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“If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram.”

If you can explain this theory to me, let me know.

I need some ’splainin. Let me buy you lunch or something.

Can 2-D holographic lunch taste good?

Was Trans-X right all along?

CNN unleashed a fully user-panable 360 degree video of a scene in Haiti.

Now imagine this in Afghanistan, in NYC on 911, etc…

Sorry TV, you’re screwed, this is the future of news.

I can not stop loving Carl Sagan….

Ps. The quote is actually “If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” (not “create”). Cuz he’s fresh like that.

Image by Steven Miller (I’ll be sorting through my pics when I get back)

Happy New Year everyone! Mexico is wonderful, as always, I’ll see you soon!

Serio

This year a lot happened for me, career-wise, as an artist, and in my personal life. I owe all of it to letting myself be more real, with my self, my work, and with the nice people on the other end of the interview table.

Charlie Hoehn backs me up:

“My favorite part of The Dark Knight is when the Joker is talking to Harvey Dent in the hospital, and he says: “Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just DO things… I’m not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.”

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I don’t know who this band is, but… jesus, don’t get me started.Is there some store where all they sell is skulls and sun glasses and skulls wearing sunglasses.
And the bandanna… still? That was back when I was at the Tube at 3 am, we’re talking 2005 or something.
Maybe it’s his dad’s bandanna (authentic from 2005) and he’s wearing it. What the fuck do I know, maybe 2005 is retro now…
Fuck it.
I give up.
I’m an old ass man, and I officially do not understand kids these day.
Mark the date, this is when it happened…

I was listening to Fresh Air today on the way to an artists’ brainstorming session.

Terri Gross was interviewing Andre Agassi, who I guess wore a Toupee for a while (see flattering image on the left). His reasons were perfectly human: vanity, fear of aging, etc… but of course the toupee, and the fear of its discovery, grew to over-shadow the other fears.

I was pondering something hours later, and realized that it was also a self-digging pit… an Agassi’s Toupee.

How great to have that ridiculous image to help me recognize unhealthy practices.

Just say: “Don’t wear Agassi’s Toupee!”

I stumbled onto this today:

101 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself

Finding it seemed to coincide with thoughts about ideas. I got invited to an art idea brainstorming party, which should be fun, but of course, I literally have a book of my art ideas, and am not lacking any “upcoming projects.”

I tend to guard these ideas pretty close, for the most part, which I’m pretty sure is both absurd and lame, but I’m not sure. If you’re a conceptual artist, your ideas are your currency, no? On the other hand, I’m only going to  implement a small handful of these before I am no more, so I should just put them out there right? I have seen other artists put “ideas” on their sites and the world hasn’t ended, they are generous, and that is good. But I have also seen people use other people’s ideas without offering credit, and that made me uncomfortable.

I also feel like I want my next rabbit to stay in my hat until it is time to pull it out. That is certainly a better show, right? So should I only post the ideas that are on the bottom of the list?

Oh, what to do…

This guy…. I love this guy!

May we all notice our judgements today…

or is it more of a tramp stamp?

Whoo! Back from Europe, no better way to turn 30, yes? Ok, enough about that… I am a HUGE Mountaing Goats fan, and a big fan of Last Plane to Jakarta, John’s mostly death metal review blog. Why? Because John is awesome, and between posts describing the way something melts your face the way nothing else does, he writes shit like this:

“your attention is more valuable than the present age would have you believe. It’s the one thing you brought to this world that it didn’t have before, and it’s the only thing of consequence that you’ll permanently remove from this world when you leave. You know? So when somebody sort of cavalierly directs your attention someplace without so much as a tossed-off phrase indicating why you should bother, then you ought, in my opinion, to regard such people/sources/tweets as emissaries of the dark Lord. To say that something “has to earn your attention” is false; one of the miracles of attention is that it sometimes yields the biggest dividends when it’s given weightlessly, unmerited, on a one-way street. But that’s not to say that attention is so light a thing that one can afford to shed it like dandruff. Our supply of attention is finite. That’s worth remembering.”

Read ‘em and weep…

Actually I think our mascot is a ninja, and I think the Portland office mascot is Sasquatch, but they need to watch their backs now that Jambo is here. And since he’ll be a regular presence around here (my job) prepare yourself for lots of cuteness…

So do I get to call myself a writer as well? Nice to have a rant published though- perhaps a prelude to my twilight years? Anyway, here it is:

Disclaimer: Abraham Ingle does not endorse social networking.

As my generation has demonstrated, nothing motivates like ego, loneliness, and simulacra. Thus I propose to create a dating/social networking site for people who care about the environment. The title will be a pairing of the word “Green” with either: Mate, Fling, Book, Space, Date, ster, or Face.

“GreenFace.com” invites users to network and to get together (date) in real life and suggests activities that help the environment. Environmental organizations can post events by zip code to help people think up things to do, and a number of “evergreen” activities will be suggested as well.

In addition, each “GreenFling.com” user’s profile has a checklist of over 100 things they can do in their homes to help the environment (Energy efficient lighting/thermostats, etc…). Users can “impress” viewers of their profile by completing and documenting (via flickr/youtube, etc…) the things they’ve done. Completing home improvement events, donating, and volunteering improves a “Greenster.com” user’s publicly viewable green statistics, allowing users to marvel and seek/weed out users by their activism.

“Greenspace.com” can be set up for under a million dollars, and be maintained through advertising.

Thank you, and may we all remember to un-plug.

Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world (Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

Mexican Navy find a Ton of Cocaine inside Frozen Sharks

Yes, when life gives you lemons it can be tough to make lemonade. But when life gives you the Mexican Navy finding cocaine in frozen sharks you have no fucking excuse. Consider yourself on notice, media. And while I’m ranting, quit acting like we’re all unemployed, when I tun on NPR you’d think it was 25% unemployment. Most people still have jobs, and most people are making what they were a year ago. Bitches all cryin cuz they can’t charge their entire lives anymore.