Hi all,
Trying out this posting thing with some astronomical stuff I've found on the net, to expand on some of the things Julie showed us.
First up, NASA publishes an astronomical picture of the day, found here:
NASA
They're usually pretty cool, and they get astronomers to write out comments on each. In particular, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field is a pretty amazing example of just how big the universe is.
Finally, the real gem in mind-blowing scale is this animation:
Planetary and Stellar size comparisons
Not only is the Sun unremarkable as stars go, it's also really small compared to some of 'em! For reference, Betelgeuse (one of the stars in that comparison), a red supergiant, were in the place of our own star, the edges of it would stretch past the orbit of Mars - engulfing the Earth.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Thursday, December 6, 2007
zero gravity in theatre
While doing research before I meet with Jonathan today, I was wondering how one could vinsually emulate a person in zero gravity, maybe using strings and harnesses. I searched online and found this great use of puppetry for faking zero-g objects done by this Hong Kong theatre called Trinity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ABMge_hnNY&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ABMge_hnNY&NR=1
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Questions about your space...
1. How would you communicate with other planets?
I would board an airplane and when over 30,000 ft., simultaneously turn on my cell, a radio, a personal dvd player, my bluetooth headphones, and begin transmitting my message, OR>>>
Find a way to turn the earth's oceans into the largest transmitter ever known to man or alien - by conducting a high power electrical audio signal into the ocean.
2. Who would you vitrify?
King Tut - to reaveal the secrets of the pyramids and if they were built by intergalactic creatures.
3. Your message from earth -
HELP US! We are on Earth, the 3rd planet closest to the sun (star w/ 16 known pulsars). We are destroying our world and need a galactic intervention. I am from the USA - the largest power on earth who does the most to destroy it. I am a man. I have lived for 28 years (earth has traveled around the sun 28 times in my life).
The people of the earth live beautiful, fucked-up lives. You can find a number of our brains perfectly preserved at sub-zero temperature in Scottsdale, AZ. Brains are electrical organs that spark, simulate, & store all of our thoughts, emotions, dreams, & hopes.
I would board an airplane and when over 30,000 ft., simultaneously turn on my cell, a radio, a personal dvd player, my bluetooth headphones, and begin transmitting my message, OR>>>
Find a way to turn the earth's oceans into the largest transmitter ever known to man or alien - by conducting a high power electrical audio signal into the ocean.
2. Who would you vitrify?
King Tut - to reaveal the secrets of the pyramids and if they were built by intergalactic creatures.
3. Your message from earth -
HELP US! We are on Earth, the 3rd planet closest to the sun (star w/ 16 known pulsars). We are destroying our world and need a galactic intervention. I am from the USA - the largest power on earth who does the most to destroy it. I am a man. I have lived for 28 years (earth has traveled around the sun 28 times in my life).
The people of the earth live beautiful, fucked-up lives. You can find a number of our brains perfectly preserved at sub-zero temperature in Scottsdale, AZ. Brains are electrical organs that spark, simulate, & store all of our thoughts, emotions, dreams, & hopes.
Jerry's space journey
I see myself traveling far away & soon I can't even see myself anymore. To think of our galaxy - The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto - this enormous idea in my brain; as inconsequential in the grand space of the universe.
Pull back to where the sun is a tiny star in the sky & our planet, our people, myself, my eyes all disappear into tiny molecules making up the fabric of the cosmos.
Pull back to where the sun is a tiny star in the sky & our planet, our people, myself, my eyes all disappear into tiny molecules making up the fabric of the cosmos.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Collage of "profound" language #1 : Erich Von Daniken
“Let us get used to the idea that the world of ideas which has grown up over the millennia is going to collapse. Priests who seek the truth must again begin to doubt everything that is established. Laymen will withdraw into the snail shell of their familiar world when faced with the probability that finding out about our past will be even more mysterious and adventurous than finding out about the future. A strange sight to greet our astronauts! Research (= knowledge) does not become possible until the thing that is to be investigated has actually been found! What other purpose could they have served? The stimulating question still has to be answered: Why did they do all this if they had no idea that flying beings actually existed? Now the second fascinating adventure in human history begins with man’s moving into the cosmos. It is not our fault that there are millions of other planets in the universe. Man has a magnificent future ahead of him, a future which will far surpass his magnificent past. How often the pillars of our wisdom have crumbled into dust!"
What I saw in my space journey:
...as directed by Erin:
I was so tiny looking up at the stars, and I shot like a rocket up and suddenly it was daytime and I was skimming the clouds, then the air was thin and I emerged from the bubble of earth's atmosphere and I was traveling around it, looking in like at a fishbowl, down down down to the tiny spot where I'd been standing. Then I was off through the darkness of space -- going going -- lost -- traveling at my own rate so I wasn't close to any planets or stars, it was all black. Then suddenly I could see the line of planets from the earth -- um -- Venus, Mercury (?) then the Sun.
I was so tiny looking up at the stars, and I shot like a rocket up and suddenly it was daytime and I was skimming the clouds, then the air was thin and I emerged from the bubble of earth's atmosphere and I was traveling around it, looking in like at a fishbowl, down down down to the tiny spot where I'd been standing. Then I was off through the darkness of space -- going going -- lost -- traveling at my own rate so I wasn't close to any planets or stars, it was all black. Then suddenly I could see the line of planets from the earth -- um -- Venus, Mercury (?) then the Sun.
Liz Questions: Faith Answers
1. I would build a device to communicate throughout the universe using an open suitcase, tin foil, forks and chopsticks. If you put this out during a windstorm, it captures the wind current and creates a wind tunnel and then you can hear the alien voices.
2. If I could vitrify someone, it would be Charlie Chaplin.
3. My message to aliens / future earth:
Hello! I live on a planet that is beautiful. Where I live, it is green and there is lots of water around. I love to walk in the forests and smell the trees. There is also a lot of concrete and technology because humans like to improve everything but in the process we may be wrecking everything.
This makes me sad, but I do it too. I love to walk but I mostly drive a car on roads and highways. The car needs gas to run, and so I smell this more than I do trees. I buy food from supermarkets. Anyway, so I say I’d love to live in nature but I’m a big ol’ dumbass like the rest of them.
Friday, November 16, 2007
NeurologicaBlog
Wow, check out this blog:
It's about neorological matters, and coincidentally enough the most recent post is about Jeanette Winterson's recent editorial in the Guardian in defense of homeopathy.
It's about neorological matters, and coincidentally enough the most recent post is about Jeanette Winterson's recent editorial in the Guardian in defense of homeopathy.
But the way I found it was through this optical illusion posted on the Slog. Check it out: if you see the girl as spinning clockwise, your right brain is in charge. If she's spinning counterclockwise, your left brain is leading. I see her mostly counterclockwise, but every once in a while she switches to clockwise.
Trippy!
UPDATE: for some reason she doesn't spin at all in the photo I uploaded. Go to the website to check it out!
- La Foi
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Slate post: The Utter Phoniness of Evolutionary Psychology
Interesting post on Slate about the pseudo-science of "evolutionary psychology". It articulates the danger of any of these broad pop-science fields nicely. Read more about it at http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor
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It's taken a long time, but at last —- thank you for contributing, Meghan! —-evolutionary psychology is being revealed as the psuedoscience it usually is, at least by the time it reaches the newspaper columns and the conversations around the water cooler. My main objection has always been the way its lay adherents solemnly discuss research that confirms the existence of some utterly banal aspect of human behavior, usually sexual, and then go on to explain why our ape ancestors found it so useful. Usually, this involves self-satisfied explanations of the primal male "need" for multiple sexual partners—men "need" to spread their DNA around, you see—as opposed to the primal female "need" for a man to protect her children. But why, then, did the human race evolve the concept of monogamy? And who are these women with whom the naturally adulterous men are supposed to sleep? I know that evolutionary psychology has come up with various explanations for these phenomena, but really, one could argue the whole thing the other way around, too. It's like Marxism or Freudianism: a set of all-encompassing principles that can explain anything. And it, too, will pass.
- Anne Applebaum
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It's taken a long time, but at last —- thank you for contributing, Meghan! —-evolutionary psychology is being revealed as the psuedoscience it usually is, at least by the time it reaches the newspaper columns and the conversations around the water cooler. My main objection has always been the way its lay adherents solemnly discuss research that confirms the existence of some utterly banal aspect of human behavior, usually sexual, and then go on to explain why our ape ancestors found it so useful. Usually, this involves self-satisfied explanations of the primal male "need" for multiple sexual partners—men "need" to spread their DNA around, you see—as opposed to the primal female "need" for a man to protect her children. But why, then, did the human race evolve the concept of monogamy? And who are these women with whom the naturally adulterous men are supposed to sleep? I know that evolutionary psychology has come up with various explanations for these phenomena, but really, one could argue the whole thing the other way around, too. It's like Marxism or Freudianism: a set of all-encompassing principles that can explain anything. And it, too, will pass.
- Anne Applebaum
Future inventions from the past
Here is a nice archival site about Science magazines from the 20s to the 60s that talked about cutting edge technology and the future. There is a section that has all the covers, many of which have some nice futuristic artwork.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/
Monday, November 12, 2007
Time travel -browse the web via the past
Through this site, the Wayback Machine, you can view cached copies of web pages from long ago:
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
For example, have your pick of versions of H2M's web page going back to 2003:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.hand2mouththeatre.org/
Mmmm, that old Hand2Mouth Theatre logo looks vaguely like Playstation's "Grand Theft Auto"!
(Whoa: "Posture Queen Tour")
Gives ya the chills, don't it?!
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
For example, have your pick of versions of H2M's web page going back to 2003:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.hand2mouththeatre.org/
Mmmm, that old Hand2Mouth Theatre logo looks vaguely like Playstation's "Grand Theft Auto"!
(Whoa: "Posture Queen Tour")
Gives ya the chills, don't it?!
Andy Warhol's "Time Capsule" Boxes
Today I was thinking, "some famous artist kept cardboard boxes taped up and dated as 'time capsules'...who was that?" So I searched Google for "time capsule cardboard box" and found this site (very fun): Andy Warhol's Time Capsules
...and an article to make sense of it first:
Warhol’s Time Machine
The artist’s 612 cardboard boxes of junk offer a gateway to the past, the present, and maybe even the future.
By Karrie Jacobs
Posted October 17, 2005
Excerpts:
"
It is in fact Warhol who drew me to Pittsburgh. I was lured here by a Web site launched in May by the Andy Warhol Museum. The site (www.warhol.org/tc21) is itself a form of cultural time travel; it makes the contents of one of Warhol’s Time Capsules accessible to Internet users. Largely unknown until the artist’s death in 1987, the Time Capsules were the 612 cardboard boxes that he filled with the stuff that he accumulated—the by-products of art, life, and fame. Warhol used to keep a box by his desk and toss things in: correspondence, receipts, newspaper clippings, photographs, and gifts. Some of the things were so minor that anyone else would have simply thrown them away. One capsule, archivist Matthew Wrbican tells me, contained hunks of insect-infested pizza dough. Why? No one knows. Some things were so significant—letters from Mick Jagger, a paint palette used by Salvador Dalí—that anyone else would have put them carefully away, but Warhol dropped his overflow in cardboard boxes that were each taped shut, dated, and placed in storage by an assistant.
"
....
In The Shock of the New, art critic Robert Hughes argued that the one idea Warhol introduced into the art world was the power of repetition. But it was more than that. To me the most potent thing Warhol did was transform the everyday—the soup can, the receipt, the newspaper photo—into the momentous. It wasn’t just the idea that commercial images have aesthetic value, or that we’ll all be famous for 15 minutes, or that art has been transformed by the age of mechanical reproduction, but that there is limitless elegance and intrigue to be teased out of the minutiae of daily existence.
Warhol trailblazed a twenty-first-century way of seeing, using primitive twentieth-century tools: the lithograph, the photo booth, the Polaroid camera, the movie camera, the cardboard box. The Time Capsules, jammed full of the things that inspired Warhol, that he was obsessed with, can be read as predigital blogs. And the way he lived—immersed in a stew of public and private, art and life—is how more and more people routinely live today. Imagine if Warhol had had a camera-phone or a cable modem or his own Web site.
"
...and an article to make sense of it first:
Warhol’s Time Machine
The artist’s 612 cardboard boxes of junk offer a gateway to the past, the present, and maybe even the future.
By Karrie Jacobs
Posted October 17, 2005
Excerpts:
"
It is in fact Warhol who drew me to Pittsburgh. I was lured here by a Web site launched in May by the Andy Warhol Museum. The site (www.warhol.org/tc21) is itself a form of cultural time travel; it makes the contents of one of Warhol’s Time Capsules accessible to Internet users. Largely unknown until the artist’s death in 1987, the Time Capsules were the 612 cardboard boxes that he filled with the stuff that he accumulated—the by-products of art, life, and fame. Warhol used to keep a box by his desk and toss things in: correspondence, receipts, newspaper clippings, photographs, and gifts. Some of the things were so minor that anyone else would have simply thrown them away. One capsule, archivist Matthew Wrbican tells me, contained hunks of insect-infested pizza dough. Why? No one knows. Some things were so significant—letters from Mick Jagger, a paint palette used by Salvador Dalí—that anyone else would have put them carefully away, but Warhol dropped his overflow in cardboard boxes that were each taped shut, dated, and placed in storage by an assistant.
"
....
In The Shock of the New, art critic Robert Hughes argued that the one idea Warhol introduced into the art world was the power of repetition. But it was more than that. To me the most potent thing Warhol did was transform the everyday—the soup can, the receipt, the newspaper photo—into the momentous. It wasn’t just the idea that commercial images have aesthetic value, or that we’ll all be famous for 15 minutes, or that art has been transformed by the age of mechanical reproduction, but that there is limitless elegance and intrigue to be teased out of the minutiae of daily existence.
Warhol trailblazed a twenty-first-century way of seeing, using primitive twentieth-century tools: the lithograph, the photo booth, the Polaroid camera, the movie camera, the cardboard box. The Time Capsules, jammed full of the things that inspired Warhol, that he was obsessed with, can be read as predigital blogs. And the way he lived—immersed in a stew of public and private, art and life—is how more and more people routinely live today. Imagine if Warhol had had a camera-phone or a cable modem or his own Web site.
"
Project X
The future airport that is Frankfurt, in Germany. Supermod lights and all metal ultra designed chairs. Europe of today, its public buildings are like the future designs of science fiction fantasies. But in the midsts of a surreal, hyper modern landscape is a small bar serving tall beers made by medievil founded companies and traditional soups.
Somehow the humanity survives. Could Project X find the humanity in the sterile science, the way europe moves into the future, as humane as ever?
Somehow the humanity survives. Could Project X find the humanity in the sterile science, the way europe moves into the future, as humane as ever?
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Aubrey de Grey
Oh god, I can't stop, I can't.
Here is one of the scientist's on Alcor's Scientific Advisory Board:
Aubrey de Grey received his BA, MA and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, where he was formerly a research associate. He is currently chairman and chief science officer of the Methuselah Foundation and editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research. His main research areas are the role and etiology of oxidative damage in mammalian aging, including both mitochondrial and extracellular free radical production and damage, and the design of interventions to reverse the age-related accumulation of oxidative and other damage. He is author of the book Ending Aging (2007) and subject of the British Channel 4 documentary Do You Want to Live Forever? (2007).
Project X Paragraph: JONATHAN
The human desire to describe our existence, to explain who you are as a person or as a society. The idea that the person reading/hearing it will totally “get” you, on all levels. Because we believe you can send it, we also believe you can receive it. The transfer of this information across a gap, whether it’s space, radio, etc.
Project X Paragraph: FAITH
Archeological remains – where we are now, what will be left of us. What will you glean from us in 100 years based on what we’ve left behind. What does what we package (and send off into space) say about us? Strange throughline of burying things in the ground and sending them off into space. Interesting mix of scientific approach and primal urge. Looking at the ghosts of “state of the art” technology – looking at a trail behind us of what we thought the future would be. Time – a unique chance to force audiences to experience time marching forward.
Personal Time Capsule 7: "Age 5"
-Molly, my favorite doll
-my red dress
-card I made for my Dad "Jesus"
-a rockstar costume
-building blocks
-sit-n-spin
-tape recorder
-string cheese
-stuffed bunny
-chewy chocolate chip granola bars
-babys breath (from the front lawn)
-pinata
-aloe vera
-Jenny I & Johnny C
-doll house
-cinnamon
-Peter Pan and Wendy
-Michele M and animal crackers in my soup
-whiffle ball bat
-curling iron
-super mario bros video game
-my red dress
-card I made for my Dad "Jesus"
-a rockstar costume
-building blocks
-sit-n-spin
-tape recorder
-string cheese
-stuffed bunny
-chewy chocolate chip granola bars
-babys breath (from the front lawn)
-pinata
-aloe vera
-Jenny I & Johnny C
-doll house
-cinnamon
-Peter Pan and Wendy
-Michele M and animal crackers in my soup
-whiffle ball bat
-curling iron
-super mario bros video game
Project X Paragraph: JULIE
Relationship between being human & time – did we create time to help us organize things? Time is how we understand life, history – but did we make it up? Also: science. Being human and our relationship to time & the universe. The fantasy and wonder of it. What does it mean to be human in the universe (not just the earth)? The connection between burying things in the ground and sending them off to space. Also: cosmonauts.
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Relationship between technology & people on all sides. Something interesting about the last 10 years, how technology influences & shapes us. We have a special chance to use those technologies to influence the audience’s experience.
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Relationship between technology & people on all sides. Something interesting about the last 10 years, how technology influences & shapes us. We have a special chance to use those technologies to influence the audience’s experience.
Project X Paragraph: ERIN
Permanence vs. impermanence. We’re not immortal but we approach the world like we are, unable to stay in the present, unable to have the security we want though we try to set it up that way. We think if we preserve ourselves we can make ourselves permanent & secure but that’s impossible.
Project X Paragraph: ALEX
Anything you look at has a past, present & future. We preserve the future by changing the present.
There are different KINDS of time. What do we mean when we say time?
There are different KINDS of time. What do we mean when we say time?
Project X Paragraph: JERRY
Man’s ego – whether preserving the past or reaching into the future / the cosmos. Preserving yourself: man’s desire to be immortal.
From Liz...
Just bought Murmurs of The Earth and came across a book called Tesla Man out of Time...I'm eating him up.. great scientist in the late 1800's early 1900's genius, was known as a human time capsul himself. Able to direct energy through his body, able to be electricuted without even a shudder. Invented thousands of devices. Invented the idea of robots, radio devices eminating to Mars, etc... Dumb founded by how and what he stood for. Where is he located and what has he left behind?
Personal Time Capsules 6: "Age 10"
-sticks
-baseball cards
-picture of my dog
-teenage mutant ninja turtles movie
-meeting Laurel
-RAFT
-kickball
-my thumb
-murph & sarah
-pink magenta turtleneck
-analog telephone
-photo of Andrea Haughton
-recording of "Carmina Burana"
-dragon's from Mr. Millar's portable classroom
-a pair of black hush puppie sweatpants
-a box of legos
-a picture of my grandparents
-best of Journey CD
-an apple II G computer
-my diary (first I ever had)
-my favorite skirt with the flowers
-the glasses I wore
-my spelling bee trophy
-my favorite books: A Wrinkle in Time & The Dark is Rising
-baseball cards
-picture of my dog
-teenage mutant ninja turtles movie
-meeting Laurel
-RAFT
-kickball
-my thumb
-murph & sarah
-pink magenta turtleneck
-analog telephone
-photo of Andrea Haughton
-recording of "Carmina Burana"
-dragon's from Mr. Millar's portable classroom
-a pair of black hush puppie sweatpants
-a box of legos
-a picture of my grandparents
-best of Journey CD
-an apple II G computer
-my diary (first I ever had)
-my favorite skirt with the flowers
-the glasses I wore
-my spelling bee trophy
-my favorite books: A Wrinkle in Time & The Dark is Rising
Project X Paragraph: MARC
I think Project X is about the paradox of cultural self-reflection. By distancing ourselves from the "audience" which might be 50,000 years in the future, we can say almost anything is true, can reflect upon ourselves from almost any angle, can reduce our culture or the entire world to a stack of "human knowledge" without any repercussions whatsoever (the reviews won't be coming out for 500 centuries).
I think this is a show for the future, that the audience today will merely be a witness to the preparation of something for later. We are creating an artistic time capsule, an event that will not be completed until years later. A theatrical time machine. At the same time I think it is also a look at the past, an examination of what brought us to this point. It is archeological dig into ourselves, today, now, and it should be as pompous and narrow-minded as possible.
I think this is a show for the future, that the audience today will merely be a witness to the preparation of something for later. We are creating an artistic time capsule, an event that will not be completed until years later. A theatrical time machine. At the same time I think it is also a look at the past, an examination of what brought us to this point. It is archeological dig into ourselves, today, now, and it should be as pompous and narrow-minded as possible.
Personal Time Capsules 5: "Age 15"
-the poems I wrote
-the "Redundant Faith" book Amanda and I started
-my trumpet and marching band uniform
-the pile of notes my friends and I wrote each other
-a 3 pack of lifestyle condoms
-my bicycle
-a trombone
-gold necklace
-Moxy Fruvous CD
-CDs of Built to Spill
-skirt printed with flowers and butterflies and grasses
-blue corn tortilla chips
-iced vanilla lattes
-fleece socks
-THE CORE
-my first kiss
-Dar Reuter's car with Queen & Bowie
-Lauren and I dance to "Where's the Party"
-moving into my sister's room
-my fat clothes
-picture of Brianna Sinn
-punk rock music
-baseball caps
-model bridge truss
-the "Redundant Faith" book Amanda and I started
-my trumpet and marching band uniform
-the pile of notes my friends and I wrote each other
-a 3 pack of lifestyle condoms
-my bicycle
-a trombone
-gold necklace
-Moxy Fruvous CD
-CDs of Built to Spill
-skirt printed with flowers and butterflies and grasses
-blue corn tortilla chips
-iced vanilla lattes
-fleece socks
-THE CORE
-my first kiss
-Dar Reuter's car with Queen & Bowie
-Lauren and I dance to "Where's the Party"
-moving into my sister's room
-my fat clothes
-picture of Brianna Sinn
-punk rock music
-baseball caps
-model bridge truss
Personal Time Capsules 4: "Age 20"
-college papers
-picture of my grandfather
-play I wrote about my family
-Lena Kaminsky, Tim D, Becky Long & myself in Europe
-a gerbera daisy
-Indigo Girls live album, singing with Lena and Eliz
-my first apartment
-Coffeehouse 88.9fm
-London Underground receipts
-photo of Jon at Sandy Lane Farm
-red sweatpants with black stripes
-cabbage soup
-Harpoon Brewery beer
-Jeff Buckley mix CD
-MC-505 synth
-"The Audience" by Herbert Blau
-a picture of my house "Fairmount"
-a pitch pipe
-journal/photos from my semester in Ireland
-book of Yeats' poetry
-weird stuffed animal horse that one guy gave me
-Sarah MacLaughlin CD
-paintings from apartment Aryn, Riva & I lived in
-picture of my grandfather
-play I wrote about my family
-Lena Kaminsky, Tim D, Becky Long & myself in Europe
-a gerbera daisy
-Indigo Girls live album, singing with Lena and Eliz
-my first apartment
-Coffeehouse 88.9fm
-London Underground receipts
-photo of Jon at Sandy Lane Farm
-red sweatpants with black stripes
-cabbage soup
-Harpoon Brewery beer
-Jeff Buckley mix CD
-MC-505 synth
-"The Audience" by Herbert Blau
-a picture of my house "Fairmount"
-a pitch pipe
-journal/photos from my semester in Ireland
-book of Yeats' poetry
-weird stuffed animal horse that one guy gave me
-Sarah MacLaughlin CD
-paintings from apartment Aryn, Riva & I lived in
Personal Time Capsule 3: "This Year" Nov 2006-Nov 2007
-CD of RAM songs
-sandals I bought in Mexico (December)
-Journal I started in November '06 (Jonathan bought for me in London)
-Erin's sunglasses which I slow-stole
-Terry Allen CD
-a map of PDX
-a RAM program
-my wedding ring
-a double line dog poo bag
-a pot pipe/sage incense
-DVD of Repeat After Me
-jar of strawberry jam
-yoga mat
-an egg
-recording of Alexis' laugh
-songs
-Mexico
-Vipassana
-breakthrough peace/happiness
-Seattle/OtB
-Repeat After Me DVD
-phone messages to/from Norma
-the card I made for my grandma's 70th birthday
-a recording of a song I wrote
-sandals I bought in Mexico (December)
-Journal I started in November '06 (Jonathan bought for me in London)
-Erin's sunglasses which I slow-stole
-Terry Allen CD
-a map of PDX
-a RAM program
-my wedding ring
-a double line dog poo bag
-a pot pipe/sage incense
-DVD of Repeat After Me
-jar of strawberry jam
-yoga mat
-an egg
-recording of Alexis' laugh
-songs
-Mexico
-Vipassana
-breakthrough peace/happiness
-Seattle/OtB
-Repeat After Me DVD
-phone messages to/from Norma
-the card I made for my grandma's 70th birthday
-a recording of a song I wrote
Personal Time Capsule 2: "Last Week" Nov 4-11
-pictures of Norma + I
-a piece of my novel
-a concert ticket stub
-recording of my conversation with my Dad + Mom
-Thanksgiving recipe book
-the farmers market
-"Don't Let Me Down" by the Beatles
-my neck tumor
-Mexico
-my grandmother/my phone conversation
-pressure cooker
-colored leaves
-sound of being in a car
-box of wine
-photo of David
-program from "Driving Under the Influence"
-a picture of my mother-in-law
-my work schedule from PCS
-5 baby books
-a matchbox car
-trailer hitch from Julie's car
-semi-broken wireless mic at Ozzie's
-an avocado
-my new black boots
-binder with H2M notes and admin tasks and/or a set of blank notecards
-a piece of my novel
-a concert ticket stub
-recording of my conversation with my Dad + Mom
-Thanksgiving recipe book
-the farmers market
-"Don't Let Me Down" by the Beatles
-my neck tumor
-Mexico
-my grandmother/my phone conversation
-pressure cooker
-colored leaves
-sound of being in a car
-box of wine
-photo of David
-program from "Driving Under the Influence"
-a picture of my mother-in-law
-my work schedule from PCS
-5 baby books
-a matchbox car
-trailer hitch from Julie's car
-semi-broken wireless mic at Ozzie's
-an avocado
-my new black boots
-binder with H2M notes and admin tasks and/or a set of blank notecards
Personal Time Capsules: "Today" (November 11, am - 1:44pm)
-spray bottle filled with vinegar
-cat food
-cup of coffee
-gurney
-Project X notebook
-electric toothbrush
-cup of coffee
-chocolate brioche
-brand new jockey underwear
-A history of race & politics in Chicago
-tea
-cell phone
-Erin's voice
-pictures on a computer screen
-florescent lights
-the video of this rehearsal
-a farmers market prune
-Aarvo Part's "Alina"
-my financial worries
-my love for sleepy Casey
-phone message to Norma
-coffee + food
-New Pornographers CD
-video from rehearsal
-cat food
-cup of coffee
-gurney
-Project X notebook
-electric toothbrush
-cup of coffee
-chocolate brioche
-brand new jockey underwear
-A history of race & politics in Chicago
-tea
-cell phone
-Erin's voice
-pictures on a computer screen
-florescent lights
-the video of this rehearsal
-a farmers market prune
-Aarvo Part's "Alina"
-my financial worries
-my love for sleepy Casey
-phone message to Norma
-coffee + food
-New Pornographers CD
-video from rehearsal
Saturday, November 10, 2007
U.S. Mint website
Oh my god, I just found the most AWESOME website. It's made by the US treasury and there's a part for kids where you can 'get in the time machine' and travel to different times to learn what it was like and in particular, what the coins were like.
it is so awesome!!! I'll put it in the links section too but wanted to post it right away: http://www.usmint.gov/kids/timeMachine/
it is so awesome!!! I'll put it in the links section too but wanted to post it right away: http://www.usmint.gov/kids/timeMachine/
Friday, November 9, 2007
Project X Paragraph: LIZ
Imagine a group of people who get transported into a differnt time, trapped in a bomb shelter/time capsul. Collectively, they have to figure out where they are by what the see around them, thus creating the imagined or real story behind the objects. Upon figuring these things out they will have a chance to escape into another dimension/time/planet..etc..
Research & Training Topics
Interview “experts” (science or pseudo-science)
Generate stories / narratives based on interviews
Audio histories, radio interviews, scientific interviews
Human preservation: cryogenics, mummies, pyramids, Anasazi / Mesa Verde
Time capsules: bomb shelters, audiotapes from, Japanese time capsule
Space capsules: Golden Record, KEO
Time machines – scientific & fictional attempts to create one
Space / Astronauts: astronaut / Russian cosmonaut training; Yuri Gregaran (sp) Russian cosmonaut - Siberian camp; emotional state and strain of those who go into space (crazy diaper lady); space shuttle devices: toilet, exercize machines, vacuuming sweat.
Objects, as artifacts, perhaps with some senses subtracted; individual ideas of objects vs collective story; finding common elements in unconscious experience of foreign things; generating stories based on objects, as a group/individual; freestanding doors and windows
Guides (audio / visual – museums): how they work, could be manipulated in performance
Looking into the future vs. looking into the past (archeologists vs. futurists)
Akashic record / group consciousness
Garbage halo around the earth, what that means, how that happened
Ghost towns, industrial cities: what happened to the ghost towns (mining towns, timber towns); what are the boom towns now; when internet boom collapsed, infrastructure was still there but now it’s being used for something else; cities before they became “the city” – like Manhattan 200 years ago.
Landfill / junkyard in San Francisco, artist residency – you can work there and use anything you can find.
Chuck E. Cheese animatronic animals – some dude bought them, is reprogramming & filming them on You Tube
Intelligent Design – the Wedge Document
Neurology, mind/body disorders: Oliver Sachs; amnesia / brain damage/ alzheimers; phantom pain; tourettes syndrome; different functions of brain – left brain, right brain, eyesight, dream state, memory – what happens when works, what happens when doesn’t.
The Power of Ten: zooming out (universe) & zooming in (atoms)
Subliminal messages – in advertising, in music – how to influence people w/o them realizing: advertising images on buildings only seen when you look at a picture taken w/ your cell phone; soda machines in Japan saying subliminally “buy a coke”
Futuristic fashion: styles from the past, real styles vs. what was put into time capsules; futuristic styles – metallic, white/sanitary – vs. “present” styles recycling looks from the past; cosmonaut outfits – a fold down tool kit in your chest – David Eckert.
Stretch Armstrong – toy w/ jelly stuff inside
Science fiction graphics – choir of singing women in test tubes
Tesseracting – bending time
Failed technologies: zeppelin, watercycle
Journals of long exporations – Antarctica, train across Russia
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