Two Cans on a String

We like to listen to loud music, talk with gangster accents, and crack ridiculous jokes. Want to read more?

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Compiling 80,000 submissions from people all around the world, this documentary chronicles people's lives in one day, July 24, 2010 to be exact. Meliss and I should take on this challenge and create our own video. What would our submission look like? How would we want it to look like if we could change our lives right now? From the looks of the trailer, there seems to be a theme of no matter where you live or what you are doing, a day really consists of one major thing: Love. I think consciously or not, that's what people ultimately strive for/are in search of everyday. They live to find it and to keep it. The universal fear is to lose it.

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There is a great sadness in the notion (fact?) that we are not more unified as a great group of thinking, feeling, capable, human beings as we could be…as we should be. While I don’t overlook the beautiful bonds we make amongst our families, friends, religious groups, and communities of every level from humble neighborhoods to major assemblies of political leaders, sometimes it takes science to spell out an alliance that is literally built into our very bodies and minds. Mah good man (and hero,) Neil deGrasse Tyson marvels at the fact that the makings of life on Earth today belong to ingredients of the universe spun billions of years ago. Regardless of your religion or creed, do you believe that you are a part of something bigger than just yourself? Science tells us that we are comprised of atoms that have been passed on from generation to generation by a single source, the universe. And in such a poetically inspiring way, Tyson one-ups this smile-inducing statement with what he believes to be the most astounding fact of all, “…When I look up at the night sky and I know that yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us. ” That’s what connects us all, that’s what you carry within you. Your mind, your heart, and the universe. Oooh, you shiny.  

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Humans Vs. Robots

There is an analogy to be made to another Google project: Google Translate. "What looks like machine intelligence is actually only a recombination of human intelligence. Translate relies on massive bodies of text that have been translated into different languages by humans; it then is able to extract words and phrases that match up. The algorithms are not actually that complex, but they work because of the massive amounts of human intelligence that go into the task on the front end."

Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/09/how-google-builds-its-maps-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-well-everything/261913/

I love how this kinda just "schools" technology, if you will. People often see the final product and thank "technology" and praise this kind of inanimate concept when it's really just brilliant people doing brilliant things behind the scenes. I know I forget that.

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Art Worth Repeating

Sometimes I see art and think, that's worth repeating. 

The Good Side:

Art as therapy, art as culture, art as play and color and light. Art as a break from numbers and industry. Art in food or playgrounds or nature. A "what we saw from the cheap seats" can be and should be enough. Art as a conversation piece as something interactive. Art as a base for growing technology.

i.e.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/07/09/156495126/woman-on-street-attacked-by-giant-snail-it-seems

http://www.good.is/post/recycled-amusement-a-ugandan-playground-of-water-bottles/

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The Bad Side:

Art as exclusivity, art as high brow. Dusty gold leafed frames in mansion basements. Arbitrary net worths and escalating auctions for designer labels. Anything that puts aesthetic over substance. Fame and hype over craft and universal recognition of beauty.

i.e.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa

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a word with guy watson

Guy watson is a stubborn man. And he is proud of it.

He crosses his arms a lot. He likes to get his way.

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Testing testing

oh hayyy