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“We have learned to trust the photographic image. Can we trust the electronic...”

– — Wim Wenders, A Notebook On Clothes and Cities, 1989 (via Just focus) This statement is from 1989, before the world-wide-web or the first digital camera (The Kodak DCS100) were created. It’s accurate in some ways, though deceptive — the conversation about the aura of an image, particularly...

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”

– Hermann Hesse

An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S.... →

Today, a group of 83 prominent Internet inventors and engineers sent an open letter to members of the United States Congress, stating their opposition to the SOPA and PIPA Internet blacklist bills that are under consideration in the House and Senate respectively. We, the undersigned, have played various parts in building a network called the Internet. We wrote and debugged the software; we...

Take a Stroll…with Rob Delaney - On Hating Gay...

I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theater from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. I studied jazz, tap, and ballet for years. I’m terrible at sports and I’m an excellent chef. I think Judy Garland is sublime. I realize those facts are like a spacious warehouse of red flags broadcasting homosexuality, but the fact is, I’m straight. If I had to guess, the chief indicator that I’m straight is...

Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B →

The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking...

Your Beautiful Pictures Are Stupid: Against Trendy... →

“But we have learned to “think” in images this way. These are romantic and really somewhat infantile image techniques. They’re childish and nostalgic. They’re about sunny days and buzzing bees and reading books on a porch, and about road trips and romanticizing urban grime and being oh so gently alienated. And really, it’s gross. …Actual analog film...

“The problem facing modern man now is compounded by the increasing power of...”

– Keith Haring (via Disconnesso)