The Mayan's New Beginning 21 December 2012

I do not buy all the Western built hype and fear regarding the year 2012. The Mayan Long Count calendar began in 3,114 B.C., marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.

"It's a special anniversary of creation," said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. "The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they're just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six."

This apocalypse is "a very Western, Christian" concept projected onto the Maya, perhaps because Western myths are "exhausted."

To read more click this link.

I like this video by forkergirl "Hypnosis at the Bird Factory (an adventure in vibration studies)".



It remains focused on the subject while being interesting and dynamic. The juxtaposition of color, sound and movement kept me focused on the beauty, creativity, and complexity of the production. I hope that you to find the same enjoyment as I.

After surgery on Friday, I spent my day on Saturday recovering. It has been a rainy weekend and all I have been able to do is look out the window or stand at the door. Needless to say it as been a very boring weekend. So boring that Saturday evening I decided to be productive and give my website a face-lift.

To view gonzo photo, well you know what to do here. This is my first time to use thickbox, a JS application, that was very easy to install and configure. So, let me know what you like or don't like, all comments are welcomed.

Well, it is late in the afternoon Sunday and I am going over to Bolsa's anniversary celebration. I feel like I am living in Seattle with all this rain.

inter.sect Art Collective

As you all may know (or not), I am a member of the inter.sect Art Collective. We are a group of artists who use new media platforms to explore digital exhibition spaces outside the traditional gallery model. Recent projects involve visual translations of text via mobile phones, which have exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dallas Contemporary, and at Pocket Films at the George Pompidou Centre in Paris.

Well, we have been accepted into the dffla. If you are not familiar, Digital Art L.A. offers an international showcase of digital and art videos. So join the fun and experience contemporary art at the cutting edge of technology. The video bar on the upper right displays the most recent submissions or visit us at inter.sect and comment on what you see, hear, and experience from our work.

Wear glitter enjoy pride

A compilation video from the "Secondhand" show on 12seconds.tv

Digital Arts L.A. "OH" Exhibition coming this Thursday!

Second Sunday in August

While preparing for the Digital Art L.A. event, I realized that I needed to update the blog with information about the next show.

As a member of Inter.sect Art Collective, directed by Christi Nielsen, the group produces short narrative videos from found text using mobile phone technology. A short history about the group, we formed during graduate school at the University of Texas at Dallas sometime in 2007. This work, using mobile phone technology has exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art, The Dallas Contemporary, and George Pompidou Centre in Paris, France.

So do not miss Digital Art LA
August 13-15, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday August 13, 7-9pm, LACDA / Digital Art L.A..

A bit about the production, which is a very complex and delicate mind bending experience. In short director Christi Nielsen will "take things that she overhears during the live event and send them as prompts, then google those phrases to see what comes up and using those as prompts, then googling that prompt to see what comes up and sending that as a prompt. You see where this is going". FYI – the name of our exhibition is OH: ---- Pronounced Oh-H if you are not familiar w/ that, it is short for overheard.

Sound like confusing fun? You betcha!

inter.sect Art Collective "secondhand" exhibition

It has been a long week, The inter.sect Art Collective group has been busy producing short video narratives from found text using a cell phone. Our director Christi Nielsen has been toiling and perspiring to compile these into the work of art they are. Stay tuned as we will be featured on channel 13, thats right KERA this coming Monday evening (June 29, 2009). You are watching secondhand : Follow along on the inter.sect Art Collective site, or search 12seconds.tv for SecondHand. The video bar on the right also contains a preview of a few of these video narratives as well.

inter.sect Art Collective is coming this August 2009 to Digital Art LA

Training in nut house

Compilation of video responses for: Training in nut house.

Assisting in the C-section

Compilation of video responses for: Assisting in the C-section.

There's no sex in your violence

Compilation of video responses for: There's no sex in your violence.

Time to reset broken patterns

Compilation of video responses for: Time to reset broken patterns.

Express the higher self in plastic media

Compilation of video responses for: Express the higher self in plastic media.

All I can do is give you a reputation

Compilation of video responses for: All I can do is give you a reputation.

There's a dead kitty in the refrigerator

Compilation of video responses for: There's a dead kitty in the refrigerator.

Exhibitions: ---- >>>>> You are watching secondhand exhibition on vimeo via http://www.intersectartcollective.com/: Follow along on the site, or search 12seconds.tv for SecondHand.

Once I used this space to speak without consequence from Christi Nielsen on Vimeo.

Intersect-Art Collective is coming this August 2009 to Digital Art LA

People

Estate sale bargain

Trite odor as you enter

Descendants rejects

A short

Maneuvering

Rushing down the highway

Early risers

Tires

There comes a time, if you drive a car or ride a cycle, when sooner or later you are faced with having to replace the tires.
I am at that point of my life, again. I have a Volvo 850 that had the tires replaced sometime in the fall of 2007. Now my other car needs the tires replaced. Must have been all the burning and drifting I've been doing.

Unfortunately, these tires are costly. So, I searched various websites for the perfect match at the perfect price and I cannot help but complain. At least wonder why this car needs to have such high velocity rubber. Oh, yeah its a sports car, duh!

I could sell the car, but I really love the way it handles, and then there is the speed factor. I can talk all day about how quickly it can reach a terminal velocity and it handles curves like they were a straight away.

Anyway here is the run down of what I need; two front tires 235/35 ZR19 91Y, and two rear tires 275/30 ZR19 92W. While I enjoy becoming a savy tire buyer, I still do not understand why 30 is wider than 35 or the difference between 91Y and 92W? Does anyone know the answer?

What I have found - Falken FK 452 for $168.00 for the front and Dunlop Direzza DZ101 at $233.00. Obviously, the problem here is that the manufacturer does not match.

FEEL THE HEAT

"FEEL THE HEAT, KELVIN
FREQUENCY
CALIENTE" forker girl video



Got up early to verify connectivity to a database that experienced a controlled outage. Getting up early is never pretty, especially on a Sunday. But as I was idling time I checked my email and found a notice about forkergirl uploading a new video. Well I just could not resist taking a look. So for your viewing and auditory pleasure -------------- I can't believe it has almost been a month since my last post.

How alike we are?

We project similar thought, emotion, and insecurity.

It is a wonder we manage to handle the bombardment of visual advertisements that asks us to consume more and more to keep the economy in motion. The majority of people still display a need to consume in order to create identity. They smoke, drink, flirt, converse, and act out the drama of contemporary life.

We enter this electronic age, with the fears, pleasures, and cultural shock derived from our own experiences of religion, politics, alcoholism, drugs, sex, mental and physical abuses.

We have created a need and desire for more technology, linking us through everyday use, shaping our everyday lives, drawing upon the human mind for development. Influencing and changing how we live, act and love. We create collaborative artworks designed for a Utopian vision of a unified, commercialized culture.

Now our children need higher education, so they may survive in this modern society.

Time for another entry

Well, it has been almost two weeks, and as I sit in the western living area of our home. I think about all I have accomplished, okay it's not that much, but I am trying.

For my personal benefit, here is a tidbit. Updated my website, and all the other social networking sites that I belong to. In fact, I added so many sites to my facebook page that a colleague wondered if I have enough. Good question, do I?

I have linked my radar.net site with twitter and made some design changes. I wanted a way to keep a perspective on various stories from my personal website page coolture, which tells a daily, okay maybe every other day, or so... story of my own events and serves as a visual diary for my family, friends, and colleagues.

The Coolture page projects items I send to Radar, QIK, and Tumblr. Radar projects my community conversation about what is going on anywhere and everywhere I go. My intent for QIK is to record meaningful events. I chose this application because of its ability to record better video resolution when I need it, plus it is in realtime. Tumblr has become my mobile narrative, posting as El Malcriado, sharing text, photos, quotes, links, music, videos, yada yada yada!

Well, enjoy and let me know what you feel, good, bad, or ugly.

First Tuesday, no its Wednesday

The three of us awoke with a stuffy nose, but that did not stop us from having a spinach omelet. Several days later, the evergreen in our front yard falls from the weight of the ice. Wait, I forgot to mention that the area went through a full day of rain during freezing icy conditions. But, the whole point of writing today is to tell you about the warm glass piece I donated to the Dallas Contemporary, for the Wish Auction 2009.
The 8th Annual Wish! Auction and Premiere Peek Party is Thursday, January 29, 2009
7 ~ 10 pm. For ticket information, contact Events at 214.821.2522 or events@dallascontemporary.org.

Well got to run, Sebastian has written a note and he wants me to read it.

Hope to see all of you there.