January 2011
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HER BLOOD IS IN MADELEINE
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Bill Viola, "The Porcupine and the Car"
Throughout this essay, Bill Viola addresses the various ways the idea of “information” applies to the field of video art. He begins by presenting Henri Bergson’s theory of human senses not as perceptual openings that give us access to the world, but as limiters that prioritize the overwhelming barrage of information actually present around us. He sees the artist as having a...
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DEALBREAKERS: A CONVERSATION
kellydeal:
Top three? Hardcore Republican. Homophobic racist. Jimmy Buffet fan.
What about a Taxidermist? Could you date a Taxidermist?
As long as he’s not bringing like, dead stuffed marmots home that’d proabably be okay, I guess.
What about a Ren Faire dude?
Ren Faire? No way.
What if he was really, really nice and treated you really well and only did his Ren Faire bit on Saturdays?
It’d...
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The New Yorker: The science and imagination behind... →
Mind-blowing; saliva-inducing. The part about recreating the feeling of scoring a soccer goal with dessert is the best.
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Music spilling out from the eyes in place of tears, music spilling from the...
– Anaïs Nin, “Winter of Artifice”
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