twilight of the ladles (or tuned as with a meat grinder)

1. what do clocks mean? is there an aesthetic and/or practical way to reinvent measurements of time?

though this is still relatively conventional, the image is really fascinating (and also analog): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHO1JTNPPOU
also, the word "chronophage" is awesome... anything bearing the suffix "-phage" is awesome. how about "mnemophage"?

how about making a video based calendar/clock that represents itself in the fashion of an analog clock that measures not only years/seasons/months/weeks/days/hours/minutes/seconds but compares the current epoch to history as a whole, showing how our weather, political climate, infant/adult mortality rates and causes are related... a means of every person viewing known historical data and being able to view the longitudinal character of civilization. perhaps it can incorporate mythological/alchemical imagery. perhaps it can include arbitrary elements. how does this demonstrate to us that there is an arbitrary or asynchronous relationship between our units of measure for time? what do they correspond to in the natural world? where do their name-meanings come from?

2. are drugs tools/technology? how are they tools? how are conventional tools dangerous in the way that drugs are? how are legally sanctioned chemicals (antidepressants/alcohol/nicotine/caffeine) or activities/products/behaviors that have addictive characteristics (video games, shopping, pornography) different from illegal ones? can one be dangerously addicted to things such as food, money, sex, exercise, competition, etc. and how is this different from being addicted to chemical "drugs"? what is a drug? how do law/crime/market forces relate to drugs and how does the illegality of one drug differ from the legitimized marketability of another?
http://www.erowid.org/

3. should i wear an eye patch for stealing/recycling someone else's art/music/concept?
http://insomnia.ac/essays/the_piracy_of_art/

4. let's take a field trip:
http://www.mjt.org/

5. paul laffoley:
http://www.miqel.com/visionary_art/analysis-laffoley-paul-black-white-hole.html

6. haunted ontologies:
http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/008535.html
and here are some of mine: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.showvids&friendID=441418400&n=441418400&MyToken=36569a2c-7cf3-4228-a175-fd5dfb51d5b6

6. illusions:
http://listverse.com/miscellaneous/top-10-incredible-sound-illusions/
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/7092/11brain2axx123157516705qp5.jpg

7. derrida:
structure, sign, and play: http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/sign-play.html
naomi klein doc: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=derrida%20documentary&sourceid=mozilla2&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv#

8. handy math tool for musicians:
http://web.forret.com/tools/bpm_tempo.asp?bpm=100&beat=4&base=4

9. you thought you were being postmodern but really you were just being a jerk:
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

10. neither generative nor postmodern but awfully pretty: http://www.raycaesar.com/