This month: Infinite Smile, Soul Made Flesh, the Global Consciousness Project, and Why God Won’t Go Away.
The above photo is a water crystal that formed while listening to “O Holy Night”. You can get your own microscopic particles in the holiday spirit with SomaFM’s 24/7 “Xmas in Frisko” streaming internet broadcast.
And happy Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Winter Solstice/Festivus/etc.!
Dienststelle is a label for the video/art works of Karl Kliem. I especially like the music videos done in partnership with Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto: “Berlin” and “Trioon I”. “The Lightening” with Photek and “FBAS Furniture” are also cool.
You can keep your molting pine needles, short-circuiting lights, and expensive fragile ornaments — my Christmas tree is a continuous display of cascading three-dimensional fractals and patterns that reproduce based on popularity, breeding an ever-growing royal family of finely tuned visuals — a tree in the purest form of the word.
“After his rendition of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” on the infamous Golden Throats album (though it first appeared on the Transformed Man LP), one could argue that the world needed a new William Shatner album about as much as it needed a big-screen remake of TJ Hooker. But Shatner’s back all the same with an intriguing, introspective collection of mostly spoken-word tracks that are all the more compelling when it becomes clear that Has Been is, in fact, no joke.”
Stick figures in the heat of love. By Louis Clichy of Cube.
“According to media accounts, Oliver had never been accepted by Burger’s other chimps and could not be trained to perform with them in their stage act. Instead, he preferred to walk on his hind legs, sit crosslegged on a chair, and help Burger’s wife, Janet, with the chores around the house. Oliver also made it clear that he fancied her. Not surprisingly, Janet issued her husband with an adamant proclamation concerning her pesky paramour: ‘I’m not putting up with this. He’s going or I’m going.’ So Oliver went [...]“
A documentary/story hybrid that follows a female photographer (played by Marlee Matlin) as mysteries of quantum physics and neuroscience unravel before her, forcing her to re-evaluate the fundamental premises of her life.
Mitosis Marvin, meet Dimorphic Doug.
BassDrive is an internet radio station and record label, playing drum and bass music 24/7, with regular live shows, guest DJs, and broadcasts from venues all over the world.
iTSM analyzes your iTunes library and creates a short audio signature composed of your most-listened-to tracks.
For CN’s 100th entry, and especially for new readers via 9rules or otherwise, I’ve compiled a list of my √100 favorite posts thus far, excluding the more recent ones. I’ve updated a lot of these with new content since they were first published, so even if you’ve seen them before, you might find something new.
“The dream of life is as fragile as it is at times galvanizing, a hectic temporal journey shadowed by the tick tock of a clock until we return once more to the real dream. There is no thing such as birth and death for our thoughts cannot experience either directly. Life begins and ends in the same place and all that exists in between is a space to evolve.”
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… w/ chairs.
Check out these amazing video clips of ferrofluid, a solution containing nanoscale particles that respond to a magnetic field.
Starting precisely now, This Month In Finity is a regular installment of artifacts and developments in humanity’s never-ending quest for truth and meaning. Far from trivializing this pursuit however, In Finity recognizes the importance that science, philosophy, religion, etc. play in establishing our identities and satisfying our eternal curiosity, not to mention in finding peace and balance. Be it quantum physics, zen meditation, tribal dance and music, Epictetus’ Discourses, or The Sermon on the Mount — all will find common ground here, and hopefully, a common voice with which to share their insight.
As opposed to helicopters.
“Few people have ever seen a Venus shadow. But they’re there, elusive and delicate—and, if you appreciate rare things, a thrill to witness.”