COLD BREW! Made with Heart Roaster’s Guatemala El Limonar beans.
The Origins of Futurism
Of the 5 ways of forecasting the future, this one is perhaps the most emotionally dangerous:
The third method, historical analogy, is radically inaccurate yet also dangerously seductive, because people are profoundly attached to the seeming stability of the past. In practice, though, our ideas of what has already happened are scarcely more solid than our predictions of tomorrow. If futurism is visionary, history is revisionary.
MONEY CREATES TASTE, 2007
by Jenny Holzer
Artist Revital Cohen has hooked up a Heart-Lung Machine, a Dialysis Machine, an Infant Incubator, a Mechanical Ventilator and an Intraoperative Cell Salvage Machine into one continues loop, pumping artificial blood and oxygen in a loop, “breathing” in a closed circuit. It is The Immortal. Salted water it its blood, minerals are filtered in and out, its “heart” beats electric, the “body” hums. It’s a perpetual life-support machine, and there’s something grisly sterile about this “life.” “Superhuman,” Group Show, Jul 19 – Oct 16, Wellcome Collection, London
Facts is survived by two brothers, Rumor and Innuendo, and a sister, Emphatic Assertion. Services are alleged to be private. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that mourners make a donation to their favorite super PAC.
—from Rex W. Huppke’s obituary of Facts (360 B.C.-A.D. 2012). (via washingtonpoststyle)
Caine’s Arcade: A 9 year old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade in his dad’s used auto parts store is about to have the best day of his life.
Excuse me while I violently sob while watching this.
Stanley Tigerman, The Titanic, 1978
“Stanley Tigerman’s conceptual collage depicts Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Crown Hall for the Illinois Institute of Technology—which houses the School of Architecture—sinking into Lake Michigan. Tigerman’s work is a critique on the state of architectural pedagogy in Chicago and its environs in the late 1970s. By this time, the Postmodern movement was becoming a viable counterpoint to Mies’s Minimalist aesthetic and was being taught at other schools of architecture in the United States.”
Gillian Wearing - Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say, 1992-1993
“By using photography to record the confessions of ordinary people, Wearing’s work explores the disparities between public and private life, between individual and collective experience. Signs that Say What You Want was produced by approaching people on London streets, asking them to write something on a card and then photographing them as they displayed it. Private lives were given a sudden and revealingly painful exposure.”
I wonder what I’d write.
And I wonder what you’d write, too.
Forty years after the release of the groundbreaking study, were the concerns about overpopulation and the environment correct?
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Looking-Back-on-the-Limits-of-Growth.html#ixzz1rCU6bepv(via Looking Back on the Limits of Growth | Photo Gallery | Smithsonian.com)
(via absurdlakefront)
Zebra Katz- Ima Read (ft. Njena Reddd Foxxx)
This is jam is so thick. Let’s hope Grimes and Zebra Katz collaborate.
