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| Friday, January 27th, 2006 | | 11:41 pm |
| | Thursday, December 15th, 2005 | | 12:12 pm |
| | Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 | | 12:02 pm |
Semicolon
So yeah. You know when you have something you don't wanna tell people because it may not happen and then you'd look really stupid if it didn't? The problem is that when it does happen, by the time you're sure, probably everyone knows and you don't have the shock factor anymore... So yeah, I'm moving to San Francisco next Thursday (the 8th), to work at a photo sharing startup called Slide ( http://www.slide.com). I'll be living and working downtown, so drop me a line if you go down there. I'll be keeping my phone number for a while, and I'll be back for a couple of days around Christmas. I'm sorry if I don't see all of you, I've been trying, but it's happening so fast and I've got to pack all my shit, drink, be ready for a final next week, make arrangements, drink, freak out, work, drink... busy schedule, cheers... I'll be going to Rebar on sunday around 11pm for one last night of funky beats and drinks, drop by if you have a chance :) Thanks for making the last 6 years in Seattle grow exponentially better, I'm going to miss you all SO MUCH! Love you! Gustavo. Current Mood:  thankfulCurrent Music: Boards of Canada - Tears from the Compound Eye | | Friday, September 16th, 2005 | | 2:40 pm |
Good words
Figured it was relevant to mirror this here, given the events that have happened lately. ...and this is what we mean by friends; even when they are absent, they are with us; even when they lack some things, they have an abundance of others; even when they are weak, they are strong, and harder still to say, even when they are dead, they are alive. --Cicero Current Music: Glosoli - Sigur Ros | | Thursday, September 8th, 2005 | | 4:56 pm |
Flowergirls
Finally, after months of grueling unimportant (read: day job) stuff, I finally had time to sit down and concentrate on the plant project. Basically this was born from the fact that I've always try hard to ignore the obvious shot, the flower, the baby, the snow icy landscape, the person smiling for the camera. While I think that's healthy, I think it also was limiting me from trying something that wasn't "different" in subject but was different in approach. And in that way the Freaky Flora set was born months ago in the community garden in front of my apartment. I have then since moved, almost quit, lost weight over stress filled 18 hour workdays and reevaluated a lot of what I considered important after realizing that what I studied is not what I want to do. I am left with a lot to ponder for the next few months, a clearer direction on where I want to go, and a set of some pretty weird looking plants :) I promise to start blogging better, and more. And I hope you enjoy the pictures. Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: Something by LCD Sound system | | Wednesday, August 24th, 2005 | | 2:00 am |
Remember friendster? and all those community fads... they were all setting the ground for this shit so WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR... JOIN THE PACK AND KICK SOME ASS. Current Mood: sexually chargedCurrent Music: aphex twin | | Sunday, July 17th, 2005 | | 4:31 pm |
Joe's tryptic
A journey from Vogue to the morgue... my latest photoset is of my friend Joe (who many of you know), who's awesome at coming out with great ideas... check it out at flickr. | | Monday, June 27th, 2005 | | 7:33 pm |
New Photoset
Save energy! Procrastinate... and to help you out, I've put up some of my new photos on flickr ;) | | Thursday, June 23rd, 2005 | | 2:08 pm |
| | Saturday, April 23rd, 2005 | | 7:50 pm |
| | Friday, March 25th, 2005 | | 12:58 am |
| | Wednesday, March 16th, 2005 | | 11:46 am |
| | Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005 | | 7:51 am |
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Wish me a happy birthday mofos... and yes, I mean on the phone! :P Current Mood: Bring it!Current Music: Window - The Album Leaf | | Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005 | | 2:11 pm |
More fuel to the fire
[Cross posted from reaction.typepad.com]
This is an ongoing discussion with Casey, you can read the latest of Casey's posts over in livejournal.
I don't think you succeeded in contradicting me, because I don't think we're
disagreeing... First of all, you're the one who sees holes, I'm the ones who fills them (shut up children! I can hear you giggling). You're the rationalist, I'm the spiritual one, you're the scientist, I'm the buddhist... don't fuck up my worldview ;) Anyway, here's what I think...
You're deconstructing, which is good in art, but in
philosophy it's the analog to a bunch of angry villagers with torches.
What if we had completely different senses, or what if our senses
were tweaked and we saw a different range of the spectrum of light, or
heard subsonic waves (in which case, they probably wouldn't be named
that)...
The point is that you can't just fall into a deconstructionist hole
and throw everything you know out the window, because you're right, you
will never know if what you experience is "real", but it is real in the
sense that those experiences shape your view, and they can be
communicated and understood by others with their own views. That
constitutes our reality, and that's the point where we start, we can't
just say "OH FUCK IT, how do I know this is real" and throw our arms in
the air in protest in order to avoid talking about how to experience more of
what reality might have to offer by exploring ways to expand to what
our senses give us. The mind is a powerful thing, who knows what we are
missing by not exploring that.
I was reading an amazing article today about synesthesia, a
neurological "disorder" (misnomer if you ask me), which makes people be
able to taste colors, or have complex relationships between concepts
and their attributes, for example: Colors in Carey's world
have properties that most of us would never dream of: red is solid, powerful
and consistent, while yellow is pliable, brilliant and intense. Chocolate is
rich purple and makes Carey’s breath smell dark blue. Confusion is orange.
or more interestingly: One conceptual synesthete described the months of the year as a flat ribbon
surrounding her body, each month a distinct color. February was pale green and
oriented directly in front of her.
Scientists
finally agreed that this is an actual neurological phenomenon, instead
of mental illness. They are studying these people in order to learn
both how it happens and what it tells us about the brain. My favorite
theory is this:
All of us are able to perceive
the world as a unified whole because there is a complex interaction between
the senses in the brain, the thinking goes. Ordinarily, these interconnections
are not explicitly experienced, but in the brains of synesthetes, "those
connections are ‘unmasked’ and can enter conscious awareness," said Megan
Steven, a neuroscientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
They go on to explain how this could explain why people on acid or shrooms have similar experiences, and why they corelate.
Meditation, awareness, development, awakening, emergence,
dissolution ... these are all means and ends. You were handed (by
nature or god or a green goblin, whatever you want) your body, your
senses, your mind, there is something outside you that surrounds you
with stimuli, there is something inside of you that perceives that,
filtered, organized, conceptualized and interpreted. My point with my
post is that those holes in that dam, just like the dam itself, are
imaginary. We stand as one with all or Reality, and I believe we are
ultimately able to experience it all. We just don't, because we don't
know how, and the goal is exactly that, to learn how.
Please comment on the original post. Current Mood:  bouncyCurrent Music: Radiohead - How to disappear completely | | Thursday, February 17th, 2005 | | 3:32 pm |
| | 3:05 pm |
Blame Canada
[ cross posted from http://reaction.typepad.com] Excerpt from Canada's PM Paul Martin's speech in favor of the Civil Marriage Act granting gays and lesbians the right to marry: "There are times, Mr. Speaker, when we as Parliamentarians can feel the gaze of history upon us. They felt it in the days of Pearson. They felt it in the days of Trudeau. And we, the 308 men and women elected to represent one of the most inclusive, just and respectful countries on the face of this earth, feel it today.
There are few nations whose citizens cannot look to Canada and see their own reflection. For generations, men and women and families from the four corners of the globe have made the decision to chose Canada to be their home. Many have come here seeking freedom -- of thought, religion and belief. Seeking the freedom simply to be.
The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.
If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it. Mr. Speaker, together as a nation, together as Canadians: Let us step forward."
This is why I'm applying for residence ;) [hat tip: David Parkinson] Current Mood: busyCurrent Music: Aphex Twin - Ventolin | | Thursday, February 10th, 2005 | | 11:06 am |
Scolarships
* Cross posted for a wider distribution* For all you college students out there, a friend at work passed me this list of scholarships. Many of them are not being awarded due to lack of applications (I guess nobody likes to do P.R. for giving money away). Anyway, post this on your blog, I'm sure we know some starving students that could use a hand. It is a little known fact, but I could go to college only because I became a Microsoft scholar, and I did so because a woman from the department of student services started randomly calling students with good GPAs to apply and compete, because nobody had signed up yet. Current Mood: accomplishedCurrent Music: Metamatics | | Wednesday, January 19th, 2005 | | 1:17 pm |
Plug
For those of you who love music, here's my rant about how cool audioscrobbler is. Current Mood: workingCurrent Music: Scriptures - B12 | | Friday, January 14th, 2005 | | 2:39 pm |
| | Thursday, January 13th, 2005 | | 10:34 pm |
YES I DID IT
So there, I have a livejournal for all you people who don't let anonymous comments fly... anyway. My blog is over here: http://reaction.typepad.com
;) bye Current Mood:  quixoticCurrent Music: Boards of Canada - Music is Math |
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