You are alone in the room, except for two computer terminals flickering in the dim light
-How We Became Posthuman

Phantasmagoria

a constantly changing succession of things seen or imagined

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnMhiBwrI38. for me, the best part is the last shot of the empty car going around while the camera man focuses on it. where did the people go??

Yesterday Was My Birthday

8/26/1989 - my month, day, and year of birth

This was the poem verse daily posted on my birthday titled No.7, Black Form, 1964 by Martin Rock

Raven desired a doorway to language
so he turned himself into a grain of sand
& crawled inside your glass of water.
He grew inside you until every color was influenced
by his thirst to speak. In this mythology,
pillars of smoke outside your window: a dark planet perceived as the coming of night.
The clouded roman helmet is also a feather
& the faces have crows' feet mewling from their eyes. Stare at an unchanging object
and you cause change around it. So prove the stars.
Remain fixed & the future approaches as liquid& all is swallowed. So shows the river. Here we kneel
to drink. Here our skulls fuse like bottles in the fire.

http://www.versedaily.org/2013/blackform1964.shtml

BHBITB

http://vimeo.com/29436934
http://bhbitb.com/distractions/

DC/Baltimore based video artist
 Joshua Haycraft.  Saw his work this year at artscape

Though the first link/vid is about wasteful, consumer culture, I could still watch it for a long time.

you from the other side

http://www.versedaily.org/2013/itsuptoyounewyork.shtml

I've learned that running away means getting mistaken for an airplane about to land. it means people looking at you like a screen that says DELAYED DELAYED DELAYED -sampled from above link in poem by Meghan Privitello

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0SShuxdR-I

Chance to Cure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OayLgg71rIY


Max Ernst

what it all boils down to

 I am a lucky person.
  "It is true that, on having reflected for some years now that scarcely anything was to be gained by being so, I have begun to be somewhat merry because I have been told that that is good for one's health." (Letter to the Abbé Trublet, April 17, 1761).(Letter to the Abbé Trublet, April 17, 1761). Voltaire to the Abbe Trublet from April 17 , 1761. This interpretation is from a statement in French translated by Barbara Bray and Helen R. Lane in 1979. The French quote is this: "Ayant fait reflexion depuis quelques années, qu'on ne gagnoit rien à être bon homme, je me suis mis à être un peu gai, parce qu'on m'a dit que cela est bon pour la santé."  This is believed to be the original source for the quote attributed to Voltaire "I've decided to be happy because it is good for my health." 
http://video.pbs.org/video/2300857107
wonderful video courtesy of PBS.