Technoccult TV: Antero Alli, pt. 1
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Technoccult TV talks with Antero Alli about paratheater, his films, the 8 circuit model of consciousness, and his plans for the future.
Antero Alli is a paratheater director, filmmaker, astrologer, and the world’s leading expert on the 8 circuit model of […]
Full Story: Subtopia
(via Tomorrow Museum
Here are the facts as I’ve been able to tell: For at least a month, a disgruntled litigant, angry at Judge Kozinski (and the Ninth Circuit) has been talking to the media to try to smear Kozinski. Kozinski had sent a link to a file (unrelated to the stuff being reported about) that was stored […]
Unable to afford a proper camera crew and equipment, The Get Out Clause, an unsigned band from the city, decided to make use of the cameras seen all over British streets.
With an estimated 13 million CCTV cameras in Britain, suitable locations were not hard to come by.
They set up their equipment, drum kit and all, […]
On a talk show last autumn, a prominent political analyst named Mikhail Delyagin offered some tart words about Vladimir Putin. When the program was televised, Delyagin was not.
His remarks were cut and he was digitally erased from the show, like a disgraced comrade airbrushed from an old Soviet photo. (The technicians may have worked a […]
Fox News contributor and former Washington Times bureau chief Liz Trotta calls Obama “Osama” and openly jokes/wishes for assassination in the same clip.
(Via The Agitator)
‘In the past, the Church used graphic, sometimes pornographic images of the devil as an enemy against which everyone could unite, and as a way of quelling dissent. Today we have lost the devil. The devil disappeared from public culture in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, and what replaces it? At the moment, child […]
On the February 26, 1992, six months after Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia, the Ministry of the Interior erased 18,305 legal inhabitants from the Permanent Population Register. With a stroke of the pen, 18,305 individuals became stateless “residents without status,” unable to work legally, losing their drivers licenses, passports and other legal papers. Many were […]
Details are sparse:
This week, the American Institute of Architects announced the recipients of its Small Project Awards 2008. Winners include Abod, envisioned as a low-cost, prefabricated solution to South Africa’s housing shortage by BSB Designs.
Each home packs flat and can be assembled by four people with a screwdriver and awl (both tools are shipped with […]
All of that fits into this:
More info: Tree Hugger
See also: Birth of the Nuppie
This is apparently only a prototype, they are not available commercially yet. And I expect them to be rather expensive when they do become available. So how might we be able to build our own compact living solutions?
Update: Here’s a video of […]
Rose Colored news returns to regular operations
Crime prevention organization making a difference in Chicago
Man grows new finger thanks to ground-up pig bladder
Argentina Decriminalizes Drug Consumption
Alaska: Appeals Court Cracks Down on Coercive Searches
Low cost, small scale wind turbines to power off-grid villages
Gel-like Material Shows Promise As Oral Insulin Pill For Diabetes
Bakeries urge customers to plant wheat […]
Since so much has been made of Obama’s old preacher, here are some people reporters could ask other politicians to renounce:
John Hagee, who’s support John McCain is “very proud” to have, told NPR that hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment of the city of New Orleans for homosexuality. Read more about Hagee.
Robert Tate, music director at […]
“Miranda is a black box-like arrest documentation device that records video, audio, motion, impact, location, and other data and streams it over cell phone data networks to third party observers such as the ACLU.”
More information
Is this a real, available device or just a design concept?
(Thanks Michael)
Info and more: Yanko Design
(via Grinding)
What to make of all this…
Google Profit Jumps 30% Despite Slowing Economy
Federated Media takes $50 million in VC
Six Apart Launches Ad Network
Meanwhile:
Food rationing is back.
The site was created by Witness, a Brooklyn-based group founded by the globe-trotting pop star Peter Gabriel in 1992. Conceived in the wake of the Rodney King beating, the group initially focused on getting camcorders into the hands of human rights activists around the world. The goal, in Gabriel’s phrase, was to create a network […]