anamnesis

repost: Dictionary.com

the recollection or remembrance of the past.

Clark Kent by Bryan Atkinson

Clark Kent from Bryan Atkinson on Vimeo.

Kent Butcher has been putting up Christmas decorations for 30 years. With an entire corner property full of lights and decorations, Christmas is a time when Kent’s lights bring smiles to the faces of others. However being visually impaired, the lights are also an opportunity for him to see.


*Winner* People's Choice Award, Brantford Film Festival 2011

Kim Jong Il, 1942-2011

repost: The Atlantic

Early this morning, North Korean state television reported the death of North Korea's longtime ruler Kim Jong Il. Kim reportedly died two days earlier, on Saturday, December 17, 2011, suffering a heart attack while riding on a train outside Pyongyang. The 69-year-old had been North Korea's "supreme leader" since 1994, after succeeding his father, Kim Il Sung, the founder of the communist state. Kim Jong Il presided over a long-suffering, isolated nation, antagonized the western world, indulged himself while millions starved, and funneled much of the country's meager funds into military spending and the pursuit of nuclear weapons. His nominal successor, son Kim Jong Un, remains untested and the sudden power vacuum in such an unpredictable nation has neighbors, allies, and enemies on edge. Collected here are images from the life and times of North Korea's Kim Jong Il, and a few recent images from the reclusive country and those who have noted his passing. [See also Inside North Korea from August, 2011.] [36 photos]

In this April 25, 2002 photo from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, leader Kim Jong Il salutes the people at the military parade by the Worker and Peasant Red Guard that celebrates the 90th anniversary of leader Kim Il Sung and the 70th anniversary of the North Korean People's Army. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP Images)

Year in Photos 2011

repost: flickr blog

2011 as captured by Flickr members all over the world. Check out the whole gallery by Yahoo! Editorial to take a look back at an eventful year.

    

family visit LA & LA domestics

Brian, Brock and Norma stayed in Santa Monica for a quick vacation. 

We all took a day trip to Malibu.

Brian & Norma left; Brock stayed a few days with Em & I.

Brock finally left. Back to domestics.

More at photos.bestape.net.

Terra Firma (Remix by: Bartel) | The Flashbulb

Oakland/Berkeley & along the coast back to LA

Our flight back from Hawai’i was destined for Oakland.

To get back to LA, we rented a car in San Fran and drove it down the coast.

More shots at photos.bestape.net.

Fear and Loathing on Tatooine

repost: Colossal

A Star Wars reference is rare on Colossal, but this new print by Anton Marrast (previously) is exceptionally genius. What happens on Tatooine stays on Tatooine. Pick up a copy via S6. (via the colossal flickr pool)

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Stetson Center Stage presents: Humming House "Cold Chicago" - YouTube

Weapons of Mass Creation

repost: Colossal

Justin Kamerer aka Angryblue re-released two of his great Weapons of Mass Creation prints with cooking and art themes and added a new one: Music. The three screenprints have editions of 150 and will sell out pretty quick so head over to his shop. (via omg posters)

Ten things everyone should know about time

repost: kottke.org

From Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance, a list of facts and very strong opinions about the nature of time.

4. You live in the past. About 80 milliseconds in the past, to be precise. Use one hand to touch your nose, and the other to touch one of your feet, at exactly the same time. You will experience them as simultaneous acts. But that's mysterious - clearly it takes more time for the signal to travel up your nerves from your feet to your brain than from your nose. The reconciliation is simple: our conscious experience takes time to assemble, and your brain waits for all the relevant input before it experiences the "now." Experiments have shown that the lag between things happening and us experiencing them is about 80 milliseconds.

5. Your memory isn't as good as you think. When you remember an event in the past, your brain uses a very similar technique to imagining the future. The process is less like "replaying a video" than "putting on a play from a script." If the script is wrong for whatever reason, you can have a false memory that is just as vivid as a true one. Eyewitness testimony, it turns out, is one of the least reliable forms of evidence allowed into courtrooms.

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Hawai'i

A few weeks after Em and I returned to LA from Lisbon, we were off to Hawai’i to see Georg & Nida.