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I was talking to myself in the bathroom, and suddenly my reality lost its structure, shapes and movements lost their meanings, and then I discovered I didn't want to my perception to put me in a useful reality anymore, I didn't want to give shapes a function, I decided to forget forever the content I learned to give to what I see ; my damaged perception lost me in the lines and colors I see, but at least I really see them for themselves, I give them the form I want, and now contemplating the world is like contemplating myself ; destroying my perception was creating my reality, painting my reality, giving to the world the shape of my insanity : destroying my perception was art.
One can find themselves in a haunted site within the cyberspace. Is it one’s desire to dip
within the
mythical and make sense of their perceptions through narration, that drives us to create
stories
surrounding internet? Within the cyberspace, where anyhow the lines between reality and
fiction
are blurred through digitalisation, it becomes our second nature to doubt what is on the
other side.
Within this dubious realm possibilities are limitless, and thus number of myths arise.
An abandoned space on the internet exists in a state of limbo. It is not actively used, thus
not
actively “consumed”, whereas its “creator” is erased from the history. It is lost in the vast
sea of
information, waiting to be rediscovered. It takes up an autonomous position within the
cyberspace,
existing just for the sake of it, until being rediscovered. Through “myths” these abandoned
sites are
repurposed. An online dweller becomes a consumer, a digger of the forgotten. Does a
website
resurrect in such way or does it continue being abandoned, as its original purpose is no
longer
sufficed?
A mysterious figure. A veiled sculpture. A ghost. It is all at once, and yet is nothingness itself.
A
spectre in a gold veil is an unspecific memorial to abandoned sites. A representation of an
internet
entity. It is a myth in itself that pays tribute to all myths. It is a personified state of
uncertainty.
Artist/Credits: Anastasia Dolitsay
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Most of what you see and think is a lie. When I first read the title of one of John Stepper's blog posts (John is of Working Out Loud book fame, I wasn't sure what I would find. The title, The man singing falsetto in the ladies' room, definitely attracted me to reading his blog post. And when I read it, what I read was not what I expected, which is exactly what John was trying to do with the title of his blog. If you have not read the article, go read it, it is totally worth the 5 minutes it will take you to read it.
In John's blog post, he highlights that most people will make assumptions about the intentions of an action by another person. We take lots of little pieces of information in based on our observations and then fill in the rest with our imagination. Basically, what we do is fill in all the missing pieces. And by filling in the pieces, we often get it wrong.
While it is not possible in all situations, if you catch yourself making assumptions about someone else or guessing what someone is thinking based on their actions, take a step back and try to assess the full story, ask questions and be thoughtful before making a mistake based on false assumptions.
Go read the article, it is worth it and the punchline is awesome.
The complete absence of any reference point, like trees or houses in this picture of the white desert, makes it almost impossible to have any sense of proportion. (Whilst the hills in the background are well above 30 metres high, the black stones in the foreground are pebbles of perhaps 1cm diameter)
Garage door down the alley from me. A very aged house and doorway which provides a perceptual treat.
Videoinstallazione creata in occasione della Festa Internazionale del Circo Contemporaneo 2007 presso il Castello di Brescia. Perception faceva parte di una "composizione" di 4 installazioni che occupavano varie location dei giardini della fortezza visitate dal pubblico durante lo spettacolo itinerante della compagnia francese Chaptel Aleikoum.
Taken on SLR film - off angled side shot of subject's face with a blur of distraction and business behind her