tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18450600504587092872024-03-12T18:47:12.633-07:00Digital TranscendentalismThe Blog of Steve GrafSteve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-63287929343926059582013-02-18T01:53:00.001-08:002013-02-18T01:55:01.393-08:00I hate myself<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BzdAyFtWe98" width="480"></iframe>Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-12879500689904447282010-06-16T13:56:00.000-07:002010-06-16T14:00:43.579-07:00Leigh McCloskey on Cosmogramma artwork<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.projectbaguette.com/image.axd?picture=WARPCD195Packshot_480_thumb.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 480px; height: 480px;" src="http://www.projectbaguette.com/image.axd?picture=WARPCD195Packshot_480_thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />http://warp.net/records/flying-lotus/player/video/inside-the-codexSteve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-76968342679515253652010-06-04T08:23:00.000-07:002013-02-18T01:55:47.346-08:00Intelligence is esoteric<object height="225" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5324878&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5324878&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/5324878">Sonar</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/renaudhallee">Renaud Hallée</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Our intelligence, our conscious communication, is as unique to the universe as a moon rocks' relationship to gravity. We are alone, or rather, we speak the esoteric language -- the universe is already communicating on a cosmic scale.Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-9625294117018929202010-05-25T16:03:00.000-07:002010-05-26T15:01:03.132-07:00The Parallax View<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/images/products/books/9780262512688-f30.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 372px; height: 475px;" src="http://mitpress.mit.edu/images/products/books/9780262512688-f30.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /> "There is an entire series of modes of parallax in different domains of modern theory:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">quantum physics</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/128/207232/page_dist.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 643px;" src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/128/207232/page_dist.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />[<a href="http://clemensjahn.de/">Clemens Jahn</a> photography]<br /> (t<a href="http://physics.about.com/od/lightoptics/a/waveparticle.htm">he wave-particle duality</a>)<br /><br />The parallax of <span style="font-style:italic;">neurobiology</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.vasg.org/painting_surgery.sized.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 446px;" src="http://www.vasg.org/painting_surgery.sized.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />(the realization that, when we look behind the face into the skull, we find nothing; "there's no one at home" there, just piles of grey matter – it is difficult to tarry with this gap between meaning and the pure Real).<br /><br />The parallax of <span style="font-style:italic;">ontological difference</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.log24.com/log/pix04B/041112-Reinhardt.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 298px;" src="http://www.log24.com/log/pix04B/041112-Reinhardt.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Reinhardt">Ad Reinhardt</a>]<br />(Of the discord between the ontic and the transcendental-ontological (we cannot reduce the ontological horizon to its ontic "roots," but neither can we deduce the ontic domain from the ontological horizon; that is to say transcendental constitution is not creation).<br /><br />The parallax of the <span style="font-style:italic;">Real</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.booooooom.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/brionnudarosch-01.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 729px;" src="http://www.booooooom.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/brionnudarosch-01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />[Collage by B<a href="http://brionnudarosch.com/">rion Nuda Rosch</a>]<br />(the Lacanian Real has no positive-substantial consistency, it is just the gap between the multitude of perspectives on it) <br /><br />The parallax nature of the gap between desire and drive<br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7u_vFjZlf4s&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7u_vFjZlf4s&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br />[New track/visuals from Flying Lotus via twitter]<br />(let us imagine an individual trying to perform a simple manuel task--say, grab an object which repeatedly eludes him: the moment he changes his attitude, starting to find pleasure in just repeating the failed task, squeezing the object which, again and again, eludes him, he shifts from desire to drive)<br /><br />The parallax of the <span style="font-style:italic;">unconscious</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXbCIqa2vuBBdpIBvn-SEjaJigCrnyArl4QXPM14xR0SWK63g2rM28VOmGkLhcIMlq60cNUzqUj_uqHTj_eSo5eWtq39SmkA5RU6qrET38uHTpIvqKhOYF_8kXv7PJ0dNfJszGRKWaWsyk/s400/DANIEL-SANNWALD6.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXbCIqa2vuBBdpIBvn-SEjaJigCrnyArl4QXPM14xR0SWK63g2rM28VOmGkLhcIMlq60cNUzqUj_uqHTj_eSo5eWtq39SmkA5RU6qrET38uHTpIvqKhOYF_8kXv7PJ0dNfJszGRKWaWsyk/s400/DANIEL-SANNWALD6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />[Photo by <a href="http://www.danielsannwald.com/">Daniel Sannwald</a>] <br />(The lack of common measure between the two aspects of Freud's theoretical edifice, interpretations of the formations of the unconscious and theories of drives)<br /><br />Last and least -- the parallax of the vagina<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/granta_sex_issue_full_cover.jpg?w=421&h=608"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 421px; height: 608px;" src="http://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/granta_sex_issue_full_cover.jpg?w=421&h=608" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />(the shift from the ultimate object of sexual penetration, the embodiment of the mystery of sexuality, to the very organ of maternity [birth])."Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-20043167576673410132010-05-21T19:58:00.001-07:002010-05-21T20:01:25.073-07:00Genesis<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images//2007/9/11/1_228416_1_5.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 206px;" src="http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images//2007/9/11/1_228416_1_5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/05/201052153540508758.html">Scientist Create 'artificial life.'</a><br /><br />The report ends on a positive note:<br />"Barack Obama, the US president, asked his bioethics council to study the potential ethical implications of artificial DNA."<br /><br /><br />The singularity rapidly approaches!Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-65841921872886348292010-05-17T17:55:00.000-07:002010-05-17T17:57:44.905-07:00Rabbits<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lynchnet.com/rabbits/rabbits.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 476px; height: 266px;" src="http://www.lynchnet.com/rabbits/rabbits.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Ever notice how The Television laughs for you?<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_qWIlgemp9k&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_qWIlgemp9k&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-60000136605427984352010-05-16T13:29:00.000-07:002010-05-16T13:49:56.738-07:00The Problems of Consciousness<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/N6SbPPL8tOI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/N6SbPPL8tOI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Wants to hold on to the notion of consciousness as an inherently unexplainable phenomenon. More so, really, that the traditional problems of consciousness are not solved by Dennett's disillusionment of this pseudo-Cartesian outlook. <br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/psOcedY4Ywc&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/psOcedY4Ywc&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />THE obvious problem I see in this bizarre debate is that when Block says the word consciousness, he means something very different than what Dennett means when he utters the word consciousness. Dennett thinks of consciousness as the cartesian theater, a hypothesis with no physiological justification in the brain. Block, on the other hand, seems to be addressing the mysterious process that Dennett alludes to when he speaks of the brains wonderful ability to produce this illusion. It seems as though Block, believes that Dennet is saying that this unity does not exist. On the contrary, Dennett when saying illusion, means that the brain REALLY IS producing this unity, but that it has very little justification in reality.Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-90664149960766018702010-05-15T12:00:00.000-07:002010-05-15T12:24:37.053-07:00DeLillo's SciFi<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.edrants.com/segundo/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/edpark.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 241px; height: 360px;" src="http://www.edrants.com/segundo/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/edpark.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />I had the pleasure of taking a writing class with writerbloggereditor, Ed Park this past fall. He is the author of the novel <span style="font-style:italic;">Personal Days</span> (hugely funny, maybe the greatest sentence ever written), his blog is called <a href="http://thedizzies.blogspot.com/">disambiguation</a>, and he writes a scifi column for the LA Times called <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-astral-weeks-20100516,0,5890260.story">Astral Weeks</a></span>. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510HfmX6lmL.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 324px; height: 500px;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510HfmX6lmL.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />This week Part took a look at T<span style="font-style:italic;">he Secret History of Science Fiction</span>, in which DeLillo's short story, "Human Moments From World War III," is included. It is most certainly worth the trouble of searching out. Of the little short fiction I've read of DeLillo's, this piece stands out as one of his best (not that he's really capable of doing much wrong). <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.believermag.com/img/nouveau/issues/201005.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 238px;" src="http://www.believermag.com/img/nouveau/issues/201005.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Did I mention that Ed Park is also the founder and editor of The Believer? Here's a 2004 <a href="http://www.believermag.com/issues/200407/?read=interview_zizek">interview</a> with Slavoj Zizek because, why not?<br /><br />Thanks Professor<br />via disambiguationSteve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-33722201726305226452010-05-14T11:00:00.000-07:002010-05-14T11:02:09.917-07:00Zizek's Universe<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DhDuYfZa5dE&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DhDuYfZa5dE&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-90763345232441052192010-05-13T13:15:00.000-07:002010-05-13T13:29:48.705-07:00CosmogrammaHiatus over. Cosmogramma is here<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.flying-lotus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Cosmogramma-Fieldlines-Image3.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 740px; height: 497px;" src="http://static.flying-lotus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Cosmogramma-Fieldlines-Image3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />And it's probably the augmented reality piece <a href="http://www.flying-lotus.com/fieldlines">fiedlines</a> that speaks to the genius of this record more aptly than any intellectual form of communication can wish to. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.brainfeedersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/cosmo_header.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 645px; height: 576px;" src="http://www.brainfeedersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/cosmo_header.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />But I can try, with no apologies for any gushiness. No artist today, in my eyes, is more inspiring or important to the evolution of music while simultaneously, unabashedly, composing accessible, pleasant music. Cosmogramma is effortless for the listener.<br /><br />Just listen to it, very very loud.Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-76663121662686580762010-04-03T17:47:00.000-07:002010-04-03T17:49:25.534-07:00I'm Here<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://yayeveryday.com/images/post_images/2010-1-21/8788/1264106119.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 455px;" src="http://yayeveryday.com/images/post_images/2010-1-21/8788/1264106119.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Beautiful <a href="http://www.imheremovie.com/">short</a> by Spike Jonze for AbsoluteSteve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-62391847212541621692010-03-30T16:02:00.000-07:002010-03-30T16:21:59.366-07:00Retrospective Apocalyptic Visions<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.psychoanalysis.cz/images/Slavoj_Zizek.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="http://www.psychoanalysis.cz/images/Slavoj_Zizek.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/11/slavoj-zizek-apocalyptic-times/<br /><br /> From cyborgs to Nazis, Zizek theorizes the threat of a digital revolution in humanity based on nano-technology, bio-engineering and computer intelligence. Zizek discusses the eminent integration of digital media with human biology. Even at this point, it is believed that there are more interactions between computers, than there is between man and computer. This suggests that the digital language between computers has its own interactions and may form its own agenda, and manipulate us. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://catbaret.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/pollan_350.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 355px;" src="http://catbaret.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/pollan_350.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><!--copy and paste--><object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/MichaelPollan_2007-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/MichaelPollan-2007.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=214&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=michael_pollan_gives_a_plant_s_eye_view;year=2007;theme=a_greener_future;theme=evolution_s_genius;theme=inspired_by_nature;event=TED2007;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/MichaelPollan_2007-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/MichaelPollan-2007.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=214&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=michael_pollan_gives_a_plant_s_eye_view;year=2007;theme=a_greener_future;theme=evolution_s_genius;theme=inspired_by_nature;event=TED2007;"></embed></object><br /><br /> Compare this with Pollen's thesis about corn or potatoes. Who is manipulating who? Have we already reached the point where machines are manipulating us with perfect, intuitive design? For the Digital Transcendentalist, this is just more justification that we already occupy a meta-reality, far from what history has defined humanity to be.Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-2479040034818101972010-03-25T14:23:00.000-07:002010-03-25T14:49:47.457-07:00New Website for Timothy Saccenti<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2009/08/04/timothysaccenti1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 468px; height: 312px;" src="http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2009/08/04/timothysaccenti1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />The new <a href="http://timothysaccenti.com/">timothysaccenti.com</a> is a collaborative visual experience involving the mind-melting photography and motion work of Timothy Saccenti, along with the brilliant, meta-conceptual design and interface of <a href="http://www.wearebuild.com/">Build</a>, one of the more progressive and stunning design studios around. It's a trip. Here are some of my personal favorites, old and new:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AnimalCollective_Comp3forportfolio_1200-785x500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 785px; height: 500px;" src="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/AnimalCollective_Comp3forportfolio_1200-785x500.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/PWolf_B6692_1117B-copy1-772x500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 772px; height: 500px;" src="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/PWolf_B6692_1117B-copy1-772x500.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Audi_blacklight_Flat_1200-772x500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 772px; height: 500px;" src="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Audi_blacklight_Flat_1200-772x500.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Acollect_Scout28356stopandshop-1117-copy-772x500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 772px; height: 500px;" src="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Acollect_Scout28356stopandshop-1117-copy-772x500.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_6864_1117-copy-772x500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 772px; height: 500px;" src="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IMG_6864_1117-copy-772x500.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Boards_0337Ambient_rgb1200-772x500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 772px; height: 500px;" src="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Boards_0337Ambient_rgb1200-772x500.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IPS_CVRPIC_FNL1200-888x500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 888px; height: 500px;" src="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/IPS_CVRPIC_FNL1200-888x500.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/c2_K7_K00120_040B-copy-750x500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 750px; height: 500px;" src="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/c2_K7_K00120_040B-copy-750x500.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />... and of course<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/diesel_discovery2-1175x500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1175px; height: 500px;" src="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/diesel_discovery2-1175x500.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Diesel_Tree-copy-1175x500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1175px; height: 500px;" src="http://timothysaccenti.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Diesel_Tree-copy-1175x500.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />... truly the palette for idea's beyond words. Digital Transcendentalism at its finest.Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-36684093688887745962010-03-23T16:28:00.000-07:002010-03-23T16:37:12.206-07:00Psychedelic-Influenced AstrophysicsCourtesy of <a href="www.spacecollective.net">Space Collective</a>:<br /><br />http://spacecollective.org/aloksubbarao/5731/PsychedelicInfluenced-Astrophysics-<br /><br /><object width="400" height="265"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1559805&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1559805&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="265"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/1559805">OK TO GO</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/universe">universe</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br /><br />This is a montage put together by <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/universe/">Claire Evans</a> of YACHT. It is an exploration of hyperspace in films.Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-86248392492329141242010-03-19T00:08:00.000-07:002010-03-19T00:13:57.828-07:00Nobody Beats the DrumRogier van der Zwaag's video for Grindin', by Nobody Beats the Drum:<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ntc4l-poovo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ntc4l-poovo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Really makes a statement about the meaning of 'digital art.' BrilliantSteve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-51405671690213135792010-03-03T12:18:00.000-08:002010-03-03T12:55:58.183-08:00'Blind Side of a Secret'<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2557697&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2557697&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/2557697">Blind Side Of A Secret, 2007</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/c505">Yoshi Sodeoka</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">[W]hen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett">Daniel Dennett</a>, for example, advocates a shift from Cartesian notion of the Self as the central controlling agency of psychic life to a notion of the auto-poetic interaction of competing multiple agents, does this not echo the shift from central bureaucratic control and planning to the network model? It is thus not only that our brain is socialized –- society itself is also naturalized in the brain, which is why <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Malabou">Malabou</a> is right in emphasizing the need to adress the key question: "What is to be done to avoid the consciousness of the brain coinciding directly and simply with the spirit of capitalism?"</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thecommune.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/tragfarcezizek.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 462px; height: 700px;" src="http://thecommune.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/tragfarcezizek.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Savoj Zizek, <span style="font-style:italic;">First as Tragedy, then as Farce</span><br /><br /><br />As Zizek reiterates, consciousness is an illusion created by a socialized system. In the era of digital capitalism, decentralized bureaucracy really begins to resemble a socialized financial system -- modern day capitalism as an illusion for a latent socialized force. <br /><br /><object width="400" height="265"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8268214&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8268214&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="265"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/8268214">Nice Nice - Everything Falling Apart</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/c505">Yoshi Sodeoka</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br /><br />It just really seems - could it be? - that this is, appears to be, a good thing?<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Yoshi Sodeoka is a New York based artist, designer and musician who has been producing both art and commercial projects since the early 1990s.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/19991/226628/t.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 670px; height: 473px;" src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/19991/226628/t.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/19991/226628/w.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 670px; height: 473px;" src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/19991/226628/w.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/19991/235019/Adobe%20After%20Effects%209.0ScreenSnapz003.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 670px; height: 893px;" src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/19991/235019/Adobe%20After%20Effects%209.0ScreenSnapz003.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/19991/234007/eruption.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 670px; height: 979px;" src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/19991/234007/eruption.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-20396903342371238812010-02-28T17:04:00.000-08:002010-02-28T17:08:25.906-08:00Interesting short piece on the singularity<object width="425" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BAGOlSTFDpo&border=1&color1=0x6699&color2=0x54abd6&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BAGOlSTFDpo&border=1&color1=0x6699&color2=0x54abd6&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="349"></embed></object><br /><br />It's interesting to me how the singularity is always talking about as this one moment. I can't help but feel as though we are already far beyond homo sapiens from the introduction of the internet alone. So much of what makes us contemporary humans is our projection into the digital realm.Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-45381452695593162142010-02-18T13:57:00.000-08:002010-02-18T14:21:46.029-08:00Passion Pit's "Little Secrets" video directed by Timothy SaccentiThis is Saccenti's new video for Passion Pits song, "Little Secrets" off Manners. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stereogum.com/img/passionpit-littlesecrets-still_210x.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 116px;" src="http://stereogum.com/img/passionpit-littlesecrets-still_210x.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">You have no model for communicating this superlative fact, but you are seduced into using a super-expression. (It might be called a philosophical superlative.)</span><br />-Ludwig Wittgenstein<br /><br />http://www.mtv.com/videos/passion-pit/484643/little-secrets.jhtml#id=1518071<br /><br />Timothy Saccenti communicating philosophical superlative with exploding heads. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.xlr8r.com/files/resized/files/news/timsaccenti_0812.540wide.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 540px; height: 216px;" src="http://www.xlr8r.com/files/resized/files/news/timsaccenti_0812.540wide.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-76212230220881705082010-02-14T19:26:00.000-08:002010-02-14T19:27:21.686-08:00The Bluebrain Project<object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8977365&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8977365&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/8977365">Bluebrain | Year One</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/couple3films">Couple 3 Films</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-83830354853495145352010-02-14T00:22:00.000-08:002010-02-14T01:36:10.888-08:00Babe Rainbow, Lynch and Zizek<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.warp.net/images/WAP291_Sleeve_480.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 480px; height: 480px;" src="http://media.warp.net/images/WAP291_Sleeve_480.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://baberainbow.com/">Babe Rainbow</a> is the new act on <a href="http://warp.net/records/babe-rainbow/shaved-ep-8th-feb-2010">Warp</a>. The ep is called Shaved, for which <a href="http://www.salazarfilm.com/">Salazar</a> has put together an interesting video that uses a progressive narrative style meant to explore the disillusion of individual psychology. <br /><br /><object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9198815&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9198815&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/9198815">Babe Rainbow - Shaved</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/salazarfilm">Salazar</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://goregirl.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/lost-highway.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 698px;" src="http://goregirl.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/lost-highway.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2240/2038101941_63d0b6cde6.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 343px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2240/2038101941_63d0b6cde6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />David Lynch's <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost Highway</span> is the benchmark of this brand of storytelling, so much so that famed theorist Slavoj Zizek has written about the film extensively in his book, <span style="font-style:italic;">The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime</span>. <br />Here is a bit from the Zizek site:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Critics either hold Lynch's Lost Highway to be a New Age mishmash of initiatory themes wheeling around an absurd critique of post-modern life, or they abandon critical hope in seeing the film as an exercise in noir excess -as James Naremore put it, "no other purpose than regression. . . another movie about movies." Slavoj Zizek has exhumed the serious and elegant stylistics behind the film to demonstrate that it is neither just an exercise nor a coded New Age manifesto but, rather, a coherent and consistent artistic account of our cultural condition. Not so coincidentally, Zizek's Lacanian insights correspond to bolagrammarian motions about an anamorphic center.This Möbius-band design constellates characters who are,without the underlying template, simply enigmatic. </span><br /> <br /> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.iol.ie/~phenry/test_i000039.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 213px;" src="http://www.iol.ie/~phenry/test_i000039.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /><span style="font-style:italic;">House and shed <br /> <br />The house occupied by the couple we first meet (Fred and Renee Madison) is the best starting point. Fred hears a voice on the intercom, "Dick Laurent is dead,"but there is no one at the door, just a videotape that happens to show their house from the outside. The next morning, another videotape is left that shows the house's interior with the sleeping couple inside. The police are called in but can find no explanation.We learn that Fred is semi-impotent, and when he accompanies Renee to a party, we suspect that she and the host, Andy, are having an affair. A man at the party, the macabre Mystery Man, tells Fred that he has not only met Fred at his house, but that he's actually at his house at that moment. He has Fred call home to verify this. <br /> <br />The third videotape shows Fred with the corpse of the murdered Renee, and in quick order we understand that Fred is convicted for murder and is serving out his sentence in jail. Inexplicably, he is transformed into another person,Pete Dayton. Dayton has no connection to the crime and, thus,is released. Dayton returns to his life as an auto mechanic. A gangster-client at the garage, Mr. Eddy (also known as Fred Laurent),asks Pete to accompany him on a drive to diagnose a problem with his car. A passing motorist offends Mr. Eddy and the subsequent chase and beating of the motorist alarm Pete. Eddy's mistress,who looks exactly like the murdered wife Renee, seduces Pete and persuades him to rob Andy, an associate of Mr. Eddy's and the person who got her involved in prostitution and pornographic films.During the robbery, Andy is killed. Pete and Alice drive to a desert motel and make love. She disappears in the darkness with the words, "You'll never have me!" and enters a wooden shed that bursts into flame. <br /> <br />Pete now transforms back into Fred and gets into a fight with Mr. Eddy, who is executed by the suddenly appearing Mystery Man. Fred returns to his house, leaves a message on the intercom, "Dick Laurent is dead" and rushes off into the desert, pursued by the police. <br /> <br />The key structuring elements are the parallels,doubles, and flips that constitute a comprehensive anamorphic program. Had this story existed in Roman times, Ovid would have had to include it in his Metamorphosis. The house/shed,Renee/Alice, and Fred/Pete play out doubles that do not match.Fred and Pete look different but are the same person. Renee and Alice look alike but are "different." Pete's affair with Alice is a hopeful projection that compensates for Fred's failed relationship with Renee. Mystery Man presides over the flips, and mediates the disbelief when we learn that one person can, following the rules of phantasmagoria, be in two places at once. Mr. Eddy/Laurent is the evil Other, but the Mystery Man is the Other of the Other, playing the drama out like an impresario of hell. <br /> <br />While the bolagram does not explain "why"Lynch uses this flipped script, it does show how, despite the in congruencies the audience experiences, it "plays by the rules." This is Mr. Eddy's admonition to the roughed-up driver who had harmlessly passed him on the road - one must "play by the rules." The film has a plausible psychological "explanation"as the fantasy projection of Fred beginning with his imprisonment,but this doesn't cover the circularity of time created when he leaves the message on his own intercom about the death of Dick Laurent. Zizek argues that the film is in fact a document about the "end of psychology" ? the ultimate failure of attempts to explain this or any other event from the viewpoint of the outlooks of the participants/characters. <br /> <br />Along these lines, the bolagram of Lost Highway shows that any psychology is "collective"and not deducible from motives of the players, who are lost within the matrix of relationships. However, the overall pattern is discernible,consistent, and (eventually) symmetrical within the rules of atemporalized topology that repeats a dynamic that can be found in the earliest myths. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/07/zizek2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 368px; height: 560px;" src="http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/07/zizek2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />As the idea of an individual psychology leaves the interest of contemporary art, artists are forced to attractively convey the peculiarities of a collective psychology. This jarring narrative experience is an exciting horizon for art.<br /><br />More meditation needed.<br /><br />*EDIT<br />-Doesn't the person[?] at Babe Rainbow's website kindofsorta resemble mystery man in <span style="font-style:italic;">Lost Highway</span>?Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-51668913484610155152010-02-10T12:51:00.000-08:002010-02-10T12:59:49.137-08:00A Brave New World<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/brave-new-world.jpg?w=400&h=391"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 391px;" src="http://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/brave-new-world.jpg?w=400&h=391" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />I saw this cover on <a href="http://biblioklept.org/">biblioklept</a> and was reminded how important this book was to me. <br /><br />You can download this version, narrated by Huxley, <a href="http://swen.antville.org/stories/1938680">here</a>.Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-20490426817379271292010-02-08T22:43:00.000-08:002010-02-08T23:04:40.814-08:00Polygenesizing with Don DeLillo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://z.about.com/d/bestsellers/1/0/S/B/-/-/point_omega.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 312px; height: 450px;" src="http://z.about.com/d/bestsellers/1/0/S/B/-/-/point_omega.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_point">Omega Point</a> of DeLillo's philosophical pondering is one concerned with the trajectory of consciousness and the information that makes up our experience of life as individuals. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/">Time</a> plays another major role in this philosophical investigation. Which time do we inhabit? Is our time subjective? Can we escape it? <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://perival.com/delillo/don_delillo_artikel.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 244px;" src="http://perival.com/delillo/don_delillo_artikel.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />He's received a heavy handed amount of criticism for his newer, slimmer novels, but with <span style="font-style:italic;">Omega Point</span>, DeLillo proves that he is as sharp and talented as ever. For me, this book definitely goes amongst the top of his collection (not to mention, a stunning piece of digitally transcendental literature).<br /><br /> "I looked out into blinding tides of light and sky and down toward the folded copper hills that I took to be the badlands, a series of pristine ridges rising from the desert floor in patterned alignment. Could someone be dead in there? I could not imagine this. It was too vast, it was not real, the symmetry of furrows and juts, it crushed me, the heartbreaking beauty of it, the indifference of it, and the longer I stood and looked the more certain I was that we would never have an answer."Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-66681149612355853602010-01-31T16:00:00.000-08:002010-01-31T16:07:02.438-08:00Animal Collective Movie Screenings in New YorkThey're calling ODDSAC a visual album. It kind of looks to me like a more terrifying version of Lynch's "The Grandmother."<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2H48VtETngA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2H48VtETngA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Screenings:<br />March 2<br />New York City NY, USA<br />Visual Arts Theatre<br />With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective.<br /><br />March 17<br />Chicago IL, USA<br />Music Box Theatre<br />With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective.Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-44320391044784520082010-01-26T20:40:00.000-08:002010-01-26T20:46:13.206-08:00Digital Dancing<object width="400" height="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8837024&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8837024&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="400"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/8837024">Vanishing Point</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1536192">Bonsajo</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br />This is a video from Vanishing Point, directed by Takuya Hosogane. It's one of the more beautiful graphic pieces I've seen. To me, it suggests a change in digital art from the realistic to the conceptual.Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1845060050458709287.post-13872028081339443852010-01-24T16:43:00.000-08:002010-01-24T16:48:53.293-08:00Tomorrow, in a Year<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://this.bigstereo.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/tomorrowinayear_press2_NEW2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 480px; height: 516px;" src="http://this.bigstereo.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/tomorrowinayear_press2_NEW2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />The Knife plans to release a studio version of thier Darwin inspired opera <span style="font-style:italic;">Tomorrow, in a Year</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/songza.media.blog-img/knife.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 460px; height: 496px;" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/songza.media.blog-img/knife.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />The digital release on iTunes is February 2nd.Steve Grafhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09109045882962624125noreply@blogger.com0