Consciousness is a Congenital Hallucination.

 humans are alive.




Phoebe Jaspe
this is my art. views. film. photography. mbti & psychology rants, surrealism, everything.

ISTP Nuclear specialist Marine on War 

War is a simple way of life because you are only concerned about one thing, which is mission accomplishment. Nothing else in the world matters. Not phone bills, car payments, rent, social or sex life, or anything else the people we aim to protect and serve have to worry about. It’s just us, the people we’re fighting with, and the people we’re fighting against. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.- Jeremy Case

Hello, I was wondering if you could help me figure out my type? Thanks and you're definitely not obliged to help. 

Sure. I can help you.

blossoms on a sunny day

Being on the same side of the coin 

Suspend objective observation and logic, Focus on your inner feelings.

I’ve been thinking about the phrase ’we are on the same side of the coin’.

What I’m interested in about this metaphorical ‘coin’ is diminishing it, make it disappear through various art forms.

Once this happens, you will get infinity.

Fuck being on the same side of the coin or being on a blue or purple coin

This coin represents a prison, an ugly trap, a penopticon

It has superglue on it.

Most likely the coin only has one side.

Aim for infinity or you’re going to be stuck in your basement, or even worst, under the soils without freedom.

Emotions are important, you should develop your self-expression and self-awareness before it’s too late, you become a mindless automation.

Have a look at my film if you have time, it’s going to be shown at the Showroom Shorts May:

Iguana (2013) from Phoebe Jaspe on Vimeo.

Let me know what you think. (:

Hallucinogenic drugs on Mario Bros. 

dabaut:

I remember when I saw this article many years ago about the presence of hallucinogenic drugs on Mario’s games, that would make sense in how he travels to those magic worlds. I love these kind of unknown details of movies and video games.

Amanita Muscaria:

Ayahuasca:

Peyote:

j-wolf-harding:

And I do believe, I’ve already found mine.

A quote I used when I was 16 to describe my ex. hahahahhahahah

Plato and art 

The first thing our artist must do,’ I replied, ’ - and it’s not easy - is to take human society and human habits and wipe them clean out, to give himself a clean canvas. For our philosophic artist differs from all others in being unwilling to start work on an individual or a city, or draw out laws, until he is given, or has made himself, a clean canvas.’ (Plato, 380BC) 

A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway 

“THE INFORMATICS OF DOMINATION

In this attempt at an epistemological and political position, I would like to sketch a picture of possible unity, a picture indebted to socialist and feminist principles of design. The frame for my sketch is set by the extent and importance of rearrangements in world-wide social relations tied to science and technology. I argue for a politics rooted in claims about fundamental changes in the nature of class, race, and gender in an emerging system of world order analogous in its novelty and scope to that created by industrial capitalism; we are living through a movement from an organic, industrial society to a polymorphous, information system—from all work to all play, a deadly game. Simultaneously material and ideological, the dichotomies may be expressed in the following chart of transitions from the comfortable old hierarchical dominations to the scary new networks I have called the informatics of domination:

Representation/                       Simulation

Bourgeois novel, realism   /           Science fiction, postmodernism

Organism      /       Biotic Component

Depth, integrity           /     Surface, boundary

Heat    /  Noise

Biology as clinical practice      /       Biology as inscription

Physiology     /     Communications engineering

Small group  /      Subsystem

Perfection     /      Optimization

Eugenics      /        Population Control

Decadence, Magic Mountain   /   Obsolescence, Future Shock

Hygiene       /        Stress Management

Microbiology, tuberculosis        /   Immunology, AIDS

Organic division of labour         /    Ergonomics/cybernetics of labour

Functional specialization          /     Modular construction

Reproduction  /  Replication

Organic sex role specialization  /  Optimal genetic strategies

Bioogical determinism  / Evolutionary inertia, constraints

Community ecology   /     Ecosystem

Racial chain of being  /     Neo-imperialism, United Nations humanism

Scientific management in home/factory       /         Global factory/Electronid cottage

Family/Market/Factory Women in the Integrated Circuit

Family wage  /     Comparable worth

Public/Private  /  Cyborg citizenship

Nature/Culture fields of difference

Co-operation /    Communicatins enhancemenet

Freud /   Lacan

Sex     /    Genetic engineering

labour /  Robotics

Mind   /  Artificial Intelligence

Second World War     /     Star Wars

White Capitalist Patriarchy    /       Informatics of Domination

What our world is coming to, combining polar opposites together to maintain equilibrium.

Further reading: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20120214194015/http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html

phoebejaspe:

My new orange tinted glasses, arrived today (: 

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In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever—for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!”

“Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago—centuries, ages, eons, ago!—for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities.”

“Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane—like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and invented hell—mouths mercy and invented hell—mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites a poor, abused slave to worship him!” …

“You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks—in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.”

“It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

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Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1916)

Common man syndrome 

SargeMaximus: True that, how do you walk the fine line between making the message you have inside, and make it understandable by the ‘common man’ though? Obviously it has to be universal, but aren’t there enough universal themes of “experience life” anyhow? I know that I personally like personal art, but only if it speaks to me, you know? Makes me wonder if art is doomed to always appeal to the masses.

Reply:
The common man is already doomed from the start because he chose to be ‘common’. It is these years that people repress their inner desires that they suffer the ‘common man’ syndrome in which there is no way turning back.

I suppose it’s fun to create films exploiting ‘the common man’ with their monoculture, they obey and they suffer. Everyone influences everyone. It is a mental illness that these ‘common man’ referred to MBTi as the ESXX, they belong ultimately to the masses. As Aldous Huxley says:

[QUOTE]In Freudian psychology, talking things out is one of the ways we resolve our problems. By talking to a shrink, or getting together with one of our buddies and pounding back some pints and letting everything out is a form of therapy. In philosophy, this has always been one of the ways in which we attempt to answer the pressing questions. From the Socratic dialogues to the daily musings of a philosophy class, we get have always got together so that the unreflected things become reflected.In the postmodern, mass-telecommunication culture, the goal is the opposite. All our individual thoughts and parts are to become the general property of the masses.

The internet in it’s many permutations (with most recent Facebook as the most obvious and significant example) is most guilty of accomplishing this. Think about the Freudian idea of digging into our deepest, darkest and most private and unpleasant past memories in order to analyze and solve a problem we have - to help us know ourselves. Modern communication takes these memories from that clear area of self-examination and throws them across the city for all to see. We have lost our privacy - we are a culture of needing to know, but for all the wrong reasons…We’re voyeuristic, not looking for answers to life’s eternal questions.

So, we’ve gone from an introspective culture of examining and learning from traditions, to one which aims to forget the past by overloading us with information and distorting what is right and wrong. It’s the goal of mass culture to bury the transgressions of the past. The parts that we can understand and reflect on are so small - the trillions of tons of paper and websites out there - most of them have no meaning to everyone….the goal of mass culture is to make sure the narratives of our lives fit somewhere in those documents….

We’ve become so monocultural - through television, internet and other forms of media, that are our memories even our memories? The late philosophy professor, Rick Roderick gives some interesting examples; just like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall, who goes to a company that sells him memories, so have we been indoctrinated with ideas, thoughts, and experiences just by going about our daily lives. It’s like sitting in a cafe and hearing a cover of a Doors song that we lost our virginity to done as muzak — taking very personal memories and diluting them, distorting them and distributing them to the masses……Now we don’t even listen anymore….we tune out.

So what is culture anymore? It used to be things we created as opposed to nature….well now, it’s everything and it’s everywhere. With virtual reality, with world theme parks, with communication online, youtube, etc….we don’t even have to leave our homes to experience the world. 
Thinking this way really makes me want to go back and live in the 1930s. To have modern technology and the ability to travel the world with ease - but without the world spoiled by the hyper information age. I want to find those parts of the world still unexplored, and not posted all over my Facebook news feed.[/QUOTE]



Similar to Freud’s iceberg theory, which one do you wish to exploit? Mainstream media mainly operate on the conscious level, if you see Haneke (INTP) films, he operates on the unconscious level.

Film making is quite sad if you think about it this way, the world is already too messed up to an extent we need to capture its violence and obscenity for people to see, it’s truly an art form if you think about it this way. 

I think I’ll just make films about things I want to make and see what people get from it, and possibly learn from them, in turn, I learn more things about myself.

What if money were no object by Alan Watts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L_cGjQSR80

Got an International achievement scholarship :D

Getting used to random adults calling me a ‘scholar’ and that international students are the best. Meow. 

“To live is to learn.”- Ilha des flores

thisnicelife:

Just something to consider.

Currently applying this to Haneke’s films.

On Monoculture 

hemlokk:

In Freudian psychology, talking things out is one of the ways we resolve our problems. By talking to a shrink, or getting together with one of our buddies and pounding back some pints and letting everything out is a form of therapy.  In philosophy, this has always been one of the ways in which we attempt to answer the pressing questions.  From the Socratic dialogues to the daily musings of a philosophy class, we get have always got together so that the unreflected things become reflected.

In the postmodern, mass-telecommunication culture, the goal is the opposite. All our individual thoughts and parts are to become the general property of the masses.  The internet in it’s many permutations (with most recent Facebook as the most obvious and significant example) is most guilty of accomplishing this.  Think about the Freudian idea of digging into our deepest, darkest and most private and unpleasant past memories in order to analyze and solve a problem we have - to help us know ourselves.  Modern communication takes these memories from that clear area of self-examination and throws them across the city for all to see.  We have lost our privacy - we are a culture of needing to know, but for all the wrong reasons…We’re voyeuristic, not looking for answers to life’s eternal questions.

So, we’ve gone from an introspective culture of examining and learning from traditions, to one which aims to forget the past by overloading us with information and distorting what is right and wrong.  It’s the goal of mass culture to bury the transgressions of the past.  The parts that we can understand and reflect on are so small - the trillions of tons of paper and websites out there - most of them have no meaning to everyone….the goal of mass culture is to make sure the narratives of our lives fit somewhere in those documents….

We’ve become so monocultural - through television, internet and other forms of media, that are our memories even our memories? The late philosophy professor, Rick Roderick gives some interesting examples; just like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall, who goes to a company that sells him memories, so have we been indoctrinated with ideas, thoughts, and experiences just by going about our daily lives.  It’s like sitting in a cafe and hearing a cover of a Doors song that we lost our virginity to done as muzak — taking very personal memories and diluting them, distorting them and distributing them to the masses……Now we don’t even listen anymore….we tune out.

So what is culture anymore? It used to be things we created as opposed to nature….well now, it’s everything and it’s everywhere.  With virtual reality, with world theme parks, with communication online, youtube, etc….we don’t even have to leave our homes to experience the world.  

Thinking this way really makes me want to go back and live in the 1930s.  To have modern technology and the ability to travel the world with ease - but without the world spoiled by the hyper information age.   I want to find those parts of the world still unexplored, and not posted all over my Facebook news feed.

Amen. The death of adventures and real human dreams blurred by the hyper comfort zones of the masses. It is the Brave New World.

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