bravenewwhatever:

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Temporary tattoos, binary code, Walter Benjamin
2012 

[Commission for the group show “Business Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship”Higher Pictures, 980 Madison Ave, NY]

For this exhibition each artist was asked to create a new work using an existing print-on-demand or customized printing service. The following phrase, translated into binary code and separated out into 8-digit strings, was realized as 126 unique temporary tattoos, to be worn on the forearm or wherever. 

The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of masses are two aspects of the same process. Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. 

[Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”]

#businessinnovations #fascism #expressurself

 University of British Columbia professor Suzanne Simard, who explains how “trees in a forest ecosystem are interconnected with the largest, oldest ‘mother trees’ serving as hubs.

NASA SDO – “Alien” Prominence, June 18, 2012 (by LittleSDOHMI) via http://www.universetoday.com/95878/alien-prometheus-prominence-hovers-over-the-sun

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872281861/final-frontier-designs-3g-space-suit/widget/video.html

heterochronia:

Our 3G suit is intended for IVA, or Intra Vehicular Activity, that is, launch and re-entry, for commercial space providers both suborbital and orbital.   Basically IVA suits are a safety backup in case of an emergency loss of cabin pressure, like the oxygen masks in commercial airliners. The future commercial space industry (SpaceX, Boeing, Sierra Nevada, Virgin, Armadillo, XCOR, etc) will need these suits for the basic safety of manned flights.  Current NASA suits cost well into the millions, while our 3G is intended to retail for a small fraction of this.  

We need your help to make this new suit!  While our costs are comparatively modest, space suits are expensive.  Every little bit helps us to pay for the materials, equipment and tooling required to make high technology safety garments.

mollycrabapple:

Mona Eltahawy and Leila Ahmed discussing “Why They Hate Us” on the Melissa Harris Perry show.  A wonderful, respectful nuanced discussion, and a real model as to how to do disagreement on TV without Screaming Red Faced Heads

wolvensnothere:

tribeofthestrange:

Trailer for Bobcat Goldthwaite’s extraordinary God Bless America, out now online.

See this one, children. Tells the tale right.

“Why Have a Civilization if you’re no longer interested in being Civil?”