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"When I was at college, I was completely anti the idea of the tortured artist in the corner with his solitary canvas that then gets puts on the wall to be revered. I was absolutely into the idea that there’s no artifact at all, that there was just the reproduction, the aura of the original. I mean, you go to the Louvre, and there’s the Mona Lisa in a bloody shrine. What’s the point of that ? The true art of the 20th century is art that’s reproduced. You don’t put it in a church or a gallery. You put it in a book or on a CD or on TV. "

Dr. Tchock

#mass-production #true beauty is found in the vastness of multiple originals #true beauty is found in the vastness of the multiple original

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This is the oldest piece of music known to humankind. It’s engraved in cuneiform on a tablet from 1400 BC. It was a hymn to their goddess Nikkal.

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Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction

What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa.

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Christoph Malin, ISS Startrails: This video was achieved by “stacking” image sequences provided by NASA from the Crew at International Space Station. These Stacks create the Star Trails, but furthermore make interesting patterns visible. For example lightning corridors within clouds, but they also show occasional satellite tracks (or Iridium Flashes) as well as meteors – patterns that interrupt the main Star Trails, and thus are immediately visible.

#nasa #space #international space station #ISS #photo stacking #planet earth

"...Only 4 percent of Swedish garbage ends up in a landfill, according to Swedish Waste Management. Due to its efficiency in converting waste to renewable energy, Sweden has recently begun importing around 800,000 tons of trash annually from other countries..."

#sweden #energy renewal #amazing #garbage #zabaleen

imathers

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices, 1996. I saw part of this quotation and thought “that’s fantastic”; some judicious googling turned up both the source (hat tip to here) and more of the original thought. (via imathers)

#eno #future trends #seer