Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books.
9/11 -- the sheer shock of it, the deaths, the sense of violation... More.
A woman who appears to have been inebriated fell onto the tracks in a Boston subway as a train was rushing towards her. People on the platform frantically waved at the train, which stopped in the nick of time.... More.
This is surely one of the most adorable animal YouTubes in the history of all internets. (via @maggiekb1 via this blog).... More.
Yves Béhar (who is in an epic struggle with Marc Newson to claim the title of "sexiest industrial designer alive") designed this vibrator. It looks like a Miyazaki cartoon creature.
The Form 2 takes a two-pronged approach to the vibrator, giving its user what they're calling "Sensation in Stereo.... More.
Michael Jackson's funeral cost one million dollars. His final outfit cost $35,000, and the flowers cost $16,000. Lord. Obviously I'm no MJ anyhow, but when I die, if there's a mil lying around? Feel free to bury me in nekkid dirt and use the rest to feed pie to starving kids.... More.
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I like the sounds-- it's been fun to leave this on and just dig on them as a long, weird soundscape.
Not so much interest for me in the rest of it, though.
Cool in a kinda seizure-inducing way. Should definitely come with a warning.
It's all about appreciating the Gestalt of the images not the images themselves. My Guess is that it is all about evoking an experience shared between the artist the medium and in many cases ourselves. The images are symbolic only in that they represent images we recognize and have feelings for, not in a literal sense of course. Giraffes on a ladder in it of themselves mean little. But it is the music (more in timbre and meter than in actual tonality combined with the imagery, the actions it performs and the way in which it is given. PErsonally I thought the opening to be very engrossing.