Interesting People
An Evening with Aldous Huxley
I had the pleasure of listening to a recording of Aldous Huxley from 1962. Huxley, a visionary speaker and thinker predating the 60s hippy movement was a leader in predicting the social control that is all the rage in counter culture thought even today. It reminds me of some dialog in THE MIST, where the [...]
Interesting peep of the day : Mata Hari
I had never heard of Mata Hari before. I was looking up the new X-files movie and stumbled into her on the Wikipedia. Quite possibly one of the first femme fatals - exotic dancer turned spy and executed for her services. I am starting to think I need to forget about my ideas for the [...]
The Kitchen Debate
Ever heard of this? Me neither. Wierd. I wish I knew more about the cold war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Debate
Peeps You Should (maybe) Know of the Day: Nathuram Godse
Ghandi is one of the most revered characters in history for his now immortalized plights against the British’s occupation of India. Without knowing a lot about Ghandi, I would otherwise assume that he was assassinated by a British aligned shooter - perhaps a political puppet trying to help maintain the crumbling British Empire or a [...]
Synesthesia as a basis for metaphor and art?
Matrix masters podcast 118 features an hour lecture with Vilayanur S. Ramachandran MD, PhD, a professor of Neurosciences at UC SanDiago. He focuses half of the talk on one my personal favorite fringe topics, synesthesia and the other on art. He essentially gives a scientific explanation for humans’ desire for visual art and also [...]
Peeps You Should (maybe) Know of the Day : Uri Geller
I’m starting a segment called - peeps you should (maybe) know of the day. There are a lot of people if have heard names of stumbled upon on Wikipedia that seem interesting in my mind.
Today’s installment is Uri Geller. I first looked up Uri in 2006 on Wikipedia. I had heard the name before and [...]
I Have a Hand Gesture for you
I was using Google as spell check again for steple.. err… steepl… er “Did you mean steeple?” YES.
Anyway, I found an archive of hand gestures including the Steeple, which I do all the time. The site is cool as it lists a bunch of the anthropological origins and such. There is a whole section [...]
Charlie Rose on the Pres of Iran
The other night while riding bike I was watching some more Charlie Rose vids. This one was vastly interesting.
A guy wonders how much of this is cultural or language difference? I doubt it is the case here, but that has gotta be damn tough.
Adamantine Arts VidCast #1: PPL Mentoring Visit with Stephen Capiz
Tonight was the start of three new things.
Things Other People Accomplished At 23
I received a comment from Jay @ Dumb Little Man tonight on my ridiculous post earlier. Luckily, he thought it was funny. I stopped by DLM again to see what was new and saw the Article Things Other People Accomplished at Your Age (which assumes your age is 23). Among them include John Singleton directing [...]
