TALo/wS etc

Minima Marginalia

[talws]

As I traveled by bus. I gazed outside. I was hearing the music. In my head

[talws]

Black Hole Sun

Source: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/05/rejected-fsa-photos-book

[dantozek]

It took several years but I’m finally done. I have finished pencil pages dating back to 2014 and roughs from even earlier. Crazy it took this long but i learned a ton and will use it going forward to my next project. If you liked this do me a favour and reblog or just tell someone else about it that be super cool of you! Everything above is owned and created by me Dan Tozek. 

[talws]

Welcome to the Machine World: the Perfect Technological Storm

A perfect technological storm: the awesome threat you won’t hear about in America’s presidential campaign. For a huge number of Americans the key emotion driving the tortured primary campaigns has,…

[talws]

Robert McChesney: Capitalism Is a Bad Fit for a Technological Revolution

Robert McChesney, author with John Nichols of ''People Get Ready,'' says technological advances don't always benefit workers.

“ Our point is simple: Capitalism as we know it is a very bad fit for the technological revolution we are beginning to experience. We desperately need a new economy, one that is not capitalistic -- based on the mindless and endless pursuit of maximum profit -- or one where capitalism has been radically reformed, more than ever before in its history. It is the central political challenge of our times. “

[talws]

Maroussi, Athens, Greece

[talws]

The Manifesto of John Doe

“John Doe” - the anonymous whistleblower and source of the Panama Papers – has sent the SZ a manifesto. It can be read as an explanation for his actions – and as a call to action.

“...Historians can easily recount how issues involving taxation and imbalances of power have led to revolutions in ages past. Then, military might was necessary to subjugate peoples, whereas now, curtailing information access is just as effective or more so, since the act is often invisible. Yet we live in a time of inexpensive, limitless digital storage and fast internet connections that transcend national boundaries. It doesn't take much to connect the dots: from start to finish, inception to global media distribution, the next revolution will be digitized.

Or perhaps it has already begun...”

[grofjardanhazy]

Tiksi, Russia

Population: 5,063 (2010)

(More: Here They Are Living To Die)

[talws]

Unintended (?) statement: The guy with the Detroit Red Wings jacket, standing in front of decaying ex-soviet infrastructure

[talws]

81 Brand New Cadillacs

Vince Taylor's original and 80 more versions of "Brand New Cadillac"

[rare-shots-blog]

A liberated Jew holds a Nazi soldier at gunpoint.

[talws]

A rare and brief instance of historical justice illustrated [Original source here AFAICS: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/lxppn/just_my_grandfather_aiming_a_gun_on_a_nazi_soldier/]0

[spaceexplorationphotography]

It’s incredibly hard to grasp the magnitude of this photograph. It’ll always blow me away that it was ever taken.

Source: http://i.imgur.com/UsvsIws.jpg

[talws]

“Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left this family photo behind on the moon in 1972″

[talws]

Greece in Panama

Nothing to see here, move along...

[dimensao7]

Large Asteroid Impact  

[talws]

IMF plots new “credit event” for Greece — Mosquito Ridge

Neoliberalism does not give a shit, Part II

The International Mafia Fellowship

[mucholderthen]

DEATH and BEETLES

JAN FABRE Belgian artist provocateur Sculptural collages in the mode of Vanitas and Memento Mori, with the secular / biological accent of decomposition via beetles.

Tribute to the Belgian Congo 2010 (source)

l'oisillon de Dieu – The Nestling of God 2000 – materials: skull, wings of beetles, stuffed parrot  (source)

Skull (ferret) 2001 – materials: synthetic skull, beetles, stuffed ferret (source)

[musicdeli]

38 covers + the original One More Cup of Coffee by Bob Dylan, as collected on youtube

[musicdeli]

108 hand-picked, youtube-hosted, versions of the Blues staple “Baby Please Don’t Go” which I gathered in one youtube playlist