Out of Step

So instead of getting drunk on my 21st birthday...I got this:



cell phone picture about 2 hours after it was finished.

Converge - Video teaser for new album

To my knowledge, there has been no release date announced. If the rest of the album is anything like the teaser, then I am pumped!

Blogspot wont let me embed the video, but you can see it here.

Joshua Allen Harris' Inflatable Bag Monsters

This is an awesome idea that is really well done.

La Jetee

Check out this old short film. I think it raises a lot of interesting questions about government, authority, and the nature of reality. Plus the way it is put together is interesting. I believe the movie 12 Monkeys was somewhat based off this.

Graffiti Animation

Check out this awesome graffiti animation!

Hiding in Plain Sight

Part art, part protest, part paranoia.

Check out this guy's entire life, posted on the internet here.

But before you do that, read the article and watch the video here.

Very interesting "project", if you can call it that.

Strokes of Genius

Check this link too for some amazing and creative art! (video content)



http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/23115/strokes-of-genius;_ylt=AnsBYV2eu75bhmI4B8fRFiAKwId4



(thanks to Lindsey for both links to this and the copwatch video)

Autism

These are two amazing videos about two amazing autistic people. They will both blow your mind.




and...


https://webmail.ncsu.edu/src/download.php?startMessage=1&passed_id=79&mailbox=INBOX&ent_id=2&passed_ent_id=0

Life Slowly Starts to Choke the Poetry Out of Us

The Washington Post, in a social experiment, convinced world famous violinist, Joshua Bell, to play in a subway station in Washington D.C. He is used to selling out massive arenas and plays with a $3.5 million Stradivarius violin.

Yet out of the 1,097 that walked past while he played some of the most difficult and beautiful pieces ever written, only seven people stopped briefly to listen.

There is an article about it in the Washington Post for May 4, 2007.

What does this tell us about our culture? We are self-centered and caught up in our own world. Getting to work on time is more important than art and life.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not looking down on the people that did not stop. I think our culture has trained us to ignore anything that might slow down production, and to view a street performer as a slacker. Frankly, I don’t know if I would have stopped had I something “important” to do. I think that is why the article interests me so much. Who knows what great things I have missed in my life by simply not paying attention.

Right now I am counting down the days until my graduation, waiting to get out of here. But in doing so, I may be ignoring or disregarding beautiful and important people and things in my life.

My favorite part of the article says:

“The poet Billy Collins once laughingly observed that all babies are born with a knowledge of poetry, because the lub-dub of the mother’s heart is in iambic meter. Then, Collins said, life slowly starts to choke the poetry out of us. It may be true with music too.”

I hope this never happens to me.