Watchings

24 October 2010 • watchings
tags: animals, brain, cinema, comedy, conscience, death, documentaries, drugs, fantasy, fiction, hallucinations, killers, love, mathematics, murder, music, nature, particles, perception, politics, science, sound, space, television, time, tv series

• Fringe, Seasons 1-2 (2008-2010)
J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci

• Человек с киноаппаратом / Man with a Movie Camera (1929) [watch]
Dziga Vertov

• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly

• The Ghost Writer (2010)
Roman Polanski

• El Abecedario de Gilles Deleuze. A de Animal (1988) [watch]

• Some Like It Hot (1959)
Billy Wilder

• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Sidney Lumet

Lobe

15 October 2010 • out of context
tags: cinema, language, love, quotes

—40,000 years of human language and there’s no word to describe our relationship.

The Ghost Writer by Roman Polanski

Watchings

20 September 2010 • watchings
tags: cinema, earth, fiction, love, music, television, tv series, vampires

• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Nicolas Roeg

• The Pirate (1948)
Vincente Minnelli

• True Blood, Season 3 (2010)
Allan Ball

• Sons of Anarchy, Seasons 1-2 (2008-2009)
Kurt Sutter

• Misfits, Season 1 (2009)
Howard Overman

Undo is not about love

7 September 2010 • out of context
tags: books, love, meaning, quotes

“(…) undo is not about love, but simply a relationship of convenience. Power is equally balanced between experience and user such that neither side has the upper hand. There can be no relationship of depth because every interaction can be completely rewound to the beginning. Thus commitment is rendered meaningless when for every action, there is a corresponding un-action. In contrast to the trusting relationship with a Master, the power of undo results in a feeling of simplicity that is rooted in not having to care at all. Although there is something morally sad about this interpretation, undo is not the enemy. Embrace undo as a rational partner in maintaining the many complex relationships with the objects in your environment. But put the undo button away when dealing with real people if possible.”

The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda

Aichaku

31 August 2010 • out of context
tags: books, consumism, etymology, love, perception, quotes, senses

“Aichaku is the Japanese term for the sense of attachment one can feel for an artifact. When written by its two kanji characters, you can see that the first character means “love” and the second one means “fit”. “Love-fit” describes a deeper kind of emotional attachment that a person can feel for an object. It is a kind of symbiotic love for an object that deserves affection not for what it does, but for what it is.”

The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda

Listenings

6 August 2010 • listenings
tags: live, love, music, nihilism, noise, phonography, sound

• Acid In The Style Of David Tudor (2009)
Florian Hecker

• Madrid Soundscape & Soinu Mapa (2010) [listen]
Pablo Sanz & Mikel R. Nieto

• Decisions (2010) [listen]
Stable Mechanism

• Directed By (2010) [listen]
Stable Mechanism

• Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
Nine Inch Nails

• Armageddon Gigolo (2006)
Spiritual Front

• Let Love In (1994)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Le corps utopique

2 August 2010 • out of context
tags: body, books, love, quotes, senses, sex, texts

“Peut-être faudrait-il dire aussi que faire l’amour, c’est sentir son corps se refermer sur soi, c’est enfin exister hors de toute utopie, avec toute sa densité, entre les mains de l’autre. Sous les doigts de l’autre qui vous parcourent, toutes les parts invisibles de votre corps se mettent à exister, contre les lèvres de l’autre les vôtres deviennent sensibles, devant ses yeux mi-clos votre visage acquiert une certitude, il y a un regard enfin pour voir vos paupières fermées. L’amour, lui aussi, comme le miroir et comme la mort, apaise l’utopie de votre corps, il la fait taire, il la calme, il l’enferme comme dans une boîte, il la clôt et il la scelle. C’est pourquoi il est si proche parent de l’illusion du miroir et de la menace de la mort; et si malgré ces deux figures périlleuses qui l’entourent, on aime tant faire l’amour, c’est parce que dans l’amour le corps est ici.”

Le corps utopique by Michel Foucault

Le vide-ordure automatique

25 July 2010 • out of context
tags: love, mankind, quotes, situationism, texts

“Entre l’amour et le vide-ordure automatique la jeunesse de tous les pays a fait son choix et préfère le vide-ordure.”

Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau by Gilles Ivain

Listenings

9 December 2009 • listenings
tags: love, music, noise, sound

• Love & Noise (1996)
C.C.C.C.

• Pulse Demon (1996)
Merzbow

• Blackest Ever Black (2007)
Haswell & Hecker

• Function Generator (2003)
Zbigniew Karkowski / Xopher Davidson

• 0.0004 (1999)
KK Null

• Das Album (1997)
Pentax