Jacques Dutronc – Et moi, et moi, et moi (1966) from Jessica Johnston on Vimeo. Jacques Dutronc, obviously….. ———— Seven hundred million Chinese and I and I and I With my life, my little (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 heard you liked blog posts. Here are some of mine to start the year.
So, since I just had my friend update this blog, and you can actually read it on more than a 1987 monochrome screen, I thought I would compile a bunch of some of my past faves that might get your mind (more…)
Here’s an Amazon review of paper clips, and what I think about it.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2F8CW47RH29RB/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00006IBK8 Funny review of a paper clip. Trying real hard & doing it quite well. There are people that take reviewing (more…)
The Paradox of Choice, and MTV’s late 90’s revolutionarily prescient “Zoo-TV” #NOU2
The Paradox of Choice http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice?language=en Highly recommend that. Upshot: Old days: You went shopping for jeans. There was one type. They (more…)
There is no such thing as a Postmodernist Child.
“I hope that every time from now on, when you hear anybody talking about a Catholic child, or a Protestent child, a Muslim child, you will protest. You wouldn’t talk about a postmodernist child, or a Keynesian (more…)
You are using your phone because life has no meaning…..
I have a 2nd non smartphone flip phone that I take in place of the smartphone when I run errands, go to the gym, hang out with friends, etc. Unless it’s work, and I need a calendar, etc…. (more…)
The cynic in me…. everyone’s the smart guy when the economy is good?
Africa is screwed.. if not crazy beliefs (Atheist is mentally ill: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28010234) , corruption, or just semi regional to northern Africa / Middle East escalation into all (more…)
The disruption of driverless cars melts my brain.
Sitting in a car and not holding a steering wheel would trip me out… but it’s only about control, right? It’s so much safer, but like flying… lack of control freaks us out. I cannot wait to sleep (more…)
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…)