Transmissions From The Satellite Heart: 6/18/08

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

aperture

I started looking @ this camera and went in different directions, but still come back to this model. A good friend suggested the name. Thank you! I have spent a lot of time researching, talking to others and viewing it's results. A few weeks ago I held a friend's D80. I had it in manual mode and just aimed it at random subjects without hitting the shutter and felt like {Oh yeah! this is what I need}. I feel good about this next step. My mind needs this badly and all I do is see images everyday/night that can not be captured. I have so many concepts in my head and also have a human subject that I want to document and experiment with. I just need the key to unlock my kaleidoscopic mind that has been somewhat closed and limited to a web cam for a month now. It has been one of the roughest months in my life. Up, down, diagonal and crushed to bits.

My art needs and will flow much better with this.

stay tuned,

After years of waiting. Nothing came. As your life flashed before your eyes. You realize
I'm a reasonable man
get off,

get off,

get off my case
I'm a reasonable man
get off my case, get off my case
After years of waiting
After years of waiting
Nothing came
And you realize your looking,

looking in the wrong place
I'm a reasonable man
get off my case,

get off my case
I'm a reasonable man
get off my case,

get off my case,

get off my case
I'm a reasonable man
get off my case,

get off my case,

get off my case
After years of waiting
I'm a reasonable man
get off my case,

get off my case,

get off my case
I'm a reasonable man,
get off my case,

get off my case,

get off my case
I'm a reasonable man,
get off my case,

get off my case,

get off my case
I'm a reasonable man, get off my case, get off my case, get off my case

pots ti lliw nehw

nude head radio

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo
Don't get any big ideas
they're not gonna happen
You paint yourself white
and feel up with noise
but there'll be something missing

Now that you've found it, it's gone
Now that you feel it, you don't
You've gone off the rails

So don't get any big ideas
they're not going to happen
You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking

Sometimes Thom adds this verse when performing:

She stands stark naked and she beckons you to bed
don't go, you'll only want to come back again

Released:
October 10, 2007 digitally, December 3, 2007 CD & Vinyl
Found on:
In Rainbows
This song was originally introduced by the band as an untitled piece, but on Web sites it is often referred to as "Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)." Thom first heard this title from Matt Pinfield in a MTV interview for 120 Minutes. The title "Nude" is the title that appears on the band's set lists, though the song has never been referred to elsewhere by this name. The piece features both Thom and Jonny on keyboards, and it is as gorgeous and mysterious as both "Motion Picture Soundtrack" and "True Love Waits" as far as the unreleased material is concerned. Influenced by the notion that we live in a man's world, a place where men can get whatever they desire, the song also explores the guilt that men feel when they commit certain acts, like cheating on their partners.

On May 6, 2006, "Nude" was performed by Radiohead in Copenhagen at their first concert of the year. It is speculated that the band have recorded this song and it will be included in their next release.

luna

As the full moon rises this Wednesday evening, June 18, many people will be fooled into thinking it's unusually large.

The moon illusion, as it's known, is a trick in our minds that makes the moon seem bigger when it's near the horizon. The effect is most pronounced at full moon. Many people swear it's real, suggesting that perhaps Earth's atmosphere magnifies the moon.

But it really is all in our minds. The moon is not bigger at the horizon than when overhead.

The illusion will be particularly noticeable at this "solstice moon," coming just two days before summer starts in the Northern Hemisphere. The reason, according to NASA, lies in lunar mechanics: The sun and full moon are like kids on a see-saw; when one is high, the other is low. This week's high solstice sun gives us a low, horizon-hugging moon and a strong, long-lasting version of the illusion.

If it's any consolation, space station astronauts report the same effect.

Here's how it works: Your mind believes things on the horizon are farther away than things overhead, because you are used to seeing clouds just a few miles above, but the clouds on the horizon can indeed be hundreds of miles away. So if we think something (such as the moon) is farther away, and it's not, then it seems larger.

If you remain doubtful, test the idea yourself. Go out at moonrise with a small object, perhaps a pencil eraser. Hold it at arm's length as the moon rises and compare the sizes of the moon and the eraser, then repeat the experiment an hour or two later when the moon is high in the sky. A rolled up tube of paper works well, too.

Moonrise times vary by location. On Wednesday, it will come up at these local times at these locations, according to NASA: New York City, 8:58 p.m.; Miami, 8:35 p.m.; Seattle, 9:51 p.m.

The moon rises about 50 minutes earlier Tuesday night, when the effect will also be noticeable because the moon will be nearly full. Oh, and that raises another fallacy: There's no such thing as a full moon.

Additional moonrise times for your location are available from the U.S. Naval Observatory Web site.