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Kinematics said:
I would, but there would be a style conflict.

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Why would there be a conflict?

Nike, Adidas, Rocawear, Gucci, and Versace are doing it too.

Imagine the realities that can present themselves through the externalization of your intentions, your wishes, your thoughts, and your feelings onto the clothing you wear.

The average person encounters several hundred strangers each day, makes eye contact with maybe about a hundred, and probably only gets to directly communicate with a few dozen by the end of the day.



Visible language is the idea that if we could see language, if language were a project of understanding that used the eyes for the extraction of meaning rather than the ears, that it would be a kind of telepathy. There would be both a fusion of the observer with the object observed, and with the person communicated with.

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The place in nature where something like this has actually evolved and occurred is in the cephalopods; the squid and the circoliveral octopii.

These are animals that divided from the line of development that leads to human beings over six hundred million years ago. They're mollusks, they're related to escargot, it's an organism very different from ourselves. Nevertheless, one of the things that evolutionary biologists always talk about is the convergent evolution between the eyes of cephalopods and the eyes of higher mammals. This is because the cephalopods live in an extremely complex visual environment and in fact, they have evolved a form of communication that approximates this visible language that I'm talking about because these octopii have chromataphores all over the exterior of their bodies. Chromataphores are cells that can change color.

Now many people know that octopii can change color but they think it's for camoflage, for blending in with the environment, this is not at all the case. The reason octopii change colors in a very large repatoire of stripes, dots, blushes, travelling shades and tonal shifts is because this is for them a channel of linguistic communication.

In other words they don't transduce their linguistic intentionality into small mouth noises like we do. Small mouth noises which then move as sound across space in the form of vibrations of the air. Rather, they actually change their appearance in accordance with their linguistic intent.

What this boils down to is they physically become their meaning, and one octopus observing another is watching the unfolding of internalized neurological states within the organism being reflected in color changes on the surface of the skin. Now these octopii not only can change their color because their soft-bodied creatures. They can also change the texture of their surface from smooth to rugose and folded. They can also, because they're soft-bodied, fold and unfold and reveal and conceal, very rapidly, different parts of their body. So they're capable of a visual dance of communication that is an extremely dense kind of visual signal and in the so-called benthic octopii, the species that have evolved in very deep water where very little light reaches, they have evolved light-emitting phosphorescent organs, some of them with membranes like eyelids over them, so that even in the darkness of the abyssal depth of the ocean they can carry out this dance of light, self-enfoldment, color change and surface texture which is their linguistic style.

In fact the only way an octopus can experience a private thought is to release a cloud of ink into the water into which it can retreat briefly and hide its mental nakedness from its followers. This kind of biologically intrinsic wiring into the potential of language is something that we may be able to mimic and achieve using psychedelic drugs as the inspiration for the direction given to a virtual reality development program.

In other words we might be able to create kinds of visibly beheld syntax that would be the human equivalent of the dance of light, texture and positioning that constitutes the grammer and syntax of squids and octopii.

from Ordinary Language, Visible Language and Virtual Reality by Terence McKenna

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For the comman man today, the most realizable way to apply such a communications technology to ourselves is through customized clothing.

The big corporations are very familiar with this. I mean, what a brilliant idea, advertise your product by having the consumer advertise it for you.

Don't you think it is about time that we begin to represent ourselves?

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AlteredAgain said:
Take a blank white T-shirt and a permanent marker.
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Write whatever is on your mind onto the front or the back.
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Wear it.
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Clever, with the picture and all, and what that little creature does....   

My quote at that moment would be,
"I am writing my thoughts onto this t-shirt with a marker, but DaMMiT, I just changed my mind".... 



>^;;^<

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Kinematics said:
I meant that it doesn't fit in with my personal style. I prefer to do this instead, it reaches many more viewers.

www.freewayblogger.com

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yes.

freeway blogging is very effective grassroots activism because the message is placed directly into a high-traffic data stream, allowing the meme to be received by larger communities and even regional hubs.

i see what you meant now. it's nice to hear that you are involved in anomaly projects such as these,

all of which i think essentially share the same function: to free the human mind beyond the limits of the physical body.

right now it seems to me that freeway blogging actually exteriorizes the hive mind, or the social mind,

whereas garment blogging exteriorizes the individual mind, or the personal mind.

of course this is only a generalization. the phenomenon appears to be holistic in every sense; and who on earth knows what other implications this idea might hold for the transformation of human consciousness.

and even if we don't know, the possibilities are still there, and it's a very beautiful thing, something to be celebrated i feel.