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12/01 Impactist

There are some great pieces of audio/video art made by the collaborative group Impactist. The first one, which happens to be by far the most surreal, is my favourite. The video description (from the website summary):

When a geometric visitor from another planet becomes your new roommate and shares with you the tragic state of its home world, you drop your guitar and see what you can do. We created this piece in response to the accompanying music track we created in honor of a visiting cat named Leo.

The second one is about a parallel love story, entitled Parallelostory. The animation in this one is mesmerisingly beautiful:

Spend a couple minutes in the multiverse and you may find it comfortable enough to participate in your own Parallelostory, which is just hip meta-universe slang for “parallel love story”. But remember, this is only one of an infinite number renderings of the same story that your dimensional alternates will have already viewed, are viewing, or will view. Or not at all.

via wanderingbear

“The sound of kissing” by multimedia artist Hye Yeon Nam.

(this made me laugh)

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
Albert Einstein (via minimalmac)
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.
Blaise Pascal (via reluctantbuddha)
(via smut-to-go)

(via smut-to-go)

The rage and self-loathing associated with hipsters has become more annoying, more naive, and more artificial than hipsters could ever hope to be. […] [W]hat remains for artists and bohemians who are legitimately trying to be part of a counterculture? You get the sense that if Jimi Hendrix were to show up in Echo Park today, he’d be publicly mocked in a style section piece on blipsters for wearing a feathered fedora.
from another (very good) article on hipsters (via paulhabeeb)
Caring for Your Introvert /

I almost wanted to think this article is a piece of satire, but given the way I could relate to it, I think it is, in fact, serious. A few choice quotes:

“[S]omeone you know, respect, and interact with every day is an introvert, and you are probably driving this person nuts.”

“[M]any actors, I’ve read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.”

(via paulhabeeb)

  1. My Bloody Valentine 
  2. Satyajit Ray 
  3. Asha Bhosle 
  4. Nick Drake 
  5. Shankar Jaikishan 

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Idiot Wind (Live from The Rolling Thunder Revue -1975)

We must stop perpetuating the fiction that existence itself is dictated by the immutable laws of economics. These so-called laws are, in actuality, the economic mechanisms of 13th Century monarchs. Some of us analyzing digital culture and its impact on business must reveal economics as the artificial construction it really is. Although it may be subjected to the scientific method and mathematical scrutiny, it is not a natural science; it is game theory, with a set of underlying assumptions that have little to do with anything resembling genetics, neurology, evolution, or natural systems.
ECONOMICS IS NOT NATURAL SCIENCE By Douglas Rushkoff
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Max Dalton Illustration

Max Dalton Illustration

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  1. Van Morrison 
  2. Rahsaan Roland Kirk 
  3. The Sunchild 
  4. Bill Evans 
  5. Horace Silver 

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