Thursday, 7 June 2012
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles
We've got confirmation from the family as well as his biographer, Sam Weller.
His grandson, Danny Karapetian, shared these words with io9 about his grandfather's passing: "If I had to make any statement, it would be how much I love and miss him, and I look forward to hearing everyone's memories about him. He influenced so many artists, writers, teachers, scientists, and it's always really touching and comforting to hear their stories. Your stories. His legacy lives on in his monumental body of books, film, television and theater, but more importantly, in the minds and hearts of anyone who read him, because to read him was to know him. He was the biggest kid I know."
Karapetian added:
If you're looking for any single passage to remember him by, I just picked up my copy of The Illustrated Man, my favorite of his books. The introduction is entitled "Dancing, So As Not to Be Dead," and there are some great lines about death. My favorite:from io9
"My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M.
So as not to be dead."
I'm an actor, something he was always been really proud of, and told me once, after getting cast in a play. "You're living out my life! You're doing everything I wanted to do but couldn't!" He was such a driving force in my life, but what always fascinated me were his impact on others. How his stories lifted people up and saved them from lonely summers. Who among us was never buried deep in a Bradbury story, lost in his meticulously yet effortlessly crafted metaphor?
thanks to link rae for the info
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
FUCK THE QUEEN > FUCK THE MONARCHY > FUCK THE ESTABLISHMENT AND ALL THAT IT STANDS FOR!
AUSTRALIA - STOP HOLDING ONTO MUMMY'S APRON STRINGS > YOU ARE A GREAT COUNTRY BUT SURELY IT IS TIME TO LEAVE THE ROOST AND BECOME A REPUBLIC
C'mon, did you really think that this wasn't gonna be posted?
Didn't think that the old bag would still be here after all this time though. For Allan Jones's account of The Pistols Thames boat trip 35 years ago go here.
Funnily enough I was staying at my Nan's house in Liverpool back in 77 at the time of the 'jubbly' and there were two posters in the lounge window. Jamie Reid's (mine) and one of her above (my Nan's). Twice my Nan's window got bricked and both times it was her poster that kopped it!
Jamie ReidDidn't think that the old bag would still be here after all this time though. For Allan Jones's account of The Pistols Thames boat trip 35 years ago go here.
Funnily enough I was staying at my Nan's house in Liverpool back in 77 at the time of the 'jubbly' and there were two posters in the lounge window. Jamie Reid's (mine) and one of her above (my Nan's). Twice my Nan's window got bricked and both times it was her poster that kopped it!
And just to remind you what it was like back then...
Jacob Appelbaum on privacy, government surveillance and the current state of democracy
Jacob Appelbaum shares his views on privacy, government surveillance and
the current state of democracy with YASSSU at the Re:publica conference
2012 in Berlin
Artist turns his dead pet into flying helicopter after it is killed by a car
'...Dutch artist Bart Jansen first stuffed Orville before teaming up with radio control helicopter flyer Arjen Beltman to build a specially-designed flying mechanism to attach to the cat.
Jansen said the Orvillecopter is 'half cat, half machine', and part of a visual art project to pay tribute to his cat Orville.
Jansen, part of the art cooperative Generaal Pardon, said: 'After a period of mourning he received his propellers posthumously.'
He added that Orville will soon be 'flying with the birds' stating: 'Oh how he loved birds. He will receive more powerful engines and larger props for his birthday. So this hopping will soon change into steady flight.''
Jansen said the Orvillecopter is 'half cat, half machine', and part of a visual art project to pay tribute to his cat Orville.
Jansen, part of the art cooperative Generaal Pardon, said: 'After a period of mourning he received his propellers posthumously.'
He added that Orville will soon be 'flying with the birds' stating: 'Oh how he loved birds. He will receive more powerful engines and larger props for his birthday. So this hopping will soon change into steady flight.''
'For anyone fed-up of the Dawkins Delusion that rationality and science are the answer to the human condition...'
Helen Nissenbaum, Kazys Varnelis: Situated Technologies Pamphlet 9 - Modulated Cities: Networked Spaces, Reconstituted Subjects (2012)
In Situated Technologies Pamphlets 9, Helen Nissenbaum and Kazys Varnelis initiate a redefinition of privacy in the age of big data and networked, geo-spatial environments. Digital technologies permeate our lives and make the walls of the built environment increasingly porous, no longer the hard boundary they once were when it comes to decisions about privacy. Data profiling, aggregation, analysis, and sharing are broad and hidden, making it harder than ever to constrain the flow of data about us. Cautioning that suffocating surveillance could lead to paralyzed dullness, Nissenbaum and Varnelis do not ask us to retreat from digital media but advance interventions like protest, policy changes, and re-design as possible counter-strategies.
Publisher Architectural League of New York, Spring 2012
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
ISBN 978-0-9800994-8-5
56 pages
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