The Uncanny

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The Uncanny is an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange or uncomfortably familiar. Because the Uncanny is familiar, yet strange, it often creates cognitive dissonance within the experiencing subject due to the paradoxical nature of being attracted to, yet repulsed by an object at the same time. This cognitive dissonance often leads to an outright rejection of the object, as one would rather reject than rationalize. It's built on particles of something true. If you have any suggestions: [email protected]

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Funky Forest

#the uncanny #funky forest

The delicious

#the uncanny #the delicious

You can hear I’ve begun intoning word-like fragments to the melody to get a sense of what it wants. Nonsense for the time being. Place holders. I took a long walk today and started honing in on the first five syllables. There are a lot of possibilities with this pattern. I kept coming back to “a capital crime.” I don’t think this is it but it fits. It might take me a year to get something. What I need is a particle of something true. Something with barbs on it so it can snag other ideas flowing down stream, and they gather until they dam up the river and there’s your song.

Andrew Bird

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/untamed-melody/?_r=0

#andrew bird #The Uncanny

Xul Solar

#the uncanny #xul solar

I don't remember who the artist of these series that I really liked was so if anyone knows, let me know!

#this tall #no better lap #the uncanny

Babies and hiccups

#the uncanny #the uncanny valley #babies #hiccups #alien

What if you never had to worry about food again? Free yourself from the time and money you spend on food today, get healthy, and reduce your environmental impact!

#the uncanny #food #soylent

Every time I look at my face in a magnified mirror in a hotel bathroom, I jump back in surprise. Seen closely, my skin looks like the surface of a strange planet. Ridges and canyons pock my chin and lips. Forests of tiny hairs grow from my ear lobes. Unnoticed pimples rise from my nose like volcanoes. A sheen of oil coats the landscape. I half expect to see alien creatures living in minute settlements in my dimples or roving the great plains of my cheeks — and could I look at higher magnification, I would see exactly that.

Brian Jay Stanley's "I Am Not This Body"

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/i-am-not-this-body/

#the uncanny #nytimes #body

How to eat chicken wings

#the uncanny #chicken wings #how to

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Hugo Barros' Architectural Collages

#hugo barros #the uncanny #architecture

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

Marcel Proust

#marcel proust #the uncanny #body

"Why do they congregate in groups of four

Scatter like a billion spores

And let the wind just carry them away?"

Andrew Bird's Imitosis

#andrew bird #the uncanny #imitosis #humans are weird

A picnic. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. Cars drive off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras. They light fires, pitch tents, turn on the music. In the morning they leave. The animals, birds, and insects that watched in horror through the long night creep out from their hiding places. And what do they see? Old spark plugs and old filters strewn around... Rags, burnt-out bulbs, and a monkey wrench left behind... And of course, the usual mess—apple cores, candy wrappers, charred remains of the campfire, cans, bottles, somebody’s handkerchief, somebody’s penknife, torn newspapers, coins, faded flowers picked in another meadow.

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic

#the uncanny #picnic #stalker #roadside picnic

Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain

#the holy mountain #the uncanny #alejandro jodorowsky

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