Monday, September 28, 2009

a momentary break: "Light-Caught"

working on completing the second movement of Waterless Shores, learning it will take more work to explain its key principles. Stay tuned for the two posts appearing this week, as they will extend the Shores philosophy further.

In the meantime, here's a video to relax with:

Video Artist: Wojciech Pus
Title: "Light-Caught"


Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Waterless Shores: Movement Two, Part Three

YouTube User: LibSocDev
Video Title: Feedback

Scene: When the sense perception has registered, when the subconscious has sublimated it, when experience renders its ripple effects through the body, when recognition makes us aware of the relation between our person and nature, the psychosomatic system experiences what this video artist calls "Feedback", interpreted here as the entire self and body complexes (as represented in the video) intimating the personal experience of the transcendental universality not just of physical nature, but of the psychical ideals with structure and convey it to us. Conceptual truths then assume a real living form in the body and mind, heart and spirit, washing over us in from the waters of the numinous principle of being to the shores of our individual beings and selves.


Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Waterless Shores: Movement Two, Part Two

YouTube User: kojico85
Video Title: synapses

Scene: A visualization of how emotions travel through the body and brain. Following the above sequence in Part One of this movement, the psychosomatic self experiences the environmental phenomenon, taking in its materials and perspectives, and responding to it.


Monday, September 21, 2009

Waterless Shores: Movement Two, Part One

Cognition/Recognition

Movement Two of our "Waterless Shores" series explores experiential shores, within the human psyche, mind and body.

Part one of this movement documents the cause and effect of brain wave shores, via two videos.

The first video, Plastikman's "Brain Wave" translates the patterns of brain waves via the image of two brain wave rivers, interpreted here variously as the bass and treble clefs of a musical staff, as the liminality of consciousness and experience in the human psyche, as the pathways of emotion and cognition in the neural network, or as the warp and woof of consiousness and unconsciousness.

Artist: Plastikman
Song: "Brain Waves" (Official video)

To experience the full effect of this video, turn out all the lights, and try to watch both brain waves at once.






The second video, Ivan Riche's "Wave Files", is interpreted as merging these two electrical and natural phenomena into one electroacoustic audio and visual metaphor. The filmmaker notes that one purpose of this piece is to translate patterns of waterways to brain waves. This is interpreted in Shores Philosophy as the felt resonance of an electroacoustic phenomenon, the coalescence of sensation and perception, the unconscious process of experiencing a sound or view coalescing with conscious recognition of the liminal pattern the two form when brought together.

YouTube User: Ivanriches
Video Title: "Wave Files"

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Warterless Shores Interlude: Frozen Waves

YouTube User: Kowch737
Video Title: "Amazing Striped Icebergs"

Scene: Antartic Icebergs. Slideshow of striped icebergs, and waves that crash through icebergs and then freeze mid-air.


Waterless Shores: Movement One, Part Four

YouTube User: POJCDK
Video: Mudslide

Scene: Badakshan province, district of Varduj; June 2007.


Friday, September 18, 2009

Waterless Shores: Movement One, Part Three

YouTube User: Timmyd7777
Video: Lava Flow at Sunrise

Scene: Filmed June 2009 at Mount Pele, near Kalani on the Southern Shores of Hawaii's big island. The lava forms a river that pours into a lava ocean, with crashing waves of fire....


Thursday, September 17, 2009

Waterless Shores: Movement One, Part Two

YouTube User: judah8750
Video: "Out of Orphirica"

Scene: Shot from around the San Juan Mountains near the town of Ophir in Southwest Colorado. Avalanche filmed on March 1, 2004.