oddities and magik monday :: rossum's universal robots

R.U.R.
Rossum's Universal Robots
A science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Capek.  It premiered in 1921 and is noted for introducing the term robot.
The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called robots. Unlike the modern usage of the term, these creatures are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, as they can be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves.  They seem happy to work for humans, although that changes and a hostile robot rebellion leads to the extinction of the human race.
There are descriptions of kneading troughs for robot skin, great vats for liver and brains, and a factory for producing bones.  Nerve fibers, arteries, and intestines are spun on factory bobbins, while the Robots themselves are assembled like automobiles.  Capek's robots are biological machines, but they are still assembled, as opposed to grown or born.

body movement tuesday :: capacitor

Capacitor
Performance. Art. Science.
A San Franciso, California group of interdisciplinary movement artists 
that accumulate energy from our technologically impacted culture and 
release it through.  From the movement of the human diaphragm to 
the story of evolution, from the behavior of electricity to genetic 
manipulation, from the birth of the moon to the cycles of digestion -
natural and synthetic processes form the basis for Capacitor’s study 
of performance. Obsessed with the mechanics of the human body as 
well as machines that propel the body through space, Capacitor 
artists have become masters of rigging systems, coutures of wearable 
sculpture, and engineers of large scale props designed to stretch the 
limits of physical poetry.

magikal monday :: parliament and wake

Parliament and Wake
"An ongoing actualization of something that is probably not unique, 
but maybe somewhat different.  Hopefully it brings you some measure 
of enjoyment, or makes you think, or disrupts the equilibrium of 
someone, somewhere, at least a little.  It is presented as a collection of 
incomplete books that describe, and tell stories set within, the Edges – 
fantastical worlds that exist just beyond our perception. These worlds 
reflect our own, but are infused with impossible technology, subtle magic 
and a reckless disregard for laws of time and space.  Sometimes the 
Edges are places of playful whimsy; but extra-spatial horrors and 
nightmares spawned in the dark hearts of men are never distant."



Sisterhood of the Immaculate Heart
 


Giberon Primer of Elementary Machine Physiks



Chronospheres

eric joisel origami

Eric Joisel
origami artist
born in 1956
drawing /sculpting study from 1973
began origami in 1983
1st exhibit Espace Japon Paris 1987
professional folder in 1992

"Origami often looks as if it’s “magic”. From the time I was a child, I have always been fascinated by the world of Tolkien and faeries. So as an adult dedicating my life to origami, you could suppose I continue act out as a child living in my fantasy world."

The works are amazing and hold treasure in every crease. Science and Technology have always stood hand-in-hand with desire.

under the umbrella of our atmosphere

We are safe, from the void of air reaching us.
What happens if the void crosses the boundary and rings in the ears of
the listening?
Does the Earth tremble and collapse in on itself?
Will there be essences in laughter to the eyesight of stripped oxygen?

Do we evaporate and disappear,
or implode releasing a blip.

..just a thought.