yiah notes...

Street art by yiah !!! on EyeEm

Holy shit, this is what patience looks like. This dude named Miguel Endara, made a
drawing of his dad composed entirely out of 3.2 million ink dots.

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@NietzscheQuotes (via daylp)

Incredible portrait made with screws - artist Andrew Myers drives thousands of screws at various depths to create unique 3d portraits.

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World Population Densities 

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via Flowing Data

Developed and developing markets.

J N O M I C S

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The Most Useless Machine (by veloshots)

Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or serve some purpose. (Wikipedia)

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect. (Wikipedia)

Is Art a useless technology?

If the video or the machine above influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect is Art.

If you see no purpose is (useless) technology.

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Nothing really Matress

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Nazca titanic straight to hell

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Dictaphone Parcel by Lauri Warsta
Animated short film, Royal College of Art, London, 2009

Those crazy art students… Dictaphone Parcel is an animation based on a sound recorded with a dictaphone travelling secretly inside a parcel. As the hidden recorder travels through the global mail system, from London to Helsinki, it captures the unexpected. We hear a mixture of abstract sounds, various types of transport and even discussions between the mail workers. The animation visualizes this journey by creating an imaginary documentary.

via headunderwater

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John Cage doesn’t really need any introduction. He’s widely recognised across the board as an experimental genius, and equally widely recognised for being talentless, meaningless, unmusical and completely misunderstood.

Hearing him talk here makes it very obvious why there is such a sharp divide in opinion towards him. His whole approach to composition completely deviates the idea of composition itself. You might think to yourself: ‘well if you don’t care about organised sound, and you don’t want music to speak or to mean anything, then why the hell are you a composer organising sound giving you pieces titles and performing them, you hypocrite’. But what is so great about John Cage is that he uses the organisation of sound to force us to notice and appreciate unorganised sound in the way that he is doing here, via the use of silence and use of chance. Like it or not, this is an example of art in its purest and most powerful form, forcing us to alter our outlook; making audiences completely re-evaluate their whole approach to and understanding of what music even was.

Cage would have been 98 today. Despite his death, it is for these reasons that his life will always be celebrated. 

theauditory

I think this is a good assessment of Cage and his role/legacy in musical history.

(musicophilia)

(Source: theauditory, via musichistory)