The Nature of Play

I saw these two things today and I felt compelled to add them here.

THING ONE

THING ONE is very stable, static. Isn't it? Is it a simple photograph or is two thousand years in motion?

If there is anything so great as THING ONE, it just might be something with motion and music called

THING TWO

[EDIT] The original video is no longer available.

(There are a lot more of these THING ONEs created by Jan Vormann on this site recently featured on this other really great site called There, I fixed it. THING TWO teeters precariously on the high wire line of good advertising and good art. Both at once, just barely holding onto either.)

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And I can't even think about these two things without being reminded of this other third thing called

SHAPE

Five Minutes into the Future

It sounds so outrageous, yet so possible
at the same time.

So with that
I present to you a very short still-shot including music
by the talented band called

MODEST MOUSE

In Indiana

Whatever may have been the original acceptation of Hooshier this we know,
that the people to whom it is now applied are amongst the bravest, most
intelligent, most enterprising, most magnanimous, and most democratic of
the Great West, and should we ever feel disposed to quit the state
in which we are now sojourning... it will be to enroll ourselves
as adopted citizens in the land of the "HOOSHIER."

---Indiana Democrat, October 26, 1833

There are lots of thoeries on the now lost origin of the word, but

given the name of the state itself, I suspect "Hoosier" was once

an Indian word: cornucopia. Plenty for everyone.

I also like the "after the bar room brawl" version of "Whose ear?"

Heh. It doesn't make sense to me that it is an Anglo Saxon slang from the South.

If that were true, wouldn't it be as common as hillbilly or cracker, instead

of referring only to the people who live in Indiana?

Also interesting:
True, there are Buckeyes of Ohio, the Suckers of Illinois and the Tarheels of North Carolina --
but none of these has had the popular usage accorded Hoosier.

Neither Hither or Yon

Freize Recursion



Exploded View



Transmission Interrupted



Six Bells

Time Changes Everything (Part III)

Time Changes Everything (Part II)

Chandra

One Hundred Fifty Light Years Later



A pulsar only twelve miles in diameter
churns out a creature this big.

(relatively similar to the parable of a mustard seed)

I only mention it because I find it curious.

It's Easter and Saga Dewa simultaneously.

Buddha mentions this problem also. Here, in a nutshell.

Everything is Going to be Alright

by Dutch artist Guido van der Werve
His site is here.

Six Bells

Once upon a time,

It might've been your lucky day if you ended up
on a sinking ship lost at sea.

 At the moment when you drew straws,

you pulled the short shift,

more colloquially known as
"The Dog Watch"

To beat 'the seven bells' out of someone
is one blow shy of death ...

Clocked.

This song is an hour short.

Lost at sea, half an hour left to list---
there's no, there's no. It's so dark ...
there's no way


Infested with the night.
***

Is it a call for mutiny?

[George Jenks wrote a serial in the first pulp mag The Argosy,
vol 68 no 1, Dec 1911. Help me -- I can't find it.]

***

An Accumulation of Time

Part I

If I was a real bloggy person, 

I would write a witty, coherent (albeit wandering) 

essay with correct grammar, 

including proper usage of the subjunctive mood.  

I am not that.

***

I've just finished watching this:

This is a piece near the end 

of a nicely made documentary that originally aired 

on BBC Four. It's a 5 episode series, and on the YouTube, 

each episode is divided into 6 ten minute segments (roughly).

It's less biased than most videos 

I've seen about Tibet, and 

it's a good introduction for someone 

who knows a little about the current situation.

I encourage you to watch the entire series chronologically---

if you're into that sort of thing.  I think it's worth the effort.

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As one who was always previously 

spiritually bent and entirely against government,

it was eye opening for me, after having had

a small taste of the Tibetan Buddhism in practice.

***

So I was watching these monks 

doing inventory because they forgot what they had,

dragging out sacred texts from their libraries ...

"dusted off" once every ten years- - -

(or were they hiding them?)

...and it reminded me a lot 

of this fantasy movie I saw recently :

CITY OF EMBER

Time Changes Everything

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Empire Strikes Back

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