AKQA. jingle bell, microwave.

the idea is great, and the short video is edited well. Made by design firm: AKQA. check them out.

pulse

pulse from Markus Kison on Vimeo.

Feed the World. Pictures of Starving People

“In 1986, the anarchist band Chumbawamba released the album Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records, as well as an EP entitled "We Are the World", jointly recorded with US band A State of Mind, both of which were intended as anti-capitalist critiques of the Band Aid/Live Aid phenomenon. They argued that the record was primarily a cosmetic spectacle, designed to draw attention away from the real political causes of world hunger.”

interface face

torture dream

Live video chat by Ustream

no such thing as clean coal

watch me dream

posting a live feed of me sleeping...  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/watchmedream come watch

bars and tones

Bars & Tones from André F. Chocron on Vimeo.

song for the holidays

Becoming Dragon. First Video Posted

translation

images like this fascinate me.

Nice Video

"Nice clean white" by DaBrainkilla

Nice Clean White from DaBrainkilla on Vimeo.

Shoot an Iraqi: the paintball project

check out this performance. Wafaa Bilal (an iraqi), locks himself in his studio for 30 days and lets people shoot him with a paintball gun, over the internet. During the time, he got fired at 80,000 times... go to youtube to see more of the project. Or go to his website.

target women: jewelry.

/target_women_jewelry video

Bertolt Brecht poems:

How Fortunate The Man WIth None:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/how-fortunate-the-man-with-none/

Mack the Knife: (also a really good song covered by many)...

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mack-the-knife/

On the Critical Attitude:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-critical-attitude/

I want to go with the one i Love:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-want-to-go-with-the-one-i-love/

there's probably a better page with more of his poems, but these are some i came across. I read about him along with some other Russian dude who i will make a post about in the near future.

no hell

I watched a documentary on the development of the devil through human history. After discussing it with a friend we realized our image of 'terror' resembles the image that was held of 'the satan' in the Dark Ages. As 'the satan' became Satan it's image changed from that of wolf at the door to imp in the bushes, and the church was the one to thank. Soon enough the church with it's infinite powers of control gave birth to ideals that still hold strong in our current understanding of the world. Women were burned at the stake and religions were made to destroy each other.

In the American and French revolutions, the romantic idea of Satan evolved as the cast out angel who stood against the tyrannical power of the god of the church. In the 70's this image revived itself in a psychedelic fashion (i.e. Benicio Del Toro in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). I fell asleep and didn't watch the end on the documentary but it was nice to realize the devil (like many things) has always been subject to our collective interpretation.

Clean

Dumpster Diving

Working on this with dancer friend Pheobe, we got some great footage. and the film will be posted soon. Keep on the lookout. It's a mesh between straight dumpstering (collecting fruit and veggies and loaves of bread), and more poetic movements of dance...

basically getting the images out there, to say, yes! you can just go over to the grocery store nearest you and pull out some perfectly good chomps from the dumpster out back... they basically throw this food out because it is passed the sell-by date. however the "best-by" date is often weeks later. more on this to come. but if you have any dumpster diving stories you'd like to share, please do.

Join the cause against Iran???

Crazy ads, for one reason or another. Been taking screenshots of these historical moments of web surfing. Documenting...

Portraits

San Diego City Beat, Becoming Dragon Press!

Heres is a link to the
Sd CityBeat Article about the becoming dragon performance.

results of work

is there a place i should go
to feel better about what i'm seeing?
what's some sort of exit strategy to lift
what is becoming habitual
or routine
away from my senses without being planned
or schemed
?
i'd think it'd be easier to keep breathing
than think
and i'd think it'd be easier to keep floating
than sink,
but i really don't know anything...
it's only monday, december eighth
at nine fourteen PM.
what do i know now
that i could tell myself in ten minutes
or ten years?
what do i know that's got more to say
than a jar full of blood, sweat, and tears
?

elephantom in the room

i marvel at the universe
unfolding upon itself;
my eyelids wrinkle
into waves.
i clear the looking glass
with clouds soaked heavy
from gentle fawning
just breathhhs.
watch man be dragon
watch man be woman
watch man lick his own ass.
(in the silence that is yesterday
lives your reputation today).
if not
you go on blindly
assuming we have nothing
better to watch.

happy flights fill the mind
of a man with two sets of sunglasses
sitting in room-red
imagining what's it like dead.

17, 21

Dylan poems:

17:

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/09/22/080922po_poem_dylan1


21:

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/09/22/080922po_poem_dylan2

for big eyes only

watch a couple times maybe

Becoming Dragon

performance going on now... stop by, in real life or second...

bank of america protecting Appalachia?

Today, BofA released its revised coal policy, which will have the immediate effect of curtailing commercial lending to companies that mine coal by blowing off the top of mountains. The policy states, in part:

Bank of America is particularly concerned about surface mining conducted through mountain top removal in locations such as central Appalachia. We therefore will phase out financing of companies whose predominant method of extracting coal is through mountain top removal. While we acknowledge that surface mining is economically efficient and creates jobs, it can be conducted in a way that minimizes environmental impacts in certain geographies.


does this really mean anything? perhaps...

read more here

Text message visualizations, new years eve peak

Amsterdam SMS messages on New Years Eve from Aaron on Vimeo.

The video above captures the number of SMS messages sent from Amsterdam in the run up to New Years Eve. With data supplied by KPN Telcom you can see the city almost breath over time with a huge peak at the cross over to New Years Day. (from digitalurban.blogspot.com)

respect

his logic was flawless. and we all caught a glimpse of a better life.

Becoming dragon project is up and running.

this is me in second life. working with the dragon...

now

I was working hard to get together all this stuff. was going to apply to graduate school for next fall. and then one conversation reminded me why i was going to wait.
so i will not apply, although, i have all this stuff ready to publish, so i'll be putting together a new website soon. \
what else.
oh yes. nothing.

on wooster

saw this on woostercollective.com and liked it....