Just a quick update to give a link to an excellent new blog called Boy In Water by a friend of mine. He has some really good pictures and text to check out.
Century of the self
This is an absolutely fantastic BBC series from 2002 about psychology and propaganda over the past hundred years or so. It has been mentioned a lot on Pop Occulture, and other places. The BBC has their own page about it (just text, no video):
Adam Curtis’ acclaimed series examines the rise of the [...]
What does it really mean to “experience” something?
I think we can experience events on so many different levels, not just from person to person, but in ourselves as well. Sometimes we might be feeling receptive and get a lot more from an experience than if we were busy or distracted. Similarly, some people skim through [...]
Looking around on the internet I stumbled upon a flickr group entitled “simulacrum”. It seems to be just lots of pictures of things that people have seen which they think are simulacra.
Some of them are really good, takes a little while to realise why they are simulacra. A bit of a different take on things [...]
Take a look at some of these storm pictures, absolutely stunning.
You can find out more info about them here.
I’d love to see something like a super cell, or a hurricane, before I die. To experience nature it’s all its beautiful yet terrifying glory. I guess we can see that in all of nature though, it’s just [...]
Welcome to the new home of The Simulacra!
I hope you like it, I have moved over to wordpress, so there might be a few teething problems during the transition, but everything seems to be working ok at the moment. Hopefully I’ll have a bit more freedom and flexibility hosting the blog on my own server.
I [...]
Busy time has more or less ended so hopefully I’ll have the updates up a bit more frequently in future.
I was listening to the radio a couple of days ago and heard this lady ring in complaining about the effects of rock music on the “Youth of today”. Her arguments were laughable, including “no-one has [...]