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The Tech Gonzo Scrapbook: Australia, PNG and “the boat people” – a quick political design fiction
The Tech Gonzo Scrapbook: Australia, PNG and “the boat people” – a quick political design fiction m1k3y: — this is my rough, back of the envelope political design fiction; an attempt to envisage a positive outcome out of a nightmarish scenario that is #auspol under the leadership of Chairman Rudd Background: The PNG Government are…
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cursivebuildings: cursivebuildings: “After the Lunar Module had landed … and as we breathlessly awaited the first steps on the moon, I was casting about for some novel way to record that moment. … I walked across the road and positioned that sign with its greeting so that the moon was peeking over its top right…
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hnnhmcgrth: Poem by Man Ray
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mayhap: From 2001, not 2013: “White supremacy has taught him that all people of color are threats irrespective of their behavior. Capitalism has taught him that, at all costs, his property can and must be protected. Patriarchy has taught him that his masculinity has to be proved by the willingness to conquer fear through aggression;…
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todaysdocument: Apollo 11 Flight Plan The flight plan for Apollo 11 was a minute-by-minute time line of activities for the mission crew—Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, and Edwin “Buzz" Aldrin—and Mission Control in Houston. The flight was launched July 16, 1969. Touchdown on the moon took place, as scheduled, on July 20, 102 hours, 47 minutes,…
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The stage winner, the King of the Mountains, the winner of the youth classification, the second best rider in the 100th Tour… it’s no wonder Nairo Quintana is happy after stage 20. “I do not believe it. I am very happy, and I must thank all my team-mates who worked today but also throughout the…
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cinoh: “That Was Then, This is Now” Ed Ruscha (1989)
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beautifulfreebooks: A pocket-book of mechanical engineering, tables, data, formulas, theory, and examples (1911) by Charles M. Sames
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Critical Toy work in progress
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tumblr_mq5molBj411r1io1c thegetty: Getty Villa theater specialist Ralph Flores reads the opening lines of Prometheus Bound. We have arrived at the far limit of the world.These are the Scythian mountains, desolate and vast. Hephaistos, you must carry out the Father’s willand bind the criminal to this steep looming rockwith chains of adamant, unbreakable. It was your…