Improvised press conference

[EN] La société civile s'en va t'en guerre à l' e-G8 from OWNI on Vimeo.

Improvised press conference of the civil society during the e-G8 Forum in Paris led by Jérémie Zimmermann (porte-parole de La Quadrature du Net) and with Jeff Jarvis (Professor in Journalism at City University New York) ; Lawrence Lessig (Professor at HArvard Law School, founder of Creative Commons) ; Susan P. Crawford (former ICANN member) ; Jean-François Julliard (directeur de Reporter Sans Frontières) ; Yochai Benkler (co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet).

Jan Svankmajer - Darkness Light Darkness

Down On Me(With Me And 50 Cent)

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Guggenheim Museum's $100,000 Room - Hans-Peter Feldmann

Last November, German conceptual artist Hans-Peter Feldmann won the eighth Biennal Hugo Boss Prize, a biannual award bestowed by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for significant achievement in contemporary art. The winner also received $100,000.
“I’m 70 years old, and I began making art in the ’50s,” Mr. Feldmann shares. “At that time there was no money in the art world. Money and art didn’t exist. So for me, $100,000 is very special. It’s incredible really. And I would like to show the quantity of it.”
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China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work

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The CIA and the cultural cold war revisited

A Portrait Of Lenin In The Style Of Jackson Pollock.

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RSA SecureID breach linked to hacker attack on Lockheed Martin; other US military contractors may be affected

This week, Lockheed Martin—the largest U.S. military contractor—and several other defense contractors have reportedly experienced intrusions in their computer networks. Those intrusions may be connected to a hacking attack on RSA's SecurID security token division, disclosed back in March.
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DJ SPOOKY - TERRA NOVA: SINFONIA ANTARCTICA

Alexander Oparin wellness spa Primordial Soup Sauna near ARAD/Romania, 1st of May

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Why does it seem like more men are into first person shooters than women?

"I was just going to play for 2 minutes, then it was 15 hours later and I was still in my pyjamas." So says Paul, when asked about his love of Quake II. "Why do you like first person shooters so much?" I asked Rory. "Because I like to pretend I'm the leader of the United States Marine Corps, and the hardest Bastard ever, and in Vietnam, and a murder machine destroying all the foes who ever even gave me a funny look. Anyone who tells you they play FPS games for any other reason is a lying slaaaaaaaaaaaag and ought to be shot in the face. In real life," was his (somewhat) tongue-in-cheek response...

End the War on Drugs!

In days, we could finally see the beginning of the end of the ‘war on drugs’. This expensive war has completely failed to curb the plague of drug addiction, while costing countless lives, devastating communities, and funneling trillions of dollars into violent organized crime networks.

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Патриот II Patriot2

The video documents an intervention in public life: Marina Naprushkina buys a portrait of President Alexander Lukashenko in a bookshop in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Following that Naprushkina crosses Minsk with the president’s portrait and
strolls through the biggest streets and over the most important squares of the city; the walk lasts from morning into evening. Back at home the portrait is attached to the wall. The national anthem is played, Marina Naprushkina is standing at attention.

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Build Your World and Play In It: Interacting with Surface Particles on Complex Objects (ISMAR 2010)

Build Your World and Play In It: Interacting with Surface Particles on Complex Objects (ISMAR 2010) from Augmented Engineering on Vimeo.

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Mountain climbing revolutionary play figures

Limited edition Mountain Men figures by Mountain Research. A set of four 9cm polyurethane figures. The set features four global revolutionaries -

Mao Zedong (commonly known as Chairman Mao), a Chinese revolutionary and Guerrilla warfare strategist.

Karl Marx, a German philosopher and revolutionary socialist.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and political philosopher.

Henry David Thoreau, an American author and poet.

Each mountain figure is dressed in hiking outfits with rucksacks and hiking boots. They come carefully packaged in printed Mountain Research box.

Made in Japan.

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Not in my name ...!

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BitCoin skeptics and boosters debate

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Out of Africa.

Totu'i vis si armonie/Noapte buna.

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We have nothing in common but our Profession (ARTISTs)!!!!! or life after FUKUSHIMA

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Democracia Real YA!

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French Hadopi “3 Strikes” Anti-Piracy Company Hacked

The private company entrusted to carry out file-sharing network monitoring for the French government has been hacked. Trident Media Guard, which is responsible for gathering data for so-called 3 strikes warnings, now has some of its scripts and secrets out in the wild, an event which has the potential to upset the smooth of Hadopi.

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What do we miss in Amsterdam?

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The word shawarma (pronounced /ʃəˈwɑrmə/) comes from the Turkish word çevirme [tʃeviɾˈme], meaning turning. MORE

How Paulo Coelho Uses Social Media

Paulo Coelho is one of the most successful fiction writers today and he actively uses social media to engage with his readers. For the past 25 years the Brazilian author has written many inspirational books, which have garnered him a huge fan base all around the world. MORE

The People vs. Goldman Sachs - Rolling Stone

They weren't murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive of, from their own customers, in a few blinks of an eye. But then they went one step further. They came to Washington, took an oath before Congress, and lied about it.

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a P2P currency that could topple governments, destabilize economies and create uncontrollable global bazaars for contraband. (...) After month of research and discovery, we've learned the following:

1. Bitcoin is a technologically sound project.
2. Bitcoin is unstoppable without end-user prosecution.
3. Bitcoin is the most dangerous open-source project ever created.
4. Bitcoin may be the most dangerous technological project since the internet itself.
5. Bitcoin is a political statement by technotarians (technological libertarians).*
6. Bitcoins will change the world unless governments ban them with harsh penalties.

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Chto Delat - Museum Songspiel -The Netherlands 20XX

Museum Songspiel: The Netherlands 20XX from chto delat on Vimeo.

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HURRAA ART AMSTERDAM - WHITE SPACE GALLERY - GLUKLYA PERSHINA

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updatable digital displays onto cloth

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Proof that god is REAL!!!

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Robots and Altruism

A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism. HERE

Identity Seal - James Howard

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Der Hase und der Laptop

Pipe and passport of René Magritte and Georgette Magritte-Berger

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UPDATE: End of winning streak for Louis Vuitton

Remember that lawsuit LVMH brought against the Dutch artist Nadia Plesner for using an image of a child holding a Louis Vuitton bag in the painting Darfurnica? A court in The Hague yesterday ruled in favor of the artist stating that her right to freedom of expression outweighed LV's right to protection of property. While it's true that this balancing act between such competing rights underlies copyright law in most (possibly even all) jurisdictions, I'm surprised that the outcome (I haven't had a chance to read the actual judgment handed down by the court) was expressed in such terms. In other words, I would have thought that Plesner had some sort of affirmative defense under EU copyright law akin to the "fair use" defense under US copyright law (which in essence is the embodiment at law of the balancing act discussed above) rather than have to structure her defense along the lines of a "freedom of expression" argument. (This is what I meant when I first posted about the lawsuit). VIA

The student who did die for his art

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A Wedding and a Funeral...

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Codename: Geronimo

Following quick on the heels of the announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s demise at the hands of U.S. Special Forces, the public has learned more about the top secret operation to find this elusive enemy. One of the most revealing bits of trivia has been that Bin Laden was assigned the code name “Geronimo” by the operation tasked with capturing and killing him. This raises the question, what does a nineteenth century Apache leader have to do with twenty first century Saudi millionaire? Perhaps nothing when viewed from an academic standpoint, it seems more like a non sequitur. But when read as expression of an underlying ideology, one that has legitimated American military action for centuries, the answer is: quite a lot, actually.

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Russian Prison System Documentary

Zealotry

Zealotry was originally a political movement in 1st century Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Iudaea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy land by force of arms, most notably during the Great Jewish Revolt (66-70). Zealotry was described by Josephus as one of the "four sects" at this time. The zealots have been described as one of the first examples of the use of terrorism.[1] MORE

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Chris Hedges Speaks on Osama bin Laden’s Death

Chris Hedges, speaking at a Truthdig fundraising event in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, made these remarks about Osama bin Laden’s death. HERE

Osama bin Laden didn’t win, but he was ‘enormously successful’

Did Osama bin Laden win? No. Did he succeed? Well, America is still standing, and he isn’t. So why, when I called Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a counterterrorism expert who specializes in al-Qaeda, did he tell me that “bin Laden has been enormously successful”? There’s no caliphate. There’s no sweeping sharia law. Didn’t we win this one in a clean knockout? MORE

Closing in on bin Laden

At the time of the raid, bin Laden was at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a military and tourist town of about 100,000 people. The compound was located in a neighborhood populated by military families one mile from the elite Pakistan Military Academy. MORE

Robert Frisk on Osama's death

"A middle-aged nonentity, a political failure outstripped by history – by the millions of Arabs demanding freedom and democracy in the Middle East – died in Pakistan yesterday. And then the world went mad. ..."
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Glasses convert 3D movies to 2D

"2D glasses are designed to convert 3D graphics into 2D through a single polarized channel. This product helps eliminate headaches, nausea and motion sickness. Wear this where RealD 3D technology is used."
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A Fire in My Belly (full version) - The work that was censored by the Smithsonian

On Dec 1, 2010, a short video excerpt of "A Fire In My Belly" by David Wojnarowicz was pulled from the Hide/Seek exhibit at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery due to pressure from Republican lawmakers threatening the Smithsonian's funding.

Censorship in the 21st century is a frightening reaction to an exhibit that was created to show differences in sexual identity in modern America. Aren't we beyond this by now? When will this stop?

In response to the Smithsonian's decision to remove "A Fire In My Belly" from the Hide/Seek exhibit and to protest against censorship in the arts, VandM.com is screening the original 13-minute silent version of David Wojnarowicz's video online, courtesy of the Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York.

ART THOUGHTZ: On Beauty

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