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See no evil with TELEVISION

Hear aspiring poets with guitar sounds, emerging from New York City they are the key founders of the punk rock or post punk. Genius Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd invented the new ABC for guitar, a new language that you could hear through a poetic guitar. Jamming for the first time in New York Townhouse theater and then in CBGB which was a venue during the 70's for new punk bands.

The rhythm take you to a levitation of serious sounds.


"Pin me down, go ahead it's a cinch
You pin me down, you'll feel the pinch
I was trained for fights, Foxhole, Foxhole" Album Adventure 1978

Hear also:
Friction
Marquee Moon
Little Johnny Jewel
See no evil
The Dreams Dream

Science meets Culture = PHILOTAXIS

Science seeks to explain human behavior through physical methods, trying to find why that action caused a reaction in human activity or human understanding. In culture you involve the activities and experience of humans, and how they relate with experiences either material or symbolically . Here is were we met Internet a big universe where science meets culture, Phylotaxis is a project developed for Seed Magazine by Jonathan Harrys. 

The structure is derived from Fibonacci Sequence related to the Golden Ratio (daamn when i did research about it i remembered those days in 6th grade, i believe). WHAAAAT? well believe me it wasn't easy for me to go back to Math, I will illustrate it:

Do you remember any diagram like that? Well i did, it was a big pyramid full of numbers making sequences 1+1+3+5+8+13+21.....(sequences). But with plants its even better there is where we get to the whole understanding of Phylotaxis.

Back view:

The 3 sepals that protected the bud are outermost, then 5 outer green petals followed by an inner layer of 5 more paler green petals.

Front view:

The two sets of 5 green petals are outermost, with an array of purple-and-white stamens (how many?);in the centre are 5 greenish stamens (T-shaped) and uppermost in the centre are 3 deep brown carpels and style branches)

Tha plant itself form a sequence with a ratio. Also seen in the seed heads of a plant, check this out.

You can see that the orange "petals" seem to form spirals curving both to the left and to the right. At the edge of the picture, if you count those spiralling to the right as you go outwards, there are 55 spirals. A little further towards the centre and you can count 34 spirals. How many spirals go the other way at these places? You will see that the pair of numbers (counting spirals in curing left and curving right) are neighbours in the Fibonacci series. all the seeds being the same size, no crowding in the centre and not too sparse at the edges. 

The spirals are patterns that the eye sees, "curvier" spirals appearing near the centre, flatter spirals (and more of them) appearing the farther out we go. 

This is how we can relate Science with Culture, the creation of knowledge from changes of patterns. Patterns that could be in human activity. So Phylotaxis represents the balance between science and culture, evolving the randomness of culture and the rational thinking of science. With out the randomness of culture and the rational thinking of science this world would be chaos. 

Philotaxis represents the changes in the world of news within science and humans. A computer changing every few hours by online sources or blogs in the world of science, creating it's own identity beyond human control. 

The different patterns and changes happening in the world not only of science, it lead us to different ways; a way which is composing the world identity; where we are all connected no matter in which direction; we are always in the same node.

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You can visit the website www.phylotaxis.com, if you want more information and also to check more about Fibonacci Sequence or Golden Ratio visit http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html#golden.

For more work of Jonathan Harris check www.number27.org

Mommy, can i go and kill tonight?

FORMULA

Saturated Beats + Gravitation = Mind Pixels





with your parents at home but they don't listen

GET YOUR HELMET in 2030

A Space Helmet for social interaction? James Auger is researcher with the Interaction Design department at the Royal College of Art in London, James is developing different projects. Between March 2002 and Jan 2005 he was a research associate at Media Lab Europe where he and his partner were exploring technology's effect on human culture, behaviour and experience., but this one caught our attention. A helmet with a front of the screen, where you can interact with others via web cam and artificial persons, but there are problems dealing with real people in physical interactions, the concept is taking elements of the virtual into the physical

The Internet has created social interaction to study the behaviour and the chance to have more channels of interaction within your own interests, like online chat rooms, games, social communities, games and virtual worlds which make the user more comfortable and more honest. Anyway we were talking about the Helmet, this experimental project is looking for another way of communication with the use of technology.

Maybe in 20 years we will be ready to use a big helmet with a screen on our faces. I found another interesting helmet, in 1968 a project called Enviroment Transformer Project from Austria created a Flyhead Helmet (i would be happier with this one) sometimes you dont want hear anything in a few words be in your own BUBBLE haha well this device isolates everything from the surrounding enviroments, so if you are walking towards your home after work, you put on your Flyhead Helmet. Maybe and Iphone integrated in the Helmet would be good, you could receive your calls or play some tunes. I would listen to this funky tunes in my BUBBLE.

FUNKY TUNES for your Helmet
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love
Senor Coconut - Smooth Operator
Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina
Lord Sittar - I can see for miles
Link Wray - Jack The Ripper
The Go Team - Ladyflash
Donna Summer - Bad Girls
Brazilian Girls - Pussy
Amanda Love - Calling me by her name
Commodores - Brick House
Brian Burd - Fever