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Discoveries, cross references, linx and the flow. Optimizing the randomness, Surfing the accelerated serendipity.
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The Biggest VideoMapping Ever by SIEDEMZERO™

from Pawel Piotr Przybyl PLUS  3 months ago  / Creative Commons License: by nc nd NOT YET RATED

iMapp 555 Bucharest 3D Video-Mapping by SIEDEMZERO™ 

This is one of the biggest mapping in the word.  Location: Bucharest, Romania 2014

1 building 104 projectors 100.000 people 2.000.0000 ansilumens

More info: siedemzero.com Join me on: facebook.com/siedemzerocom

Concept, Directing, Main Animation: Paweł Piotr Przybył Few Animations: Błażej Górnicki Soundtrack: Michał Rębacz

Saturday, 20th of September, at the Palace of Parliament take place, starting with 23:00, “iMapp Bucharest 555”, a video-mapping multimedia show, unique in Europe, in which 5 shows of 5 minutes and 55 seconds will be projected on the façade of the “People’s House” (the second largest building in the world after the Pentagon). Artists teams from France, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Romania will participate at “iMapp Bucharest 555”.

The project is organized by the Bucharest General Municipality, through creart and emphasizes a complex 3D image, that brings to life through forms and colours the surface of the building, using each architectonic element in order to personalize and reinvent the huge area of the construction, approximately 20 000 square meters. Thus, the shape of the building becomes the star of a dynamic show of sound, colour and light.

other Participants:

The Macula (Czech Republic) themacula.com

MaxIn10sity (Hungary) maxin10sity.com

Les Ateliers Nomad (Romania) lesateliersnomad.com

Damien Fontaine (France) damienfontaine.com

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Forbidden Activities for Neglected Children celebrates the wonderful grotesquery of the late 1970s  Forbidden Activities for Neglected Children by Skinner Last Gasp 2014, 36 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 0.2 inches (paperback) $9 Buy a copy on Amazon

Here is a snapshot of my room in 1979: A box of Warren horror magazines, with assorted outliers such as Psycho and Scream; a stack of Dungeons & Dragons books, including some of the earlier supplements such as Eldritch Wizardry; a shelf displaying various Aurora monster models; a bookshelf holding any number of supernatural and horror short story anthologies; and my beloved but completely dog-eared copy of A Pictorial History of Horror Movies by Denis Gifford. Imagine then, the goings on in my adolescent mind, or for that matter, the mind of most of my friends as well. It was the era of weirdness, sometimes of the most gruesome variety, where monsters even made it onto cereal boxes and Vincent Price was the spokesperson for a toy with instructions on making apples look like shrunken heads. I didn’t think there was ever a way to capture the true spirit of this time. Even Ozzy Osbourne was merely a symptom of some greater demiurge that had possessed pubescent consciousness. Who would imagine it could be so brilliantly celebrated in the form of a coloring book? Leave it to Last Gasp Press to publish such an abysmal tome. And I say that with all the love I can muster.

Forbidden Activities for Neglected Children by the artist known only as Skinner has somehow channeled an entire gestalt into a slight but richly dense book of insanely detailed drawings, mazes, and “activities” (such as Choose a New Mom, where you must pick from a selection of horrible demon creatures). Skinner references every part of a late 1970s/early 1980s childhood, from D&D to Mad Max to rock and roll album covers to skateboards. On every page is a wonderful grotesquery, subverting some of the more beloved and precious moments from the time, such as E.T. and She Ra. Pentagrams, demons, and battle axes abound. But there is nothing here offensive or exploitive. If anything, it’s an honest portrayal of how bat-shit crazy some of the pop culture artifacts from that era really were. It’s also a reminder of how, despite the luridness of it all, it was mostly innocent fun. A perfect gift for the middle-aged weirdo in your life, Forbidden Activities will have them digging out their old monster magazines to scare their own children with. – Peter Bebergal December 12, 2014

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Mood Lighting in the Vegas Cube: William Gibson’s Zero History By Scott Dickensheets

Las Vegas Review of Books

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Gibson likes his stories to unfold in environments like that, too — hermetic spaces, every element deeply conceived, exactingly controlled. Consider the quiet virtuosity of a passing detail like this, the stairs in a London boutique hotel: “marbled in shades of aged honey, petroleum jelly and nicotine.” Not on any color wheel you’ll find in the Lowe’s paint department, yet eerily perfect.

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mAXiNe's bIRTHdAy 2010

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20 from the Tao te Ching

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

What difference between yes and no?

What difference between success and failure?

Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid?

How ridiculous!

Other people are excited, as though they were at a parade.

I alone don't care, I alone am expressionless, like an infant before it can smile.

Other people have what they need; I alone possess nothing.

I alone drift about, like someone without a home.

I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.

Other people are bright; I alone am dark.

Other people are sharper; I alone am dull.

Other people have a purpose;I alone don't know.

I drift like a wave on the ocean, I blow as aimless as the wind.

I am different from ordinary people. I drink from the Great Mother's breasts.

Tags: 20, don't care, don't know, empty, expressionless, idiot, need, nothing, smile, tao te ching

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14. The Detached One Other people are excited, as though they were at a parade. I alone don't care, I alone am expressionless, like an infant before it can smile. The Taoist sage seems strangely detached. He functions unconstrained by his own emotions. He knows that his own observations, emotions, thoughts, concepts and judgements are just ripples on the mind's surface, inconstant and perpetually changing. He realizes that the mind can only reflect compassion clearly - like a tranquil pool the perfect moon - when it has become free of the ripples of thoughts and emotions. Acts of mercy are not acts of passion to him: they come as naturally to him as sneezing or falling asleep. Therefore you can rely totally on the sage: his mercy is not dependent on his emotional state, his affinity or aversion to an object, what he believes or any thoughts that might be disturbing the tranquility of his mind. In a world of inconstancy and illusion, his compassion is constant and real.

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vasty yearning pix by minh

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Yearning

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine de St. Exupery

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Adolescence

And now EMJ's moment.

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Adolescence

They are babies, then children for a long time then that glorious transition - adolesence. Each one passes thru an intensley poetic moment and here are two moments JMJ's moment & EMJ's moment. JMJ first.