Winter’s Tale (trailer above), is a story about destiny. Here destiny means one person’s life has meaning only for one other person’s life, which you may or may not want to engage in, yet are compelled to do so for some unexplained reason. It is not a love story, as it may seem, but considers… Continue Reading
Image of stand-off between protestors and police at Geary and Powell, in San Francisco, now. #ferguson #blackfridayblackout
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of Art is a confession. –Albert Camus
to article. Yes, that is the actual title of the article in the Guardian, though I corrected a spelling error… Rumor on Twitter that the author was fired after writing this piece, and not for spelling issues. Interesting spelling error made it through admin assistants at the Guardian. I have seen this happen when officials… Continue Reading
Link to the story.
Heard this on KEXP yesterday. America, by First Aid Kit.
The Assistant DA in St. Louis County, handed the Grand Jury a copy of a law that had been ruled unconstitutional in the 1970’s, in an attempt to move them to see the officer as acting under the law. Unbelievable wrong-doing.
A man finds a way to live his life, even with those in power using all their resources to defeat him. He does so by counting on the fact they rely on their own presuppositions about his being without the advantages of their class and creating illusions based on these vain assumptions. Even though the… Continue Reading
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory use sound to levitate matter.
Swiss artist Pe Lang combines motors and materials in beautiful minimalistic works.
James Gallagher’s other work.
I hesitated to post this, as the interviewer conveys something unimportant. But Mikki Willis has insights and he is in transition, which is worthwhile observing in order to learn. Willis is a filmmaker from LA, who started a unique film company after witnessing 911. His language is west coast. But there is something else here,… Continue Reading
Above is an interdisciplinary work between artists and scientists on the meaning of bird’s song. This is interesting to me as last July, (a time of many unexpected discoveries for me), I had an insight about bird song and triangulation that I had to draw. I had no knowledge of birds or even the word… Continue Reading
On O’Reilly Media. December 3rd. Link Posting because of comments by Jake Appelbaum in talk given in Ecuador. http://oreil.ly/1F6HwkX
Jake Appelbaum, computer programmer, writer, artist and former Seattlite, gave this talk recently in Ecuador. He now lives in self-imposed exile in Berlin, because of the interruption of his life and the life of his friends and family in the U.S. Here he discusses in detail what the NSA surveillance actually involves in terms of… Continue Reading