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citrusfool:

Blame! related artwork, Tsutomu Nihei

Huge photoset because I just couldn’t make up my mind.

I can’t believe I didn’t make a photoset earlier. I am a huge fan of Nihei’s early work, it’s probably the only mangaka I truly admire and look up to. Sadly, his latest work tend to loose that rough aspect which made everything so dynamic and addictive in Blame!, plus it was never about the characters but the perspective and architecture of his cyberpunk universe which was just incredible while now… well the characters seem to be taking over the importance of the visual work and it kinda breaks my heart.

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CultureLab: Superflies bred to be the first astronauts on Titan

arielwaldman:

Art + science mashup

CultureLab: Superflies bred to be the first astronauts on Titan

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threefolds:

theedificecomplex:

Rochester, New York

Fire escapes are a lost art. Although apartment owners attached these tiered ladders to apartments to create additional exit routes, fire escapes became additional balconies for many apartment-dwellers. As residents sat outside in the summer, streets became more well-watched. After fire code changed to ensure all new buildings had two interior stairwells, fire escapes began disappearing from the American lexicon. 

I am going to miss the architecture here  a lot when I eventually move.

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Sorry! The lifestyle you ordered is currently out of stock

photo from artofthestate, graffiti by BANKSY


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I can’t think of any reason why as a population we should be expected to stand by and see a gross reduction in the living standards of ourselves and our kids, possibly for generations, when the people who have got us into this have been rewarded for it – they’ve certainly not been punished in any way because they’re too big to fail. I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who’s too big to fail.

As an anarchist, I believe that power should be given to the people whose lives this is actually affecting. It’s no longer good enough to have a group of people who are controlling our destinies. The only reason they have the power is because they control the currency. They have no moral authority and, indeed, they show the opposite of moral authority.

~ Alan Moore
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There’s a photo of a guy who got tattoos to match those found on Otzi, aka The Iceman, who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Italian Alps. Mike Goldstein, the guy who got the tattoo, said the series of 10 simple lines arranged in groups of four, three, and three served to remind him that you don’t have to be incredibly important during your lifetime in order to be important. “It reminds me that I can live however I want,” he says in the book. “I don’t have to work in an office or wear a tie, as are the expectations of our culture. I can walk across the Alps and die in a swamp, and that’s OK.”

Boing Boing (via heterochronia)
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