Ministry of Truth

billyjane: Artists in Action:Duchamp,checkmate

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:55:41 +0000

billyjane:

Artists in Action:Duchamp,checkmate

tsparks: nevver: D A N G E R Burroughs

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:43:14 +0000

tsparks:

nevver:

D A N G E R Burroughs

Humberto Luis Schenone “Patagonia” From the netlabel Clinical...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:28:03 +0000

Humberto Luis Schenone “Patagonia”

From the netlabel Clinical Archives release, Soltar … Saltar

A CD created as pictures of historical moments, readings, trips, and neighbours’ bad customs that should be legally punished. All tracks composed, played & recorded by Humberto Luis Schenone; recorded at ‘Living Records Studios’ Buenos Aires, Argentina

Humberto Luis Schenone was born in the British Hospital of Buenos Aires, September 1955. Since his childhood had some school trouble for his pleasure of beating over anything making “candombe-batucada”. But first steps in music were in his teens singing and playing guitar in folk and rock groups. Dedicated to other kind of professional activities after university years and to study Spanish guitar with jazz & tango player Claudio Gomez.

But it was many years later, in 1990, when he assumed his role as percussionist in music, after different periods travelling and living in Brazil. He settled in a house 30 kms away from Buenos Aires where he built his first “percussion-room” and started his studies of afro-american rhythms. His teachers in the art of percussion were Bam Bam Miranda, Abdoulaye Badiane, Ricky Olarte, Pocho Porteño, Hugo Nuñez among others. He has been part of several bands related with afro-percussion, bossa nova, samba, salsa, rock, south-american folk, tango, etc.

Nowadays, again living in B.A., works on his solo project collections: “Human Tracks”, “The Rhythms of Life I & II”, “Human Fights”, etc. and participates as guest musician in different groups. —Clinical Archives

Other Humberto’s albums at Clinical Archives:

“Um Perto”
“Heq”
“The Rhythms Of Life”
“Human Fights = Human Rights I”

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Man Ray | Laboratory of the Future 1935. Gelatin silver print,...

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:27:31 +0000

Man Ray | Laboratory of the Future

1935. Gelatin silver print, 9 1/16 x 7” (23.1 x 17.8 cm). Gift of James Johnson Sweeney. © 2009 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris/MoMA

Thanks to billyjane and i12Bent for keeping the dash full of Man Ray

hewhocannotbenamed: The Cream of the Crop

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:14:59 +0000

hewhocannotbenamed:

The Cream of the Crop

"A time of testing has come for us all. We must believe everything or deny everything. And who among..."

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:45:52 +0000

“A time of testing has come for us all. We must believe everything or deny everything. And who among you, I ask, would dare to deny everything?”

- Albert Camus, The Plague

"I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have..."

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:41:59 +0000

““I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can’t remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world’s still there. Do I believe the world’s still there? Is it still out there? … Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I’m no different.””

- Memento (2000)

clothedinsky: pleasedontsqueezetheshaman: “What if the primary...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:46:01 +0000

clothedinsky:

pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:

“What if the primary purpose of dreaming isn’t psychological at all?

In a paper published last month in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a psychiatrist and longtime sleep researcher at Harvard, argues that the main function of rapid-eye-movement sleep, or REM, when most dreaming occurs, is physiological. The brain is warming its circuits, anticipating the sights and sounds and emotions of waking.

“It helps explain a lot of things, like why people forget so many dreams,” Dr. Hobson said in an interview. “It’s like jogging; the body doesn’t remember every step, but it knows it has exercised. It has been tuned up. It’s the same idea here: dreams are tuning the mind for conscious awareness.”

Drawing on work of his own and others, Dr. Hobson argues that dreaming is a parallel state of consciousness that is continually running but normally suppressed during waking.

“I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses,” said Dr. Llinás, who makes the case in the book “I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self” (M.I.T., 2001). Once people are awake, he argued, their brain essentially revises its dream images to match what it sees, hears and feels — the dreams are “corrected” by the senses.

These novel ideas about dreaming are based partly on basic findings about REM sleep. In evolutionary terms, REM appears to be a recent development; it is detectable in humans and other warm-blooded mammals and birds. And studies suggest that REM makes its appearance very early in life — in the third trimester for humans, well before a developing child has experience or imagery to fill out a dream.

In studies, scientists have found evidence that REM activity helps the brain build neural connections, particularly in its visual areas. The developing fetus may be “seeing” something, in terms of brain activity, long before the eyes ever open — the developing brain drawing on innate, biological models of space and time, like an internal virtual-reality machine.

Researchers have a way to go before they can confirm or fill out this working hypothesis. But the payoffs could extend beyond a deeper understanding of the sleeping brain. People who struggle with schizophrenia suffer delusions of unknown origin. Dr. Hobson suggests that these flights of imagination may be related to an abnormal activation of a dreaming consciousness.”

(more at NYtimes)

From my experience there is much more to dreams, however, this is wonderful

(via astroinquiry)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:43:13 +0000

(via astroinquiry)

"The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the..."

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:35:23 +0000

“The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”

- Terence McKenna

"The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead..."

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:26:37 +0000

“The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.”

- Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums) (via shynessisnice)

astroinquiry: Lucien Freud stop to wonder

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:24:06 +0000

astroinquiry:

Lucien Freud stop to wonder

"Thinking … is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:10:22 +0000

“Thinking … is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas”

- Johann Wolfgang Goethe

"Addicted to the flux, addicted to the acceptance and subsequent rejection of powerful ideas."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:38:33 +0000

“Addicted to the flux, addicted to the acceptance and subsequent rejection of powerful ideas.”

Belief that the universe is governed is a form of faith… therefore science is not free of...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:35:00 +0000

Belief that the universe is governed is a form of faith… therefore science is not free of faith

"For western culture, the best, the end of the path, is reaching the totality of the discourse. For..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:32:22 +0000

“For western culture, the best, the end of the path, is reaching the totality of the discourse. For buddha, the end of the path is reaching silence.”

- Luce Irigaray

"Dangerous moments are coming. Dangerous moments are always also a chance to do something. But in..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:26:29 +0000

“Dangerous moments are coming. Dangerous moments are always also a chance to do something. But in such dangerous moments, you have to think, you have to try to understand. And today obviously all the predominant narratives — the old liberal-left welfare state narrative; the post-modern third-way left narrative; the neo-conservative narrative; and of course the old standard Marxist narrative — they don’t work. We don’t have a narrative. Where are we? Where are we going? What to do? You know, we have these stupid elementary questions: Is capitalism here to stay? Are there serious limits to capitalism? Can we imagine a popular mobilization outside democracy? How should we properly react to ecology? What does it mean, all the biogenetic stuff? How to deal with intellectual property today? Things are happening. We don’t have a proper approach. It’s not only that we don’t have the answers. We don’t even have the right question.”

- Slavoj Zizek

"Madness is confusion of levels of fact… . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels."

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:40:21 +0100

“Madness is confusion of levels of fact… . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.”

- William Burroughs

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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:51:57 +0100

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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:49:55 +0100