Monday, March 29, 2010

fixity

It was photography which showed that the bird flies because of the stillness of its wings, not its movements.

the oldest living things on the planet


A project by Rachel Sussman...here's a link to more images from this project.

Man, I would be ecstatic if I could go to all these places.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Tasting the light creeping through windows

Here's the first volume of the companion mixes (I was going for a couple of low-key mixes perfect for editing and sequencing photos):

Tasting the light creeping through windows

get it:
here

Licking the memories creeping through light

Here's the second volume from the companion mixes:

Licking the memories creeping through light

get it:
here

Bold commitment of sentiment

So I've been seriously lagging on posts. The new semester started, and my classes are spaced out in a wack way, so I have a bunch of short gaps between lessons instead of the usual larger chunks of free time. And everyone knows how that goes: if you have a long break where you're at work and still being paid you need at least half an hour or longer of vegetation time, and then you can start being productive...but if you only have 45 min. or an hour, by the time vegetation time is over, it's already class time and next to nothing has been accomplished.

In any case, so I'm upping three new mixes. Two of them are companion volumes, which can be ascertained by how their names relate to one another.

This first one is titled:

Bold commitment of sentiment
here

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

1.26 microseconds went somewhere with Chile

Scientists are saying that the earthquake in Chile was so powerful that it slightly shifted the Earth's axis and shortened the length of each day by 1.26 microseconds. So it seems like whether we like it or not, everyone is losing a little bit of sleep over it.