the dream machine, what a trip,

Ok so Brion Gysin developed this machine supposedly inspired by the book "The Living Brain". It is a cylinder with slots cut out with a light in the center, it rotates. Viewers of the machine go into trance like states and sometimes feel surrounded by shapes and colors brought on by the dreammachine. sometimes it is reported as being very intense but it is escapable by just opening up your eyes.

I think this machine is fantastic, it induces a trip and alters your state of mind without drugs involved. Im surprised more hippies have not found the location of this machine and just sat there for hours in front of it.

bauhaus

Bauhaus was one of the most important art movements. It was a proponent of modernism and an ode to simplicity and functionality. It was started as an architectural movement in Germany that made building design into art.Bauhaus made mass production and individuality a boundary-less thing. It was innovative in that it was again ne of those first to be done kind of things. The movement made people yet again scratch their heads and really extend their notions of what was art.

grid project

creeping on my roomate.

DADA

"I destroy the drawers of the brain and of social organization: spread demoralization wherever I go and cast my hand from heaven to hell, my eyes from hell to heaven, restore the fecund wheel of a universal circus to objective forces and the imagination of every individual." -Tristan Tzara
The DaDa movement was an act of rebellion from an underground sick and tired of the world around them. It was a questioning of status quo and mocked all seriousness of such a thing.
Tristan Tzar transported ideas into the sounds they made, he gave meaning to gibberish and therefore made fun of meaningful things.
A believer in prgress Tzara thought that the absurdist ideals would be a luanching point for new ways of thought to step in. He created an open door in art for nonsense and daydreams.

why apple?

so far all of the posts so far have been very theoetical but the one that seemed the most accurate was that Jobs had just come back from an apple farm and thought the name was fun and spirtied and less cold than IBM.
some fun theories do include though;
It was a tribute to Apple Records, the music label of the Beatles.
Jobs & Wozniak wanted their startup to be in front of Atari in the phone book.
And I've even heard it having to do with Newton somewhere too.

Ray Kurzweil

Kurzweil led the field in optical character recognition and  text to speech translator, this made him beloved of the blind community. he is a futurist and avid scifi fan  and writer. He believes in the extension of human life through  the combination of humans and machines, And of the Singularity which is when the bluriing of artificial intelligence and control will become a reality.He is also trying really hard to extend his life as long as possible putting faith in cryogenics and such sciences for after he dies.

radio & television

I listened to pirates on otr. com  it was annoying listening to the commercials and messages as the radio announcer had to pretend to care about each product, but the actual episode did create mental suspense, it was neat. i could not find how to share the link though.

For the television history website i went straight to marilyn monroes page because she interests me the most, there was little to do with television on there and i found no links to share, it was however educational about the starlet. I went further into the website and played with the timeline, that was a fun review of what we had learned in class and it was cool to see all of the pictures.

Listening to war of the worlds with Stephanie Will:
http://youtu.be/OzC3Fg_rRJM
 I think unless you missed the beggining of the broadcast where it tells you it is a story show, there should be no reason to mistake this broadcast for real life. but then again, this technology was a new thing back then so maybe the idea of a story being read aloud was so new and strange it was easy to be convinced.

my finished flipbook project:
http://youtu.be/sQa6HkE8AcU