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Streetsy Street Art Blog

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:03:53 GMT

Streetsy is a daily street art site. With the rise of Banksy and others, this is a great resource of street art from around the globe. From the site: "Street art is art created in public places, often without permission. Street art is made in a number of mediums, including stencils, stickers, posters, paint, and sculpture. In mathematical, political, criminal, and philosophical terms, streetart is a subset of graffiti."

Kenji Kamiyama

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:57:24 GMT

Kenji Kamiyama, Japanese anime director, writer, and artist. He was worked on The Last Vampire, and directed the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex anime television series. The Ghost in the Shell Series are important because the move away from the testosterone filled plots of other Japanese anime to deal with issues such as the machine-man-spirit conflict, urban cities, and religion.

Gary Hill

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:34:20 GMT

Artist Gary Hill.

One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide."Gary Hill's work is especially significant due to his incorporation of text into video art, evident in works such as Incidence of Catastrophe 1977-78. Hill began working with video, text and sound in 1973. He was influenced by the intellectual orientation of conceptual art which dominated art of the 1970s. His reading of the writings ofMaurice Blanchot, in particular, provided him with ideas relating to the way in which language impinges on phenomenological experience, and a notion of 'the other' stemming from the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas. Such reading informs Hill's visual-poetic explorations of the interrelationships between language, image, identity, and the body. For example in Cabin Fever he uses the binary opposition of light and darkness to convey the notion of an interaction between a self and an ‘other’. Hill's work thoroughly exploits the capacity of video to offer complex nonlinear narratives that encourage active engagement on the part of the viewer."

Batman: Gotham Knight

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:18:19 GMT

Summer 2008 DVD animated series by important Japanese anime directors: Yasuhiro Aoki, Futoshi Higashide, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Hiroshi Morioka, Jong-Sik Nam, Shoujirou Nishimi, Madhouse, Studio 4*C, and Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell)

Photosynth

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:57:12 GMT

Imagine taking all the photos on the web to create a cummulative, accurate represenation of our visual experience.

The photos beccome actually building blocks for 3D models.

From TED (again), imagine taking all the photos on Flicker, mapping all the points and places spacially, then coming up with accurate 3D representation of those places all over the world. The future of the web is visual.

Photosynth takes hundreds — or thousands — of conventional digital photos, analyzes them, and then through clever image analysis and comparison constructs an entire 3D geometry, mapping them onto the result.

"What is Design?" by Eames

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:35:56 GMT

An insightful doodle from Eames.

Santogold

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:39:19 GMT

Brooklyn's own Santogold. Notice how in sync the dancers are. Incredible. Cross cultural future funk for/and from the ladies.

Semantic Web

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:07:39 GMT

"I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent agents’ people have touted for ages will finally materialize." - Tim Berners-Lee * DOAC * Expert system * Geoweb * Implicit web * List of emerging technologies * Metadata publishing * Social Semantic Web * Web 3.0 * DAML+OIL * Description logic * DOAP * Dublin Core * Epistematics * Microformats * Multimedia Web Ontology Language(MOWL) * Knowledge representation, Knowledge technologies * Topic Maps * Ontology alignment * RDFa Embedding RDF in XHTML

Anticipate Recordings

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:14:20 GMT

Wonderful music and videos from this downtown New York minimal music label.

Esoteric Anatomy

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:24:03 GMT

All creation is the interweaving of cycles. From Galactic manifestation to subatomic waves, the universe is a vast spectrum of cycles. The cycles of birth and death, summer and winter, day and night, in-breath and out-breath weave the fabric of life. The ancient rishis (Yogi’s who purified their body/minds and directly experienced the fundamental forces of creation) experienced the underlying unity of all cycles as the breath of Brahma and the ubiquitous periodicity of the universe as the rhythm of the life breath of a single harmonious Living Being. Golden Spiral: Life breath of a living universe . . . The ancient wisdom describes these fields of resonance emanating from the center as elements. The elements are the vibratory archetypes of Cosmic Intelligence that underlie creation. Ether, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. These five patterns of vibration are at the core of the sciences of the ancients. Dr. Stone writes: “Patterns are mind energy fields. [underlined in the original] Each type of energy has a vibratory speed and wave length which determines its function and affinity to other similar units of energy functioning in the body, or outside in the cosmos.”17 They are the fundamental resonances that are the inner vibrational basis of all phenomena. The elemental harmonics are understood as four phases of radiation (Air, Fire, Water, and Earth) from one center (Ether). Each of the elements represents a progressively denser, more material radiation of a single force, a harmonic of the underlying singular harmony. The elements are archetypal harmonics corresponding to the phases of materialization in the Polarity Evolutionary Cycle. Cross section of logarithmic spiral pictured above. Elemental Fields Ether Ether + Air sustain Air Ether + Air + Fire sustain Fire Ether +Air + Fire sustain Water Ether +Air + Fire + Water sustain Earth Energy Fields radiate from a center and step-down in quantum fashion from higher to lower rates of vibration from the core to the periphery. The radiation of energy fields is universally ruled by the Golden Spiral. Like wheels within wheels, these whirling vortices of force emanate from the center of every energy field in a quantum fashion of discrete zones of resonance that provide the step-down mechanism from Spirit to matter. The Etheric center radiates a series of fields in a quantum step-down mechanism through which spirit crystallizes into matter. The elements represent progressive stages in the cycle of movement of this energy from Spirit into matter. They form the outward, involutionary cycle from within to without, from above to below, from Ether to Earth, from subtle Spirit to the crystallization of consciousness into matter. This movement then becomes an inward-moving evolutionary cycle from below to above and from without to within, as energy cycles back through matter to Spirit. In the Tantric darsan (a vision of God) nature (prakriti) is differentiated into five forms of motion. Ether (Akasa) fills space with the “Hairs of Shiva,” nonobstructive motion radiating lines of force in all directions, sustaining the space in which the other forces operate. Air (Vayu) is a transverse motion and the source of locomotion in space (from the sanskrit root Va, “to move”). Fire (Tejas) is an upward motion giving rise to expansion. Water (Apas) is a downward motion giving rise to contraction. Earth (Prithivi) is a motion which produces cohesion and obstruction, the opposite of the nonobstructive Ether. All vibration is entrained, through sympathetic vibration, with the resonance of these universal fields of force. All solidity, regardless of the phenomenon, resonates with the Earth harmonic; all fluidity with Water; all heat with Fire; all movement with Air; and all space with Ether. The ancient seers articulated a distinction between the universal elements prior to manifestation which they called “subtle elements” and the “gross” pentamirus combination of the elements that sustained manifestation. Thus the subtle tanmatras, or essences, combining and recombining, produce the five gross elements of the external universe the Mahabhutas or Panchabhautikas. It is important to remember that this is a sacred model of creation. While a scientific perspective would hold that “mythology” points to a realm that is less than “real,” sacred “mythology” asserts a transcendental dimension that is more than “real.” The elements are not things . . . but are Primordial Being. The elements are aspects of the Divine Logos and are the root archetypes out of which Cosmic Intelligence manifests creation.