Awake awhile. It does not have to be forever.

cosmarxpolitan: Cosmarxpolitan, Issue 5 Your va-jay-jay called!...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:03:05 -0400

Cosmarxpolitan, Issue 5

Your va-jay-jay called! It wants to talk about anarcho-syndicalism

It's Thursday somewhere.

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:20:00 -0500

Another short from my class materials. I was more intrigued by this short than the others because the topic is immediate. Life in the film is basically life as we know it now.

Things I thought while watching: do we use technology to escape technology? Can we? How?

"New Media"

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:45:00 -0500

Bendito Machine III had an element of comedy. This one does not.

It’s like a visual summary of Feed, a book I read in high school (just for fun). But I refuse to believe that this is the future of humanity. We made the machines; we could turn them off. I guess the danger is we might not want to.

On #Inbox

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:41:15 -0500

1. Cute. Is meeting through a magic bag sort of like internet dating?

2. Her hair is always blowing in the wind. Even inside.

3. Utopian or dystopian? I guess that depends on my mood, since the ending is in itself a new beginning. Perhaps utopian, since they can’t see each other through the bag - no filtering for physical appearance. But on the other hand, the relationship is still not face-to-face, if that’s still of value. But on yet another hand, what’s so bad about that?

4. Find it here.

Machine

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:13:47 -0500

First lesson: this short. The silhouetted figures are beautiful, but their master-slave relationship with technology is ugly. The landfill/graveyard of old technology reminded me of Wasteland, a documentary about art and trash and rebirth in Brazil. Bendito Machine III explores the same themes, albeit shorter and animated, but instead of using technology/art to build community and improve lives, the tech in BM3 fosters individualism and destruction. Whatever falls from the sky becomes their new god - Facebook/Twitter/Instragram much? All the tech in BM3 seems malicious - but how can that be? It’s just machine, right?

Learning is fun!

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:01:17 -0500

…and I’m doing more of it in my new course E-Learning and Digital Cultures. Appropriately, it’s an online class. Exploring utopian and distopian themes through short films? Yes please!

Video

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:24:19 -0500

criminalwisdom: This is one of the cards sex workers in South...

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:22:32 -0500

criminalwisdom:

This is one of the cards sex workers in South Africa can give to police officers to assert their rights. In a recent study by the Women’s Legal Centre and SWEAT, approximately 70 percent of sex workers report being abused by police. Image by Melissa Turley. South Africa, 2012.

(Source: pulitzercenter)

ha.

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:46:00 -0400

ha.

gaksdesigns: Thread installation work of Gabriel Dawe

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 07:44:38 -0400

gaksdesigns:

Thread installation work of Gabriel Dawe

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: Louis Armstrong and Niels...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:18:29 -0400

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Louis Armstrong and Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, 1959

Yes.

bookshelfporn: Waterloo Bridge Book Market, London. Books!...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:10:39 -0400

bookshelfporn:

Waterloo Bridge Book Market, London.

Books! <3

"Turns out that many traditionally Republican voters believe that their fire departments should be..."

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:49:11 -0400

“Turns out that many traditionally Republican voters believe that their fire departments should be able to negotiate for adequate safety equipment or that the police officers who risk their lives on the streets should have a seat at the bargaining table.”

- Even less love for Romney from police officers and Daily Kos

loveyoutilltuesday: Free! In Copenhagen :)

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:35:29 -0400

loveyoutilltuesday:

Free!

In Copenhagen :)

rabbleprochoice: stfuconservatives: Fuck yeah, nuns. Look at...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:30:03 -0400

rabbleprochoice:

stfuconservatives:

Fuck yeah, nuns.

Look at that real ass statement up there. AND FROM A MOTHERFUCKING NUN.

Love,

Rabble

I have my issues with the Catholic church, but this nun is not one of them.

Rabble: The Top 5 Quotes About Rape from Republican Men

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:28:21 -0400

Rabble: The Top 5 Quotes About Rape from Republican Men :

ethiopienne:

[TW: rape, sexual assault]

agvnotes:

These are the best (worst) GOP rape quotes I could find - but message me if you have more. Let’s hold these people accountable.

1. Todd Akin: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways of shutting that whole thing down” -…

Wearing a shirt as a dress

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:03:47 -0400

whatshouldwecallme:

If it’s another girl:

If it’s me:

Absolutely.

"Tetris was invented exactly when and where you would expect — in a Soviet computer lab in 1984 — and..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:09:15 -0400

“Tetris was invented exactly when and where you would expect — in a Soviet computer lab in 1984 — and its game play reflects this origin. The enemy in Tetris is not some identifiable villain (Donkey Kong, Mike Tyson, Carmen Sandiego) but a faceless, ceaseless, reasonless force that threatens constantly to overwhelm you, a churning production of blocks against which your only defense is a repetitive, meaningless sorting. It is bureaucracy in pure form, busywork with no aim or end, impossible to avoid or escape. And the game’s final insult is that it annihilates free will. Despite its obvious futility, somehow we can’t make ourselves stop rotating blocks.”

- Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’ - NYTimes.com (via wonklife)

amazing

(via nickoleptic)

This is what we call correlation without causation. Sex does not cause kids to play the choking...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:31:00 -0400

This is what we call correlation without causation. Sex does not cause kids to play the choking game. And sex is not inherently ‘risky behavior.’

"The Constitution forbids Uncle Sam from sticking his hands down your jeans to find out whether..."

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:01:05 -0400

““The Constitution forbids Uncle Sam from sticking his hands down your jeans to find out whether you’re a man or woman for no good reason,””

- Michael Cone, as quoted in Why Women Pay More, Marie Claire March 2012