Circuit Explorations addresses the questions if any system has the potential to show emergent behavior as long as it follows the guidelines for emergence we learned from studying examples of nature and if the emergence of complex behavior can be made to appear by carefully tuning a systems parameter and setup.
Why do we exist and what are we supposed to do about it? What started the Universe and was it a mistake? Does God exist and why does he seem so interested in our sex lives?
ARAKAWA AND MADELINE GINS HAVE LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THEY HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE. THIS DECISION WAS PLASTERED ON THE COVER OF THEIR GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM CATALOGUE (1997).
Arakawa, a Japanese-born conceptual artist and designer, who with his wife, Madeline Gins, explored ideas about mortality by creating buildings meant to stop aging and preclude death, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 73.
Audiences always think they know how a story will go. The Hurt Locker plays with this to great – and unforgettable - effect
Just months after moving to New York for good from England, John Lennon appeared at a December 1971 benefit gig for families of inmates killed in the infamous Attica prison uprising wearing this ‘You Are Here’ T-shirt.
This is the trailer for Michael Crichton's "Westworld" film from 1973.
"We've got a theory about magic and miracles."
Around the world in 80 seconds. Directed by Romain Pergeaux & Alex Profit. A project done in only 3 weeks. This route is a tribute to the famous Jules Verne's book "Le tour du monde en 80 jours".
UK-based Luke Wyman's Whitevinyl recently released Solar Beata music box looped using the orbital frequencies of our own solar system. It's one of those simple concepts where astrophysics is translated into a pleasing ambient loop soundtrack more profound than your average web diversion.
The pet project of paint company Dulux, Let's Colour is an international outreach project in which volunteers travel to drab and dreary corners of the world and enliven them with a fresh coat of paint. "Color your world" is the tagline for the program that hopes to transform communities by the brushstroke.
THE SCIENTIST follows a brilliant physicist, Dr. Marcus Ryan (Bill Sage), who anguishes over the tragic death of his wife and daughter while secretly constructing a mysterious energy generator in his basement. The multi—dimensional energy unleashed by the machine triggers a series of events that propels Ryan toward a higher level of consciousness.
Animated geometric shapes and colors in a video installation on the history of the universe
Star Wars remade 15 seconds at a time. Group think.
The first Peel session by the Diagram Brothers was broadcast March 27, 1980. Here’s that version of the fantastic “We Are All Animals.”
You, the Living (Swedish: Du levande) is a 2007 Swedish black comedy film written and directed by Roy Andersson. The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence,"[1] centered around the lives of an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heartbroken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, an elementary school teacher with emotional issues and her rug selling husband, among others. The basis for the film is an old Norse proverb, "Man is man's delight," taken from Hávamál in the Poetic Edda.
Sometime in the ocean of goop and fire and heat
Little one celled organisms learned a new way to eat
They started reproducing
They started doing their thing
And baby, it all led to you
A story of a young film maker who moves to Paris to make Sci-fi films.
“I wanted to make a film about a miracle,” Hausner, 37, says via phone. “I read all about the places where miracles were reported to happen, and Lourdes was the top one. I’m always looking for a location that has its own rules, a small world where you find the same mechanisms and behaviors as in the big world. Lourdes was such a system.”
Pay close attention because there's a subtle cue in there which is the key to understanding the continuity between timelines, and the fulfillment of the Novikov self-consistency principle.
He asked me to forcibly insert the lifeline exercise card into my anus!
This is exacitically the scene where Alice meets the Caterpillar. There wasn't a very good one on YouTube, so I have improoooved it.
Michael Paukner’s infographics go beyond the usual function of the form: his original collection of posters titled “See The Bigger Picture” range from straight-faced renderings of crop circles and planetary “energy grid theory” to stunningly simple illustrations of the Pythagorean theorem or the mathematical golden ratio as expressed by planetary orbits.
The two of us see the world as a stream of color, and in 2009 we finally had a chance to draw the river in our heads. We began with a collection of photographs of the Boston Common taken from Flickr. Using an algorithm developed for the WIRED Anniversary visualization, our software calculated the relative proportions of different colors seen in photos taken in each month of the year, and plotted them on a wheel.
After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark built a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populated the town he dubbed "Marwencol" with dolls representing his friends and family and created life-like photographs detailing the town's many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helped Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds from the attack. Through his homemade therapy, Mark was able to begin the long journey back into the "real world", both physically and emotionally -- something he continues to struggle with today.
Society's obsession with video and online gaming has advanced to the point that virtual environments are indistinguishable from physical ones.
So now you might be tempted to just ignore the question, ignore the mystery of free will. Say "Oh, well, it's just an historical anecdote. It's sophomoric. It's a question with no answer. Just forget about it." But the question keeps staring you right in the face. You think about individuality for example, who you are. Who you are is mostly a matter of the free choices that you make.
The correspondents know what life is all about, but it would be dangerous to impart that wisdom to the general public.
And now, just in time for Oscar junkies, comes a new statistical mincing of the movies that may someday yield an award category of its own: best fit between a movies tempo and the natural rhythms of the brain.
A man tells his story of how he became unstuck in time and abducted by aliens.
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.
I drift, half awake, half asleep. Moving through the city I recall but have never been to.
Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present and between order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge.
James Cameron's completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.
In a world where entering dreams is possible, a single idea from the human mind can be the most dangerous weapon or the most valuable asset.
The Vatican newspaper and radio station are criticizing James Cameron's 3-D blockbuster for flirting with the idea that worship of nature can replace religion — a notion the pope has warned against. They call the movie a simplistic and sappy tale, despite its awe-inspiring special effects.
During shooting, almost all of the actors performed while under hypnosis. Every actor in every scene was hypnotized, with the exception of the character Hias, and the professional glassblowers who appear in the film. The hypnotized actors give very odd performances, giving a very uncommon stylization to the acting. Much of the mysterious dialog of the film was ad libbed by the actors while under hypnosis
Author Cormac McCarthy, 76, talked about love, religion, his 11-year-old son, the end of the world and the movie based on his novel 'The Road.' He was just getting going.
In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis' legendary LSD no-hitter.
Another Ricardo Autobahn Movie Mashup.
After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut LEE MILLER becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship.
What happens when a beam of light travels through transparent textured materials? If you are Alan Jaras (or Reciprocity on Flickr), you can make it refract into a gorgeous array of colors. Bridging the gap between art and science, Jaras bends, twists and turns light...like you've never seen.
of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.
My own musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn - Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Universe series.
In every corner of the world, there’s one question that can never be definitively answered, yet stirs up equal parts passion, curiosity, self-reflection and often wild imagination: "What is God?" Filmmaker Peter Rodger explores this profound, age-old query in the provocative non-fiction feature "Oh My God." This visual odyssey travels the globe with a revealing lens examining the idea of God through the minds and eyes of various religions and cultures, everyday people, spiritual leaders and celebrities.
At this cafe, you get what the person before you ordered. The next person gets what you ordered.
Koren's philosophy is laid out in what is probably his best-known book, "Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers," which was published in 1994. The book explains the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, which celebrates earthiness, chance, unpretentiousness and intimacy of scale. It isn't about perfection, slickness, mass production or fabulousness. "Things wabi-sabi have no need for the reassurance of status or the validation of market culture," Koren writes. He calls wabi-sabi's simplicity "the state of grace arrived at by a sober, modest, heartfelt intelligence. The main strategy of this intelligence is economy of means."
It might seem bizarre that science is using art to learn about the mind—looking for hard facts in the most ethereal of places. But great artists turn out to be the world's first neuroscientists.
ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time — people who’ve profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry. Exploding forth from advertising’s “creative revolution” of the 1960s, these artists and writers all brought a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their work in a business more often associated with mediocrity or manipulation:
The Philosophers' Football Match is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany.
This is an excerpt from the beginning of Joe Rogan Live.
Hilarious sketch from the fourth episode of series three of 'That Mitchell and Webb Look.'
Is your soul weighing you down? Paul Giamatti has found a solution! In the surreal comedy COLD SOULS, Paul Giamatti plays an actor named… Paul Giamatti. Stumbling upon an article in The New Yorker about a high-tech company that extracts, deep-freezes and stores people’s souls, Paul very well might have found the key to happiness for which he’s been searching. But, complications arise when he is the unfortunate victim of “soul-trafficking.” Giamatti’s journey takes him all the way to Russia in hopes of retrieving his stolen soul from an ambitious but talentless soap-opera actress.
Marco Brambilla: Civilization
