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Blown away as this is the first time I sat down with this music blog. Use peel to preview tracks, download if wished to add to the collection. Nothing new. Hit the Web tab to read posters thoughts about the track if more information is sought.

20jazzfunkgreats (likely others) takes this a pleasant step beyond. My usage of peel has shifted such that I now use the Web tab more often, with 20jazz I am reading the poetic descriptions as I would if I were following a films dialogue. I let these words define my experience  while listening to the corresponding tracks… please hold, a new track has come up and i must read….back.

After a talk with Andreas, and describing the experience of above, a suggestion was made to automate the process of listening to a track while reading what said blogger had to say as cause of listening to the track they were writing about. blah blah.

What really got me wasEno’s Baby’s on Fire – not because its my favourite track offf “Taking Tiger Mountain” or “Here Come the Warm Jets” (cant remember), but for the fact that I’ve never listened to, heard reference of… until mx. That was many years ago and to date, this is only the second time i’ve heard this track outside of my iPod. Nice Work.

I’m a fan, and i’ll keep listening-reading-imagining

 http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.blogspot.com

A little bit more politically charged than what usually goes down here at the bike but relevant as it could potentially affect the very existence of sites like it. Of course we are talking about net neutrality. Not meant to be alarmist in nature. Simply informed.

Save the Internet | Rock the Vote

a new image to post fairly often. using firefox’s find feature.

Syncronicity.

While breaking one post into two, Mainly to give my views on a mini series I watched last night called “The Root of all Evil?” their own post, I recieved two links to YouTube videos.

The first. A Johny Cash video that says something like God is gonna get ya. Fear Him or he’ll cut ya down. I dunno.. Something Cash-ist anyway. Supported with a huge WOW factor of all the cool-ish music and film stars of today…
The second, A faithless video called Bombs, that holds a chorus something like “So much Heaven, So much Hell, So much Love, So much Faith”, all while bombs are dropped, and coffins are layed out.

Both are relevant to the miniseries. Dawkins argues that extreme faith (or lack of free thought as he describes it) is a large cause of violence. As with all science, he questions everything until proof is attained. My interpretation of the Faithless video is that it also blames extreme faith (the unthinking plague) on some level. Further. People get REALLY heated when their faith is questioned. Questioned. i.e. thought about. critiqued. pondered..etc.

Anyway. More to say at some point… An interesting watch.. be you full of faith, or faithless.

Just finished reading this article from worldchanging. Land, what it’s significance is, how we percieve it, the sciences behind understanding and visualizing it are all thoughts that occupy my mind generally. Banff, and specifically the project that I am involved in have further expanded and sparked alot of these thoughts.

Regine Debatty of WorldChanging has just posted this interview with Agnes Meyer-Brandis an artist doing some pretty interesting work that spans Earth Science, art, and representation.

Enjoy a bit of the interview below. For the full talk, head over here

“Where does your interest for the hidden come from?

To answer this question I would have to stand up and jiggle my toes… I have always been passionately interested in what lies beneath my feet. I have always asked the question: What am I truly standing on?

What is your working process? do you make a lot of preliminary research about, say, the everyday life of an elf, or the physics behind icebergs? do you work alone or with a team?

Usually I begin with a hypothetical assumption, based on my interest and curiosity. Then I jump into the adventure. At first there is a lot investigative research. I’m interested in encircling my themes, which is to say, that I like to approach themes from as many angles as possible to arrive at a multifaceted perspective. In order to achieve this I interact and exchange ideas with many specialists such as: hydro- geologists, geophysicists, mineralogists, speleologists(cave explorers), biologists and artists, etc… with similar research focus. I am interested in what motivates their research and their methods and I like to take part in their field research in order to accumulate my own experience.

The background work behind the installations, everything that happens before I even get started in transforming my installation ideas into reality, is as exciting to me as seeing the final product. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to visualize all of my research activities and adventures in each installation. But I believe that these preliminary research activities and experiences enhance the quality and subsequent perception of the installation by the viewer.

For example during my preparations for Earth-Core-laboratory and Elf-Scan I travelled to several drilling locations. I journeyed in an elevator, down a salt mine in Borth, Germany, to a depth of 700 hundred meters in order to retrieve my core samples.

Another research project involved an excursion to the research station of the University of Tübingen in southern Germany. Before I knew it, I found myself up at 6AM birdwatching with ornithologists and biologists. In the end, I received a certificate in evolution biology.”

a random family circus visual set to a random nietzsche quote. getting a kick out of a lot of them.

dig.em

In our age of bigger is better, in your face, bold, brash examples of leaving your mark, this little bit of street art left me feeling refreshed and thinking that all is going to be well.

The concept also appeals to my tendency towards curiosity when walking around exploring new places. While these little treats are uber tiny, i can only imagine my delight to stumble upon a micro scene of a bike courier trackstanding at the curb beside me as I attempt my own stand.

Kudos for the creativity, and the ability to resist the urge to hog the saturated spotlight.

Check out the current samples here

thanks to mx for passing on a brilliant bit of editing… and a histerical look into the psyche of someone who wants to be someone else..(maybe not, just damn funny.

If you’d rather be in your den shooting things, typing to robots or scouring for the latest in liquid crystal display t-shirts on a sunny sunday afternoon you might just want a little perspective. As with any indulgence, it’s all fine in moderation.

“Technological addictions are operationally defined as non-chemical, behavioural addictions that involve human-machine interaction. They can be either passive (e.g. television) or active (e.g. the computer) and usually contain inducing and reinforcing features, which may contribute to the promotion of addictive tendencies.”