Posted On Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 By Zen Render
Go over to Cheeseblog and read the rant about Tyra, America’s Next Top Model, weight-myth, beauty-myth, and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. And if you’re not going to do that, then just stop. Stop telling me what beauty is and isn’t. Stop telling me it exists as something that can be defined, held up for examination, emulated. Stop thinking I am so stupid as to buy this kind of lip gloss because your definition of beautiful girl is wearing that lip gloss and if I buy it I can be beautiful LIKE HER or, even better, beautiful LIKE ME, unique, because I am wearing the lip gloss that makes unique girls uniquely beautiful. Stop telling us it’s okay to not be perfect when the definition of perfect is based on sales and marketing. So go over there and read the whole thing.
Posted On Monday, February 12th, 2007 By Zen Render
via Arwen: Check out Indexed …and then check out this video, of roughly the same sorts of things…
Posted On Saturday, February 10th, 2007 By Zen Render
…and to think I was going to go to bed at 9pm tonight… HA! So, for no particularly good reason, I’m sitting here at 12:13am, listening to the Kern County, California Law and Fire Radio Scanner (open that with Winamp, MediaPlayer, or iTunes, I’m assuming). It’s sort of amazing, that there’s so much going on, and yet the dispatchers (all women, it seems) are capable of instantly matching the speed, tone, and urgency of their “folks in the field.” There’s a tonality shift that happens whenever there’s a new hailing on the line, and it’s like they’ll chorus together so they know who they’re talking to when there’s four or five interspersed conversations going on at once. It’s like there’s this constant flow from Control of “I know you’re in danger, I know maybe you’re scared, but we’re all back here, and we’ll send more to you if you need it, okay? Just keep breathing, stay calm, and watch for the signs.” That’s a lot of data to cram into 2.5 seconds, and 40 syllables. There’s also all sorts of weirdness (beeps, bleeps, and bloopie noises), and my techie brain instantly jumps in an starts counting pulses to see if Continue Reading
Posted On Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 By Zen Render
Boy, we sure do like to hear ourselves talk. Click on the link for Unknown Origins Podcast #5 (right click to download). Talkybit 1 Vangelis – Blade Runner Blues Lazzarus and Garvey – Goodbye, Horses Outkast – Greatest Show On Earth (Ft. Macy Gray) Talkybit 2 Mirwais – Disco Science Amon Tobin – The Lighthouse Rheostatics – Song Of Danger Talkybit 3 James Brown – Payback When In Rome – The Promise Eurythmics – This city never sleeps Talkybit 4 Hans Zimmer – You’re so cool SongsToWearPantsTo – mike celestino, what have you done with star wars Colin Hay – Overkill Talkybit 5 Dead Can Dance – Nierika DeVotchKa – How It Ends