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The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats
An online exhibition created by The National Library of Ireland. When you enter the tour, you can scan through 200 artifacts & manuscripts and “attend” three in-depth tutorials exploring the evolution of three major poems (‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Leda and the Swan’ and ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’). You can also listen to Yeats, one of Ireland’s towering poets, reciting his famous poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree.’
Posted in Art, Feature, Featured, Literature, Poetry, Technology Tagged Art, Literature, Poetry, Technology
remix my lit
Not many books begin with a word of warning. Through the Clock’s Workings does. This anthology of literature is not some textual tome, frozen in time and space. It is alive, evolving organically in a constant state of flux. This is a world first: a remixed and remixable short fiction anthology. (remix my lit)
Manifesto for Slow Communication
Sending and receiving at breakneck speed can make life queasy; a manifesto for slow communication (via WSJ)
Posted in Anthropology, Feature, Featured, Technology Tagged communication, consciousness, speed, Technology
Who you are as a poet
Guthrie Martin agrees. “So many poets I know are so concerned with MFAs and prizes and getting published, making their mark,” she said. “For me, having who you are as a poet live on isn’t about any particular poem you write or your body of work. It’s about how you inspire other people to be [...]
Where trivia and gossip pass for news…
A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. And we are dying now. We will either wake from our state of induced childishness, one where trivia and gossip pass for news and information, one where our goal is not justice but an elusive and unattainable happiness, to confront the stark limitations before us, [...]
Posted in Anthropology, Asides, Feature, Inverted Commas, Language, Politics Tagged consciousness, media, news, Politics, psychology
It’s time to embrace American royalty by Glenn Greenwald
It’s time to embrace American royalty | Glenn Greenwald
patti smith | dream of life
Dream of Life is a plunge into the philosophy and artistry of cult rocker Patti Smith.This portrait of the legendary singer, artist and poet explores themes of spirituality, history and self expression.
Architecture Projection Art
Urban Screen building projection videos
Posted in Architecture, Art, Feature, Literature, Video Tagged Architecture, Art, Video
Frances Baskerville, Singing Psychic
Vital information about angels , aliens and the grassy knoll, all cleverly disguised as incredibly bad pop music.http://tinyurl.com/kv2bgd (via The Dark Engine)
McLuhan’s Wake
So what I end up saying… is…take control of your entire reality… your media, your mythic life…your practical brain are the product of what you have made it to be…or have, quite willingly, accepted programs from others. And again, don’t forget about those cute feedback loops…via McLuhan’s Wake
Posted in Asides, Feature, Technology Tagged communication, consciousness, media, mythology, Philosophy
Willie Nelson in Jazz Country
“One of the big things that caught my attention was after he moved to Nashville in the ’60s, he and another Texan, Waylon Jennings, eventually told the Nashville people to go to hell, and they left,” says Sample, who will join Nelson in performances of the “American Classic” material in Chicago on Sept. 27 and [...]
Inverted Commas: Samuel Butler
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler
Posted in Asides, Feature, Inverted Commas Tagged Inverted Commas
J.G. Ballard’s Shanghai
J.G. Ballard’s experience of Shanghai was, he said, closer to the normal lives of the majority of people in the 20th century than most realize…more | via Arts & Letters Daily
Posted in Asides, Feature, Literature Tagged Literature
Can Jazz Be Saved?
“By the same token, jazz musicians who want to keep their own equally beautiful music alive and well have got to start thinking hard about how to pitch it to young listeners—not next month, not next week, but right now.” - Terry Teachout | Wall Street Journal
JG Ballard and the lost English avant garde
“That he was a visionary is beyond question. Countless commentators have mentioned his acute insight into the psychopathology of our time and place: the world of mass media, celebrity, instant communications, electronic iconography, narcissism on a spectacular scale; the world of airport lounges, shopping malls and motorways, of pampered Western communities and endless suburbia; and [...]
Posted in Asides, Feature, Inverted Commas, Literature Tagged ballard, Inverted Commas, Literature
Legalization and Regulation
Marijuana prohibition currently costs American taxpayers almost $42 billion a year. Compare this negative cash flow to the projected tax benefits of legalization – between $2.4 and $6.2 billion annually – and it becomes obvious why Milton Friedman and more than 500 other respected economists publicly support the legalization of marijuana. | via Reality Catcher
Posted in Agriculture, Asides, Politics Tagged Business, economics, legalization, marijuana, Politics
Inventing a new poetry
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. ~ Raoul Vaneigem
Posted in Art, Asides, Business, Inverted Commas, Philosophy, Politics Tagged Inverted Commas
Understanding Duchamp
Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp takes you on a journey through the art and ideas of the most influential artist of the 20th century. Animations and interactivity make ideas come alive with an immediacy that only multimedia can provide: you can spin the Bicycle Wheel, shake With Hidden Noise, and manipulate the elaborate allegorical automata of The Bride Stripped Bare by [...]
Posted in Art, Asides Tagged animation, Art, interactive
Kafka goes out for a walk in the park…
Every afternoon, Kafka goes out for a walk in the park. More often than not, Dora goes with him. One day, they run into a little girl in tears, sobbing her heart out.
The relationship between textiles and computers is explicit
The relationship between textiles and computers is explicit – the punched paper cards used to program early computers are direct descendents of similar cards used to program Jacquard looms during the height of the industrial revolution, More so terms like ‘interlaced’ (among other synonyms) which describe the way pixels are weaved onto the screen, only [...]
Posted in Asides, Inverted Commas, Science, Technology Tagged nature, Technology
Poetry Animations
Poetry Animations via YouTube
Scientists Extract Images From Dreams
By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams. In the future, it may also become possible to read feelings and complicated emotional states.
Posted in Featured, Politics, Science, Technology Tagged dreams, neuroscience
Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias
The heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are in themselves incompatible. Thus it is that the theater brings onto the rectangle of the stage, one after the other, a whole series of places that are foreign to one another; thus it is that the cinema is a very odd rectangular room, at the end of which, on a two-dimensional screen, one sees the projection of a three-dimensional space, but perhaps the oldest example of these heterotopias that take the form of contradictory sites is the garden.
Posted in Anthropology, Language, Philosophy, Politics, Science Tagged Culture, foucault, heterotopias, History, Technology, Word 3 Comments
They don’t count and they have no number words
A small group of hunter/gatherers living in the Amazon rain forest is overturning some fundamental assumptions about the mind. Although linguists have long believed that counting and having words for numbers are basic, if not innate, to human cognition, the Pirahã people in Brazil have no words to express numerical concepts such as “one,” “two,” [...]
Posted in Anthropology, Asides, Language, Science Tagged cognition, linguistics, Word
Fake Eyelash Alphabet
Fake eyelash alphabet. Just when you think people can’t come up with weirder things… via I Love Typography
Posted in Art, Asides, Design Tagged typography
Christoph Niemann Napkin Illustrations
Illustrator Christoph Niemann blogs, with quirky napkin illustrations, about a passion we all share: coffee . via NYT| Quipsologies
Posted in Art, Asides Tagged coffee, illustration
The Human Typewriter Project
The Human Typewriter Project. Exactly what you think it is. via Quipsologies
Posted in Art, Asides, Literature Tagged typewriter, typography, writing
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