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I LOVE YOU from WOODKID on Vimeo.Pre-order “The Golden...

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:13:31 -0400

Pre-order “The Golden Age” (out March 18) : smarturl.it/TheGoldenAge

Video Directed by Yoann Lemoine
Cinematography by Arnaud Potier
1st AD Antoine Poulet
Featuring Matvey Lykov
Styling (Matvey) Kris Van Assche (Dior Homme)
Produced by Mourad Belkeddar & Roman Pichon Herrera
Executive Producer (iceland) : Jean —Michel Paoli
Post Production by OneMore Prod
Flame artist Herve Thouement
Video Commissioner Pierre Le Ny
P & C 2013 GREEN UNITED MUSIC / ICONOCLAST / SEIZE ZERO TROIS
with the Help of Picseyes

Music video of Woodkid performing “I Love You” (new single out now : smarturl.it/thegoldenageitunes).
(C) 2013 LABEL G.U.M a joy division of Green United Music

THE MIRRORING MIND - by @JasonSilva from Jason Silva on...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:22:19 -0400

THE MIRRORING MIND - by @JasonSilva from Jason Silva on Vimeo.

Created by Jason Silva in collaboration with CITIZEN. Follow Jason on twitter @JASONSILVA - twitter.com/JasonSilva

This video is a non-commercial work created to inspire, made for educational purposes, inspired by the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter explored in the magnificent book GODEL, ESCHER, BACH: An Eternal Golden Braid. Learn more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach

It offers my interpretation of Strange Loops of Self Reference, recursion, and the emergence of consciousness and self-awareness: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loops

“To Hofstadter, the human mind is a bright, shimmering, self-sustaining miracle of philosophical bootstrappery” - Lev Grossman, Read more: time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1599720,00.html#ixzz2MyMGywag

“You know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your whole life” - The Matrix

It is also inspired by some of the writing of Erik Davis in Techgnosis.com about the hero’s journey taken by NEO in the Matrix in order to understand who he is:

“Neo must then face his own Cartesian “passage through madness,” melting into a mirror that alludes not only to Lewis Carroll but to the mystic-psychotic collapse and disappearance of the externalized ego that stabilizes our inner void. As Neo phases out of the Matrix, he opens up, however briefly, the fractured bardo that is the secret thrill of every fan of the “false reality” genre: the moment when baseline reality dissolves but no new world has yet emerged in its pixelating wake. This is the most radical moment of the cogito, but it’s tough to sustain.”

More: techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2006-04-16-0544-0.txt

It features the track “The Awakening” by Andy Quinn

Support REMIX CULTURE!
Select stock footage courtesy of Shutterstock
Edited by Citizen
Select Motion graphics by Alberto Reyes
Camera by: +Aziz
Featuring archival footage by:

Eraserhead David Lynch

Narcissism vimeo.com/28582756

Black Mirror Trailer -

Somewhere II - vimeo.com/31825770

Adobe: Eternal Return - vimeo.com/51407191

Way II War - vimeo.com/35113379

Helvetia’s Dream - vimeo.com/52123602

le Miroir - vimeo.com/45135870

The Ape that got Lucky - youtube.com/watch?v=q2ZE2NGvJ0I

Amazing Apes: Self-awareness - youtube.com/watch?v=W-pc_M2qI74

Hundred Waters “Boreal” - vimeo.com/59079498

Kenzo ‘Electric Jungle’ - vimeo.com/59653641

Bat For Lashes “Lilies” - vimeo.com/60037201

pariah - signal loss - vimeo.com/58729480

Interlace - vimeo.com/9687881

Outside of God - vimeo.com/36913149

TO UNDERSTAND IS TO PERCEIVE PATTERNS from Jason Silva on...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:20:04 -0400

TO UNDERSTAND IS TO PERCEIVE PATTERNS from Jason Silva on Vimeo.

Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/JasonSilva

@JasonSilva and @notthisbody

Special thanks to filmmaker/photographer Rob Whitworth for allowing a clip from his video (vimeo.com/32958521) to be featured.
Check out his website: robwhitworth.co.uk

My videos:

Beginning of Infinity - vimeo.com/29938326

Imagination - vimeo.com/34902950

INSPIRATION:

The Imaginary Foundation says “To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns”…

Albert-László Barabási, think about NETWORKS:

“Networks are everywhere. The brain is a network of nerve cells connected by axons, and cells themselves are networks of molecules connected by biochemical reactions. Societies, too, are networks of people linked by friendships, familial relationships and professional ties. On a larger scale, food webs and ecosystems can be represented as networks of species.

‘For decades, we assumed that the components of such complex systems as the cell, the society, or the Internet are randomly wired together.

Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, writes about recurring patterns and networks:

“Coral reefs are sometimes called “the cities of the sea”, and we need to take the metaphor seriously: the reef ecosystem is so innovative because it shares some defining characteristics with actual cities. These patterns of innovation and creativity are fractal: they reappear in recognizable form as you zoom in and out, from molecule to neuron to pixel to sidewalk. Whether you’re looking at original innovations of carbon-based life, or the explosion of news tools on the web, the same shapes keep turning up… when life gets creative, it has a tendency to gravitate toward certain recurring patterns, whether those patterns are self-organizing, or whether they are deliberately crafted by human agents”

“Put simply: cities are like ant colonies are like software is like slime molds are like evolution is like disease is like sewage systems are like poetry is like the neural pathways in our brain. Everything is connected.

“…Johnson uses ‘The Long Zoom’ to define the way he looks at the world—if you concentrate on any one level, there are patterns that you miss. When you step back and simultaneously consider, say, the sentience of a slime mold, the cultural life of downtown Manhattan and the behavior of artificially intelligent computer code, new patterns emerge.”

Geoffrey West, from The Santa Fe Institute,

“…Network systems can sustain life at all scales, whether intracellularly or within you and me or in ecosystems or within a city…. If you have a million citizens in a city or if you have 1014 cells in your body, they have to be networked together in some optimal way for that system to function, to adapt, to grow, to mitigate, and to be long term resilient.”

Author Paul Stammetts writes about The Mycelial Archetype: He compares the mushroom mycelium with the overlapping information-sharing systems that comprise the Internet, with the networked neurons in the brain, and with a computer model of dark matter in the universe.

“Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world.

Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity.

Geoffrey WEST on The sameness of organisms, cities, and corporations:
blog.ted.com/2011/07/26/qa-with-geoffrey-west/

Stephen Johnson’s LONG VIEW
nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08games.html?pagewanted=all
dumbofeather.com/blog/post/on-slime-molds-and-sewage-steven-johnson-s-origin-of-the-idea/
guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/19/steven-johnson-good-ideas?cat=science&type=article

A collaboration of /Jason Silva and /Notthisbody incorporating:

/Aaron Koblin
/entpm
/Andrea Tseng
/Genki Ito
/ItoWorld
/Dominic
/Cheryl Colan
/TheNightElfik
/Paulskiart
/Grant Kayl
/blyon
/resonance
/gtAlumniMag
/Katie Armstrong
/Page Stephenson
/Jesse Kanda
/Jared Raab
/Angela Palmer
/elliottsellers
/flight404
/Pedro Miguel Cruz
/Takuya Hosogane
/kimpimmel
/Rob Whitworth

**and some original animations from Tiffany Shlain’s film CONNECTED: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology // music is Clint Mansell’s “We’re going home” from Moon Soundtrack. Buy it on iTunes!

TO UNDERSTAND IS TO PERCEIVE PATTERNS from Jason Silva on...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:18:20 -0400

TO UNDERSTAND IS TO PERCEIVE PATTERNS from Jason Silva on Vimeo.

Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/JasonSilva

@JasonSilva and @notthisbody

Special thanks to filmmaker/photographer Rob Whitworth for allowing a clip from his video (vimeo.com/32958521) to be featured.
Check out his website: robwhitworth.co.uk

My videos:

Beginning of Infinity - vimeo.com/29938326

Imagination - vimeo.com/34902950

INSPIRATION:

The Imaginary Foundation says “To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns”…

Albert-László Barabási, think about NETWORKS:

“Networks are everywhere. The brain is a network of nerve cells connected by axons, and cells themselves are networks of molecules connected by biochemical reactions. Societies, too, are networks of people linked by friendships, familial relationships and professional ties. On a larger scale, food webs and ecosystems can be represented as networks of species.

‘For decades, we assumed that the components of such complex systems as the cell, the society, or the Internet are randomly wired together.

Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, writes about recurring patterns and networks:

“Coral reefs are sometimes called “the cities of the sea”, and we need to take the metaphor seriously: the reef ecosystem is so innovative because it shares some defining characteristics with actual cities. These patterns of innovation and creativity are fractal: they reappear in recognizable form as you zoom in and out, from molecule to neuron to pixel to sidewalk. Whether you’re looking at original innovations of carbon-based life, or the explosion of news tools on the web, the same shapes keep turning up… when life gets creative, it has a tendency to gravitate toward certain recurring patterns, whether those patterns are self-organizing, or whether they are deliberately crafted by human agents”

“Put simply: cities are like ant colonies are like software is like slime molds are like evolution is like disease is like sewage systems are like poetry is like the neural pathways in our brain. Everything is connected.

“…Johnson uses ‘The Long Zoom’ to define the way he looks at the world—if you concentrate on any one level, there are patterns that you miss. When you step back and simultaneously consider, say, the sentience of a slime mold, the cultural life of downtown Manhattan and the behavior of artificially intelligent computer code, new patterns emerge.”

Geoffrey West, from The Santa Fe Institute,

“…Network systems can sustain life at all scales, whether intracellularly or within you and me or in ecosystems or within a city…. If you have a million citizens in a city or if you have 1014 cells in your body, they have to be networked together in some optimal way for that system to function, to adapt, to grow, to mitigate, and to be long term resilient.”

Author Paul Stammetts writes about The Mycelial Archetype: He compares the mushroom mycelium with the overlapping information-sharing systems that comprise the Internet, with the networked neurons in the brain, and with a computer model of dark matter in the universe.

“Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world.

Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity.

Geoffrey WEST on The sameness of organisms, cities, and corporations:
blog.ted.com/2011/07/26/qa-with-geoffrey-west/

Stephen Johnson’s LONG VIEW
nytimes.com/2006/10/08/magazine/08games.html?pagewanted=all
dumbofeather.com/blog/post/on-slime-molds-and-sewage-steven-johnson-s-origin-of-the-idea/
guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/19/steven-johnson-good-ideas?cat=science&type=article

A collaboration of /Jason Silva and /Notthisbody incorporating:

/Aaron Koblin
/entpm
/Andrea Tseng
/Genki Ito
/ItoWorld
/Dominic
/Cheryl Colan
/TheNightElfik
/Paulskiart
/Grant Kayl
/blyon
/resonance
/gtAlumniMag
/Katie Armstrong
/Page Stephenson
/Jesse Kanda
/Jared Raab
/Angela Palmer
/elliottsellers
/flight404
/Pedro Miguel Cruz
/Takuya Hosogane
/kimpimmel
/Rob Whitworth

**and some original animations from Tiffany Shlain’s film CONNECTED: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology // music is Clint Mansell’s “We’re going home” from Moon Soundtrack. Buy it on iTunes!

London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.Incredible colour...

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:00:16 -0400

London in 1927 from Tim Sparke on Vimeo.

Incredible colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Frisse-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using the colour process his father William - a noted cinematographer - was experimenting with. It’s like a beautifully dusty old postcard you’d find in a junk store, but moving.

Music by Jonquil and Yann Tiersen.

Oh Sailor from Mr Little Jeans on Vimeo.Directed by Tim Nackashi...

Fri, 10 May 2013 07:45:39 -0400

Oh Sailor from Mr Little Jeans on Vimeo.

Directed by Tim Nackashi / Produced by Ryan Kohler / Prod. Manager Nick Terry / 1st A.D. Allen Scudder
Production Company BLACK DOG / Executive Producer Coleen Haynes / Reps Chris Clavadetscher, Jamie Rabineau
Label Sony Music Entertainment Australia / Management Drew McFadden
Director of Photography Tom Banks / 1st A.C. Ezra Riley / Gaffer Eric Corriea / BB Electric Gordon Yould
Key Grip Greg Cotton / BB Grip Mishka Kornai / PA Chase Baker
Projections Justin Hantz / Production Design Liz Garner / Set Dresser Isaac Ravishankara
Wardrobe Elise Velasco / Hair Nikki Providence / Make Up Kristina Brown
Shot at Pollution Studios / Editing and Post by Tim Nackashi / Colorist Bossi Baker

stylesight: A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:37:48 -0400

stylesight:

A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart

flavorpill: SONY HOOKUP: Attn: Bay Area readers and art...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:53:53 -0400

flavorpill:

SONY HOOKUP: Attn: Bay Area readers and art enthusiasts!

Tomorrow, Sony will be giving away an exclusive Max Kauffman print at the Stanford Shopping Center Sony Store. Be one of the first 15 to say “Alameda” at the register to get your hands on one!

stylesight: Enter the Void by Gaspar Noe

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:29:48 -0500

stylesight:

Enter the Void by Gaspar Noe

You & I by Local Natives shared from exfm

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:16:49 -0500

You & I by Local Natives

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Nightmares (Monitor 66 Goes Techno Remix) by Emeron & Fox...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 06:45:25 -0500

Nightmares (Monitor 66 Goes Techno Remix) by Emeron & Fox

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Peoples (Ben Pearce Uh Huh Remix) by Jacksun Fear shared from...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 06:07:05 -0500

Peoples (Ben Pearce Uh Huh Remix) by Jacksun Fear

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Death By Proxy by Rare Monk shared from exfm

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 05:40:26 -0500

Death By Proxy by Rare Monk

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Z E P H Y R by Squalloscope shared from exfm

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 05:30:52 -0500

Z E P H Y R by Squalloscope

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Good Life (Re-Edit by Delphic and Bodoano) by Delphic shared...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 05:20:11 -0500

Good Life (Re-Edit by Delphic and Bodoano) by Delphic

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Half Inch Map by Brittsommar shared from exfm

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 05:16:20 -0500

Half Inch Map by Brittsommar

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How Can She by Amtrac shared from exfm

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How Can She by Amtrac

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Another Sun by EP’s Trailer Park shared from exfm

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:48:31 -0400

Another Sun by EP’s Trailer Park

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Midnight City (M83 Cover) by Benjamin Francis Leftwich shared...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:43:54 -0400

Midnight City (M83 Cover) by Benjamin Francis Leftwich

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Leave And Let Go (Niva Remix) by navet shared from exfm

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:41:25 -0400

Leave And Let Go (Niva Remix) by navet

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