Thursday, May 17, 2012
Food Palate Map
I think the palate is perfect example of an intensive surface. The palate is composed of five main assemblages (sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami). All food is but a combination of these five attributes in the same way that a sound is a combination of frequencies. The palate has sensitivities to certain tastes and sends this information up to the brain where it is translated emotionally (e.g. "Mmm, this pretzel is good and salty" or "This coffee is impotably bitter.").
One could write an essay on the stylistic consistency of the sounds that DJ Premier digs for samples and loops. On one hand, it seems impossible that one might find a sample in a song such as the following, but once you hear the movement in the samples that he is going for (another example would be Above the Clouds), the sounds achieve consistency in the Deleuzian sense:
http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/11515/Gang%20Starr%20feat.%20M.O.P.-1/2%20%26%201/2_Jimmy%20Webb-Gymnast%27s%20Ballet%20%28Fingerpainting%29/
http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/11515/Gang%20Starr%20feat.%20M.O.P.-1/2%20%26%201/2_Jimmy%20Webb-Gymnast%27s%20Ballet%20%28Fingerpainting%29/
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Humility
"The earth trembles and quakes with laughter at the arrogance of a ground that, in the span of an instant, can suffer obliteration."
Flaxman (2012), p.152.
Flaxman (2012), p.152.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
"For, the panic subsiding more and more every day, it will daily be seen how it originated; confidence will be more than restored; there will be a reaction; from the stock's descent its rise will be higher than from no fall, the holders trusting themselves to fear no second fate."
Herman Melville, The Confidence Man, p.27.
Herman Melville, The Confidence Man, p.27.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
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