the Psychonautical Voyages of Ellis Deigh

....I don't know where I am or how I got here or where I'm going or how I will get there....I just Know

[ellis-deigh-blog]

I pity the fool foolish enough to ever attempt a home-invasion on my domicile. it can crush skull

[monsterman]

[rollership]

"The Wizard of Venus" (1979)

Paperback Cover Art by Esteban Maroto

[mysimpsonsblogisgreaterthanyours]

[alkonium]

Well, that certain sums up my feelings towards Google.

[ellis-deigh-blog]

"don't be evil"

[viruliferous]

[ellis-deigh-blog]

Annuit Coeptis

[blankbabe]

we are the last generation whose baby photos weren’t taken on phones

[ellis-deigh-blog]

...and when the inevitable grid failure or solar flare happens......goodbye digital memories!

[confusanation]

Iggy Pop screenshot from BBC “sounds of the 70’s”

[ellis-deigh-blog]

aren't those the main interests of everyone?

[ximanalienx-deactivated20140523]

[cipherface-deactivated20200224]

World's First Covert Communications System with Camouflage Guaranteed | MIT Technology Review

[ellis-deigh-blog]

Sometimes encrypting messages isn’t enough, and the very act of sending them must be hidden as well. Now physicists have discovered how to camouflage messages and guarantee that they remain hidden.

[justthetwoofthem]

[ellis-deigh-blog]

"Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is an anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus. I'm an old man and I may not live to see a solution to the drug problem." -Father Tom(William S. Burroughs)

[06deabrilonlylove]

[digital-bodhisattva]

Symbolic 

[ellis-deigh-blog]

So Rob Ford is in rehab.....

....too bad the 13th step is always relapse. Addiction is best experienced sparingly. Glad he isn't my elected representative.

[prostheticknowledge]

URME Surveillance

Anti Face-Rec art project by Leo Selvaggio where he offers his facial likeness as surveillant data disinformation - video embedded below:

URME represents artist-driven, anti-surveillance devices made for the public. Working as an artist in Chicago, the most widely surveilled city in the nation, and seeing how it has affect the way I behave and think about public space,  I have an overwhelming urge to protect the public from such surveillance …

… I have researched several of the strategies out there and there are two major themes. You can either wear a ski mask and hide your face, which looks very suspicious or you can destroy private or public property vis-a-vis security cameras. URME offers a different way. With facial recognition technology being widely used now a days, rather try to hide or obscure one’s face from the camera, these devices allow you to present a different, alternative identity to the camera, my own. When you wear these devices the cameras will track me instead of you and your actions in public space will be attributed as mine because it will be me the cameras see. All URME devices have been tested for facial recognition and each properly identifies the wearer of me on facebook, which has some of the most sophisticated facial recognition software around. 

More at Indiegogo here

[ceevee5]

The more we have CCTV and drone observation, the more we will have creative ways of frustrating the surveillance.

[ellis-deigh-blog]

In case you didn't know, Eurovision is happening right now.....

....gross.

[ufosandextradimensions-deactiva]

[ellis-deigh-blog]

Ugh.....

I didn't drink anything last night....and yet or some reason I am feeling like I am hung over. I need some mead.

[brock-deactivated20170507]

[ellis-deigh-blog]

This might be an unpopular opinion.....

.....but tweeting "#bringbackourgirls is not going to free those young women. The U.S. state department failed to label Boko Haram as a terrorist group even after various advisers &  consultants had suggested they do so, even after numerous massacre at different learning institutions in Nigeria. There are some people in the world who do not bow down to ethical pressure, outspoken criticism or popular opinion...they do however understand violence & quick & lethal action not only could resolve this situation, but have actually prevented it to begin with. Kurtz was right; "Exterminate the Brutes!"