Apart

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Eurogedon

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The Art of Google Books Scans : The New Yorker

"Wilson reminds us that we, too, are contributing our own labor to the company’s bottom line. He writes, “Everyone who uses the free Google perks—Gmail, cloud-storage, Google Books, Blogger, YouTube—becomes a knowledge worker for the company. We’re performing freestyle data entry. Where knowledge is perceived as a public good, Google gathers its income from the exchange of information and knowledge, creating additional value in this process. Google, as we know it and use it, is a factory.”

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What is fine art? What happens when street music and web based concepts collide? When you've influenced Internet culture, musical acts, and visual artists, and haven't had a proper release, what's your next move? Perhaps joining forces with the darkest standout label of the year, Lost Codes Records. Red Pill & Blue Pill is a study of choice. Lost in the maze of modern culture, social media, and rapidly developing technology, what remains of the human condition? How many selfies do you need to take to cover your shattered, depleted emotional state? How many likes does your status need for you to feel okay with today? The world is evolving at a breakneck pace. Humans now have more choices than ever before. On the cusp of redefining what is real and what is virtual, creation is at our fingertips. Now is the time. Red Pill & Blue Pill is offering you the suggestion to look around and inspect the world around you. Is this really evolution? Is this a brave new world or are we in the next dark age?

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Geotagged Flickr uploads (orange), Twitter uploads (blue), and both (white). 

By Eric Fischer

From this blog that led me to this article describing these images of many cities.

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“Language takes us through our human world. It is the theme of myths, philosophy, literature and science. In the vast majority of the world’s literatures, both oral and written, humans have tried to explain the origin of their tools, abilities, and circumstances. In our early literary history, we used myths. Today we use science. Science is usually better than myths at explaining. But the myths arguably capture the grandeur of their subject better than science, because of the broad sweep of human emotions they portray, and the depth of their connection to the cultures from which they come.”

Daniel Everett, Language: The Cultural Tool, p. 9 (via leakygrammar)

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Daniel Everett - Decoy II (2011)

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Eavesdropping.

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Daniel Everett. 

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"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."

I made these to fit the Facebook cover photo size -  feel free to use them with the post’s link. Photo courtesy: ESA/NASA.

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Introducing Touch Tone (1964)

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Tricontinental - c. 1970

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The first of the rooms for the men on the upper floor, where visitors are invited to reflect on their guilt. Photo by Italo Rondinella

Zakharov’s Danaë also speaks of the relationship with money in a society that is completely commercialised. In the vision of the artist, the man straddled on the beam is a symbol for those working in the banking system, who live in another dimension with respect to ordinary people: sitting in a saddle without a horse represents the loss of a sense of reality, disinterest towards those who find themselves in an increasingly difficult economic situation.

A room on the upper floor where a man empties the bucket of the coins collected from the women. Photo by Daniel Zakharov

Zakharov does not stop here however and also suggests a link with the role of information in our society. At the entrance of the pavilion is a large satellite dish. “This is the symbol of what Danaë is today: in the myth she was impregnated by the golden rain of Zeus, today the whole world is impregnated with information that comes out of the sky. Wherever you see a satellite one speaks of Danaë, that becomes a strong symbol of the contemporary world.” (via Vadim Zakharov: Danaë)

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Consumers have always been in flux, there is nothing new about that. Some develop new needs over time, others have changing tastes and still others find new ways of looking at old things. This simply highlights the importance of the golden rule of marketing: know your consumer (at all times).

But if people are generally subject to change, why all this talk of a new-age consumer? Many experts say it is because the pace of change is far more rapid now than ever before. This begs the question: who are these new consumers and what are the characteristics that define them?

Before answering this, it is important to remember that there is no ‘typical’ consumer.

Consumers are differentially evolved and savvy, i.e. different types of people change at entirely different paces, and in a country like Pakistan, where gaps in income and education vary drastically, these differences are even more pronounced. With that proviso in mind, the following three factors have been important in shaping the new-age .. continues after the jump... (via The new value seekers | Aurora)

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