crazy

Found on Inhabitat todayAny one point on a busy street can receive up to 50,000 steps a day, so imagine if you could take all that foot traffic and turn it into something useful – like energy! A new product designed by Laurence Kemball-Cook, the director of Pavegen Systems Ltd., can do just that. With a minuscule flex of 5mm, the energy generating pavement is able to absorb the kinetic energy produced by every footstep, creating 2.1 watts of electricity per hour.

View Through a Telescope

This painting represents the definitive outcome of several studies Giacomo Balla made following his observation of a partial eclipse of the Sun caused by the planet Mercury, which occurred on November 7, 1914. The eclipse takes place in the upper center of the painting, with a small circle, Mercury, encroaching on a large circle, the Sun. The dazzle of white triangles nearby can be explained as the impact on the naked eye as Balla looked away from his lens. The green cone may also refer to a specific retinal color effect experienced by Balla as he peered down his telescope. Balla was continuing his experiments in conveying the sensations of movement through space with the use of transparent planes, rectilinear and curving forms

I thought this was an interesting parallel to the post I made a few weeks ago with my version of a telescope.

first attempt

After much delay the first kite is finished. I want to mess around with the dye more so I can match the sky better on the day the photo is taken. The idea is for the kite to disappear.

together

good morning

Orrery

I would really like to make one of these

In the meantime:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/

tomorrow

I am going to the University of Pennsylvania veterinary lab. A field trip for Botched Taxidermy.

inside/outside

An accumulation of stylized objects that subvert their own use value, the interior becomes a reflection of the inhabitant's idealized self.

I just read part of Baudrillard's dissertation on furniture.

ugh.

Lancaster

Spent the weekend in Lancaster

Worked on some ideas

Ate good food

Tried to fly

Werckmeister Harmonies

It's getting cold again
Werckmeister harmóniák is a 2000 Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr, based on the novel The Melancholy of Resistance, by László Krasznahorkai. Shot in black and white and composed of only thirty-nine languidly paced shots, the film describes the aimlessness and anomy of a small town on the Hungarian plain that falls under the fascist influence of a sinister traveling circus lugging the immense body of a whale in its tow. A young man named János tries to keep order in the increasingly restless town even as he begins to lose his faith in the unnatural and disordered universe from which God Himself seems to have disappeared.

The title refers to the baroque musical theorist Andreas Werckmeister. György Eszter, a major character in the film, gives a monologue propounding a theory that Werckmeister's harmonic principles are responsible for aesthetic and philosophical problems in all music since, which need to be undone by a new theory of tuning and harmony.

Matt, I will return this to you later this week..I've had it for almost a year..sorry!

Record

I've been trying to organize all of my recordings to share them here, but I am still working on it. I was looking at some field recording websites and I stumbled across a vast international archive dating back to the 1950's from University of California Anthropology professor Robert Grafias. so here it is.

clocks

Miranda July

once a week

collection

NYC book/Dachshund Fest 09

We arrived at Washington Square Park at precisely the right moment, surrounded by proud Dachshunds and their owners chanting the Dachs Song!

The Art Book Fair (at PS.1) was pretty intense, the crowds didn't really facilitate an environment conducive to viewing meticulously made publications, but it was certainly entertaining.

http://www.dachshundfriendshipclub.com/
http://nyartbookfair.com/about

Endurance

MEN WANTED
FOR HAZARDOUS
JOURNEY

SMALL WAGES
BITTER COLD
LONG MONTHS OF
COMPLETE DARKNESS
CONSTANT DANGER
SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL

HONOUR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS

-Ernest Shackleton


I kind of miss Michigan winters.