Time Lapse
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 those great nature films. You can see the time-lapse film I’ve made over the last few weeks here http://www.sergneri.net/weather_data/index.php. I included some of the older time-lapse I’ve made over the years … [Read more…]
Apostles of Moudon
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…]
Advertizing
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 some thinking about advertising and its effects on modern culture. The use of the techniques of propaganda to sell products, ideas, and ways of life, we’ve allowed ourselves to be manipulated by … [Read more…]
gate lock….
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…]
Killing the Messenger
Bill Griffith, creator of ZIPPY THE PINHEAD takes on advertising icons once again … See Zippy Here
If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?
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…]
Yann Moulier Boutang
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…]
the agent of choice …
… 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