IAM CHRISTOPHER

2011 Stanford grad, entrepreneur/engineer/designer in training. Interests in traveling, writing, history, music, photography, film, style, physics, and metaphysics that range from mild to mildly obsessive (but not necessarily in that order).

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The Wilton Windmill crop circle. With hidden encoded 8-bit binary message

After transcribing the binary digits, and each byte (8 bits) into its corresponding ASCII character using  online converter, starting from the direction of the windmill, and working clockwise around the circle and out from the centre.

The result was this:

e^(hi)pi)1=0

It looked like some kind of equation, and when I looked it up, Google asked if I meant: e^(i)pi)1=0, for which the top result was Euler’s identity: This has been called “the most beautiful theorem in mathematics”. No surprise that it should turn up in a crop circle then.

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The Carina Nebula

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Yoshitaka Amano [source]

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http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/fringe2013b.html

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Evolution of the Crop Circles (1980 - 2007).

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Stev'nn Hall

A small sampling of the impressionistic mixed media landscapes by Stev'nn Hall you will find on his tumblr and website. 

Check out this tumblr!

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Excerpts from one of 2014’s best art collections, The Art of John Harris: Beyond the Horizon.

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EPCOT center

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The vision is so close in the heart Yet so far in the mind The proverbial city on the hill is not a vision Of some future civilization But the crystallization of our own A capstone to the Aquarian age holographic glyph of a universal form Written on the walls of Our own Platonian cave Disney's final design A bookmark for future Architects of Terranova

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#Sunset #sail in Bar Harbor, from one of last few eves in #Maine. Missing it already..

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Center square of #NoviSad, #Serbia soaked in #summer sun // #travel #photography #easterneurope #balkans

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Spent the day bumming/ working around #Shoreditch, gotta say they have some next level #streetart here.. (at Campus London)

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Portraits Of DJs Reveal Different Personas In Light And Darkness

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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

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Django Unchained

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There is a remarkably close parallel between the problems of the physicist and those of the cryptographer. The system on which a code is enciphered corresponds to the laws of the universe, the intercepted message to the evidence available, they keys for a day or a message to important constants which have yet to be determined. The correspondence is very close, but the subject matter of cryptography is very easily dealt with by discrete machinery, physics, not so easily."

Alan Turing

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Fifty states with equal population.

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top notch #mapnerd fodder

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2012's Most Underrated Album:  "ƒIN", by John Talabot

Like most  self-proclaimed music junkies, I took it upon myself to construct a best albums of 2012 top 10 list (if I recall correctly, Ocean's "Channel Orange" topped the list (big surprise!), with "Lonerism," Lamar's debut album, and others close on its heels). But in retrospect I realized that there is a sort of convergence amongst these lists of  the top critics and taste-makers in music; and that in parallel, there is often a group of well-deserved but chronically under-listened to albums that sort of get left out of the conversation. Even among this cohort one really jumps to mind as a sort of under-appreciated-outlier: John Talabot's "ƒIN". I first heard it in October, nearly a half year after it came out, and at first blush thought it was a bit strange [I think the one song with a scream sample scared me off-- literally :) ]. But after giving it a second change over the holidays and repeated listens it's really come to grow on me, taking on new shapes and textures with each and every listen. This sort kaleidoscopic behavior is usually a hallmark of each of my all-time favorite albums and songs, a signature of high auditory complexity that doesn't wear after repeated use but just keeps transforming. In the case of ƒIN it's a particularly genre (continent?)-spanning complexity, one that melds catchy beats alongside sun-drenched samples and tropical rhythms.

 I don't have the time or energy right now in finals season to put up a full album review though; if you're in the mood for that I recommend you read Pitchfork's review, which although characteristically verbose, does have some interesting backstory on the artist himself that adds a bit of color to the production you hear. 

That's enough writing though-- I highly  encourage you to give it a listen! Spotify embed of the 'Deluxe' Album, which contains a few remixes, is below. The video which introduces this post is an 'unofficial' music video for 'Last Land

Enjoy!