DATACHURCH

Power

Jael — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:15:53 +0000

Kanye West’s new video, Power, is an amazing moving painting chalked full of occult meaning.

In this white man’s world, we the ones chosen.

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via Vigilant Citizen

Psywar: The Real Battlefield is the Mind

Jael — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:05:19 +0000

Psywar Trailer from S DN on Vimeo.

The Beauty of Data Visualization

Geo — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:22:42 +0000

David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.

Art, Inspiration, Love, Apotheosis and Engineering Divinity

Jael — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:18:14 +0000

Jason Silva freestyling. If you like this check out the previous post on Silva’s current project “Turning Into Gods” and his previous film “The Immortalists”.

Some thoughts on Art + Inspiration, Love, Apotheosis and Engineering Divinity from jason silva on Vimeo.

The Wilderness Downtown

Jael — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:10:59 +0000

Chris Milk’s interactive film The Wilderness Downtown is highly personalized to you by you. It is a breakthrough in new media art, design, code and interactivity.

The experience can be processor heavy however it is thoroughly worthwhile. Truly visionary art.

Anti-Privacy Van

Jael — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:42:14 +0000

This is truly fucked up. A camouflaged delivery van that captures x-ray imaging of it’s surroundings.

MDMA Infographic Video

Jael — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:39:19 +0000

Check out some other really cool info-graphic videos from the Hungry Beast series.

Augmented Reality in 3D

Jael — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:54:40 +0000

Requires 3D glasses for full effect (but you get the idea).

Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Pretty cool, but how about a MetaCookie?

Liminal Messaging

Jael — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:46:12 +0000

“So long, ego. Keep cool.”

TELEPHONEME | MK12 from MK12 on Vimeo.

Human Technology Is At Least 3.4 Million Years Old

Jael — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:33:31 +0000

In an astonishing discovery, archeologists digging in Afar, Ethiopia have discovered stone tools that are over 3,4000,000 years old. These tools were used for butchering animals, rending meat from bone and accessing the sweet, highly nutritious marrow inside.

Archeologists conjecture from their placement and age that the tools were originally used by apelike human anscestors, Australopithecus afarensis. The most well known specimen of these is ~~“Lysergic”~~ “Lucy”, named after the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.

The Afar region of Ethiopia is also unique because it is currently rifting apart to create a new ocean.

Humans and our ancestors have been using technology (anything that’s not part of our biological package) for 3.4 million years. Now we see that the earliest tools originated from a region that is ripping apart and will soon be under water.

Currently, it is believed that proto-urban settlements originated in the Middle East around 5000 BCE, followed by settlements on the Nile and Indus rivers.

In the last 7000 years we’ve progressed from inventing agriculture, architecture, art and writing to casually cruising around in airships and instantly accessing the collected wealth of all human information from anywhere.

What’s the math on that? For 3,393,000 years nothing happened?

Approaching logical conjecture zone.

There is a large field of study in which researchers posit that civilization, megalithic structures, and astronomical technology predate the last Ice Age. Theoretically, civilization flourished before the great flood that raised sea levels when Ice Age glaciers melted and destroyed all coastal communities. Examples of underwater sites include…

Dwarka off the west coast of India:

Yonaguni Monument off the east coast of Japan.

Kumari Kandam, a landmass south of Sri Lanka.

A large complex of urban ruins off the coast of Cuba.

And even part of Alexandria, Egypt, once the pinnacle of civilization, is underwater.

Most recently Eric Schmidt, head of Google, said that humans are now doubling the amount of information we accumulated, from the beginning of technology up to 2003, every two days. That’s 3.4 million years of information we create every two days!

Maybe this is all just something to ponder and talk about at parties.

Or maybe it’s something else….