I'm very serious about this race between education and catastrophe. I'm very serious about the connection between critical thinking and consciousness. I'm very serious about dim sum and laughter and not taking this whole thing so very seriously.
// November 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry
// August 20th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry
A~$20K RED camera captures the pretty.
Features “It’s Alright” by Barði Jóhannsson, an Icelander known as “Bang Gang”.
// July 28th, 2008 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry, World Issues
// June 20th, 2008 // 4 Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry
I took about 10,000 words I’d written from this blog and worked it through Wordle to get this funky “word cloud” above, based on frequency of usage. Loving the dadaist juxtaposition.
Then I put the entire text of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse through and tweaked the formatting a little further to get the result below. My vote for the cover of the 90th anniversary edition.
// April 21st, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Art, Music & Poetry
I visited an Amsterdam design studio last week and got my aesthetic schooled by some serious pro’s. The pic above is a perfectly understated little piece;
a vase, textured in braille, with a poem about flowers.
// November 16th, 2007 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry
Filmed over five years in more than 200 different locations by 40 specialist crews, Earth is a feature-length portrayal of our planet over a one year period. As a companion piece to the beautiful BBC television series Planet Earth, expectations are set for a truly incredible film.
Arriving in UK cinemas today, there is also a gorgeous website featuring a delicious trailer, a delightful soundtrack, production information and video introductions to the film’s chief protagonists- the humpback whale, the polar bear and the African elephant. Prepare to fall in love with the world again.
// September 19th, 2007 // 2 Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry
“At 78, Robert Pirsig, probably the most widely read philosopher alive, can look back on many ideas of himself. There is the nine-year-old-boy with the off-the-scale IQ of 170, trying to work out how to connect with his classmates in Minnesota. There is the young GI in Korea picking up a curiosity for Buddhism while helping the locals with their English. There is the radical, manic teacher in Montana making his freshmen sweat over a definition of ‘quality’. There is the homicidal husband sectioned into a course of electric-shock treatment designed to remove all traces of his past. There is the broken-down father trying to bond with his son on a road trip. There is the best-selling author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, offering solutions to the anxieties of a generation. And there is, for a good many years, the reclusive yachtsman,
trying to steer a course away from cultish fame.
Pirsig doesn’t do interviews, as a rule; he claims this one will be his last. He got spooked early on. ‘In the first week after I wrote Zen I gave maybe 35,’ he says, in his low, quick-fire Midwestern voice, from behind his sailor’s beard. ‘I found it very unsettling. I was walking by the post office near home and I thought I could hear voices, including my own. I had a history of mental illness, and I thought: it’s happening again. Then I realised it was the radio broadcast of an interview I’d done. At that point I took a camper van up into the mountains and started to write Lila, my second book…’”
// September 10th, 2007 // 8 Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry
// July 24th, 2007 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry
Taken from The Wooster Collective- a site dedicated to ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world. (Thanks, Tilly!)
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