cardiograms:

Scissor Sisters – “Invisible Light”

Some Bunuel/Jodorowsky inspired symbolic goodness of a music video with a great song to boot.

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

iamdanw:

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un smokes a cigarette at the General Satellite Control and Command Center (via A Look Inside North Korea – In Focus – The Atlantic)

darklyeuphoric:

Anouk Wipprecht’s Robotic Spider Dress on Fashioning Technology:

In collaboration with engineer Daniel Schatzmayr, Anouk Wipprecht’s latest techno-couture creation is a sinister robotic spider dress.

Perched on the wearer’s shoulders are animated robotic limbs that eerily crawl around the body. The robotic dress both incites the curiosity of passersby by coyly dancing around the wearer’s body while at the same time protecting the wearer if somebody approaches too fast or comes to close.

The performative garment deals with themes of “personal space” and raises questions concerning control and privacy.

As with with much of Wipprecht’s past work, the space of the body is once again transformed into a stage where the garment becomes the leading actor.

*Be sure to check out the oh so darkly euphoric video.

thisisgunmachine: An excerpt from the Gun Machine audiobook, which is read by Reg E. Cathey.

What some politicians fear most is that this young, educated population reminds them of the Arab Spring and they are demanding change. They fear what they call “the pink revolution”. When people say, as they so often do, that feminism is the preoccupation of a few white middle-class women in the west agonising over whether to wear lipstick or not, I wish they could see these angry men and women out at night demanding that women be safe, who say rape is always a weapon used to keep women in fear.

For something is happening here, anger is overtaking fear. The dam has burst. The debate the politicians want is one of law and order, but the radical one is about how to change the culture itself. And because this is India we are taking about a myriad of cultures. Somehow, though, through the shock and the trauma, this country is examining itself

Delhi gang-rape: in India, anger is overtaking fear
Suzanne Moore, Guardian, 31 Dec 2012 (via hautepop)

thisisgunmachine: An excerpt from the Gun Machine audiobook, which is read by Reg E. Cathey.

Cyberpunk 2077 trailer, via @Wolven

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

First Mile Economics: We have a LASTMILE crisis…

firstmileeconomics:

During the last year I have had the privilege to travel far and wide – talking to some of the great change makers from across the world. I have met well educated and articulate people seeking to reinvent the social economy through new platforms for giving, sharing, contributing and trading –…