They were the original hipsters. They love their sweaters, beards, lumberjack look, indie pop, and apparently The Big Lebowski. They also are markedly homogeneous, with a wildly close knit population (more…)
To Work……… “An Horatian Notion by Thomas Lux”
The thing gets made, gets built, and you’re the slave who rolls the log beneath the block, then another, then pushes the block, then pulls a log from the rear back to the front again and then again (more…)
Music as art vs commodity: The Free Market is definitely free from giving artists their proper royalties…
This kills me… about artists, licensing, royalties, etc. see attached. I have always been so curious about music as art, IE a personal compulsion that creates it vs desire to make money and be (more…)
I also heard you like art.
What a nice start to the year. Talking with friends, and being completely zoned out on conference calls looking at my favorite art. How fun! Here’s some stuff I quite enjoy. I know no one reads this, (more…)
Speaking of Sailing… Yachts and Stuff. =)
And lovely music. The below is Alain Thébault’s L’Hydroptère and the nautical mile speed sailing record yacht in SF Bay. Shot simply to relate unbelievable speed:
Let’s chat about “HER”: A post semantic technological world of developmental singularities & transcendence
Spoilers kiddies: My “Her” review: a technological developmental singularity; when AI out evolves human consciousness w/transcension into a parralel universe. — Uncle Fishbits (@UncleFishbits) (more…)
14 Tech Trends for 2014 from FastCo that aren’t uninspired, derivative “It’s the year of mobile” nonsense.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024464/15-tech-trends-that-will-define-2014-selected-by-frog  Anonymity, Disconnecting, Facebook unseated by Chinese, THE CONSUMER OWNING AND CONTROLLING THEIR DATA… (more…)
TV. I guess content is good, Mr. Spacey. 2000-current
I have watched: 13) Dead Like Me – I loved this show. But at the time I liked Gilmore Girls. I think. Wow. 12) 6 Feet Under – fun, slow, slightly annoying at times 11) House – didn’t watch consistently, (more…)
The way time ends for our human perspective in this universe. We have 2 ways out of here… which do you prefer?
How does time end for humanity? Let’s assume the best case scenario, right? Â We are able to continue our legacy as wanderers, hopping from planet to planet, solar system to system…. and I won’t even (more…)
Spoiler* – Visual metaphors and allegorical subtext within Gravity, with a smattering of science questions!
I felt the story was more about the earth, & this human moment in time, more than just the astronauts’ experience. More about our collective human condition – doomed in peril in space, doomed to die on earth, and coping with that in a way that compels us to survive.