Tight Ropes

 

Beats Antique

 

So uh do you like art? Real cool opening featuring street art and more eye popping ideas.

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/new-banksys-and-more-at-mocas

It seems as though art itself is as far out of this bubble you can get, the suburban bubble I mean. Since everything around here has these unspoken social laws that keep everyone and everything consistent to conformity, it’s been crucial to let my mind feast on more art than ever. Not to mention my recent interest in photography (never thought I’d see the day).

Even despite the limitations,

I still think it’s a circus back here

 

 

Always a lion to fight away,

A cage to break out of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Always a tight rope to walk on, forced

And the crowd just waiting for one to slip.

Inch by inch

toe by toe

no room for error

 

 

You never learn anything in the circus,

really, you just watch madness occur.

Just don’t let them

take you for their act.

That’d be

Like walking into the grocery store

And seeing the neighbor’s cousin-in-law

Who divorced his second wife

And you must converse all about it

Because she spent

25 minutes

Telling you about

“the nightmare”

earlier in the week.

That afternoon,

You never thought get out of the store

Alive.

 

All I’m saying,

Is that they walk tight ropes

And pretty soon

They don’t know anything else.

 

 

 

 

I’ll be fine, I just can’t let them pull me into their act.

Nothing Static About It

 

 

I've discovered recently that my main goal in life has shifted in the last few years. While I used to always think that life was purely about fun and enjoyment (don't get me wrong, I still have carried on with the tendency to behave accordingly to this belief), I've recently realized that my most important strife happens to be the seek for knowledge, along with aversion of my worst fear of boredom. In any opportune situation, I find myself asking "Why not?" and consequently finding myself then in some sort of predicament, or in other cases, some sort of wild success. In either case, the question "Why not?" dictates much of my decision making. While certain people might find my spontaneous lifestyle as potentially disadvantageous in the long term, I realize that what I am really trying to do is experience as much as possible, in order to learn as much as possible. The process of learning involves successes and also failures, including risks that end up less than rewarding. But to be truthful, nothing to me feels better at the end of the day to disconnect my emotions from my experiences, and begin to analyze these experiences for the knowledge they can bring me about my world. We cannot tell the future, but if we can properly store our memories as knowledge, we can ultimately have a greater and wiser perspective on what is to come.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back in the beautifully manicured suburbs. Big white fences and nice big rooms. No one’s outside because no one needs to be. Why would you ever want to leave your fully packed refrigerator, your flat screen TV? Why would you leave a nice down comforter for naps in the afternoon, and air conditioning so you never have to experience the weather? These homes are a place to keep the family sheltered from the outside world, I suppose, where shit goes wrong.  

 

 

 

I want an apartment small enough that makes me want to stay out of it as much as possible. A home base to keep my most precious and useful adventure artifacts. Some quality bass speakers, maybe. But a home that makes me want to spend time outdoors, out in public, out as a member of society. A home that makes me want to see what else there is out there, and disconnects me from the objects that I call my own. The earth is my home, why confine my space to one suburb, one street? In a search for knowledge, I want to find where all beautiful things are, and store them in my mind as beautiful memories. What a beautiful existence it would be indeed.

 

 

 

 

 

"The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters"

-Henry James Sr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are we really the same person from one moment to the next?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I encountered this page a few seconds ago, I had no idea where I had apparated into in cyber space. I found myself mysteriously among weird amoeba-like energy forms, lost out of my mind.

http://butdoesitfloat.com/496420/The-most-intense-moments-the-universe-has-ever-known-are-the-next-15

Party Bowl//The Flower

 

Before I go any further, there is a video you need to watch!

 

 

It’s called the Flower:

The Flower

 

 

And there is a song you should listen to!

Bongo Bong by Manu Chao

Might sound even better while watching this video full screen:

Mandelbrot Fractal Set Trip To e214 HD from teamfresh on Vimeo.

 

 

 

 

Check out McGill!

Huh. Looks like they’re having a barbeque or something.

 

 

 

 

wE gOT SOME kALEIDoSKOPeS heRE

 

 

 

 

If you haven’t watched this, I’d highly suggest it:

Blockhead- The Music Scene

 

{PARTY BOWL}

Documented Aimlessness

 

Kitty Kat by Minnesota

 

 

Learning and looking are occurrences, knowing and seeing are achievements.

 

 

 

 

I suppose wandering isn’t aimless if there is art involved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Le metro is like this crazy underground world with fast transportation, tunnels, and lots of random art and architecture from it seems like the 70s. I watch people going through their day like dreary automatons on another sleepy commute to work, while at the same time, I’m on my way back from wherever the hell I was the night before, my mind overwhelmed by each station’s unique, space age designs, simply wishing everyone else would just look up from their feet…

 

 

 

 

“Corresponding to the fact that we act as if time is a valuable commodity—a limited resource, even money—we conceive of time that way. Thus we understand and experience time as the kind of thing that can be spent, wasted, budgeted, invested wisely or poorly, saved, or squandered.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t waste no time! Don’t waste no money! Come to the show of all shows, my last night in town…

 

The GASLAMP KILLER

Wicked Wisdom

 

 

Lights by Ellie Goulding and Bassnectar

 

Last night, I started to think about what it was like to be a child again. Not about what I wore or how I spoke, but how I perceived things. When everything I looked at was a puzzle. When everything I looked at was a toy. When adults approached me and hugged me and all I was thinking was I really hope that’s my aunt because when you’re young, you don’t recognize faces even when you’re supposed to.

 

 

In fact, children begin with naïve egocentrism that allows them to believe that only they exist. Even objects aren’t permanent- in their minds, an object only exists when a he or she is looking straight at it. However, we can’t blame the little tykes for only seeing their way, since their brains are simply trying to avoid a sensory overload. They are constantly making brand new links between sight, touch, smell, taste, and sounds to help comprehend their existence in the world. We should probably give them a break. Imagine being in a new sensory situation almost every moment- you remember when you walked into a room with a different lighting and it seemed like the strangest place on earth? Or the first time you heard an egg crack on the floor? The first time you tasted lemon ice? No wonder kids are always screaming. It’s just the sheer excitement of such new, but ordinary, occurrences. And the inevitable, incessant confusion that comes along with it.

 

 

We don’t even have a notion of time until we realize that 2 things can happen at once. Only when we start to experience the duration and succession of time can we realize it only goes in one direction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Little by little,

we start to get what’s going on,

but I kind of liked that confusion,

it was comfortable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In any sense, I don’t see why we can’t just be children at heart. Why must we be so serious, follow the structures of common conversation and suppress our inner excitement for the simple colors and textures of life,

everywhere around us?

…it’s all still here. It’s only our perception of it that has changed.

So,

 

 

F*ck it!

let’s play make believe &

skin our knees playing 4 square &

throw shit out of trees

 

 

Artwork by Shan Jiang

Concise

 

Kito- On the Floor

 

 

What are we ever doing but just escaping our minds for but a moment? Release your mind into a sip of coffee, into the sounds of a song, or into a wisp of paint. Thoughts just spill from one medium to the next. It just depends were you scatter them

 

 

 

 

 

 

Continue, why not?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.mayahayuk.com/xv.html

 

 

 

That is all.