Archive for December, 2008
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The Art Life- "This is the plan. Get your ass to Mars..." November 27, 2009"Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel. Co […]
- "This is the plan. Get your ass to Mars..." November 27, 2009
- Ballardian
- Rick McGrath’s Letter From London: The JG Ballard Memorial November 30, 2009"Greetings from London! Hope all is well with you. I’ve just attended the long-anticipated JG Ballard Memorial celebration at the Tate Modern and now I’m catching my breath -- and a few beers -- at a nearby Thames-side pub with fellow Ballardians. We’re having a wonderful time -- wish you were here. But let’s start at the beginning. We have time to orde […]
- Rick McGrath’s Letter From London: The JG Ballard Memorial November 30, 2009
- Cabinet
- A Dry Black Veil - Brian DillonBy the last decades of the nineteenth century, an obscuring perplex of ideas regarding dust hung above the inhabitants of the European city like overlapping clouds, variously threatening or inspiring with the weight of knowledge, quantity of filth, or degree of infection they contained. London, especially—having only lately escaped a mid-century chol […]
- A Dry Black Veil - Brian Dillon
- The Guardian Culture
- Littell wins bad sex award November 30, 2009 Richard Lea
- Funeral blues November 30, 2009 Sean O'Hagan
- Desert Island Moz November 30, 2009 Camilla Redmond
- Infosthetics
- Life Without Buildings
- Subverting the Spectacle of Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin and the Situationists[Still from Modern Times] “The construction of situations begins beyond the ruins of the modern spectacle. It is easy to see how much the very principle of the spectacle – nonintervention – is linked to the alienation of the old world. Conversely, the most pertinent revolutionary experiments in culture have sought to break the spectators […]
- Subverting the Spectacle of Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin and the Situationists
- New Shelton Wet/Dry
- ‘The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.’ –ShakespeareIs it our experiences or our genes that make us who we are? Studying twins has revealed unexpected, and often unnerving, insights into the nature versus nurture debate. Imagine receiving a phone call out of the blue. You find the voice on the other end eerily familiar as it tells you some life-changing news: you are, [...]
- ‘The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.’ –Shakespeare
- Quiet Babylon
- Lanyards & PocketsI’d like to talk about augmented reality. Specifically, I’d like to talk about augmented reality, the things you carry in your pockets, and the things you wear around your neck. Primer AR basics: It’s an extension of the mobile Internet (that’s the one where people are walking around with computers disguised as phones in their pockets […]
- Google, News Corp., and Bing: Douglas Rushkoff’s muddled moral war.((Hi there, how’s your weekend going? This is slightly off-topic for Quiet Babylon, but it’s about the future of journalism which is one of my side-obsessions. It concerns this hilarious opinion piece to which Jay Rosen linked on Twitter. Douglas Rushkoff is afraid that journalism (and by extension all content creation) can’t survive what h […]
- Lanyards & Pockets
- Triple Canopy
- Thinking Through Images #1“A screaming comes across the sky.”
- Thinking Through Images #1
