It's a funny thing how people like to produce art/meaning/excel at....well, almost anything. It's kinda beautiful, actually...though I'd add to that it'd be great to get everyone with what they need to have the leisure time to produce art as they wish. Ending explotation and oppression, let alone providing life basics, are always connected with art I see. Art is obviously produced in that space, but I dunno if I'd say I'm glad suffering exists so all this cool art is produced.
But on the subject of fun, and of fun art, and of seemingly "meaningless but beautiful" things...watch some line rider. :-)
(if you wanna play some, go here for a non-deluxe version. just lines, squares and rectangles and circles, but still wonderful) http://www.pixelrage.org/downloads/Crayon-Physics-Deluxe-3246.html
Check it out, this guy releases a new game a week. A WEEK.
here's another funny one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4X4foelQJk http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/games/tafb
also check out world of goo for similarly beautiful stuff. http://www.2dboy.com/games.php
I'm happy with my (just-finished) last paper of this semester: wanna see?
Yeah, ok, I'm done. My last paper of the semester, and I'm pleased with it. A touch rambly, but that's a-ok with me. It's an analysis of a project I'm a part of to potentially create some kind of local community-based school for liberation/anti-oppression training and practice in Durham using tools from macro social work which is kinda like community organizing.
I'm particularly happy to have incorporated at least a minor discussion of how measuring program cost-benefit analysis against dollars has big dangers and advocated some crazy stuff, like translating all costs (financial, emotional, etc.) into environmental acreage needed to sustain it and personal life energy expenditures. And then there's the talk about abundance vs. scarcity models. Got some of my favorite new references in there two, including a few movies. Cool.
Anyway, for those interested, feel free to check it out.
