I'm opening up mindfuck submissions to friends who i've told about the process that sound somewhat interested in the experience. I'm testing out the rules and process with people i know before i start recruiting strangers. So let's hear it!
Guidelines:
- Email me a story about an experience/book/philosophy/person/artwork etc. that completely obliterated/renovated the way you think, your mindfuck experience.
- Email stories to lauren.kozak @ gmail.com. If writing is, like, way to time consuming, or you're feeling lonely/social, i will gladly take dictated submissions over the phone.
- By submitting me a story, you are giving me a right to post about your story and comment on it. I might not be nice, you accept that by submitting it. I will be very respectful though, and always open to debate. Your stories will be blogged on the interwebs and printed out and read by many at Burning Man.
- I'll gladly credit you or keep you anonymous. Just tell me the level of anonymity you'd like- full name, first name, nick name, screenname, totally anonymous.
- While you do not have to use your finest prose and perfect grammar/spelling (though I welcome it), please use complete sentences and written English.
- No movies. We were all fucked up by Fight Club, that doesn't make you a special or unique snowflake. Television is fine, because if you actually had an experience where tv changed your life, i'm curious to hear it.
I think that's it! Psyched to hear what's lurking in your heads!
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Investigation 3: Del.icio.us
Shameless word-of-mouth plug for my new favorite website, del.icio.us. Mine is here: http://del.icio.us/tofuchica.
Since i've converted, i wanted to see what sites others are tagging mindfuck. http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=mindfuck&type=all
We've got the booklist, which is awesome, but incomplete in my opinion and not experiential, which isn't what i'm looking for. Then the wiki (already addressed) and several entries to a programming language called mindfuck. A lot of slash. Harry Potter and Stargate slash, nonetheless.
There are 362 of these links, i've gone through about 100 and nothing is meeting my needs (though there were some lovely optical illusions), so while I wanted to do thorough research and be an expert in the mindfuck field, i think it's time to make this public, to start asking for input and stories. Guidelines and official launch soon.
Since i've converted, i wanted to see what sites others are tagging mindfuck. http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=mindfuck&type=all
We've got the booklist, which is awesome, but incomplete in my opinion and not experiential, which isn't what i'm looking for. Then the wiki (already addressed) and several entries to a programming language called mindfuck. A lot of slash. Harry Potter and Stargate slash, nonetheless.
There are 362 of these links, i've gone through about 100 and nothing is meeting my needs (though there were some lovely optical illusions), so while I wanted to do thorough research and be an expert in the mindfuck field, i think it's time to make this public, to start asking for input and stories. Guidelines and official launch soon.
Investigation 2: Selections from Google
I work in internet marketing, and everyday, i encounter terrifying people. Grown adults that can't spell or punctuate or format a normal email. I encounter teenagers posting the most inane things in a form of English that makes me want to cry. I am trying not be be judgmental as I see what discussions on mindfucks already exist.
I came across this mindfuck forum http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215715
and i have very mixed feelings about it. The concept is right and i was initially psyched to see people talking about mindfucks in general, but then as i read in the forum, and read for a long time, i became increasingly dismayed. First, mindfucking is frequently used to describe the experience of fucking with someone else. Acting weird in public, guerrilla art (yay), etc. I'm currently pondering where our boundaries are. Also, this is my project and i'm allowed to be judgmental, though i know it's a horrible facet of me. I read a forum post about someone who pretended to be a cop and told someone their family was dead- called it a mindfuck. This sort of thing makes me want to ban deviant or possibly mean behavior. but what about the cacophony society? All of that is amazing and i admire the balls and brains involved in that. And of course guerrilla art rocks my world and i want to hear about how it rocks yours...
I'm trying to be less judgmental, thus the verdict from the preceding ramble is this: Tell me anything you want about experiences that changed your way of thinking, with an emphasis on your internal though processes. Use decent sentences and a lot of brainpower. I figure introspection and literacy are grand filters.
I came across this mindfuck forum http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215715
and i have very mixed feelings about it. The concept is right and i was initially psyched to see people talking about mindfucks in general, but then as i read in the forum, and read for a long time, i became increasingly dismayed. First, mindfucking is frequently used to describe the experience of fucking with someone else. Acting weird in public, guerrilla art (yay), etc. I'm currently pondering where our boundaries are. Also, this is my project and i'm allowed to be judgmental, though i know it's a horrible facet of me. I read a forum post about someone who pretended to be a cop and told someone their family was dead- called it a mindfuck. This sort of thing makes me want to ban deviant or possibly mean behavior. but what about the cacophony society? All of that is amazing and i admire the balls and brains involved in that. And of course guerrilla art rocks my world and i want to hear about how it rocks yours...
I'm trying to be less judgmental, thus the verdict from the preceding ramble is this: Tell me anything you want about experiences that changed your way of thinking, with an emphasis on your internal though processes. Use decent sentences and a lot of brainpower. I figure introspection and literacy are grand filters.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Investigation 1: Wikipedia
Eventually, this blog will curate your mindfuck experiences, but to achieve a full understanding of the mindfuck experience, we must first investigate the mindfuck-related ponderances of others.
So investigation 1, naturally is wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfuck
We are offered this tasty morsel:
A mindfuck is a slang term which describes a work that uses literary devices such as nonlinear storytelling and plot twists in order to present convoluted, yet not conflicting, themes. A creation is usually considered a mindfuck when a casual observer is not able to discern the true meaning of a work without making a serious attempt to unravel the themes presented or when the plot is incredibly difficult to follow. Special examples of mindfucks involve a single plot twist which completely changes the viewer's understanding of the events in a film or novel as well as the ideas it presents.Notable examples of mindfucks include the The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Fight Club, and several of the works of Philip K. Dick.
... which is fairly useless. I am interested in the feeling that you get at the end of those movies- that tickling of then neurons, however, I really want our mindfuck experiences to be a little bit deeper and longer lasting and relative than anything a movie could ever offer. Did you feel fucked up after Fight Club? Did you have a spiritual crisis after seeing Pi? Great, so did I, so did the others hundreds of millions of people who saw those movies. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake.
So movies are banned from The Mindfuck Experience. If you'd like a list of movies that are mindfucking, visit the mindfuck wiki link above. There's a list. Fuck you, The Sixth Sense.
It is important to note that TV isn't banned, because if you can come up with a legitimate television-induced mindfuck, mad props to you. Not all at once now, kids.
Wiki also covers: Mindfuck films of anime, S+M Mindfucks (fooling the submissive by doing something they actually didn't consent to, ie using ice instead of burning since (and i quote) "it can be hard to distinguish hot from cold," and mindfucks as an analogy for scientology, as referenced by Steve Martin in the movie.... Bowfinger.
Wiki, baby, why do you have to do be like this? So many hours we have sweetly lingered reading about Phantom Islands, Jack the Ripper, and Jimson Weed, and now this? How could you?
So investigation 1, naturally is wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfuck
We are offered this tasty morsel:
A mindfuck is a slang term which describes a work that uses literary devices such as nonlinear storytelling and plot twists in order to present convoluted, yet not conflicting, themes. A creation is usually considered a mindfuck when a casual observer is not able to discern the true meaning of a work without making a serious attempt to unravel the themes presented or when the plot is incredibly difficult to follow. Special examples of mindfucks involve a single plot twist which completely changes the viewer's understanding of the events in a film or novel as well as the ideas it presents.Notable examples of mindfucks include the The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Fight Club, and several of the works of Philip K. Dick.
... which is fairly useless. I am interested in the feeling that you get at the end of those movies- that tickling of then neurons, however, I really want our mindfuck experiences to be a little bit deeper and longer lasting and relative than anything a movie could ever offer. Did you feel fucked up after Fight Club? Did you have a spiritual crisis after seeing Pi? Great, so did I, so did the others hundreds of millions of people who saw those movies. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake.
So movies are banned from The Mindfuck Experience. If you'd like a list of movies that are mindfucking, visit the mindfuck wiki link above. There's a list. Fuck you, The Sixth Sense.
It is important to note that TV isn't banned, because if you can come up with a legitimate television-induced mindfuck, mad props to you. Not all at once now, kids.
Wiki also covers: Mindfuck films of anime, S+M Mindfucks (fooling the submissive by doing something they actually didn't consent to, ie using ice instead of burning since (and i quote) "it can be hard to distinguish hot from cold," and mindfucks as an analogy for scientology, as referenced by Steve Martin in the movie.... Bowfinger.
Wiki, baby, why do you have to do be like this? So many hours we have sweetly lingered reading about Phantom Islands, Jack the Ripper, and Jimson Weed, and now this? How could you?
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Welcome!
Welcome to the Mindfuck Experiment. Here, I shall investigate what turns you mind upside out and inside down, meditate on the factors and features that unite diverse mindfucks, and generally study and share the experiences that totally fuck the way you percieve/interpret everything. Renovate your metacognition, constantly. (That is both my mission and your order.) Tell me your stories, share your writings and readings and your art and your soul. Read, and feel fucked, i should certainly hope. Meditations, rules, missions, etc. to follow. Can you feel your brain? Is it ready to be tickled? Is it ready to cum all over itself?
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