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[Tuesday
August 23rd, 2011 at 12:23am] |
Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.
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TEDxUIUC - Sherry Turkle - Alone Together
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She shares Franzen's insight about the effects of technology - unlike his regard of human interaction being hopeless and passive, Turkle tries to consider these advances as a benefit to human evolution, though only alluding that the Internet has a lot of progression to make. Reading + watching these kinds of debates on the lack of human interaction on the most innately human technology we've possessed puts into perspective how much of a kind of Dark Age we really are in as an advanced species; " We are consumed by that which we are nourished by" — Shakespeare.
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Work on getting less vulnerable.
Sharing what is easy to share. Electronic trace of problems and worries, you put out a voice to be heard. Don't make it harder to me mentored. Instead of technology being a phantom limb - when you hear your phones ringing echo or that feeling of vibration on your leg thinking it's incoming text - it shouldn't be phantom ~ it needs to be an extension. Remember Washu's computer¹ from Tenchi? Arm straight stretched and fingers primed her computer screen and keyboard would flicker and manifest for her bidding ... so coool! Sci-fi witch. Dreams come true in anime lemme tell u. Just finished watching Durarara and it was great summer spending time with the +13 cast of friends. Relates with these kinds of parallels we have with our online/offline worlds in regards to more of Anonymous and forum communities ~how these kind of virtual worlds can entangle and involve peoples lifes/loves and effect societies as a giant foreign conglomeration, within the system. Dollars² was the entity that most associated with Anonymous, working as the keeper of the city and overall heroes of the story; they remained invisible as opposed to the other city gangs who would associate with a color; it's something Turkle forget's to mention in her speech is this thought of a super-community that shares what is incommunicable through just face-to-face interactions (like an LJ-post with hyperlinkx!). Can't we be more real online? It's sort of an unlimited heap to rant/rave/troll whatever you'd like. But, ya, got it, it's not the same as the eyes, the mouth, the spit that goes out into forming a word and hearing it and the whole sensory aspect, but we're pretty close to figuring out the "next best thing" thing, right? Also the whole trouble with carefully curating your online persona and the schizophrenia that leads to keeping appearances. Durarara suggested a modern town that escaped the need for social networking, instead they just banned together as a One network ... and not sure if this is genuine for asian stance on networks but it could be a really egotistical western thing? "We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors." — Franzen
My favorite, and most fan-servicey of characters in Durarara, was the dullahan Celty Sturluson (セルティ・ストゥルルソン)³ who - on mounted trusted motorbike steed that neighed for a rev - was searching for her missing head since medieval times. Oddly enough she was the transporter/messanger for the Dollars gang, and since mouthless, would communicate by typing through her Blackberry and would just face it for the recipient to read. One of the most intriguing romanced of the series (which were quite a few) was that and her relationship with Dr. Shinra, who as a young boy was semi-possessed by the fact she was a headless body, and still he loved her without being able to communicate directly with her, just via her mobile's screen. I'm not sure of the deaf/mute community online presence, and actually only have seen it exploited on video chat sites (/porn) where they communicate through attraction/sex ... much like the Internets first endeavors as a network. At the end of the series, ahem SPOILER: Celty never finds her head, though we know as the audience where it is. She and Shinra stay together and, although it was her prized possession to find "herself" through her missing head, she is told by Shinra that he never wants her to find her head, because of the chances of her becoming a normal, apathetic human. Maybe we just need to become headless? Or at least less egotistical ;^)
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[Thursday
July 7th, 2011 at 2:27am] |
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[Friday
May 20th, 2011 at 2:13am] |
This is a personal entry, which was trying not to write so much of but let's face it ... that's what we're here for! This entry is in the font face Georgia and the size is 2. This entry is being written in Florida, in my brothers bed since my room has become the workout/toy/dust bin and there isn't a place for me. I'm here now, home, because my brother will be getting married next week on our birthday, so I'm here for festivities and being the best man. I haven't written my speech, but I plan on doing it in spanish and engrish ... I think my abuelitos and mom are more worried about me messing up than I am. Hohoho
Before this I was logged into Okcupid, something my roommate made me sign up for to amuse her and join her in the ranking of hot/not with star system rating. I think it's fun, it's a joke my profile. And I went on a date the day after I created an account so that was nice, but haven't talked to him since, that's how things go for me I think since my relationships end up with me obsessive crying panting chasing, you know life-ruining love, right? I mean I'm not in Love, but that's how they all start for me and ends up being something called Love. I think the main thing was he sang to me, plus the w33d and Metal Slug action that started it off as the "best date ever" (proclamation his), but then again it proved to be a little immature and non-communicative right after. I held his head down on my lap and kissed everywhere on his face but his lips. Romantic right? Or maybe 2 much 2 soon. But everything ended in hugs and boners so I'm at a loss of what went wrong (www). Now I'm writing about it so that seals the deal with how I start things huh ... self fulfillment Historia de un amor for real tehe. Stop talkin about that, I won't get any feedback anyway but know the true thing is to play those gaymes. hohum 4eal
Tomorrow, or you know Saturday, should be the end of the world which is a trending topic as #Zombie Apacolypse ~ I'd have my shovel ready if I was home but I'll be in Orlando at a gentleman's club! Isn't that awesome though? If it ended up being the end of days and I'm there with tits? With my brother and his str8 friends, I'd feel safe. And drunk!
At dinner tonight, my mother and I went to eat this fast-food azn fusion loungy joint - it was pretty good and they have a huge basket of all-you-desire fortune cookies. Jokes with my mom are pretty variant, depending on the moods its about other peoples misfortunes or people in my family our or our own lives and funny anecdotes in spanish or whatever, sometimes they range from sexuality too and that gets to be funny especially if she's been on a roll and then she'll end up crying at her own jokes. Anyway, she hasn't really been up to par with her jokes or story telling, might have to do with stagnation of married life or the fact that she's mostly in work mode and then tired at home ... so they weren't so funny tonight. I had to make up for her bad jokes with even more bad jokes I know she'd appreciate, so we ended up with our fortunes and I got one that said something about "doors opening" thing and I said "Yea more like a closet" womp womp, my mom snorted and said "yaaaa hMMM" and then she gets her fortune "A simple question will bring you honest truth" >___<
 
Well the question was never asked but there was a fun giggle about that. And we ended up discussing souls and my brothers sexcapades that my mom caught him on (hi Ricky! i doubt you're reading this) and how my mom caught him in bed with boys before. Awkward, yes but it's sorta been buried - though little did I know it was buried deep within my mom's heart and it's been weird for her to hold on to that sort of "burden", seeing as it's not even her secret, right? But she's always worrying and carrying for us kids and there's a lot on appearance in a family, especially hispanic. We ended up almost crying a few times at that azn place but it was a great talk just us gals lol, I just wish she'd let go of these petty things because she'll spend a lot of time worrying until she dies.
Her dream was to have twins (a boy and a girl, but you kno she sort of got a girl?) and so I joke about her dying now since that's been fulfilled. "One day you'll understand when you have children" she said to me.
I'm writing this to contribute to the consciousness online, maybe if we just write and write it'll end up serving a great purpose? if we have all these emotions, theories, stories, info maybe something will organically grow out of the rantings and ramblings. twitter is pretty great at allowing people do that. Reading about the 2012 thing and May 21 doesn't really bother me, especially since there aren't any weird animal things going on ~ like dogs running to the hills or birds flying to the poles, but I feel like a lot of weird things are happening to us, as spiritual beings. eBaum and YouTube videos contributed to that fear with crazy folks on the train and other parts. We're becoming this nice big emass of info and technology for the first time in history, and communication is so e-z, maybe this end-of-daze thing is really about the future of our consciousness or presence online? I'd like to feel a shift. Whatever as long as we have gifs right ... and shovels for zombies.
 
Anywho, I don't mean to come across to mopey complainy downtrodden, I'm honestly pretty happy, being home, endless food, a/c, palm tree breezey and the radio ... life's qute nice. Outlets, you know? This is one and I like to dump all of it on you guys tehe.
Goodnight Everybody!
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[Monday
April 18th, 2011 at 2:50am] |
 
Tonight's Full Moon brought to you by PJ Harvey
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[Thursday
March 31st, 2011 at 2:34am] |
Well, the human impulse to remember is the fact that biologically we forget. Because we biologically forget most of what we experience, we try to hold on to, cling on to the experiences, the memories, the opinions, the values, the facts that we treasure and therefore want to remember. But the important element of that is that for all of human history, remembering has been hard and costly, and thus required active work and energy to be put into it, while forgetting was easy. Today with the digital tools, it’s the other way around. Digital remembering is the default these days, and forgetting has become much, much harder.
- Viktor Schonberger
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[Monday
March 14th, 2011 at 7:52pm] |
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[Wednesday
February 9th, 2011 at 2:35pm] |
Can hear a lot of the snow and disgust melting from the sun outside ~ rebirth is at hand er'one! Even though if watching Martyrs wasn't enough for a rejuvi -nation than I don't know what else is (srsly if you haven't gotten into that I'll post a link to it 4 u 2 c, my favorite scary movie O.K.). Getting some "Me" things done finally since it's been a little hektic @work place, but not sure if you guys realize this 'work' is actually just freelance and needed basis so when I am needed it's like they really need me ~ nice to b needed, but it's a casting agency and it's a weird weird world of models and 'walks'. n~e~who besides the common ailments of a i-found-a-job now i-dont-want-a-job things been good in da BK,
jeez i'm really grasping at nothing here I'm typing like Edvvward but nothink to write
 
Lately there has been stress on the net I feel for major identification claiming ~ claim your stake on the vastlissness of the web ~ your flag is down on facebook, your personal website, maybe myspace but you're still treading in the void. Filled with information, inspiration and actual human thought, but there aren't categories, spaces or junctions for a real emotive outlet (besides writing) and if you're a netartist it get's sort of turned around like your making work for the net, for the sake of planting more flags down (not everything). And that's cool, no discredit, but in some cases the emotive responses reaches it's goal by clicking "Like". Anyway that netart talk is for another entry; what I am getting @ is the fact that there needs to be a thought in ways children and young adults get brought into vast space - without a guide this tool becomes so embedded into our modus operandi that a disconnect from daily routine (for instance having a conversation) ... is going to be difficult. But I think schools need to start teaching the usefulness and amazing aspects the Internet has to offer,,,
One reason a lot of our generation (and netartists for most part) want to create these projects is for that same innocence and allure the net lended to us in the 90's, where we didn't actually have places/urls to go, just search-and-find and browsing the endless ness of forums, rings, fan sites, geocities pages, u name it. Those are still around but the bulk of net use is to find other people or communicate through networks ~ something the net was missing in its heyday and in its own right, an amazing extension/evolution to this tool. Though I still would like to have the generation to seek, investigate and adventure through our WWW instead of just directing attention to entertainment and networking, but we have to teach others that there are limitless forms of escapism and learning to be found. I'm sure there are classes or teachings about 'safety on the net' but I'm not sure how much this involves "Safety on the net with the dispersion of your identity" aka "Learn to luv urself via the Internet". Don't want to sound anymore naïve about this stuff so I'll stop, but hopefully some kids can stumble upon this here LJ (provided they're allowed in the future??) and find more interesting connections/lynks to things that inspire and scare them.
YUMM Secret Agent Man gifs brought to you by Ulan-Bator YAAA so quality.
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[Tuesday
January 4th, 2011 at 11:37pm] |
Hmm Washing the dishes and I realize how I haven't told anyone how great SpaceCollective is, it's sort of a utopia from the nasty net we live in right now since it's a forum for creative thought and ideas/philosophy. It isn't "open" to join (for posting access) but if you'd like an Invite I can h00k up, since I know my LJ friends are up-to par ;^) Only say that because there was mention of having the SC open to public posting and there was an uproar about that since now it's a nice little "haven" for useful insight. I haven't posted much on there - I get a little net.shy - and I'm not good with a werds but meh. What you see is what you have you. If you're already there let's be fronds!
Then the pots are clean and I think about what should Post to SpaceCollective and realize there was a mention of the new Tron movie, which was sort of a disappointment (your thought?) ; though I'm not a fan of the first I ARE a fan of sci-fi and really a fan of day-glow cities (see Moonside) + Daft Punk is pretty tite so needless to say was excited. Anywho, I don't think SC liked it very much either since there wasn't much discussion on aforementioned post, I just had to say how the side love story was silly and disposable and how I thought female cyborgs in general - but especially this film - are sexist and stupid (I can only think of Major Motoko Kusanagi as being the only exception but that's another Lj post I guess boop).
The one thing to commend about Tron I must say was the use of 3D (heh) as more as a function of story than a special effect, which seems standard now adays with any action/sci-fi film + Disney but you know . . . the whole "warning" in the beginning of not having some 3D scenes in "the film you're about to see" was a little off-putting for me, and I think by the time audience was into the awesome Disney logo and intense start we sort of forgot - I was the only person who took my 3D glasses off! That I had noticed. So here I am 3D less and in the "real world" in the story of the film and realize "cool it's going to be 3D when he is in Tron/Moonside" and by the gods it was true. Nice right? I thought so. Because until this point there hasn't been really 3D in the function as narrative, just in-your-fucking-face shark or Shrek or Na'avi. Wouldn't it be interesting to watch a film with the intention of deception in the film? Like an action ( murder or sex or ) behind something ( a bush or sofa idk ) in the foreground making you WANT to move behind the object? I haven't seen that really, maybe hmm . . . We need 3D dramas, not even just the fact of wanting to move in a space but to be involved in the atmosphere.
mwahah told my roommate to watch Solaris really high and I think he is tripping out during the space-travel-through-the-tunnel-sfx scene. gee I wonder what Solaris 3D would be like, or a film by Haneke or Ming-liang Tsai would be like.
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