Nick to Vic: > 911 still too raw for me to take pancaking > buildings as any part of funny.
I never follow up unexplained links to videos, partly because with my slow connection all videos load painfully slowly, mostly because I disapprove of moving pictures in general (1. push media::BAD; 2. we aren't evolved to resist videos' inevitable extra baggage, 3. if anything, we're evolved to far too easily be sucked in by their extra baggage, 4... I can rant on indefinitely, but won't now). So I'm always glad when someone, even if not the original poster, does explain--in words-- WTF a profferred video link purports to be (other than, essentially always unstated by the poster even when smugly admitted by the videomaker [e.g., in cases of explicit advertisements], some kind of mindfuck--oops, there I go ranting again). In this case, though, Nick, is it supposed to be "funny" or is it supposed to be "art"? Karl-Heinz Stockhausen voted "art" for the original show (specifically, I guess, "performance art"), remember? (If you don't remember, go look it up, it will be good for you, even if you didn't spend far too many hours in the late 1960s listening to Karl-Heinz's "Gesang Der Junglinge".) ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
