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Great documentary on R. Stevie Moore

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:12:00 -0800

Great documentary on R. Stevie Moore

Video

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:49:13 -0800

From a recent visit to Schiermonnikoog, in the North of The...

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:04:00 -0800

From a recent visit to Schiermonnikoog, in the North of The Netherlands.

Snowflakes

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:14:01 -0800

Snowflakes

Shape-shifters developed at MIT Via. More here.

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:03:03 -0800

Shape-shifters developed at MIT

Via. More here.

Video

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:57:56 -0800

Video

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:15:12 -0800

Clifford Ross lecture

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 02:37:00 -0800

Clifford Ross lecture

Video

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:56:47 -0700

For all your black metal fantasies… A stave church candle....

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:34:00 -0700

For all your black metal fantasies…

A stave church candle. Limited edition of 666, handmade in Bergen, Norway.

to my buddies that like to think critically…

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:56:00 -0700

to my buddies that like to think critically…

Oh Canada, some images of a recent residency I did in Canada

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:52:00 -0700

Oh Canada, some images of a recent residency I did in Canada

“…it seems pretty cosmic and wondrous…”

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:11:00 -0700

“…it seems pretty cosmic and wondrous…”

noprogressisprogress: SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY 7 AM TO 11...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:09:00 -0700

noprogressisprogress:

SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY

7 AM TO 11 AM

W6TRW SWAPMEET

REDONDO BEACH AT THE NORTHROP GRUMAN CAMPUS

Burning palm tree in LA

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:09:00 -0700

Burning palm tree in LA

Doomsday...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:50:00 -0700

Doomsday Stone

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From BBC Earth…

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:26:00 -0700

From BBC Earth…

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Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:26:00 -0700

Aerial view of a car which was impacted from above by a human who had jumped off a nearby building (minus the blood).

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Sun, 27 May 2012 12:39:00 -0700

Rhizome interviews Seth Price (2009)

C O R R E S P O N D E N S E [full article]

Boško Blagojević: I’d like to talk more about nationalism with you, but for now maybe let’s get back to the 10-6… mix. Music brings people together too, after all. How did it start?

Seth Price: I was collecting great songs, and for some reason it was all dance music! Dance music from the last thirty-five years or so, electronic dance music. This went on for a couple of years, and I’d stick each track to the previous one so I could organize them in one place. And then I wanted to mix the tracks together, that whole DJ thing, so it kept expanding.

With the Title Variable pieces [2001—], I already had a structure for working with music, and it offered a way to consider why I was accumulating dance music, what the form would be, how to frame those things. On the other hand, the compilations had so far focused on very specific historical niches, odd pockets of music that didn’t fit, so ‘dance music’ seemed too broad. But the more I thought about it, the more it fit the project, because these compilations were supposed to be frameworks for thinking about how production and distribution change over time, and “8-4…” comes out of just those sorts of changes, it could only be a product of its moment. Partly this is because of the way that “dance music” fills any space and cannibalizes any genre, and plays well anywhere that consumption or production happen. Also the way that everyone’s now invited to take on the DJ role, not the performance aspect or “reading the crowd,” but the ease of sharing a notion of taste, the distribution of taste. And finally there was something about availability, the availability of mixing software, and of music itself. Infinite music, music taken for granted.

File sharing was originally the spark behind the Title Variable piece: fishing for disparate parts, manipulating them, repackaging them as a kind of expression of taste, although an ambiguous one. But because I started the piece in 2001, it developed right alongside iTunes and the iTunes store and the iPod, and the mainstreaming of filesharing, and the shuffle function, and the “mix” as a list of references, as information pure and simple. The mix is a different kind of structure from when I started, when I wasn’t aware of those things, when they didn’t really exist yet.

Of course, eight hours’ worth is kind of a potlatch. Excessive sharing. But that’s what’s happening now, excessive sharing.

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Sun, 27 May 2012 12:23:00 -0700

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Scheerer’s phenomenon (after the German ophthalmologist Richard Scheerer, who first drew clinical attention to it in 1924) is the appearance of tiny bright dots (called “blue-sky sprites”) moving quickly along squiggly lines in the visual field, especially when looking into bright blue light (such as the sky).

The dots are white blood cells moving in the capillaries in front of the retina of the eye, near the macula. Blue light is well absorbed by the red blood cells that fill the capillaries. The eye and brain “edit out” the shadow lines of the capillaries, partially by dark adaptation of the photoreceptors lying beneath the capillaries. The white blood cells, which are much rarer than the red ones and do not absorb blue light well, create gaps in the blood column, and these gaps appear as bright dots. They won’t appear at the very center of the visual field, because there are no blood vessels in the fovea.

The effect is completely normal but rather weak, and many people don’t notice it at all. It is strongest when looking at a smooth blue surface.

- Wikipedia