shaking negativity//sequence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmDAk4j3RDA

Document art?

Document groove

Document shaking

negativity

~in sequence~

commissure

simoeyes//music video

I like to agglomerate expressions into media. But I find issue with media agglomerations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDlMR8XJl0E

my hippocratic oath//presidential valentines

Notes from the notebook of yours truly:

Neuropsych, 1/31/2016

Clinical and Lesion Studies: Relating Brain Damage to Abnormal Behavior:

Clinical and lesion studies focus on identifying brain effects (specifically, brain lesion effects) on behavior. 

Clinical studies look at cases in humans, do not inflict harm; lesion studies look at cases in animals after manipulating brain tissue.

            
Notable Clinical studies: Medical Observations

                        (e.g., Hippocrates, Galen, Broca, Wernicke)

Hippocrates (460-380 BC) believed the “brain hypothesis” – that the organ that influences all senses and movement is in fact the brain.

-He was one of the first to deny epilepsy as proof of demonic possession.

-Hippocrates was also the first to note that the brain processes information and controls the body contralaterally.

Learning about "key" historical figures is like testing your faith in iconography. When individuals are wrapped in accolades, deemed the harbingers of some great and no-longer-to-be-questioned discovery, I wonder: was Hippocrates, a Greek physician, “father of medicine,” really the FIRST, or the ONLY ONE, to think these things?

Probably none of which was written by him??!?!

I tend to need some insight beyond this computer's Apple dictionary to define my own understanding. PBS is a good, corroborating source:

While Hippocrates, the so-called father of medicine, lived in the early 5th century B.C., the famous oath that bears his name emerged a century later. No one knows who first penned it.

Often I'm afraid that what I learn is lying to me. Sometimes the syllabus seems to gloss over, simplify things indefinitely. I hear and see that these people did these things and are these things and webbed some sophisticated finding into society's modern network of knowledge. 

But I find it difficult to think that someone was the sole "discoverer" of anything. And when every textbook tells you so, it's like doubting your own birth certificate as proof of your existence.

We really just need a face, someone to look to; a body to wear the cape of some concept. Because if we said this was just "Medicine's Oath," what possible version of ourselves would be available to believe in?

Valentine's day is bordered by Presidential birthdays.

Coincidence??!?!?!

(this person loves iconography)

pore over this//donald trump

While reading an article today, a phrase caught this computer's Apple dictionary:

you may think this blog post is politically relevant so far. i agree.

The article can be found on OZY.com. Wikipedia simplifies what this media service is and how it started:

We'll talked more about OZY later. but what gets me this article's phrase, gradually and strategically magnified through screenshots: pore over. Sounds poetic. But what does it mean?

Okay, I know what pores are; I can blame episodes of inflamed insecurity on inflammation-decrying skin commercials. But openness does not seem to be what the phrase "pore over" is referring to:

Hmmm. Being totally focused on something seems the negation of an opening through which microscopic particles can pass.

this pic is suggesting I pore over pores.

I'm thinking more. Maybe my poetic suspicion of the phrase–although used in discussion of Donald Trump–is on to something. This Apple Dictionary isn't even sure "pore" is related to "peer," which, as a verb, seems relevant:

perhaps?

So if English uses the word "pore" to describe perforations in your human exterior, but also uses it to describe a human genuinely dedicating effort to something, then can "poring over" describe the process of making one's entire being a hole, and allowing that something to pour over and through?

don't even get me started on standard English.

If you're interested in the rest of that OZY article, click the pic below:

yo girl is in a movie//kind of\\

Hey y'all.

If you know me, you may have heard me talk about the Adam & Nick Show.

This was a little creation/experiment that a childhood friend, my brother, and I jumped into when we were all around 10 years old. Using my handheld, We recorded variety shows and music videos; if i can recall any off the top of my head, it's a solemn and try-not-to-burst-your-ribs-laughing visual interpretation of Taylor Swift's "Teardrops on My Guitar":

it looked like this, except my brother was doing it.

And, for the holiday season, a stuff-your-shirt-with-pillows-to-look-like-santa-claus-(and,-also,-wear-a-santa-hat) celebration with Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You":

AND IIIIII.........

At the final collection of footage (which usually happened every Monday, as that was a day we could agree on for playdates and ordering Chinese food), I would upload the clips onto Windows Movie Maker, manipulate them, and present the final products to our babysitters and parents.

MY MOVIE. viewers were very supportive.

I think that working with people who had the will to "make movies" on Mondays for no apparent reason allowed me to experiment with my interest in syncing visuals and audio–creating little microcosms of life with some sense of ownership. Without working with Adam & Nick, even when we were 10, I feel I wouldn't have the same enthusiasm for film, photography, and music; I would have less of a perception of control over the process, and, more importantly, I wouldn't have the childhood story (that seems a faithful rationale of why I like making movies so much).

I wish I still had those tapes.

SO, this teamwork thing. Working with people to work towards your own visions. Blending your own visions with others' own visions to synthesize something more. 

Well, last summer, I searched Craigslist for people who were interested in making films. Even though Craigslist has garnered a bad rep for some, every experience I've had with the site has been positive: finding jobs, collaborating with artists–it's all led to good things. Of course, one must be careful. Don't go meeting contacts over Craigslist in alleyways.

That someone I found over Craigslist (who I DIDN'T meet in an alleyway, mind you) goes by the name of Walter Glass. I read his ad, watched some of his films, and really enjoyed his work. After meeting (in a coffee shop), we decided to work together, and are looking forward to future projects.

Without further sentimental delay, check out this short film, shot, directed, edited, and conceived by Walter Glass, and assisted along the way by yours truly, Sarah Simon. Let me know what you think:

"Five"

quotes//february//love

“February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.” 
― Anna Quindlen

this one is good too:

February makes a bridge and March breaks it.