Kris Lane is conscious

Fake Film Fest - Requiem for a Dream (in 60 seconds…with puppets)

TAIL TO TAIL

“ Had Jarvis written his book as self-parody—as a cunning attack on the narrow-mindedness of new media academics who trade in pronouncements so pompous, ahistorical, and vacuous that even the nastiest of post-modernists appear lucid and sensible in comparison—it would have been a remarkable accomplishment. But alas, he is serious. This is a book that should have stayed a tweet.

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The Internet Intellectual | The New Republic

Brillliant.

“ It used be that the Japanese offered idiosyncratic takes on foreign things. White bread was transformed into shokupan, a Platonic ideal of fluffiness, aerated and feather-light in a way that made Wonder Bread seem dense. Foreign imports here took on a life of their own, becoming something completely different and utterly Japanese.

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“ The biggest problem with DVD and YouTube exposure is that it has damaged the skill of learning through asking, and it has created the mistaken assumption, perhaps, that all knowledge and all wisdom is available to buy. There’s so much difference between those two acts, because asking involves a human experience, while buying is just sitting in your coach and passively absorbing countless secrets that you think constitute magic.

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The Internet makes magic disappear

I still believe in magic.

“ It seems to me that art has to be ritually separated from life in order to be art, so to talk about it as anything more than a mirror seems problematic.

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Mike Kelley

Strangely prophetic.

/via hydeordie

We worked with the dudes at Sons on the development of silotheatre.co.nz, my favourite page is still the 404. Bonus points if you can name the Resene colour.

Theatre is rad.

Austra is channeling Kate Bush and I like it.

Red Sky at Night is an accumulating installation that changes each day over the course of the exhibition through the addition of new material. On day 1 a set of helium-filled balloons, with hand-cut cardboard letters H-O-P-E suspended below them on ribbons are installed in a line against the ceiling. This first set of balloons will stay trapped up against the ceiling through the hours of the gallery openingm, until after 8 hours or so they lose a little helium and start drifting from the ceiling. By next morning the first batch of balloons and letters are all on the floor, most likely immediately below the place where they were installed.

The answer is being conscious of the time spent on screens versus the time spent on ourselves.

/via Accepting Less to Have More

“ The less engaged I become with social media, the more it begins to feel like huffing the exhaust of other people’s digital lives. It’s a bit of a weird situation: all that’s needed is a simple filter to prioritize manually posted content over automated messages.

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Weekly Dispatch: Week 1

Retraining yourself to digest media on your own terms rather than a pavlovian torrent is a key modern life skill.