Ragg It: March 2009

http://i.gizmodo.com/5184211/the-beautiful-scary-robots-of-shigeo-hirose

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/technology_robot_menagerie/html/1.stm

André Gonçalves

Of How We Have to Leave Doubts, Expectations and the Unachieved:
http://vimeo.com/3416224
http://www.pixelsumo.com/post/of-how-we-have-to-leave-doubts

Pong, The Analog Arcade Machine:
http://vimeo.com/3416337

http://www.undotw.org/ctrl/

My basic idea is that time as such does not exist. There is no invisible river of time. But there are things that you could call instants of time, or 'Nows'. As we live, we seem to move through a succession of Nows, and the question is, what are they? They are arrangements of everything in the universe relative to each other in any moment, for example, now.
(...)
I do think we are discovering the world, not inventing it. But John Wheeler sometimes seems to suggest that we create the universe. He thinks
that by insisting on finding a consistent description of it we conjure it up by a kind of conspiracy. He illustrates the idea by a variation of the game of twenty questions in which there is no object at the start of the questioning. Instead, each answer that is given must be consistent with all those already given. Eventually, there emerges some object that matches the answers.
(...)
What I feel for myself is that by concentrating on the things that we know are in the world, it makes one think about the actual world more, and I would say cherish it and value it more, and perhaps take a more relaxed attitude toward life and sit back and enjoy it more. This is actually happening to me personally — maybe it's just because I'm getting older and don't want to miss things, but certainly I'm aware of savoring the moment more than I when I was young. And it's partly influenced by my idea that really the universe is static, and the only things that are real are Nows, in one of which we now are.
Some years ago, I heard Dame Janet Baker interviewed on radio. She was asked if she ever listened to her recordings and, if so, what were her favourites. She said she hardly ever listened to them. For her, every Now was so exciting and new, it was a great mistake to try to repeat one. In her singing, she made no attempt at all to recreate earlier performances and do the high points in the same way as the night before. Again and again she spoke with the deepest reverence of the Now and how it should be new and happen spontaneously. "The Now is what is real", she said. I thought it was the perfect artistic expression of how I see timeless quantum cosmology.
(...)
I would love to show that the universe is as rich as it appears to us through our senses and not rather drab as it appears in science. For me one of the great miracles is colors, and different sounds and sensations.
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge60.html

On the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation: "The past is theory," he once wrote. "It has no existence except in the records of the present. We are participators, at the microscopic level, in making that past, as well as the present and the future." In effect, Dr. Wheeler's answer to Augustine is that we are collectively God and that we are always creating the universe.
http://www.tomcoyner.com/before_the_big_bang_there_was__.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Barbour

The Internet in 1969

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pPfyYtiBc

Telecommunications Services for the 1990s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqtoVmACDng

The Amazing Tale of Joaquina

http://quintadasaguias.blogspot.com/2008/03/chicken-therapy.html

http://quintadasaguias.blogspot.com/2008/05/chicken-therapy-2.html

Cathar Movement

In order to liberate the soul, and thereby to achieve salvation, it was necessary to undergo a ceremony known as the consolamentum. After a probationary year of fasting and instruction the believer would be baptised by those who had already received the consolamentum. S/he would then make a vow to be celibate, not to own property, not to go to war and not to eat any food that that resulted from coition.
http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/christ/west/cathar.html

http://www.pbs.org/inquisition/pdf/TheCatharHeresy.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism

Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious, undeciphered illustrated book. It is thought to have been written in the 15th or 16th century. The author, script, and language of the manuscript remain unknown.

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_13.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

http://images.google.com/images?q=Voynich

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/voynich.html

http://awesta.sibirjak.ru/files/Voynich.pdf

Codex Seraphinianus

http://jonesthought.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/codex-seraphinianus/

The Singing Ringing Tree

http://jonesthought.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/the-singing-ringing-tree/

Werner Herzog

Wild Blue Yonder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93OOHROv6Q4

Herzog on the obscenity of the jungle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQyQnXrLb0

Herzog being shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w

Insane Penguin Heads for the Mountains:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_2_XElV1-Y

http://www.wernerherzblog.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog

Rosa Barba

http://diaart.org/barba/barba.html

Spectacular Society Corporation

political art:
http://www.spectacularsocietycorporation.com/political.html

dnstuff:
http://www.spectacularsocietycorporation.com/dnstuff.html

cave:
http://www.spectacularsocietycorporation.com/cave.html

http://www.spectacularsocietycorporation.com/

http://www.jesuschristhypercube.com/

Kenneth Anger

Lucifer Rising:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1710883728662460695

Mouse Heaven:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SqH_nQ6Er0

The Man We Want to Hang:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg2p6DuOprQ

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9218510103795616643

Puce Moment:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2euk5_puce-moment-kenneth-anger_creation

Anger Me: Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGbH94od1A4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Anger

Detournement

A User’s Guide to Détournement:
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/detourn.htm

http://images.google.com/images?q=Detournement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogEtfIdgjpY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detournement

It cries because it doesn't know what is it all for...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBi908sct_U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04KaWCXkSC0

Telharmonium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPlbXl81Rs0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telharmonium

Polytron

http://wrongdistance.com/?p=2706

http://polytroncorporation.com/

Melissa Manfull

http://melissamanfull.com/index.html

http://melissamanfull.com/Selected%20Works/Indv_work_Arch.html

http://melissamanfull.com

Bas Zoontjens

http://artnews.org/baszoontjens/?s=1

MATHWRATH

http://www.mathwrath.com/

Su-Mei

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUzB6n0-oxM

Zhan Wang

Stone to fill the sky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az0YkPwoLZk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhan_Wang

Anna Wignell

Part of Eternity:
http://homepage.mac.com/anna.wignell/poe/poe.htm

Filling and Emptying a Room with Furniture:
http://homepage.mac.com/anna.wignell/faerwf/faerwf.htm

Sorting:
http://homepage.mac.com/anna.wignell/sorting/sorting.htm

1 & 2:
http://homepage.mac.com/anna.wignell/1o2/1o2.htm

http://www.annawignell.com/

Bjorn Copeland

http://www.everyoneforever.com/content/2006-12-16/bjorn_copeland/

http://temple-of-light.blogspot.com/2009/01/bjorn-copeland.html

http://www.danielreichgallery.com/artistscopeland.html

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=984&Itemid=92

Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller

Friends, Romans, Countrymen:
http://www.secureperspectives.org/port/web-content/friends.html

Mathmatics is a Young Men's Game:
http://www.secureperspectives.org/port/web-content/math%20video.html

Road Movie:
http://www.secureperspectives.org/port/web-content/roadmovie.html

Mushroom:
http://www.secureperspectives.org/port/web-content/mushroom.html

In This Old Town:
http://www.secureperspectives.org/port/web-content/oldtown.html

http://www.hanakam-schuller.com/

Cornrow Rider

Just You and Me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK8DvnhQzPE

http://www.cornrowrider.com

Detournement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detournement

A User’s Guide to Détournement:
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/detourn.htm

Richard Serra

Television Delivers People:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbvzbj4Nhtk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Serra

Brian Gibson

Love will tear us apart:
http://dvblog.org/?p=2325

alert today, alive tomorrow and the u.s. missiles warehouse:
http://lucidunison.com/baio/atatatumw.mov

Gibson 4 congress:
http://glimpsecontrol.com/baio/gibson4congresss.mov

http://baiowulf.com/

Guido van der Werve

http://claytoncubitt.tumblr.com/post/87833121

http://www.roofvogel.org/test/nummertweeclip.html

http://www.roofvogel.org/

Miguel Palma

Eve Essex

Screen Savers:
http://eveessex.com/work/index.php?/project/screen-savers/

My "psychadelic" phase:
http://eveessex.com/work/index.php?/video/albers/

Fred Sandback

http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2009/02/fred-sandback-string-theory.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Sandback

Voyage Into The Unknown

Roderick Coover's
U N K N O W N T E R R I T O R I E S
Interactive Documentary Panoramas and Cinemascapes

http://www.unknownterritories.org/

Cory Arcangel

Super Mario Clouds (2002):
http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made/SuperMarioClouds

F1 Racer Mod (2004):
http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made/F1RacerMod

http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/Things_I_Made/

Fotoplastikon

http://www.fotoplastikon.stereos.com.pl/fotoplastikon/index-en.html

http://www.efors.eu/warsaw-museums-en/id/157

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karczoch/2689833023

Hinman Collator and Blink Comparator

The Hinman Collator, an early optical collator, was an opto-mechanical device for comparing pairs of documents for differences in the text. Documents that appeared similar were said to “collate”. The collator resulted in rapid advances in the study of literary works.
Invented by Charlton Hinman in the late 1940s, the device used lights and mirrors to superimpose images of the two documents so that differences in text alignment or wording stood out. This resulted in huge improvements in speed and efficiency compared to the traditional cross-referencing of texts by eye.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinman_Collator
http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/images/public/sb53pl03.jpg
http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9706/fieldnotes.html
http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/images/public/sb53pl07.jpg

A blink comparator was a viewing apparatus used by astronomers to find differences between two photographs of the night sky shot using optical telescopes such as astrographs. It permitted rapidly switching from viewing one photograph to viewing the other, "blinking" back and forth between the two taken of the same area of the sky at different times. This allowed the user to more easily spot objects in the night sky that changed position. It was also sometimes known as a blink microscope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_comparator

Sarmoung Brotherhood

In the account, the motto of the Sarmouni is said to be "Work produces a Sweet Essence" (Amal misazad yak zaati shirin), work being not only work for God and for others but also self-work. In relation to this, it is maintained that just as the bee accumulates honey, so the Sarmouni accumulate, store and preserve what they term "true knowledge" (which is equally seen as existing as a positive commodity and associated with the spiritual gift or energy of Baraka). In times of need this is released once more into the world through specially trained emissaries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmoung_Brotherhood

http://www.gurdjieff-internet.com/search.php#Sarmoung

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/sarman.html

Katrin Heesch

http://www.rothamel.de/de/Katrin-Heesch/Arbeiten.php

Hans-Christian Schink

1 h:
http://www.rothamel.de/de/Hans-Christian-Schink/1-h/index.php

Verkehrsprojekte deutsche Einheit:
http://www.rothamel.de/de/Hans-Christian-Schink/Verkehrsprojekte-Deutsche-Einheit/index.php

Wände:
http://www.rothamel.de/de/Hans-Christian-Schink/Waende/index.php

Peru:
http://www.rothamel.de/de/Hans-Christian-Schink/Peru/index.php

Wes Johnson

powerlinerflyers:
http://vimeo.com/3013257

Clayton Cubitt

Momentos and Long Portraits:
http://vimeo.com/3479810

Donnie Darko

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/d/images/donnie-darko-8.jpg

http://www.screenhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/donniedarko_wideweb__470x2990.jpg

http://thehostess.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/donnie_darko-frank.jpg

Hiroshi Sugimoto

http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/seascape.html

http://www.mitterrand-cramer.com/Artists/Sugimoto/index.php

http://www.alexlockwood.net/2008/06/04/imagining-our-environment-hiroshi-sugimoto/

Attila Csörgő

http://www.c3.hu/~acsorgo/angol/projektek_terkep2.html

http://www.manystuff.org/?p=1744

http://vernissage.tv/blog/tag/attila-csorgo/

http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/6017

Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

http://museum.icp.org/museum/collections/special/weegee/index.html

http://www.profotos.com/education/referencedesk/masters/masters/weegee/weegee.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weegee

Werner Nekes

Film before film - What really happens between images:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO27DVdlg5M&feature=PlayList&p=4D0751D81B4121BA&index=0&playnext=1

http://www.vasulka.org/archive/4-30c/AfterImageNov77(3002).pdf

Johnny Flash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC-6dVlbbfY

http://wernernekes.de/00_cms/cms/front_content.php?changelang=2

http://wernernekes.de/00_cms/cms/front_content.php?idcat=73

http://www.c3.hu/perspektiva/nekesen.html

Shinichi Tsuchiya

http://www.mapmag.net/works.html

http://www.artnet.com/artist/425630414/shinichi-tsuchiya.html

http://www.obrist-gingold.com/shop/artist-12.html

Bannerman's Island

http://www.oboylephoto.com/bannermans/index.htm

http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/yasinsac/bannerman/bannerman.html

http://www.hudsonriver.com/bannerman.htm

Bernd and Hilla Becher

http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=2179&page_tab=Artworks_for_sale

http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/04spring/stimson_paper.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_and_Hilla_Becher

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/03/bernd-and-hilla-becher-cataloguing-the-ominous-sculptural-forms-of-industrial-architecture

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1777/bernd-and-hilla-becher-german-partnership-1959-2007/

Thomas Ruff

http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.2079953/k.8CFB/Thomas_Ruff.htm

http://www.re-title.com/artists/Thomas-Ruff.asp

http://pontdesarts.pixnet.net/blog/post/22255428

http://www.foammagazine.nl/index.php?pageId=9&foto=31

http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/18/selected_works_1.htm

http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/2008/03/a_conversation_with_thomas_ruf.html

http://www.orbit.zkm.de/?q=node/164

Only one is known to have hit a person

"Only one is known to have hit a person. Around 1 p.m. on November 30, 1954, a meteorite tore through the roof of a house near Sylacauga, Alabama, across the street from the Comet Drive-in Theatre. The rock, about the size of a softball, caromed off a console radio and clipped Ann Hodges as she snoozed on her couch, bruising her left hip and wrist. She was hospitalized to recover from the shock."

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/08/earth-scars/stone-text/3