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May 2012
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No Direction Home Script
“The videos from Decoded are at the beginning of each chapter—a feature I like because they don’t interrupt the flow of reading. In the videos, Jay-Z sits at a desk and tells us that rap is poetry. It’s nice to see him step out from behind a persona…” -David Byrne
No Direction Home is an existentialist travelogue performance art piece whose goofy premise could only work within the bizarre...
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The Dogs
* if you are watching ‘No Direction Home’ and want to play with the dogs, continue reading
The family compound is set back into several acres of a 70 acre farm off of a residential road. At the front, facing the road, is the family owned store, laundry mat and internet cafe. A private road runs perpendicular to the road and leads back to 6 houses where the family lives. Beyond that...
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Anonymous asked: your cognitive behavioral metaphor is incredibly intriguing. I do many similar figures that relate to this physical interpretation of "behavioral/emotional/otherwise untangible". Ive yet to see an art movement house the likes of such- perhaps dali's soft figures and schizo-symptomatic interpretive and metaphorical figures ( all personal- ie, ants and such). I am extremely pleased...
April 2012
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Video Games
“I want you guys to be stuck on a video game that’s teaching you something other than just blowing something up.”
Barack Obama, White House office studies benefits of video games For a new generation of young guns, the experience of piloting a drone is not unlike the video games they grew up on. Unlike traditional pilots, who physically fly their payloads to a target, drone...
January 2012
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Commuter Guide
I’ve lived in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Atlanta without using a car, and for much of that time without owning one. I didn’t get from one extreme to the other in ten easy steps. It took a long time and a strong willingness to challenge my own convictions.
The consequences of giving up one’s car are numerous and, depending on your perspective, many of these may be...
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Invention: Consumer Price Point Classifier
I invented a Consumer Classifier™ to help bin and charge customers according to their need that I plan on selling to the corporate world. Serious Patents are pending, although some time before I can cash in as I’ve been informed there a serious backlog in the sub-department of metaphysical bullshit in the patent office. Long story short, a raft of genetics patents are ahead of me in the...
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WatchRecycling Bin
Offering to help a couple of guys put together a masthead for their site, they want to be a sort of flagship for the Occupy Movement. I think they might want to go in a different direction visually, mine are too overtly nautical/obvious, so maybe I’ll reuse this later.
Having a hard time keying into exactly what they want. Kind of fun to work on though and the occupy movement is...
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Bamboo Cutting in a Direction
I am leaving for rural Thailand in a few weeks. I am planning on trying to live there for an indefinite term, or at least trying to do so. Some of my friends suggested that I should write about what I am doing there to keep them abreast of things. That’s an interesting idea and I first considered and started a travel blog with private permissions, allowing only personal friends access. I...
Pissing Contests
Some talking head said that she would have dropped trou and pissed on the dead bodies too. This is causing all kinds of pearl clutching on the left now. See the comments thread at Huffington Post, for instance.
I could understand, but not condone, this behavior in the home team. But occupiers should never act like this.
I have no idea if this is satire or real. I am leaning toward a genuine...
Eulogy for the Narrative of Progress
The narrative of progress of ever increasing growth or humanity and society’s conditions of improvement strapped to the arrow of time is, according to some, failing. I’ve written about the subject without giving a name to the narrative, the way I put it is to say the unthinkable will become thinkable as the system and institutions fail to offer interpretations that seem credible.
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Chomsky-opathy
I am reading a bit here. It has dirges such as,
While many Americans are focused on their ability to feel comfortable, or lack of, NATO continues the American war against brown women and children. And as always the death of brown children is “unfortunate” though acceptable and necessary to the continuance of the rape of the Middle East…
Narrating carnage, or raising awareness, in the...
“in the NBC report that Rob links to … Brian Williams assures the audience...”
– Here.
The rhetorical narrative of our war in Iraq has offered a number of bizarre rationales for our actions. None of which have put a burr under my saddle quite like the one that says we are liberating people, maintaining stability, and that the Iraqis should be grateful for our sacrifices on...
“More technologically advanced societies often, though not invariably, move away...”
– Very interesting Arch Druid Report today. The more I think on it, the more comments spring to mind. Some of them might be interesting, but I don’t want to spam them there.
Another interesting point, Roman history also conformed to this narrative as it was recorded. It was, by definition, a...
Collapse Into Now
One real drag about people discussing the collapse, such as any number of threads in all sites that discuss politics, peak oil, environmental issues, is the doom and gloom framing of the discussion. A lot of people approach the reality of our situation with tight lipped stoicism verging on fatalism or a sort of manic anxiety. The 2012 year is going to be all of this amplified to the nth degree...
Legal Reform
I’ve been informed that there is no small amount of hysteria at the appending megapocalypse decending upon the end of this calendar year. Tis the season for wishful thinking, so here is mine.
Our legal system should cut both ways. If a defendant in a criminal trial is found not guilty, or exonerated, then the agents of the state who have personally aggrieved him or her are charged with...
“The overall message seems to have been that it doesn’t matter what any of...”
– Given how droning, rambling, repetitive, luridly detailed, acidly dry Chomsky’s prose is, that is the most sympathetic, empathetic and warm hearted insult I’ve heard. Everyone pipe down, let the traumatized Chomsky talk, it seems to help him some. He’s spent over half a decade...
“Is it better for the world to love us or fear us?”
– Neither because you will then be neither resented nor hated.
This is from a Mark Ames investigative piece on a paid commenter. The amount of money and resources that the military and corporations put into false fronts on the intellectual front as part of public relations is no joke.
The CIA takes...
December 2011
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Defining Art Part II
Autonomy is decision making of self, Creativity is autonomy absent self, Creativity artifacts as Art.
Art is a game, Games are entertainment, Entertainment congeals as culture. Culture is a mirrored reflection of our collective selves. We reflect, reflect on or reflect upon culture.
Reflecting culture is the game of defining ones’ self within a culture. Reflecting on culture is the chore of...
Cherry Business and Nappy Hewers
In the spirit of brotherly whatevers and peace on turf, I offer my zen koan.
A black guy grabs an axe and steps out on his porch and yells, “I am sick and tired of all you racist motherfuckers! Imma chop your heads off!” He walks down the street and hacks through the front door. He finds a white man inside watching the redneck comedy tour. The black guy says, “If you say...