Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
Title: J.G. Ballard. Image: Tokyo by Ryu Itadani Toky SC buddy, Anthony Gill has a new website up and running for his office, Gill Architects are producing some really great work including a number of residential projects and restaurant fitouts. I particularly like the front elevation of their Surry Hills project: Image: Gill Architects, Photography:…
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The human beauty we’re talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings’ reconciliation with the fact of having a body.
[Image: Batman: Year 100, Paul Pope Title: David Foster Wallace on Roger Federer.] Pecha Kucha Sydney is on again this Thursday night at Carriageworks. It is the first for 2011, and we have a great lineup including ex-supercolossaler Erin Field, and Hannah Tribe. See the Pecha Kucha website for more info and the Carriageworks site…
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The Sun Was a Hammer
[Image: Storyboards Moebius for the aborted Jadorowsky Dune project. Title: David Foster Wallace, ‘Infinite Jest’] Funny how things come around. A couple of years ago I put a post up on here tracking each of the ocean pools along Sydney’s coastline. It was a series of screenshots from google earth assembled north to south. A…
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The Bumps Levelled Off. The Plane Descended. There’s That Big Wide Light. Jesus, L.A. Looked Good.
[Image: If We Don’t Remember Me Title: James, Ellroy, ‘Bloods a Rover’] Okay. Let’s see if I can get this thing started up again. A couple of things by way of housekeeping. This blog has been quite for the last six months or so while I have restructured the office and made some changes to…
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Popcorn
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Thrilling Wonder Stories II
Thrilling Wonder Stories, the symposium of speculative architectures curated by Liam Young and Geoff Manaugh, is having a second outing later today/tomorrow at the AA. Like the first iteration of the event, the day will be packed with game designers, comic book creators, authors and other enthusiasts of the speculative. The whole thing will be…
Got any book recommendations?