http://oddbill.com SCIeNCE | ARt | WEiRDNESS Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:20:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Reading a bunch of books on a related theme all at the same time and thinking in public. So a while back I was writing posts about trying to figure out what genuine new forms of wealth creation might be, as the things touched on in the book Revolutionary Wealth by ... http://oddbill.com/2010/06/24/exhibitionist-reading/ My internet friend Allana and I are live blogging a reading of The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. I started by smelling my copy of the book, which is something Allana insists is not advisable if you get your books from the library. My book came from ... http://oddbill.com/2010/04/05/differencing-the-engine/ Listen! http://oddbill.com/2010/04/04/meta-temporal-chrononautics/ There was a very briefly run blog out there once called BlueSpill. Well, it's still out there, sure, but it hasn't been updated in quite a while. It is, however, very much worth a visit if you are interested in handmade Visual Effects or in the history of the special effects ... http://oddbill.com/2010/02/03/bluespill/ Lo Fi Sci Fi - a name derived from "Low Fidelity" and "Science Fiction", meant to convey the impression of filmed science fiction created by amateurs or on a very limited budget. I don't know who first coined the term, but I first encountered it in the ad campaign for ... http://oddbill.com/2010/01/30/the-faking-hoaxer/ The sun will come up on the last day of 2009 soon, and I'll probably do a rambling post on the decade gone, the first decade of THE FUTURE, kind of at an angle to what we all thought the third millennium AD would bring us. Some time this weekend. ... http://oddbill.com/2009/12/31/riding-post-on-a-devils-errand/ Watching Inglourious Basterds this weekend, I was afterward struck by how casually European that film was. Half of it was spoken in German and French with subtitles, and there were multiple points at which humor and or plot development depended on the regional authenticity of the characters' accents. The film ... http://oddbill.com/2009/08/23/basterds-and-bruce/ Solstice! The 12 Noon of the year, and occasion to contemplate the remorseless sidereal gears that grind us. This osseus dome, once arched nobly over the seat of one man's reason, now reduced by time to the state of a broken cathedral, abandoned, cast in plastic and sold over the counter ... http://oddbill.com/2009/06/21/time-is-the-fire-in-which-we-burn/ Here's another portrait I did for the Whitechapel forum: http://oddbill.com/2009/05/01/whitechapel-portrait/ I wrote some of this to someone who I met who asserted that Björk was her savior. It allowed me the opportunity to put some old thoughts into words. First, if you don't know Björk's pluto, watch this: It's an iffy recording of a good performance. If you already love this ... http://oddbill.com/2009/04/13/bjork-pluto-rage-joy/