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Under our feet are images of walking men
16 May 2011 • outer
tags: signs, walking
A project begun in 2004 by Stephen Wragg to document the unique diversity of painted ‘walking men’ on the streets of the UK.
Toxic Ideas
8 January 2011 • outer
tags: analysis, brain, capitalism, civilization, conscience, control, perception, politics, religion
Inmorality
15 December 2010 • outer
tags: drugs, fiction, freedom, live, quotes, television, tv series
I’ve always been a TV addict, at least in certain sense. Once T. W. Adorno said “I love to go to the movies. What I hate are the images on the screen”, and I could say something similar. I love to watch tv. What I hate are the images on the screen… and the shows… and the stories… and… and… and… In fact, the last time that my TV was switched on was on July, and it wasn’t even me who turned it on.
Anyway, the truth is that I watch a lot of TV, but just TV series. I’ve never been really interested in reality shows, sports, the news, documentaries, etc. I only like TV ‘fiction’ —everything is fiction, of course, but that’s another story.
In the last years, TV series have change a lot, now they are much more explicit, and even daring, but there are some TV series that most people see as quite extreme or ambiguous that in fact are really moralist and reactionary. Take Dexter, for example, in which the hero is a serial killer. This may sound radical for a mainstream TV show, but the truth is that Dexter is an avenger who takes the law into his own hands (a typical topic in American TV series and films). This idea is anything but new, it’s pretty lame and right-winger.
Some friends have discussed with me about Dexter because they don’t agree with me, but in one of the last episodes one of the main characters of the season (a girl who has been brutally raped) make this statement:
“I had imagined a totally different life for myself too. I always did everything by the book, you know? Go, go, go. Never stopped to think. There was high school and college and graduate school… Owen. We were gonna get married at the house that I grew up in. On my wedding day, I tried on the dress, and I looked out the window at the backyard where the aisle was, and I saw everything that that aisle was leading to, babies and matching dinnerware. Sunday barbecues. And I couldn’t breathe. I had to get out of there and find something more. Then everything happened, and I actually thought, this is what I get for trying to live my own life.”
And the moral of the story is… O_O I can’t believe what she is saying! When I watched that episode I remembered another statement from Misfits, a British TV series:
“We’re young. We’re supposed to drink too much. We’re supposed to have bad attitudes and shag each other’s brains out. We are designed to party. This is it. Yeah, so a few of us will overdose or go mental, but Charles Darwin said you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. And that’s what it’s all about, breaking eggs! And by eggs, I do mean, getting twatted on a cocktail of class As. If you could just see yourselves! It breaks my heart. You’re wearing cardigans! We had it all. We fucked up bigger and better than any generation that came before us. We were so beautiful! We’re screw-ups. I’m a screw-up and I plan to be a screw-up until my late 20s, maybe even my early 30s. And I will shag my own mother before I let her or anyone else take that away from me!”
And the moral of the story is… Misfits is funny, cheeky and politically incorrect, Dexter NO!
This painting is not available in your country
8 November 2010 • outer
tags: capitalism, control, criticism, freedom, painting, politics
By Paul Mutant.
Readability
9 September 2010 • outer
tags: sight
I read a lot on the Internet and we all know that it’s not exactly comfortable, but I’ve found a really useful tool named Readability that removes the clutter and changes the layout of the page to something more nice to the sight. Try it, it works quite well!
Haunted Mind
3 August 2010 • outer
tags: documentaries, earth, electricity, hallucinations, nature, perception
“Broadcaster Don Hill saw and felt a chilling apparition in the basement of his house. The house had reportedly been haunted for years, driving out many occupants. A four-year odyssey to discover the truth behind the ghostly encounters turned up some startling new science which suggests that weak electromagnetic fields, naturally occurring in the environment, are responsible for stimulating mystical experiences, UFO reports and especially, ghostly entities and poltergeist phenomena.”
This quote talks about a documentary entitled Haunted House, Haunted Mind that I haven’t watch. I”m not interested in ghosts, UFOs and paranormal phenomena, but I’m interested in electromagnetic fields and mystical experiences, so maybe it’s worth to remember this film.
Self Portrait as a Drowned Man
25 July 2010 • outer
tags: body, capitalism, criticism, death, fiction, humour, politics, ruin, statements, truth
“This photograph, shot in 1840 and titled Self Portrait as a Drowned Man, is not of a drowned man, and if it had been it would be far less interesting or important. This humble image, so far as anyone knows, can claim all of the following honorifics- First instance of intentional photographic fakery. First photographic practical joke. First use of a photograph as propaganda / protest. And, quite possibly, a result of the world’s first reliable photographic process, direct positive or otherwise.” [read complete text at the nonist]
Endless rain
15 December 2009 • 2 comments outer
tags: rain, sound
I’ve always been obsessed with rain, maybe just because I’m from a place where rain is something quite usual, even in summer. Anyway, I think that rain is really soothing and beautiful, and let’s no forget that it cleans the air, especially in urban environments —if you live in a city, like me, I’m sure you are aware of that.
Some time ago a friend sent me a link to a record, the Endless Rain Record, that plays the sound of rain endlessly and right now I was thinking about it, maybe because I miss the rain. The idea is by Kyouei Design and I love it!