Time-lapse by sergneri » Sun Nov 28, 2010 1:09 pm I’ve been fascinated by time-lapse photography since the days when the Wonderful World of Disney was the only color television show and they had these great nature films. You can see the films I’ve made over the last few weeks here http://www.sergneri.ch/weather_data/wd_index.html. Included here are … [Read more…]
While attending fashnact in Moudon Switzerland circa 2008, I photographed these three individuals in the crowd. They inspired the creation of the digital collage seen here. I have no idea who they are save for the fact that there is a home for people with disabilities in Moudon, I think they may be residents. (Originally … [Read more…]
I’ve loaded excerpts from John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” , Jacques Ellul’s “The Technological Society” and Gary Panter’s very original “Rozztox Manifesto” to stimulate thinking about advertising and its effects on modern culture. In the use of the techniques of propaganda to sell products, ideas, and ways of life, we’ve allowed ourselves to be manipulated … [Read more…]
Liberty ……. The LF silver lock on the gate is no more. After the past rain froze it, I sprayed and the shank came all the way out. That’s it for that lock. So from now on we will use the brass lock along with the Moto guys. The combo #. We will go with … [Read more…]
Bill Griffith, creator of ZIPPY THE PINHEAD takes on advertising icons once again … See Zippy Here
I read a great review of G.A. Cohen’s last book, “Why Not Socialism?” by Ellen Meiksins Wood in the London Review of Books, (Vol. 32 No. 2 · 28 January 2010). I had read about him in the context of other social philosophers work, but I’d never read anything about him or his writing before. … [Read more…]
I subscribe to the email bulletins from the LIFT conference. They are an active group and send some interesting information along about our emerging web culture and where it may be going next, http://liftconference.com/. The latest edition has a blurb about Yann Moulier Boutang: One of the speaker at Lift France 10 is Yann Moulier-Boutang. … [Read more…]
… in a technological society “the human being is no longer in any sense the agent of choice… He is a device for recording effects and results obtained by various techniques.” In the technological society individuals have meaning and value only to the extent they service instruments. Jacques Ellul, 1964
A telling and troublesome article on the state of US innovation … Potato chips: A symptom of the U.S. R&D problem U.S. competitiveness remains in peril even as other nations gear up to steam ahead By Janet Raloff Web edition : Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 This new report describes growing signs that America is losing … [Read more…]