“Verso Books have offered Rhizome readers in the UK a chance to win a 3D printed Guy Debord action figure.”
(via Front Page)”>Rhizome | Guy Debord Limited Edition Action Figure Giveaway)
*I’m holding out for the Makie.
Brave new world
Take this with a grain of salt, I heard it on MSNBC just after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured. There was a gunfight in a neighborhood, and obviously everyone in the neighborhood was tense and attentive. At some point after a volley of shots, the police *posted* (I suppose they had a Twitter account?) that the suspect was in custody. The reporter said that you could hear applause coming from various parts of the neighborhood. (No tweets from Dzokhar, he was bleeding).
This was the most social-mediated manhunt ever.
Roger Ebert and “Democracy in the Dark”
My first impression of Roger Ebert, many years ago when he was doing the Siskel/Ebert weekly dustup, was that he was a smart guy whose intelligence was undermined by platform – the half hour run-through of the week’s films was always rushed, his written…
This could be the wave of the future, but I think these glasses could prove to be a pain, readily discarded.
Gonzo art from Japan - souzo
Via Londonist: “The Japanese word ‘Souzou’ has two meanings depending on the way in which it is written. Written one way, it means creation and written the other way, it means imagination.” Art for art’s sake…
The Internet inherits war
Bruce Schneier at Technology Review:
Arms races are fueled by two things: ignorance and fear. We don’t know the capabilities of the other side, and we fear that they are more capable than we are. So we spend more, just in case. The other side, of course,…
