putting the j in jjosh

Friday morning.

taking a picture of a sleeping MTA guy on the subway, I’m reminded of being at burning man and mike h coming up with this great art project: he would take polaroids of people sleeping and then tuck the photo into their hands for them to find when they woke up. I loved it because there was something mildly creepy about it (who’s watching me while I sleep?!) and kind of beautiful too (everyone looks so innocent while they sleep). great stuff…

Are you ready for Friday?!?!?!?!

If you read some futurists, they have this theory about how fast the speed of technology progression is moving, and it looks like a graph that starts slow and then suddenly goes almost straight up. The moment where it moves from being a sloped line to going straight up is referred to as the Singularity. Once we hit that, technology will progress so fast it will seem almost instantaneous. All kinds of cool stuff to look forward to when that happens: downloading our brains into computers, sending our consciousness across the universe, etc. Some say it might happen in as little as 50 years.

Or so the theory goes.

I will say though, sometimes I feel like I’m seeing so many mind-blowers on various blogs that we must be getting close to that moment. Case in point:

[This was emailed to me from PatH, and I dunno where he got it from…]

And, far be it for me to pile it on, but I just saw this and somehow it seems to fit with the last vid and musings on the future. Our man Carl Sagan, auto-tuned to sing a fantastic and future-minded song about, what else, the Cosmos. When I watch these auto-tuned pieces, I’m always wondering how much work it took to make…

[via kottke]

until you check with the vaudevillians…

I remember seeing this routine as a kid and it stuck with me. Even watching it today I can remember the whole shtick that went along with the cube, and how amazing it was to see.

Apparently I should have seen this ages ago, but I haven’t. I will never get tired of this kind of stuff…

2 obnoxious girls in their 20’s buying salads.

GIRL A: Can I get just like a side of chickpeas?
GIRL B: She brought her lunch but she just wants some chickpeas. That’s so weird!
GIRL A: I know, I’m weird!

(they are laughing really loudly)

GIRL A: We are so annoying right now, I love it!
GIRL B: I know, if I was sitting next to myself on the subway, I’d totally put a gun to my head.