February 2012
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December 2011
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Will Neuroscience Ever Explain Art?
In a recent New York Times article, a philosopher and defender of art explains why the recent trend of scientists saying that art and its appreciation is entirely in the brain, thus an entirely understood neurological and physical phenomena, is bogus. I tend to agree with him. His very valid argument details how neuroscience has never given a full or satisfactory explanation for something as...
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November 2011
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It Will Come to Be
And now you see Apollo waiting for you on the pier Not sure where you came from or where to go from here You believe in love only when warm bodies touch and regardless of my fear The night can only be so much for you to own, my dear. The many who have fought and died for love are gone away Only those whose think they know where passion lies can stay The ones whose hopes and dreams can build...
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October 2011
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September 2011
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July 2011
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Fool Me, Moon
So I recently read something about the moon that is frankly, pretty hard to wrap your mind around! You know when the moon is directly overhead and it looks like a beautiful, bright moon?
Hm, yes, I seem to remember what that looks like.
Good. Now try to a remember a time when you looked over at the moon and it was brushing the horizon. It looked massive right? It looked like E.T. and Elliott...
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“Barnaby sat in the ripped leather chair, which in turn, sat by the back window,...”
– From the riveting new short story by Jordan Huxley, “Barnaby and Malone”, sure to be a best-seller in Singapore.
June 2011
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December 2010
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gnarly-snotts asked: jordy-pordy puddin' and pie!! (that's not right..)
you have a tumblr?! I miss you, my friend!
you have a tumblr?! I miss you, my friend!
November 2010
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Apple + Apple = The Beatles
Live at the Washington Coliseum, 1964
The Beatles’ entire studio catalog has finally been released on iTunes. Some say it’s the apocalypse, some say it’s the future. I say, these people were really excited to see the Beatles live. The girl below kind of captures the nervous excitement I would probably be feeling sitting there watching them perform (their first concert in...
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Groove, Toure
Ali Farka Toure, you groove my soul. Featured on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list, he was an African Blues master. But he made it sound so simple, so laid back, so easy. The Malian King of the Delta, he rock and rolled the river banks and smoothed the sand like so much butter with his soothing, raspy baritone. Listen to the song below, “Savane” off his...
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There Is Only 1 American
It’s Veterans Day. I do not like war. Few people do. But at times, it is necessary in the face of those who will not stand for anything but destruction and death.
Every generation has veterans. It’s been the case ever since the beginning of recorded history. As time passes, the veterans of individual wars fall out of existence. The wars themselves are forgotten. World War I happened...
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Would You Like To Teleport? →
Digitally, at least, it’s possible. You can look upon a street almost anywhere in the world now and see it how it was in the recent past. MapCrunch is a Google Maps roulette wheel that lands you at a random spot somewhere in the world. It’s like voyeurism for travel buffs. You can even hide the location browser, in case you want to do a little sherlocking and try to figure out where...
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No Original Glyphs
It was Barbara Grizzuti Harrison who said,
“There are no original ideas, only original people.”
She was a very attractive lady and writer of essays and autobiographical works, most popularly about growing up a Jehovah’s Witness. To an extant, our unoriginality stems from our common ancestry, the legacy of glyphs and symbols we all share. After all, there are limitless ideas, but we...
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Logo Centennial
I was wondering recently what the world would look like if logos never changed. Logos are, of course, glyphs (didn’t see that one coming did you?). But the glyph, like civilization, must grow and adapt to the times in which it finds itself, otherwise it will be rendered obsolete. It is an ever-morphing creature. So, in the mighty year of 2010, what do our beloved brands look like?
But if...