Frontier is against the unknown. We are poised before something unknown. It is on the verge on changing from being an unknown to being new.

 The self is a temporary state of being.

 I have been thinking awhile now about Alberta. It is distinguished as an energy producer in Canada and across the world. Its status is well earned as a crown jewel for the oil and gas industry. I understand that hundreds of thousands of jobs, maybe more, drive this production forward. The industry is sophisticated and wide spread, many people, much more than the workers and executives, depend on this province for its product. Alberta holds an esteemed position as an energy producer. Here is a huge "but": if you look at progress in energy production globally, it is impossible to deny that there is motion in new forms of energy that is gaining momentum. Alberta is king (or queen) now, full of natural resources in fossil fuel to supply the country and other parts of the world with energy. I want to digress and talk about Blockbuster, the prevailing video rental, ie. media distribution, company in the late 1990's. At an opportune time, when it became possible to visualize the state of relevant technology and to envision new models of media distribution, Blockbuster turned down a startup company called Netflix to buy. Netflix now not only stream main stream consumer content by the Terabyte, but because Blockbuster rejected their offer, they have streamlined their process and have become a content production company. Blockbuster was a giant in the 1990's and their future to continue that way seemed guaranteed. Nobody significant at this company had stepped back and looked at the whole scope of things. There was denial that media distribution was going to change; it was a mistake in that they had thought their method and appeal, and thereby their status, was going to continue without end. Things changed regardless, and now they are bankrupt and no longer remains a player in the industry. Can we learn something from this example? Opportunities come as possibilities played out in a window of time. How would Alberta fare in the long run as an energy production and distribution enterprise? Is the world changing? It is common sense knowledge to the everyday man and woman that fossil fuels have become seen by progressive members (scientists, automaker, even grade school students) to be something that is increasingly backward.  Another point of digression here, what do we know about the roles fossil fuel play in the strata of earth? This digression could be a controversial thought, so let us put it aside for now. If Alberta wills to continue to be a shining example of energy production in a world that has started (slowly at first, but now gaining momentum) to move away from fossil fuels, then there must be a beginning in taking charge of the task at hand, energy production, and seeing that energy can be different from oil and gas. The window has opened; emissions and usage are coming under policies that suggest this change: yet, what alternatives is there? Certainly, there are alternatives, as we can see in the news and journals bright harbingers of new forms of energy being implemented in all sorts of places around the world. There may be many people invested in oil and gas, some with money, and others their livelihoods. These people have the means and passion and most importantly, skills and abilities to learn new ways.  Perhaps the saying that nothing can come overnight, ie. Rome is not built in one day, is central to what I am getting to here. Bruce Mau says, Begin anywhere. Start now, for tomorrow. I say all this in order to put forward an idea tentatively. I think we need to make a start. My proposal is something called (and this is a working title) New Energy Institute, to be built right here in Alberta. An organization such as this could secure funding, provides in-house research ("in-house" meaning not only research to be carried out in the organization, but also in the specific context of the province of Alberta), public education, champion those willing to tackle this opportunity, further network, and perhaps most importantly, lend credibility and even coordination for startups or bigger effort through having a respectful disinterested discernment on the basis of science and technology. Maybe even develop standards upon wide-survey reviews of efforts like these from around the world. I think an institute such as I have described could be associated with a university (as comparable organizations has been), a private effort (though this could be difficult to fund given that we don't know if and where the money would come from for what motives), or a government supported organizations. Personally, at this point, I am leaning towards affiliation with a university because as there exists strong tendencies towards rigorous production of facts at the more reputable university, but I don't yet know if this could be the path. I would have to further incubate this idea for a more specific set of specifications. I think New Energy Institute could do much in preparing Alberta for a bright future, in which accessible technologies could be applied to diversify interests in energy production for the foreseeable future. This is something that probably would have arrived later than desirable, much of inertia being the forementioned investment in oil and gas. Recently, the federal government has purchased a pipeline for nearly $5 billion dollars. Surely, there could be money set aside to dedicate to looking forward with a wider scope at what is possible for tomorrow.

      "according to our present conceptions the elementary particles of matter are also, in their essence, nothing else than condensations of the electromagnctic field"

    

Where the ether is a sort of non-substance making up the dimension of space-time, in the dimension's curvature, energy is collected as for such as corresponding to increased density that eventuates into something like condensation.  In that, certain very minute forms have emerged to be elementary particles identifiable as the basis for matter: at this threshold energy which otherwise could propogate through the dimension has become as matter.  [The conversion between energy and matter]  The phenomenon of an attractive force appearing to come from the matter in fact found its source in the curvature.  The significance of the ether seems to be that certain finite unities or finite states, ie. matter or fields, are like particular properties arising from the ether's being the substantial definition of the dimension.

    "But this ether may not be thought of as endowed with the quality characteristic of ponderable inedia, as consisting of parts which may be tracked through time."

     (...Matter could be thought of as an outcome resulting from the curvatures of space-time)

 The universe is beautiful. Simply. Scientific accounts only enhance the beauty. From data to observation to hypothesis to tentative fact, in multiples, science brings to the intellect the realities to be beheld. The world is richer in the information and knowledge derived from the scientific process. Reality grew, in one perspective, from a finite world excluding Eden, to many universes and many more worlds. The moon shines light upon us on earth from the star, our sun, in the opposite direction. Perhaps there may be implications from such a simple fact, but behold, starlight is bright even when merely reflected, and is beautiful. Reality grew too, in another perspective, from creatures of God to myriad organisms, some many-celled, composed of information carrying DNA, nerve bundles, eyes, the senses, a brain? The implied (and actual) complexity of star stuff developing into life stuff is beautiful. There is beauty in mystery too. For all that we can be informed, the awareness grows of so much more that is unknown. This is true as a human being, even perhaps especially a specialist, looking at the horizon of what she knows, and as an enterprise, the human civilizations, pondering what is beyond the reach of our present state. If mystery cannot stimulate the aesthetic sense, then one sure is poorer for it. To behold the night sky, the unimaginable distances and unsurmountable time this vision was accrued upon, this is a particular way of imagining our being in the world beyond. Life itself, fleeting as it may be, is a tremendous miracle, perhaps lotteries being won over and over, during the far reaching eons, the improbable became actual.

 I was asked what I see when I look at people doing things, living their lifes, how things are for them. I think sometimes it's forgotten, or brushed aside as irrelevant or for later, the cosmic context in which we live. The simple miracle to be alive, against all possible odds (as physicists like to point out the specificity of conditions that make a universe and every cosmological bodies and their relations possible). And the improbability to be awake in each our own unique creaturely bodies and minds (and some say soul) is rarely discussed directly in theoretical discourse as to make each exposition meaningful. Scientists say life evolved from a single cell out of one bubble (and there were many) that happened to contain materials for DNA and with somehow also a semi-permeable membrane. It all started there. The improbability of a regular bubble attaining these forementioned characteristics - it is against astronomical odds. That biological life prospered into the extreme diversity of creatures is bewildering (which doesn't mean it is not true). The world we live in is, for lack of a better word, Eden itself.  It is paradise on earth - life's many forms have diversified and prospered - it happened here, on earth. Evolution, to nay sayers, seems too simple a mechanism; it is not a mechanism at all. It is a phenomenon of such miraculous outcome. And then there is the human being. Some think human beings are the steward of life, others think humans are meant to rule this world. Still others believe everything here is made with the express purpose to be manifold resources just so the human lives.  The human being indeed began simply, almost like animals, foraging and hunting other living organisms for sustenance ; but somewhere in time, began to differentiate itself from other life forms. The human being made ties with other human beings, for practical purposes and maybe not so practical purposes (when practice has to do with survival). Human beings made art, imprinting onto the world the impressions he or she had of that world. There is something to be said about this, but it may be a digression to the discussion at hand. When societies began to form, human relationships became more complex. The flourishing of social contexts happened and specialization occurred. When we look at our story from this cartoon perspective of what had to have transpired, in many places and many times, and look at ourselves and what we have here now, it becomes obvious that the specific beliefs, the specific activities, the specific outlook, the specific social network, they are in a state of being created and fostered. There is meaning everywhere, meaning fostered and nurtured and developed out of humankind's time on this rare oasis we call earth. The human being is continually open to meaning. Everything a human being does or involves himself or herself in are constructs in history.  What this meaning is in context of the great universe we now know we inhabit perhaps we do not know. (Though Carl Sagan's famous line regarding this question is "We are made of stardust. We are here so that the universe may know itself.")  I think when I look outside myself, I see difference, but this difference is not at the essence of what transpires. That we live in societies is no doubt absolutely true, but the involvement of each person in the multitude of things (now recognized as historical) is the testament of celebration. Perhaps I err earlier in saying the cosmic context is not beheld in regard; certainly, ethics and morality, methods of organization and dissent, theories regarding art and culture, all these and more implies the cosmic context. If this that works imply the cosmic and historical context, then, oh my, wonderment at the miraculous is everywhere. This life, or these lives, we are celebrating our improbable existence in the here and now, full of emotions and awe transformed to every interesting and mundane words said and action taken.

 I've been intrigued by the notion of tabula rasa. It seems to me that a blank slate is an essence to science. Bits of information comes to light from each person in the community from rigorous investigation.  At any time, old bits of information called knowledge could be turned away as false due to new discoveries; at the same time, other old bits that may have missed an audience could re-emerge and strike harmony with new bits to circulate and run wild amongst an audience that are receptive. That these events are commonplace and occur frequently in scientific research means that amongst continuous activities by many people, these activities that produce the bits of information, are always premised upon the open nature of inquiry. A sense of the blank slate does not dismiss what truth value may be discovered and attributed to a proposition; rather, but rather determine the potentiality of any bit produced and circulated in what is the process.toward truth. Effort is made in every case to draw upon what we have accepted as with truth value, ie. the collecting of precedents from everywhere. The nature of precedents being accepted as with truth value and support the current proposition involves gathering knowledge already established as such. Yet, there is a fluidity in the ground determined in each case of seeking a valid proposition, ie. what has been collected to be bases and premises, this ground which is comprised of many bits; and note, as before stated, one or some of such bits collected to support a proposition, they are not a priori of absolute validity.  In managing the support of the desired proposition, or hypothesis, when it comes to supporting the conjecture, there is dynamics in deeper review of the collected bits. Are they truthfully valid, as far as a scientist can know and be satisfied with the outcome.  Relevance is a way to determine whether bits could stand on its own and indeed even support whatever conjecture an scientist is poised to make.  But that negotiation upon bits whose evaluation cam be dynamic, meaning there are literally fields of data concerning each bit, where discordant info could be put aside but not set aside forever by one scientist, yet remains available for uptake by another, or possibly many others. In this sense of these bits, which are technically available to another scientist who will have to make a judgment for himself or herself as to what is the state of bit regarding truth value and relevance. No bit can die a sudden death, because it is not known whether the bit contains matters that could include a legitimate  insight or in some other ways containing points and observations that could be validated within a different context or from a different vantage point. Herein lies the tabula rasa. The blank state does not imply there is no object. Many elements are in play.  Quite to the contrary to the first glance, the blank state regards here a state of mind.whose contents are comprised of many dynamic bits which are of uncertain (or better yet, undetermined) truth value. In each case, knowledge is achieved by consensus over a dynamic but limited review of sources (all those summoned bits) and their harmony with what is generally known. There is subjectivity in the review process.  But what I want to shed light on is that the manner of which science progresses (toward many outcomes that wish to be established as knowledge - the processes and the elements in each case are requiring the sensibilities of a beginning mind.  Not allowing your preconceptions rule the lens through which you see, but always starting over by being without presumption of the truth value of anything. Perhaps this, what I have described her, is an ideal way that is not quite the case in practice. Certainly, the way that science is practiced there has to be some basis for assumption that something is true, for otherwise we could never start. But the potential this social and informationistic arrangement contain an ideal method.  Questioning every bit of information, some already established as knowledge, seems in practice to be very tedious; there needs always be some presupposed ground upon which to conjecture. But that in essence science in its perfect form carries the ideal of tabula rasa; it gives rise to a mode of working that could produce genuine meaning in an always open inquiry.

 But my new life. Where did it began? I remember a continuum in which was interspersed with momentary leaps into the questions. They are like, what am I. What is this world? I guess a moment of clarity during my time at Cornell was reading Heidegger's The The Age of the World Picture. It is a vast sweep by genius. That he wrote this is the age when the purpose is the set forth each own vision or idea or even what we would call today products or networks is amazing. To set forth as individuals can as individuals, or is it as individuals in a society? For me, the insight may sound obvious, but reading that to set forth one's own produced in me a revelatory moment. I wanted to dwell on this thought, which is amazing to me in every way.  After I had read and understood the article, something in me had changed. It's funny how genius can articulate into words thoughts that elude a constructed mind, wipes clean preconceived notions I didn't even know I had. For it is at once a very simple thing and a very complicated thing. Perhaps he had meant as societies become democratic, as capitalism becomes the ruling order of the day, as science reveals en mass minute bits of information that in some grew, while others become obsolete, that in all these conditions and more, the distinction of being an individual and being a member of a community is at once more distinctly drawn and at once becoming more fluid.  Perhaps all these things and even more than I could find in my mind right now. What got me was the simplicity of the structure of his postulation. Who is this individual? To what extent is included as the community? What preconceptions does this individudal have? In what context does the individual set forth? Am I an individual? I am exceedingly ignorant, and this I know, but what else, what other information have I been exposed to, that I never seriously considered and transformed into knowledge. Academic success is a simple thing, though it often becomes a marker of intelligence, of security, of ability, but there are so many way to cheat the system and appear all those things and in truth, I am master of none. It was a continuous information flow, which I absorbed on the short term and put back out as answers to questions on tests and essays to problems. Could I apprehend the meaning - have I allowed the meaning to change me, to transform what I see and understand? These questions then ballooning in my mind, surely, blew my mind, as I find no point of view to rest upon, there were no opportunities to dwell, to transform into meaning in my very own life. That semester I failed to supply a paper to a professor who had been supportive and generous in the years before - I knew, at first reluctantly and then later with conviction, I had nothing for a premise because, I later realized, I was not myself.

 I have left a past behind to start a new life. My new life starts with me. I am tired of starting from other people's expectations, making goals and even achieving them for the accolades and acceptance of those around me. I came to the least likely place to encounter friends and family. My psychological makeup is in such a way I had always presumed other people's responses and their expectations are more valid than mine. I had gone a way along this way, sidelining the things I feel are important to bring to fruits results that neither please me nor displease me, even though I am perfectly guilty to yearn for people's responses. How their opinions would become my life's focus I don't really know. I thought in paving a route to academic success would lead me somewhere in life. My parents, that was all they demanded from me. Going to Cornell, studying architecture, something I have never had an interest in, seemed like the correct path. My parents were immensely pleased. But one more time, I could develop no interest in creating architecture in the way they were teaching it. Although now an actual interest of mine, architecture is, I think I would not find happiness in this way.  Success and happiness are not the same thing; sometimes one is confused with the other. Happiness is starting with myself and slowly and deliberately collect fragments in pieces what interests me and makes me feel elated. It's kinda like love, I boldly conjecture. In your heart you know. At Cornell, I switched out of architecture, though still immersed in friends' projects which I looked upon with admiration and which sometimes called me to be in an honored position as critic. I switched to the School of Arts and Sciences, expecting to explore and find something that empassioned me. Much was interesting, and I carried a full curriculum every semester, sometimes working two jobs, and partied. Partying was an expression of seeking happiness in the other - I was fully aware that it was not to last and may carry detrimental effects. I had not told any of this to my Grandma, but she still insightfully remarked, but you graduated. I didn't realize it was an achievement because my heart was not in it. Beside the partying, which I felt was otherly and so enjoyable to be intoxicated with literal intoxicants but also social freedom. Maybe graduating was an achievement of sorts, but I felt like there are more and more boxes around me, and as I looked into the future, I saw them closing in on me. I don't want my life to be over before it began. Life, being at peace with oneself, doing something that means something to oneself, encountering people before putting up a facade, sincere even if disagreement occur, because it is one's own. There is very little time, yet life is a miracle, an extremely improbable event or phenomenon, so very precious. There is no doubt we live in societies and communities.  There are rules and conventions, but nobody has held a gun to my head and insist on how I should live. I have not been enslaved, but only by my own preconceptions.  Dare to look outside, I tell myself, can I find people who are in pursuit of the life they are seeking, but how many of these people can see beyond what they have constructed around themselves. Are they conventional lifes, repeated across well meaning folks, but have they seen beyond. We live in an informational society here anyway, the lens with which to view the world can vary: which lens are you looking through? Are there ways to see with your own naked eye, and see the universe and your living in this ever grander world in a moment's mind's eye? 

where

 "We really do need structure, so we can see we are nowhere"

John Cage, Lecture on Nothing

truth

 space is limitless. the only limits are those we set with the eons passing by.

Arthur C. Clark

 It is by going into the impossible that we realize the possibilities.

 Persist, and Endure.

 intuition: psychology of grand nature

 As a subject is becoming known, possibilities emerge.

 It is not in the impossibility that we undertake an endeavor; precisely, in the narrow margin of possibility do we find an endeavor viable, even desirable.

 Undefined: the future of human civilization in space

 Via space travel, exploration, and settlement, we will experience the beginning of the next evolutionary jump.  Human beliefs, customs, practices, and understanding of ourselves will change.

 The abundance of civilization has sheltered and protected us from questions of mortality. As we go into space, questions will arise once more, but in a new context by a new civilization.

 Human civilization has been myopic, never knowing from whence it has come. Would it now choose differently, knowing that it comes from one galaxy, amongst billions?  If we were to start over again, what would be our premises?

 O, space, the final frontier.

 Even centuries from now, the space age would have only just begun.

 Cosmic significance is the elusive object of our strife.

writing...

 The stars first appeared an image; no longer a field of lights, they are an infinitude of realities and worlds. Cosmicity is the awe by means of all the realities unknowable. Not barely like near-beasts venturing into the wild unknown, our space faring bands will be an echo of the best in humanity. We can hope to achieve cosmic significance.

 

 

nature's ions

  real night skies ; imafe bktrack < . . . . . . . . .

 

impression

 

impression

 [image]

wondering after this hdr image..

trackback link and from relativity link related ,, Ether and the Theory of Relativity - 1949 - reply to criticisms link

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    "according to our present conceptions the elementary particles of matter are also, in their essence, nothing else than condensations of the electromagnctic field"
   
Where the ether is a sort of non-substance making up the dimension of space-time, in the dimension's curvature, energy is collected as for such as corresponding to increased density that eventuates into something like condensation.  In that, certain very minute forms have emerged to be elementary particles identifiable as the basis for matter: at this threshold energy which otherwise could propogate through the dimension has become as matter.  [The conversion between energy and matter]  The phenomenon of an attractive force appearing to come from the matter in fact found its source in the curvature.  The significance of the ether seems to be that certain finite unities or finite states, ie. matter or fields, are like particular properties arising from the ether's being the substantial definition of the dimension.

    "But this ether may not be thought of as endowed with the quality characteristic of ponderable media, as consisting of parts which may be tracked through time."

 

touched

 

"Silence and noise. A lot of noise. www.flickr.com/photos/wesk/4437238008/sizes/l/

 http://www.flickr.com/groups/cg_a/ http://www.case-inc.com/taxonomy/term/53

visual intresting [re: focus / photographics]

   i. from a newspaper , ii. a personal website

  grandnatureclub.com | link where people ride bikes | link

flashb

  mr. buckmister.

lnk incidentally, godel was a "platonist"... related^ _ dynamic synergetics?

Interesting passage for memory of way back - the pirate, master of the high seas. The pirate brought goods never seen before to lands never touched before... opening new eyes to treasures never before seen.  Pre-dating the days of “fair trade”.  Who were these strangers appearing from the horizons beyond reach, the edge of the world?  

...

inspiring

lnk

Canadian Embassy in Tokyo

link | link also by Moriyama & Teshima, in search of a soul war museum link

biz.spa

link on starting (smallish, coordinating?) enterprise for non/profitable fun

reminds of drawing session

link "also an international training programme...At any moment the students represent over 20 different nationalities. The working language is English."

something special

black rock city from burning man 2008 Tristan "Loupiote" Savatier

looks especially great for when travellinga

 citizen journalism http://www.allvoices.com/journalism d a t e l o g

photo

 

event ganesh @ brooklyn artist gym , park slope,

really like this

by Leila Singleton gawker.com

woj

 

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ADDNOTE201306
  -stroll along the streets of downtown in the sw-se area discovers new art prints of maps - a delightful find!  this morning google'd for best maps and the top result is drawn from a century before...  see link 

 Some people argue that FreeMind encourages an overly analytical approach. I would respond that if you want to build quality software, heal an ill man, find a cure to a disease, or provide people with food, just grooving on things, though maybe pleasant and possibly important too, will not be sufficient on its own. Try to sit under a tree in the lotus position and heal someone that way. You simply don't do it. It's not that there is something wrong with the lotus position, but you have to work with the underlying, analytical and organized form of things too. http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Essays

personal (d)

 

onrhetorica

  re writing meta - cybernetics nor hermeneutics,

rhetorics, beside synergetics ; [ps][c]ybernautics ? telematics? link

 

[C/i/a] picturing utopia, recap

Received an email last night re the event of Utopia... My entry has been selected for exhibition (9.19-9.25.2005). This will be my first. And it's happening in Athens, Greece. The organization is Fournos, Center for Digital Culture. [ref: 8.2.2005-02:54pm, 8.8.2005-02.24pm]

art of the renderist

 Floating through the gossammers today... "Code is poetry."

[arch] Paspels lecture

Went to a cArch lecture today. The architect presented his work process on a single project, a high school at Paspels. The town has a distributed typology; the buildings are situated in liberal relations with each other. There exists no grid or any other such strict urban organizations; rather, the buildings are phenomenally scattered such that a manifold of pathways can be imagined in a journey between any two points. In order for the building to maintain consistency with the emergent urban typology, the architect conceived of a "box" and placed it into the site accordingly. The "box" is a three level volume, with a sloped roof. He presents this as a small red box in the town-scale figure-ground plan. Presenting the conceptual phase of the design process, he shows eight volumes for the eight classrooms, and two (or four?) volumes for another function. These regular volumes are then fit into the regular plan on two floors. Dropping this configuration of volumes into the box, the architect renders an "outside" and an "inside", for which an external, or an envelope, is clearly delineneable from the internal content. The internal content is dropped into the container. The dichotomy between inside and outside is resolved with the use of the same materials, especially concrete. And skewed, slightly, by 86 and 94 degrees. The volumes, enveloped by the skewed walls, read as regular forms on cursory glance. The user's discovery of false perspectives and the reading of regular perspectives are simultaneously possible, depending on vantage points. The subtlety of this architectural gesture, the ambiguous perspective, exists to the user as a puzzle to be discovered, and suggest that this architecture may be a system of possibilities to be opened up. The subtlety with which such possible puzzles become part of the composition, here at the scale of wall, contrasts the substantial material of concrete. Moving on, the architect shows the various precise details in materials and construction that contribute to the phenomenal readings by the user. He showed window construction details that utilize massive brass that can flush with the concrete plane, and the door details, including the hinge that fits into the concrete. He then talked about including the extension of an edge from the roof that creates a waterfall to the ground such that no pipes would interfere with the unity of the exterior. He also addresses and emphasizes the issue of water slippages, its effects on the concrete, and its drainage. Concrete, both the issues and design considerations in its uses, are also emphasized in this presentation. Other materials include wood for the interior definitions of classrooms, and brass for window and roof details. The details he presented were consistent with the original formal expression, which is a logic of forms inside a simple envelope. In summary, the architect's presentation of the project reveals how the various details of the building integrally contribute to the piece of architecture's identity. Its identity, manifesting through the various scales of consideration, reflexively addresses the phenomenal sense that was originally prescribed in the conceptual model. That the forms at different scales work integrally, with the same underlying precision, and all respecting the original formal ideas, which were first expressed at the scale of the building as a whole, goes towards the unified expression of the architecture's identity. The expression of the architecture's identity, correlated with the architect expressing an architectural idea, naturally occurs in the consistent and continual making of gestures contributing to it at different scales.

[C/i/a] picturing utopia, part ii

 here it is..  Imaging apparati and network technologies are two fronts of development that have invoked dreams of a different kind of reality. In fields as diverse as the sciences, the military, as well as arts and entertainment, the former is employed to create images that reflect or project something of the natural and the artificial, and the interaction in between. Via newly proliferated channels provided by advances in network technologies, the images circulate amongst individuals involved in specialized enterprises; often, their distribution also extends to the general public. As images and the technologies become increasingly available, the sense arises of there being more possibilities of participation than ever before. There arises the sense that by actively perceiving, transforming, and relating information streaming through the channels, one jacks into a collective circuit and becomes involved in a widescale undertaking towards some yet unexplicated, perhaps perfect, ends. Poised before the possibilities of appropriating the use of images and instruments to take part in discoveries and creations, one's continual activity and involvement with peers, whether strangers and friends, become an ends to themselves. [The original image is a still captured from a film of mine. It's transformed in Photoshop. The mosaic in midground is created by sampling and cropping (and degrading) a number of random and select images.] [ref: 8.02.2005-02:54pm : fournos]

[stream] experiencing virtual aesthetics

 What consists in the textual aesthetics of the virtual... the textual, in English? The language of modern science, what potential has it to dream the accounts of our times? The grammar and the vocabulary, sampled and traced the mass of canons and thousand corpus... transformed, will they suffice to discover a new tune? (Transform how?) To recall the silent wares of logic, deeply embedded in our being, and remembering, to express again, to generate again, to experience fully again this exhiliration of our already always present logical imagination.

[stream] "dream towards"

Opening my eyes I saw lit neon, trailing, flashing, blinking in and out of existence, perfect renderings of lit trajectories. I heard the whispers of the metro, the declarations of engines and aluminum machines, the primal rhythms of footsteps and jumbled noise, the procession of perpetual fluoresence. Sliding into the wires I slipped out to the empty darkness of space. Motioning along at the speed of light, I was still and never moving. The cluster of million points of light accelerated towards me, and slowing, transformed into transecting lines of alphanumericals. I have arrived at the city of incessant exchange. The entity of digital atoms has come to me. Through the white blur of neon data I catch a glimpse, a series of transparent body forms, now here, now gone. I hear voice, one there, one there, one here, one here. Soft, precise, doppling sounds and images fade in and out, of people, persons, the fellows of my own.

[C/i/a] picturing utopia part i

 

college forays

 

 

college forays

 

[on enclosure] skyscraper rising

 

high school portfolio

 

(postmodern?) society