Urban Honking

A while back, I mentioned that I was working on a Flash animation about a corkscrew for Methods of Motion. Not too long thereafter, I finished the animation, but had neglected to post it here until now. It’s called Open. Open from Greg Borenstein on Vimeo. Starting with a storyboard for a much longer and […]

Indeed! “What is mind in the Iliad?” File under: me no know. So, the earliest written speech that we have access to is cuneform and hieroglyphics from 3000 years ago, which Jaynes says are too ambiguous to talk confidently about the kind of mind that made them. Fair enough! For Jaynes, then, the earliest written […]

Our first assignment in Mechanisms and Things That Move earlier this semester was to build a Rube Goldberg device that cracked an egg using no fewer than 5 energy transfers. The majority of the egg and no more than half of the shell had to end up in a jar or other container at the […]

Claire gave me a walking tour of Marfa and we met more people. Had lunch at the Food Shark. Drove to Balmorhea and swam in the San Solomon Springs, which are insane. It looks like a big pool or water park, but it’s a natural spring full of fish and turtles that they’ve created an […]

At the El Paso airport was a “Business Card Drop.” There was no explanation as to what would happen after you dropped your card in. I dropped a KmikeyM share in. Claire and I drove to Marfa, passing the Prada store. On July 13, 2005, 22 miles north of the U.S./Mexico border, patrol agents from […]

Hello! When we left Julian Jaynes, he was talking about how if all that crazy stuff he said about your brain is true, then probably there could have existed a race of people (he said “men”) who sang songs and ate hamburgers and fell in love and worried about their hair and ran for government […]

For my fourth and final 4-in-4 project, I built something I’ve been planning to make for a long time. A number of years ago, I got this image stuck in my head of what the world would look like if your eyes were on your uvula instead of your face. What would the world be […]

For my fourth and final 4-in-4 project, I built something I’ve been planning to make for a long time. A number of years ago, I got this image stuck in my head of what the world would look like if your eyes were on your uvula instead of your face. What would the world be […]

This is going to be a good one!FRIDAY, APRIL 2nd AT BRANX: $5.Tunnels Listen to Eruption on his myspace page–you will be sold. Sexual Champions (all female improv brass ensemble.)Kathleen Keogh of Woolly Mammoth comes to Dinner with White RainbowDJs:Hostile TapeoverDJ Magic Beans (Maggie Vail, VP of Kill Rock Stars)PHOTOS BY:A.M. O’Malley& Brook Dillon.Photo portraits/booth […]