Take two lifetimes at once

Take two lifetimes at once.

First,

That time,

When yellow shoes cream into cement,

Shallow footsteps bludgeon red blood all over the floor,

This is this tree, this is a lamppost, this is a street,

They all belong to me,

Buy this, buy that,

One by one all in my pocket,

That time,

When you run past the ironed gates,

Into the street,

Feet blackened by the filth,

To fly into the infinite possibilities of the air,

Swapms of scents embedded into each particle,

Each delicate cell,

Scented by filth, grass, wood, plaster, mud, rain, tarmac, leaves, smoke.

Second,

This time,

This shallow time,

This which exists,

In others heads,

But here for you,

Is nothing but an empty second,

Infinite empty seconds,

In which you think,

To think is to know,

But there is nothing new to know,

Time passes by,

Empty words, empty people,

All memories prance in glassy eyes,

Plastic becomes human,

Cuddle cuddle in bed,

All all all polyester flowing all around,

No warm blood in bed,

Years into seconds,

These seconds go on pass,

Dull breaths.

I am flying!

ON PILLS!

VITAMIN PILLS.

Tree Of Life

If I want the entire history of evolution summarised into a six minute clip, I want David Attenborough to do it:

The thought of the entire planet connected together in an intricate web of life is the most beautiful imagery; and Attenborough's voice just adds that extra note of magic to it.

Sometimes I wonder if Attenborough is the only good thing left in the world.

| If |

if my soul was made out of cotton,

would it get soaked wet in all the blood surrounding it?

Ok Go - WTF

Remeber Ok Go? The band that was thrown into stardom because their cool treadmill video for the song Here It Goes?

They are back, and here is a new video for the song WTF:



I don't particularly like the song (it fact, every time I listen to it, my ears feel a bit irritated), but the video is awesomely trippy. At first it looks a bit cheap, like the first time ever you used Paint, and overused the "stamp" function just to see what a circle would look like printed over and and over 500 times. But the more you watch it, the more you like it (just make sure you mute out the sound though).

Shoes! ...Adidas

Okay, the post title is pretty lame, but couldn't think of anything else.

Here is a recent ad campaign called "All Day I dream About Sneakers" by Adidas, for the Adidas Originals line of shoes. Based around Adidas' slogan "Impossible Is Nothing", Dimitri Kalagas and Chris Cork converted this line of shoes into sculpted models, and the results were featured all over Adidas shops as posters, as well as a limited edition book and other visual ad campaigns.

Here is a link to check out the rest of the sculptors. 

The amazing part is that none of these are Photoshoped, although I can't think how they made the sculptor for "Storm" without Photoshop.

Why is Natasha Khan in this?

I love Bat For Lashes (aka Natasha Khan), I really do; she is currently my favourite.

Her voice is sweetly hollow, and unlike other singers who sound like that just on record, her voice is actually gorgeous live (I have not had the fantastic chance of seeing her live, I am just referring to YouTube videos of her singing live).

That's all very well, but just what the hell is she doing in this video? Watch:


It looks like some twisted visual euphemism for coming-of-age sexual recognition; ya know, the time in your life when you go "oh, so that's what Bob meant when he said fanny! I thought he was referring to our neighbor!". [ok, I never actually said that]

Anyways, my lewd lame humour aside, I simply wish I could see Natasha in better video, especially for a song which has such beautiful lyrics.

But no, someone thought it would be a good idea to dress her up in a old hoodie, and some random short-shorts [which actually look like one of those Jockey mens' underwear], and paint her pretty face with cheap face makeup to make her look like a depressed mime. And to add to all that, she gets attacked (karate style and all) by some random black things dressed up as balls. The entire push-and-pull sequences just look wrong, and to conclude the video, she punches all the balls aside and gets into a car, only to have a ball sneaking up on her form behind her car seat.

Rather than concentrating on the simple, beautiful lyrics and concept of the song itself, this video has forced me to conclude that "Daniel" is some weird ball-shaped man that Natasha probably fell in love with some time in the duration of her life.

The video should have been something simple and sweet; hell even go for the overly-cliche "walk of life" or "boy meets girl" theme. At least that would do more justice to this song than this butchered up ball-karate-boxing inspired thing.

Here is a riddle for you

Here is a philosophical thought experiment for you:

If a Computer Scientist falls in a forest, and no was there to hear them, will the Computer Scientist exist? 

And if the Computer Scientist exists, does the forest in which they have fallen in really exist?

If your answer is no, then are all Computer Scientists non-existent in the real world?

I can pretty much take over from Schrodinger now.