This month: Infinite Smile, Soul Made Flesh, the Global Consciousness Project, and Why God Won’t Go Away.
Centripetal Notion// archive
You are at the archive for the December, 2005
Holiday Music
The above photo is a water crystal that formed while listening to “O Holy Night”. You can get your own microscopic particles in the holiday spirit with SomaFM’s 24/7 “Xmas in Frisko” streaming internet broadcast.
And happy Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Winter Solstice/Festivus/etc.!
Dienststelle
Dienststelle is a label for the video/art works of Karl Kliem. I especially like the music videos done in partnership with Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto: “Berlin” and “Trioon I”. “The Lightening” with Photek and “FBAS Furniture” are also cool.
Electric Sheep
You can keep your molting pine needles, short-circuiting lights, and expensive fragile ornaments — my Christmas tree is a continuous display of cascading three-dimensional fractals and patterns that reproduce based on popularity, breeding an ever-growing royal family of finely tuned visuals — a tree in the purest form of the word.
William Shatner: Has Been
“After his rendition of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” on the infamous Golden Throats album (though it first appeared on the Transformed Man LP), one could argue that the world needed a new William Shatner album about as much as it needed a big-screen remake of TJ Hooker. But Shatner’s back all the same with an intriguing, introspective collection of mostly spoken-word tracks that are all the more compelling when it becomes clear that Has Been is, in fact, no joke.”
A qoui ça sert l’amour?
Stick figures in the heat of love. By Louis Clichy of Cube.
Monkey See …
“According to media accounts, Oliver had never been accepted by Burger’s other chimps and could not be trained to perform with them in their stage act. Instead, he preferred to walk on his hind legs, sit crosslegged on a chair, and help Burger’s wife, Janet, with the chores around the house. Oliver also made it clear that he fancied her. Not surprisingly, Janet issued her husband with an adamant proclamation concerning her pesky paramour: ‘I’m not putting up with this. He’s going or I’m going.’ So Oliver went [...]“
What The Bleep Do We Know!?
A documentary/story hybrid that follows a female photographer (played by Marlee Matlin) as mysteries of quantum physics and neuroscience unravel before her, forcing her to re-evaluate the fundamental premises of her life.
God Complex
Mitosis Marvin, meet Dimorphic Doug.
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