Railpass

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by Brian O’ConnorLast week, while avoiding work, I stared at a gif of an endless model train spiral for what seemed like hours, transfixed by the constant, seamlessly looping stream of miniature carriages, moving without end, going nowhere, ...

THRESHOLD

In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.

The Unbearable Brightness of Seeing

Is “frame architecture” our escape route from the dogma trap of endless culture wars?

Relativity Park: Walking Speed of Light

Special relativity simulator in which light crawls along at a human speed, so Lorentz contraction, aberration and Doppler shift happen at walking pace.

Every train, a note.

A jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train.

Will New Technology Make High-Speed Rail Obsolete?

Do new technologies undermine the case for fast trains?

Gazing through a lens, I invent as much as I reveal | Psyche Turning Points

For years I watched people through cameras and screens, filling in the blanks and calling it truth

Refugees and Searchers Go to the Movies – First of the Month

Spielberg lets the screen go black for about five seconds. The communal experience of film-going then becomes a shared nightmare. With the screen unlit, the emergency lights in the theater are the only source of illumination. If you jump (as I did), you fear for a moment that the movie has stopped—the reel fallen off its plate, the fantasy interrupted by unfunny, drop-dead reality. “Are we still alive?” whispered by Farrier’s daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) is an inquiry that invokes our own doubts about our safety, our capacity to dream, our possible awakening to dire reality. It recalls how many people felt after 9/11. Are we dreaming? Are we still alive? Bringing everyday experience and existential contemplation together so forcefully, Spielberg joins the ranks of the most audacious avant-garde filmmakers: He turns the popcorn movie experience into a consideration of the abyss.

The Myth of Non-Stop High-Speed Rail

High speed doesn’t have to mean non-stop.

LIMINAL SPACES

Liminal spaces have become an internet aesthetic whereby photographs of places which are meant to be traversed (implying a temporary stay) are framed and presented as a final image. These spaces imply where people should be, but are not. The aesthetic also spreads to depictions of empty nostalgic spaces and the internet has branched into themed subgenres of liminal space (such as the backrooms, the poolrooms, the sublevels etc).

How to reclaim your attention from the distraction economy | Psyche Videos

Could you watch this video on full screen, 1x speed, with no distractions? Here are five steps to rebuild your attention span

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a H…

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