Year: 2015

  • thinksquad: http://www.wearedorothy.com/artwork/casualties-of-war/

  • Drug-buying robot arrested in Switzerland

    Drug-buying robot arrested in Switzerland underfrillies: laughterkey: The bot that bought ecstasy pills and forged passports has been seized by authorities. Free him

  • redhousecanada: archiemcphee: This mesmerizing video, produced by tetotetote, introduces us to Yasuo Okazaki, an artisan working in Sendai, Japan who transforms spinning blocks of wood into exquisitely beautiful Kokeshi dolls, a 400-year-old Japanese artistic tradition. Traditional Kokeshi dolls are entirely handmade and have an enlarged head that sits atop a simple, cylindrical trunk with no…

  • The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt: Finally, the Museum of the Future Is Here – The Atlantic

    The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt: Finally, the Museum of the Future Is Here – The Atlantic …the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian’s recently reopened design museum, will receive a giant pen…. at the museum, it does something magical. Next to every object on-display at the Cooper Hewitt is a small pattern that looks like the origin point…

  • All social change is speculative fiction because we’ve never seen a world without poverty, never seen a world with total equality, never seen a world without prisons…therefore activism IS speculative fiction, it’s visionary fiction because we are writing a world we’ve never seen but a world we’d like to live in. It’s hard and unapologetic…

  • bombmagazine: Coco Fusco, Observations of Predation in Humans: A Lecture by Dr. Zira, 2013, performance at the Studio Museum in Harlem, courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates.

  • brucesterling: *Journalists killed 1992-2015.  An interactive graph where you can query each red dot and get an account of the deceased. http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/14/journalist-deaths/index.html

  • nevver: 24 pieces of life advice from Werner Herzog  Always take the initiative. There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need. Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey. Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. Learn…