Heterochronia

Heroic Modernism, Atemporality, Design Fiction, Network Culture, Retrofuturism & spaceships. For more info : http://nevolution.typepad.com/theories/2011/08/heterochronia.html

[p-dpa]

Cortecce (Barks), Giovanni Ferrario (2009 - ongoing?)

Digital print on cotton paper by contact scan, cotton, paper, near the measures of the original books.

via Angelo Gramegna

[justinpickard]

Man-made contemporary prehistoric hand-axes by Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow.

[peterfromtexas-deactivated20250]

Normandy Beaches in 1944 & 70 Years Later

On June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers descended on the beaches of Normandy for D-Day, an operation that turned the tide of the Second World War against the Nazis, marking the beginning of the end of the conflict. Reuters photographer Chris Helgren compiled archive pictures taken during the invasion and went back to the same places to photograph them as they appear today.

More pictures here

[stml]

Four images of Jane Jetson looking vaguely dissatisfied with the future. Last image is a gem: Jane puts on a video-calling mask to hide her unmade-up face from the caller.

[heterochronia]

Four images of Jane Jetson looking vaguely dissatisfied with the future

[new-aesthetic]

Long-Exposure Spy Cameras Will Capture Berlin’s Growth For The Next 100 Years - PSFK, via Dan W.

Artist Jonathon Keats has designed a surveillance unit that has a century-long exposure time, so it can capture the gradual change of a city over the years. Working with the Team Titanic gallery, the unauthorized urban project will see 100 of these Century Cameras hidden all across Berlin next week. The cameras serve not only as a way to uniquely document the passing of time, but also as a way to hold present-day Berliners accountable for their city’s future. “The first people to see these photos will be children who haven’t yet been conceived. They’re impacted by every decision we make, but they’re powerless. If anyone has the right to spy on us, it’s our descendants.”

[iamdanw]

This is the age of intensity and not of duration.

You Are Too Much (via iamdanw)

[heterochronia]

[iamdanw]

A fictional, Braun-inspired wall clock (loosely based on Dietrich Lubs’ ABW 30), its handless face displaying a decimal dial referring to the Jacobin notion of ‘French Revolutionary Time’ – a heartfelt monument to failed utopias, and a spectral blueprint of a future that never was.

Systems » Experimental Jetset (via iamdanw)

[iamdanw]

Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG. The worm was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games. Nasa said it was not the first time computer viruses had travelled into space and it was investigating how the machines were infected.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Computer viruses make it to orbit (via iamdanw)

[stml]

"Revolution Roundabout by Eyal Weizman (Gwangju Follies II) overlays the footprint of all the roundabouts around the world where revolutions have begun, from Cairo and Tunis to Manama and Gwangju itself."

Photo by josephgrima

[betaknowledge]

What we are facing over a decade is a decade of emergency rescue, of resiliency, of attempts at sustainability, rather than some kind of clear march toward advanced heights of civilization. We are into an era of decay and repurposing of broken structures, of new social inventions within networks, a world of ‘Gothic High-Tech’ and ‘Favela Chic’ (as I’ve called it), a crooked networked bazaar of history and futurity, rather than a cathedral of history, and a utopia of futurity.

Bruce Sterling, 2010 (via betaknowledge)

[new-aesthetic]

"A whole new aesthetic is emerging, mirroring the unfinished, blurry and often chaotic world of social media: a world based around 140 character messages, a constant stream of status updates and unpolished, behind-the-scenes style imagery. There’s no time for nostalgia or reflection here, no patience for understatement or subtlety. Everyone is chasing the next Instagram-worthy moment. The internet aesthetic is all about piling on the drama to get noticed and that means being bold, colourful and often a little brash. If you add in a dollop of controversy, all the better."

The Internet Aesthetic: How the web is changing the clothes we wear | Metro News

[noosphe-re]

In network theory, a node’s relationship to other networks is more important than its own uniqueness. Similarly, today we situate ourselves less as individuals and more as the product of multiple networks composed of both humans and things.

Kazys Varnelis

(via stoweboyd)

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is that a fossil

[justinpickard]

as if suddenly your compass rose had a spike pointing in some non-euclidean direction to “the internet.”

Kevin Schmidt, ‘glass, grieving, and the membrane of presence’ (2013)

[new-aesthetic]

Shipping galleries 3D model - Science Museum

Originally opened in 1963, the Shipping Galleries were home to the Museum’s maritime collection until 2012, when the galleries closed. Before the 1800 objects on display were moved into storage, a 3D point cloud model of the space was created.

Two billion precise laser measurements were recorded from 275 laser scans of the galleries by ScanLAB Projects. The raw data set is planned to be released publicly this year.

The video uses just 10% of this raw data, and features a tour narrated by the Science Museum’s transport curator, David Rooney.

[blech]

BBC News: Google Maps wipes out Scottish island of Jura. (See it yourself.)

internet-of-dreams:

The internet giant Google has said sorry after the Scottish island of Jura disappeared from its online maps. - BBC News.

It is where Orwell wrote 1984.