Saturday, November 17, 2007

Rocky Horror Chess Stake Tempo



“Language is an error of humanity. Words do not express the depth of feeling between two beings who love each other. A word is a worn pebble applied to thirty-six shades of affectivity. Language is convenient for simplifying, but I detest it as a means of locomotion.”

[Marcel Duchamp]

Let's do the time warp again....



The Strong Law Of Large Numbers



"The Way has never known boundaries; speech has no constancy. But because of the recognition of a 'this', there came to be boundaries. Let me tell you what the boundaries are. There is left, there is right, there are theories, there are debates, there are divisions, there are discriminations, there are emulations, and there are contentions. These are called the Eight Virtues. Beyond the Six Realms, the sage exists but does not theorize. Within the Six Realms, he theorizes, but does not debate. In the case of the Spring And Autumn, the record of the former kings of past ages, the sage debates but does not discriminate. So I say, those who divide fail to divide, those who discriminate, fail to discriminate. What does this mean, you ask? The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate among them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say, those who discriminate fail to see."

[Chuang Tzu tr. B. Watson]

Friday, November 16, 2007

The Same Old Tune (Animated Anaglyph)



"A score of quantum physicists have gradually come to the conclusion that for their formulae to work there must be presumed a certain minimal order of magnitude, Lambda. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"

[E. A. Costa Paleolithic Patronage]


Another animated anaglyph, best seen with 3D glasses--blue right, left red.

The Metaphor Of The Marbles



"On the other hand, in order to distinguish two road signals or two Manet paintings one resorts to both space and color parameters. In the first case the pertinent elements are the normal spatial dimensions, with features such as 'up/down', 'larger/smaller' and so on; in the second one, pertinent elements are wavelengths, frequencies or, more commonly speaking, cues. The fact that a road signal is enormously simpler than a Manet painting does not matter. Thus in detecting two tactile signals, one has recourse to certain thermal and pressure gradients, while in detecting the difference between the two signs channelled through a solid matter, like two gestural signals, one relies on positional or kinetic parameters such as the direction of the gesture, its stress, and so on...."

[Umberto Eco]

The R. Mutt Eye Rhyme Bow Wow Rap




Walking Dada's poodle.

Best viewed at smaller size. Right click on image and check "Show All". The image will play at smaller scale.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

War And Peace



"What is random? Given infinity a chimpanzee at a typewriter should ultimately manage to compose Gone With The Wind. As well as a critical essay discounting said work as a serious piece of letters."

[EAC Paleolithic Patronage]

Warp Jive Five (Animated Anaglyph)


Another animated anaglyph, best viewed with 3D glasses--right blue, left red: