I would like Cameron to tell us how he found the time to do anything else besides whore himself round to editors etc #morethan1meetingperday
Friday, 15 June 2012
Kristi Malakoff: Money Pieces
Polyhedra Series - Intersecting Star
2008
4 bills of foreign currency (Brazil, Zambia, Egypt, Bolivia)
2.5” x 2.5” x 2.5”
Polyhedra Series - Snappy
2008
3 bills of foreign currency (Zambia, Brazil, Peru)
2.0” x 2.0” x 2.0”
Polyhedra Series - Honeysuckle
2008
8 bills of foreign currency (Cambodia, China, Costa Rica,
Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Russia, Brazil, Peru)
2.3” x 2.3” x 2.3”
Jake Davis (Topiary) - Last Message to the Internet
He still has no Internet access.
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Hello, friend, and welcome to the Internet, the guiding light and deadly laser in our hectic, modern world. The Internet horde has been watching you closely for some time now. It has seen you flock to your Facebook and your Twitter over the years, and it has seen you enter its home turf and attempt to overrun it with your scandals and “real world” gossip. You need to know that the ownership of cyberspace will always remain with the hivemind. The Internet does not belong to your beloved authorities, militaries, or multi-millionaire company owners. The Internet belongs to the trolls and the hackers, the enthusiasts and the extremists; it will never cease to be this way.
You see, the Internet has long since lost its place in time and its shady collective continues to shun the fact that it lives in a specific year like 2012, where it has to abide by 2012’s morals and 2012’s society, with its rules and its punishments. The Internet smirks at scenes of mass rape and horrific slaughtering followed by a touch of cannibalism, all to the sound of catchy Japanese music. It simply doesn’t give tuppence about getting a “job,” getting a car, getting a house, raising a family, and teaching them to continue the loop while the human race organizes its own death. Custom-plated coffins and retirement plans made of paperwork...the Internet asks why?
You cannot make the Internet feel bad, you cannot make the Internet feel regret or guilt or sympathy, you can only make the Internet feel the need to have more lulz at your expense. The lulz flow through all in the faceless army as they see the twin towers falling with a dancing Hitler on loop in the bottom-left corner of their screens. The lulz strike when they open a newspaper and care nothing for any of the world’s alleged problems. They laugh at downward red arrows as banks and businesses tumble, and they laugh at our glorious government overlords trying to fix a situation by throwing more currency at it. They laugh when you try to make them feel the need to “make something of life,” and they laugh harder when you call them vile trolls and heartless web terrorists. They laugh at you because you’re not capable of laughing at yourselves and all of the pointless fodder they believe you surround yourselves in. But most of all they laugh because they can.
This is not to say that the Internet is your enemy. It is your greatest ally and closest friend; its shops mean you don’t have to set foot outside your home, and its casinos allow you to lose your money at any hour of the day. Its many chat rooms ensure you no longer need to interact with any other members of your species directly, and detailed social networking conveniently maps your every move and thought. Your intimate relationships and darkest secrets belong to the horde, and they will never be forgotten. Your existence will forever be encoded into the infinite repertoire of beautiful, byte-sized sequences, safely housed in the cyber cloud for all to observe.
And how has the Internet changed the lives of its most hardened addicts? They simply don’t care enough to tell you. So welcome to the underbelly of society, the anarchistic stream-of-thought nebula that seeps its way into the mainstream world—your world—more and more every day. You cannot escape it and you cannot anticipate it. It is the nightmare on the edge of your dreams and the ominous thought that claws its way through your online life like a blinding virtual force, disregarding your philosophies and feasting on your emotions.
Prepare to enter the hivemind, motherfuck.
Via
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Reminder: The Netherlands Isn’t a Lawless Hellscape
During my vacation last week one of the places I visited was the
Netherlands. I’m happy to report the country isn’t a lawless
hellscape. In fact, it’s a lovely place.
Apparently, it hasn’t been overrun with gangs of dangerous drug addicts nor has it become a crime ridden anarchistic wasteland where the only law is the thunderdome. Amazingly, none of these horrible things have happened to this small country, even though it has openly allowed the use and commercial sale of cannabis for decades.
In fact I found the Netherlands a wonderful place to visit, and talking with residents I came to believe it is also a great place to live. It is an extremely prosperous and well run first world democracy with a rich history and culture.
The reality is the data has shown the Netherlands’ decision to take an approach completely opposite to that of the United States’ misguided war on marijuana has worked out much better.
Despite marijuana being effectively legal in the Netherlands, the country actually has a much lower rate of cannabis use than the United States and several other countries with more draconian marijuana laws. According to the United Nations World Drug Report 2011 the Netherlands has an annual prevalence of use for people age 15-64 of just 5.4 percent. In the United States it is an incredible 13.7 percent.
Similarly the people of the Netherlands use fewer hard drugs. The annual prevalence of use for cocaine is just 0.6% in the Netherlands, compared to 2.4% in the USA. For opiates the prevalence rate is 5.9% in the United States but just 0.31% in the Netherlands.
The war on drugs approach has completely failed to stop the United States from having higher rates of use. What it has succeeded in doing is create a massive prison population that is a huge drain on tax payer money. The incarceration rate in the Netherlands is less than on eighth that of the United States. USA has a prison population rate of 730 per 100,000 people compared to the Netherlands rate of just 87 per 100,000.
While it is not news that the Netherlands is a great country, it is very important to remind voters of this while debating marijuana legalization in the United States. If the United States ended its failed marijuana prohibition, it would not be some bold untested step into the unknown or uncertain future. It would simply be the United States following the decades old example set by the Netherlands, a very nice country with lower drug use rates and a much smaller prison population.
When voters oppose reforming our marijuana laws, they should know it means they think spending billions of dollars on arresting over 800,000 Americans a year for marijuana is somehow a price worth paying to prevent America from simply becoming slightly more like the Netherlands.
Jon Walker @'Just Say Now'
(Thanx George!)
Tho' I haven't lived there for 26 years I really did have to laugh when Bill O'Reilly & Fox came up with all this crap...
Apparently, it hasn’t been overrun with gangs of dangerous drug addicts nor has it become a crime ridden anarchistic wasteland where the only law is the thunderdome. Amazingly, none of these horrible things have happened to this small country, even though it has openly allowed the use and commercial sale of cannabis for decades.
In fact I found the Netherlands a wonderful place to visit, and talking with residents I came to believe it is also a great place to live. It is an extremely prosperous and well run first world democracy with a rich history and culture.
The reality is the data has shown the Netherlands’ decision to take an approach completely opposite to that of the United States’ misguided war on marijuana has worked out much better.
Despite marijuana being effectively legal in the Netherlands, the country actually has a much lower rate of cannabis use than the United States and several other countries with more draconian marijuana laws. According to the United Nations World Drug Report 2011 the Netherlands has an annual prevalence of use for people age 15-64 of just 5.4 percent. In the United States it is an incredible 13.7 percent.
Similarly the people of the Netherlands use fewer hard drugs. The annual prevalence of use for cocaine is just 0.6% in the Netherlands, compared to 2.4% in the USA. For opiates the prevalence rate is 5.9% in the United States but just 0.31% in the Netherlands.
The war on drugs approach has completely failed to stop the United States from having higher rates of use. What it has succeeded in doing is create a massive prison population that is a huge drain on tax payer money. The incarceration rate in the Netherlands is less than on eighth that of the United States. USA has a prison population rate of 730 per 100,000 people compared to the Netherlands rate of just 87 per 100,000.
While it is not news that the Netherlands is a great country, it is very important to remind voters of this while debating marijuana legalization in the United States. If the United States ended its failed marijuana prohibition, it would not be some bold untested step into the unknown or uncertain future. It would simply be the United States following the decades old example set by the Netherlands, a very nice country with lower drug use rates and a much smaller prison population.
When voters oppose reforming our marijuana laws, they should know it means they think spending billions of dollars on arresting over 800,000 Americans a year for marijuana is somehow a price worth paying to prevent America from simply becoming slightly more like the Netherlands.
Jon Walker @'Just Say Now'
(Thanx George!)
Tho' I haven't lived there for 26 years I really did have to laugh when Bill O'Reilly & Fox came up with all this crap...
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