I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and you are feeling and breathing in a way that you're really aware of your muscle and bone and the breath and the body and the movement and all of those things that just you take for granted in the urban landscape.
DJ SpookyAntarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry, so say, for example, if I was facing someone wearing I don't know, a Joy Division t-shirt with the mountains on it or something like that.
DJ SpookyIt's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for a living, breathing human being. And one of the things that Sigmund Freud really felt was that in modern life people assign qualities to objects around them that may not exist there whatsoever.
DJ SpookyMy work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!
DJ SpookyI'm passionate about the fact that this world that we live on is a stunningly beautiful place we have despoiled at every level.
DJ SpookyAnd when I say permanent afternoon, you know, Iโm talking like crystal clear, crispy blue sky. All the sudden you didnโt need to sleep as much because it just was difficult. And how that translated into my creative process I still am not quite sure, but it made my relationship to sleep a kind of abstract you know bizarreโฆ
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