we all strive towards the cinematic -- to dissolve into the projected image is our highest ecstasy.
"Philosophy — the power of separate thought and the thought of separate power — was never by itself able to supersede theology. The spectacle is the material reconstruction of the religious illusion. Spectacular technology has not dispersed the religious mists into which human beings had projected their own alienated powers, it has merely brought those mists down to earth, to the point that even the most mundane aspects of life have become impenetrable and unbreathable. The illusory paradise that represented a total denial of earthly life is no longer projected into the heavens, it is embedded in earthly life itself. The spectacle is the technological version of the exiling of human powers into a “world beyond”; the culmination of humanity’s internal separation."
-- guy debord, society of the spectacle
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Sunday, December 17, 2006
ok, so I'm realizing that this "blog" is pretty much just turning into a digital notepad for me. ahhaha. whatever. mainly wanted to grab the username before someone else did. will probably turn this into something more interesting later on... for now, just scraps and pretty quotes and personal scatterbrained notes that will only make sense to me :P
on that note-
"The limits of my language are the limits of my world. And in that respect, whatever I say must limit the world and make it finite. All I know is what I have words for." - Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Bernini: the architect's task "consists not in making beautiful and comfortable buildings, but in knowing how to invent ways of using the insufficient, the bad, the ill-suited to make beautiful things in which what had been a defect becomes useful, so that if it did not exist one would have to create it."
reconstruction: there IS implicit order, organizing principle in the universe, we just have to keep searching for it beyond rationalism. look for it at the most basic level. in architecture: circulation, program, etc. focus on the people. social needs. empirical patterns in nature.
romanticism of post-modern homelessness ladytron and airplanes... most comfortable in the middle zone of nowhere and everywhere, babies of modernism. weird subconscious feeling of comfort in that interstice of airspace. international dateline. we are a homeless generation.
on that note-
"The limits of my language are the limits of my world. And in that respect, whatever I say must limit the world and make it finite. All I know is what I have words for." - Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Bernini: the architect's task "consists not in making beautiful and comfortable buildings, but in knowing how to invent ways of using the insufficient, the bad, the ill-suited to make beautiful things in which what had been a defect becomes useful, so that if it did not exist one would have to create it."
reconstruction: there IS implicit order, organizing principle in the universe, we just have to keep searching for it beyond rationalism. look for it at the most basic level. in architecture: circulation, program, etc. focus on the people. social needs. empirical patterns in nature.
romanticism of post-modern homelessness ladytron and airplanes... most comfortable in the middle zone of nowhere and everywhere, babies of modernism. weird subconscious feeling of comfort in that interstice of airspace. international dateline. we are a homeless generation.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
things
sun rays filtered through white paper
vibrating planes of light
clouds reflecting the blue-white light of the moon on one side, the red-orange lights of the city on the other, against a backdrop of dark blue
vibrating planes of light
clouds reflecting the blue-white light of the moon on one side, the red-orange lights of the city on the other, against a backdrop of dark blue
Thursday, November 30, 2006
"The formal 'broken arch' of the Baroque was not simply an attempt
at imitating a cleft in a classical ruin: it was a symbol that
European civilisation itself was split, that a straightforward
intact arch from the age of medieval faith to the age of reason and
enlightenment had split down the middle the whole European psyche
between one belief and another."
on another note-
popomo ponderings on the LA rave scene... in search of culture- ecstasy, techno, and heidegger's dwelling space. socal rave culture as the last failed modernist experiment, or development of baudrillard's simulacra?
at imitating a cleft in a classical ruin: it was a symbol that
European civilisation itself was split, that a straightforward
intact arch from the age of medieval faith to the age of reason and
enlightenment had split down the middle the whole European psyche
between one belief and another."
on another note-
popomo ponderings on the LA rave scene... in search of culture- ecstasy, techno, and heidegger's dwelling space. socal rave culture as the last failed modernist experiment, or development of baudrillard's simulacra?
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