LENTO DOLOROSO
Installation shot from The Jogging: Re-Mixology:
International Waters, 2012
1 part Fiji Bottled Water
1 part Poland Spring Bottled Water
1 part Evian Bottled Water
1 part Dasani Bottled Water
1 part Arrowhead Bottled Water
1 part Voss Bottled Water
1 part Smartwater Bottled Water
spritz with tap water
(via dianarikaserong)
Googols and Googols
In 1938, mathematician Edward Kasner asked his nine-year-old nephew for a name for a large number—and his nephew promptly replied: “Googol.” A googol is a number equal to 10^100, or if you wanted to write it out, it would be a 1 with 100 zeroes following it. Already, this number is larger than the number of elementary particles in the known universe, which only amount to approximately 10^80. As if this wasn’t enough, the term was then extended to an even bigger number: a googolplex, which is 10 to the power of a googol—i.e., 10^(10^100). To write this out, it would be a 1 followed by a googol number of zeroes. Here’s where it gets intensely cool: you cannot physically write this number out in its entirety, because there is not enough space in the universe. Even if you wrote in unreadable one-point font, it would take up about 3.5×10^96 metres, while observable universe is only estimated to be 8.80×10^26 meters. So, you’d still need more paper than you could stuff into the entire universe—and furthermore, if you wrote at an average rate of two digits per second, it would take you more time to write it out than the age of the universe so far. And yet, even a googolplex comes nowhere near infinity. Numbers are awesome.
(via cuntilanak)
Oh hello there, F. Scott Fitzgerald in drag, 1916.
But don’t criticize, for Fitzgerald knows how to respond to hate mail.
I never really understood St. Vincent until very recently, I guess i never really gave it much of a legit listen before. She is very good at expressing how alienated and empty musical success can make you feel. I think a lot of artists try to broach this subject and it usually just feels really immature. Like, “i have so much cocaine and so many hookers, but i am sad.” Proud to be label mates with someone like her.
there’s something really awkward about her music and when you’ve embraced it you can realize how awesome she is.
Anything we should know about your change?
Her eyes are waiting
This calls to panels sustained brown
Everyone’s tiring
September thudding quickens with a serious slope
We’re in it together but no one pulls
As soon as the circus disappears
Damaged goods, damaged goods
The saints only preach when the coast is clear
Damaged goods, damaged goods
The lines in your palm shouldn’t give you grief
Damaged goods, damaged goods
And quickly the bloom on the rose does leave
Damaged goods, damaged goods
No matter what he thought she was
No matter what he thought she was before
Professional, a working stiff
It’s over now, damaged goods
No doubts, no doubts
What’s done is done
