Tue
31
Aug '10
Thu
26
Aug '10
Mon
23
Aug '10
Sat
21
Aug '10
“ We are bored when we dont know what we’re waiting for. That we do know, or think we know, is nearly always the expression of our superficiality or inattention. Boredom is the threshold to great deeds. —Now, it would be important to know: What is the dialectical antithesis to boredom?
— The Arcades Project, p. 105
Fri
20
Aug '10
“ To leave without being forced in any way, and to follow your inspiration as if the mere fact of turning left or right already constituted an essentially poetic act…
— Edmond Jaloux, “Le Dernier Flaneur,” Le Temps (May 22, 1936) - via The Arcades Project
Thu
19
Aug '10
“ …you are continuously bombarding yourself with a stream of other people’s thoughts. You are marinating yourself in the conventional wisdom. In other people’s reality: for others, not for yourself.
— Solitude and leadership (http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/) (via Instapaper)
Wed
18
Aug '10
“ [T]he site as a whole is really about structuring data around these gadgets cast as social objects.
Tue
17
Aug '10
“ But the real interface for Second Life (and the MUDs that preceded SL) is the mind, not the computer, and Second Life is all about building imaginary worlds where you can live alternate lives and share them with other people.
— Tor.com - Thinking about Inception: You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling // Written by Mitch Wagner, one of my favorite San Diegans
“ But no artist who relies on passion alone is ever going to create meaningful work, it turns out. The world of personal inspiration is sealed to the outside. In the movie, Mal — the symbol of inspiration — says this directly to Ariadne: “Do you know what it is to be a lover? Half of a whole?
“ The researchers found that when the two people communicate, neural activity over wide regions of their brains becomes almost synchronous, with the listener’s brain activity patterns mirroring those sweeping through the speaker’s brain, albeit with a short lag of about one second. If the listener, however, fails to comprehend what the speaker is trying to communicate, their brain patterns decouple.
“ What these experiments reveal is the essential mental process of movie-watching. It’s a process in which your senses are hyperactive and yet your self-awareness is strangely diminished.
“ In a dream your mind continuously does that… It creates and perceives a world simultaneously. So well that you don’t feel your brain doing the creating.
— Dom Cobb, Inception
Wed
11
Aug '10
“ Even though they were forced to separate from mom and not be such a baby and grow a pair and be a man and not cry like a girl and man up and not be gay and like football and be a hardass, they can still feel mother love in every woman’s smile, no matter who the hell she is.
