May 2012
12 posts
“The Pirahã People, a tribe in the Amazon, have been made famous for several...”
– “Everett interpets ‘ibipio as a liminal word.” (via quenching)
April 2012
8 posts
an essay on the new aesthetic →
Valorizing machine-generated imagery is like valorizing the unconscious mind. Like Surrealist imagery, it is cool, weird, provocative, suggestive, otherworldly, but it is also impoverished.
(li rapidinho, mas gostei desse texto. via bafanabafana)
“A green schoolboy’s copybook manufactured in some Austrian part of the empire,...”
– pynchon, against the day (via explicadinho)
March 2012
9 posts
“Deconstructive and other pos-Heideggerian paradigms tend to the so-called...”
– H Bloom, Agon
“The horse falls from a flight of stairs and is then stabbed by a spear. To...”
– wiki (via yuhuang)
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(sempre me perguntava como diabos ele tinha filmado aquilo. e neguinho fica impressionado com CGI)
“Now, as the smoke dropped onto Mr. Shave’s church on that evening of newspapers,...”
– Frank Kermode, Not Entitled, as quoted in “Seer Blest”, by Sam Sacks, in Open Letters Monthly. (via)
LOVE me some Frank Kermode. A very special dude.
(via enormousair)
February 2012
11 posts
Stephan's ALF-Page →
Welcome to / Willkommen bei / Bienvenue à
Stephan’s ALF-Page
shoulderblades:
i hope the next high profile serial killer takes pictures of all their victims with instagram
January 2012
20 posts
MissingNo. →
MissingNo. (けつばん, Ketsuban?), or MissingNO,[1] is a Pokémon species found in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue. Standing for “Missing Number”, MissingNo. Pokémon are used as error handlers by game developer Game Freak; they appear when the game attempts to access data for a nonexistent Pokémon species. Due to the programming of three in-game events, players can encounter MissingNo....
Curse of the Colonel →
Curse of the Colonel (カーネルサンダースの呪い, Kāneru Sandāsu no noroi?) refers to an urban legend regarding a reputed curse placed on the Japanese Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by deceased KFC founder and mascot Colonel Harland Sanders. The curse was said to be placed on the team because of the Colonel’s anger over treatment of one of his store-front statues.[1]
“Caught in the center of a soundless field
While hot inexplicable hours go by...”
– larkin
The Problem with Gamification... →
b2kn:
…is that it tries to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. We already have a universal points system, across all aspects of life, that represents status and is redeemable for real world prizes. It’s called “money.”