foresight foundation

the welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants. icon by pixiv id 1451752.

[dagerlin]

Antenore. 1981

Mesh

[evokit-notes]

The man of self confidence is often a compelling figure. Driven and focused, he is committed to bring the world into line with his vision of how the world should be. He may genuinely believe that his vision for the world is a good one, that the world will be a better place if he can shape it to his will and sometime he is capable of making changes for the better. But there is a danger to this attitude as well. Too often it turns out that the blustery self-confidence of such a person hides its own darker origins: it is really just arrogance combined with ambition, or worse yet a kind of self-delusion. As a result, when his plans fail, as they are bound to do at least some of the time, the self-confident man is often unable to recognize the failure. Stubbornly and inflexibly committed to his vision of how things ought to be, he has no ability to respond to the world as it actually is. The self-confident man believes that confidence is its own virtue; at the extreme, this kind of self-confidence can lead to fanaticism.

Hurbert Dreyfus & Sean Dorrance Kelly | All Things Shining | p.5

[capacity]

2-B-2 architecture’s andrey bondarenko has designed the arctic mobile unit which accommodates life support for 3 people - who are researching in the north pole and arctic - for a duration of 15 days, operating between -40 to +10C and withstanding winds of up to 85 km/h.  

[excdus]

O'hare

Brad Carlile

[kinsources]

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Cliff Briggie

[foresight-foundation]

“You’re a utilitarian? Name three people you’ve sacrificed for the greater good.”

Kray Foresight

[eaglesblood]

Lee Mawdsley

[champagnepapucho-deactivated201]

Luca Zanier

Zwibez III Interim storage for nuclear waste, connecting stairs 2011.

[deputy-vania]

Let us not think that we can justify all extreme actions by putting the blame, ‘On necessity, the excuse of tyrants.’

Condorcet, On Revolution, 1793

[iolaria]

Since I’ll be really busy this quarter at school, I’ll be posting some fractals I made in Mandelbulb3d instead of the usual Noisulli art! This program is extremely fun once you get used to it (which took me months haha!)

Most of my fractals I’m planning on altering/painting over to make some Noisulli scenes, so the ones I’ll be posting are my nonsensical ones that I just really like a lot. :’D

[foresight-foundation]

The Room Where The Tests Are Carried Out – Polypores

[whataprettystranger]

Philip Govedare 

Excavation #6, 2010

[foresight-foundation]

Anechoic Chamber, European Space Research and Technology Centre [ESTEC], Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 2008.