Institute for Psychic Reform
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
ghost dancers
Monday, February 9, 2009
A Bilingual Palindrome
Anger? ‘Tis safe never. Bar it! Use love.
Spell that backward and you get:
Evoles ut ira breve nefas sit; regna!
Which is Latin for:
Rise up, in order that your anger may be but a brief madness; control it!
gotta gut feeling...
That gut feeling may actually reflect a reliable memory
Considering that some scientists estimate that the human brain can calculate at the rate of 100 trillion bits per second* (some say more), intuition and even ‘psychic’ ability might very well be a product of this immense power of processing.
*Although computers can calculate at nearly the speed of light, they perform calculations one at a time. The brain, in comparison, calculates at a snail’s pace, but makes up for this by performing trillions of operations simultaneously.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Joachim Knill
quagmire (Polaroid 20x30)
Joachim Knill designed and built the world's largest portable instant film camera. His 20x30 Polaroids of "surreal installations" have a colorful, painterly quality to them that runs somewhat counter to what you would expect from this particular medium. His panoramas are decidedly more photographic, but no less interesting.
Although I enjoyed his work, it was the camera that hooked me.
Joachim and his camera
via everlasting blört
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by Destiny
Director: Daniel Eskils
Producer: Johan Junker
D.O.Ps: Erik Vallsten, Claes Helander
Stylist: Anja-Lisa Rudka
Captain Ahab: Richie Puzz
Eskils Junker Film
Slagsmålsklubben
via videos.antville.org
Happy Birthday Hammer!
Today’s History Lesson - Baseball Immortality, Four Bases at a Time:
Born in the midst of the Great Depression on February 5, 1934 and raised in poverty in a still-segregated South, Henry Aaron would rise to become a legendary superstar, a symbol of all that is good about the game of baseball, and a class act.
Great Balls of Fire!
Received this from my buddy Crow via email:
Verducci (in Joe Torre's new book) writes that Clemens’s usual pregame preparation included taking a whirlpool bath at the hottest temperature possible. “He’d come out looking like a lobster,” Yankee trainer Steve Donahue told Verducci. Donahue would then rub hot liniment all over Clemens’s body.
“Then Donahue would rub the hottest possible liniment on his testicles,” Verducci writes. “He’d start snorting like a bull,” the trainer said. “That’s when he was ready to pitch.”
The Cramps, live at Napa State Mental Hospital (1978)
Many of you will remember that I had posted a clip from this earlier. In honor of the late, great Lux Interior, here's some more footage from that legendary show.
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allmovie:
In June 1978, the Cramps, a pioneering New York-based rock band who blend the primitive twangy stomp of rockabilly with the attitude and willful perversity of punk, were touring the West Coast and discovered they’d been lined up with perhaps the most unusual gig of their career. The Cramps were booked to play a show at the Napa State Mental Hospital, a facility for the emotionally challenged, and found themselves facing an audience that was half smuggled-in punk fans and half in-patients whose reaction to the performance was often vocal and demonstrative. A cameraman from the punk-oriented video collective Target Video was on hand with a primitive black-and-white camera, and the results became the infamous The Cramps: Live at the Napa State Mental Hospital. As the band faced a truly unusual audience, it roared through a handful of songs, including “Human Fly,” “Love Me,” “Domino,” “The Way I Walk,” “What’s Behind the Mask,” and “T.V. Set.”
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Chrystl Rijkeboer
The reason I work with human hair is that hair has symbolic significance: beauty, strength, health, attraction, etc. The moment it is separated from the human all these factors turn around, hair is considered dirty, unsavoury and dead.
Hair is also an important indicator of our life, as well in the past as in the present...
via bright stupid confetti
60 Noses
Sixty female and male noses, arranged chronologically from people ages 16-90. (click image to embiggen)
Shawn Feeney drew these while working as the forensic artist for a police department on Long Island, NY. Prints are available here.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Buddy Holly: Rare and Unseen photographs
TIME: Buddy Holly: Rare and Unseen photographs
These are worth a look. He was so very fresh-faced and photogenic.
Monday, February 2, 2009
let's call it... you can shave the baby!
Baby what, exactly?
sir fanceepants
via Schadenfreudian Therapy
Sunday, February 1, 2009
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