Jun 25 2010
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“ To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)
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Art project in progress A History of the Sky features lots and lots of time-lapse videos of the sky that are synchronized so that they’re all showing the same time of day. Ken Murphy is the artist that created it and he hopes to one day manifest all the data he’s collecting as a video installation that’s always displaying the skies of the last 365 days.
Jun 19 2010
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“Looking for a future”, by Eleonora Sacchi
A bit melancholic, but it portrays our condition. Existentialist. Good Job, Eleonora :)
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Vuvuzuelas turned to be a cultural phenomenon
Jun 18 2010
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Someone found a resolution for removing the vuvuzuela sound during World cup games. Just bring down the 300hz frequences that are responsible for the trumpets’ sound transmission. The other sounds (commentary, fan, shouts) will be kept at a regular volume.
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http://christianmusic.com/genres/christian-punk-music.htm
I’m digging into Christian marketing and I realized that one of the main ways of capturing new young adepts is music. I arleady posted something about a christian club created in Italy, and I’ve found out that in the US they’re actually further on. In this web page you can see all the main punk / metal / ska groups that are well known among young american religious believers. Even religion seems to be a big business.
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News from a future newspaper: “A man was stopped yesterday at the boarder of Italy and France, his computer was scanned and pirated material was found, mostly Adobe software and songs by Beatles. The man was arrested at the spot”
From a poem to a drug, from an piece of software to a music record and from a film to a book, everything that’s famous and profitable, owns much of its economic value to the manipulation of the Multitudes. People haven’t asked to know what the Coca-Cola logo looks like, neither have they asked for the melody of “Like a Virgin”. Education, Media and Propaganda teach all that the hard way; by either hammering it on our brains or by speculating over our thirst, our hunger, our need for communication and fun and most of all, over our loneliness and despair. In the days of Internet, what can be copied can be also shared. When it comes to content, we can give everything to everyone at once.
Around this realisation, a new social class is awakening. This is not a working class but a class of Producers. Producers are pirates and hackers by default; they recycle the images, the sounds and the concepts of the World. Some of it they invent but most they borrow from others.
Because information occupies a physical part of our bodies, because it is literary “installed” on our brain and can’t be erased at wish, people have the right to own what is projected on them: They have the right to own themselves! Because this is a global World based on inequality and profit, because the contents of a song, a movie or a book are points of advantage in a vicious fight for survival, any global citizen has the moral right to appropriate a digital copy of a song, a movie or a book. Because software is an international language, the secrets of the World are now written in Adobe and Microsoft: we should try hack them. Finally, because poverty is the field of experimentation for all global medicine, no patents should apply.
Today, every man with a computer is a Producer and a Pirate. We all live in the Internet, this is our new country, the only territory that makes sense to defend and protect . The land of the Internet is one of information. Men should be able to use this land freely, corporations should pay for use - a company is definitely not a person.
Internet is now producing “Internets”, situations that exist not only online but also in real space, governed by what is happening online. This is the time for the foundation of an global Movement of Piracy. The freedom of infringing copyright, the freedom of sharing information and drugs: these are our new “Commons”. They are Global Rights and as such, Authorities will not allow them without a battle. But this will be a strange battle because this is the first time the Multitudes disrespect the Law instinctively and on a global scale.
Today, an army of teenagers is copying, the adults are copying and even the senior citizens, people from the Left and from the Right are copying. Everyone with a computer is copying something; like a novel Goddess Athena, Information wants to break free from the head of Technology and it assists us on our enterprise.
Pirates of the Internet Unite!
Miltos Manetas, 2009
via http://piracymanifesto.tumblr.com/
Jun 13 2010
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I couldn’t stop laughing after I saw that in Italy someone opened a christian club where they play religious remixed songs for the dancefloor
Jun 12 2010
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http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario-english.html
An useful calendar for the World Cup 2010
Jun 11 2010
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On the Prairie, Rezi van Lankveld
Born in 1973, Van Lankveld is part of a generation of younger painters who, following in the footsteps the enormously influential Luc Tuymans, experiment with tensions between figuration and abstraction. Her paintings are created in a single effort: she pours paint on to blank wood boards, Jackson Pollock-style, before rearranging it to form unexpected images. She describes it as an “all or nothing situation”.
Rezi van Lankveld whips up flurries of pigment in her eerie, mysterious paintings. She favours pallid shades such as lilac, blue or grey, which she swirls with eddies of black to create dense abstractions. They recall the marbled endpapers of 18th-century books. Yet amidst these trippy paint-fests, figures can be glimpsed: rippling, shadowy forms wearing tricorne hats, pinafores or capes. They rise up from the churning colours like the ghosts of painting past.
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A Golden Retriever, dyed to look like a tiger, plays at the Dahe Pet Civilization Park in Zhengzhou, China.
via:http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1995940_2150796,00.html#ixzz0qZhpWOMG
There’s no limit to human brainlessness
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Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre, Italy
Are you planning to come Jeff? :)
Jun 09 2010
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via http://lonelydonkey.blogspot.com/
Simone’s back to his blog with a funny and very interesting video about rewards and motivation in companies
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“ All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
— Harry S. Truman
