Culture is not your friend

Everyone is running around saying “change change change” but on the other hand there is a curious sense in which things have become eerily dreamlike and still, while we just teeter on the edge of the end of history; and the same personalities, the same design elements, everything has looked the same in the galleries for twenty years. There is an eerie suspension.”

The real ‘Secret‘ always was, and still is Terence McKenna’s entire legacy of eliquently spoken words. But only for those who are brave enough to listen to him with an open mind.

“Keep your powder dry, one hand over your wallet, the other hand over your asshole“.

A portrait of mankind

Not only an incredibly slick interface.

6 Billion Others is a project by Yann Arthus-Bertrand that has been going since early 2003. Six directors set off across the globe with a film crew to interview the inhabitants of the planet. 6,000 interviews have been filmed in 65 countries and 450 hours of translated and subtitled video portraits made available, and they’re not finished yet. But already it’s a wonderful archive of humankind. A portrait of contemporary mankind, by asking questions about universal values – what makes us laugh and cry, our families, what gives life meaning.

PostSecret

Reveal anything – as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.

Sculptures born out of fluid

Sachiko Kodama & Yasushi Miyajima created an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music.

It is utterly stunning.

The surface of the tower responds dynamically to its magnetic environment. When there is no magnetic field, the tower appears to be a simple spiral shape. But when the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened, spikes of ferrofluid are born; at the same time, the tower’s surface dynamically morphs into a variety of textures ranging from soft fluid to minute moss, or to spiky shark’s teeth, or again to a hard iron surface. The ferrofluid, with its smooth, black surface that seems to draw people in, reaches the top of the tower, spreading like a fractal, defying gravity.

 To fully appreciate the magic quality of ferrofluids this
really has to be seen in Hi-Res

Hey, buddy! C’mere!

Comedy Central listed him as 19th in their show ‘100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time’.

In 2003 The Guardian ran a story on Bill Hicks, reporting that “Indeed far from fading away, as most comics tend to do, he was becoming a bigger star with each passing year.“
Bill Hicks was never one to mince words, and this 1989 taping at the “Laugh Stop” in Austin, TX. is certainly no exception. In this set, Bill touches on several issues from smoking, to drugs, to religion, to pornography, to musical pop culture.  This was Bill at the height of his career. He was exceedingly vibrant and full of life.  Thanks to Bill’s friend Kevin Booth, we now have this as a piece of his lasting legacy.

The intro is a bit long, but the fun starts 2 minutes in…

Video is now broken up in several pieces, watch the other parts.

Ricky Gervais: Animals

Filmed during a limited run at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London, the show is based around Ricky’s fascination with the animal kingdom. Gervais accompanies a short film on animal copulation with a unique and not entirely scientific narration. Fans will wonder if any subject is taboo as the comedy drifts from his interpretation of the Bible.

 

The Death Of Wisdom

There has been a lot of criticism about social news aggregation sites such as Digg and Reddit promoting sensationalist fare while causing news of profound events that shape the world disappear into the ether. But BBC statistics prove that even if one offers news that matters on the front page, the readers will always go for the articles that appeal to them most.

John C. Sommerville in his 1999 How the News Makes Us Dumb: The Death of Wisdom in an Information Society argued that we made the news dumber by demanding it round the clock.

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