Ambiguous Standards Institute



Crate Studies
ASI 2014-2024
  1. Ambiguous Standards of Serving: Teaglasses
  2. Ambiguous Standards of Food: Eggs
  3. Ambiguous Standards of Over-Specification: Kitchen Utensils
  4. Ambiguous Standards of Tune: Airs & Orders
  5. Ambiguous Standards of Unicodification: Hands
  6. Ambiguous Standards of Experience: Duration
  7. Ambiguous Standards of Electricity: Plugs and Outlets


Edition 2
EOI 2019 ++
  1. Douglas Adams
  2. Terence McKenna
  3. P.B. Shelley
  4. Bruno Schulz
  5. Nicola Tesla
  6. Olaf Stapledon
  7. G.M. Hopkins
  8. Buckminster Fuller
  9. James Joyce
  10. Richard Feynman


Object Int’l —
Info
  1. A rock is a perfect metaphor, an allegory in volume. When placed its sculptural limits beget a kind of artistic proposition — and when considered with reduced anthropomorphism and ungeologically — produce a ready-made analog to the causation and bounds of our attempts at the understanding of all things.

Read more →

5. Italo Calvino




005a


            From Mr. Palomar, 1983Only if he manages to bear all the aspects in mind at once can he begin the second phase of the operation: extending this knowledge to the entire universe. 
        And thus this new phase of his itinerary in search of wisdom is also achieved. Finally his gaze can rove freely inside himself. What will he see? Will his inner world seem to him an immense, calm rotation of a luminous spiral? Will he see stars and planets navigating in silence on the parabolas and ellipses that determine character and destiny? Will he contemplate a sphere of infinite circumference that has the ego as its center and its center in every point? 



005b
005c