Author: m1k3y

It wasn’t meant to end like this, Yuri Shwedoff

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catvincent talking all things pagan and science fiction. Breaking down the hyperreal; weaving together fact and fiction, magic and history in under an hour. All narratives are wrong, but some are useful and this is his. Watch. Understand the high strangeness of the science fictional condition and its occulted mystical lining. Click. Play. NOW

Footnotes at http://www.catvincent.com/?p=1258#more-1258

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nataliekane:

‘Third Principle: The post-war city must create the new from the damaged old. Many of the buildings in the war-damaged city are relatively salvageable, and because the finances of individuals and remaining institutions have been depleted by war and its privations, that salvageable building stock must be used to build the ‘new’ city. And because the new ways of living will not be the same as the old, the reconstruction of old buildings must enable new ways and ideas of living. The familiar old must be transformed, by conscious intention and design, into the unfamiliar new.’

– Lebbeus Woods, from Radical Reconstruction 1997. Sketches by Woods.

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Fast forward further into his talk – and, warning: this is where I fire up my own speculative engine – Matt talks about some work from earlier this decade that BERG did (collated in this blog post) where they investigated using “smart lamps” that could both see and project. Pictured below is a music player […]

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Little Foot, a fossilized Australopithecus Prometheus, an early hominid, has been dated as 3.67 million years old—making it an older relative of the famous 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus, Lucy. Researchers used a dating method that measures isotopes in rock created by exposure to cosmic rays—the ratio of isotopes reveal how long the rock has been underground. The researchers say that the discovery lends evidence to the idea that there were multiple species of Australopithecus present in Africa at this time.

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