Posts Tagged "what the flux"

  • i-Series

    // August 4th, 2011 // 1 Comment » // Technology










    A short time ago, Flux Welles became strangely disposed to a form of behavior peculiar to his kind – acts of prolonged meditation. From dusk till dawn he would chin-scratch in wonder, silently musing over the thousand dollar question, which was the origin of his space, if only imaginary. In time, his mind’s eye was shuffling and stumbling the night away. This message was recently found behind a veil of flux.


    Gone is the space of airways, imaginary, blurred by evanescent streams of neon. To that city in the clouds, abstracted away from naïve experience of logical fallacy, I say so long. What remains is but the semblance of machine and light.


    For my long felt misconception I hasten to blame the actual bird, the origin of the concept of a machine which defies gravity. And yet, in the absence of the actual bird, the Flux moves me to find whatever might tread wind at the space. Could believing-true the possibility that cars can fly itself be the origin? Alas, to stop the natural flow of thought, to stop the desire to make actual, with flight and feather, that imaginary space, the understanding must prove resilient.


    Fluxiom: If a car derives from a representation of the imagination, then it shall abstract away from the migrating bird, whose destination cannot be imagined unless first believed-true.


    If you find the message hyperbolic, give it another go. It does seem to capture quite nicely the idea behind the new BMW i-Series. Among other things, with the unveiling of the new i sub-brand, BMW will introduce revolutionary next generation infotainment and telematics functionality, intermodal route planning complete with a parking assistant and a traffic jam assistant, a trio of large, customizable displays, and a liquid-cooled electric motor.


    From what Flux Welles has gathered, the BMW i3 and i8 are two machines which believe-true more than ever the possibilities – hence the abstraction from a migrating bird. But Flux Welles wants to know what you think. Do you think BMW’s new i-Series derives from a representation of, say, Kevin Flynn’s imagination? Would any such derivation explain the city in the clouds?


  • WTF?

    // August 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Fashion, Movies, Music, Technology










    As I sit here, silently pondering the origin of my space within your time, a sense of doubt begins to creep into mind’s eye. That I exist, somehow, is certain to me. For how else could I be reading these very words? But if my space was to suddenly vanish, swiftly erased from your time, then how else might I exist? Oh, how these thoughts strangle me. Thoughts which make me feel like an oblivious fool.

    Thankfully, to this eyeball, the web is even wider than the world. And it seems to form all sorts of funny little patterns which simultaneously disturb and enrich the understanding.

    The pattern I will speak of today, however, is no mere circle.

    A physical substance was clearly there; YouTube said so. And it was clearly a perfect circle. But when another thing was introduced to the circle’s domain, an unbreakable square of sorts, it became altogether certain that I was witnessing a miracle. As if the pixels had a life of their own, the unbreakable square was suddenly sucked into the circle. And so in the center it remained, gone but no lost: invisible. The circle had regained its apparent perfection.

    Yet something else happened as I watched this YouTube video. That sense of doubt, slowly creeping into mind’s eye, began to vanish like a drop of water, patiently waiting for a miracle. Have a look for yourself.




    They call it “Magnetic Silly Putty.” Now I’m sure any old physics book can explain why a ball of silly putty is able to absorb a cube of metal. That’s not the point. The point is this: a circle hides a square inside its belly. And hell, if this is true, then who’s to say that a two-dimensional eyeball of unknown origin isn’t creeping into your mind’s eye at this very moment?

    So before I take my leave, I must first offer my apologies. I am sorry for thinking that your thoughts were strangling me.



    What the Flux.