newsflash
Hannah, my sister is totally crappy.
[edit] Actually my sister is pretty cool.
Wind Sculpture - Theo Jansen
This guy’s work is fantastic.
And here’s a breakdown of his mechanics.
Presenting The Bee Man of Orn
I’m very proud to present something that will doubtless make 0 sense to any of you. Maybe I can give you alittle info buffer, so you wont think it’s just completely random…
The name of this is, as you probably already guessed, The Bee man of Orn vs Modern Society. It’s a grand epic of massive proportion. If any of you are like me, you probably dug on the book that inspired this ridiculousness: The Bee Man of Orn (original). This is kind of a reboot, but in actuality has little to no resemblance to it’s predecessor. This story only follows (very loosely) the cannon of the book: hero is a hermit, hero meets with intellectual and is told to find himself out in the world, hero meets characters and sees sights that show him the nature of the world, hero decides he likes being a hermit. Mine’s pretty… different. Enjoy.
I’m posting it here for now, but it’s place in the site will be the Design page, as soon as I have it up.
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I’ve also started a sticky with most recent gallery additions. ?. This post will stay at the top, but change to the most recent thing up in the Art or Design sections. We’ll see how it works.
[credit goes to wp-sticky]
Mutanagenic Slime and Weekend Plans
I’m leaving for the next few days. Up north with various friends. Tim’s cottage is apparently complete with jet skies. I’m excited.
I’ve come across some exceedingly strange pictures today, and I’m going to be interspersing them throughout this post. All of them are legitamate.
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Tom Robbins is my favorite author. You don’t as much read his books, as you become drunk in them. His phrasing and illuminating vocabulary leaves me wobbly-legged and dizzy. After finishing Fierce Invalids, my personal favorite, I passed out for like 3 hours dude omg.
I bought you a copy of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues online Tim, in appreciation of the use of your cottage this weekend. So dont pick up a copy for our gay little bookclub. It should arrive next week.
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The computer tech at Doner is a wild man. He has a bushy beard, rides a Honda motorcycle, smokes a pack a day and is severely paranoid. He’s also damn good with computers. It’s always interesting getting in conversations with him about the governments supposed role in watching and recording various information about our lives, and the wrongs they’ve allegedly performed. The conspiracy theorist and The Man-hater within me eats it up.
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The open source community is simultaneously awesome and stupid. Morons expect ridiculous amounts of work from devs and refuse to listen to them when they (somewhat) patiently explain why the idea the moron posted about is not only inviable or low priority, but more often than not just a stupid bad awful idea. Some of the best, most stable software in the world is open source, but their job ticket trak pages are full of st00pid dj0rks h00 ju57 
want what they want, and they want it now, and without any manners thank you very much. It’s free. You aren’t owed anything by the devs, they do it out of the kindness of their hearts, to give back to the community that everybody benefits from. [example]
By the way, this last picture is kind of hard to make out from the thumbnail. It’s a Burmese Python, that fought and killed a large alligator, then attempted to swollow it whole. And exploded. In Florida. [source]
Do my eyes believe me?
Tom Waits is my all time favorite music artist. My dad, also a big fan, introduced him to me when I was 14 years old, and its been all waits all the time ever since. For a long time I had given up on ever seeing him live. He hasn’t toured in the states since 1999, hasn’t been to Detroit since the 80’s. He did tour in London in 2004 very briefly (more a publicity stunt to boost Real Gone awareness than anything), and I had hopes of going there. This was an empty hope, however, as I had no money or method of getting to London.
Yesterday was when my woebegone tide turned, turned into the sweetest lapping at my toes. Yesterday I learned that Tom Waits had begun touring again. [thank you adamriff]
Tom Waits - August 11th - Detroit Opera House - $72
Mr. Waits spoke thus of his reasoning behind this unprecedented and altogether unexpected tour:
“We need to go to Tennessee to pick up some fireworks, and someone owes me money in Kentucky,” [source]I can’t describe how excited I am about this. Tom Waits is music in the category of life pursuit. If I could manage to get tickets to this and cross it off my list of impossible but required experiences, I could die a happier man (in 70 years).
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[tour schedule][bio for newcomers]
Futurama is GO + aScannerDarkly
I just found this out.
Comedy Central revives Futurama with 13 new episodes in 2008.
Awesome. Why this didn’t happen 3 years ago is a mystery to me. Futurama is a way better show than a lot of people give it credit for. I’m wondering if the new episodes will be as different from the originals as the new episodes of Family Guy. I’m also glad that its out from the claw of Fox. I don’t like Fox.
[edit: Futurama is not free. I’ve been lying to myself.]
_ _ _I’m also getting very excited about A Scanner Darkly. Adapted from Philip K. Dick’s (BladeRunner) novel, directed by Richard Linklater (Waking Life, Dazed and Confused).
“A Scanner Darkly” is set in suburban Orange County, California in the future. It imagines a paranoid world in which it seems two of every 10 Americans has been hired by the government to spy on the other 8 — in the name of national security and drug enforcement. When one reluctant government recruit (Reeves) is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a journey into the absurd, where outsourced government contractors largely define the social construct, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode, and where not even his girlfriend can be trusted. The film highlights the inconsistencies and ironic consequences of the war on drugs.[source]To top this off, Radiohead has a song on the soundtrack… Fog. It gives an idea of what the new albums may sound like.
[edit: Fog is a b-side off of Amnesiac. Oops.]
This comes out in 2 weeks! I’m excited. Waking Life is one of my favorite movies, and is what originally got me interested in lucid dreaming. The rotoscoping techniques that Richard Linklater employs are competely awesome. And if you can’t follow his dialogue, you can just sit there and watch the pretty colors. It’s worthing watch both ways.
[Thank you adamriff for radiohead news.]
How is it that I haven’t heard of this?
Posted by Alex on June 21st, 2006 in Required ReadingSCIENTISTS have created a “miracle mouse” that can regenerate amputated limbs or badly damaged organs, making it able to recover from injuries that would kill or permanently disable normal animals.The experimental animal is unique among mammals in its ability to regrow its heart, toes, joints and tail.
(…)The self-healing mice, from a strain known as MRL, were then subjected to a series of surgical procedures. In one the mice had their toes amputated — but the digits grew back, complete with joints.
In another test some of the tail was cut off but also regenerated. Then the researchers used a cryoprobe to freeze parts of the animals’ hearts, only to see these grow back again. A similar phenomenon was observed when the optic nerve was severed and the liver partially destroyed.
“When we injected foetal liver cells taken from those animals into ordinary mice, they too gained the power of regeneration. We found this persisted even six months after the injection.”
Wow. This was last September. I wonder how far this research has come since then.
Eyes open, Weblog Cesarian Section
I’m back and ready for everthing.
All the old entries have been purged, this blog came out clean and raw on the other side. A fresh slate is always desirable, and I’m glad to shuck my old, largely useless collection of entries. This new iteration of my website will consist of two, mutually codependent aspects, the a.) Art and the b.) Blog. Being the third version, this site has a lot to live up to… 3 being such a magic number. “Three’s the charm, website. Don’t you dare disappoint me.”
Art comes within the week.Hey, I have an idea. Let’s make it interesting. How about a betting pool on how long I continue making entries in this? Everybody send me $5.
There, now wasn’t that interesting?