July42009
July32009
You know, whenever i see Lady Gaga, my mind blanks out and fills with the name “Johnny Silverhand” over and over again.
can it be that unscripted? sorry for being a sceptic here but, that’s basically a “uncanny valley” worldbreaker.
wonder how much NLS/NN tech went into building / maintaining “Milo”.
creepy.
as terrorist friendly as our Swedish grenade packaging — yes you read that right. (via Enemy Combatant)
July22009
"A federal judge yesterday found Usenet.com liable for just about every copyright infringement claim on the books: direct infringement, inducement of infringement, contributory infringement, and (just for good measure) vicarious infringement. Not content to be loud and proud about its pro-pirate agenda, Usenet.com also resorted to stonewalling legal questionnaires, sending employees to Europe to avoid depositions, wiping hard drives, and failing to turn over e-mail after being sued in 2007 by the music labels."
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Judge throws book at Usenet.com in RIAA lawsuit
I like their kung-fu.
“People ask me, ‘What are you, Mr. Tichý? Are you a painter, a sculptor, or a writer?’ I reply, ‘You know who I am? I am Tarzan in retirement.’
I am a prophet of decay and a pioneer of chaos, because only from chaos something new emerge.
I cut a lens out of Plexiglas wiyh a knife, ground the lens, made a camera of wood and cardboard, and took pictures with that. Of course it worked. When I do something, it has to be precise. Truly, the lens was not precise, but maybe that’s where the art is… Then I grind the lens with various types of sandpapers, first coarse sandpaper, then finer and finer, until you can see through it beautifully. And then what? It needs to be polished, that isn’t a problem. You take toothpaste, mix it with cigarette ash, and then you polish it. And that’s what I photographed with.
I didn’t choose anything. I looked under the enlarger and whatever seemed like the world to me, I printed. But what is the world? Everything that is, that is the world. Whatever seemed like the world to me, I printed. That’s all.”
Reblogged from Nunquam Dormio.
weon:
To me this girl, this photograph, stands for everything that was until now missing from mainstream Western discussions about Iran and Iranians. Like most Iranians, she is young. And like many Iranian women, she is bold and beautiful…perhaps even mischievous. Is there mischief in that smile? Surely she knows that she’s not supposed to be there, in that scene, at that time. But she’s there anyway, flashing the quick-posed two-fingered purpose of Peace for a waiting camera lens. She is who our Western foreign policy discussions tend to ignore.
Click on the image for the rest of the LIFE magazine photo essay on the Iranian election.
Reblogged from go with the rhythm....
Youngwoong Jang is a korean filmstudent, this short is about a young cyborg looking for that small lifegiving drop of water.
