random bits of internet
Nov. 20th, 2012 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katekatMusic: Ok, this isn't fandom, but it's such a cool transformative work!! (even if i'm not the biggest fan of one of the songs). The person takes a Miles Davis song & a LCD Sound system song (both on youtube), and plays them together. Its beautiful.
Gardening: Moss does NOT equal mold... and should possibly be encouraged to live in our homes? Also, Japan has moss in its national anthem?
[english language news article about moss pictures]
Art/Advertising: Apparently in LA they're doing a campaign to fundraise for LA schools by getting artists to design really awesome things. One of them is a bunch of buses that are covered with Emmerson quotes! And a billboard that reads HUMAN HISTORY BECOMES MORE AND MORE A RACE BETWEEN EDUCATION AND CATASTROPHE (which, um, so true)
[see cool pictures here]
Literature-ish: Curious about Japanese ghost stories? I got directed to this "Litrolab" pod-cast of Lafcadio Hearn's ghost stories. The interesting thing is that he wrote them down because no one else thought they were important ... and then they got famous outside of Japan, and the Japanese themselves took notice and translated his english-language book back into Japanese... and these are the forms of the tales that are most famous today in Japan.
[oooooo, scary .... ok, well, maybe not totally scary]
Gardening: Moss does NOT equal mold... and should possibly be encouraged to live in our homes? Also, Japan has moss in its national anthem?
[english language news article about moss pictures]
Art/Advertising: Apparently in LA they're doing a campaign to fundraise for LA schools by getting artists to design really awesome things. One of them is a bunch of buses that are covered with Emmerson quotes! And a billboard that reads HUMAN HISTORY BECOMES MORE AND MORE A RACE BETWEEN EDUCATION AND CATASTROPHE (which, um, so true)
[see cool pictures here]
Literature-ish: Curious about Japanese ghost stories? I got directed to this "Litrolab" pod-cast of Lafcadio Hearn's ghost stories. The interesting thing is that he wrote them down because no one else thought they were important ... and then they got famous outside of Japan, and the Japanese themselves took notice and translated his english-language book back into Japanese... and these are the forms of the tales that are most famous today in Japan.
[oooooo, scary .... ok, well, maybe not totally scary]
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Date: 2012-11-20 03:24 pm (UTC)That is a gorgeous mashup! Talented people make me sick... but in a good way
Moss. I like moss, but in a back-to-nature, I'm hiking in the woods kind of way. Especially in the fall when the bright green of the moss contrasts with the reds, yellows, ambers, oranges and browns of the leaves. Sort of a reminder that not everything dies and goes dormant. Maybe moss equals hope and that's what attracted the Japanese enough to put it into their national anthem.
Cool advertising and so true.
Interesting tidbit on the Japanese ghost stories. Saving that to peruse for later.
How are things in your world?
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Date: 2012-11-24 08:55 am (UTC)and i know, right? i'm like - that's brilliant!! do more of those!
there are apparently a couple of moss gardens in Japan that i'm kind of curious to see, but i wouldn't necessarily call them nature since so much of japanese gardening is planned. and you might be right about the non-dying thing (who knows though? japan is an interesting place that way)
and things in my world are good! they got super crazy last week so i ended up taking off thursday and then we had holiday on friday, so i'm having a mini long weekend (so needed).
what about you lady? i haven't seen you posting as much? (or perhaps did i miss entries?)