piblokto, n. A condition affecting the Inuit peoples in winter, characterized by an episode of wild excitement and irrational behaviour followed by a period of stupor or unconsciousness, sometimes with apparent seizures; also called Arctic hysteria. Also: a condition characterized by aggressive behaviour and seizures affecting dogs or other animals in the Arctic.

Etymology: < 19th-cent. North Greenlandic (Polar Eskimo) *pivliʀuʀtuq is mad, has Arctic hysteria, has a drum-dance fit, has Arctic dog disease; compare West Greenlandic pillerortoq, perlerortoq is crazy, with a root earlier written pivdle-, peble-, and pibli-. 

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Gradients from Gradients (Chase Bank Website Palette) no. 1

Recipe:

  1. Create a palette from a corporate website by manually extracting color tags for all elements in the HTML/CSS
  2. Create a gradient using that palette and save as an image
  3. Open the gradient image in viewer
  4. Zoom in and take screen shots while moving the image
  5. Create animation from screen shots and index using the original color palette and a Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm
  6. Convert to MP4
  7. Databend MP4 file
  8. Open in Quicktime and take screen shots of interesting frames
  9. Export as a new MP4
  10. Repeat steps 7-9 until you have enough shots to work with
  11. Select your favorites, crop, scale, re-glitch, etc.

When the complete perfection of a moment and all its causes comes crashing in to awareness as a gift, then the totality of what is possible, spiritually and materially, coalesces around the gratitude that always was and will be at its core. This is the only concept of faith that I need. It would be superfluous to personalize its object or institutionalize its means.