Friday, February 25, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
girls
"Subsequent work has provided converging evidence on the influence of sex ratios on the sexual economy. In two studies of women's clothing fashions spanning 1885 to 1976, N. Barber (1999) found that skirt length covaried with the sex ratio, such that women wore shorter skirts when there were fewer men. Short skirts were also linked to high divorce rates (which also indicate higher female competition for men). Wearing short skirts is analogous to advertising one's wares, as a way of stimulating demand for one's product. "
Hahahaha that would explain why at my al girls high school, skirts rode up to barely covering a girl's butt and they had to install strict laws which allowed teachers to walk around with note cards and press them up against girls' knees- if the skirt was shorter than the index card the girl would get detention.
Hahahaha that would explain why at my al girls high school, skirts rode up to barely covering a girl's butt and they had to install strict laws which allowed teachers to walk around with note cards and press them up against girls' knees- if the skirt was shorter than the index card the girl would get detention.
Movies
Movies that I've seen recently and highly support
Saw this last night in film class. Definitely felt disgustingly dirty afterwards, I felt like I needed to take a shower and cleanse myself. All I can say is Holy Mountain, Holy Shit!!!!
Beyond words. Literally. In an effort to raise a family "well", 2 parents raise their kids completely isolated and brainwashed, devoid of real culture, fun, socialization. Natural biological needs are then sublimated when they inevitably come out.
Psychedelic! I tried looking up Gaspar Noe's biography because this director has such a hold on the darkness of the human mind, I feel like something very traumatic happened in his past, but I couldn't find anything.
Saw this last night in film class. Definitely felt disgustingly dirty afterwards, I felt like I needed to take a shower and cleanse myself. All I can say is Holy Mountain, Holy Shit!!!!
Beyond words. Literally. In an effort to raise a family "well", 2 parents raise their kids completely isolated and brainwashed, devoid of real culture, fun, socialization. Natural biological needs are then sublimated when they inevitably come out.
Psychedelic! I tried looking up Gaspar Noe's biography because this director has such a hold on the darkness of the human mind, I feel like something very traumatic happened in his past, but I couldn't find anything.
pics from the last few weeks
crepes in brooklyn
eating prehistoric monsters with nick
coffee and dinner before class
making mushroom quinoa risotto in boston
nick teasing his fuckhead cat
i lost all my clothes so i asked nick to dress me and he dressed me like a homeless person with a mcdonalds hat and ripped pants stained with paint. i didn't even go to art school!
my valentine. lucky me.
wild nothings show at the bowery ballroom
photobooth pictures
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
We find, moreover, that the new nostalgia is a symptom of the
death of history. The more we learn about the present, about
humanity's perception and interpretation of the present, the more
suspect history becomes. When Fuller remarks that our most
polluted resource is the "tactical information" (news) to which
humanity spontaneously reflexes, he echoes Hermann Hesse's view
that "history's third dimension is always fiction." The present has
discredited the past, while the history of the present is recorded by
machines, not "written" by men, and is thus out of our hands as a
"man-made" phenomenon. "The computer," says McLuhan, "abolishes
the human past by making it entirely present." We don't "remember"
the assassination of John F. Kennedy because we never
experienced it directly in the first place. For millions of people who
were not actually present in Dallas, Kennedy's death exists only in
the endless technologically-sustained present. We "remember" it in
the same way that we first "knew" it—through the media—and we
can experience it again each time the videotapes are played. Since
we see and hear and feel only the conditioning of our own memory,
a great flood of nostalgia is generated when technology erases the
past and with it our self-image.
death of history. The more we learn about the present, about
humanity's perception and interpretation of the present, the more
suspect history becomes. When Fuller remarks that our most
polluted resource is the "tactical information" (news) to which
humanity spontaneously reflexes, he echoes Hermann Hesse's view
that "history's third dimension is always fiction." The present has
discredited the past, while the history of the present is recorded by
machines, not "written" by men, and is thus out of our hands as a
"man-made" phenomenon. "The computer," says McLuhan, "abolishes
the human past by making it entirely present." We don't "remember"
the assassination of John F. Kennedy because we never
experienced it directly in the first place. For millions of people who
were not actually present in Dallas, Kennedy's death exists only in
the endless technologically-sustained present. We "remember" it in
the same way that we first "knew" it—through the media—and we
can experience it again each time the videotapes are played. Since
we see and hear and feel only the conditioning of our own memory,
a great flood of nostalgia is generated when technology erases the
past and with it our self-image.
What we "know" conceptually has far outstripped what we
experience empirically. We are finally beginning to accept the fact
that our senses allow us to perceive only one-millionth of what we
know to be reality—the electromagnetic spectrum. Ninety-nine
percent of all vital forces affecting our life is invisible. Most of the
fundamental rates of change can't be apprehended sensorially.
Fuller: "Better than ninety-nine percent of modern technology occurs
in the realm of physical phenomena that are sub or ultra to the range
of human visibility. We can see the telephone wires but not the
conversations taking place. We can see the varieties of metal parts
of airplanes but there is nothing to tell us how relatively strong these
metals are in comparison to other metals. None of these varieties
can be told from the others by the human senses, not even by
metallurgists when unaided by instruments. The differences are
invisible. Yet world society has throughout its millions of years on
earth made its judgments on visible, tangible, sensorially
demonstrable criteria."3
experience empirically. We are finally beginning to accept the fact
that our senses allow us to perceive only one-millionth of what we
know to be reality—the electromagnetic spectrum. Ninety-nine
percent of all vital forces affecting our life is invisible. Most of the
fundamental rates of change can't be apprehended sensorially.
Fuller: "Better than ninety-nine percent of modern technology occurs
in the realm of physical phenomena that are sub or ultra to the range
of human visibility. We can see the telephone wires but not the
conversations taking place. We can see the varieties of metal parts
of airplanes but there is nothing to tell us how relatively strong these
metals are in comparison to other metals. None of these varieties
can be told from the others by the human senses, not even by
metallurgists when unaided by instruments. The differences are
invisible. Yet world society has throughout its millions of years on
earth made its judgments on visible, tangible, sensorially
demonstrable criteria."3
Monday, February 7, 2011
taken from Visionary Film
Three central principles inform the cosmology of Momentum and the
two films which follow it, Cosmos and World. They are that human consciousnesse,
ven when it believesi tself to be exploring freely, is actually
guidedt o its goal by a greaterc onsciousnestsh; at human consciousness
transcends itself by merging with the object which magnetized it, without
losing its awareness of its history as human; and that stars, galaxies, and
the very cosmos are visible bodies of consciousness in a hierarchy.
two films which follow it, Cosmos and World. They are that human consciousnesse,
ven when it believesi tself to be exploring freely, is actually
guidedt o its goal by a greaterc onsciousnestsh; at human consciousness
transcends itself by merging with the object which magnetized it, without
losing its awareness of its history as human; and that stars, galaxies, and
the very cosmos are visible bodies of consciousness in a hierarchy.
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