whoa.
Artist Jason de Caires Taylor creates life-size cement sculptures of people and submerges them into the waters of South America. As time passes the sculptures become part of the underwater landscape and slowly become artificial reefs ripe with marine life.
FUTURE.
Jet packs.
I remember when this project first launched. It’s amazing to see how controlled the flight has become.
Jealous.Imagine using these to get to work, travel, in war, for solo freestyle or synchronized flying competitions?
Neat.
A sloth makes its way through a collection of the press corps following Obama in Colombia — via.
Snackman!
SNACKMAN! STOPPING SUBWAY FIGHTS WHILE EATING NACHOS! SNACKMAN! HE’S HUNGRY FIRST BUT HE’S ALSO MACHO!
"I’ve seen SXSW people go by for a generation now, and there’s something different about them, and the most obvious thing about them is the way they dress. It actually indicates something deeper. There’s something semiotic, Gibsonian about people dressing better than musicians. When you showed up at SXSW X years ago, you were meeting guys in [t-shirts, jeans]… they’re still here, but mostly that’s the way your uncle looks now. Now they look put together — not like rich person, not like, ‘ook at my sable fur,’ but like new shoelaces, done hair — they look pretty nice. They’re trying to live up to their products and services, which [didn’t look nice] 20 years ago… but you [interactive people] are not anywhere near the film people — you haven’t yet eaten their industry totally the way you did with music some time ago… But there’s one thing that bothers me. Although SXSW people do look chic, it’s a rather retro look. They don’t actually look very futuristic. I would suggest, when you come back next year… come back in robotvision glitchcore. Man, you would rule the physical universe. It would be like a silent coup, people wouldn’t know what to make of it. And it would outdo the film people."
"Now that every single human being on earth has a camera phone, where are all those UFO pictures? Remember you used to see those pictures. Some guy just happened to have a Polaroid when the UFOs appeared? Either it was all bullshit, or my theory is that the martians have decided, ‘Don’t go down there, man. All those fuckers have cameras now.’"
50 words banned from NYC school tests
our version of totalitarianism is far smatter, far more subversive than any state before us.
You know, ones you would expect: “politics,” “homelessness,” “poverty,” “crime,” “divorce,” “evolution,” “religion,” “rap music,” etc.
