January 2010
WatchWhat kind of culture would produce such a product, slap a label on it, and sell it children?
WatchA follow up to how this old city is killing me. I need to graduate, move to a rural campus, study, and shape a better world.
WatchEarlier this evening, 1/26/2010:
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Trent Bradley realizes he’ll never have a career (unless he ends up making things) & will always be working alone with machines or collaborating with strangers. I don’t think it’s all that bad really. Tools have helped us kill & produce more efficiently, perhaps now intelligent machines will save us from ourselves.
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WatchI’m a smart coward. I can change. We can engineer a beautiful & better world.
Sleep, Things, Time, Blood
6:34PM 1/26/2010
A little more than 12 hours ago, I woke up from the backseat of an SUV. In the dream I had old black earbuds in my ears playing the song Sundialing by Caribou. It was dark on the freeway slicing through the plains, bounded on all sides by sprawling thoroughbred farms. Before going to sleep, after brushing my teeth while reading about that murderer of 1893, while in bed, I read...
Excerpts from 'On the Vanity and Suffering of...
4:21PM Beginning to not like the poster I posted. Ugh. Woman laughing repeatedly in the hallway. Some excerpts from Schopenhauer’s ‘On the Vanity and Suffering of Life’ from World as Will & Representation:
“The enchantment of distance shows us paradises that vanish like optical illusions, when we have allowed ourselves to be fooled by them. Accordingly, happiness lies...
The New York Eye Bank & Tactile Interfaces
7:02PM
Just back from the office. I woke this morning, in the lobby I sent a text to Hillary with details for the Pearle Vision audition. I stopped by Think & was a minute late to my German class. Afterwards I walked through Union Square, passing a guy at the entrance to the U-bahn holding a sign I did not read, his eyes pink & swollen over. I walked through the farmer’s market -...
Last Meeting at Pangea
1:09AM In the bath I read, within Milton Singer’s “When a Great Tradition Modernizes,” the following lines of Walt Whitman:
The earth to be spann’d, connected by network,
The people to become brothers and sisters,
The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage
The oceans to be cross’d, the distant brought near,
The lands to be welded together.
Looking...
Dog Shit & Sushi
12:25PM 1.19.2010
Walking to the lecture on India I passed behind Avalon Bowery & the still unoccupied shops of the glass box, windows plastered with plastic film of vibrant images of red lipstick, sushi rolls, orange rinds, smiling shoppers, a consumerist paradise. I got to the “smart” lecture hall where the technology wasn’t cooperating. I squeezed in far too close to the...
Lungs & the Future of Nanoparticle Pollution
9:19AM 1.19.10
I woke to the iPhone’s “Alarm” sound at 6:30 - the sound of something having gone horribly wrong in a research laboratory. I laid down until the alarm went off again at 6:45, this time right in my left ear, trying to recapture a dream I had that involved Grandma “Gee Gee” at a gas station with a shotgun, upset that we had descended on the space for an...
Mephistopheles, BPA, & Mutations of Immortality
11:55PM 1.18.2010 I wake up at 6:30AM tomorrow to begin my day - classes, work, meeting at Pangea. As I brushed my teeth I read a speech given on May 16th by Wendell Berry about people being disconnected from the land. The Japanese are trying to get their overeducated ignorant herbivore boys to farm. 6% of the population still does, as compared to 1-2% of our people. I couldn’t help but...
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Rainy Morning
3:17PM 1/17/2010
I guess it’s not really the morning, but I woke in the afternoon to a Facebook message from Rimini saying that I needed to start a blog. I’m eating honey oat toast with honey and organic butter with two organic large brown eggs over easy with cayenne pepper listening to Yeasayer’s “All Hour Cymbals” album. Virgil has just left for work and the track...
Homeless 20-something Female
“Excuse me, could you spare some change?” she asked the man with gaged ears and his girlfriend. “Or answer me?” The guy looked back and said, “Ciao,” as I walked quickly as usual, towards the “I Can’t Afford to Live In New York” graffiti, towards the Bourgeois Pig, “Yeah, walk faster! That makes sense! Walk faster like I’m going to...
Wow
So this is new to me. 1:05AM -ren-/
At So It Begins Again
I was introduced to the fact that Tumblr has an iPhone App. Watch out. I think I might record myself saying something and post the misdictated text here from Dragon. 1253AM 1/15/10 -\ren/-