Allegedly: Scale of The Universe

An acquaintance of mine put this up on facebook. I'm totally stealing it (sorry!) this is too amazing not to make a big deal about!

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

 

Deep Weird Sleep

So, i learned this interesting little fun fact in my psychology class last week. I've been trying to find some articles about it on-line but i can't. I mean it came directly from the teacher so I'm just going to assume that he's right (:-/). Apparently, when you are REALLY sleep deprived you fall in and out of sleep unintentionally sometimes, right? Well, when you come out of the beginning stages of sleep in a sudden jolt those are small seizures! Anyone and everyone will probably experience these, I think that's nuts. I'm sure this interests me because i have no sleep schedual and i stay up for long periods of time (on occasion). Usually I stay up to finish my school projects, but sometimes i just can't sleep. I guess I occasionally experience these small seizures as i try to keep myself awake in the delicate social situations that follow a night of no sleep. I think I've equated it to my mind "exploding" awake but really my brain is just malfunctioning. I think these seizures are called Sleep Myoclonus but I'm not sure. This is the most relevant article I could find.  

http://www.bcm.edu/neurology/patient_education/pdcmdc/myoclonus.html

TIME 100 Ideas That Changed The World

GET IT, READ IT, LOVE IT

Sixteen dollars might be a steep price for a magazine, but the information is actually fairly substantial for small articles. Really, i feel its a better jumping off point especially if you've never learned about a specific idea. I mean, there are 100 different articles so there are plenty of places to jump.

What’s Yr Take On Cassavetes?

In high school I went through a Le Tigre phase, I can’t say it was a lasting one but I did wear out their first LP. I remember there was a song about John Cassavetes (the actor and director) and I’ve honestly never made the connection or actually really cared to make the connection. I’ve seen a few movies that starred Cassavetes but I’d never seen a movie he directed. Last night I watched ’A Woman Under The Influence’ and that’s when It dawned on me, Le Tigre was alluding to John Cassavetes. DUH! I‘m a fucking idiot! I remember the song had this funny vocal exchange that went like “genius…. Misogynist…. genius…. Misogynist.” I understand what they’re getting at I guess, but I have no real opinion. I’ll leave that one up to the feminists.

Anyway, ‘Woman Under The Influence’ was a really good movie. Gena Rowlands totally deserved an fucking academy award for that role but I just read that she was snubbed out Ellen Burstyn in ‘Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.’ Rowland’s portrayal of a woman about to lose her mind was so versatile. It was hilarious, upsetting, disturbing and sometimes completely frightening. I don’t really care but I’ve never seemed more like a movie snob than I do now, I really enjoyed it. It also starred that Peter Falk guy who played Columbo, I actually don’t know much about Columbo but my roommates tell me he’s good at yelling. There was a really intense part where Peter Falk yelled like a crazy man in front of all these children, it was the best scene I’ve ever watched with yelling in conjunction with children in funny costumes.

(i love this picture)

I thought the movie was shot in a really insane way. It’s called Cinéma vérité (I did some reading up! It means “truthful cinema”) I don’t know if the cinematography lived up to that name but throughout the movie there would be cuts where the camera seemed to change resolution or shutter speed…. I don’t really know. It was like going back and forth between an LCD TV and an old television. It really messed with my head. I have no idea if it was intentional or not, but regardless it was cool.

Construction Zone

JESUS! Give me a minute!

In the meantime here's something cool!

by portland based artist Zach Johnson...