drmstream[writing]

Don’t you love the com­mu­nity around your inter­ests and enthu­si­asms that you find on the web? You can’t repli­cate the expe­ri­ence any­where in real life: the vari­ety of view­points, the excite­ment of shar­ing and the feel­ing of val­i­da­tion that comes from con­sort­ing with peo­ple who see the world from the same angle but who are […]

Lis­ten and let your mind go still.

This photo sets my spine tin­gling. It’s hard to explain, but if you have the same reac­tion, you’ll get it. All those books! Worlds and worlds and worlds of imag­i­na­tion, places, things, moments, ideas, facts, sto­ries. Mas­sive, immo­bile, still…but the gan­glia of enchant­ment and dis­cov­ery. You can read about the project at the link below. […]

Some­times you type the begin­ning of a query into Google search and as the sug­gested terms appear under the box you get pulled into the zeit­geist like Alice fell into the look­ing glass. I was look­ing for a global demo­graphic info bit and typed “per­cent­age of” into Google. The fol­low­ing list appeared as sug­ges­tions: Per­cent­age of […]

via bl.uk The British Library has a remark­able col­lec­tion of orig­i­nal man­u­scripts avail­able online, includ­ing the hand­writ­ten man­u­script for Alice in Won­der­land. Click through to it and peruse. The best com­par­i­son I can think of is William Blake for the absolutely organic rela­tion­ships of image and text. The entire work is a piece of art, […]

A per­for­mance with John Cale in 1972 and with Pete Town­shend in 2007 of Wait­ing for The Man.  Watch both and reflect on what changes with age and what stays the same.

There’s so many lev­els on which to engage with this video from Lau­ren Green­field. The video itself is a struc­tured arti­fact, cre­ated from video clips and pho­tographs that were taken with a spe­cific use in mind. These clips were then culled and gath­ered to cre­ate a unique expe­ri­ence, a kind of photo-DJ trans­for­ma­tion. The photos […]

via amycrehore.blogspot.com Catch this clip using an early sound/video record­ing process (Vita­phone). Sooth­ing and ener­giz­ing all at once: a pop music curios­ity. Thanks to Amy Cre­hore at Lit­tle Hokum Rag for dig­ging this up. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream

via youtube.com I love type­faces. So do these guys. And they like music. And they aren’t par­tic­u­larly self-conscious. And they’ve got access to video edit­ing skills. The outcome: Fun.

via neuronarrative.wordpress.com A the­ory that emo­tion is one of the ear­li­est attrib­utes that evolved in the genome. Emo­tion is, in fact, a rudi­men­tary sys­tem that we have to adapt to the more com­plex sys­tems, such as cul­ture and civ­i­liza­tion, that have evolved to help assure the best pos­si­ble behav­iors for the prop­a­ga­tion of the species.