hi im cj

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Its Xen! I know what her face really looks like now! Its been a while since I was last this into one of my own drawings. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq8lPUjFM0l/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yljnzduc2qfh

[kacl-780]

dance dance dance dance dance to KACL-780 talk radio

[amare-habeo]

Robert Michel (German, 1897-1983)

MEZ - Central European Time, 1919/1920

Woodcut on cream-coloured laid paper, 45,8 × 37 cm

[nemfrog]

Meteor crater. Highways and Byways. 1938. 

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VICTOR MOSCOSO - ZAP COMIX #3 - Fall 1968

[lake-erie]

New York School of Synthesis instructional VHS, 1986

[privatethicc]

Russian matchbook labels.

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How to Build a Low-tech Internet

Wireless internet access is on the rise in both modern consumer societies and in the developing world. In rich countries, however, the focus is on always-on connectivity and ever higher access speeds. In poor countries, on the other hand, connectivity is achieved through much more low-tech, often asynchronous networks.

While the high-tech approach pushes the costs and energy use of the internet higher and higher, the low-tech alternatives result in much cheaper and very energy efficient networks that combine well with renewable power production and are resistant to disruptions.

If we want the internet to keep working in circumstances where access to energy is more limited, we can learn important lessons from alternative network technologies. Best of all, there’s no need to wait for governments or companies to facilitate: we can build our own resilient communication infrastructure if we cooperate with one another. This is demonstrated by several community networks in Europe, of which the largest has more than 35,000 users already.

[titleknown]

Rebloggin because; holy shit; this is really cool and if there were some way to implement this in the US to get out of the thumb of big telecom…

[peterrabbit2007]

Beatrix Potter’s illustrated letter “Peter’s Dream of a Comfortable Bed” 1899.

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[vichywater]

Marcel Duchamp - Sixteen Miles of String installation in First Papers of Surrealism exhibition, 1942

[cordycepsspore]

Caustic Window – Humanoid Must Not Escape

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Gary Numan - from the “Berserker” photoshoot, 1984

[howling-science]

Moebius

[oldhollywood]

1930s imagining of 1980s New York in the sci-fi musical Just Imagine (1930, dir. David Butler) (via)

Designed by art director Stephen Goosson, the city set was an elaborate miniature model that covered a ground area of 75 x 225 feet and whose tallest tower measured 40 feet.

Just Imagine‘s New York was primarily inspired by architect Harvey Corbett’s prediction that 1970’s New York would resemble a “very modernized Venice” and by the futuristic urban designs presented in Hugh Ferriss’s 1929 book, The Metropolis of Tomorrow.

Ferriss’s drawings of the "business center of the future" (pictures #3-5) provided the most direct inspiration for Goosson’s sets. Broad superhighways establish a geometric ground plan that extends upward through overlapping levels of bridges, streets, and terraced walkways. The grid of streets and bridges is pierced by huge freestanding skyscrapers surrounded by lower setback buildings, a design Ferriss created as an analogy to the natural world of “towering mountain peaks… surrounded by foothills”

The opening scenes of the (otherwise mediocre) film, which feature this cityscape, can be seen here. 

More on the building of the Just Imagine set. Collection of Hugh Ferriss’s futuristic city sketches here.

[thevaultofretroscifi]

Analog Computing issue 7, September 1982

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