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l’Iris et l’Abreuvoir | in City and in Forest 1, 2015 mixed-media on wood, 48″ x 36″
l’Iris et l’Abreuvoir | in City and in Forest 1, 2015
mixed-media on wood, 48″ x 36″
Slavoj Žižek · The Non-Existence of Norway
There is something enigmatically utopian in this demand: as if it were the duty of Europe to realise their dreams – dreams which, incidentally, are out of reach of most Europeans (surely a good number of Southern and Eastern Europeans would prefer to live in Norway too?). It is precisely when people find themselves in poverty, distress and danger – when we’d expect them to settle for a minimum of safety and wellbeing – that their utopianism becomes most intransigent. But the hard truth to be faced by the refugees is that ‘there is no Norway,’ even in Norway.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n18/slavoj-zizek/the-non-existence-of-norway
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Laboratory experiment figures from the book: The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition, 1902–1903. Source
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像河流般忧伤 SAD LIKE RIVERS China, Beijing-based photographer 柴金辰 CHAI JINCHEN
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Urban Interaction Design: La convergencia de disciplinas hacia una nueva forma de hacer ciudad
Urban Interaction Design: La convergencia de disciplinas hacia una nueva forma de hacer ciudad
*When do you find time to actually DO anything? Maybe you should just pass your days at a street side cafe table with your notebook open
Wang Jiqian (C. C. Wang) (Chinese, 1907–2003), Landscape No. 940, 1985. Ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll, 62.5 x 47.7 cm.
Wang Jiqian (C. C. Wang) (Chinese, 1907-2003), Landscape No. 940, 1985. Ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll, 62.5 x 47.7 cm.
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and…
“This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which thou art a part.”
–Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Book Two.)
Cameron’s World
Cameron’s World is a web-collage of text and images excavated from the buried neighbourhoods of archived GeoCities pages (1994–2009). In an age where we interact primarily with branded and marketed web content, Cameron’s World is a tribute to the lost days of unrefined self-expression on the Internet. This project recalls the visual aesthetics from an era when it was expected that personal spaces would always be under construction.
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Blue flamed molten sulphur - Kawah Ijen by Reuben Wu (via http://flic.kr/p/y69BCR )
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“Catfish” demonstrates that online intimacy is about quantity, not quality. Back in 2007, Leisa Reichelt, the head of user…
“Catfish” demonstrates that online intimacy is about quantity, not quality. Back in 2007, Leisa Reichelt, the head of user research at Government Digital Services in the U.K., defined ambient intimacy as “being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn’t usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible.”
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India’s Forgotten Stepwells
Rudimentary stepwells first appeared in India between the 2nd and 4th centuries A.D., born of necessity in a capricious climate zone bone-dry for much of the year followed by torrential monsoon rains for many weeks. It was essential to guarantee a year-round water-supply for drinking, bathing, irrigation and washing, particularly in the arid states of Gujarat (where they’re called vavs) and Rajasthan (where they’re baoli, baori, or bawdi) where the water table could be inconveniently buried ten-stories or more underground. Over the centuries, stepwell construction evolved so that by the 11th century they were astoundingly complex feats of engineering, architecture, and art.
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variation on a theme of kilvey hill by Kenneth Rowe (via http://flic.kr/p/xJWGiM )
Generic wins out every time.
Generic wins out every time.
Erik Brandt, Ficciones Typografika Intermezzo Piętnaście (72”x36”, 2015). First and last images are the final iteration. Process…
Marta Wapiennik, Ficciones Typografika 823–825 (24”x36”). Installed on April 19, 2015. More on Ficciones Typografika.
Studio Jimbo, Ficciones Typografika 883–885 (24”x36”). Installed on June 16, 2015. More on Ficciones Typografika.
Erik Brandt, 2015. Details from Ficciones Typografika Intermezzo 스물.
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“If we imagine a worm that crawls around the periphery of the forest, seeing a ‘(’ whenever it passes the left edge of a node…
“If we imagine a worm that crawls around the periphery of the forest, seeing a ‘(’ whenever it passes the left edge of a node and a ‘)’ whenever it passes a node’s right edge, that worm will have reconstructed the original string“
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My mother sent me this today: a digital print of her (outdated) single engine pilot’s licence. I can’t help but keep staring at…
My mother sent me this today: a digital print of her (outdated) single engine pilot’s licence. I can’t help but keep staring at it. So humbling. ❤️ by fanabulous (via https://instagram.com/p/7PnCinx3HjvVpUWwJiUZw5E-17fJxbjRUwkIY0/)
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J.D Doria. Reconstructing the Horizon.. Again (manifest 1), from the Material Cosmologies Series, July 2015
J.D Doria. Reconstructing the Horizon.. Again (manifest 1), from the Material Cosmologies Series, July 2015
The Petri Dish Project - the Calligraphy Series, by J.D Doria, 2014
The Petri Dish Project - the Calligraphy Series, by J.D Doria, 2014
The Petri Dish Project - the Calligraphy Series, by J.D Doria, 2014
The Petri Dish Project - the Calligraphy Series, by J.D Doria, 2014
The Petri Dish Project - the Calligraphy Series, by J.D Doria, 2014
The Petri Dish Project - the Calligraphy Series, by J.D Doria, 2014
Poison-Injecting Robot Submarine
This one-shot poison (which is harmless to everything else on the reef) is what makes autonomous robotic sea star control possible, since it means that a robot can efficiently target individual sea stars without having to try and keep track of which ones it’s injected already so it can go back and repeat the process nine more times. At Queensland University of Technology in Australia, a group of researchers led by Matthew Dunbabin and Peter Corke spent the last decade working on COTSBot,* which has been specifically designed to seek out and murder crown-of-thorns sea stars as mercilessly and efficiently as possible.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/poison-robot-submarine
The cyborg sensorium is possible because, as it turns out, the human brain is quite happy to accept whole new forms of…
The cyborg sensorium is possible because, as it turns out, the human brain is quite happy to accept whole new forms of peripherals. Neuroplasticity, we now know, is the natural state of the brain; we’ve only just developed the technology to properly take advantage of it. It’s like we were always meant to merge completely with the machine world. To fuse into a new kind of organism.
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the tree & me, digital photograph, 2009, by Herbert Weber
the tree & me, digital photograph, 2009, by Herbert Weber
Reissue of the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual
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Periodic Table’s Endangered Elements (larger)
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A Buddhist monk locks the door to a private area of the Chojin Lama Temple. The temple was spared destruction and converted to a…
A Buddhist monk locks the door to a private area of the Chojin Lama Temple. The temple was spared destruction and converted to a museum during the Stalinist era. Unfortunately, most other monasteries did not share the same fate and were destroyed. Tibetan Buddhism is the most common religion in Mongolia, although originally, Mongols practiced Shamanism in which they worshipped the blue sky. - Observations from 2009 along the Trans-Mongolian Railway by misterzvereff (via https://instagram.com/p/7ImHltIjbs/)
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