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Everything is memorized

Everything is staged

Hello everybody, Freedom… is warmly inviting you on the 2. April to come to the Gym Hall downstairs at the Rietveld Academie. Freedom… will be there during the whole day from - 9 to nine -to film and cast actors for endexamen show in july. Freedom… is searching for participants for his theater performance "Everything is staged". Will provide a few drinks and healthy snacks. Feel free to drop by and share your courisity!

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Runnin, wa?

Tallin Manual

When the Joker Was a Contemporary Artist

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Afterwards, the Joker enters an art contest and is pitted against artists with somewhat familiar names, includingPablo Pincus, Jackson Potluck, Leonardo Davinski, and Vingent van Goes. After winning the contest by applying a single dot of purple paint onto a canvas the Joker decides to open up an art academy of his own to teach his students “the secrets of Modern art.” This is of course a plot, it is The Joker after all, in which one of Batman’s archenemies only accepts extremely wealthy citizens as his students in hopes to gain access to their money.
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improving wifi signal

this morning improved the wifi signal in the house by strategically placing an aluminum tray.

the art of sleep - young-hae chang heavy industries

East Japan Earthquake Archive

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Open letter to djs playing in our country - make sure you dont copy tracks!

Dear Dj's

You might not know that Germany has officially joined the ranks of countries that now has a Digital DJ License. German law and the german licensing company, GEMA, make things a bit more complicated than you might expect. So, this is your chance to catch up, or have a laugh, whatever you prefer.

What all of this means is, that if you play a track that is a copied version of something you bought legally (or got for free as a promo), for example on a CD you burnt or on a USB stick, you might have to pay GEMA a license for copying. Even if you play tracks from an external hard drive this license applies. It applies to tracks you might copy from a backup to your computer too. For tracks to require a license, it is not necessary that you play them while you are doing your best DJ set ever in germany, but to carry them with you with the intend of playing them while in a club is enough.

Now this does not apply to all your tracks you might have copied this way. As far as we know, if you copy a track in Germany, like for instance in a hotel room while on tour, just every track you copied in our country will be a track to which this license applies.

Now, how is this supposed to work? And why might it apply to you?

In general, every one of these tracks will cost you 0,13 Euro. You may even buy package-deals from GEMA for 50 Euro per 500 Tracks. Should you be terribly unlucky and your hard drive crashes, you will have to pay a fee of 125 Euro for all tracks, if you have more than 1000. Btw. you are not allowed to tell GEMA what tracks you actually play, so there will be no chance, that any of the money you are supposed to pay, will ever end up in the hands of the artists you support.

Still with me? Ok. So how would you pay this you might ask? GEMA imagines you will make a contract with them, that might even enable them to look through your computer, just in case you did anything wrong. Yes, we think this is strange too.

Will they really enforce this crazy license, and if so, how? Well, nobody knows so far, as it will only start the 1st of april (not an april fools joke though). We just thought we might give you a heads up, if anybody ever asks you in our country if you copied some of the tracks you play recently, or should you feel the urge to post on your social media outlets anything like: just got these crazy tracks from my friend and will play them tonight.

Yes this license applies to tracks you got from friends that are in the GEMA or any other licensing company and even to your own, if you have a contract with one. So don’t even think about playing tracks that you just produced on the road in germany.

James Blake - Digital Lion

Artista Callejero tocando una valla

HU prez Áder on 4th amendment

Anita Sarkeesian, Too Many Dicks, 2010.

Cutmeoff!

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Is my computer on?

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LeDuchamp

turn the road of Duchamp

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I watched riddlydiddly.....

400 sec and goin ... HERE

Woodkid - Run kid run

Woodkid - Run Boy Run (Official Video HD) from WOODKID on Vimeo.

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Flyin' Lotus - Dance Floor Dale - Parisian Goldfish

Unmenschliche Musik

Procedural representations of Sex in videogames

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A few messages ago, talking about an interdisciplinary collaboration in game development, Renate Ferro mentions the clash of culture between students from art school, tasked with the conceptualization of new games, and engineering students, in charge of their technical implementation:

"Feedback from the gaming students provided insight that the collaborative plans were too "difficult" to realize with their relatively new programming skills. I rather doubt that now. The artists gave up disappointed that their collaborative ideas and conceptual drawings were for nothing."

I'd say that the project, from what I gather, was a recipe for disaster from starters. Videogame development is an iterative process that requires a certain familiarity with computation and game design in general. Fresh perspectives from other fields should be encouraged, but setting up a hierarchy of artists/ideators and engineers/makers, especially when gender divide and different campus cultures come into play, is a really bad idea. As permaculture suggests, the most interesting things happen in the margins, where different ecosystems collide and mingle. We should cultivate these liminal spaces in our institutions and in society in general, but this has to involve a certain fluidity of roles. Programmers need to be able solve the most peculiar "problem" which is to create new and interesting problems. Artists need to get their hands dirty with code and adopt a process that is as user-centric as it is egocentric. I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that artist-driven designs were actually extraordinarily difficult to implement. Media and technological platforms are not infinitely malleable. They have structural features that can make the resolution of certain problems extremely easy, while seeming completely unfit for the resolution of other kind of problems. Technologies have a history crystallized in their DNA.

The first computing machines were invented to calculate trajectories of bombs and to assist the Nazi in identifying and tracking Jewish people. It's not surprising that the descendant of those IBM punch cards are apparatuses tracking and profiling consumers while the history of computer games is mostly a history of ballistic. Since SpaceWar!, bastard child of the Cold War's military industrial complex, games have been privileging Newtonian materialism, and worlds made of objects moving in space and clashing with each other. From these early day of computing there has been an accumulation of knowledge enhancing certain social functions of software like predictive simulation, 3D immersion, long distance communication, cataloging and sorting... all of which are driven by military/industrial desires (although, obviously, can serve other emerging purposes and are subject to hacking and hijacking). In a recent talk about procedural representations of sex in videogames (http://www.molleindustria.org/blog/fucking-polygons-fucking-pixels-on-procedural-representations-of-sex/)

I hyperbolically claimed that we created technologies which make the simulation of a grenade launcher way easier than a caress. It's not technological determinism, but rather the recognition that a techno-cultural form like videogames, made by hardware, software, protocols, formats, interfaces, algorithms but also tropes and cultural expectations, may oppose a good deal of resistance when derailed to an unusual direction. This is something I often experience. When working on Unmanned, which not coincidentally thematizes some of these issues, I was interested in complicating the obvious equivalence "drone warfare == videogames". I wanted to make a nuanced game about introspection, verbal communication and existential dissonance. In all its awkwardness, I'm mostly satisfied by the result but I felt frustrated and miserable during the whole development process. I felt like I was trying to force feed the machine with a terribly unmodular and qualitative material it couldn't digest. On the other hand, I had a lot of fun developing my latest game (to be released soon), which is an ironic take on a top down shooter. I was solving problems that have been solved many times before: trajectories, movements in space, collisions and so on.

Computers and game frameworks evolved to deal with them. If you are a techno-essentialist, or a game-essentialist, you may be tempted to surrender to the medium's destiny: there are certain things games just don't do very well, and you would be better off writing a book or singing a song. But that would be a rather depressing view. Technologies are also shaped by their misuses.

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Pony Tulpa Thread Simulator

Welcome to the desert of the real

Welcome to the desert of the real from paolo pedercini on Vimeo.

A prayer to Google

A Prayer to Google from paolo pedercini on Vimeo.

Molleindustria

Molleindustria from paolo pedercini on Vimeo.

Corridors

Corridos the game has two neighborhoods semi-factually based on two nearby neighboorhoods on the us mexican frontier; a section of downtown tijuana and an adjacent mall in us san ysidro. The neighborhoods were modeled by looking at maps and taking photos.

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Tropical America

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What is a Tulpa?

Alright, so it's time to re write this a bit, just because I feel like I didn't go in depth enough describing what a tulpa is, as opposed to what it is not. Anyways, this is just a quick update on this entire thing, and of course I'm leaving some things from the old version behind. Note that the following is all about a psychological interpretation of tulpae.

What a tulpa is has two main parts, the first part is sentience, and the second part is hallucination/ projection.

The sentience is basically a product of your unconscious mind; you create by fleshing out through personality work and narration. You're basically taking an already existing part of your mind, and defining it until it becomes what you experience as sentient. Now the tulpa is not actually its own sentient being, the tulpa is a product of your mind that you are experiencing as sentient. Really, there is no difference between the two, since the outcome for you is the same. That being said, by defining these personality attributes and talking to your own mind until it is able to talk back you're creating a false personality within your mind- one that is not a personification of your subconscious, but rather a being built on it.

This sort of sentience entails: autonomous thinking, decision making skills, the tulpa having its own set of likes, dislikes, pleasures and emotions, the tulpa having different thoughts from you, and the like. The tulpa will be able to talk and function on its own. But note that because the tulpa is a being of your subconscious, they are always within your mind, and do not exist elsewhere. Even if they have a body that is merely a projection of a form that is being controlled by them from the mind. Really the form is NOT the construct, the sentience is. The body is not really for their benefit, it's mostly for yours.

Note that you cannot have a proper tulpa without working on personality and narrating. You have to give time for sentience to develop, or else you'll end up with something known as a servitor: basically just a form with no sentience controlling it, a hologram. However, you can have a tulpa without a form; they are more optional.

The next, part of what a tulpa is, is the form. Basically, you make a form of your choosing to allow the sentience to control, which you will experience as a separate being. Of course the tulpa will still exist within your mind, but, they will be controlling this form which further personifies them and allows you to interact with them in the real environment. You're making this form within your mind, working on it so intensely that you are able (after a grand amount of time) to impose them on your environment and have the tulpa be able to control the form.

That's a basic explanation of what a tulpa is.

Now I would like to debunk some myths regarding tulpae and innate mental illness. The first one I'm going to tackle is Dissociative Identity Disorder, formally known as Multiple Personality Disorder. This disorder is characterized by time gaps where the person doesn't know what happened, or where time has passed and the person has apparently done something and not remembered. The other major symptom also includes other ‘personalities' or consciousnesses taking over your body. The disorder is caused by traumatic events, usually in childhood.

Here's why creating a tulpa is not DID. You can't manifest DID by belief and imposition. Alternate personalities are within your mind, not imposed on your surroundings in a vessel of sorts. Tulpae cannot take control of your body if you do not will it. Tulpae (even in a possession state, which is purely theoretical at the time of writing) would not cause you to black out while you're in control. An alternate personality depends on your body to have its own form. Note that you cannot have MPD and subsequently make it into a tulpa.

Secondly, a tulpa is not schizophrenia. Some people like to call it self enforced schizophrenia but this in and of itself is an oxymoron. You can't give yourself schizophrenia. People ask about it on /x/ all the time, and are met with utter disgust. You can't give yourself a mental illness you're born with. That would involve drastically changing the chemical make up of your brain.

You can apply this thinking to most mental illnesses people inquire about. A large chunk of insanity manifests in not knowing that you're insane. You realize that your tulpa is part of your mind, and you treat is as such. Insanity ensues when the lines between reality and fantasy blur. By looking at things from an explainable stand point you keep your perspective and see that the tulpa is just a vessel and representation of your subconscious and its interworking mechanisms.

When you make a tulpa, some people are foggy or mislead about what you're actually doing to your mind. First, you begin the sensory excursion, and with repetition, you can imagine it perfectly. Nothing is so strange about making an image very familiar to your mind's eye. Then, you start talking to it. When you don't create responses for the tulpa, your mind actually begins to see the thing you're sending the messages to as another being. This is when it experiences itself subjectively.

The part of your subconscious you have sectioned off then becomes to take a shape of its own, furthering the schism. Your tulpa is now sentient. After, when you begin to impose the tulpa, you're playing on the sensory details you've already been focusing on until this point. You were imagining them in your head before, now you're actually enforcing them on your senses.

So, in short, that's a basic breakdown of what a tulpa is.

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Harlem Shake Illegal in Saint Petersburg, Russia’s Cultural Capital

A teenager was charged with holding an unauthorized assembly after being detained at a Harlem Shake flash mob in St. Petersburg on Sunday. Vasily Zabelov, 17, is seen on a video on the Fontanka.ru website being led by two policemen to a police car following the flash mob, which drew hundreds to a site near the Galereya shopping center next to the Moscow Railway Station on Ligovsky Prospekt.

In answer to a question from a reporter asking what Zabelov was being detained for, one of the policemen in the video tells the reporter to contact the police’s press service. Speaking on Tuesday, Zabelov said he was held for two-and-a-half hours at a police precinct before charges were pressed. He said that his case will be heard by the commission of minors’ affairs, rather than in court, because of his age.

He described himself as the event’s chief organizer, saying that he used some help from a friend to get sound equipment and a camera. According to Zabelov, the event drew 300 people, who were then joined by passers-by, increasing the number to 500. He said he was a student welder at the Russian College of Traditional Culture. Earlier, Zabelov told the RIA Novosti news agency that he faced a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 rubles ($325-$1,630) and that he would appeal to online communities if fined. Zabelov said he took his detention “in a negative way.” “In my view, the government should give people the right to relax and have some fun. It’s not a political rally or anything, is it?” he said.

Harlem Shake is an Internet meme that peaked in popularity last month. Groups of costumed people gather unexpectedly at different, often unlikely locations across the world to perform a wild dance to the track “Harlem Shake” by American DJ and producer Baauer. Videos of the event are later uploaded to the Internet. The police said that “policemen stopped the unsanctioned event,” Interfax reported, but the police’s claim was denied by Zabelov and other participants who say police stepped in after the event finished.

Two St. Petersburg residents were said to have called police, saying that that the event obstructed pedestrians. In the past 12 months, St. Petersburg police have dispersed — and detained some participants of — a number of unlikely non-political events held by local teenagers. These included a pillow fight, a snowball fight and a Michael Jackson memorial event.


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Olde Payphone channels their inner goat.

Birthday of Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Monsieur Yoda - Combo

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Old-school Batman drops suspect at police station

LONDON – Some Critical Engineering: A man dressed as Batman has brought a suspected burglar into a police station in northern England. West Yorkshire Police said Monday that they do not know the identity of the man who appeared in “a full Batman outfit” and turned in a 27-year-old suspect to police in Bradford, England. CCTV images released by police show a caped crusader – fully-clad with the comic hero’s boots, gloves and logo across his chest – standing alongside a man in a red hooded sweatshirt.

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THE CRITICAL ENGINEERING MANIFESTO

0. The Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think. It is the work of the Critical Engineer to study and exploit this language, exposing its influence.

1. The Critical Engineer considers any technology depended upon to be both a challenge and a threat. The greater the dependence on a technology the greater the need to study and expose its inner workings, regardless of ownership or legal provision.

2. The Critical Engineer raises awareness that with each technological advance our techno-political literacy is challenged.

3. The Critical Engineer deconstructs and incites suspicion of rich user experiences.

4. The Critical Engineer looks beyond the 'awe of implementation' to determine methods of influence and their specific effects.

5. The Critical Engineer recognises that each work of engineering engineers its user, proportional to that user's dependency upon it.

6. The Critical Engineer expands 'machine' to describe interrelationships encompassing devices, bodies, agents, forces and networks.

7. The Critical Engineer observes the space between the production and consumption of technology. Acting rapidly to changes in this space, the Critical Engineer serves to expose moments of imbalance and deception.

8. The Critical Engineer looks to the history of art, architecture, activism, philosophy and invention and finds exemplary works of Critical Engineering. Strategies, ideas and agendas from these disciplines will be adopted, re-purposed and deployed.

9. The Critical Engineer notes that written code expands into social and psychological realms, regulating behaviour between people and the machines they interact with. By understanding this, the Critical Engineer seeks to reconstruct user-constraints and social action through means of digital excavation.

10. The Critical Engineer considers the exploit to be the most desirable form of exposure.



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God Save The Burger!

The Social Ties That Unbind - An Xiao

Who Shall I Be Today? (via keboch.wordpress.com)
Using social media in an unbounded way has served many artists well. Take, for instance, the story of Ma Yongfeng. A Beijing-based artist known for his conceptual works, he maintains a variety of online personas depending on the type of piece he is producing. His most well known is Forget Art, a collective of artists playing with redefining public art and public space. But he’s also adopted the persona of the Youth Apartment Exchange Program, a Weibo-based social media art practice, not to mention his own online persona as Ma Yongfeng, the artist. Each identity reveals a facet of him without tying him down to a specific practice.

Closer to home are examples like Jayson Musson, who uses the online persona Hennessy Youngman to full effect. While Musson is relatively quiet and unassuming, his brash, online alter ego allows him to mock the art world in his popular Art Thoughtz series. Everyone is in on the ruse, but if YouTube required that even online personas be tied to one’s real name, it’s hard to imagine Musson achieving the same kind of effect. Much as artists have used pseudonyms to enable a wider variety of creative expression, Musson has embraced a more unbounded use of artist names online.

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Scientifically Accurate Spiderman

Scientists Uncover Invisible Motion in Video

“Once we amplify these small motions, there’s like a whole new world you can look at,” he said.

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Michel Foucault impersonator

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Boredom Studies

In John Eastwood's subterranean lab at York University in Ontario, Canada, young adults sit watching video clips: They are part of a test to see just how deeply bored they can get. Dr. Eastwood, a Canadian psychology professor, is one of a growing number of researchers in what is becoming an exciting field of inquiry: boredom studies. The young adults in his lab watch dry instructional videos all in an effort to help researchers understand how we experience boredom, what causes it, and eventually, how to relieve it.

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MANIFESTO FOR A THEORY OF THE ‘NEW AESTHETIC - Curt Cloninger

Image: Image enacting the uncanny valley. This image is a New Aesthetic image. (Clement Valla, from Postcards from Google Earth, 2011)

The New Aesthetic is not new (or it has always already been perpetually new). The fact that the NA has recently hit some sort of pop-meme coagulation tipping point (and acquired an ontological name) is merely evidence that technology has finally accumulated to the point of being easily and widely recognised as a collection of Tumblr images without needing to be supported or explained by any underlying theory whatsoever. (Indeed, James Bridle's Tumblr launched the New Aesthetic meme, and Bruce Sterling's journalistic blog dispersed it.) The New Aesthetic has been intuited by hands-on coders for decades (perhaps centuries). It has been discussed by media theorists for at least as long. This is why old school media artists like Mez Breeze and old school media theorists like Simon Biggs (on old school listservs like NetBehaviour) are left fairly unimpressed with the current ‘gee whiz’ enthusiasm about the New Aesthetic. ‘The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed’ (William Gibson, in some places as early as 1993). The future is (always already) in the process of becoming ever more evenly distributed.

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Adobe releases third security update this month for Flash Player

Adobe has released an emergency security update for its widely used Flash media player to patch a vulnerability being actively exploited on the Internet. The company is advising Windows and Mac users to install it in the next 72 hours.

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Biosphere: Tornerai?

Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Zizek Hosts Most Stressful Oscar Ceremony in Decades

When Seth MacFarlane, creator of The Cleveland Show and director of the “Pitch” segment of Movie 43, had to bow out of his Oscar-hosting duties at the last minute as a result of a mild case of whooping cough, ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences raised eyebrows when they chose Slovenian philosopher Slovoj Zizek at the last minute to sub in as host of the annual ceremony regularly watched by over 40 million Americans. - See more at: HERE

USB-SHUFFLE-SHOW (ONE)

THE FIRST „USB-SHUFFLE-SHOW“ WILL BE A 3-DAY DIGITAL GROUP-SHOW. WE WILL PRESENT WORKS ON USB FLASH DRIVES THAT ARE SENT TO US UNTIL MARCH 31ST 2013. THE EXHIBITION IS NOT CURATED AND TOTALLY FREE OF CHARGE. IT TAKES PLACE APRIL 4TH – 6TH 2013 AT INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE / ABTEILUNG FÜR ALLES ANDERE IN BERLIN-MITTE. EVERY USB FLASH DRIVE SHALL CONTAIN ONE PIECE OF ART. EVERY PIECE THAT IS SENT TO US WILL BE PRESENTED. EACH PIECE THAT IS SENT TO US WILL BE KEPT IN OUR ARCHIVES AND FOR UPCOMING SHOWS AND WILL NOT BE RETURNED.

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Revolver Cannabis-Brazo Armado Caido (Video Oficial)

A Narcocorrido (Spanish pronunciation: [narkokoˈriðo], Drug Ballad) is a type of Mexican music and song tradition which evolved out of the norteño folk corrido tradition. This type of music is heard on both sides of the US–Mexican border. It uses a danceable, accordion-based polka as a rhythmic base. The first corridos that focus on drug smugglers—the narco comes from "narcotics"—have been dated by Juan Ramírez-Pimienta to the 1930s. Early corridos (non-narco) go back as far to the Mexican Revolution of 1910, telling the stories of revolutionary fighters. Music critics have also compared narcocorrido music to gangster rap. VIA

Jeremy Deller - Acid Brass - Ludovic Cantais

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Amazing Anti-Thief Security Case!

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Happy Dragobete Day!

The nuclear reactor in your basement

How would you like to replace your water heater with a nuclear reactor? That's what Joseph Zawodny, a senior scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, hopes to help bring about. It would tap the enormous power of the atom to provide hot water for your bath, warm air for your furnace system, and more than enough electricity to run your house and, of course, your electric car.

If your thoughts have raced to Fukushima or Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, let me reassure you. Zawodny is not suggesting that you put that kind of reactor in your house. What he has in mind is a generator that employs a process called Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions. (The same process is sometimes called Lattice Energy Nuclear Reactions. We'll just call it LENR.)

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Acrobats strip for Pope Benedict XVI, perform topless in Vatican

Truckload of Art - Terry Allen

Inequality begins at home

Stedelijk

Stedelijk was so impressed by Matthijs Munnik's 'Citadels: Common Structures' that they wouldn't let it leave. So not only today but the whole weekend, Common Structures on show at Stedelijk! Where was that?

Encapsulated Universes

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Preface- Thesis: Trying to fit into the context ...!

Préface

Self Critique 

First

Writing in english gives me the creeps. I do it though because i think that it is more direct than a translation. I refuse translators because they are people too. Their secret intention is to leave a mark as well. Which would be no problem but i want things to be raw. I hope that my intellectual sperm will hit you right in your face. How macho of me!

Second 

I have no time for you, i have to deal with my own illusions. "Trying to fit into the context …" is the work of a wannabe. A guy who's work is unfinished. In his illusions he strives for perfection. He can become part of this and/or that. A perfect postmodern soul who's aspirations will maybe become true, only if, complicated…. A fantastic, real existing man, who is no other, no better, not more what Peter Sloterdijk described as a soul who wants to immerse, to dive into radical mediocrity. 

Yeah partner thats me! 

Third

All researches are unfinished. That's how they appear in my head right now.I know and feel that i need three lives to get down all constructed, discovered and directed lines. I write the thesis in flight mode, which is a nice misunderstanding of mine. Because its a 'stand alone' mode. While on plane your mobile device allows you to use basic operations. Most important stuff you get when you're done. Landing! 

Fourth

Drugs, influences are here, there and everywhere.They come and go nothing remains, but things fly in and out while writing. I will try to write this thing in sober mode. No alcohol, maybe a joint not abused but convincing. I will not become the victim of my writings! 

Fifth

A method and there are others. Check your Facebook - Gmail conversations. People do not communicate, they use messages to make up their mind, nothing else! 

Hindu Temple in India

Coldcut's Solid Steel radio show + Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey mix

Harlem Shake

observation

I hear the birds singing outside. tuesday 19. Feb . 2013

Loophole for All – Loophole4All.com

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Drivers stoned on marijuana test their driving skills

FRENCH STREET ARTIST SHOWS YOU HOW TO NOT GIVE A FUCK

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My Promo account 4 the benefit of getin' deejay jobs 
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Real Dollism Part 3

Isao Tomita - Arabesque No. 1

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Account dedicated to the final countdown at the Rietveld Academie 2013 ! Nd_x A-Men !

EMILE RATELBAND HELP ! 

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN !

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http://dabblet.com

dabblet is an interactive playground for quickly testing snippets of CSS and HTML code. It uses -prefix-free, so that you won't have to add any prefixes in your CSS code. You can save your work in Github gists, embed it in other websites and share it with others. It currently only supports modern versions of Chrome, Safari and Firefox but I'm hoping to expand browser support soon. It’s handcoded by Lea Verou with care but some other nice folks helped too. Special thanks go to Roman Komarov who helped tremendously with his tips & thorough QA and to David Storey that came up with the name “dabblet”.

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Completely silent and powerful workstation, spring 2013

Someone in my close family needed a update for a workstation primarily used for emailing, browsing, audio and light video editing. The computer was never used for any 3D demanding games, so no separate GPU was needed, provided that I could find a CPU with a on-die GPU. Furthermore a recently bought NAS took care of all the large files, so the objectives for the build was to create a silent, very fast booting computer that could also handle heavier problems as audio and video editing. MORE

Munchausen by Internet

The first academic review article on ‘Munchausen by Internet‘ – where people fake the identity of an ill person online – has just been published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Munchausen syndrome is a common name forfacticious disorder where people consciously fake illnesses for their own gain.

This is distinguished from malingering – where the gain would be something obvious like money, drugs or missing military service – and instead the gain from factitious illness typically includes the indirect benefits of faking – like being cared for, avoiding family conflict and so on.

The person is deliberately faking but they may not be fully conscious of all the emotional benefits – they might just say ‘it feels right’ or ‘it helps me’.

Obviously, this has been a problem for millennia but there has been an increasing recognition that the phenomenon happens online. People take up the identity of someone with an illness that gives them a special place in an online community.

This could be a standard online community where their ‘illness’ becomes a point of social concern, or their pretence could allow them to participate in an online community for people with certain disorders or conditions.

The article gives lots of example and some ways of spotting Munchausen fakers that also gives an insight into their thinking:

Posts consistently duplicating material in other posts, books, or health-related websites.

Characteristics of the supposed illness emerging as caricatures.

Near-fatal bouts of illness alternating with miraculous recoveries.

Fantastical claims, contradicted by subsequent posts, or flatly disproved.

Continual dramatic events in the person’s life, especially when other group members have become the focus of attention.

Feigned blitheness about crises that will predictably attract immediate attention.

Others apparently posting on behalf of the individual having identical patterns of writing.

The piece gets quite wordy at times (well, it is an academic article) but it’s an interesting insight into a motivations of people who ‘fake sick’ on the internet.

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Cavemen Used ‘Facebook’ Already

Scientists claim to have discovered a “prehistoric version of Facebook” used by ancient tribes to communicate with each other. After analyzing over 3000 rock art images in Sweden and Russia, Mark Sapwell and his team from Cambridge University concluded that the sites functioned like an “archaic related stories version” of social networks where users shared thoughts and emotions and gave stamps of approval to other contributions – very similar to today’s Facebook like.


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Tank Riot

Tank Riot is a never dull audio podcast that digs deep into the minds of Viktor, Sputnik, and Tor. Each podcast starts you on a winding audio journey with destinations such as Punk Rock, China, Eugene V. Debs, Vincent Price, Gerry Anderson, Motorcycle Movies, Frank Lloyd Wright, Howard Hughes, Open Source Software, Alan Turing, Ancient Aliens, Dr. Seuss, 120 Film, North Korea, The Marx Brothers, The War on Drugs, Albert Einstein, professional wrestling, The Space Race, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Link Wray, Nazi UFOs, George Orwell, Irwin Allen, Doctor Who, Scott Walker, Think Tanks, Jack the Ripper, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Daniel Ellsberg, Wikileaks, Mad Magazine, Harry Houdini, Lizard People, The Brady Bunch, Ronald Reagan, Carl Sagan, Gilligan's Island, Mother Teresa, Robber Barons, Les Paul, Howard Zinn, Hanna-Barbera, Joe McCarthy, Post-Apocalypse Cinema, Walt Disney, Charles Fort, Ayn Rand, Rachel Carson, beer, Holocaust denial, Time Travel, Emma Goldman, Pirates, Zombies, Jim Henson, Urban Legends, Friedrich Nietzsche, Watchmen, Richard Feynman, Mister Rogers, the presidents, James Bond, Henry Kissinger, The Business Plot, Tron, Fighting Bob Fest, Errol Morris, Tropic Thunder, the Olympics, Devo, Akira Kurosawa, Henry Ford, Iron Man vs. Zombie Strippers, Rod Serling, Cryptozoology, Leon Theremin, Stanley Kubrick, Nikola Tesla, Roger Corman, Douglas Adams, Iran, Godzilla, The Simpsons Movie, Sicko, Hunter S. Thompson, Mike Judge, Kurt Vonnegut, Grindhouse, 300, Conspiracies, Religion, Scientology, Tom Waits, Christmas, Sid and Marty Krofft, Elections, The Departed vs. Infernal Affairs, 40 Years of Star Trek, Philip K. Dick, Recumbent Bicycles, Roky Erickson, Jerry Lewis, Hugo Chavez, X-Men, Energy, The Neocons, The World's Fastest Indian, V for Vendetta, Studio Ghibli, and Star Trek Fan Films; or the occasional quagmire. So secure your helmet, close the hatch, and by all means turn up the volume!
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Chuck Norris vs Communism

THE FUTURE

THE FUTURE from Alex Goddard on Vimeo.

Radar

DO SOME WEB MUSIC HERE

The Shooter

Bin Laden was... The number-one celebrity of evil. And the man in my backyard blew his lights out.

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Anti - Social

Anti-Social is a productivity application for Macs that turns off the social parts of the internet. When Anti-Social is running, you’re locked away from distracting social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and other sites you specify. With Anti-Social, you’ll be amazed how much you get done when you turn off your friends. http://anti-social.cc

Harlem Shake

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Diogenes and others

Same night lightning strikes St Peter's Basilica

The art of boredom

Boredom is an emotional state experienced when an individual is left without anything in particular to do, and not interested in their surroundings. (Quote: Wikipedia) The Basic Income Earth Network is a network of academics and activists interested in the idea of a universal basic income, i.e. a guaranteed minimum income based solely on citizenship and not on work requirement or charity. It serves as a link between individuals and groups committed to or interested in basic income, and fosters informed discussion on this topic throughout the world. (Quote: Wikipedia) See the cloud of boredom Here

List of serial killers by the number of victims

Le Mepris

Comment from youtube on a godard song... "This music equals my life in a nutshell :( I always end up right back where i started. I can't find people to talk to. Can't find my true love. I don't have that many friends. I just sit at that one little desk. and that's that"

Winter song

DRM makes products less valuable AND less real (and sucks)

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Blog C R E A M

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M A k e r L o v e

MakerLove figures out how to get smooth and safe surface for sex toys

MakerLove which offers free sex toy designs for 3D printers, has announced on their blog that they have successfully come up with two different methods to get a smooth an safe finish.
Until now, you could print a personalized sex toy, but not actually use it. Jagged an unsafe, it needed to be be replicated in silicon form as a second step.
Obviously getting a smooth surface is good news for sex toys, but these methods could be applied to other products. 

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The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard

BangWithFriends +

One of the three BangWithFriends developers, who wish to remain anonymous, says the app came about because they were "lamenting the dishonesty of online dating and how people like us wanted to be less ashamed to look for what we want. We think that sex shouldn't be taboo and that it's awesome to be more honest and safe with our pursuit of sex." The app creator, whose name on email is "Online Pimp", says BangWithFriends will "add more dimensions to relationships. And we recognise that plenty of relationships are created from sexual desires and that's not a bad thing."

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Pussy Riot Appeals Convictions for ‘Hooliganism’ to European Human Rights Court

Attorneys for three members of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot are taking the group’s “hooliganism” convictions to a human rights court, alleging the Russian government’s actions against them for performing a protest song in a Moscow church violate the European Convention on Human Rights. In a complaint filed on Wednesday, lawyers for the Pussy Riot members claim the convictions violated the convention’s rights to liberty and security, the prohibition of torture, guarantees of freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial, according to the Associated Press.

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Dr. Nakamats

EARTHQUAKE button, Sheraton, Seattle

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"augmented reality for cattle"

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Don't "File:///"

Open Radar Community today reported a bug in Apple's Mac systems. According to a post, a eight characters text will crash almost any application on your Mac. When you type "File:///" (The capital 'F' is important) in some Mac application like TextEdit, it will crash the screen. It is figured out that, the bug is inside Data Detectors, a feature that lets apps recognize dates, locations, and contact data, making it easy for you to save this information in your address book and calendar. Since the bug has been reported to Apple, it will likely be patched at some point. A reader copy posted the crash dump at Pastebin.

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Centrifuge Brain Project

Anonymous posts over 4000 U.S. bank executive credentials

Summary: Anonymous appears to have published login and private information from over 4000 American bank executive credentials its Operation Last Resort, demanding US computer crime law reform.

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Take a ride

Euthanasia Coaster from Julijonas Urbonas on Vimeo.

Pussy Riot Is Not Doing Well in Prison

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the members of Pussy Riot, has been hospitalized in her prison colony in Mordovia, for what the Associated Press is calling a "full medical check-up." Tolokonnikova was one of two members of the band sent to prison colonies with reportedly terrible conditions back in October.

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People Are Now Reviewing North Korean Gulags On Google Maps

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Archeologists

THEY SEE ME ROLLIN

facing

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Anonymous hacks DoJ website for Aaron Swartz - Natasha Lennard

In weekend attacks, hackers released encrypted government files and turned the sentencing website into a video game

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Breaking the Metaphor: Augmented Reality Theory and the New Aesthetic - jamesvincent

The New Aesthetic and critiques of digital dualism have much in common: they emerged in the same year; the nature of their conclusions are (partly) formed by the method of their construction – that is to say, they originated in the digital and as such are collaborative, speculative, and ongoing; and they both seem to spring from the close attention paid to the enticing bangs, whoops, and crashes issuing from the overlap of our digital and physical worlds. But more than this, I would argue that the two concepts are expressions of one another: it sometimes seems that New Aesthetic artwork is an illustration of digital dualist critiques; and likewise it is possible to read digital dualist critiques as descriptions of New Aesthetic artefacts.
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Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories

Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories from Maria Popova on Vimeo.

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Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy (Little Lord Faulteroy Mix)

Ramby or ...

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Marylin

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SCOTT WALKER COVERS SCREAM & SHOUT BY WILL I AM

Dancing Grannies

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BWPWAP

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The Untouchables

Watch The Untouchables on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

Upgrade your (in)security cam firmware

Unprotected webcams around the world

Gudrun Gut "Simply the Best" (Tina Turner cover) - Thomas Fehlmann's Vers...

The Oliverwho Factory - Before (Original Mix)

Short Stories - On The Way

The Ätztussis

The Ätztussis belonged to the second generation Berlin punk bands. While the first generation (eg PVC) sang in English above all and strongly copied the English models, sang the second generation who were recruited mainly from the anarchist and squatter scene in Kreuzberg, in German, and developed his own, very rough style of music.

The Ätztussis never signed a record contract with a major record company. Her best-known recordings are the 1980 to the LP camp released 36 live songs. A live performance of the band took place on the Antifascist Festival Berlin 1979th. The band played on a truck in front of the detention center for women in Berlin. The song was later beat back the compilation attached to the festival.

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Colonial Feminism

"FEMEN began with sex worker rights, an area in which conflating nudity and sexuality is pretty much inevitable (& an area w/ women I support), but its emphasis on attractive women (on women [Western] men find attractive) is what undermines its purpose of securing women’s rights. Because while it may be inevitable to coincide sexuality and nudity, what FEMEN has done is conflate sexuality with sexiness. And thus the purpose of securing women’s rights is defeated–especially religious women of color, who are perceived as victims of their religion, and thus colonialist feminist rhetoric is employed against, for example, Arab women. The nudity is not, “Everyone is whoever the hell she is–no performances,” but rather, “My Western feminism is better [read: sexier] than yours, according to my own standards of liberation / beauty to which you should abide. Perform accordingly!"

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Swabian Separatists Fling Spätzle to Make Their Point

BERLIN — Separatists have escalated a growing conflict in the heart of the German capital. Their weapons of choice were delicious egg noodles, their victim a woman made of bronze.

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A statue of the artist Käthe Kollwitz was defaced by spätzle, a southern specialty. A group calling itself Free Swabylon claimed responsibility, calling for an autonomous district.

A statue of the artist and activist Käthe Kollwitz was defaced with the southern German specialty known as spätzle, the latest episode in an escalating quarrel between Berliners and German migrants from Swabia, a region just west of Munich. A group calling itself Free Swabylon claimed responsibility on Tumblr, calling for an autonomous Swabian district in Berlin, to be known as Swabylon. 

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Digital Dualism And The Glitch Feminism Manifesto

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There are only so many Deen videos a girl can watch with the goal of “critique” at the forefront: at a certain point, one of two things irrupts that process. The first is a screen, stuck, overwhelmed as a consequence of having too many windows open, too many things playing at once; I am trying to get an education, make a determination for myself, so I want to see everything, hear everything, right now, all at once. The second irruption I will leave for you to guess at. I will hint at the latter by saying that a petite morte of the physical self can be easily mirrored in the metaphor of the digital “glitch”—a little digital death, a wheeze, a shift, a breath, a sneeze, a pause. A glitch. I am writing from there: the glitch. The moment of one’s participation in sexual activity online where the myth of AFK (“Away From Keyboard”) and IRL (“In Real Life”) that comprise the two sides of Jurgenson’s digital dualism duality collapse, and, in the collapse, realize their dazzling potential.

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The Future Quest ?

Are you a lab rat?

 Good Food for Farming - Demo pics in front of the Reichstag, Berlin 19.01.13