I am working on media for both the Vimeo channel and a new (as of today) Youtube channel for Eyeslit’s viral content. At this point, you can experience original music and abstract viral projects. The viral addresses are:
Eyeslit-Tube
Eyeslit-Vimeo
Both channels contain almost identical content, so please choose your favorite and check back regularly as there [...]
Ten Sunday morning album recommendations for blissful passage and solitary contemplation. What they all hold in common for me is their ability to create a certain kind of mood, a dream-like state of almost cinematic beauty. Perhaps they will serve you well, too:
1. Harold Budd: La Bella Vista
2. Willits + Sakamoto: Ocean Fire
3. Daniel Lanois: [...]
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Posted in Creative Expression, Sensual Culture
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Today, amidst a rainy May day, my copy of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s new album “Lie Down in the Light” arrived. What is refreshing is that I know that this album will remain with me. That is, I will be returning to this music for a long time to come. I knew this even before I [...]
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Posted in Creative Expression, People of Interest, Sensual Culture, Uncategorized
| Tags: Arts, Bonnie Prince Billy, Drag City, Lie Down in the Light, Music, Religion and Spirituality, Review, Will Oldham |
Yesterday I made a viral video reading of Samuel Beckett’s poem “Neither.”
It is silent. I had originally recorded myself reading the poem and layered it over the top of the video, but decided against inserting it into the video. Watching it silently after reading the poem left an interesting resonance, which hopefully you will appreciate. [...]
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Posted in Creative Expression
| Tags: Arts, Fashion, hand painted, Literature, Neither, poem, Poetry, Samuel Beckett, Self, Vimeo, viral |
I have been quite busy this last week, but should have time to catch up on things within the week. Thank you for your patience and I hope the archive serves you well. It has been a dark and dreary weekend here in Nihon. Last night I sat alone at a dingy diner reading Samuel [...]
Fennesz Video (Made w/Permission)
I’m testing out the eyeVio site for no particular reason. I uploaded an old Fennesz video that I made. The video is very simple and amateurish, but the song is gorgeous.
Communications theorist Lee Thayer once wrote, “We ‘dilute’ the world by having an idea of it; and the intent of our words is, more often than not, to eliminate the world as resistance (Thayer 190).” As languaging creatures, our comprehension of the world is at once in direct contact with it (with certain spatial areas, [...]
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Posted in Communication Studies, Interface Humanities, Social Media
| Tags: Arts, Beauty, Communication, Communications, Computers, Efficiency, Facebook, Isolation, Language, Lee Thayer, life, microblogging, Mobile phone, Social Hybrid, Social Media, Social network, Society, technology, Telecommunication, Twitter, Web 3.0 |
Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s live album “Wilding in the West” will be my soundtrack to this spring. The satisfaction gleamed from listening to new live recordings of a familiar artist is beyond words. Songs that one has heard over and over heard again through the live context, altered slightly come to life in a new way, [...]
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