Sunday, 22 August 2010

Ashes to Ashes, we are but dust

You are a god



Are we like this? This 'game' has told us it has sped up environmental processes, but has it really? Has it instead merely highlighted how our Earth is but a flicker in the cosmos, a candle light before a Victorian Child heads to sleep, ready to be extinguished. It implies the Earth is nothing, and it will inevitably fall into the abyss, and that this is a bad thing.
We must remember how time is infinite and subjective, and how our view of time is biased to our own bodies. We must remember this. 
So as we watch this demo for a game to be, we see how we can be gods (Sartre said we all want to be them). We have the power to change the lives of this tribe stuck slow to the world; we have the power to merge the sand with the ocean, to make rivers with our minds.

Remember, our planet is much the same. Do not tempt gods, do not tempt them to exist: hell - or something akin to it - would break free.

Your idea?
Do gods exist? Answer as simply as you can

Sunday, 1 August 2010

Carbon and Controversy

Message:
Right your own to the next person about to be born on this pleasant and strange planet known as Earth

Main Idea:
Controversy fuels evolution. We would not have E=MC2 is Einstein hadn't expanded upon it, gave it his own shoeless twist, and thrown it back into the physical wolf pack ready to rip it to shreads. We would not have steam, or paper or love without controversy and the need to tell the others that they are wrong, no matter how wrong you may be. It is the idea's that are incorrect that make this planet wholesome.

I ask you to follow THIS LINK and watch all the controversal films you can (the ones listed here and the ones not) to tell the world you embrace evolution in its many patterns and shades. I ask you to write something of your own that is controversal, not because you believe it, but simply because it is not the norm.
"Religion should be banished" and I half believe my words, for they are controversal.

And to end, I am carbon neutral, for it is controversal to help this planet grow in this new age. Rust and iron is the new norm.

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Monday, 5 July 2010

Zombie Luv Flash Fic Contest: The Lovely Tale of Toothgroan


I have entered a zombie luv competition, if you want to join or wish to know the rules, here they be:

Guidelines:



  • Word count: maximum 1.000
  • The story must be a romance between two zombies. Make it as horrific as you like. ;)
  • Stories containing animal cruelty, torture, graphic sex or violence, any form of exaltation of violence, racism or other forms of prejudice will be immediately disqualified.
  • Post your entry on your own blog, with a title resembling this:
Zombie Luv Flash Fic Contest: Story Title
  • Leave your story title and a link to the story entry post as a comment at mari's randomities: http://marisrandomities.blogspot.com
  • Copy and paste the contest logo and the guidelines at the end of your entry post.


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‘”Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.” Toothgroan stopped reading the words of his ancestors, tilting his head to the moonlight that had escaped from the cloudless sky to fall, lucidly, calmly, through his windowpane. Placing the volume of... he paused, turning the book over to try and read the word... “Shrka-Spar!” Nearly there. He could nearly wrap his lips around the syllables (well, the act may have occurred if Toothgroan had kept his lips; he should never have fought that titan of a zomb’ by the name of Deadmuscle).

                It had been many millennia since Z-Day, as one Max Brooks would have described (but now can’t due to the passing of time and also because he was shot with the anti-vaccine mere days after the contagion had spread). As the millennia passed, evolution took its hold on the refuge of mankind. The mad ever-galloping ever-moaning confused leaking relics of humanity formed tribes, then societies, then civilisations! And with this came a whole new world of possibility. A new language, unwritten, unplanned, where other fellow undeadicles had to guess at what was being said, evolved from the wreckage of the past-tongue. Conversation however rarely surpassed “Meat! Brn! Grrr!” and so no one complained. But also, naturally, with buildings built from the twice-dead’s skeletons, with roads glistening with crimson blood (no cars, one merely slid to one’s destination), and with intelligence slowly increasing from a ‘need to feed’ to a ‘need to feed on prepared foods’ there came love. Love. Zombie love. It did not mirror the love of our times, definitely not. For example, Toothgroan had lost his lips to another, Deadmuscle, as you know... this fight was not an idle spat over who should eat the zombified rabbit but over a female of this new Homo necrolisis. She was a fine specimen – many an undead male (or female, or neither if they had been unlucky in decomposition) wished to love her – with fluttering eyelid, fragmented nose, hair drooping clumsily with various fluids across shoulder, this very shoulder adorned with gash of exquisite pus... she was gorgeous to these new humans of the undead variety.

                So Deadmuscle, with fingernail-less 3 fingered hands, had ripped the lips from our poor Toothgroan, giggling liquidly at how he would never be able to kiss the lovely Pustule. Toothgroan had returned to his flat – a nice place built from the bones of scientists and newspaper vendors – saddened at both his inability to show his affection for Pustule, but also sad for he could no longer wrap his lips around a gelatine-popsicle, one of his favourite delights. I must note (I being a fellow zombie of this new era, who – through many years of practice – has learnt how to use the language known as English) that Toothgroan had tried licking these frozen fatty delicacies but had found it merely glued itself to his already hole-covered upper palate due to its temperature.
                He sat in the silence of his skeletal abode watching the starlings maul each other in the air.  Across the river of blood and bodies that once was Temms (if my historical knowledge is correct) sat Pustule, equally watching the swirling, twirling, hissing avian’s, equally feeling sad to be alone. She so wished to let her lips pass over his, if he possessed any. She so wished to hug him till a rib cracked (if she had some).

                Toothgroan, angry at the world, stood up.
                Pustule, angry at her rib cage, began to powder her nose-hole.

                He leapt from the window and... oh, I apologise readers not of undead descent. To leap from ones window is a sign of honourable motivation, not of suicide. Falling does little to a zombie. I continue. He leapt from the window and, with arms of great strength due to enhanced undead potential, swam across that river of bodies and blood and other appetisers to Pustules home. He wished to growl with her, talk things over.
                Pulling himself up onto the bloodied pavement, Toothgroan looked up to see a tiny greenish light coming from a bedroom window. Pustule. It must be.
                “T’th grrrn! Hehehe. Trr’ng ter ser yah lurrrv!” Deadmuscle, with such eloquence of speech, stared down at our poor hero. They watched each other’s oozing eyes for a moment before Toothgroan pulled Deadmuscle towards him. “Yah crrrnt beet mar!” He said (whatever that was), but Toothgroan merely smirked, teeth a-glimmer in the moonlight, before sliding his nemesis into the waters below, annoying said nemesis a bit.

                Up the stairs, round the corner, through into the corridor of yellow carpeting; strange undead crustaceans of the hotel stared up at him, snapping their pincers in exaltation. These dog-sized scavengers of the zombie life knew this man-thing needed respect! They knew! He was going to woo his love!

                Through into the upper landings, past a dithering old woman gnawing on a rogue leprosy ridden arm, sprinting over a crowd of dogs laughing at each other as they ate each other’s tails... further, further...

                She was waiting for him at the bottom of the hall, smiling lopsidedly; her face was somewhat deflated. He loved that in her. They loved each other after a brief kiss. He now lives with her; they own a pet shop selling parakeets in various stages of decomposition.

                And that is the future zombie; undead pet selling loveable civilisation building romantic fools.

Word Count: 907

Saturday, 3 July 2010

Life and Death in Thimbles

Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well--let 'em wait.
In response to an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you."
~~ Ethan Allen, American Revolutionary general, d. 1789

Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.
~~ Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
~~ Humphrey Bogart, actor, d. January 14, 1957

I must go in, the fog is rising.
~~ Emily Dickinson, poet, d. 1886
http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/dying.html

What would you wish your last words to be? Do you even wish for last words, or do you wish you never have last words, ever talking into the darkness, ever whispering as cadaver or corpse? Or do you wish for immortality, that curse of ever witnessing the ever-world ever-be, forever forever forever? I wish for last words. I wish to see what is next. I do hope they mean more than all the other bollocks I have spoken. How many times we waste a breath on idle comments, it is as though our words mean nothing.

And the planet moves on, turns on, ever turning onwards and away from where it once was in time and space and time and space and time. Watch it turn now:

1) Stare out your window and watch clouds or stars or night sky or day sky or whatever is above you presently
2) It is moving
3) It is always moving
4) So are you, ever moving. Never still. Alive.


- And that is the ever moving world on which you stand, with dust storms and drought, with rain and hail and snow, with babies and tykes, with trees and mountains and cars and trains and breathing and holding your cheeks blue for an icecream, sundae, sundays.


Thought:
Where do babies come from?

Saturday, 5 June 2010

Zeb Atlas - If you Just Sit

Let me begin with an idea. An idea not my own, but of another, who see's life in the lifeless, a breath on the wind.



Since 1990 I have been occupied creating new forms of life.
Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature. I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don’t have to eat.
Over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.




STRANDBEESTEN_TRAILER from Alexander Schlichter on Vimeo.


These are the beasts of the sand, the beach-creatures, the aerosynthesisers of light wood and recycled bodies. These are the new-life. These are the mockeries of our own for they care not for they think not. They mock us for they care not of our frivolities, merely of the wind. I wish, just sometimes, it was only the wind that bothered me.
However, I also revel in my existance. I am Nathan. T. Dean (T for Thomas and for Tyrant of Adventure) and I am a Human Being; we have made so many mistakes, but we have also given life (as much as we have taken it). We gave birth to ourselves, as well as these wooden behemoths of the seaside. 

Look at how they undulate, look at how they scuttle. The next step for Jansen is to build herds of these beach-beasts and let them roam. Does this make him a god? Does this mean he is akin to a male Isis, god of magic and life? Do you even count these wooden sculptures of movement as life? I do, somewhat. Just life not like our own, Jim.


I wish to Share:

1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

If you want to do this again, you'll hit refresh to generate new quotes, because clicking the quotes link again will just give you the same quotes over and over again.

3 - Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days" http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Put it all together, that's your debut album. 



I will share mine:
Zeb Atlas - If you Just Si

Is it coincidence how this is called Restaurant am Strand, and we have just seen Strandbeesten? Perhaps.


Thought:
Are we all just as lifeless as those lifeful Beach Beasts?

Discovery:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/22/multitaking-unitasking-aj-jacobs

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Surrealist Inspiration from the Black and White Reality

Sometimes moments are captured without description, without emanating - once captured on photographic nature - any purpose. I shall give these some.

Harvey, strange fellow of rabbit nature, stands beside his latest two compatriots, Dennis and Louvalle. They had just returned from the Opera but Dennis (gun wielding enthusiast of the Military variety) wished to explore the neighbouring town and so, with Louvalle protesting about his Chronic Solipsism, they entered a small Cafe called The Veronica Frog, had a small scone, and returned to the night. The night swallowed them, and made them imaginary friends. 

Lolande and Rondrigh, Welsh Acrobats, had commandeered the costumes from a new film by David Lynch. Being 6ft each, they easily became trapped in said costumes and tried to get the police to help them. Combination of accents and attire increased the likelihood of bullets in their chest, even if the law enforcers look nonchalant.

Oscariol de la Raconteur was an Atheist. He lived in a small shack outside Ostrigabern, a village of unknown country, of unknown purpose, whose famous dish of fish was unheard of by the very inhabitants. He collected birds, some real, some cardboard, some sla[n]g. They tried to carry him away. They broke his arms.

Amelia was originally quite terrified of her husband, but soon realised he had only transformed into the beast due to an infection. After penicillin he felt alot better, even if appearance had stayed in B-Movie Form. He sat outside, unable to fit in the house. They watched Sex and the City together.

After Julian had opened up a portal the puppet universe, he asked his Aunt whether he should shut it. By that point it was too late, all the puppets had turned the human race into pyjama wearing skinny-dogs.

W'ka'bao. His name was passed down to him like a dirty rag. He bought the puppet, who was once a midget called Steev, from a book seller made of Iron Filings. After touring with Steev (now known as Wooden Al') he settled down with a nice family of Hairdressers and started a family with a curling iron.

This image was taken by one Katherine Gaal of New Orleans. She had found the pair in the back garden after the Oort Cloud of her Solar System had given her the ability to see parellel universes. The Oort Cloud had told her that she was the dog and the monkey as a rabbit was the house cleaner she invited round for tea some times.


After smiling so hard their faces had turned to rubber, the magic duo Issaban and Hyth left to the mountains to herd goats and make cheese from their milk.

After Issadora had told her family she wanted a pony, it was the only logical thing her father could think of: ask Prof. Sheem to do some genetic surgery. Sheem however failed and instead just gave the poor kid a mask. 

After the holocaust, not the Nazi one, the one with Celebrities holding guns, Hermes Polonius Deerskin Thought left his face behind, shaking hands with people with looking at them.

Everyone thought John Hardy was a Doctor Who like Alien. He was infact an accountant from Spalding. The chemistry set was just glued to his hand at birth. His head bulbous because he once crammed a dictionary in their at birth. He didn't learn any new words.

After the great Llama Hunts of 1947, Haa Baa Faa Laa, eccentric billionaire of no real name, set up a home for these poor creatures, cutting of their heads to make lemonade with. Apparently it tasted hideos as lemonade, but made a fine acne cream.

After the Smiling Man had left the carnival he set up a small antiques shop. He sold only three items, a tooth pick, an ivory statuette and the soul of a woman called Theresa. 

The plague never really ended apparently. This is Dr. Horatio Kellerman of Stanford University, proving once and for all that the crows beak can save lives. So far Horatio has never died.

Time Traveller, after returning from the Snowy Peaks of London after the days of The Ice Seige.

Clowny Tim and his Orchestra of Babbling Monkeys had never performed to a real audience, just the unlucky travellers of Sherwood Forest who so happened to fall down the well no one has mapped. Note his conductors stick made from the ends of scissors and the dots on the tops of i's.

This image is blurred due to cosmic condensation. 

Nos Feratu, practicing for his role as Loki im Gerard Thones production of his own play The Empty Hearted Vase.

After Marianne Toadstool had turned into a pigeon, she often found herself compelled to jump into abandoned shopping trolleys to try and see if she could roll to the moon. She was never institutionalised, all the doctors had transformed into other avians as well.

Puss in Boots had never been afraid of pigs before, but after those swine had taken him for a nice walk through the Alleyways of King Oinks castle, he became strictly vegetarian and only ever went outside after touching the walls of his house three times.

Jack 'Kerouac' Smith had never been one for visual metaphors, but after turning his best mate into an anthropomorphic goat he couldn't pass up the chance to mock prohibition laws.

This is Stan. Stan has been drawing faces of his twin brother, Stan, for other 3 years. Each image of Stan, Stans twin brother, in fact more resembles in father, Stan, who once lived in a small village in Austria.

After Mad Ferrett Disease had reached Chicago, Mr Tennyworth - ferrett of Lady Humphrey nee Stonealdrew Carlisle Farnsworth Spit - went on a killing spree, murdering three potted plants and a homeless man of Irish descent.

Suzie was Harveys lost love. She was found in an abandoned lorry outside Manchester telling passing cars that the end of the world was not a lound bang, or even a quiet shh, but already happening between her own pretty ears. She was taken away by Sgt. Harriet Stall and asked about the terrorist attacks on parellel universes. Suzie replied solely with the phrase, "Your portals are not like my own sir".

After contacting H, their convert spy in the otherworld, John (far left) Mr. J (middle) and Ahzarha (far right) hooked themselves to the battery supply ready to jump through cosmic hoops.

Was a virgin until 2005 after she met Swondon, a priest from Middlesex.

Gregory Bounce soon realised that dressing his son as a rabbit was a bad idea, seeing as so far all rabbits had only predicted the end of days and fell into nightscapes to be young humans' imaginary friends.

Thought:
Did you like the pictures? Were the stories true?

Weirdness:
Does wierdness attune itself to storytelling, or education, or does it merely fill a void of pointlessness with more error of ways?


Discovery:

Friday, 14 May 2010

Solipsism




Definitions:

Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is certain to exist. Solipsism is an epistemological or ontological position that knowledge of anything outside one's own specific mind is unjustified. The external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist. In the history of philosophy, solipsism has served as a skeptical hypothesis. - www.wikipedia.com

the belief that the cosmos is such a poor thing that the only explanation is that it was created by someone with one’s own limited powers and abilities. - http://www.pansexualsodomite.com/archives/gallimaufry/solipsism.php

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist  - http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=solipsism


The Philosophy of Philosophy:
Solipsism seems wholly subjective, or wholly objective, depending on your view of the reality without reality. It implies all of what we see is but a product of your bodies, that our senses are what create the reality and ergo the only certainty is the mind, something experiences actively, not passively through the cones and rods of the eyes, the corpuscle of touch, the olfactory realm of the nose and the various other senses that our bodies provide. The mind needs not sense for you are the mind. My own Post-cynism would say the identity is the only certainty, which is an even more arrogant solipstic ideology. The mind, in my mind, is passive also, for you experience, through your identity, the memories and thoughts of that tissue, much as you experience the chemical imbalance of any organ. If the liver or heart is but an organ, the mind must be seen in a similar fashion.
What this means is that the 'rule' of solipsism that all is but an imagining is untrue to Post-Cynist eyes; yes the identity is certain, the mind a passive organ the identity can inhabit, but to say only this is true and all is but the creation of said mind is arrogant, implicating yourself as lord and morality as but a dream in the twinkle of your non-existant eye. 
Yes, all is subjective, for to a cat - who sees at the blue end of the spectrum - red is a dark colour. And to a bull, red is as grey as a dark sky about to unleash its lightning. The sense is but one way to experience all that is, but it is not a decision. It is not a controlled state. It is just the environment you inhabit, the body, and the environment that body inhabits, the world: your inhabit the environment that inhabits the environment. You didn't imagine its creation, you just happen to percieve it that way. 

The pessimistic polysexual confuses me however, for he sees all creation as a loss, for one solipsists made it and made it wrong, he made it bad, he made badness from a bad imagination. And he himself defines himself as but the imagining of another. Solipsism where you are not the solipsist. What is this? 


Thought:
Define solipsism without a solipsist

Discovery: