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x-ray delta one photostream on FLickr: “Shopping by TV” from the Populuxe album.
• Oct 19, 2010 link notes tagged: art vintage ad technology communication television future past evolution consumption shopping girls woman
• Oct 19, 2010 link notes tagged: art vintage ad technology communication television future past evolution consumption shopping girls woman
✖ Via Tom Gauld: “Two Rocks Converse”
• Aug 18, 2010 link notes tagged: art cartoon illustration illustrator humor world time universe evolution past future conversation perspectivism
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Metropolis: All New Restauration ― Behin The Scenes
Seldom has the rediscovery of a cache of lost footage ignited widespread curiosity as did the announcement, in July 2008, that an essentially complete copy of Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS had been found. (more)
• Jul 28, 2010 link notes tagged: art technology film human machine politic cinema movie film filmmaker Fritz Lang BW woman girl robot social class science fiction science future retro vintage
 | There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus. An angel is depicted there who looks as though he were about to distance himself from something which he is staring at. His eyes are opened wide, his mouth stands open and his wings are outstretched. The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair [verweilen: a reference to Goethe’s Faust], to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise, it has caught itself up in his wings and is so strong that the Angel can no longer close them. The storm drives him irresistibly into the future, to which his back is turned, while the rubble-heap before him grows sky-high. That which we call progress, is this storm. |
Here’s a French translation:
Il existe un tableau de Klee qui s’intitule Angelus Novus. Il représente un ange qui semble avoir dessein de s’éloigner de ce à quoi son regard semble rivé. Ses yeux sont écarquillés, sa bouche ouverte, ses ailes déployées. Tel est l’aspect que doit avoir nécessairement l’ange de l’histoire. Il a le visage tourné vers le passé. Où paraît devant nous une suite d’événements, il ne voit qu’une seule et unique catastrophe, qui ne cesse d’amonceler ruines sur ruines et les jette à ses pieds. Il voudrait bien s’attarder, réveiller les morts et rassembler les vaincus. Mais du paradis souffle une tempête qui s’est prise dans ses ailes, si forte que l’ange ne peut plus les refermer. Cette tempête le pousse incessamment vers l’avenir auquel il tourne le dos, cependant que jusqu’au ciel devant lui s’accumulent les ruines. Cette tempête est ce que nous appelons le progrès. (Source)
• Jul 23, 2010 link notes reblogged from chrbutler [via] tagged: art progress philosophy Benjamin history man angel past present future destruction catastrophe order chaos tempest
| What has not cankering Time made worse? Viler than grandsires, sires beget Ourselves, yet baser, soon to curse The world with offspring baser yet. |
As quoted by Immanuel Kant in part one of his essay Religion within the boundaries of reason, 1794.
• Jul 22, 2010 link notes tagged: time History progress decay good evil nature man human society community future generation
| ― The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind. This is what the protest is all about. Visions of technology and wealth. The force of cyber-capital that will send people into the gutter to retch and die. What is the flaw of human rationality? He said, “What?” ― It pretends not to see the horror and death at the end of the schemes it builds. This is a protest against the future. They want to hold off the future. They want to normalize it, keep it from overwhelming the present. |
Previously on Skandalon: Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo
• May 24, 2010 link notes tagged: DeLillo art author book capitalism critic future market novel protest revolution system representation order chaos community organization anguish anxiety
| Apple are trying desperately to force the growth of a new ecosystem — one that rivals the 26-year-old Macintosh environment — to maturity in five years flat. That’s the time scale in which they expect the cloud computing revolution to flatten the existing PC industry. Unless they can turn themselves into an entirely different kind of corporation by 2015 Apple is doomed to the same irrelevance as the rest of the PC industry — interchangable suppliers of commodity equipment assembled on a shoestring budget with negligable profit. |
Interesting thoughts about the future of the computer ecosystem.
Charlie Ross
“writes fiction full-time, has sold around 16 novels, has won one Hugo award and been nominated nearly a dozen times, and has been translated into about a dozen languages.” (much more)
• May 11, 2010 link notes tagged: technology communication ecology ecosystem future Internet computer machine interface Apple
| In future years, of course, men and women, in cubicles, wearing headphones, will be listening to secret tapes of the administration’s crime while other study electronic records on computer screens and still others look at salvaged videotapes of caged men being subjected to severe physical pain and finally others, still others, behind closed doors, ask pointed questions of flesh-and-blood individuals. |
Previously on Skandalon: Point Omega.
• Apr 25, 2010 link notes tagged: art novel book author DeLillo politic history future
| Mr. Haldane’s Daedalus has set forth an attractive picture of the future as it may become through the use of scientific discoveries to promote human happiness. Much as I should like to agree with his forecast, a long experience of statesmen and government has made me somewhat sceptical. I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, rather than to make men happy. Icarus, having been taught to fly by his father Daedalus, was destroyed by his rashness. I fear that the same fate may overtake the populations whom modern men of science have taught to fly. Some of the dangers inherent in the progress of science while we retain our present political and economic institutions are set forth in the following pages. |
“Bertrand Russell wrote Icarus or The Future of Science in 1923 as a reply to J. B. S. Haldane’s Daedalus. Within Daedalus Haldane imagined a world in which humans controlled their own evolution. In direct response to this Russell published Icarus or The Future of Science in which he argues that such power would ultimately be used not for idealistic ends but to strengthen the power of dominant groups.” (source)
• Apr 24, 2010 link notes tagged: communication technology science critic future evolution
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Laughing Squid: “A 2.5 Year-Old Uses an iPad for the First Time” by Todd Lappin, April 6th, 2010
“My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter held an iPad for the very first time last night, and it turned out to be an interesting user-interface experiment.
As you can see, after geeking out on my Sutro Tower homescreen, she took right to it — including figuring out how to enlarge some of her favorite iPhone-legacy apps to 2x to display full-size on the iPad screen. If you’re good at understanding kid-speak, you’ll also notice that she immediately saw its potential as a video-display device. She lamented the lack of a camera, and wondered about its potential for playing games.
On the downside, she had the same frustration as many adults, where touching the screen-edge with your thumb while holding the iPad blocks input to all home screen icons. Notice also that she was confused by the splash page for FirstWords Animals, her favorite spelling game: Because the start button looked like a graphic, rather than a conventional button, she couldn’t figure out how to start the game.
Most of all, though, it’s cool to consider that as one of the new Children of Cyberspace, her expectations about computing will be shaped by the fact that she’s growing up in a touchscreen world.”
• Apr 07, 2010 link notes reblogged from circuitry [via] tagged: technology communication iPad touchscreen kids kid future evolution user interface computer machine
| What is considered most fundamental about relationships is their formation and their subsequent withering, faltering and disintegration. Before that, they change enormously in increments inside the lapses of time necessary for any of them to become memories. It means the causalities attributed to define relationships are, at best, superfluous if their goal is to help understand their qualities. It also means that to understand their qualities, a careful attending to those almost forgotten moments constituting them (Novalis’ “differential of the function of future and past”¹) has to be undertaken. Once this perspective is adopted, relationships become incredibly rich and complex, and require the refinement of distinctions and observations a mind can rarely afford to maintain for a stable period of time. Hence the underlying stream of most change and notable exceptions demands much effort to be attended to, and some of life’s most fantastic glimpses of itself are apprehended in the form of illumination, when a moment is lived long enough not to be possibly remembered in its tainted and impaired state. ¹Novalis, Werke, ed. Ewald Wasmuth, Heidelberg, 1957, vol. I, p. 129 (fragment 417) |
• Mar 29, 2010 link notes reblogged from leftoverfest [via] tagged: communication relation relationship community time evolution future destruction lost memory past experience
✖ Via PhilipKDick.com: Letter to Jeff Walker at The Ladd Company - October 11, 1981
“The author shares his enthusiasm for the upcoming release of “Blade Runner” with the production company.”
“Philip K. Dick wrote this letter after seeing his first glimpse of Blade Runner in a television segment. To the best of the family’s knowledge, this letter has never been previously released to the public.”
Philipkdick.com is Philip K. Dick official web site:
“On behalf of Philip K. Dick’s children, welcome to the Official Philip K. Dick website. We endeavor to create a venue for new readers, as well as a valuable resource for the loyal fans who have enjoyed his works for years. It is a work in progress, but one nevertheless that we hope you will find useful, and also truly enjoy.”(more)
• Mar 11, 2010 link notes reblogged from innovationisdead [via] tagged: art technology future futurism science fiction author book Philip K. Dick film movie letter
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The New Yorker, Feb. 8, 2010, p. 53
• Mar 01, 2010 link notes tagged: technology communication humor illustration comic illustrator evolution past future obsolescence
| ― I know it’s hard, Miles, but try to think of this experience as a miracle of science. ― A miracle of science is going to the hospital for a minor operation, I come out the next day, my rent isn’t months overdue. That’s a miracle of science. This is what I call a cosmic screwing. And then where am I anyhow? What happened to everybody? Where are all my friends? ― You must understand that everyone you knew in the past has been dead nearly two hundred years. ― BUT THEY ALL ATE ORGANIC RICE! |
Full script available over at Script-O-Rama.
• Feb 25, 2010 link notes tagged: art movie film filmmaker future science fiction food health life death past evolution
✖ Via MSNBC / 10 Years of the Week in Pictures: “2002: Rainbow frames German nuclear plant” photo by Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
“Agriculture and industry meet in a surreal scene beneath a rainbow near the power plant at Grosskrotzenburg, Germany, on Nov. 25.”
• Feb 12, 2010 link notes tagged: technology photo photographer animal wildlife nuclear landscape future science nature
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