A plane ride is always a bit of a surreal experience. What other form of transportation do you enter a world of suspended animation while the world blurs like the miles that pass beneath you? Please. Amsterdam-based architect James Leng, a.k.a. Ettubrute, chose to act on the sensation. He says, “On my night time flight [...]
Archive | March, 2010
The Infinite USB Port
You know you’ve done it, cursed the designers of your damn laptop for not having the sense to install enough USB ports for your numerous and multiplying peripherals: the wireless mouse, external hard drive, iPod, webcam, SD card reader, printer, etc. etc. etc., all greedily, relentlessly sucking up your USB slots. If you’ve been there, [...]
Music Matters Gives Nick Cave a Go
Music Matters is an organization that works to “reduce the negative environmental impact of music industry operations by working with artists, tours, venues, festivals and others to waste less, reduce emissions and spread the word.” They’ve recently brought musicians like Sigur Rós and Nick Cave on board to deliver their good message. Below is their [...]
The Figures of the Musée Mechanique
One of San Francisco’s most curious museums happens to be smack in the middle of its biggest tourist trap. Fortunately for us that doesn’t make it any less appealing. The museum itself houses the city’s oldest and largest collection of penny arcade automata (now inflated to the exorbitant rate of .25¢), each with their own [...]
The Strange and Tiny Worlds of Matthew Albanese
There are two ways to be a great nature photographer: have impeccable timing out in the field, or just make the damn thing yourself. These days you don’t have to leave your house in order to get what you want. Feeling hungry? Get it delivered. Want to capture some phenomenal nature photographs? Then make some [...]
Reggie Watts vs the Die Hard
Let me preface this by saying I am in no way promoting Die Hard batteries. I’m sure they have a quality product, superior even, but this post is purely to spotlight the goofy brilliance that is Reggie Watts. Here he is, with his hair in a supporting role, taking on a car battery, and winning. [...]
Gossamer
Twenty deft lines, as one sinuous neck, a feathered stroke and you dance around the oxbow, the milky night, the tangle of hard fought labor, the automatic run is anything but automatic. Taken May 9, 2009 inside the San Francisco Art Museum. © 10 Times One
Automatic Writing
South African artist William Kentridge takes a piece of chalk and with it creates an wormhole to the sublime. And so being, it’s hard not to be crushed by the emotional weight. In the early to mid 90s Kentridge released a series of stop motion animation films, like the one below, in which he draws, [...]
35 Scenes from the Coming Dystopia
I’ve always been a fan of having a dark and dystopic future, one where there’s chaos, war, massive guns, giant animal-like machines and a possible ringed planet looming overhead. Needless to say movies like Blade Runner and Tron were favorites growing up but something about that morbid feeling of impending Apocalypse, one that I of [...]
“Land of Plenty” by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen, one of music’s few true lyrical masters. Song and lyrics to “Land of Plenty” Don’t really have the courage. To stand where I must stand. Don’t really have the temperament, To lend a helping hand. Don’t really know who sent me To raise my voice and say: May the lights in The Land [...]
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