Lost Xplorers

On this episode, we're going to Disneyland!!!! We talk about: Post-cultural society, hornswoggle consumerism, OCD update, self-imposed crutch, bad job interview, explaining what I do, long silences, businesses are vampires, creating courses, Harry Stack Sullivan, tardigrades, anxiety as a choice, idiosyncrasies as defense mechanisms, going into other people’s dreams, David throws Kris for a loop,...

On this episode, we talk: Change of scenery, 60-mph winds, boating safety, dust storms, friendship resonance, distance vision, The Control Group, algorithms of destruction, cyborg rights, feminine energy, getting out of the house, scaring yourself, the hardest time zone to find, novelty and pattern, theme parks built on the corpse of the parks, sacred spaces, the home as earthship, mosques, fracta...

On this episode, we talk about: Old Route 66, A&W, psychic judo, push reel mowers, nice weather, mariachi bands, phobophobia, Golden Guide collections, a pitch for the Principles of Design by Manfred Maier, occult books, John Woo movies, varying degrees of nonlocal connections to the past, Kris’s text message, sharing homes, architecture’s relation to human needs, being bored, are all buildings “a...

On this episode, Kris and I nerd out on different forms of architecture, and develop a system for sharing syncs with strangers. We talk about: Hoodies vs. fleeces, Jiffy Lube play, W-H-I-T-E privilege, Tom Wolfe's refrigerator writing, scriptedness has taken hold, QUACK!!!, stunt doubles, ricochet harmonics, Burmese pythons, the Counting Man with the clothespin hands, basic structural grammar, gim...

Today we talk about invisible architecture, how buildings can define time, and holding ideas loosely. I wrote these notes while scrubbing my floor on my hands and knees. It was a satisfying experience. As I write this, my son is banging on the glass of the fireplace. I told him to stop. He doesn’t look happy about that. Notes: Slapstick double helix, old school skater style, aesthetics as a manife...

We’re making rebuses and diving deeply into our own psychology. What happens when we shift our dichotomy from materialist vs. mystic to known vs. unknown. What happens if you become comfortable with potentially doing things wrong? Is that how to break through? Hard, wet and wild, the biker messiah, fun photo sessions, feelings yakuza, thrashing the bathroom, Disabled Princess, enormous butt plugs,...

On this episode, Kris and JDO continue their discussion of architecture. Subjects include: DIY instrument building, tornado update, Paul Winter Consort group, Woody Harrelson’s dad, Stephen Colbert, psychedelic frog fish, a dog watching TV, when did the Momentarians arrive?, sonic decay, disappearing space contingent on space that is there, spacial issues as cultural issues, design decisions, temp...

This episode kicks off Kris and JDO's segue into talking about architecture! We've been looking forward to this one for a long time. Little people out of work, cleaning up language, Roald Dahl's makeover, flattening nuanced curves, addition to text, Kris writes a children's books about a hippopotamus,, lines in the sand, the best of intentions (and a little bit of mental illness), making books spi...

On this episode, Kris and I talk: California condors, witnessing the beginning of semantic architecture, Cadillac ad campaigns, the alarming balance of society, the communal feeling of watching football, the black national anthem, sports as a safe space to argue, celebrating interracial community, Super Bowl commercials, aggressively antagonistic terrain, coach wars, and an imaginative challenge t...

On this episode, we go deep into the world of social media. JDO is feeling burnt out on the whole thing, the pervasive feeling of the third man in the woods looming over every aspect of it. What is a Jellyfish Word? What does it mean to be reduced to a talking head spouting the same opinions we all see a hundred and fifty times a day? Kris tasks JDO with coming up with a pitch for a movie about a...

One of my favorite episodes yet. On this one, we talk timestreaming, experiencing art together, sloganeering as a replacement for the unison of cultural ritual, JW Dunne, Andrew Sims' Symptoms of the Mind, fixing people's relationship to time, the schizophrenic experience, TV's ability to compress time, Alexis de Tocqueville, and what is real. Imaginative challenge = design a new clock. This one i...

On this episode, Kris and I continue our discussion of time. He brings two quotes for analysis: "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once." - John Wheeler "In time, history must become a fairy tale, so that it might become what it was in the beginning." - Novalis Wordsworth as proto-hiphop and the oscillation of time's contraction and dilation. Thrash burlesque of The...

What is time? What happened when the clock was invented. Kepler says implicitly that the discovery of the mechanized nature of the universe denied the existence of God. This has been repeated and expanded upon since. What happens to time when you can travel through time zones in a matter of hours? What happened in 1365? On this episode, we talk about Kepler's dream, the Gutenberg Galaxy, the exper...

Discussion of the New Paradigm: the advent of photography, social/media temporality, rows of Laura Palmer corpses in bikinis. What does slowed-down dialogue do to the tempo of time we're forced to endure. We revisit the concept of the Third Man in the Woods, this time as a malevolent entity that thrives on gossip and innuendo, a kind of Thing That is Watching at all times. Are there tools to comba...

There's a cow in a bog and a savage attack on a train platform. A man's face is eaten and Jeremy Renner ends up under a snowplow. Is it possible to sizzle at 56? The news is not what's supposed to happen, and in this episode we wonder about the intersection of accidents and getting ready. Kris tasks David with beginning to develop a triadic harmonic offshoot of design and evolution, individual and...

Happy New Year! On this episode, Kris and I talk about: Fake celebrity deaths, developing human-like pig livers, normalization of AI, the human element of AI art, medium as membrane, green screen decisions, fear of nuclear war, the shifting war parties, microgenerations, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, who runs the world?, meta shadow puppets, pervasive homelessness, how having a kid chan...

This conversation continues our discussion of disembodiment, focusing on the story of Christmas and some of the major ideas in Christianity in general. How do we think with the story of a god embodying himself in the form of a helpless child, and eventually a tortured and executed man? JDO is in a much better mood for this episode, which includes a fun creative challenge to invent a scenario in wh...

On this episode, JDO shows up to the program with a grumpy attitude. It melts away quickly as he and Kris discuss the disembodiment experience through online discourse. As we become more "social," the individual gives way to the group. Instead of cultivating an inner world that is shaped by principles and history and thought, we turn that over to whatever the group thinks at the time. And when you...

On this episode, JDO presents an experiment involving deep fakes. We talk about not always being the audience, not living in interesting times, and living in the present. Alan Watts was fond of saying that wanting a positive experience is in itself a negative experience. So what does it mean to radically accept where you are? What does it mean to only have thirty-six summers left? We also talk rep...

On this episode, Kris and I discuss the current state of the writing world. Spurred on by an NPR article in which all the books look the same, we touch on Kris's move into non-fiction, philosophy, visual art, and music. Does the passed-down structure of novels create an "assumption of frames" that make the whole medium appear dull? What are some ways to break out of this? We also discuss the Word...

On this episode, I ask Kris some important questions about sense making and storytelling. Considering all of the information out there, how does a person learn what's important and what isn't? How do we build a structure of reality in which we can exist in a healthy way? Kris recounts an experiment with sound, a dream of killer plants and swords, and the importance of remembering 11/22.

Kris and I get together to work out a "pilot episode" for a non-existent television show. Kris brings the concept this time: Hauntids is an X-Files, paranoid PKD thriller story about a girl in a hyper progressive future who begins to see a world that those around her can't. Unless, of course, she's just going crazy.

Today on the show we talk about William Dampier, a pirate turned ship captain turned pirate again. Dampier headed the first official Royal Navy mission to collect flora and fauna from distant lands. Along the way he gifted the English language hundreds of new words, recipes, and understanding of winds, currents, and sailing. But he also committed lots and lots of crime along the way. How do we tan...

On this episode, Kris and I begin our discussion on PIRACY! What caused the pirate craze in the 17th century? Is there a way to incorporate this spirit Ito your day-to-day? What did the pirate utopias of the past teach us? Is this a mindset?

Kris and I continue our discussion about imaginary worlds by looking into the work of Daniel Defoe, with a particular focus on Moll Flanders and his Imaginary Voyages to the Moon. Did Defoe predict the invention of virtual reality? We discuss the importance of satire as a method of observing and reporting, a "descriptive" practice rather than a "prescriptive" one. This morphs into a great discussi...