1:55 am • 1 June 2012 • 6 notes • #photo #joyce su loves you #instagram
Joyce Su
visual creator
bass hunter
porno collector
truth seeker
space voyage
idea trader
palette refiner
i run free, but it's expensive.
Work: joycesu.com
SYMBOLS: Introducing: Symbols
The cross, a red rose, an hourglass, numbers, shadows, triangles — there are countless objects, gestures, images and figures of speech throughout history that have been linked to complex ideas. For many people, symbols are the key to understanding a deeper, intellectual world. It helps us bring the incomprehensible into the realm of the tangible.
I’ve been working on the idea of starting my own record label for awhile now. Like most things, I just wanted to let it happen naturally; best not to rush. The story behind the name is pretty simple. I found myself looking towards my favorite symbols, thinking that there was a perfect one to represent what the label would mean. But one day while I was surrounded by my books and probably in an alternate coffee dimension, I had a eureka moment.
Music has a way of inciting a feeling like nothing else can. There’s something other-worldy about the creation of it. Over the years I have come to terms with a very specific feeling that I have when I am either writing music or digging for songs to play in my sets or mixtapes. This feeling has become my ultimate guide which sets my standard of quality.
That’s when I realized that I was focusing on the fish rather than the rod. Thinking about that feeling and how all-encompassing it is made me realize that I shouldn’t be looking for one symbol but the idea itself which is that medium to bring the incomprehensible into the realm of the tangible. Thus, Symbols Recordings was born.
Emerson once said, “An institution is the lengthened shadow of a man.” I hope to let the label grow with myself as naturally as possible. It will represent first and foremost my passion for music. The blog will highlight my love for art, design, philosophy, science and ideas.
I am very honored to be collaborating and working with many talented artists. Symbols art director, Joyce Su, will be curating different themes for the artwork throughout the catalog while keeping a distinct aesthetic. There are a lot of releases planned from some new and exciting artists such as Atlas, We Sink, Walter Ego, Druid Cloak and Jaw Jam. As well as releases by artists who have well been paving their way: Grenier, Clicks & Whistles, Jason Burns, Cosmic Revenge, iO and Sleepyhead.
I look forward to sharing great music and ideas with you.
-Kastle
1:48 am • 1 June 2012 • 14 notes • #music #adventures with barrett
“To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means an awareness that oppression exists… secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor’s real name…”
— Chinua Achebe, “Spelling Out Proper Name”
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. Obviously those two modes of thought are in some tension. But if you are able to exercise only one of these modes, whichever one it is, you’re in deep trouble.
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything new. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, maybe once in a hundred cases, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.
On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful as from the worthless ones. If all ideas have equal validity then you are lost, because then, it seems to me, no ideas have any validity at all.
Some ideas are better than others. The machinery for distinguishing them is an essential tool in dealing with the world and especially in dealing with the future. And it is precisely the mix of these two modes of thought that is central to the success of science.
”— Carl Sagan
9:07 pm • 23 May 2012 • 1 note • #quote #Carl Sagan #science
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence. So you live day by day and enjoy what you have and do not worry. You lie and hate it and it destroys you and every day is more dangerous, but you live day to day as in a war.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Latest project is launched: http://symbolsrecordings.com
It’s a blessing, working with those you love. And more so when they bring you sandwiches with wedges of avocado and pesto.
12:55 am • 23 May 2012 • 3 notes • #symbols #adventures with barrett #kastle #music
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
— Ernest Hemingway
