Video for "Pleasure" by BLONDES

Hello there -

I haven't been keeping this blog up too much recently, but I thought I would post to let you know about the video "Pleasure" I just finished for the group BLONDES. It should be live now, and it will probably premiere on XLR8R.



I am looking to create more videos - my artist website is www.farleygwazda.net. It is a very cool website, so check it out.

There is a description on the Vimeo site that reads:

"Assembled entirely from animated gifs - scientific diagrams, mathematical figures, representations of data, and renderings of simulated systems, this video appropriates images meant to serve as a rational demonstration of logical concepts and transmogrifies them into a cosmic trip.

In the same way that BLONDES use analogue instruments to humanize electronica and create psychedelic soundscapes, this video explores irrational paths to knowledge and investigates how information is processed into meaningful experience."

Because you are awesome enough to have found this post, here is a list of some of the things you may see in the video:

Electron orbital configurations
Epicycloid k=1 (cardioid)
Exoplanet Formalhaut b
Firing cascade in neural axon
Gravitational lensing (Einstein ring)
High frequency active auroral research program
Hypercube rotation in 4D
Karman vortex street
Low earth orbiting satellite constellation for GPS
Modelling of particles in loop quantum gravity
Observations of supermassive black hole at center of Milky Way
Protein folding
Simulation of dark matter's effect on galactic rotation
Simulation of evolution of protoplanetary disk
Simulation of Sculptor Supercluster
Simulation of stellar core during supernova
Topological structures: torus
X-ray diffraction pattern crystallography

Here are some awesome stills:

use for evil

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer?view=raceethnicity&lat=42.3200&lng=-71.119&l=12

I should read this out loud

http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/03/22/the-machine-stops/

In my novel

http://being.publicradio.org/programs/2009/language-and-meaning/transcript.shtml

In the scifi novel I'm writing there is a lot about native american languages, skill uploading, language mining, and speculative word markets.

Really

I really am working on all these projects of which I speak.

They might have been lost or burned.

Adviso

I love profound youtube comments. This I found on a classical Indian Raga vid - I'm working on a project involving such a weaving times sci-fi.


1 year ago

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Careworn

Attention

"""We are our narratives"""

Article.

To contextualize CounterSchema; the stories people tell about the Test Patterns are actually stories about themselves. To a certain extent these stories match, just as individuals who share common culture share common narratives. But these stories will often diverge, especially at the level of greater detail. Beginning as a story about the Test Pattern, the path of the story diverges inward, until it merges with a main artery of self-story. For any individual the butterfly of the moment will cause a different route to be chosen, so this can never be an isolated variable experiment. But field work will still enable concrete observations about the nature of the paths.

We don't want to be creative.

Guitar Hero (and now Rock Band) have sold millions.

“They are performance simulators,” Mr. Rigopulos said of his company’s current games. “There is not really a creative dimension to them.”

“Realistically, if you give the average consumer total creative freedom, it’s somewhat paralyzing,” he added. “It’s like if you just hand someone a paintbrush, most people don’t know what to do with it. It’s always striking the balance between freedom and constraint. And for your average consumer you have to give them objectives and criteria for success and failure. For many people, being creative feels like work and the creative impulse isn’t something that most consumers are motivated by.”

succint quote - art as experience

“The product of art — temple, painting, statue, poem — is not the work of art. The work takes place when a human being cooperates with the product so that the outcome is an experience that is enjoyed because of its liberating and ordered properties.” John Dewey, Art as Experience, 1934.