March 2010
15 posts
one surrealist a day: Sunday Dalí: Paranoiac... →
Sunday Dalí: Paranoiac Visage, 1931.
In the 1930’s Breton was still unsure about visual Surrealism. Until then Breton believed that Surrealism was primarily a literary movement. Dalí invented his paranoic-critical method and revealed it with this piece in the journal Le Surréalisme au…
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The fact that in 2009 we were not able to sell more than we did in 2008 was...
– Shigeru Miyamoto, when asked about the slowdown in Nintendo videogame sales in 2009
Via [the economist]
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music video: Emeralds - “Geode”
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Shotgun Paintings →
During his later years in Kansas, Burroughs also developed a painting technique whereby he created abstract compositions by placing spray paint cans in front of, and some distance from, blank canvasses, and then shooting at the paint cans with a shot gun. These splattered canvasses were shown in at least one New York City gallery in the early 1990s.
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Samuel Beckett - Quadrat 1+2 (1982) →
Quadrat 1+2 (1982) Runtime: 12 min Language: None Country: West Germany Color: Color IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236647/ Director: Samuel Beckett Description: Cloaked, cowled figures wander in patterns to rhythm instruments.
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The Moon & Mars Planetary Bio-Harmonic Audio-Video →
“The earth’s harmonic, (I think its about 7.8htz or something) just happens to mirror delta wave activity in the brain. Using binurally “audio hallucinatory” inducing frequencies you can induce this delta activity with just sound.” - mudboy
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