“3D is just 1D away from 2D,” says Kot wickedly. “Life is a string of moments that we put together, separated so often within every second that we can’t measure the frequency according to which the empty space between two moments appears. That empty space is to our life in 3D what the…
Ales Kot: “3D is just 1D away from 2D,” says Kot wickedly. “Life is a string of…
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THE FLYING GRENADE
Don’t call it a drone. Sure, it looks just like a small unmanned aerial vehicle — right down to the little wings and the cameras. And yes, it’s remotely flown. But the Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System is more like a tiny, flying…
SLEZSKA DADA: criminalwisdom: THE FLYING GRENADE Don’t call it a drone. Sure, it…
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This week is very strange. So many things happening. Earlier today, Image Comics announced two new comic books I’m making with them – both are coming out in 2013.
ZERO is an ongoing series that blends real-world spy narratives with super-spy fiction, but it should end up being much more…
Ales Kot: This week is very strange. So many things happening. Earlier today,…
Read more "Ales Kot: This week is very strange. So many things happening. Earlier today,…"Love, love, LOVE writing ‘Change’. Would make it an ongoing series if it felt right, but it wouldn’t. Morgan’s doing brilliant things with the art – cutting up what I deliver, adding/reducing beats as we see fit. The cover sketches we had for #2 alone are incredibly strong. All four of them, small…
Ales Kot: Love, love, LOVE writing ‘Change’. Would make it an ongoing series if…
Read more "Ales Kot: Love, love, LOVE writing ‘Change’. Would make it an ongoing series if…"So about half my job is client-facing, either through email, IMs or Telephone.
The last few months, since going from Kevin to Emily at work (actually my work names are different, we use pseudonyms due to the fact we all pick up a weird level of internet celebrity by virtue of what we do and who…
patron saint of apples and monsters: learning curve
Read more "patron saint of apples and monsters: learning curve"Three important things:
1. Wearing masks alters our perceptions, especially of ourselves. Masks can be used to embody ideal personas or create anonymity. They also affect our self awareness, encourage less limited behaviors and reduce reliance on a singular self-narrative.
3. Putting on a mask, especially one deliberately constructed for a specific purpose, is a very powerful tool for self-transformation work/magic.
2. The Internet allows us to create and change masks very quickly. It also provides far more anonymity than most physical masks, heightening both effects.
Techno Occult: Hypersigils Reconsidered
Read more "Techno Occult: Hypersigils Reconsidered"Read more "This is Africa, our Africa.: It’s well-documented that classical Greek thinkers traveled to what we now call Egypt to expand their knowledge."Hippocrates, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato and others traveled to Africa, & studied at the temple-universities Waset and Ipet Isut for many years and took the knowledge back to their nations to teach others.So by the time Europeans came to colonize Africa, Africa was very well “civilized”.
So why…
Space travel, finance and what we are calling ‘big design’ are the emerging themes this year. As well as continuing to explore digital and science-related themes — especially their social and ethical implications — students are beginning to explore how designers can get involved with large systems…
Heterochronia: Space travel, finance and what we are calling ‘big design’ are the…
Read more "Heterochronia: Space travel, finance and what we are calling ‘big design’ are the…"A procession of the damned.
By the damned, I mean the excluded.
We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You’ll read of them–or they’ll march. Some of them livid and some of them fiery…
Notes on the Tribe Of The Strange: A Procession of the Damned
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“Protect the Person Behind You”
Masked shield corps protester at Occupy Oakland on January 28th with homemade shield and sign. A group of these people protected unarmed and legally-assembled civilian marchers during the Oakland Police Department attack on…
Tactical Fashion: In The Grim Darkness of the Far Fu… err… Today
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 