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Archive for August, 2010
This Bear Loves Cocaine
Posted in awesome, tagged Bear, Cocaine, Grizzly, Love, Snow on August 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »
He’s Just One Man- The Blackstar Warrior
Posted in awesome, Film, tagged Blackstar Warrior, Lando Calrissian, Star Wars on August 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
RSA Animate- Slavoj Zizek on “Soft Apocalyptic Vision”
Posted in Art, Comics, Film, tagged right brain/left brain, Roland Emmerich, RSA Animations, Slavoj Zizek on August 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I love these. Philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues against the ethics of charitable giving, which I don’t fully agree with, but the method of communication of these videos is fantastic. If all dry economic philosophy talks were this fun, we’d be much more savvy. I can’t find the artist’s name anywhere (who, I think, is the real unsung hero of the pieces), but they’re all pretty great, and keep getting better. Zizek’s argument about an impending world-wide cultural “zero point” is simply ‘declared’ and barely touched upon, but I think it’s salient- in many ways, we as a planet are heading towards a point where old answers don’t seem to be enough. This, to me, is a point for optimism, not fear- using the phrase “turning point” versus “apocalyptic vision” would be my choice.
But then again, I’m not a big Roland Emmerich fan. I think anyone who uses the idea of the world ending to scare up box office seems a bit ethically dubious, to me.
Imagine this as a sort of note-taking- what if students all learned “comix” as a second-language, as a device for retention. I read somewhere that the Army uses comics to illustrate a number of sensitive training points, as comics (and, I would assume, this form of dense-animation-comics hybrid) apparently engages both the right and left side of the brains, leading to faster neural connections (that last part is my own b.s. hypothesis- disregard as necessary).
Either way, these are great, keep ’em coming, RSA.
Joe Henry is Fearsome
Posted in Art, awesome, Creativity, Music, tagged God Only Knows, Joe Henry, Ornette Coleman, Richard Pryor on August 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The world is always beautiful/when it’s seen in full retreat
The worst of life is beautiful/as it slips away in full retreat
And then, of course, there’s Ornette Coleman’s viciously brilliant solo on “Richard Pryor Addresses a Tearful Nation,” one of those songs that made me pull my car over the first time I heard it. The walk-down after the “squeal” crescendo makes me depressed every time I hear it. Simply masterful.
This man hasn’t released a bad album yet- they’re just varying degrees of incredible.
Kenwoode 
