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Unless there is wildness around you, something terrible happens to the wildness inside of you.

-- John Moriarty

#wild #wildness #John Moriarty

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Liffeytown (2010) - Fergal McCarthy A series of floating Monopoly style houses on the river Liffey in response to the rise and dramatic fall of the Irish economy in 2009.

#dublin #ireland #liffey #boom #monopoly #Fergal McCarthy

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Byron Kim’s - Synecdoche (1991–)  On first glance, Byron Kim’s Synecdoche appears wholly abstract, comprising a grid of small panel paintings whose format alludes to the monochrome works of Ad Reinhardt and Brice Marden. However, the creamy beiges, warm browns, and blush pinks have their roots in reality: every one represents a portrait of an individual’s skin color. Each subject would sit for fifteen to twenty minutes for the artist, who closely examined a patch of his or her skin before blending an assortment of paints to replicate the exact shade. The panels are ordered alphabetically according to the sitters’ surnames, rendering Synecdoche a sort of abstracted group portrait. Kim is a Korean-American artist, and part of the strategy of this work is to invite us to consider what, exactly, skin color signifies—in this context and others (his title is that figure of speech in which a part stands in for a whole). In imparting a representational dimension to the modernist form of the abstract monochrome, Kim is also engaging a word play whereby two meanings of the term “skin,” the coating on a canvas and human epidermis, collide.

#skin #data #abstract #Byron Kim #Synecdoche

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There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind. — Paul Virilio

#Paul Virilio #eyes #blind #dreams #surveillance

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Nicola Miskin

#Nicola Miskin #underwater #seaweed #photography

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“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.” — Rosa Luxemburg

#rosa luxemburg #revolutionary

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If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology

Bruce Schneier

#bruce schneier #technology #problems

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Bridge Funk - Joseph Bertolozzi

#Joseph Bertolozzi

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Camera Restricta - Philipp Schmitt

Camera Restricta is a speculative design of a new kind of camera. It locates itself via GPS and searches online for photos that have been geotagged nearby. If the camera decides that too many photos have been taken at your location, it retracts the shutter and blocks the viewfinder. You can't take any more pictures here.

A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs

#art #Philipp Schmitt #camera

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Be sincere, not serious. - Alan Watts

#alan watts #sincere #serious

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All nations are fictions, but some are more believable than others. - Darran Anderson

#Darran Anderson #border #nations #fiction

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This is a Mirror, You are a Written Sentence (1968) - Luis Camnitzer

#luis camnitzer #conceptual art #text #art #mirror

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The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Brandolini's law (the bullshit asymmetry principle)

#bullshit #bullshit asymmetry principle #Brandolinis_law

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Giant Steps Shepard Tone - Risteárd Ó hAodha

#Risteárd Ó hAodha #jazz #infinity #shepard tone #john coltrane #Youtube

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Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. - Henry Thomas Buckle

#Henry Thomas Buckle #minds #people

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Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people. - Laura Greenwood (?)

#tradition #dead #Laura Greenwood