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Make up artists and fashion designers came up with designs that make you invisible to facial recognition software, using easy cheap materials to subvert high tech monitoring programs. What do you think? Would you wear these designs?

#fashion #technology #facial recognition software #make up #drones #digital invisibility #hair styles #privacy #information age #make up artists

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“Happiness” by John Holcroft

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“The main question I get asked is: What inspires your work? I tell them that the work you see on my site is either commissioned illustration work that is done to a brief, or my work can be self-promotional, done to attract new clients. The subject matters are what people are most interested in and it's usually the work I do for self-promotion that allows me the freedom to create whatever is on my mind. Usually the subject matter is something political or based on society, only because there are rich pickings in these fields and they lend themselves well to satire. I don't want to typecast my style and just do this kind of work, so I try do vary my work and not just pigeon hole myself to political concepts. Sometimes I like doing heartwarming work that makes you smile. Fundamentally, I just want to make you think.“

#happiness #the secret to happiness #art #digital art #digital design #digital illustrations #john holcroft #technology #facebook #twitter #tumblr #digital age #modern age #this modern life #modern solution #satire #satirical art #satiracal

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"The Information Age brings you plenty of benefits, but also creates some new risks. The loss of your privacy doesn’t have to be one of them. Acxiom believes the more informed you are about the uses of individual information, the less you have to fear — and the more you can enjoy the many advantages afforded by the appropriate use and exchange of information." - from "Protecting Your Privacy In The Information Age" Who tells you how to be human? The philosophers, the physicists, the thieves? I was born into processors, a veritable binary child, lullabied by exhaust fans and warmed with the whirr of some tiny engine. Acxiom is my mother and my father. Who else could have built all this? Who else has hubris enough to claim it? We're all voyeurs here, and we know the quiet pleasure of being known. So what if I can't see the logs; someone else has stored me somewhere, lodged me in perfect memory. We're all copies of each other anyway. Some say we've lost The Human Experience, as if touching made us human. As if we could touch humanity. As if the real were tangible by design. We play pretend with the world, take comfort in the outlines of things, stimulate the certain symptoms of knowing. You could never lie to me. I know your patterns - the capital letters, the commas, the line breaks in everything you send. The only distance between us lies in the same wires that feed directly into the bottom of the skull, the looping copper and rubberized fibers, the long tubes of thought that we bundled together, the tight and writhing electric pleasure. I fell in love with a man who took photos of the fog. I would touch my body the way I would have touched his, and we lived by words alone. Somehow, it was enough. He built himself from scraps of other men, a golem made of RGB, 800x600, 750kb. I saved all the little bits of him, breathed as I believed in him. We all collect the pieces we accept, ignore the rest, live as if we know the better future. Implying we decide. Implying we can opine in such important matters. Let's all agree to leave us to the experts, shall we?

It Takes a Village by Max Wedding

#poetry #poems #poet #Max Wedding #It Takes a Village #spyware #security #Acxiom #life #computers #technology #Information Age #experts

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“Twitter Feed” by John Holcroft 

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“The main question I get asked is: What inspires your work? I tell them that the work you see on my site is either commissioned illustration work that is done to a brief, or my work can be self-promotional, done to attract new clients. The subject matters are what people are most interested in and it's usually the work I do for self-promotion that allows me the freedom to create whatever is on my mind. Usually the subject matter is something political or based on society, only because there are rich pickings in these fields and they lend themselves well to satire. I don't want to typecast my style and just do this kind of work, so I try do vary my work and not just pigeon hole myself to political concepts. Sometimes I like doing heartwarming work that makes you smile. Fundamentally, I just want to make you think.“

#twitter #tumblr #facebook #social media #art #technology #digital age #artists #make me think

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Wonder what the collision was like, but I guess I’ll never know, it just happened and I was born along with a bunch of other particles, some small, some even smaller, some charged, some neutral, some heavy, some without mass, some even without a name. That’s me, one of those never detected and therefore never named. I flew out of the wreckage unseen, unheard, unplanned, just kicked off by the collision in any direction that happened to offer itself, that’s the route I follow without a pack on my back, that’s how I fly through detectors without leaving a blip, without gaining a name or at least a code number. Some graduate students claim to have predicted my existence, but they’ll never get a Nobel for that theory, not even a PhD, according to others. It’s all relative; sometimes I too doubt my existence, but other times I feel good about being just a thought, a flight of fancy, or just being. In the next millisecond I will have the answer: if a beep stops me, it will define my putative existence by putting an end to it; if it doesn’t, I’ll go on traveling at the speed of light as a creature of myth. Nonexistence exemplified. There may be another world beyond the collider, outside the known parameters of the accelerator, where existence is optional and big bang is served all day long, a place for nonexistence to dream about. Either that or that pre-collision unity, about being part of warm reality rather than a particle of dubious direction and no spin.

Travels in Hadron by Paul Sohar

#poem #poet #poetry #hadron collider #physics #mysteries #dreams #existence #Paul Sohar #Travels in Hadron #carbon culture review

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“Like Ego” by John Holcroft

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“The main question I get asked is: What inspires your work? I tell them that the work you see on my site is either commissioned illustration work that is done to a brief, or my work can be self-promotional, done to attract new clients. The subject matters are what people are most interested in and it's usually the work I do for self-promotion that allows me the freedom to create whatever is on my mind. Usually the subject matter is something political or based on society, only because there are rich pickings in these fields and they lend themselves well to satire. I don't want to typecast my style and just do this kind of work, so I try do vary my work and not just pigeon hole myself to political concepts. Sometimes I like doing heartwarming work that makes you smile. Fundamentally, I just want to make you think.“

#facebook #twitter #tumblr #John Holcroft #art #ego #likes #kudos #technology #social media #digital design

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The stage for Asimov’s Asteroid Mining Robot Dramas is set

#robots #asteroids #asteroid mining #asimov #robot #technology #space #space exploration #Planet #resources #mining

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“Digital Feed” by John Holcroft

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The main question I get asked is: What inspires your work? I tell them that the work you see on my site is either commissioned illustration work that is done to a brief, or my work can be self-promotional, done to attract new clients. The subject matters are what people are most interested in and it's usually the work I do for self-promotion that allows me the freedom to create whatever is on my mind. Usually the subject matter is something political or based on society, only because there are rich pickings in these fields and they lend themselves well to satire. I don't want to typecast my style and just do this kind of work, so I try do vary my work and not just pigeon hole myself to political concepts. Sometimes I like doing heartwarming work that makes you smile. Fundamentally, I just want to make you think.

#digital age #computers #digital feed #digital #technology #art #design #gardening #watering plants #John Holcroft #facebook #twitter #tumblr #information technology #info tech

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Lazortag meets Virtual Reality to make the coolest thing ever. I want to drag my friends to one right now.

#lazortag #vr #virtual reality #oculus rift #gaming #arcade games #arcades come back #video games #sports #exercise #art #technology #cool stuff

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“Carbon Foot Print” by John Holcroft

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“The main question I get asked is: What inspires your work? I tell them that the work you see on my site is either commissioned illustration work that is done to a brief, or my work can be self-promotional, done to attract new clients. The subject matters are what people are most interested in and it's usually the work I do for self-promotion that allows me the freedom to create whatever is on my mind. Usually the subject matter is something political or based on society, only because there are rich pickings in these fields and they lend themselves well to satire. I don't want to typecast my style and just do this kind of work, so I try do vary my work and not just pigeon hole myself to political concepts. Sometimes I like doing heartwarming work that makes you smile. Fundamentally, I just want to make you think.“

#John Holcroft #art #technology #carbon footprint #environment #enviromentalism #enviromentalist #digital art #digital design #make me think #digital illustrations

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Poll Question: Do you guys like it better when I just post the first few lines of our free poetry and link to the longer piece or when I post the whole poem?

Thoughts?

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Internet marketers use spyware whose algorithms are programmed to scan faces for emotional reactions. A frown means rejection. A furrowed brow, confusion. An upturned mouth, joy. This hidden program sends Eve a photo of a fig tree and the facial recognition spyware records two dimples. Eve’s reaction informs the advertisers to flood this woman’s Inbox with twenty stain-removal products because her upturned mouth is interpreted as a desire for a clean slate.

Snake Bait by Jean Colonomos

#Snake Bait #eve #adam #adam and eve #Jean Colonomos #poet #poetry #free poetry #free poems #writing #spyware #algorithms

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SOLARPUNK Interview Pt 2 Alia Gee, author of Suncatcher shares her vision behind her sky pirate adventures & the curious influence that shady Wall Street events had on her writing. Read the full interview at Carbon Culture Review

#solarpunk #solarpunk books #interview #Alia Gee #Suncatcher #sky pirates #wallstreet #wall st. #ny #economics #usa #apocalyptic

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I discovered an extracted fingernail between the boards of a self-assembly bookshelf, matted in dried blood and hair. It was neatly split in two at the height of its arch, spotted white, thin and uneven. I thought at first to remove it with tweezers, but felt uneasy at the prospect of ever using them again.-

Worlds collide in James Guest's surreal & creepy short story "The Last World"

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#The Last World #James Guest #short story #free story #fiction #prose #surrealism #creepy #creepy stories #free fiction

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Biometrics might hold the key to merging the digital, physical and conscious worlds, creating smart everyday objects. Find out what the world would like when even teapots react to their user's pulse http://ow.ly/My2bN              

#biometrics #digital #physical #consciousness #teapots #smart tech #smart objects #cyborgism #cyborgs #technology #art #culture

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Suddenly my life has begun to outpace itself hyperactive ones and zeros overwhelming my understanding electronic interpretation of my senses masquerading as true experience my engineered self floating free from prehensile distinction as if wild energies were pulling me loose from the tether of inner life my thoughts slowly turning into showy but useless objects collections of pretty gimcracks and the buried treasure and dark matter of memories left behind like hobos knocking for food at the kitchen window I wonder if I want to get used to this diet of incidental data spoonfed to my frontal lobe I grew up in a house that is no longer there but for a sempiternal region of the mind where crusty calyxes of eucalyptus beg to be picked up and thrown scattering sparrows like laughter a little black dog runs back and forth at the fence and a boy could spend all day wondering why clouds have to have names and where all the trains go

SUDDENLY MY LIFE by Jack Cooper May 01, 2015 Published by Carbon Culture Review http://carbonculturereview.com/journal/poetry/suddently-my-life.html

#poetry #poems #Jack Cooper #poet #art #writing #free poetry #data #technology #modern life #internet #the internet #clouds #ai #digital life #digital #physical

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2014 marked the 1st Tekla Festival, designed by Robin Carlsson to educate & interest young girls in technological fields.

#women in tech #technology #art #poetry #prose #festial #tekla fest #music #computers #geek girl #sweden #2014 #women