Jason Sutter

"What happens is this: ‘Stuff’ is a word for the world as it looks when our eyes are out of focus...."

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:06:24 -0600

“What happens is this: ‘Stuff’ is a word for the world as it looks when our eyes are out of focus. Fuzzy. Stuff–the idea of stuff is that it is undifferentiated, like some kind of goo. And when your eyes are not in sharp focus, everything looks fuzzy. When you get your eyes into focus, you see a form, you see a pattern. But when you want to change the level of magnification, and go in closer and closer and closer, you get fuzzy again before you get clear. So everytime you get fuzzy, you go through thinking there’s some kind of stuff there. But when you get clear, you see a shape. So all that we can talk about is patterns. We never, never can talk about the ’stuff’ of which these patterns are supposed to be made, because you don’t really have to suppose that there is any. It’s enough to talk about the world in terms of patterns. It describes anything that can be described, and you don’t really have to suppose that there is some stuff that constitutes the essence of the pattern in the same way that clay constitutes the essence of pots. And so for this reason, you don’t really have to suppose that the world is some kind of helpless, passive, unintelligent junk which an outside agency has to inform and make into intelligent shapes. So the picture of the world in the most sophisticated physics of today is not formed stuff–potted clay–but pattern. A self-moving, self-designing pattern. A dance. And our common sense as individuals hasn’t yet caught up with this.”

- Alan Watts: The Nature Of Consciousness

The new bridge at the Hoover dam (via...

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:42:19 -0600

The new bridge at the Hoover dam (via i.dailymail.co.uk)

I’d love to go see this before it’s finished.

“photographic proof that new mexico isn’t just...

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:48:30 -0600

“photographic proof that new mexico isn’t just straight up desert..for all you non-believers” (via erin azouz)

Some more photo’s from yesterday in tehran #iranelection...

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:49:12 -0600

Some more photo’s from yesterday in tehran #iranelection (via .faramarz)

Mac Motorcycles I’m not much of a motorcycle person, but...

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:14:01 -0600

Mac Motorcycles

I’m not much of a motorcycle person, but man these are sexy in their simplicity.

Douglas Rushkoff » Life Inc. Dispatch: Insulation Equation

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:35:14 -0600

Douglas Rushkoff » Life Inc. Dispatch: Insulation Equation

“Rushkoff illuminates both how we’ve become disconnected...

Mon, 11 May 2009 11:59:44 -0600

“Rushkoff illuminates both how we’ve become disconnected from our world, and how we can reconnect to our towns, to the value we can create, and mostly, to one another. As the speculative economy collapses under its own weight, Life Inc. shows us how to build a real and human-scaled society to take its place.”

The book’s full introduction is available on Rushkoff’s blog. It’s well worth a read.

knows.tumblr.com - all iPhone all the time.

Sun, 03 May 2009 18:17:54 -0600

knows.tumblr.com - all iPhone all the time.

"When no knowledge is held to be respectable which is not objective knowledge, what we know will..."

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:39:00 -0600

“When no knowledge is held to be respectable which is not objective knowledge, what we know will always seem to be not ourselves, not the subject. This we have the feeling of knowing things only from the outside, never from within, of being confronted eternally with a world of impendetrable surfaces within surfaces within surfaces.”

- Alan Watts - Nature, Man and Woman

I heard this catchy little tune, by Thee Headcoatees, while...

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:02:47 -0600

I heard this catchy little tune, by Thee Headcoatees, while having lunch in a diner yesterday.

It’s good to be back in San Francisco.

"When a lot of us saw it, we thought this was the definition of a great game,” says Pete..."

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:05:00 -0600

““When a lot of us saw it, we thought this was the definition of a great game,” says Pete Fenlon, CEO of Mayfair Games, Settlers’ English-language distributor. “In every turn you’re engaged, and even better, you’re engaged in other people’s turns. There are lots of little victories—as opposed to defeats—and perpetual hope. Settlers is one of those perfect storms.””

- Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre

Settler’s of Catan is the first board game I’ve enjoyed since cheating at Life against my sister when we were kids.

Graffiti in Pripyat - BLH’s tour of Chernobyl

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:10:39 -0600

Graffiti in Pripyat - BLH’s tour of Chernobyl

Kamal Meattle on how to grow your own fresh air

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:08:45 -0600

Kamal Meattle on how to grow your own fresh air

Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Detroit, and Techno (via...

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:49:03 -0600

Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Detroit, and Techno (via JN6)

“If you could just imagine what it must look like in the Titanic. I think this is like a Titanic above water.”

Behind the Mic on Vimeo (via Anticon) I’m trying to tell...

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:54:30 -0600

Behind the Mic on Vimeo (via Anticon)

I’m trying to tell my folks that flowin ain’t easy.

Ms Vessey’s mermaid tail was created by Wellington-based...

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:34:16 -0700

Ms Vessey’s mermaid tail was created by Wellington-based film industry wizards Weta Workshop after the Auckland woman wrote to them two years ago asking if they could make her a prosthetic tail. She was astounded when they agreed. (Mermaid dream comes true thanks to Weta)

100 monkeys (via cupcake, lane collins?)

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:59:37 -0700

100 monkeys (via cupcake, lane collins?)

Footprints carved in wood, which locals believe were made by a...

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:49:05 -0700

Footprints carved in wood, which locals believe were made by a worshipper who prayed at the same spot for decades, are seen at a monastery near Tongren, Qinghai province February 5, 2009. Local Tibetan monks and pilgrims gather to celebrate Monlam, or Great Prayer Festival, one of the most important festivals in Tibetan Buddhism. (REUTERS/Reinhard Krause) - Tibet’s Great Prayer Festival - The Big Picture

The Crisis of Credit Visualized on Vimeo (via Vimeo) Brilliant...

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:45:50 -0700

The Crisis of Credit Visualized on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Brilliant simple and clear explination of what happened to the economy.

We don't need another hero..

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:23:06 -0700

erinazouz:

I’m not into it. I may just be starting to figure out my position on the global stage, but what I know is that almost all of the images that are popular on Flickr follow the same model. And I’m not sorry for not liking flat photographs that make me think nothing except “that’s pretty.” WE DON’T NEED MORE IMAGES IN THIS OVER-SATURATED IMAGE DRIVEN CULTURE.