion, which were improved by Newton’s laws of motion, which were improved by Einstein’s general...
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Tools For Thinking - New York Times (link) →
I was going to just post this on Facebook and leave it at that, but I really feel the need to stress the importance of this article. As a mathematician and logician and computer scientist, I’ve been given strange looks when I say I don’t really believe in Determinism, that everything can’t be boiled down to numbers (that abide by same logic, at least).
This opened my eyes to...
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Watchyumeni:
Remix 4000 (2004) (by Yoshi Sodeoka)
I was thinking today how it seems like we’re really pushing the digital sounds in music and how I’m afraid we’re sort of running out. A lot of dubstep and electronica textures are based on actual computing sounds and glitches, so once we stress all those out, what genre will pop up next?
However, there is still hope for the last...
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Watch“Mass” - Virtual Boy
Video directed by Strangeloop.
All things go,: Some sleepers have intelligent... →
notherenotgone:
Some sleepers have intelligent faces even in sleep, while other faces, even intelligent ones, become very stupid in sleep and therefore ridiculous. I don’t know what makes that happen; I only want to say that a laughing man, like a sleeping one, most often knows nothing about his face. A great…
On Manhood
This morning I woke up on my friends’ mutual apartment couch after a night beginning in strange moods and ending with Bacardi/Muchos, Super Mario 64, and 12 am synth/guitar/MPC/drum jams. The floor below them houses a mother drug-dealer who typically wakes up and blares hip-hop, (though this morning it sounded like casino music or something..). She really has no say in the matter of volume...
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Pure Data
ahmedsalman:
Pure Data read as pure data - 2010 from Nicolas Maigret on Vimeo.
A trip through the back of the binary code, and its hidden qualities: Structure, logic, rhythm, redundancy, composition… The content of the Pure Data application is read as pure data into sound and pixels (rgb + extrude). More info: peripheriques.free.fr/blog
From what I understand, the only way to close a...
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