February 2012
36 posts
WatchCommissioned by The Popular Workshop this short documentary examines the work of Hunter Longe. Inspired by the visual by-products of magnetic data erasure – or degaussing, Longe investigates the idea of destruction as a medium for creation. Obscuration, negation, distortion and dematerialization become the formal and conceptual residue of this meta-magnetic, process-revealing installation that...
“To predict the future we need logic, but we also need faith and imagination,...”
– Sir Arthur Clarke, Profiles of the Future (1962)
“WHAT DAVID LYNCH IS REALLY LIKE
I HAVE NO IDEA.”
– IN WHICH NOVELIST David Foster Wallace VISITS THE SET OF DAVID LYNCH’S NEW MOVIE AND FINDS THE DIRECTOR BOTH grandly admirable AND sort of nuts
Lost Highway Article - Premiere Sept. 96
“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however,...”
– Albert Camus (as quoted in Albert Camus : The Invincible Summer (1958) by Albert Maquet, p. 86)
Absurdism - Wikiquote
“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
“The ultimate absurdity is now staring us in the face: a universal library of two...”
– Willard van Orman Quine, on the Universal Library
The Theory of Nothing was a book I published in 2006, in which I explored the consequences of assuming: Everything exists, and
The reality we observe must be compatible with our existence within that reality.
The title "Theory of Nothing'' came from the observation that the more inclusive a scientific theory, the less specific its predictions can be without additional ad hoc assumptions. The ultimate theory of everything is just a theory of nothing. Yet surprisingly, the theory in Theory of Nothing does have some explanatory and predictive properties, which follow from the second assumption, which links the laws of physics to the laws of psychology.
“When human consciousness becomes coherent and synchronized, the behavior of...”
– Global Consciousness Project — consciousness, group consciousness, mind
“Located within our Brooklyn office, the BFI Study Center serves as a public...”
– Study Center | The Buckminster Fuller Institute
“You may very appropriately want to ask me how we are going to resolve the...”
– Buckminster Fuller - Wikiquote
“This application swaps or hijacks the mouse control of two users when their...”
– Spooky!
“Some elementary logical facts are recalled, such as, that growing in space...”
– http://redshift.vif.com/JournalFiles/Pre2001/V00NO19PDF/NR19ANT.PDF
“The apeiron, from which the elements [are formed], is something that is...”
– Apeiron
The Scale of the Universe →
ontheunspeakable:
by Cary Huang
Alan Watts (1915-1973)
l0g:
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans f
January 2012
60 posts
“Liquid crystal displays are now a commonplace technology from mobile phone...”
– Under the microscope News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9
WatchDimensions!
“As Northrop Grumman’s X-47B program manager, Carl Johnson says,...”
– This X-47B Robotic Drone Will Carry 4,500 Pounds Of Bombs And Make Its Own Decisions
Watch(via Lego man in space: one (very) small step - video | Life and style | guardian.co.uk)
“Tensegrity, tensional integrity or floating compression, is a structural...”
– Tensegrity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“This is a branch of the philosophy of physics, in which you happen to be...”
– What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic
