Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Parkour Parks
If re-appropriation is essential to the spirit of Parkour, and that exploration and creation is equally important, then familiarity is the enemy, and videos create parkour parks out of unfamiliar environments, and any type of pilgrimage to train at famous sites is antithetical. By training somewhere that you know can be used for training because…
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Photography For The Blind(ed)
Foreword Photographic imagery is a relatively recent and violent addition to the communication arsenal. Oral traditions that existed for thousands of years have been annihilated by the written word and its successors. Where we once exercised our imagination, we now allow our imaginations to be forcibly restrained and ushered through a series of narrow corridors…
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The Beginning
Since March 2014 I have been note-taking, idea-recording and stream-of-consciousness-brainstorming in a number of notebooks that I dedicated to this practice. The existence of these books didn’t however stop me from doing a significant amount of writing on scraps of paper that have now an accumulated thickness of a few inches. Whether I set out…
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