I want to re-invest my brain in sorta-pragmatic hip cat philosophical motivations.

anybody else want to do this? we can have cocktails and play apples to apples too.

THINK TANK

mementomori visualizes the the real time movement of the Hayward Fault Line

“In Mori, the immediacy of the telematic embrace between earth and visitor questions the authenticity of mediated experience in the context of chance, human fragility, and geological endurance.”

where’s waldo?

Event

524 – Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians.
1530 – The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1949 – Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
1967 – First global satellite television programme – Our World
1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 – Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military.
1983 – India wins the final of the Cricket World Cup against the mighty West Indies at the MCC’s Lord’s Cricket Ground in London.
1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian Space station, Mir.
1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

Birth

1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1612 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1755 – Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1941)
1865 – Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
1894 – Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
1903 – George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
1903 – Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
1912 – William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1921 – Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
1925 – Ted Stepien, American business (d. 2007)
1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 – Bill Russo, American jazz composer (d. 2003)
1932 – Peter Blake, British artist
1939 – Harold Melvin, American musician (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
1939 – Allen Fox, American Tennis Player
1946 – Ian McDonald, English musician (King Crimson and Foreigner)
1952 – Tim Finn, Kiwi singer/songwriter
1954 – David Paich, composer (Toto)
1956 – Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1956 – Anthony Bourdain, Chef and author
1959 – Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper, Winter Olympics medalist
1959 – Paris Themmen, American actor
1962 – Phill Jupitus, English comedian and broadcaster
1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – George Michael, British musician
1964 – Johnny Herbert, English race car driver
1964 – Greg Raymer, Professional poker player
1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese (DRC) basketball player
1968 – Oleg Taktarov, Russian martial artist
1969 – Zim Zum, American musician (former Marilyn Manson guitarist)
1970 – Roope Latvala, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
1972 – Mike Kroeger, Canadian musician (Nickelback)
1974 – Jim LaMarca, American bass guitarist (Chimaira)
1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
1978 – Layla El, 2006 WWE Diva Search winner
1979 – Brandi Burkhardt, American beauty queen
1979 – Katie Doyle, American actress and reality television star
1979 – Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
1980 – Maja Latinović, Serbian model
1981 – Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1982 – Rain, Korean singer (Rain, Jeong Ji-Hoon)
1983 – Todd Cooper, British swimmer
1987 – Joseph John Sledgianowski III, American Artist
1987 – Lil’ Wil, American rapper

Deaths

635 – Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)
1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
1985 – Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer
1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
2001 – Joseph John Sledgianowski Senior (b. 1916)
2002 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2007 – J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer (b. 1933)

Walking home tonight I realized something important. One must have solidarity with one’s solitarity in order to effectively manage, well, everything. I know I made that word up, but that’s also important (making up words) for creating a new culture that we can all agree upon in order to annihilate in 50 years time. I suppose that doesn’t really make sense.

Here is one take on aloneness. With a good graph, in addition.

The Solitary Artist. Noble in their cause. Alone in their suffering. Starving in their kitchen.

  Tehching Hsieh

  Joseph Beuys

  Marina Abramovic

   Martha Rosler

Why do we suffer alone? Because it is worse to suffer together.

Let us flourish in both solitarity and solidarity.

Together, we can make great things alone.

(Un)like Burningman.

eerily similar to:

I still can’t make up my mind if burning man or dubai are mind blowing or not. Perhaps it’s because my mind is blown?

ps. click the photos for better ones.

Let us also consider entering the void as opposed to filling the void.

Entering is allowing the void to embrace you, filling is attempting to negate the void. Can we enter the void together and not attempt to fill it? How many of us will fit in the void before it is full? Is the void within or without?

Q: How many artists can you put in the void before it is full?

A: 21 minutes.

Experience the layers of aloneness. Startlingly similar to the layers of the burning man and palm.

DeKooning

Barf(?) Throw Up(?) (pun intended)

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This morning Taylor and I were discussing the role of Gwen Stefani in 90s music consumerism.

Gwen Stefani was probably one of my biggest influences in my childhood, although in hindsight her fate has become slightly tragic:

“Suddenly evolution does something absolutely amazing here, when the young discover that the grown-ups don’t know what it’s all about. So we have the young world doing its own thinking; and without any experience, it had to make many mistakes. But it’s getting now where it’s not being politically exploited the way it was at first. I find the young everywhere around the world are completely intent in thinking about the total world. They’re not impressed with local nations anymore. There’s a young world coming along, each child born successively in the presence of less misinformation. Just think, until I was eight years of age, I had been told it’s inherently impossible for man to fly. I’ve had undue, enormous amounts of misinformation. Each child, now, is being born in the presence of a great deal more reliable information.
I’m getting letters now—not very often, about five a year—from children who were born after humans got to the moon. How they find I’m someone they can write to I don’t know, but they do, and they write incredibly beautiful letters, and the syntax couldn’t be better. They say they are familiar with the critical path of all the things that had to be done before the blast-off to get humanity over to the moon and back safely. They say, “Humanity can do anything it needs to do; why don’t we make this thing work?” So a young world is coming along which may very likely exercise that option.”
-Buckminster Fuller

Yo, do everything with nothing! We got it!