construction, construction, what’s your function?

to hook up yuppies with fancy food and move uppity junk in!

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fuck off, yuppies.

images used on Grey Coast (re: some higher rise apartments and the new New Seasons grocery store construction on N. Williams Ave.)

2012 RISE UP!

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* I haven’t had my technology for a while – this mix / mashup I put together over a year ago. it’s an awesome intro to a 2012 dubstep anthem set.

This is the way the world works:
One structure
Universal law
Reality is big, bigger even
Everything converts
Everything transfers
Everything is equal
Every relationship
is understood in the same frame
All frames are the same
This is the correct frame
The world is flat
Even when round it is flat
One society:
We all live in it.

2.

This is the way the world works:
Many structures
Many laws, no laws
Reality is small, micro-realities
Nothing universal
Conversions happen
Nothing is equal
In transferring there are no equalities
Understanding happens within frames, not out
No frame is correct
Worlds are territories overlapping
The terrain is multidimensional:
Multidimensional is not a frame.

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The first paradigm is done out. Too simple and yet too pervasive. It needs to go.

The second paradigm is a reaction. It is too complex, unfathomable.

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The first paradigm is the economist. This is how we know capitalism works.

The second paradigm is the anthropologist. This is how little we know about other people.

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The first is baby formula. We know everything else in our diet is missing but it’s all we want.

The second is tonic water. Not the best diet, and too much might kill you or make you insane.

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The first is comprehension. We need to do this in order to get anywhere at first, to draw a square around us.

The second is bewilderment. We need to do this in order to see the limits of, and to get past, square one.

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The first is wholesome. It feels good to know everything, or at least the possibility that somewhere everything could be known.

The second is anti-totality. It’s better to know what you don’t know if you’re honest about it.

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In the first frame you’re standing in a doorway.

In the second frame you’re standing in a doorway without walls.

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In the first frame the doorway leads somewhere.

In the second frame the doorway leads nowhere and everywhere but not somewhere.

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In the first frame you’re standing in a doorway.

By the second frame you’re walking through.

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The first is the yang, the sunnyside of life giving a false impression that it’s always summertime.

The second is the yin, the darkside of life giving a false impression that it’s never summertime.

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The first paradox is the source of misunderstandings.

The second paradox is the source of incompleteness.

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Immanuel Kant said god exists for the posterity of preserving the moral structure of society.

Immanuel Kant said we can’t know if god exists because our knowledge is experiential.

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There is a general theory of everything and nothing in particular. It has no coefficient.

There is a complicated and untestable theory for a specific thing in particular. It isn’t interesting.

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At first glance, religion makes a lot of sense.

On second thought, religion is why the world got to be this fucked up.

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The first is why capitalism succeeds everywhere on the planet rich people live.

The second is why it fails everywhere else.

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The first is monogamy. Only a man and a woman can get together and make babies, god dammit.

The second is polyamoury. If you’re not poly then you are brainwashed to think monogamy is anything except dissatisfying.

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The first is the Tower of Babel reaching Yahweh before he smites the people and confuses them with thousands of languages.

The second is when you learn that there were multiple towers, not one, made by people of different religions, building towers for different purposes, with no reliable witnesses, and no overarching consensus on what, if anything, happened.

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In the first room is a fascist marching band from North Korea, everyone looking and moving exactly the same, having practiced the same routine every day for an entire year, for this one show, all for the glory of one man sitting on a throne.

In the second room is an experimental breakcore benefit show for some anarchists’ legal bills, where multiple DJs spin on open-decks and uncoordinated equalizers, microphones and lights flare off in several directions at once.

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A steelworker sits on an assembly line producing mass quantities of the same exact widget-thing over and over.

A DIY steel designer sits in a workshop smithing every scrap by hand into a dozen or so unique and uneven widget one-of-a-kinds.

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Exhibit A: is the same blue Toyota Prius you’ve see everywhere, but you’re wrong, they’re different cars.

Exhibit B: is the hippopotamus-shaped Burning Man art car you got smashed in as it smashed into a flaming art temple. Your life will never be the same.

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At first there was public opinion. Polls could show disagreements but we’d still talk about a “public” as if it had an opinion, objectively.

Then along came anti-politics. Someone was asking the wrong questions because there are no unities like “public opinion.” Everyones’ opinion is their own.

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The first is an epic myth with a beginning, middle, and end.

The second is a neverending James Joyce saga written by an unknown number of copycat authors at different times of the life, some claiming to be already dead, with several open plot series developing, and no editor or introduction.

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The first is the encyclopedia, almanac, dictionary.

The second is Anti-Oedipus.

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The first is the Declaration of Independence, the United Nations Charter, the Geneva Conventions.

The second is an obscure communique from an anarchist cell scratching on about the freedom to live without dead time against the production of biopower as a critique of Wells Fargo.

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The first time you made love it was meant to last forever, but probably didn’t.

The next time you made love it lasted longer but you don’t remember it – it wasn’t that big of a deal.

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The first bank you rob is like a technical writers’ manual: clear rules for right wrong. Either every I is dotted and every T crossed or all bets are off.

The second bank you rob is like a romantic thriller, full of corny cliches and predictable maneuvers, but since everybody is making them in pretty much the same way, yours fit right in unnoticeably.

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When you became a Christian you were converted to Christianity.

When you became an atheist you denounced converting to Christianity, and denounced converting from Christianity to atheism.

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The first wage of sin is death.

The next wage of sin is freedom.

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Your first tour in Iraq is a call of duty and everyone must answer that call.

Your second tour in Iraq is just another job.

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The first flight of stairs you fell down was an epic fail.

The second flight of stairs you fell down is where you died.

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The first flying saucer you see is there and gone before you know it.

The second flying saucer you see is obviously a couple of Chinese New Year fire lanterns blowing in the wind.

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The first week of life imprisonment is like a Harrison Ford movie.

The second week of life imprisonment is like Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus.

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Your last cigarette was the one you remember.

It was different from your next last cigarette after that.

I’m doing another party with the MoPro Crew! –>

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SOUND://fractal.dimensions/

This party will be blasting from a new Turbo Sound soundsystem – this shit KICKS.

It’s got enough bass to fill twenty Refuge party zones.

ART://fractal.dimensions/

My art wagon will be outside in the outdoor/outside area in front.

It’ll be a little getaway space for tea and making art!

Home-made donuts…

Chillouty music…

A name? oh right it should probably have a name…

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Other art that’ll be there://

Bijoux’s Juju //

Hooktup Designs //

Coral Lani Designs //

Jess Saunders //

Corevibes //

Metagnosis //

Arial performance //

fractal art contest with a $100 prize //

MUSIC://fractal.dimesions/

# FEATURING://

Kilowatts

{{PHILLY}}

http://autonomousmusic.org/artist/kilowatts/
http://www.kilowattsmusic.com/blog/

Bird of Prey

{{LOS ANGELES}}

http://birdofpreymusic.com/
http://soundcloud.com/bird-of-prey

Phidelity

{{PORTLAND}}

http://www.phidelity.com/blog/home/
http://soundcloud.com/phidelity

Merchants Of

{{PORTLAND}}

http://www.facebook.com/MerchantsOf.Bass

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{{PORTLAND}}

http://www.facebook.com/current.productions

Anden

{{SEATTLE}}

http://soundcloud.com/anden
http://infiniteorganics.org/sounds/

more fractalicious info click here.

LOVE COMPASSION

HEALING SACRED HEART

FROM THE CENTER

FROM MY LOVE

RADIATING INWARD

AND OUTWARDLY BURNING

LOVE MOMENT: SELF MOMENT

PRESSURE BEING NO ONE

ONLY LOVE & ALWAYS LOVE

ALL ONLY LOVELY HEART

ALL PIECES OF SCATTERED

HEART FOR PEACE-WOUNDS

WARM BLOOD OF MY HEART

SOFTENS EVERYTHING

I wrote an analysis (see post “Bank like Oliver Twist“) of global gentrification patterns and squatting land worldwide in 2009 and found it very relevant today. My mind is set on squatting the foreclosures in 2012, defending against evictions, defending foreclosed-on homes, and opening up new spaces for solidarities to find themselves. This is necessary now. I’m done sitting back and watching spaces remain empty, and get emptier, as more and more of us wander streets at night without a place to sit down or sleep. We keep hitting up against the same wall. I envision some rhizomatic occupying of the empty space everywhere in 2012 as part of a broader anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian struggle. New spaces can be occupied as launching pads, places that spark new nodes of creation. There, our solidarities are the un-evictable fortresses — it’s not so much about the space itself. Taking space is a continuation of solidarity. We need space is for survival, and solidarity is how to survive. Let’s get to the other side. Solidarity has many new meanings.

- Staarfox

Richie.Hawtin@Monegros.Desert.Festival://Spain.

} de9.transitions {

Let’s go back to 2005. Richie Hawtin — a breakthrough minimal techno producer (wikipedia) (website) — released what I’ve always thought of as a breakthrough album which brought the experience of electronic music to another level. The album, DE9 Transitions (that’s a link to the DVD mix at Warp Tour 2005 accompanying the album) is full of brilliantly shaped dance songs mixed into an extremely minuscule format and I still think it’s dope as fuck.

It wasn’t until DE9 that I actually heard “minimal” and fell in love with the sound. Driven by a 4/4 beat, minimal is like a house beat with a standard dance rhythm. But because minimal techno tracks are so stripped down, the subtle introduction of one or two new sounds can have a tremendous impact. But why would anyone listen to music that is so basic? (and basically annoying.) The answer is minimal techno has to be mixed (by Richie Hawtin.) DE9 has 25 numbered tracks (each about 2 minutes), but each track is actually composed of about 6 or 7 separate tracks all mixed together. That’s about a hundred and fifty tracks in the set: and that’s a standard set.

Richie.Hawtin:// DE9.Transitions.

As he explains in a DVD commentary about Ableton Live which accompanied the album, here’s how Richie Hawtin mixes his sets: once an optimal beat-per-minute is found, all the tracks are matched and he is free to experiment with incredible spatial freedom. In the early days of techno, as he tells the story, there were no rules and DJs experimented immenely. With new technologies even more possibilities broke through. The spatial transition, as he calls it, is moving away from the traditional stereo field of music and into the 5.1 channels of maximum surround sound. It has totally changed the dynamic effect of dance music. This is the new minimal sound for a maximal environment. Richie Hawtin uses this spatial advantage to create organical and danceable sound environments, like non-mechanical “downmixes” — that’s what Able Live users call this style of DJing.

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art.installation:// artist:Donald.Judd.

Around the time this album came out, I checked out a lecture from an art professor about minimalism in sculpture and painting. From her perspective, Donald Judd and other minimal artists developed the austere and very “American” form of art known as minimalism, which she said strives for geometric “perfection” and is immediately recognizable in its construction. A brief look at Judd’s art proves how noticeable it is — how being minimal makes it stand out so boldly. You notice every color, every solid, every shape in the construction. Judd uses industrial manufacturing to create perfect, solid-colored block shapes and other angular dimensions.

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The minimal art trend is toward industrialization, but in fact, industrial one-of-a-kinds. In this way it sort of defeats the purpose of industrial design, because industry is based on scalability and replicability. A one-of-a-kind art piece is not a replica and isn’t a commodity per se, it is what it is! It could bought and sold, but that makes it a collector’s item, technically not a commodity, although trading it for money (which is a commodity) that’s what people mean by the commodification of art. Minimalism is so popular in contemporary art that if you make anything hand-made an art professor will say it’s very “post-minimalist” of you. Post-minimalism is aesthetically rejecting the grids and the seriality of minimal art, preferring hand-made and hand-crafted art instead. Post-minimal art does not look industrially-designed, but oddly, it could be — it’s just not supposed to look like it was.

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detroit://MOTOWN.CITY.

So if minimal is like industrial design, let’s take the analogy further.

Detroit, home of the American auto industry, is also where techno music originated. Yet unlike minimalist art, the sound of minimal techno is not  designed like the industrial aesthetic. Richie Hawtin’s style could also be called IDM, intelligent dance music, with all of its static effects and slow sound movement built on top of the bed layers of kicks and drums. When I think of industrial dance music, I think of loud jarring sounds: hardcore tekno synths and non-stop NRG kicks. You know, that standard rave music! DE9 is not like that at all, and it doesn’t have any highly resonated sounds or synth pads at all. Its incredibly smooth and well-rounded. Geometrically it’s non-Euclidean.

In the beginning of minimal techno people said it was like the wine and cheese connoisseur party in the festival/party/dance culture. It’s supposed to be a pretentious scene, but probably only because a lot of it comes from continental Europe, and the American scene was more into breaks, glitch, house and trance at the time. People say about minimal techno: “All I hear is boink boink boink! It’s just a bunch of pops and squeaks.” Everyone has that mentality with new music. It takes a while to really hear it.

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Urban.Expressionism.Squared ://artist: Limegintonic.

People like music because it is the most emotional art. Out all the ways art is expressed, music has the most direct and immediate emotional impact. Songs on the radio can make people ghost ride the whip or breakdown crying in a matter of moments, and for everything else, art seems to take a lot longer for that effect. Minimal techno, on the contrary, is not obviously emotional like most music. It isn’t late ’90s trance. It isn’t dubstep. There aren’t any hugely amplified synth buildups in minimal techno. No strings. No womp. All you get is “boink boink boink”!

To hear what minimal is — you have to listen to it for a while, for 15 minutes at least. You’ve got to hear some transitions, and that’s what DE9 Transitions was all about, because you’ve got to get into the groove flow. Then the logics of the rhythm surround your brain and, you realize, it’s more like trance than you thought! Except bouncier, because the beat is breathing at you. You’re like a snake, slowly being charmed out of the box from a flute rhythm. And since every sound in minimal techno is engineered to have that boinky percussive quality,a flute sample would have bounce packed into it too. Listen to some newer minimal tech house, like Patty Sue by Andhim, and notice how the organ pipe samples are made to be percussive.

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Austere repetitions and iterations characterize minimal painting and sculpture. Minimal is austere and repetitive. And your grandma will tell you techno music itself is repetitive and too austere. So it’s redundant to say “minimal techno” then — but that’s because minimal techno took “techno” to a greater extreme. Since there has been a post-minimalist movement in minimal painting and sculpture, minimal techno is really the post-minimal of techno. The Detroit techno of the mid-80s is the critical reference point for all techno after. Post-minimal is about creating hand-made art and not industrializing the craft. So, too, minimal techno is about hand-crafting and mixing dozens of tracks all at once to make something unique every single time — you’ve never heard this shit before in your life. Welcome to the spatial era. #

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We shutdown ports all along the West Coast and in other cities on December 12, in response to the action called by Occupy Oakland. There’s a short synopsis on Grey Coast about how Portland shutdown the ports. We shutdown 4 terminals, and one was indirectly owned by Goldman Sachs, three were the busiest terminals operated by the ILWU longshore union. The fourth terminal was a “scab” terminal, operated by Schnitzer Industries which hires non-union work. We setup a mobile soundsystem in a truck and played loud music at terminals 4 and 6. Here are some of my photos, followed by others from the West Coast:

Portland, Terminal 6

Portland, Terminal 6

Portland mobile sound party @ Terminal 6

Portland

Oakland

Oakland

Oakland

Oakland

Oakland

Videos:

PORT!

BLOCK!

ADE!

(West Coast style)

When?: TOMORROW MORNING (Dec 12, first shift starts at 8am. Be there by 6am. Second shift starts at 4pm. Be there by 3pm.)
Where?: THE PORT! (meet up at Kelly Point Park. #16 bus goes there.)
What?: PORT BLOCKADE?
What?: … PORT BLOCKADE, FOOL. (We’re shutting down the West Coast so you have the day off.)
What?: SAY WHAT AGAIN!

 
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What?: YOU CAN READ ABOUT IT ALL DAY…

They say birds of a feather bloc together, so just to be fair…

put a syndicalist bird on it.

put a pink and black bash attack bird on it.

put some lightning on it.

put this bird on it and call it real life.

last but not least... for whoever is into that.

From Day One of #OccupyPortland there was little sense arguing if police were infiltrating #OccupyPortland or not — unless only to argue whether this time they painted the roses red or black. This week, The Mercury (local Portland art magazine) unmasked two plainclothes officers out of curiosity. It isn’t everyday a local alt-magazine goes out of its way to investigate the lies of the police. It’s never the day local corporate media pursue anything like that. The post in the Mercury shows police were leading on writer/blogger Dennis Theriault about Portland Police Bureau infiltrations until the evidence was mildly irrefutable, at which point they simply provided him with a different line of rhetoric, as always.

Corporate and legal “discoveries” are like this. At first the pigs deny accusations of brutality or spying or secret operations. It’s a secret, duh, they’re not going to tell you about it. But once evidence is stacked against them they won’t say they lied to you in the first place either. Pigs are tricksters of public relations, but pigs are also pretty dumb and get caught up in their lies easily. They sweat (like pigs) at press conferences if you smell them out and call their shit. It takes a spell-broken trickster to catch them off guard. At that point, they’ll take off the mask and say they did this, or say they still do this, for your own good — and it’s more “standard” and “acceptable” and truly more banal that you really think. So don’t be naive, say the pigs. There’s no need to worry. Cops are low-level guardians of capital, and masking the reality of capitalism is part of the noble lie. This is how the NDAA bill (indefinite detention without a trial act) is playing out, too. Everything in that bill the pigs have been doing for a long, long time. Only now they’re trying to find out how much they can unmask by passing a new law. They’ve always been able to do those things. How many scandals and unsolved mysteries would have to happen before they took off the masks and admit it was already the law.

- How deep does the rabbit hole go?

- How many rabbits go into the deep hole?

- Stars are tricks playing minds on you.

- Tricks are minds playing stars on you.

- Minds are stars playing tricks on you.

- Always stars play tricks.

- Sometimes minds play stars.

- Whenever tricks play minds.

Minds play the tricks.

- tricks play the minds.

A star, a star

glimmers in the night

Let us bring them

Mindlessness and light!

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