~ the evolution of dreams ~
February 27, 2007,6:20 p.m.
di.fm & other things
i've been listening to the "chillout" stream on di.fm for a while and i really enjoy it. the ads are far and few between and the music choice is pretty good for the most part.
today i was surfing the web and found an interesting article on kottke.org that i posted to my facebook profile. the article focuses on the creation of the new term "hyperlink cinema" - where the term came from, what it means, its context, and representation. most of the films mentioned in relation to hyperlink cinema are films i've seen and been fascinated with, primarily because they remind me of the very forward-thinking, globally-focused, most truly creative writer i've met (between the covers of a book) for a long while: david mitchell. if you've got time and are game to start a new novel, start ghostwritten. it's mitchell's first book, and it's a masterpiece.
examples of hyperlink cinema for those of you who are wondering:
crash
babel
syriana
memento
you get the idea. interlocking web-like narrative.
hey, it was only a matter of time :)
P.S. we bought toys for the cats we are looking after shortly after they arrived - a long fleece string on a plastic rod and four squeaky mice. one of the cats loves the mice and plays with them for hours before hiding them. i suddenly realized (after retrieving said mice from under the couch, his favourite place to hide them) that he's really on to something. because after i retrieve the mice, it's like he's getting a present ALL OVER AGAIN.
pay attention to the cats, people. pay attention to the cats.
haaaaaahahahahaha no i am NOT going to hide my mac on myself. are you crazy?!
if i don't get any more suggestions it's gonna be macbaby.
i'm just sayin'.
today i was surfing the web and found an interesting article on kottke.org that i posted to my facebook profile. the article focuses on the creation of the new term "hyperlink cinema" - where the term came from, what it means, its context, and representation. most of the films mentioned in relation to hyperlink cinema are films i've seen and been fascinated with, primarily because they remind me of the very forward-thinking, globally-focused, most truly creative writer i've met (between the covers of a book) for a long while: david mitchell. if you've got time and are game to start a new novel, start ghostwritten. it's mitchell's first book, and it's a masterpiece.
examples of hyperlink cinema for those of you who are wondering:
crash
babel
syriana
memento
you get the idea. interlocking web-like narrative.
hey, it was only a matter of time :)
P.S. we bought toys for the cats we are looking after shortly after they arrived - a long fleece string on a plastic rod and four squeaky mice. one of the cats loves the mice and plays with them for hours before hiding them. i suddenly realized (after retrieving said mice from under the couch, his favourite place to hide them) that he's really on to something. because after i retrieve the mice, it's like he's getting a present ALL OVER AGAIN.
pay attention to the cats, people. pay attention to the cats.
haaaaaahahahahaha no i am NOT going to hide my mac on myself. are you crazy?!
if i don't get any more suggestions it's gonna be macbaby.
i'm just sayin'.
February 26, 2007,5:30 p.m.
alrighty readers
sappho needs a name for her snazzy new mac (aside from macbaby).
scintillating suggestions welcome.
remember: the mac. it's beautiful.
scintillating suggestions welcome.
remember: the mac. it's beautiful.
Labels: mac
February 20, 2007,2:45 p.m.
essay
Gifts, on the other hand, are reciprocal, and also emotionally loaded: market exchanges move through the bank account, gifts through the heart. Where the gift circulates, spiritual life flourishes. All societies exist in both economies, says Hyde, but each tends to value one economy over the other. Our own society has overemphasized the market and denied the gift, and the result is stagnant wealth on the one hand and spiritual death and material poverty on the other.
Labels: essay
,1:44 p.m.
article (kind of)
February 13, 2007,1:39 p.m.
thought from sappho
a country without artists is a country without its soul.
Labels: thoughts from my brain
February 7, 2007,7:01 a.m.
grin
Have you ever seen the Iliad? People who read the whole book are people who do not own televisions, and those people are probably the same people who think it is uncivilized to talk about boogers. Very sad people.
i am one of those people.
Labels: too funny
February 5, 2007,7:32 p.m.
wow
these are amazing. and addictive.
click to select the panoramas you want to see of the moon - there are a bunch you can choose from. (via kottke.org)
click to select the panoramas you want to see of the moon - there are a bunch you can choose from. (via kottke.org)
Labels: links