#alternate futures

[jellobiafrasays]

president kissinger (1974)

this book is really, really weird (obviously)

[theenglishnook]

An invitation with no sender. A museum that should not exist. Books never written, languages never spoken, futures never realised. Some possibilities disappear. Others wait. Elsewhen A place of unrealised possibilities.

Elsewhen

[canadianbrother]

You get it a day early, congrats!

[ginaclyne]

I’m happy to share some photos I shot last month for Craft Contemporary of Beatriz & Rafa’s collaborative installation, Nomad 13, on view now through May 12th, 2019!

Los Angeles-based artists Beatriz Cortez and Rafa Esparza present the collaborative installation, Nomad 13 in the museum’s first floor. Taking the form of an unconventional space capsule built from adobe bricks and steel, the structure houses a garden of plants that are indigenous to the Americas and were cultivated by the Inca, Maya, and Aztec civilizations. The garden refers to a long history of plant migration, as well as the knowledge and technological advances of ancient peoples. In symbolically “launching” these plants into the cosmos, the artists evoke the real ongoing experiments of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to grow food in outer space. However, with Nomad 13 the artists envision the growth of fresh food in space for the survival of indigenous knowledge and to nourish future space travelers.

This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

Installation Photos: Beatriz Cortez & Rafa Esparza, Nomad 13 I'm happy to share some photos I shot last month for Craft Contemporary of Beatriz & Rafa’s collaborative installation, … 167 more words

[albionawakened]

🎬

This end had been… Inevitable. It wasn’t as if she could have stopped it, tho she tried. Oh, how she’d tried. She’d fought, struggled, did everything she could to keep the end from coming.

But even for all her power, some things just… Could not be avoided.

And the worst of it had been that this. Wasn’t even the worst of it. Humanity had just… Left. Left the world behind, left the ruins they’d created. Every last one of them.

Maybe, maybe she could have left with them. Maybe. So many others had, leaving with the people, the animals, the creatures who had made this world what it was. But her bones were of this world, she couldn’t just leave.

And so the last ship sailed off from this deserted, abandoned planet. And the Mage watched them go. What else was there for her to do?

Oh. There were so many things for her to do.

The next few centuries would be so dull, so very dull. But she hadn’t stopped learning as time passed. She could contact the fleet any time she wanted. But now? Now she had a world. And she’d never needed believers before.

A world with only one god, and all the time she’d ever need to clean up the messes left around her. With all the magic this world had to offer?

By the time humanity next heard from her, they’d remember what Earth had once been to their race.

And learn the price they’ll have to pay if they want to touch foot upon it again.

[roomthily]

The Thing From The Future (Situation Lab) - alternate futures, the card game

want some of these but customized for something else. they are  not licensed appropriately. 

[alternatefutures2016]

Mask: Disguises and Global African Art at The Brooklyn Museum

-Mala Kumar

[helenssd]

Plot Twists: The Body as Storyboard

Body as Storyboard

There is no storyboard more dynamic, animated, full of plots, subplots, protagonists, antagonists, good guys and bad guys, and plain old plot twists than the human body. Our bodies respond instantaneously to every dream, desire, fear, emotion, and speculation. Like “Plastic Man” in the old action hero comic books, our bodies will help us tell any story we wish to tell, fitting…

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