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“Anything You Synthesize” is an entrancing cinematic music video, directed by Kasper Verweij at the Dutch studio Onesize for the Queens (NY) post-rock duo, The American Dollar. The video turns the group's experimental ambient sonic music into an enveloping sensory experience, traversing a solemn landscape decaying from a beautiful fresh mountain-view-landscape into a dead, flat desert. During the journey one views both night and day, as well as the passing of the year’s four seasons. The concluding scenes convey a seemingly happy ending, but you know what’s actually going to happen.
After you start the video, please click to view it in HD-Full Screen. Also, if you have your headphones within reach, I recommend that you use them.
This piece includes colorful photographs, as well as the remarkable, stunning music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/the-american-dollar-a-cinematic-musical-dreamscape/“Anything You Synthesize” is an entrancing cinematic music video, directed... more
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The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full
stop.
Deeper than oil, steel or bullets, a civilisation is built on stories:
on the myths that shape it and the tales told of its origins and
destiny. We have herded ourselves to the edge of a precipice with the
stories we have told ourselves about who ...we are: the stories of
‘progress’, of the conquest of ‘nature’, of the centrality and supremacy
of the human species.
It is time for new stories.
1. We live in a time of social, economic and ecological unravelling. All around us are signs that our whole way of living is already passing into history. We will face this reality honestly and learn how to live with it.
2. We reject the faith which holds that the converging crises of our times can be reduced to a set of‘problems’ in need of technological or political ‘solutions’.
3. We believe that the roots of these crises lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves. We intend to challenge the stories which underpin our civilisation: the myth of progress, the myth of human centrality, and the myth of our separation from ‘nature’. These myths are more dangerous for the fact that we have forgotten they are myths.
4. We will reassert the role of story-telling as more than mere entertainment. It is through stories that we weave reality.
5. Humans are not the point and purpose of the planet. Our art will begin with the attempt to step outside the human bubble. By careful attention, we will reengage with the non-human world.
6. We will celebrate writing and art which is grounded in a sense of place and of time. Our literature has been dominated for too long by those who inhabit the cosmopolitan citadels.
7. We will not lose ourselves in the elaboration of theories or ideologies. Our words will be elemental. We write with dirt under our fingernails.
8. The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop. Together, we will find the hope beyond hope, the paths which lead to the unknown world ahead of us.
http://www.dark-mountain.net/about-2/the-project/
The Dark Mountain Festival will hold it's first festival in May 2010.The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full
stop.
Deeper... more
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Lots of pictures, video and data figures help explain this important finding regarding the consistent rate of decay prior to fossilization, and how this leads to erroneous interpretation and classification of fossil materialsLots of pictures, video and data figures help explain this important finding regarding... more
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Our descent is the familiar disease of decaying empires. Dissent is starting to become defined as an act of terrorism.Our descent is the familiar disease of decaying empires. Dissent is starting to become... more
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I've always been interested in man-made structures that have been left to decay. I also love the movie the Blues Brothers. There is a chase scene in a mall, and today I found out that mall has been empty for 30 years. After some searching, it appears there are several "Dead Malls" in Ontario.
Perpetual Radio looks for Dead Malls in Ontario...
http://www.perpetualradio.com/news.php?action=read&article=80I've always been interested in man-made structures that have been left to decay.... more
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I'd heard that houses in Detroit were going for $100. So I went to check it out, envisioning a future city populated by artists and community gardens... but what I discovered made me think again.I'd heard that houses in Detroit were going for $100. So I went to check it out,... more
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The Molemen make it easy by producing quality music such as this new joint from Decay. They make it even easier when they email it to me. "Easy" features Selfish, Ab Liv, and Butta Verses. The Molemen make it easy by producing quality music such as this new joint from Decay.... more
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