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Pathétique and Peanuts

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:58:00 +0000

Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor- “Pathétique”
- animated in the film “Snoopy, Come Home”.

The Wolf

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:15:00 +0000

Uploaded by Alan Bee

Skate Beauty at 120 FPS

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:27:00 +0000

A~$20K RED camera captures the pretty.
Features “It’s Alright” by Barði Jóhannsson, an Icelander known as “Bang Gang”.

No One Will Keep Us From Seeing

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:34:00 +0000

Codex Reperio Wordled

admin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:26:00 +0000

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.

Refined Design

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:40:00 +0000

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.

Love Earth

admin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:45:00 +0000

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.

The interview: Robert Pirsig

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:29:00 +0000

“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…’”

Tim Adams full interview with Robert Pirsig at The Observer.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance continues to hold it’s place in the list of books I will take to the desert island when the time comes. It’s three stories blended remarkably into one; a philosophical enquiry into quality, a tale of madness and remembering, and a motorcycle road trip across America. I read it over a long weekend’s escape to Botswana and promptly bought a motorbike and a lot of philosophy books in it’s wake. If you haven’t read it, do so. And if you do, say hi to Phædrus for me…

Amy Winehouse – In My Bed

admin — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:32:00 +0000

(Click to launch video clip and fall madly in love with Amy Winehouse)

Exit the System

admin — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:46:00 +0000

by sputnikk

on the streets of Bolzano, Italy

Taken from The Wooster Collective- a site dedicated to ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world. (Thanks, Tilly!)