Glass Microbiology

Luke Jerram turns the world’s deadliest diseases into works of art. The British artist’s glass sculptures — which go on display in London in January — depict old standbys (smallpox, E. coli), flashes in the pan (avian flu, SARS), and scourges of the day (H1N1, shown, and HIV). His goal: to explore the tension between the viruses’ devastating beauty and their devastating impact on humanity.


The words above are the copy that goes along with and explains the picture, it's from wired magazine

an ode to classic rock

"To admire an old picture is to pour our sensibility into a funeral urn instead of casting it forward with violent spurts of creation and action. Do you want to waste the best part of your strength in a useless admiration of the past, from which you will emerge exhausted, diminished, trampled on?"
     -FT Marinetti 1909, Futurist Manifesto

only a part of me agrees with this (if I agreed fully I wouldn't have admired and posted a quote from a century ago); I do think that if you are a creative individual or collective the best way to use influences is to use them as the stepping stones to what comes next.  Besides, history is interesting and worth knowing; it can help you win trivia contests at bars.

more friends to the future

lookbook- over and over

Official music video for Lookbook's song "Over and Over" Directed by Bo Hakala Art Director and Special Effects Technician -Sarah Jean Kruchowski Additional help from Ben Krueger and Mike Gunnerson...  

friends to the future

solid gold - bible thumper

This is the video from Solid Gold for the song Bible Thumper off the album Bodies of Water.
The video was directed by John Carlucci, with additional visual effects from Suzanne Dyer.  I can't remember who took the picture above this.

more to come

why?

I wouldn't want to be the child of someone who really likes the band 
phish

song of today

Shit

 So I fall asleep/pass out on the couch after a night drinking.  Nothing wrong with that, the shitty part is that I woke up and there is actually snow on the ground. I know it is december 3rd and I'm in Minneapolis so I should have had this experience a month ago (the snow part), but that doesn't mean I can't be pissed off.  Winter is here, months of cold and misery.  Fuck you snow

there is nothing wrong with liking star trek

I took this from something I read, I think it was from the writer Grant Morrison, but whoever it was said something like this:
         Science fiction writers are not just writing about the future the are writing the present day.  The things they write are the things that inspire people to go forward.

A great example is Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek.  With the exception of intergalactic travel and phasers set to stun (you can buy lasers at walgreens though); we can do anything they could do.  cell phones, smart phones, computers with built in cameras that let us video talk with people all over the world, translation programs, doors that open without us touching anything, flat screen tvs , cars that talk to us or drive themselves (new acuras or bmws), etc etc. Hell, we are even planning a manned mission to mars.

There is nothing wrong with liking science fiction stuff, the real problem is people who don't want to move forward.  I'm not saying that everyone has to read that shit, and despite what the futurists say we can learn from the past; what I'm trying to say is that we should embrace the things that come next, and not criticize the people who tried to see a next that lay beyond what was obviously right before us.

I could go on about this topic, but it's five in the morning and I have to go to bed. Until then post some comments; I'd love to know how stupid the shit I write or post is.

now it's ten am and I woke up on the couch with my shoes on and the computer in my lap. I'm not even going to read this
  

December 5th

For anyone who drinks december 5th is a remarkable day. It is repeal day.  The day that Franklin Roosevelt repealed prohibition.  I'll talk more about this saturday