Rotate

no puzzling

collision

Thoughtless

no messy

time slicing

Speculation: If you went back in time and murdered your grandfather your hair would change colour. Or you would become taller. Or shorter. Or fatter, or thinner, or black, or white, or have different shaped ears, nose, etc. Or whatever... Because of the necessity of carrying the genes of a different grandfather. So you'd try the experiment again. Kill another grandfather. And another. And another. And another. Until eventually you'd be arrested by the time police. "Got another one sargeant, one of these damn serial grandfather killers!"

The Ice Caps Melt

 

It seemed possible something would break through

 

There was something about this cat...

Packaging

Upon

Once

No worries

Easy

Tarot Major Arcana Card 17

 

Tarot Major Arcana Card 2

 

A still from a movie I made in the 90s

 

This is really irritating to look at. I think so and it's my work.

Future Poem

If all the world spoke the



same language



wore the



same clothes



listened to the



same music



worshipped the



same gods



believed the



same truths



ate the



same foods



watched the



same media



read the



same books



held the



same things to be self evident



sang from the



same song sheet



was on the



same page



pulled the



same way



dreamed the



same dream



wished the



same wish



hoped the



same hope



walked the



same walk



talked the



same talk



saluted the



same flag



wore the



same company logo



took off their pants the



same way



breathed the



same air



drank the



same beer



had the



same teeshirt and matching baseball cap



kept the



same time



towed the



same line



played for the



same team



It would the biggest



prison



in the world



and would not need



any walls



because



there would be nowhere



to go

 

Speculation:Mass/energy/space/time is a continuum. E=MC squared. T=EC squared. S=TC squared. M=SC squared. Thus space can be made out of time and matter can be made out of empty space. What does it mean to create time by accellerating energy? Does this have a weapons application?

Speculation: perhaps it would be possible to clone a person's brain cells, then keep the cells alive in an artificial environment which might be in the form of a biology-based computer module. This module could, perhaps, be connected to the brain of the person from whom the cells were cloned. After a period of time, when the person had grown used to using these cells integrated with his or her own brain functions, the module might be removed from the person's cortex and slotted into a computer. The cells would continue to be nourished artificially while functioning as a neural net within an electronic computer. The person could gradually have the lobes of his brain replaced with these cloned units until all of his higher brain operations of cognition and sense of self were functioning normally within removable units. If all of the modules were removed at the same time the person's body would only have a vegative life maintained by machines. The brain modules, however, could be slotted into the computer where the consciousness would continue. The person would, I suppose, feel physically numb, having no sensory nervous system. The brain centres where feelings are actually perceived, though, would still be active, feeling perhaps exhilaration (when given direct access to the internet by mind-skype) or horror (when the existential penny drops).

republishing

Since I had only published a few blog entries at the prevous address there aren't too many to copy/paste to here.

First, though, the idea of Speculative Art. In my first attempt at blogging this theme I said:

"The art formerly associated with speculativism was mere illustration of the writer's work."

Hmm, that's only true of some speculative work. I was thinking of the huge history of science fiction and fantasy illustration which had to follow the dictates of writers and editors. Of course, speculativist work is found in fine art as well as commercial illustration.

Speculative Art is a broad genre, encompassing Futurism, Surrealism, Dada, Symbolism, Pittura Metafisica, Science Fiction themes, Romanticism, Horror, Adbusting, Satire, psychological explorations, Magic Realism and Fantasy.

The purpose of this blog is to publish some speculative work of my own and to discuss the range of topics related to Speculativism.

"An art philosophy which speculates on the nature of reality, humanity, time and place." I'm interested in ways of exploring the other side of reality through art, rather than merely illustrating someone else's thoughts.