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UNFAIL
By
Elektrovideo .
09.06.09 //
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// UNFAIL
By
Elektrovideo .
09.06.09 //
Backwards
UNFAIL from elektrovideo on Vimeo.
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Back Words
By
Alex Aloise .
09.06.09 //
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// Back Words
By
Alex Aloise .
09.06.09 //
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Spacetime is too complex.
By
Ben Cheney .
09.04.09 //
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// Spacetime is too complex.
By
Ben Cheney .
09.04.09 //
Backwards
According to Wikipedia, if someone continues walking forward until they have almost circumnavigated the Earth, they will expend much effort only to move backward slightly.
Think about that for a second. It’s remarkable. You can move backward by moving forward.
If you stick a steak in the ground at a peanut farm in Suffolk, VA and walk in a straight line, all the way around the world, when you come back around, almost to where you started, nearly two years later, considering you walk 3 mph for 12 hours a day, every day, even on Thanksgiving and Christmas and your birthday, you will be in roughly the same place you would’ve been had you simply walked a few feet in the other direction to begin with. This means, in relative direction, you have moved backward.
Which means you can travel through time. Now, it may not be time travel in the traditional sense. You’re not necessarily traveling through a wormhole in the fabric of spacetime, but you are traveling through time in the sense that you have the choice to travel to the same spot at two different points in time, by either moving backward or backward via forward.
It is the most rudimentary form of time travel. But it is time travel, in an ass-backward kind of way.
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The Backwards Approach Most Of Us Take
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Jordan Childs .
09.03.09 //
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// The Backwards Approach Most Of Us Take
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Jordan Childs .
09.03.09 //
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Morning Good
By
Tristan Smith .
09.02.09 //
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// Morning Good
By
Tristan Smith .
09.02.09 //
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The coffee left his cup and was sucked back up into the quaking machine.
He turned and walked back towards his office, picked his up his bag and the rode elevator down to the lobby.
Electronic gates waved open as he walked towards them. A tap of his badge and they closed.
On the street he walked behind a blond woman in high waisted jeans and suede high heels.
Past the Puerto Rican coffee shop, past the masons and glass placers already hard at work.
“Sieggod elttil gnola evom” they huffed after her. The man smiled.
Back across the cobble stones, through a crossroads where the woman took a separate path. He doubted he would see her again.
He touched his apartment door. It unlocked. He walked through.
The apartment was cluttered. The clothes on his back went on hangers and shelves rather than the floor.
Water flowed from the drain into the shower head.
He closed his eyes and breathed in pillowcase. The sun hung low in the east, then slowly dipped below the wet trees.
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Etymology?
By
Charles Hodges .
09.01.09 //
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// Etymology?
By
Charles Hodges .
09.01.09 //
Backwards
Backwards comes from the term “baquarddes”, which is Latin for the phrase “midnight snack”.
The term originated because, during Roman times, random passerby would sneak into strangers’ houses to steal leftover grapes and handmade arts and crafts in the middle of the night.
Quick sidestory: many of these passerby would be picked up by the authorities. At the time, they allowed them to retain perishables when they went into jail. Since most of them stole grapes, this gave way to the first large batches of prison wine and started the entire home brewing craze that would sweep throughout the region in early 213 AD.
Back to the real story: if you know anything about the Romans, you know that the eating areas were the closest to the entrance. After looting what they could, as they left, these intruders would walk in reverse out of the area because they wanted to make sure none of the residents were following them.
Quick sidestory: Michael Jackson took his inspiration for the nomenclature of “the moonwalk” from this scenario.
Back to the real story: Over the centuries, the term “baquarddes” traveled throughout the continent. In Russia, it was translated into “boshwerks”, which, in Russian, means “third nipple”. In Germany, it was translated into “backvarkks”, which, in German, means “sure, why not”.
Quick sidestory: The original lyrics for Pasty Cline’s “Walking After Midnight” were written by Homer.
Finally, back to the real story: “Baquarddes” made it’s way through the anglo-saxon peasantry, where, finally, in 1648, James Jameson III brought into the the 3rd Earl of Dorchester’s court with his play Fourteen Jesters and the Real Cancun (it was scene involving an ottoman, two goldfish and a pear).
Quick sidestory: Breakfast for dinner was invented by the Incas.
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Backwards Will Never Be The Same
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Joey Camire .
08.31.09 //
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// Backwards Will Never Be The Same
By
Joey Camire .
08.31.09 //
Backwards
For some reason or another, doing things backwards is frowned upon.
It’s wrong.
Doing things backwards is synonymous with words like “fucked up”, “do-over”, “ass backwards” (my personal favorite) or “totally fucked”.
Why?
Just wondering.
Sometimes it’s pretty great. Can anyone recall a little musical duo called Kriss Kross? They wore their clothes backwards and they were easily the coolest 13 year-olds of 1992. They also wore overalls, something I have never been able to pull off. I really wish I could, they just seem so liberating. I digress. Back on topic.
The thing is, to do something backwards just means you did it in a different order. Why is it that as a culture we LOVE diversity of options, thinking, and people but we HATE doing things backward?
It’s just a matter of perspective really. Something is only backward from where you are standing, right? I mean if you look at it from any other angle it’s slightly less backward. Maybe even just off kilter.
Example. Say I had something written on my face. A word. If I looked in the mirror it would appear backwards to me. But to anyone else it would read just fine. It all just depends on how you’re looking at it.
If that’s true, and obviously it is, then nothing can be backwards, only backwards to YOU. Backwards then doesn’t exist in the universe, it only exists in your universe.
I think I just killed a word.
I really just wanted to film myself making a sandwich, and then play it in reverse to the song Scientists by Coldplay. Now I’ve gone and killed a word. Or at the very least debilitated it. I think that might be worse. Instead of just being no longer usable, it can still mean “directed towards the rear”, so it’s like half a word.
I didn’t kill a word, I’ve performed chemical castration on a word. Backwards is sans testes. I am a monster.
I don’t know what’s happened. Things just got out of hand so fast.
I’m just going to listen to Kriss Kross and “Jump Jump” my way to sleep. Uh Huh. Uh Huh.
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