Nobody makes it out alive.
Ball is life, and if you spin it right the pitch of the sounds change.
Dump that junk. Dunk it.
The data on the disks is the mission statements of chicagoers that the musician sings and remixes. The conch shell is the inspiration for all this astonishing wonder. It is a fractal found in nature. There is planned obsolescence, and the person is data_DISK jockey ȺƉǤ.
data_Dj ȺƉǤ (born Alexander DeGraaf) was highly educated at public research universities in Michigan + Illinois and quickly became researcher for multimedia performer Pastel Fractal collecting the mission statements of Chicagoers on floppy disks.
data_Dj ȺƉǤ starred in the YouTube show "Reseachin' with Alexander" then went rogue hacker claiming to "serve the community" performing a stripped-down Pastel Fractal.
"ȺƉǤ is strung out on data." -Pastel Fractal
"ȺƉǤ is fixated on the branding and the conch logo." -Conch Shell
armor dupe good
armored doing good
alt defense guise
altruistic defraud guise
alternative disguise
extreme endeavor. there is absolutely nothing wrong with this art. this art is ABOUT someone with something wrong which is actually what makes the art OK.
apple addiction, bassnectar, interactive giving fund, be interactive, secret lives, requiem directors name, steve akoi, hangover cure, ketamine addiction, social media addiction, phone addiction, electric sun festival, dekkar, burning man, scraper bikes, misanthropy, algorithm slave, dj wellness, hack, open source, aaron schwartz, space jesus, cosm, alex grey, david foster wallace, infinite jest, adorno, identity projection, seashell wonder, hidden microphone, prank, eric andre, joe rohan, science of addiction, dopamine social dilemma
raver, terence mckenna, critical mass, naked bike ride, diy nature worship
drum and bass on a bike, bicycle dj, musician mental health, custom bicycle, trippy , new media, vintage midi, eternal now, chicago drug epidemic, jordan brand, jordan fashion, bicycle justice, laurie anderson, david byrne, thundercat,
legacy hardware, unsupported software, sports medicine, psychedelic medicine, lifestyle medicine, time dilation, psychedelic film, cancelled dj, cancel culture, neurodivergent musician, mentally ill dj, celebrity rehab, bass drop, edm drop, jnco jeans, happy hardcore, hardcare, dj self care, quit your job, industry failure, cassette tape culture, CASSETTE DISKS, vinyl only dj, flash drive dj, sd card dj,
zero emissions, zero e-missions, back to nature, green dj, hypocrite artist, techno is dead, dj health insurance, diplo, industry grind, dan deacon, woke dj, dj without bounds, out of bounds art, off limits taboo stigma, crossing racial lines, over the line penalty, red flag, yellow card, skateboarder interview, real skaters, skateboarders who don’t give a fuck mental health, tech seduction, dj narcissism
Darren Aronofsky tim heidecker eric wareheim tim and eric awesome show great job david liebe hart dj douggpound Lussenhop style born again dj. addiction dj. you won’t believe how this dj got off drugs. the only drug more addicting than lean. all djs have a secret addiction? for this dj, it’s not about the music? what about genre? midi-core? norm-core? pastel-goth? dj recovery, dj overdose, dj power dynamic, dj position of power, dj consent
It’s a meta-project about the tools used in the project. tools on every level from the phone to the crutch to the city park - what is actually of valuable use and what is a trap? but to just geek on ones preferred tools is usually a phony projection and it involves discounting the relationship to the tool as a flavor of the week. so the shot in the dark is that suspect=tools in every case. for example: maybe bassnectar sucks because his primary tools are 18-wheel trucks and jet planes? people have long said, “it’s not the tools, it’s how one uses them.” i’m challenging that as a widely accepted absolute.
zero nuance? what about the world and it’s double? that double is ALL nuance. and that first world is ALL a con-game. that’s the paradox. the ultimate qualities of consciousness are seedy undercurrents. no face-value diving board to jump into the ocean is a utter delusion. we start in the water, and we end in the water.
not realizing this, people waste their whole lives prepping themselves to jump in off the board into what was all around them all the time - the immediate moment.
current situation: it is the shrillest voice that is given the microphone. who out there lives in the light of paradox? who understands that the cosmic joke is on me and it’s on you? is it a joke on itself because we are the universe? how many levels to this thing do you think there are? only a few? do you see that the endless pursuit of closure is coupled with the impossibility of closure to form the very structure of consciousness?
sports addiction, performance enhancing drugs, dj self care, dj edm community vacuum changes tides me too without bassnectar it was always about us. antinatalism
Conch Shell's endorsing PASTEL FRACTAL.