matt trent

List of cats with fraudulent diplomas

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:53:45 -0800

The name says it all

“Poetry is when you make new things familiar and...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:21:00 -0800

“Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new.” Which isn’t a bad definition of what our job is, to help people appreciate what is unfamiliar, but also to gain a greater appreciation, and place a far higher value on those things which are already existing.

— Rory Sutherland

Traveling Through Time and Stars A slideshow of astronomical...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:30:41 -0700

Traveling Through Time and Stars

A slideshow of astronomical images from SEED magazine, one of the few physical publications I’d consider actually consider a subscription to.

Democratizing Innovation

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:10:04 -0700

Democratizing Innovation:

When I say that innovation is being democratized, I mean that users of products and services—both firms and individual consumers—are increasingly able to innovate for themselves. User-centered innovation processes offer great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the mainstay of commerce for hundreds of years. Users that innovate can develop exactly what they want, rather than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect) agents. Moreover, individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own: they can benefit from innovations developed and freely shared by others.

— Eric Von Hippel

Hip-Hop INF PAULO: • Pearls For Swine - The Kilimanjaro...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:45:00 -0700

Hip-Hop INF

PAULO:
• Pearls For Swine - The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
• All Things To All Men - Cinematic Orchestra (Feat. Roots Manuva)
• Baggage For Sale - Shuanise
• Young Heartache - Bullion
• El Diciembre de este Julio - Tonossepia
• Deux Three - Mike Slott
• It Started As a Remix - 1000 names
• FWD - Nosaj Thing
• Electric Bird - Yoggy One
• Babel Fish - Tiago
• Polkadot Blues - Hudson Mohawke
• Workinonit - J Dilla
• Darkest Light - Lafayette Afro Rock Band

DR.STRANGELOOP:
• 0:0-0:37 Milieu - Universe Inside You
• 0:37-1:20 Shlohmo - Couch (sl underwater mix)
• 1:20-1:50 Steve Reich - Different Trains, After the War (sl history’s history mix)
• 1:50-2:45 Sigur Ros - Refur (sl Tak Sigur Ros mix)
• 2:45-4:10 Nest - This is What I Get (sl broken conscience mix)
• 4:10-4:20 Particle Kid / Strangeloop - really tiny bridge
• 4:20-5:40 Seven Saturdays - Early Morning Fog Bank
• 5:40-6:25 Nest - Jumpy Geetar Slide (nostalgia mix)
• 6:25-10:15 Ben Olsen / Strangeloop / Shlohmo - Asa Nisi Masa
• 10:15-11:31 Flashbulb - Miles and Miles
• 11:31-12:57 Strangeloop - Love All Day
• 12:57-16:20 Nest - Travers Geetar Gallop
• 16:20-20:17 Múm / Sjorn - She Introduces Herself
• 20:17-21:30 Strangeloop - Something New Everyday
• 21:30-23:20 Austin Peralta / Strangeloop - Endless Planets (transition 4)
• 23:20-30:00 Flying Lotus - Ambient Practice 11.18.08

The neuroscience of mindfulness

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:39:55 -0700

The neuroscience of mindfulness:

You can experience the world through your narrative circuitry, which will be useful for planning, goal setting, and strategizing. You can also experience the world more directly, which enables more sensory information to be perceived. Experiencing the world through the direct experience network allows you to get closer to the reality of any event. You perceive more information about events occurring around you, as well as more accurate information about these events. Noticing more real-time information makes you more flexible in how you respond to the world. You also become less imprisoned by the past, your habits, expectations or assumptions, and more able to respond to events as they unfold.

An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:32:55 -0700

An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All:

The rejection of hard-won knowledge is by no means a new phenomenon. In 1905, French mathematician and scientist Henri Poincaré said that the willingness to embrace pseudo-science flourished because people “know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether illusion is not more consoling.” Decades later, the astronomer Carl Sagan reached a similar conclusion: Science loses ground to pseudo-science because the latter seems to offer more comfort. “A great many of these belief systems address real human needs that are not being met by our society,” Sagan wrote of certain Americans’ embrace of reincarnation, channeling, and extraterrestrials. “There are unsatisfied medical needs, spiritual needs, and needs for communion with the rest of the human community.”

Looking back over human history, rationality has been the anomaly. Being rational takes work, education, and a sober determination to avoid making hasty inferences, even when they appear to make perfect sense. Much like infectious diseases themselves — beaten back by decades of effort to vaccinate the populace — the irrational lingers just below the surface, waiting for us to let down our guard.

Leave

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:22:17 -0700

Leave

bagel to go

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:04:54 -0700

bagel to go

Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:31:55 -0700

Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop

Color perception optical illusion

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:12:49 -0700

Color perception optical illusion

Laser + Sound test-0 More info

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:31:00 -0700

Laser + Sound test-0

More info

How to write with style

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:57:00 -0700

How to write with style:

by Kurt Vonnegut

Find a subject you care about

Do not ramble, though

Keep it simple

Have guts to cut

Sound like yourself

Say what you mean

Pity the readers

Burial - Fostercare

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:39:28 -0700

Burial - Fostercare

A film by Jonathan Fowler

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:49:00 -0700

A film by Jonathan Fowler

Hookerz & Blow - Cafe Del Mar Not quite what you think it...

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:20:00 -0700

Hookerz & Blow - Cafe Del Mar

Not quite what you think it is.

Evolution (Burning Man time lapses) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:41:53 -0700

Evolution (Burning Man time lapses) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

“In a computerized society where individuality is...

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:29:00 -0700

“In a computerized society where individuality is diminished, there are those who find little to no satisfaction in strict conformity to stereotyped living and are searching for their own answers to life’s questions and how best to live, work and find happiness.”

Pertinent issues in computational photography

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:18:00 -0700

Pertinent issues in computational photography

HxdB Electronic Explorations mix TriFunk - Slowwalker (HxdB’s...

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:25:06 -0700

HxdB Electronic Explorations mix

TriFunk - Slowwalker (HxdB’s Minimal Bounce RMX) : DubKraft - DKR018mp3
HxdB - Show(down) at the Cinema : Mindset - Mindset006
HxdB - Sunburst : Echodub - ECHO010
HxdB - New Sense : Migration Dub
HxdB - Prism : Mindset - Mindset006
Kwality - Connex (HxdB RMX) : DubKraft - DKR018mp3
HxdB - Bump That
Grooki - Fairy Wren (HxdB VIP) : DubKraft - DKR018mp3
HxdB - Jack Swung VIP : Betamorph Dub
HxdB - Dirty Streetz VIP : Cymbstep - CYMB003
Don Goliath - Mrs. U (HxdB RMX) : Dubstep Division Records : DDR023
HxdB - Macromodular : Mindset - Mindset006
HxdB - Immediate Media
B1T CRUNCH3R & Juxta - u001 (HxdB RMX) : Substruk - SUB004