amphichon

How will you spend your five minutes?

I am feeling artistic today. Look what I made:

Nice, eh?
By the way – this piece of art is© 2007 by herichon, all rights reserved, and my right to display this art on my website is protected under the first amendment as freedom of expression.
Now that I’ve used up all my creativity, I [...]

Major fire in the Trinity Church in St. Petersburg today, which I wanted to comment on here primarily because it yielded one of the most striking photos I’ve seen lately. Still, it’s tragic.
Funny – like Randal from Clerks (who hates people but loves gatherings), I hate most organized religion, but I can really appreciate [...]

So McSweeney’s does a quarterly thing which they call McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. Actually the Quarterly Concern came first, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency sort of sprung up from that. You could call the Concern a magazine, if you’re comfortable using the term for something that could be anywhere from a 300-page sumptiously bound [...]

Your breath is now still
no warmth to your skin.
Do not be afraid.
Everyone before you has died.
You cannot stay
any more than a baby can stay forever in the womb.
Leave behind all you know,
all you love.
Leave behind pain and suffering.
This is what death is. – from a Tibetan jhator ceremony

Thanks to Sala for this sweet little applet which builds a graph of a website by browsing through the DOM tree. The images it creates are quite nice, but it’s watching it grow that I get a kick out of.
Here’s the 10,000 foot view of amphichon:

So in the last few days I’ve been exploring the whole idea of recycled culture (having borrowed that phrase from Detritus.net).

No one has asked yet, but I’m sure there are a few folks out there wondering what on earth elle a chaud au cul means.
If you’re not a Marcel Duchamp fan (hell, even if you are), it’s pretty obscure. Get the full story on L.H.O.O.Q. (or elle a chaud au cul) here.
Could we possibly [...]

Courtesy of some folks at Virginia Tech: an interactive exploration of The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymous Bosch.