Taken from Lusine’s “Arterial” EP out August 5, 2014.
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Lusine “Arterial”
•August 8, 2014 • Leave a CommentTaken from Lusine’s “Arterial” EP out August 5, 2014.
How To Have Cybersex on The Internets (1997)
•August 7, 2014 • Leave a Comment
This 1997 instructional video can’t decide whether to be informational or sexy and, as a result, succeeds at neither. Tedium has never been this topless:
Dug up in a thrift store in Minnesota. It comes from 1997, a simpler time before sexting and SnapChat, when the secrets to cybersex could only be unlocked with a VHS how-to video.
Hattie Stewart Animates Kylie Minogue’s “Sexercize” [music video]
•August 7, 2014 • Leave a Comment
I watched Kylie’s recent music video because yes, I was expecting some erotic entertainment indicative of the song’s title, and a youthful memory of Kylie in golden hotpants may have piqued my interest. Alas, I was disappointed. However, Hattie Stewart went and put together this sexy-silly music video version of “Sexercize” and doodled in a few of his own manic creations, which I think is a colorful improvement:
And here’s the boring original. So boring… *cough*
Lady Mechanika #4 [comics]
•August 6, 2014 • Leave a CommentLady Mechanika is a steampunk comic created by comic artist Joe Benitez. When I revisited my adolescent hobby and rediscovered how much I admired comic books, Lady Mechanika was one of the series that sparked and held my interest. The first issue of Lady Mechanika debuted and sold out in October, 2010, the third issue was released December 21, 2011, and then the series went cold. Until last month at San Diego Comic-Con, 2014, where Joe Benitez debuted the long-awaited continuation of the unfinished Mechanika story arc! These arrived at my doorstep this morning:
Lady Mechanika is an occult and paranormal detective in England at the turn of the 20th century. She is part human, part machine and is proficient with many weapons, partly due to her own limbs having been amputated and replaced with mechanical components. The sole survivor of a serial killer’s three-year rampage, Mechanika suffers amnesia about her past and works to unravel the mysteries surrounding it.
8-Bit Philosophy: Karl Marx — Episode 9 “What is Marxism?”
•August 5, 2014 • Leave a CommentSuper Mario Bros. Game Style.
8-Bit Matrix
•August 5, 2014 • Leave a CommentNostalgic 8-16bit sound blips replace all the sound effects in this Chateau fight scene from The Matrix Reloaded. This almost makes me want to watch the sequels again. Almost.
Universal Hot Crazy Matrix — A Man’s Guide to Women
•August 5, 2014 • Leave a CommentFunny. How can 46 years worth of observational study possibly be wrong?
No strippers, no jail, got it. Yes, of course this is ridiculous, but perhaps there is some logical reasoning behind Dana McLendon’s lost-in-mistranslational philosophy? Doubtful.
In an interview, McLendon tried to save face by stating it was all just a joke:
A joke at the expense of those poor strippers and redheads who occupy the danger zone. For shame. Although, I’m sure there are a few dumb-dumbs in the world who appreciate this lighthearted attempt at explaining women. Love is a battlefield and all that jazz.
Entertaining Scepticism: Better Late Than Never? [F]
•August 5, 2014 • Leave a CommentI usually park my car down a residential street near the inner city and catch a bus the rest of the way to university. This morning was no different, except, I saw a Britomart 204 bus coming, but instead of getting on it, I chose not to, deciding instead to wait for the 277 which would arrive a few minutes later. I’ve only ever caught the 277, but as far as I know, the bus routes are probably exactly the same. The thing is, this silly action cost me 5 minutes. I didn’t regret my decision, but I did feel like it was extremely out of character of me to do that.
Shortly after the 204 left, Issie, a girl from one of the papers I took last year turned up. We had never spoken before, and she seemed really cool. We learned we were taking the same paper and sat on the bus together. I don’t want to write a detailed description about what we talked about (even though we shared similar thoughts and conversation came easy; I can’t shake the thought of how she subtly mentioned she had a boyfriend several times despite the fact that we had just met,) but I do have this uncanny urge to relate this moment to an earlier one, where I said and firmly believed that it was better never to show up than show up late. That was wrong. I think I may be developing some profound theory in the back of my mind about time. Or perhaps I’ve just learnt a lesson about beliefs, contradictions and exceptions. I may have been trying to justify my own inadequacies. In either case; we were both late for tutorial, but just this once, I was OK with that.
Never late is probably better but better late than never is fine too. I am inclined to believe, our movements through time are all we have control over, but we move not for ourselves.
No matter how busy you are, you must take time
to make the other person feel important. ~ Mary Kay Ash
Trying your best seems to be a recurring theme in many of my [F] posts, so there must be something important behind that. Something about not giving up. Something about me, or should I say us, as not to sound too egotistical. And as for Issie’s spontaneous relationship status update:
Lolz ^ Not really but sort of yes really XD I joke, we cool.
Satoshi Kon: Editing Space & Time
•August 4, 2014 • Leave a Comment
Four years after his passing, Satoshi Kon — truly one of the great visionaries of modern film and animation — remains the master of his craft; a dreamweaver of space and time and a magnificent storyteller by all standards. His films are special. Watching one for the first time is like receiving a gift. It feels, lonelier now.
Film critic Tony Zhou looks at the editing style of the late Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Millennium Actress). His obsession with our multiple realities — social circles, memories, dreams, the Internet — led to his disorienting cuts and transitions. Great tribute, Zhou:
Beauty & the Ceased [F]
•August 4, 2014 • Leave a CommentDoes beauty hurt? Or does the hurt come from our interpretation or associated thoughts we’ve consciously attributed to the things we consider beautiful? I think ‘true beauty’ is meant to make you feel, sadness. This is how we know it is real. If sadness is the one emotion we all avoid, then it makes sense that this feeling would be triggered in accordance with its polar opposite emotion. Like the feeling of empathy for someone else in pain or our own pain when something is not functioning properly within us. How we distinguish the truth in things must be instinctive. Is there a neurologist in the house?
My mother recently told me how sunsets reminded her of home; home she has not returned to in over 20 years. I think other things we find beautiful are reminders of things that are unique and not within reach, but alive in our hearts, kept safe in our memories. One emotion cannot manifest without another, letting us know the difference. If beauty is a stimulus of unspoken or unattained desires in limbo, then ’emotional duality’ isn’t something we should ignore or pacify with painkillers or adages. If sadness is the price we feel for experiencing true beauty, then the time we sacrifice in our everyday lives to attain a measure of it, is worth the rest of our lives. Love hurts.
The Cement Skeletons of Mexico by Artist Isaac Cordal
•August 3, 2014 • Leave a CommentI love this idea. Unlike found object art (often a discarded object or product with a non-art function, presented in a juxtaposed environment in the hopes of inducing some sort of provocative or aesthetically pleasing response in others) I don’t see this as relocated litter. I consider these creative and beautifying the urban landscape we have all, to an extent, become desensitized to experiencing — in other words; I think these miniature sculptures of the dead breathe life into an otherwise bleak environment, and are just plain neat:
Isaac Cordal places different miniature statues into his local landscape of Chiapas, Mexico to create an entirely new sense of place once the objects inhabit their chosen situation. Stories develop organically from the objects and, especially with these skeletal versions, take on a metaphorical prowess to the pleasing street art. The meaning behind each tiny sculpture is intentionally ambiguous, it’s impossible to look at each piece without imagining a story.
The pieces often appear in scenes of mourning or despair, as part of what Cordal says is commentary on humankind’s disregard for nature and as foreshadowing of potential consequences. The sculptures can be found in gutters, on top of buildings, on top of bus shelters; in many unusual and unlikely places. See more @ http://cementeclipses.com/
“How Much Would You Pay for The Universe?” — Neil deGrasse Tyson – We Stopped Dreaming (Episode 1)
•August 2, 2014 • Leave a CommentStimulating growth, making dreams and birthing heroes; Neil deGrasse Tyson lets us know NASA’s importance and the misguiding of society’s priority, why and how it is — in limbo:
The reason the American government cut funding to NASA was apparently because they were going to divert funds into environmental research in the hopes of making our world stable before we reach out to new ones. Good idea. To bad that never happened. Great words Mr Tyson, advancing the space frontier and igniting scientific curiosity in the general public is the way forward. Preach!
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