Tyvek

The year: 1955. The man: A very ordinary Jim White. The place: DuPont's Labs. The discovery: as Jim walked through a lab, he noticed white polyethylene fluff coming out of a pipe. He set a team working on trying to manufacture the stuff, and by 1965 they finally had a industrialized form of the stuff which could be easily manufactured. The method with which they randomly spin the fibers is proprietary, but whatever they do works. Even the lowest grade of the stuff I couldn't manage to tear. Throughout the years different sectors of business noticed this revolutionary material and put it to work in their business. From house-wrapping, to luggage tags, to airmail envelopes, to shorts by Ralph Lauren. It's tear-resistant nature in tandem with the unbelievably thin nature of the material allow it to be used almost anywhere. As a company by the name of Dynomighty Design has expounded, the uses for Tyvek are indeed limitless, as the company produces printed wallets made out of a Super Grade of Tyvek. They even managed to hang a person from one of their wallets. Pretty intense stuff. Tyvek, revolutionary in its design and its applications.

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A Short Examination of the Purpose of Art

When I think why I feel compelled to create something expressive and original, I am left entirely without an answer that fully satisfies me. I have the definite urge to communicate an emotional message, but emotions are themselves lacking in definition or any observable status. It is probable that the ambiguity that surrounds emotional expression perhaps initializes the desire in us to map and take command of the unknown. To be the intrepid voyager to bring the indecipherable concepts of feeling to a place where others can directly understand the emotion you want them to. That you can portray a visceral concept using a method that allows the communication and eventual transfer of a usually personal and lonely experience.

Feeling is not normally a social event. Societally, we actively attempt to silence the unintentional expression of emotions. Without the consent of the listener, we rightfully feel that we would be infringing upon their privacy. Each member of a social structure typically exists in a limbo between their expressed feelings and the ones which they hold to themselves. Both because they don't want others to know, or they are unable to explain precisely what and why an emotional object actually is. The ability to translate the incommunicable seems, alluring to say the least.


Food for thought, my friends.

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Community

Not like the typical suburbian dream community of block parties and unspoken lawnmowing competitions, but the community which exists between members of a technological community. The type of community which actively supports sharing of content and one's own creations with others for noncommercial usage.

This type of sharing began in small groups of hobbyists who built computers out of basic components before personal computers or computers with real displays even existed. Much like the group Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak developed their tastes for computer-building in. Wozniak especially would design something really revolutionary or a chip which gave a speed increase, and then just give it away to other members of the group. While Jobs eventually decided to capitalize of Wozniak's designs, when forming Apple Computers only a few short years later. However, that is another story entirely. But the point is, they would share brilliant technology and designs with each other for no charge. These small homebrew led to the distribution of a small OS kernel by the name of Freax (later renamed Linux, after its creator, Linus Torvalds) which is now distributed for free.

This community is something that I cherish. Whenever I have a problem with my computer, I know I can go to a forum and ask a couple questions and within a week, I will have several in-depth answers, and maybe even a link to a tutorial( written by an unpaid member of this forum community) on how to resolve my issue. But with more complex things like building a Hackintosh, or Rooting and flashing custom ROMs to my Android, the entire community is made of people who figured out, or wrote code (eg Tony Mac x86) to actually do these things. But the killer part is, they simply give away all of their brilliant engineering and programming for no charge whatsoever. Their only interest is to make the lives of other people better.

Or in the creation of indie games like ADOM, Dwarf Fortress, or Dig-n-Rig. These games are extremely addicting, feature-rich and people would definitely pay to play them. BUT-and that's a big but-the developers like to develop and just give away their hard work for free. That is America, my friends. That spirt of community is contagious, because it is just so exciting to see everyone enjoy free

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Style

What is style I wonder? What factors exactly lead society to the "realization" that a certain meme is cool. Be it words, clothes, methods of wearing clothes. Be it pants, hats, sun glasses etc. How does the mob determine what is good and bad of these styles?

I struggle to understand this sort of hivemind the crowd takes on, because almost everybody takes an instant liking to a certain trend and reproduces it, and launches it into sociological stardom. I hypothesize that it may be more of a hysteria type situation. Almost relating to the work of Dr. Zimbargo and the Stanford Prison Experiment. How a group will make crazy decisions, that when viewed from the outside, ie old people, looks and is understood to be rediculous, but whenever someone is on the bleeding edge of fashion or style, they understand these styles and trends and believe them to be popular. It would certainly be interesting to see some research done on this topic. To exactly pinpoint how and why a amorphous group makes seemingly unanimous decisions simutaneously without discussion or communication. They simply see it and ba-boom. A style is born.

Food for thought, my friends.

Time

Time is one thing that is extremely hard to wrap my mind around. It defines our universe, in many ways, yet is so fluid. Do we percieve time? Or do we only percieve the changes in the world over time? Can that be classified as "percieving time?
Now think for a moment to live in a universe before time  itself existed. Yeah, its hard. You would know all. Or know nothing, based on how you looked at things. You really wouldn't be able to learn things. You would be. stet. No more, or less. You would be a 4 dimensional state of yourself, knowing all things that you ever could have known all together. Now consider the creation of time. Suddenly the same object could have more than one state.

Now that time was initiated, events had an order. You could refer to events by their order. But by the time humans were around the sun was also in place. The sun offered humans the first real measurement of time. First using our eyes, then the sundial, then the hourglass, then the watch, and eventually the atomic clock. The latter bringing us great accuracy to our measurement of time.

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