Sybil Disobedience http://visualmadness.com 52, 24/7 Tue, 01 May 2012 07:20:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Now Appearing… http://visualmadness.com/blog/now-appearing/ http://visualmadness.com/blog/now-appearing/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 06:55:30 +0000 Kevin http://visualmadness.com/?p=5219 A while ago I was hanging out with a couple of Canadian friends, and one of them mentioned the female phenomenon of ‘breaking the seal’. Apparently, if a girl is out drinking and she goes to the bathroom just once, …

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Click here to purchase The One-Card EP

A few weeks ago Dan and Dave Buck approached me about doing a few On Demand videos for their site. I figured it’d be a good teaser for the kind of stuff to …

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Sorry for the long hiatus, guys. No, I haven’t converted to Scientology yet (though I did pass by that creepy building more than a few times during my stay in Cali). Basically, the past week has seen …

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Update #3: We’ve hit the goal! As a gesture of eternal gratitude, Keith is sending awesome Swedish chocolates to everyone who helped out. Way to go, guys!

Update #2: Thanks to donations by generous readers of this post, members of …

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This was from around the time where I would keep an extensive playlist in my iTunes library …

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“How embarrassing… a house full of condiments and no food.” – Narrator, Fight Club

When I was in school, I used to have this pencil case that I carried with me to all my classes. In it I would accumulate …

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I was first unwittingly introduced to Shafer’s work via Between the Folds. Though he doesn’t appear anywhere in the documentary itself, his and Chris K. Palmer’s Spinning Flasher is demonstrated in the Choreographer …

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This is one of those …

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“Reading is not doing. Knowing is not doing. Only doing is doing.”
- Robert Crayola, Cheat Codes for Life

I’ve failed at writing more times than I can remember.

Throughout my time in high school and college, I always hated …

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