Ciarán Ryan notebook

Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan, opened at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in the UK on 28 February 2008.

Extrageographic’s review here:

Click here: Passage to the Future - Japanese artists at Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Gorillas in our midst - experiment by psychologist Daniel Simons - Visual Cognition Lab at the University of Illinois.

People are shown a video of a basketball game and asked to count how many passes one team makes.

Fifty % of viewers do not see the woman wearing a gorilla suit who appears on screen.

It’s inattentional blindness - people see what they’re expecting / used to seeing.

People see their idea of things - a concept - (see family snaps with very messy backgrounds) - not what’s actually there.

See also Temple Grandin - autistic animal expert - she says animals and some autistic people just see what’s there - they don’t do the filtering.

Human and animal perceptions are different - cattle sheds can be built to human specifications with fluorescent lighting etc - but this can scare sensitive animals.

Buying a house on the net

http://www.propertybroker.co.uk/

houseweb.co.uk

anti-cancer treatment? 85g a day could inhibit and even kill cancer cells - it raises antioxidants.

There’s a Watercress Alliance which funded a two year study.

November 2006 - Icelanders opted out of deCODE’s database (Kari Stefansson) project with Hoffman LaRoche (which wanted to use the info to make drugs).

In UK this news was welcomed by Foundation for Information Policy Research.

Digital picture frames - how popular?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000MRAAB0/30000457-21/?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Printer cartridges - mx2.co.uk

Bon religion - Tibetan kingdom of Guge

http://www.bonfoundation.org/aboutbon.html

Japanese art student Goda wrote Tao: On the road and on the run in outlaw China - about travels with Cao Yong

Early 1980’s he travels to Guge - 17th century decomposing soldiers still lying around the city - 700 miles from Lhasa.

But his paintings look a bit straight. Has written a book - Escape ?

http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/English/e2007/e200709/p34.htm

Sunday Times suggests substitutes:

Klamath blue-green algae. Vital Life pure organic Klamath blue-green algae (£12 for 60 capsules, Simply Vital: 0870 609 1180) - contains phenylethylamine (which might be part of why the Diet Coke is addictive - boosts dopamine). Take 4 capsules daily.

Also there’s Cinnachrome - www.healthproductsfor life.com - 1-3 capsules daily.

Possibly: A pebble from Sai on the Nile - 200,000 years ago - near Sudan. On display at National Museum, Khartoum.

Interesting

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2241753.ece

Inorganic material can take on the characteristics of living organisms in space. Galactic dust forms into helixes and double helixes - a common structure that underpins all?

The magic of internet - mystical

Gleason’s first law of politics

http://wherearethejoneses.com/ - online sitcom

Map alternative - http://www.192.com/

http://periscopeprojects.org/home.html

Parking tickets

http://appealnow.com/

Travel

http://www.wayn.com/

igougo.com

gusto.com

tripmates.com

tripconnect.com

holidaysuncovered.co.uk

holiday-truth.com

Supposed to be good:
The Gun Club - Da Blood Done Signed My Name

Beatles - rain

Bob Dylan - one too many mornings

Dylan - time out of mind (not dark yet etc), Nashville skyline, (hit single - Baby stop crying) - also Jokerman

Breeders - moutain battles

Frank Sinatra - Flim Flam etc

Also

The Birthday Party - Live 1981-82

Also

Derek Bailey - Standards

Barefoot in the Head
Sauter & Dietrich, Moore -
Liner notes to the album provided by Thomas Pynchon

Amarillo Ramp - Lee Ranaldo

The gift of tongues and Clouds - 2 albums - Ranaldo and Hooker

Sonic youth - Anagrama - Slaapkamers… and Invite Al Cielo Als: A thousand Leaves Also: Silver Session Also: Piece for Jetsun Dolma

coverfreak.com

Easy Star All Star’s - Paranoid Android 2006

Nightingales - what’s not to love

Hank Williams - live at the Grand Ole Opry

Han Bennink & Derek Bailey - post improvisation discs 1 and 2

Joy Division - Preston 28 Feb 1980

Harry Partch - www.corporeal.com

Martin Hayes - Dennis Cahill (live in seattle)

Don and Dewey - rock and roll

Inside the Dream Syndicate, Vol. I: Day of Niagara [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

The raincoats - The raincoats

Miles Davis - The birth of cool

Gerry Mulligan - night lights

Lennie Tristano - Crosscurrents

Gil evans - out of the cool

Bill evans - live at the village vanguard

Rick James - cold blooded

Smiley Lewis - I hear you knockin

Sonic Youth - SYR4 - Goodbye 20th

Ike Turner’s Rocket 88 (Jackie Brenston)

East River Pipe - The Gasoline age

Sufis - Sheikh Yaseen, Om Kalthoum, El Ranan, and Sadia Mohammed Ahmed Eid

Gnawa - Morrocan trance

u-ziq paradinas - Royal astronomy

Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden (UFAW Animal Welfare) (Paperback) by John Webster - published February 2005.

Humans like eating meat - but says - Professor of animal husbandry at Bristol - Webster, cows, for example, have a mental life.

Cows within a herd form friendships and bear grudges - and get excited by solving puzzles. They have a sense of self - and suffer - and seek pleasure. They and other farm animals, are individuals.

It seems that we don’t want to listen to Prof Webster - but animal welfare may have to be re-thought.

I’m still throwing away bits of newspapers etc - just looking back at The Guardian newspaper - October 27 2004 - it includes John Peel’s obituary.

I was at Peel’s funeral for the BBC - I think I must have one of the only audio recordings of Gambaccini’s tribute to Peel (the Cathedral staff disconnected the feed cables, if I remember rightly)

I’ll have to dig my CD out - but in his tribute I’m sure Gambaccini said that Peel had probably listened to more recorded music than anyone alive, ever. A sad day - I’m not saying anything new here - but Peel really was a light in the darkness.

On Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. 10 February 2008
Repeated 15 February 2008.

1. Second movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.23 in A
Performer Alfred Brendel with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner
Composer Mozart
CD Title Mozart:Piano Concertos Nos 23 & 27
Track 2
Label PHILIPS
Rec No 420 487-2

Record: Erbarme Dich
Book: Encyclopedia Britannica
Luxury: Good toiletries for my bath.