brucegulick

2011-06-21T16:13:00.001-07:00

classic dance.MPG - dubstep remix

2011-03-17T15:48:00.000-07:00

2010-11-18T14:12:00.000-08:00

"In a human, there are more than 125 trillion synapses just in the cerebral cortex alone," said Smith. That's roughly equal to the number of stars in 1,500 Milky Way galaxies."

Oh, snap, H.P. Lovecraft.

2010-11-08T10:39:00.000-08:00

"As for the Republicans how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy,
nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history
and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to
sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning
artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and
sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles
and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in
(consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that
real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic
license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene
some vague and mystical 'American heritage') utterly contrary to fact and
without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the
Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead."

Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T.
Joshi, p. 574

(via wikiquotes and my pal Rebecca)

2010-09-11T15:33:00.001-07:00

2010-05-11T10:46:00.000-07:00

Getting choked up...

For all the stuff that annoys me about the future, this makes it seem worthwhile.

2010-05-09T05:17:00.001-07:00

"War is ugly and the American people need to know this."

2010-05-06T10:45:00.000-07:00

"This theory puts forward the notion that depressed individuals actually have more realistic perceptions of their own image, importance, and abilities than the average person."

2010-04-22T08:23:00.000-07:00

"Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me."

Craaaaapped.

2010-04-16T14:47:00.000-07:00

2010-04-11T20:39:00.000-07:00

In a nutshell, Feynman’s astonishing proposition is that nature actually does try all paths. But nearly all of them cancel out with their neighboring paths, through a quantum analog of destructive interference — except for those very close to the classical path where the action is minimized (or more precisely, made stationary). There the quantum interference becomes constructive, rendering those paths exceedingly more likely to be observed. This, in Feynman’s account, is why nature obeys minimum principles. The key is that we live in the macroscopic world of everyday experience, where the actions are enormous compared to Planck’s constant. In that classical limit, quantum destructive interference becomes extremely strong and obliterates nearly everything that could otherwise happen.

From this article on basic calculus.. "Change we can believe in"

2010-04-11T01:01:00.001-07:00

2010-03-19T20:18:00.001-07:00

2010-03-18T11:48:00.001-07:00

2010-02-23T07:41:00.000-08:00

Carmen (AKA The Booch) 1998-2010

2010-02-09T07:16:00.000-08:00

Baby, you were the greatest. You were so smart, and ladylike, and gentle..yet somehow 100% in charge of the cat hierarchy of our home. When that truck rolled you a few years back I felt sorry for the truck! All you lost was that notch in your ear, but I'm sure he had to have his transmission and muffler replaced.

I studied your conflict resolution techniques carefully..the other cats when faced with trouble would either (Jackie Tan) run for the hills, or (Miles) roll over and show a vista of white belly. But YOU walked directly towards the trouble. Deal with it NOW.

I can only hope you had as happy and comfortable a life with us as we did with you, and if and when you decide to come back (or was this your final enlightened incarnation?), you'll get in touch.

I'll be sure to keep an eye out for you. I loved you more than all the hugs and ear scratchings and tuna treats could ever convey.

2010-02-03T22:39:00.001-08:00

Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.

2010-02-02T11:47:00.000-08:00

“Record the fury of a Palestinian whose land has been taken from him by Israeli settlers—but always refer to Israel’s ‘security needs’ and its ‘war on terror,’ ” Robert Fisk writes. “If Americans are accused of ‘torture’, call it ‘abuse’. If Israel assassinates a Palestinian, call it a ‘targeted killing’. If Armenians lament their Holocaust of 1,500,000 souls in 1915, remind readers that Turkey denies this all too real and fully documented genocide. If Iraq has become a hell on earth for its people, recall how awful Saddam was. If a dictator is on our side, call him a ‘strongman’. If he’s our enemy, call him a tyrant, or part of the ‘axis of evil’. And above all else, use the word ‘terrorist.’ Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror. Seven days a week.”

Via

2010-01-30T22:20:00.001-08:00

Grampian Horn - Lost in Longmeads from Alex Morris on Vimeo.

2010-01-28T19:23:00.000-08:00

Oh snap.

2010-01-26T06:54:00.000-08:00

via DRAWN!

2010-01-25T18:54:00.001-08:00

2010-01-25T14:11:00.001-08:00

2010-01-18T17:48:00.000-08:00

2010-01-01T17:26:00.001-08:00

2009-12-30T20:09:00.000-08:00

2009-12-13T08:32:00.000-08:00

ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

2009-12-09T14:38:00.000-08:00

"The saddest thing is that Americans are cultivated like mushrooms from birth to death, kept in the dark and fed horseshit."

2009-12-02T10:29:00.000-08:00

"It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields.

You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, you’re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes.

Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger."

Via the always awesome Matt Taibbi

2009-11-29T10:32:00.000-08:00

2009-11-24T09:44:00.001-08:00

2009-11-17T13:47:00.001-08:00

Themselves - "Oversleeping" in Utah from anticon. on Vimeo.

2009-11-17T12:45:00.000-08:00

Principal: "I'm sure the children will be very happy here.."
Gomez Addams: "If we wanted them to be happy, we'd have kept them at home."

2009-11-12T16:02:00.000-08:00

Rena Jones - Open Me Slowly 3D Fractal Video from Kris Northern on Vimeo.

2009-10-30T11:54:00.001-07:00

2009-10-27T13:32:00.001-07:00

Quimby The Mouse from This American Life on Vimeo.

2009-10-22T14:39:00.000-07:00

2009-10-14T19:35:00.000-07:00

My new favorite software is Artrage!

2009-10-12T15:06:00.001-07:00

Marin (2007) from Leo de Wijs on Vimeo.

2009-10-11T18:08:00.001-07:00

2009-10-09T21:55:00.001-07:00

2009-09-28T11:31:00.001-07:00

Oh, America....

2009-09-15T11:07:00.000-07:00

2009-09-01T15:50:00.000-07:00

Bitbasic - Sprinkling Rainbows

2009-09-01T09:37:00.000-07:00

2009-08-20T12:35:00.000-07:00

"They have been to school and college, but all the time they had their eye on the medal; they have gone about in the world and mixed with clever people, but all the time they were thinking of their own affairs. As if a man’s soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed and narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train. Before he was breeched, he might have clambered on the boxes; when he was twenty, he would have stared at the girls; but now the pipe is smoked out, the snuff-box empty, and my gentleman sits bolt upright upon a bench, with lamentable eyes. This does not appeal to me as being Success in Life."

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Apology For Idlers"

2009-08-01T14:29:00.001-07:00

2009-07-31T09:37:00.000-07:00

'The silhouette suggests an object's shadow, which is "made without a human intervention, a natural cast rather than a cultural interpretation."'

2009-06-30T10:25:00.000-07:00

Click me.

2009-06-25T05:04:00.001-07:00

2009-06-19T13:29:00.000-07:00

"I will participate in the demonstrations tomorrow. Maybe they will turn violent. Maybe I will be one of the people who is going to get killed. I'm listening to all my favorite music. I even want to dance to a few songs. I always wanted to have very narrow eyebrows. Yes, maybe I will go to the salon before I go tomorrow! There are a few great movie scenes that I also have to see. I should drop by the library, too. It's worth to read the poems of Forough and Shamloo again. All family pictures have to be reviewed, too. I have to call my friends as well to say goodbye. All I have are two bookshelves which I told my family who should receive them. I'm two units away from getting my bachelors degree but who cares about that. My mind is very chaotic. I wrote these random sentences for the next generation so they know we were not just emotional and under peer pressure. So they know that we did everything we could to create a better future for them. So they know that our ancestors surrendered to Arabs and Mongols but did not surrender to despotism. This note is dedicated to tomorrow's children..."

via

2009-06-09T18:34:00.001-07:00

Han Solo, P.I.

2009-06-05T14:13:00.001-07:00

2009-06-02T23:29:00.001-07:00

2009-05-28T17:02:00.000-07:00

(click image for larger version

Done using Groboto, Zbrush, and Painter.

2009-05-23T08:03:00.001-07:00

Indefinite Preventative Detention.

Go ahead and say that a hundred times...wrap your head around the concept.

2009-05-20T13:57:00.000-07:00

"I'm telling you," he yelled. "Perryville. Fantastic."

2009-05-20T06:20:00.001-07:00

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

DinoMixer!

2009-05-17T15:04:00.000-07:00

For anyone with an iPhone, or iPod Touch, may I recommend DinoMixer, an app by my friend Charlie Parker.

It's a mix-and-match dinosaur toy, all hand drawn by Charlie, coded by Leon Stankowsk, and I did the sound design.

So skip the 99 cent burger today and support modern art..it's a blast to play with and there's many more features to come!

iTunes App Store link here.

2009-05-13T13:19:00.000-07:00

An old proverb of the Middle Kingdom says, "The wise become Confucian in good times, Buddhist in bad times and Daoist in old age." If some pookah magick made me thirty years younger, in the present wretched state of this nation, I'd have to become a Buddhist. Old age has its advantages. When pain keeps me from writing, I eat a magick muffin, sit on the balcony and get totally lost in the Dao.

Yeah, even in the rain and wind.

RAW

2009-05-10T14:59:00.000-07:00

Giovanni Bellini

2009-05-08T10:59:00.001-07:00

Didn't that ever, like, occur to you, man?

2009-05-04T07:16:00.001-07:00

Where are you in the movie?

2009-05-03T13:26:00.001-07:00

2009-05-02T07:56:00.001-07:00

2009-05-02T07:24:00.000-07:00

2009-04-26T20:24:00.000-07:00

2009-04-14T08:38:00.001-07:00

2009-04-11T09:12:00.001-07:00

2009-04-05T14:18:00.000-07:00

2009-04-05T10:43:00.000-07:00

We have to learn one lesson in America: Quit doggin’ people. That’s the answer we’ve been seeking.

Mansfield Frazier

Don't keep calm and carry on.

2009-04-02T13:56:00.001-07:00

Don't keep calm and carry on., originally uploaded by moleitau.

2009-03-20T12:08:00.000-07:00

"There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power."

The Big Takeover

2009-03-09T09:35:00.001-07:00

2009-03-03T09:42:00.001-08:00

Happy Up Here from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

2009-02-24T07:32:00.000-08:00

2009-02-23T13:12:00.000-08:00

Mark Behm speed paint : Water Mixable Oils 2

2009-01-02T19:25:00.001-08:00

2008-12-30T17:11:00.000-08:00

December Tattoos from bruce gulick on Vimeo.

2008-12-30T15:54:00.000-08:00

I had this picture on my desktop, and from the thumbnail I thought it was me.

I see it and go, "God damn you're getting shaggy, fat, and old...", but when I click it I realize it's Ernest Borgnine, playing a pirate.

Phew.

2008-12-25T09:26:00.000-08:00

"Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies: it was a crushing impression."

-A. Einstein

Lies We Tell Kids

2008-12-22T22:11:00.000-08:00

Full page Flash version here!

2008-12-21T17:22:00.000-08:00

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, "I was just following orders."

Full text..

Belle and Sebastian would be great...

2008-12-20T16:18:00.000-08:00

..if you had never heard Donovan, or Nick Drake.

Because they sound exactly like Donovan jamming with Nick Drake.

Except not nearly as good as that.

If you see them, tell them I said stop frontin'.

2008-12-17T11:10:00.000-08:00

More Anime Studio progress. I'm getting a better feel for the software, and loving it more by the day. Hopefully my next step will be doing all the drawing right within AS Pro, rather than keep switching back and forth between it and Lineform, but who knows.

The slight variations in edge resolution caused by .png scaling gives it a slightly analog look, which I like. Drawing in AS is not as intuitive (yet) as Lineform is.

For anyone that's interested in this kind of thing, Smith-Micro is offering the basic version of Anime Studio for $20, which is 60% off the regular price, and a heck of a good deal!

2008-12-12T15:32:00.000-08:00

"What is outrageous economically and is outrageous morally is that normally in times like this, people who are competent and who saw it coming and who kept their powder dry go and take over the assets from the incompetent," he said. "What's happening this time is that the government is taking the assets from the competent people and giving them to the incompetent people and saying, now you can compete with the competent people. It is horrible economics."

Oh, snap.

2008-12-11T15:39:00.000-08:00

2008-12-11T13:34:00.001-08:00

"Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence--those are the three pillars of Western prosperity." —Aldous Huxley

2008-12-04T20:13:00.001-08:00

2008-12-04T12:33:00.000-08:00

"Even though the war be wrong, we are IN IT!"

2008-12-01T07:23:00.001-08:00

2008-11-29T10:55:00.001-08:00

2008-11-23T16:47:00.001-08:00

2008-11-20T12:19:00.000-08:00

TIME CONTROL, an indispensable framework for freedom

2008-11-19T15:25:00.000-08:00

Time, to the Pink, is only what oozes through his watch; he sees not its total pervasiveness. The SubGenius knows that time is what we beads are strung on. It makes possibility possible, it kindly allows us to feel we are continuous and mercifully hides from us that we are instantaneous.

Time Control is what we've wanted all along. It makes pain hurry and Slack slow down. We perceive the lack of it clearly when, for instance, we are in a crowded room and must withhold a tremendous fart. In those horizonless moments before the gas-ball "seeps back in," we consciously wish we could ignore it... and we could, had we true Time Control.

Any form of postponement or procrastination is a subtle "bite" of Time Control, and so slightly sacred.

Even Pinks strive for Time Control without knowing it. It is the reason they love stories, movies, jokes, songs -- what are these, if not Time Control? Unlike mundane live experience, these media seem to compress time. They make events happen with more clarity than Normality would allow. All the following are Time Control: language, writing, photography, recording, shortcuts, matter transmitters, stimulant drugs, fossils, pyramids, TV Dinners, torture, daylight savings time, and prophecy.

And so the SubGenius pays attention to the strange Rates and Paces at which our lives are projected. He rewinds back to whatever memory-frame he desires and lets it stand frozen for his inspection. He manipulates his own moods by splicing together the appropriate thoughts. For even hallowed Time may be compressed, preserved, extended, traversed, frozen, twisted, reversed, knotted, circled, recycled, looped, and even erased.

TIME CONTROL IS POSSIBLE: preserve the past, boil it down, extract its Patterns, and WIELD IT WITHOUT MERCY!!

For the vivid SubGenius imagination is in a churning turmoil of constant growth, and it can make the Wait blessed. (When starving, or contemplating unpaid bills, the SubGenius eats his imagination for breakfast and lunches on his own soul!) It invents more possibility of future pain and joy, letting us see their immense range and depth, and that they are subjective. We then realize that Duration is dependent upon Mood. Could we control our own Rates, we could shorten apparent paintime to zero and apparent Slacktime infinitely.

The SubGenius performs Memory Editing: he buries his arm deep in the Archives of the Skor, gropes for the proper File and its specific remembrances, and Retrieves it to scan at leisure. And he knows that this File, and his Archive, are but one Drawer in the greater Archive of all creation. For everything is but a pattern, an intersection in the Code. Everything exists at once; it just shifts position continuously. Every distinct object we see around us is but an opening into the Files. Don't worry if you "missed something;" it's all "in the can." It will all be "aired" again, in some better world. And The Angelic Host which must soon descend will bring an Index to all the shifting Patterns of the Code, providing us with a Guide to the AntiLaws.

But we have been warned of The Tampering.

Via

2008-11-18T13:00:00.000-08:00

"Well, you don't see everything at once. When you look at a room, an object, or a person, you look at different parts and the brain puts it all together as a picture. Whistler said that nature copies art, and, in a way, people don't see things until they're shown. A lot of people have said they never noticed any of this until they saw my paintings. They've lived in New York all their lives and its always been there, but people simply didn't see it because their eyes were not attuned to it. People found the Impressionist paintings very shocking when they first saw them because the color wasn't what they were accustomed to seeing. Now, with color photography, we find that the Impressionists were absolutely right. But at that time the public was walking around in a brown haze."

-Richard Estes

2008-11-16T09:07:00.000-08:00

Sea Orchestra: The Making Of from Shy the Sun on Vimeo.

Thanks, Bill!

2008-11-14T13:05:00.001-08:00

More here.

2008-11-09T13:02:00.001-08:00

In Bed with a Mosquito from Sarah Frank on Vimeo.

2008-11-07T22:50:00.001-08:00

October Tattoos from bruce gulick on Vimeo.