Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of Metaphysics is that, despite the Universe, it somehow manages to take itself seriously. When I say ‘Metaphysics’ here, I mean two things: 1) the legacy of those Great Bearded Thinkers whose psychic concepts and guttural neologisms have been preserved in the spiritual brine of academic pretense, 2) the white-smock’d tradition of speculation, investigation, and Latin […]
Mothlight, by one of the best of all time. Made by pressing”found foliage” between perforated tape.
2012 2 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 5 5 + 1 = 6 6 x 111 = 666 2012 = 666 COINCIDENCE?! Have you ever seen funnyman Jim Carey’s The Number 23? It operates on the same numerological principle. They can’t all be winners. 666 6 + 6 + 6 = 18 18 / […]
Sophie Grimes’s article, “The Art of Hoarding” sparked a great little conversation between members of the Anobium team about physical hoarding vs. hoarding of more immaterial things–information, or even identity (and are these the same thing, nowadays). The conversation stayed in my head for a few days, flipping on switches and connecting all sorts of […]
This is what you get when you paint an unflattering portrait of your friends, I guess. By the way, there’s an interesting explanation of Gertrude Stein’s scientific influences, and her influence on the sciences, in Jonah Lehrer‘s Proust Was a Neuroscientist. Worth a look.
