Minimalist Portraits of Cultural Icons

so sick

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/07/28/noma-bar-guess-who/

Noma bar is awesome:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/03/29/noma-bar-negative-space/

(thanks brainpickings)

Brief Conversation with David Foster Wallace

Or rather, with my interpretation of one of his quotes:

re: Sklaroff wall post

good job, but there's still something troubling about it

like, why does one throw one's entire self

rather than like, most of it

it's a suicide of a different type in that sense

if you give all of yourself to something

there's nothing left

hella selfless, I suppose

me

yeah

Zak

perhaps virtuous

in that sense

me

i mean i'm willing to go far as to say the self isn't really anything but a conglomeration of ones interactions with society or w/e

all existence is external

looking into the self one will not find much

that's why people get much happier helping other people (peace corps or w.e) than by helping themselves

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but ye in response to your response to my sklar comment

i guess what i mean is

there is no throwing 'most of ones self' into something

as long as you are not committing suicide

you are throwing your whole self into all of existence

whether thats just religion or like 5 things

doesn't change that fact

existence is all one anyways

human categories distinguish it

but once you say 'yes' to this moment,

you are saying yes to all of existence

does that make sense?

3:09 PM

Zak

i think i follow but maybe not that last "saying yes to the moment = yes to existence" bit

me

its the same thing as saying as long as you are not committing suicide
you are throwing your whole self into all of existence

Zak

and i kind of agree with the

you are what you do

you are what other people experience

me

and "existence is all one anyways"

there is only one binary

truth and nihilism

nihilism is a saying 'no' to the moment

Trippy/artsy vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRrhdnYNmM

why not throw in some other trippy vids:
https://www.facebook.com/wearealaya/videos/1414684821932940/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED (animation)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEUxlwb2uFI (animation)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhheiPTdZCw (animation)

http://vimeo.com/13137686 (animation, radiohead)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xr6uR3pLi8 (animation, benga)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGTynibJKB8 (ferrofluid)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4 (stop-motion wall-paint)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4RsU8RsvGg (music video, gets cool towards the end)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakKfY5aHmY (bird emerging consciousness)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9V11mTNonw (cymatic shapes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LOy2bL6ifk (akkord)

Captain Planet - Don Cheadle

holy LOLZ

http://www.laughspin.com/2011/08/31/video-don-cheadle-is-the-angriest-captain-planet-ever/

this is exactly the kind of stuff that restores my faith in humanity