Book Paintings by Ekaterina Panikanova
very cool concept.
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the events of bø
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"In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can’t lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks or fire gunshots in your living room; you have to listen to it in your head. A book won’t move your eyes for you the way images on a screen do. It won’t move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it … To read a story well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it — everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is not interactive with a set of rules or options, as games are; reading is actual collaboration with the writer’s mind. No wonder not everyone is up to it."
Ursula K. Le Guin (via planb-becomeapirate)
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"You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone."
Garden State (via katnissbamf)
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"Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated"
…Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. - Paul Rand (via alittleplaceonmain)
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One of my favorite tracks of late. There is some great synth work here. New-wave goodness for all à la 2013.
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on the journal
Release. ‘Venting’.
Despite the modern spin on such words, the act in and of itself is a relic from the old-world. Journals (or diary’s for some) have existed for many decades - with some of the oldest records dating back to Middle Eastern and East Asian times around 2nd century AD. But a game-changer has entered. The internet.
Why is it, in our modern world, that journaling - a practice traditionally intended for purposes of privatised viewing, reflection, contemplation - has become a public event? What do we gain (or lose) by releasing our deepest and most secretive thoughts to a digital crowd of friends, strangers, and avatars? Is such a notion feeding the narcissistic beast which has grown since the great leveling (the collaborative web 2.0) arrived? (read: people were narcissistic before the Internet. Our connect world has, perhaps, been the enabler our predecessors only dreamed for).
This isn’t smoking out the rat. As someone who has a strong interest in the sociological and cognitive realm of the Internet culture (and it’s users) - and the impact it has on society at large - I’m after some insights here. What do people think?
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a beautiful ambient remix of Moby’s ‘Isolate’
may this relax your mind after the day. This is best served with some tea and a book in hand.
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to free one’s mind
Embrace learning as much as you can.
I’m currently reading Douglas Rushkoff’s Present Shock and, once again, my thoughts on technology, culture, and the digital world have been radically disrupted. This is a joy.
No matter how bad you want to watch that season of Game of Thrones, or ‘catch-up’ on that Facebook feed - find time to read a book (actually read - from beginning to end), watch a provocative documentary, or have an engaging conversation with a friend - in the flesh, between your adventures.
Find time to really understand what you’re doing online.
Why? Because you are the human; the master. Technology isn’t. Social experiences can occur without pictorial or mass-reaching evidence. A soul can survive a day without knowing what other people are doing.
Yet we often forget the above order. One day we may look back and regret not taking ownership sooner rather than later. Did we ever live in that moment? Or were we worried about too many other things other than the moment and therefore have no idea what it is we lived through?
There is a reality outside of this digital realm. It is rich, analogue, and ultimately more fulfilling than any binary platform we’ll ever create. I’ve been there, and I promise you that it’s a really good thing.
Hear me when I say this: technology is good. It saves lives and enables us to bridge the vastest of oceans. But an important and fantastic part of life exists outside it’s walls. Let it thrive. Go for a walk and embrace it’s endless possibilities. I may even join you :)
If we could only catch up with the wave of information, we feel, we would at last be in the now. This is a false goal. For not only have our devices outpaced us, they don’t even reflect a here and now that may constitute any legitimate sort of present tense. They are reports from the periphery, of things that happened moments ago. It seems as if to digest and comprehend them in their totality would amount to having reality on tap, as if from a fantastic media control room capable of monitoring everything, everywhere, all the time.
Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock (page 77), 2013
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"When everything is rendered instantly accessible via Google and iTunes, the entirety of culture becomes a single layer deep. The journey disappears, and all knowledge is brought into the present tense. In the short forever, there is no time to prepare and anticipate. No wonder people hang on to the musical styles and fashions of their youth. Finding them took a kind of time—a particular windup—that is unavailable to cultural explorers today."
Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock (2013)
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Slate-roofed homes in Vals, Switzerland, quarried nearby.
Contributed by Karson Linton.
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Grosvenor Place Building Steel Erector 1985. It was about a 3 floor drop to the slab below on the inside, and yes about 38 floors to the pavement below on the outside.
Canon A1 35-70mmF4 Kodachrome 100 Film
picture of the my work building when it was being constructed. I see the Four Seasons was still blocking (some of) the view back in 1985 as well.
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oh….my.
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