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created for: Surrealart challenge "Renascine"
You put your son in bed and he says to you: Daddy, see if there are no monsters under the bed. Then you look and see another boy just like yours, and he says to you: Daddy has a boy just like me lying in my bed.
So I've been working on this series for a little while now, and it's finally almost ready for the opening of the show on April 9th at 12 PM SLT.
It's called Inspiration, and consists of 8 pieces inspired by musicians I like. I've taken style, color palette, and overall aesthetic cues from album art, performance & promo photos, and music videos. If you're one of those pesky Millennials like I am, you might recognize what inspired the image for the flyer. :) If you know who it is, or what the song/video was, let me know in the comments haha.
I won't share what I'm wearing this time. You'll have to wait for the main images to be released, for that. :D
Show Opens April 9th and runs until May 2022. Here's your taxi:
watch the full version here::
you pretty much have to!
machinima by >> lyric lundquist
sim by >> skills hak "insilico"
avatars >> lyric lundquist, skills hak and insilico employees, bettina tizzy, and hern worsley.
song by >> emilie autumn - best safety lies in fear (thanks to case tomorrow for giving it to me!)
[UPDATE] check out sevent uriza's remix of cyberspace is vast!! >> www.flickr.com/photos/25003627@N06/3546830810/?addedcomme...
she's <3
you can always go to my youtube page to watch more videos that i've made at www.youtube.com/user/lovetothelyrics .
I usually send photos that are this much out of focus, or so poorly lit, into cyberspace, but for some reason, I decided that I like this one. Do you?
A lavender cape daisy, viewed from the side.
"A monster virus is loose in Cyberspace. Nobody knows how it got loose, but only the Roboriders can stop it!"
Rider 8003: Scaling volcanic mountain terrain!
Rider 8004: A rugged minibike only bested by Power!
Rider 8005: Navigating through snowy peaks and valleys!
Rider 8006: A mad machine that can take any terrain!
Rider 8509: Conquers the poisonous vapours of the swamp!
Rider 8510: At home in the heart of a volcano!
Rider 8511: Blasting through snow and ice!
Rider 8512: Patrols the deepest caves!
Rider 8513: A real desert devil!
Rider 8514: Fast, strong, unbeatable!
One of my favorite contacts, Joan Liveoak, just passed away on July 31. This came as such a shock to me. Joan had been going through some health problems, and eye problems, but I had no idea that her troubles were this serious. She has been in my prayers for months, and it has been a long time since I heard from her. I missed her, and hoped that she would once again be able to see so she could come back on here to share her photos and her love of the Lord. This wasn't to be.
Once again, this is a reminder that the people we meet in "Cyberspace" are REAL, and still can have a powerful impact upon our lives. Though we don't meet face to face, we still know others if we bother to really communicate and share ourselves with them. Joan did that, and enriched the lives of everyone who came in contact with her.
From the many photos of Joan's favorite kitty, Zoey, that she lost some time ago, to her new ones- all hairless and as cute as can be- to the faith she shared with us on Flickr, to the trials of the family she loved, Joan was a wonderful woman, friend, wife and mother, and most of all follower of Jesus. Often, she would ask for prayer, knowing that it really made a difference and I know that she prayed for me and others, too. She was faithful, first to the Lord, and then to the others who were a part of her life, in person or online.
Joan, my sister, you've been missed and will continue to be missed until we finally meet face to face in the presence of the Lord!
Please keep Joan's family in your prayers at this painful and difficult time.
ppc by snapseed tools
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cybercrime
Cyberattacken ist der gezielte Angriff auf größere, für eine spezifische Infrastruktur wichtige Rechnernetze von außen zur Sabotage, Informationsgewinnung und Erpressung
Cyberspace
(englisch cyber als Kurzform für „Kybernetik“, space „Raum, Weltall“: kybernetischer Raum, Kyberraum) bezeichnet im engeren Sinne eine konkrete virtuelle Welt oder virtuelle Realität („Scheinwelt“), im erweiterten Sinne die Gesamtheit mittels Computern erzeugter räumlich anmutender oder ausgestalteter Bedienungs-, Arbeits-, Kommunikations- und Erlebnisumgebungen. In der verallgemeinernden Bedeutung als Datenraum umfasst der Cyberspace das ganze Internet.
Copyright - ERWIN EFFINGER TUEBINGEN GERMANY
JOKE
Ein Mann fragt einen Bauern in der Nähe eines Feldes: «Tut mir leid, Sir, würde es Ihnen etwas ausmachen, wenn ich Ihr Feld überqueren würde, anstatt es zu umgehen?
Ich muss den 4:23 Zug erwischen.»
Der Bauer sagt: «Kein Problem. Und wenn mein Bulle Sie sieht, wirst du sogar den 4:11 erwischen.»
Apaixonada por esse esmalte 💜
Deu um trabalhinho pra fechar a cor (foram 4 camadas), mas eh muito lindo! Holografia discretinha do jeito que eu amo.
I haven't had a proper ramble for ages, well not a public one anyway. In fact there hasn't been any action, from me, out here in cyberspace, for quite a while.
I'm quite prone to introspection, you may have noticed if you hadn't been staring at your own bellybutton. And it is both a gift and a bind. But it is something wrapped up within my insides, feeling tightly wrapped around like I have been rolled over and over inside a carpet so it clasps the whole of my being.
Perhaps introspection is another name for sensitivity, perhaps even hypersensitivity. I crave peace and quiet, loud noises jolt me with impatience and I baulk at how the non-sensitives will shout into their mobile phone whilst sat next to you, or park themselves adjacently to your long-searched-for-solitude on a remote beach ovelooking the sea.
At the hinges of the seasons I feel my sensitivities even more and they career between overwhelm and near blissful wonder at the world.
As autumn begins I feel this the most strongly. My feeling for the world is so fiercely overwhelmed but amongst the raw and vulnerable feelings are glimpses of infinity and heaven. But what can be imagined and intellectually understood is not the same as the experience itself. As to live through a hyper-sensitive episode is to be within it, rather than an impassioned observer of its trials and wonders.
Here's something I wrote just as a stream of conciousness back in September, when I was staying away from home for work and felt the full force of autumnal sensitivity.
"I ache, I ache all over.
People watching: what is it to be old, what is it to be young, transporting my enquiring mind into theirs to live their lives for a brief moment. Looking into each persons eyes through my dark glasses, looking at them looking at me, looking at them. Too many interconnections, too interconnected. Need to turn the volume down.
The inxplicable ache of beauty. An impossible Tsumani of creativity and experience, overwhelming sensitivity. Want to bottle it in a jar, keep it and live with it always but also be able to put the lid on so I can breathe and take a break. Sensitivity is such a paradox. While you ache, things take on such infinite proportions, whether you ache for a break, for the world not to keep rushing you with such force, or whether beauty makes you ache, grabs you and affixes its beauty to your soul so you cannot escape, like your brain is being pulled out through your eyes. The aches oscillate between positive and negative each with pull like a powerful magnet, pulling into its clutches or repelling you strongly.
Hard to escape and hard to resist, a trap so overlwhelming you want it to stop and yet when the pain is gone, back comes mundanity. You don't feel the absence of pain, only at the moment it recedes, when the relief replaces the sensitivity. And yet when it's gone you ache once more, you miss it once it's gone, you want it back. You want to feel alive to your core, once again.
Thoughts and interconnections tumble out of your mind, such a thrill if you can catch a ride on one but so often, you just want to pres the pause button and see what it is like to watch and experience what it is you are experiencing. To sit back and watch yourself deluged in a sensitive flow of tumbling thoughts so you can make sense of them, take a step back, have them happen whilst be able to witness the flow, see them for what they are, bring them altogether, condense and channel them. But as soon often in life your instrospection does not allow you to silently witness the flow, you are ungulfed in its midst a passenger in the torrent."
"I am writing this sat in a hotel room on a sunny Sunday. What a day to be hyper sensitive.
Away from home for work, with no outlet except a pouring out of words into my laptop, like an ever open ear. Earlier I sat in a pub and ordered myself lunch and attempted to read my Sunday newspaper. My brain on overdrive, I could only muster two paragraphs before my eyes would lift and scan around me to see what was happening, jittery and unfocused, the tsunami gathering momentum all the time.
Battling self conciousness, sat on my own, the sad travelling worker. Newspaper and sunday lunch, pint with billy no mates. And yet the feeling of exposure, the looking at people and the lives, and their ways, their companions and them looking back at me. It heightened it all, the flow of words, the introspection. the self loathing, the strong feeling of the utter transience of existence, the overwhelming power of inexplicable beauty in the world, what it is to be alive, what it is to be sensitve, what it is to trying to make sense of all these things, trapped in a wave crashing onto the shore, tumbled over and over and over.
Me watching them, watching me, whathcing myself, always trying to draw back one more level to make sense of it all, put a box round it and be a witness, so desperate to make sense of it all.
And yet when you think you make sense of it, one of two things happens, it suddenly diminishes, to explain is to take out the mystery, to extinguish its flame or sometimes the opposite happens.
Sometimes it is a revelation as two parts of your mind speak to one another for the first time, like an explosion of inspiration, a never bofore made connection opens up an entire new world.
The world comes spinning back and the wave you were once engulfed in is just one roller hitting the shore, there are 100's more following it in, to engulf you once more.
But what becomes so evidently clear is these words are futile, a nothingness, a distraction in pointlessness. My imagination cannot bottle up those and replay them to me at will, I cannot take them home in a little box tied up with string. I need to be living them now, in the here and now, they are there while they're there and it is then when you feel them in your soul. The memory is bitter sweet, it isn't that thing, it has none of its intensity but it has enough of a clue to remind you to go back and feel it once again.
And this leads me to the ache I feel most of all. the transience of existence. Just as a flower is transient so is a thought, so is a life, looking back is neither here nor there, it is all present in the here and now in its infinite beauty and variety.
But each moment is gone as quickly as it arrives as will be my life, my existence. Embrace the brevity for it is all you have. One day soon you and I will be gone."
It's snowing ... again ... I have therefore crawled deeper inside cyberspace where I found a Photoshop Fractal plugin. In there I can create all those colors that are totally absent from my world today.
About
This shot was not "clean" enough to make it into my photostream, too much going on... So I tried to run it through the Photoshop Fractalius plugin, cool. I'm gonna experiment with that in the weekend :)
This is a 10 second close up shot of a fast flowing stream. There where branches covered in ice hanging over the water. The water was very "milky".
The original was similar to this shot.
Photo
- Canon 40D
- Canon 70-200mm f/4L
- Tripod
- RAW converted to DNG
- 10 sec at f/32 ISO100 200mm (35mm eq: 320mm)
Post Process
This is a 10 second close up shot of a fast flowing stream. The water was very "milky". I pulled it through the Fractalius Photoshop plugin and voila :))
Thanks
Comments and critique are as always welcome.
In and out of Explore. Thanks a lot to all my Flickr friends :)
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LAVA | RoboRiders
"A monster virus is loose in Cyberspace. Nobody knows how it got loose, but only the Roboriders can stop it!"
Rider 8003: Scaling volcanic mountain terrain!
Rider 8004: A rugged minibike only bested by Power!
Rider 8005: Navigating through snowy peaks and valleys!
Rider 8006: A mad machine that can take any terrain!
Rider 8509: Conquers the poisonous vapours of the swamp!
Rider 8510: At home in the heart of a volcano!
Rider 8511: Blasting through snow and ice!
Rider 8512: Patrols the deepest caves!
Rider 8513: A real desert devil!
Rider 8514: Fast, strong, unbeatable!
The obligatory bay bridge at night shot.
Uncropped and unprocessed; this is exactly what came out of the camera.
We took this one from the Embarcadero on the San Francisco side.
Pinhole took a similar shot at roughly the same time, if you want to compare my vision to his.
Part of the Katrina Relief Auction
Part of my display at the Mneme gallery in Vallejo, CA, and two cafe shows so far.
I took another version more recently, but I still like this version better.
Please note: this is entry #1
It was submitted on 5 Dec 2012, but got lost in cyberspace!
Name: Positively texty
Size: 18 inch
Envelope enclosure with button tab
Jayne Plunkett, CEO Asia and Member of Group Executive Committee, Swiss Re Asia Ptd. Ltd., Singapore and Ciaran Martin, Chief Executive, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), United Kingdom speaking during the Session "Strategic Geography: Geopolitical Cyberspace" at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
An attempt to capture perceptions of the self or identity via technological communications. Ideas about "the self" have radically altered over the last few decades. Academics, writers and artists write about and convey notions of a fluid identity, rather than a "fixed state" of identity or personality. Personality is a mixture of both fluidity and parts that endure, however it is interesting to observe how these conceptions have changed.
Thank you again to XstockX for allowing me to use her photo in this picture.
Simon
Woke up in the middle of the night and decided to take the trash out. The sky was cloud- covered, not a single star to be seen. The street was empty and I felt a slight longing for something I couldn’t put my finger on so I switch on the computer, make of cup of ginger tea and play with some art. Cued on my listening list is a video by Shoshana Zuboff, author of “Surveillance Capitalism”. I take a deep breath in and began to loosen up and let myself go on another artistic voyage.
Since 1978, Shoshana has been studying the dawn of the “Digital Age”which was going to usher in a golden time of global collaborations to solve great world challenges like disease and hunger. Now 43 years later, she published a book to warn us to reclaim the liberties taken by those who have hijacked the digital domain and who mine insane amounts of data from an unsuspecting user base. She says that F.Book, for example, extracts 3 trillion bits of information and spits out 6 million human behavioral predictions per second. (My image takes on this idea of separating: The metal bars, the surveillance camera, the projected image and the artist protagonist who sings and dreams and holds on the beauty of her own created thought world.) Shoshana says that these human predictions are bought and sold like wheat or oil or minerals and companies compete to have access to the most accurate outcomes of these behavioral forecasts. This is the most lucrative and substantial real-estate of the modern age. We are not the customer, we are simply a resource…being fed into algorithims which are then studied and sold back to us in the form of everything from political leanings to personalized selections of consumer goods and lifestyle choices. She says that facial recognition technology can now even detect fear and there is a sound device that can pick up your surroundings so a targeted ad can be sent to you in a vulnerable moment and be designed in such a way that you give in.
I think of this invasive siphoning as a kind of instrumental colonialism confiscating our private thoughts and feelings in order to take ownership of them. Roshana urges us to keep asking three key questions: Who is in the Know? Who decides who will be in the Know? Who decides who decides who will be in the Know? (Two hands represent this chasm …) The increasing divisiveness in the climate, health, technology and religious debates seems to support this idea. (The projected image on a laptop appears. What is real and what is not real?) She ends the talk on a hopeful note saying that even the industrial revolution had to hammer out human rights issues and this is the time to bring the digital frontier into the so called “house of democracy”. She said that cyberspace is only made of data, capital, machines and people. She emphasizes that these are unprecedented times and we need to be vigilent. We need to keep asking questions.
It’s almost noon now as I lean back and stretch. My heart scans the artwork as the images dance, rearrange in a new ways to interpret the interconnectedness of thoughts and things; the maco and micro worlds are always in synch. Vibrational differences give the illusion of separation while the giving and taking hands are the polarities that move and shake this existence with masculine and feminine givng and receiving aspects. The musician reclaims her songs and pulsates with rhythms through endless wave form patterns. When we remember who we are, we can take charge again. We make better choices. We are not the bystander but pioneer new visions with the perspective that the digital world offers new tools of collaboration and engagement with cutting edge of possibilities. In this refiguring, there is joy, freedom and deep reverence. We take care of ourselves, each other and the earth because we know we are all part of a great Love Story. We all write the story together.
“Though free to think and act, we are held together like stars in the firmament with ties unseperable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them. We are all one.”
-Nikola Tesla
Here is the video this writing refers to:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm2i4OlW3sM (Shoshana starts 8 minutes in…)
Flickr Friday-We Love Pizza
We did an experiment today. I took this photo with my iPad Pro on Facetime here in Upstate, NY of the last piece of Pizza at my daughter's home in Toronto Canada. It's a bit grainy but it's not bad considering the distance this photo traveled.
Here is one for my mom. Today, I'm departing from my favourites(raptors) to one of my mom's favourites(hummingbirds).
Happy M-day to all of you Moms out there in cyberspace.
Model: Saphir Noir & Samuel Nox
Cyberpunk Shooting
Location: Regensburg
Bearbeitung: Jürgen Krall Photography
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Bild Nr.: 120_4998
On TX-360, otherwise known as the Capital of Texas Highway, lives this bridge which spans Lake Austin. Following in the footsteps of other great Austin-area photogs I figured it was time to toss my attempt into cyberspace.
Participants of the multinational Rim of the Pacific exercise launch a REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle.
The U.S. Navy is moving quickly to link its fleet through its Project Overmatch initiative, I think the Overmatch initiative makes sense. It brings the navy’s approach to communication in line with the realities of modern warfare.
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Article By Megan Eckstein and Colin Demarest Dec 8, 2022
Project Overmatch will arguably be the U.S. Navy’s most important work in 2023, especially as the service aims to incorporate more unmanned systems. (Seaman Victoria Danser/U.S. Navy)
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is moving quickly to link its fleet through its Project Overmatch initiative, which has been kept almost entirely secret for two years.
Shielded from public view, the service has undertaken a flurry of work: simulating current pathways for data, writing software code to close gaps, testing it in a lab and at sea, and providing feedback to coders to improve future iterations.
Rear Adm. Doug Small, who leads both Naval Information Warfare Systems Command and Project Overmatch, told Defense News this high-priority effort remains on track for a planned deployment of the new capabilities to a carrier strike group in 2023.
Project Overmatch is the Navy’s contribution to the Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar Joint All-Domain Command and Control effort — a push to reliably connect forces across land, air, sea, space and cyberspace as well as enable seamless international collaboration.
The fielding of Project Overmatch will arguably be the Navy’s most important work in 2023, especially as the service aims to incorporate more unmanned systems that serve as intelligence-collecting nodes, feeding information to sailors on ships and in ashore command centers.
“The Navy’s effort on Overmatch is very much focused on the next two or three years,” said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute. “Overmatch has really focused much more directly on the near-term operational problems faced by commanders dealing with China.”
Small said he’s optimistic about the upcoming demonstration — the largest of its kind, but not the first time the Navy will use this new technology at sea, noting it continues a critical line of research. With ships inherently disaggregated, he said, the Navy is naturally considering ways to better share information across ships and aircraft so the best-positioned platform can strike a target.
“The Navy in particular had been working various system of systems-type concepts and the technologies that would go into that for mission threads. How do you stitch together various components to create a mission or an outcome, an effect?” he said in a Nov. 10 interview. “Overmatch [is] sort of a natural progression of that sort of work.”
Origins of Overmatch
Though the Navy was already researching how to connect ships, planes and weapons, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday created Project Overmatch in fall 2020 and tapped Small to lead the effort. Gilday has since said Overmatch is his No. 2 priority, behind delivery of the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine.
Whereas past efforts were housed within specific offices, Small said Project Overmatch is meant to encompass the entire Navy.
“Inside of a platform-centric service,” he said, “how can you become more data- and network-centric?”
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Rear Adm. Doug Small speaks at the 2021 Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium. (Elisha Gamboa/U.S. Navy)
The core team started with just a few people, but has grown to about 50. The team, plus its collaborators across the Navy and industry, are focused on several key points: tools and analytics, networks, data, and infrastructure, which includes computing and platforms as a service.
“Fundamentally, this is all about management of data, exchange of data,” David Deptula, the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and a retired Air Force lieutenant general, said Nov. 14 at a JADC2 industry event. “Without the appropriate infrastructure, you can’t be able to do the data, connectivity or networking. Without the security, all of it falls apart because you’re yielding a huge weakness and vulnerability to our adversary.”
But perhaps the most significant, overriding mission of the team is to figure out what barriers the Navy has put in its own way.
Small said the commercial industry is able to do what the Navy wants to do; car companies like Tesla remotely send software updates to address security gaps or capability improvements without creating safety risks for drivers, and Amazon pushes out hundreds of thousands of software updates each day, which an online shopper might never notice.
“Everything that we have put in our way that prevents us from doing exactly that is something that we’ve done to ourselves,” Small said. “Now, there are changes that need to happen to systems on ships and shore facilities to enable that, but then, eventually, that’s how you get to fielding.”
Small said his Project Overmatch team should have a client-like relationship with the fleet, where they understand what sailors need to do their jobs more effectively and, in turn, quickly produce and deliver tools to address those gaps.
“Bringing an upgrade every several years, or bringing hundreds of thousands of changes per day — somewhere in the middle, there is that sweet spot where we basically pace our adversaries with delivery of capability. And that’s what it’s really all about,” said Small, noting the difference between the Navy and the tech industry.
Ready to strike
Small said his focus is now on the 2023 carrier strike group demonstration. Though he wouldn’t identify specific technologies or software involved, he dubbed the event “the starting gun” and said additional capabilities will roll out in future iterations.
Small said the team will deploy this first increment onto the first carrier strike group in 2023, and then continue until all 11 carrier strike groups have the hardware and software installed. That equates to a large portion of the surface fleet, excluding amphibious ships and some forward-deployed vessels with a different operational model.
“The alternative path is, well, let’s design the whole thing out for a few years and then field that everywhere, right? And you’ve probably seen the [timeline] curves on that, and we’re trying to take a stepwise approach to get there faster,” he said.
The Navy sought $195 million for Project Overmatch in fiscal 2023, a 167% increase over the $73 million it received in fiscal 2022. Spending details have otherwise been scant, with the service executing Project Overmatch behind closed doors, a posture taken, experts said, to bamboozle China.
“It’s mostly because they don’t want to tip their hand as to what they’re looking to put together,” Clark said. “How they deter China is by increasing the uncertainty on the part of the Chinese, on the [People’s Liberation Army], that they’ll be successful on terms that the Chinese leadership would find acceptable.”
Away from the public eye, Project Overmatch technology has already undergone repeated testing, according to Small.
“Within even the first six months of the effort, we had done some work with the Marine Corps, for example, where we got some real-time feedback and did some connections,” he explained. “We’ve been to individual ships with systems and connected it to our labs to sort of simulate other [ships].”
Pushing Project Overmatch advancements into the real world is vital, according to Clark.
“Of all the services, the Navy’s done the best job of trying to really focus their effort on what the operational commander needs, rather than things that the service thinks are cool to put together,” he said. “The Navy’s really focused on Overmatch, being focused on what the average commander needs, focused on the near term and, therefore, focused on actual systems that can be deployed today.”
This fall, the technology was used in the Army’s Project Convergence exercise across multiple units, Small said. The weekslong experiment, during which bleeding-edge tech is put through the wringer, represents the Army’s contribution to JADC2. The Air Force, likewise, has its Advanced Battle Management System, an attempt to adopt the next generation of command-and-control tech.
The Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System is expected to enable the rapid collection, processing and sharing of data across all domains, weapons systems and commands. (U.S. Air Force)
But there are concerns the separate efforts are not properly aligned. An early draft of the annual defense bill included an audit of JADC2, with the House Armed Services Committee’s cyber and innovative technologies panel, chaired by retiring Rhode Island Democrat Rep. Jim Langevin, requesting a study on timelines, goals and potential shortfalls.
Defense officials have also expressed skepticism. The Air Force’s principal cyber adviser, Wanda Jones-Heath, in July described the services’ efforts as “all different.”
The data-centric odyssey is of the highest stakes as the U.S. and allied nations attempt to thwart Chinese and Russian ambitions, officials argue. Beijing and Moscow have each spent significant sums on military science and technology — including artificial intelligence and cyber advancements — ratcheting up the pace at which information must be exchanged and decisions must be made on the battlefield.
“Here’s how I see it: any data, anywhere, any time that it is needed. And the vision, when I start to spin this out, is coalition warfare,” Pentagon Chief Information Officer John Sherman said at a Defense Information Systems Agency event Nov. 7.
“You have a U.S. Marine Corps [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System] getting a firing solution from an Australian [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] capability; maybe you have a Japanese frigate that’s also going to hit the same target there; you’ve got multinational F-35s coming on station to provide combat air-support capability. All of this is going to have to happen quickly.”
Gilday in October said the Navy is sharing Project Overmatch insights with foreign forces to ensure international communication and collaboration will be possible in large-scale, distributed fights.
Though Gilday did not identify those allies, Small told Defense News his program started with Five Eyes — an intelligence-sharing group made up of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Small added that the U.S. has since welcomed other allies and partners to collaborate on software development.
No final destination
Some ships will have to wait for their next maintenance period to receive hardware and software changes, but Small said his team is working through policy issues to allow for installations to happen pier-side and, therefore, on a quicker timeline. In the meantime, the Project Overmatch team will chip away at the next increment, even as it’s fielding the first.
“Our concept of ‘done’ has to change a little bit,” Small said, “because it’s really not a traditional type of acquisition approach.”
Defense officials have cast JADC2 in a similar light. There is no true finish line, but rather the massive networking endeavor requires a rolling development process to maintain an advantage over adversaries capable of jamming, intercepting and muddying communications.
Sherman, the Pentagon CIO, said the key to JADC2 is speed and stubbornly staying “inside the enemy’s turn circle.”
“This has got to move so fast that the adversary cannot get back up off the mat,” he said. “Maybe they have mass on us, but we have quality of data, quality of capability.”
About Megan Eckstein and Colin Demarest
Megan Eckstein is the naval warfare reporter at Defense News. She has covered military news since 2009, with a focus on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps operations, acquisition programs and budgets. She has reported from four geographic fleets and is happiest when she’s filing stories from a ship. Megan is a University of Maryland alumna.
Colin Demarest is a reporter at C4ISRNET, where he covers military networks, cyber and IT. Colin previously covered the Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration — namely Cold War cleanup and nuclear weapons development — for a daily newspaper in South Carolina. Colin is also an award-winning photographer.
This is part of the gen1 series of images, with my first "generation" of LED toys (It's a breadboard, some resistors, a 9v battery, and LEDs that I swapped out) and one of my friends who agreed to model for me.
This is a long-exposure (15 second) shot where I wave the LEDs around and both use it to "paint" with light onto the subject, but also to form squiggly patterns in the background. The only post-processing I did was cropping.
This one uses UV LEDs, but they mostly turned out blue in the picture. You can see just a smidge of purple here.
This was part of my display at the Mneme gallery in Valejo CA.
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We are really happy to announce the first contest to celebrate the Wild Weekend at Commotion Event
🚀 CYBERSPACE
Sunday April 28th starting at 2pm slt
5000$ Linden prize pool
dress code: Cyber, Future
Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Geneva, speaking in the Protecting Cyberspace amid Exponential Change at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 17 January. Aspen 4. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Walter Duerst
Small Dutch collectors card.
New series alert!
We invite you to join a quiz at Truus, Bob & Jan too! From next Wednesday on, we promise you one of the most difficult and engaging film quizzes in cyberspace! For the second time, La Collectionneuse a.k.a. Marlene Pilaete lets us guess: Who's that lady? For this daily quiz, Marlene spent many nights going through her albums with film star postcards. Finally, she selected 16 rare and amazing postcards of female vedettes for us. So join the fun and try to guess who they are. On 27 November we will make a special La Collectionneuse post with all the cards at European Film Star Postcards, and the next day Marlene will finally reveal who the 16 ladies are.
Until then we share some Dutch collectors cards of unidentified women that we recently acquired. I guess they date from the early 1960s. Pictured are some of the sexiest ladies on the screen. According to the seller, all the photos had been published in the Dutch Oh-la-la magazine De Lach, in English 'The Smile'. As young kids, Truus and I read De Lach at home (these were the liberated 1970s), while my family received the magazines from my grandma. My grandma never read them, but out of pity for the man who delivered the magazines, she refused to cancel the subscription and gave the copies to my father. So smile and please comment who you think this lady is.
Bob
Jayne Plunkett, CEO Asia and Member of Group Executive Committee, Swiss Re Asia Ptd. Ltd., Singapore speaking during the Session "Strategic Geography: Geopolitical Cyberspace" at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January January 23, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
The term "cyberspace" first appeared in the visual arts in the late 1960s, when Danish artist Susanne Ussing (1940-1998) and her partner architect Carsten Hoff (b. 1934) constituted themselves as Atelier Cyberspace.
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Don Slater uses a metaphor to define cyberspace, describing the "sense of a social setting that exists purely within a space of representation and communication ... it exists entirely within a computer space, distributed across increasingly complex and fluid networks."
The term "Cyberspace" started to become a de facto synonym for the Internet, and later the World Wide Web, during the 1990s, especially in academic circles
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Cyberattacken ist der gezielte Angriff auf größere, für eine spezifische Infrastruktur wichtige Rechnernetze von außen zur Sabotage, Informationsgewinnung und Erpressung
Cyberspace
(englisch cyber als Kurzform für „Kybernetik“, space „Raum, Weltall“: kybernetischer Raum, Kyberraum) bezeichnet im engeren Sinne eine konkrete virtuelle Welt oder virtuelle Realität („Scheinwelt“), im erweiterten Sinne die Gesamtheit mittels Computern erzeugter räumlich anmutender oder ausgestalteter Bedienungs-, Arbeits-, Kommunikations- und Erlebnisumgebungen. In der verallgemeinernden Bedeutung als Datenraum umfasst der Cyberspace das ganze Internet.
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Ein Mann fragt einen Bauern in der Nähe eines Feldes: «Tut mir leid, Sir, würde es Ihnen etwas ausmachen, wenn ich Ihr Feld überqueren würde, anstatt es zu umgehen?
Ich muss den 4:23 Zug erwischen.»
Der Bauer sagt: «Kein Problem. Und wenn mein Bulle Sie sieht, wirst du sogar den 4:11 erwischen.»
Your Halloween Nightmare.
Dedicated to my Flickr friend Bruce S....Happy Dreams on Halloween. :-)).
He is out there......somewhere in cyberspace keeping the birds away but not in my yard.
More from by the remains of the suspension bridge posted yesterday. One of yesterday's pics is still in cyberspace and there should be another one coming now.
I am at a loss as to how these pics get lost in cyberspace. Does anyone else have this problem, of uploading pics and having them not appear, and then appear either days or months later?
The time has come to start making sense of things, of the world, of each other. We think we’re doing that, but we’re actually doing the opposite. We are complicating…EVERYTHING…to the point of utter madness. Our world has become one ginormous madhouse, ESPECIALLY cyberspace — this alternate world we created within our world that seems to have created a world within itself — yet to be identified, recognized, and named. Making sense of things is not a bad thing. For example, let’s start with one major web enigma: Paul Jaisini and “Gleitzeit” which is this, uh, odd art movement the guy started in the 90s. If you simply google either of those names, I gaurantee you a good WTF moment or two. You’ll not just be scratching your head over this one. You’ll be scratching every part of your body like a delusional nutcase who thinks your skin is literally crawling with countless bugs. IT’S GONNA BUG THE HELL OUT OF YOU, let’s just say…maybe for a day or a week…or maybe, as for some folks, long after you’ve discovered it. You’ll be itching to understand what it’s about even just a little bit. Your mind will try to make sense of Paul Jaisini and/or Gleitzeit, it will want to, but will fail miserably. Frustration and anger will start setting in. I know because that’s how it was for me and every person that tried. The deeper you dig, the more you try to figure it out, the more confused, overwhelmed, baffled, and perplexed you’ll get. I guess for the people that attempt to understand the Paul Jaisini and Gleitzeit thing or debunk it, my advice is: DON’T EVEN TRY. DON’T GO THERE. IT’S NOT FOR YOU. The sleepless nights, the uncertainty, the questions and ideas that start invading your head, the horror of “waking up” from normality and regularity, the trauma of moving from one dimension to another… is not worth it. Well, for me it was worth it, but not for others. They claim it’s crazy and even dangerous for the mind, Paul Jaisini’s Gleitzeit. Well, sure, I mean you gotta break some eggs to make an omelette, dontchya?
DON’T BOTHER!
The time has come to start making sense of things, of the world, of each other. We think we’re doing that, but we’re actually doing the opposite. We are complicating…EVERYTHING…to the point of utter madness. Our world has become one ginormous madhouse, ESPECIALLY cyberspace — this alternate world we created within our world that seems to have created a world within itself — yet to be identified, recognized, and named. Making sense of things is not a bad thing. For example, let’s start with one major web enigma: Paul Jaisini and “Gleitzeit” which is this, uh, odd art movement the guy started in the 90s. If you simply google either of those names, I gaurantee you a good WTF moment or two. You’ll not just be scratching your head over this one. You’ll be scratching every part of your body like a delusional nutcase who thinks your skin is literally crawling with countless bugs. IT’S GONNA BUG THE HELL OUT OF YOU, let’s just say…maybe for a day or a week…or maybe, as for some folks, long after you’ve discovered it. You’ll be itching to understand what it’s about even just a little bit. Your mind will try to make sense of Paul Jaisini and/or Gleitzeit, it will want to, but will fail miserably. Frustration and anger will start setting in. I know because that’s how it was for me and every person that tried. The deeper you dig, the more you try to figure it out, the more confused, overwhelmed, baffled, and perplexed you’ll get. I guess for the people that attempt to understand the Paul Jaisini and Gleitzeit thing or debunk it, my advice is: DON’T EVEN TRY. DON’T GO THERE. IT’S NOT FOR YOU. The sleepless nights, the uncertainty, the questions and ideas that start invading your head, the horror of “waking up” from normality and regularity, the trauma of moving from one dimension to another… is not worth it. Well, for me it was worth it, but not for others. They claim it’s crazy and even dangerous for the mind, Paul Jaisini’s Gleitzeit. Well, sure, I mean you gotta break some eggs to make an omelette, dontchya? So, Gleitzeit is the omelette and all parties involved in GIG (Gleitzeit International Group) are the eggs. Makes sense. Speaking of which, “they” don’t want it to make sense, not even close. As a member of the group, I’m breaking protocol BIG TIME by writing this, by encouraging that you go out there, look this stuff up and figure it out, take away its shield of senselessness and defeat it… for the sake of a better world and future for us all. I hope someone out there hears me….one way or another, it had to be said…. Stelly Riesling medium.com/art-submissions/don-t-bother-901454f687cd
Jayne Plunkett, CEO Asia and Member of Group Executive Committee, Swiss Re Asia Ptd. Ltd., Singapore Rob, Ciaran Martin, Chief Executive, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), United Kingdom, Mark Hughes, Chief Executive Officer, Security, BT, United Kingdom and Rob Wainwright, Director, Europol (European Police Office), The Hague speaking during the Session "Strategic Geography: Geopolitical Cyberspace" at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
he Center for Strategic and International Studies presents: The CSIS-Schieffer Series Dialogues
Securing Cyberspace: A Discussion on the latest Threats and Solutions
Hosted by:
Bob Schieffer
Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Anchor, CBS News “Face the Nation”
Panelists:
Shawn Henry
President, Crowdstrike Services & Co
Former Executive Assistant Director, Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
David Sanger
National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
James Andrew Lewis
Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Reception: 4:45 - 5:30 PM
Event: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
A screen shot of my photo of Schwabacher Landing in Grand Teton National Park being utilized by the Wyoming Board of Tourism this year for both their online and billboard ad campaigns.
They licensed my photo after finding it here on Flickr....
Proof positive you can never tell who might be looking at your photos out there in cyberspace.
Grand Admiral Thrawn in Star Wars: Rebels Season 3
I won’t lie. I was pretty shocked to see the animated image of Grand Admiral Thrawn strewn everywhere across the cyberspace in the aftermath of the reveal made during Star Wars Celebration 2016 that the blue-skinned/red-eyed humanoid was gonna appear in Season 3 of Star Wars Rebels. I was shocked to my core because we’ve read countless times on Disney’s insistence that they won’t take any further elements/characters off the Expanded Universe (EU) and put them inside the main ‘canonised’ movie universe.
I guess it’s a whole new ballgame when you practically own every single thing that exists within the Star Wars banner. You get to change your decisions at will and pretend that any past less-favorable decisions will eventually be forgotten by the fans. Disney can practically do whatever they want with Star Wars and this was what they just did with Thrawn. For those who didn’t know, Disney has re-classified the bulk of the EU books/novels as ‘Legends’ which mean that they exist but not necessarily be considered part of the main canon or simply put, having any sort of tie-ins into the movies we’ve seen thus far.
I remembered that a faction of fan used to petition for George Lucas to use Thrawn inside his supposedly Episode VII-VX films but even then George simply brushed the notion aside and even said that he haven’t really read any of the novels himself. With George our of the way (when Disney purchased Star Wars for themselves) Disney was free to do anything as they please although the EU storyline/characters were still kept behind closed curtains.
Now, I understand that the author of the Thrawn Trilogy (which I’ve read many a times already since the mid-90s) is currently in the process of writing a new book on our favorite humanoid Admiral in order for him to get some backstory in the upcoming Rebels series. So why go through all the trouble when you already have Zahn’s books to refer to? You see, apart from the ‘Legends’ status of the books, it is simply not possible for Disney to rely on Zahn’s Trilogy. Firstly, Star Wars Rebel Season 3 happened before Episode IV where else in the books, Thrawn came into the picture AFTER the events of Return of the Jedi, I think about 5 years after. Therefore, some sort of re-telling needs to be done by Zahn to assimilate the character into the canonised timeline. But how different is different? Only time will tell.
I love the Thrawn Trilogy books. That was THE expanded Star Wars material to go to prior to us getting The Phantom Menace in ’98. I do however like to know if Star Wars Rebels/the upcoming Thrawn novel from Zahn would maintain the following elements from the book:
1) The Noghri – these race of humanoid served as bodyguard to Thrawn until one of them turned traitor
2) Jorrus C’baoth – mad Dark Jedi/clone of a Jedi that serves Thrawn
3) Abregado System – sound a lot like the word ‘thank you’ in Portugese but this is where most of the Trilogy action took place
4) Ysalamiri – the animal that Thrawn carries in a harness behind his back/lower back head to thwart off any Force attack from his enemies
Confession: I still haven’t watched any episodes off Star Wars: Rebel - Season 2. I guess now is a good time to play catch up before we get to see Thrawn later in the year in Season 3.
The U.S. Navy is moving quickly to link its fleet through its Project Overmatch initiative, I think the Overmatch initiative makes sense. It brings the navy’s approach to communication in line with the realities of modern warfare.
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Article By Megan Eckstein and Colin Demarest Dec 8, 2022
Project Overmatch will arguably be the U.S. Navy’s most important work in 2023, especially as the service aims to incorporate more unmanned systems. (Seaman Victoria Danser/U.S. Navy)
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is moving quickly to link its fleet through its Project Overmatch initiative, which has been kept almost entirely secret for two years.
Shielded from public view, the service has undertaken a flurry of work: simulating current pathways for data, writing software code to close gaps, testing it in a lab and at sea, and providing feedback to coders to improve future iterations.
Rear Adm. Doug Small, who leads both Naval Information Warfare Systems Command and Project Overmatch, told Defense News this high-priority effort remains on track for a planned deployment of the new capabilities to a carrier strike group in 2023.
Project Overmatch is the Navy’s contribution to the Pentagon’s multibillion-dollar Joint All-Domain Command and Control effort — a push to reliably connect forces across land, air, sea, space and cyberspace as well as enable seamless international collaboration.
The fielding of Project Overmatch will arguably be the Navy’s most important work in 2023, especially as the service aims to incorporate more unmanned systems that serve as intelligence-collecting nodes, feeding information to sailors on ships and in ashore command centers.
“The Navy’s effort on Overmatch is very much focused on the next two or three years,” said Bryan Clark, a senior fellow and director of the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute. “Overmatch has really focused much more directly on the near-term operational problems faced by commanders dealing with China.”
Small said he’s optimistic about the upcoming demonstration — the largest of its kind, but not the first time the Navy will use this new technology at sea, noting it continues a critical line of research. With ships inherently disaggregated, he said, the Navy is naturally considering ways to better share information across ships and aircraft so the best-positioned platform can strike a target.
“The Navy in particular had been working various system of systems-type concepts and the technologies that would go into that for mission threads. How do you stitch together various components to create a mission or an outcome, an effect?” he said in a Nov. 10 interview. “Overmatch [is] sort of a natural progression of that sort of work.”
Origins of Overmatch
Though the Navy was already researching how to connect ships, planes and weapons, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday created Project Overmatch in fall 2020 and tapped Small to lead the effort. Gilday has since said Overmatch is his No. 2 priority, behind delivery of the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine.
Whereas past efforts were housed within specific offices, Small said Project Overmatch is meant to encompass the entire Navy.
“Inside of a platform-centric service,” he said, “how can you become more data- and network-centric?”
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Rear Adm. Doug Small speaks at the 2021 Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium. (Elisha Gamboa/U.S. Navy)
The core team started with just a few people, but has grown to about 50. The team, plus its collaborators across the Navy and industry, are focused on several key points: tools and analytics, networks, data, and infrastructure, which includes computing and platforms as a service.
“Fundamentally, this is all about management of data, exchange of data,” David Deptula, the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and a retired Air Force lieutenant general, said Nov. 14 at a JADC2 industry event. “Without the appropriate infrastructure, you can’t be able to do the data, connectivity or networking. Without the security, all of it falls apart because you’re yielding a huge weakness and vulnerability to our adversary.”
But perhaps the most significant, overriding mission of the team is to figure out what barriers the Navy has put in its own way.
Small said the commercial industry is able to do what the Navy wants to do; car companies like Tesla remotely send software updates to address security gaps or capability improvements without creating safety risks for drivers, and Amazon pushes out hundreds of thousands of software updates each day, which an online shopper might never notice.
“Everything that we have put in our way that prevents us from doing exactly that is something that we’ve done to ourselves,” Small said. “Now, there are changes that need to happen to systems on ships and shore facilities to enable that, but then, eventually, that’s how you get to fielding.”
Small said his Project Overmatch team should have a client-like relationship with the fleet, where they understand what sailors need to do their jobs more effectively and, in turn, quickly produce and deliver tools to address those gaps.
“Bringing an upgrade every several years, or bringing hundreds of thousands of changes per day — somewhere in the middle, there is that sweet spot where we basically pace our adversaries with delivery of capability. And that’s what it’s really all about,” said Small, noting the difference between the Navy and the tech industry.
Ready to strike
Small said his focus is now on the 2023 carrier strike group demonstration. Though he wouldn’t identify specific technologies or software involved, he dubbed the event “the starting gun” and said additional capabilities will roll out in future iterations.
Small said the team will deploy this first increment onto the first carrier strike group in 2023, and then continue until all 11 carrier strike groups have the hardware and software installed. That equates to a large portion of the surface fleet, excluding amphibious ships and some forward-deployed vessels with a different operational model.
“The alternative path is, well, let’s design the whole thing out for a few years and then field that everywhere, right? And you’ve probably seen the [timeline] curves on that, and we’re trying to take a stepwise approach to get there faster,” he said.
The Navy sought $195 million for Project Overmatch in fiscal 2023, a 167% increase over the $73 million it received in fiscal 2022. Spending details have otherwise been scant, with the service executing Project Overmatch behind closed doors, a posture taken, experts said, to bamboozle China.
“It’s mostly because they don’t want to tip their hand as to what they’re looking to put together,” Clark said. “How they deter China is by increasing the uncertainty on the part of the Chinese, on the [People’s Liberation Army], that they’ll be successful on terms that the Chinese leadership would find acceptable.”
Away from the public eye, Project Overmatch technology has already undergone repeated testing, according to Small.
“Within even the first six months of the effort, we had done some work with the Marine Corps, for example, where we got some real-time feedback and did some connections,” he explained. “We’ve been to individual ships with systems and connected it to our labs to sort of simulate other [ships].”
Pushing Project Overmatch advancements into the real world is vital, according to Clark.
“Of all the services, the Navy’s done the best job of trying to really focus their effort on what the operational commander needs, rather than things that the service thinks are cool to put together,” he said. “The Navy’s really focused on Overmatch, being focused on what the average commander needs, focused on the near term and, therefore, focused on actual systems that can be deployed today.”
This fall, the technology was used in the Army’s Project Convergence exercise across multiple units, Small said. The weekslong experiment, during which bleeding-edge tech is put through the wringer, represents the Army’s contribution to JADC2. The Air Force, likewise, has its Advanced Battle Management System, an attempt to adopt the next generation of command-and-control tech.
The Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System is expected to enable the rapid collection, processing and sharing of data across all domains, weapons systems and commands. (U.S. Air Force)
But there are concerns the separate efforts are not properly aligned. An early draft of the annual defense bill included an audit of JADC2, with the House Armed Services Committee’s cyber and innovative technologies panel, chaired by retiring Rhode Island Democrat Rep. Jim Langevin, requesting a study on timelines, goals and potential shortfalls.
Defense officials have also expressed skepticism. The Air Force’s principal cyber adviser, Wanda Jones-Heath, in July described the services’ efforts as “all different.”
The data-centric odyssey is of the highest stakes as the U.S. and allied nations attempt to thwart Chinese and Russian ambitions, officials argue. Beijing and Moscow have each spent significant sums on military science and technology — including artificial intelligence and cyber advancements — ratcheting up the pace at which information must be exchanged and decisions must be made on the battlefield.
“Here’s how I see it: any data, anywhere, any time that it is needed. And the vision, when I start to spin this out, is coalition warfare,” Pentagon Chief Information Officer John Sherman said at a Defense Information Systems Agency event Nov. 7.
“You have a U.S. Marine Corps [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System] getting a firing solution from an Australian [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] capability; maybe you have a Japanese frigate that’s also going to hit the same target there; you’ve got multinational F-35s coming on station to provide combat air-support capability. All of this is going to have to happen quickly.”
Gilday in October said the Navy is sharing Project Overmatch insights with foreign forces to ensure international communication and collaboration will be possible in large-scale, distributed fights.
Though Gilday did not identify those allies, Small told Defense News his program started with Five Eyes — an intelligence-sharing group made up of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Small added that the U.S. has since welcomed other allies and partners to collaborate on software development.
No final destination
Some ships will have to wait for their next maintenance period to receive hardware and software changes, but Small said his team is working through policy issues to allow for installations to happen pier-side and, therefore, on a quicker timeline. In the meantime, the Project Overmatch team will chip away at the next increment, even as it’s fielding the first.
“Our concept of ‘done’ has to change a little bit,” Small said, “because it’s really not a traditional type of acquisition approach.”
Defense officials have cast JADC2 in a similar light. There is no true finish line, but rather the massive networking endeavor requires a rolling development process to maintain an advantage over adversaries capable of jamming, intercepting and muddying communications.
Sherman, the Pentagon CIO, said the key to JADC2 is speed and stubbornly staying “inside the enemy’s turn circle.”
“This has got to move so fast that the adversary cannot get back up off the mat,” he said. “Maybe they have mass on us, but we have quality of data, quality of capability.”
About Megan Eckstein and Colin Demarest
Megan Eckstein is the naval warfare reporter at Defense News. She has covered military news since 2009, with a focus on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps operations, acquisition programs and budgets. She has reported from four geographic fleets and is happiest when she’s filing stories from a ship. Megan is a University of Maryland alumna.
Colin Demarest is a reporter at C4ISRNET, where he covers military networks, cyber and IT. Colin previously covered the Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration — namely Cold War cleanup and nuclear weapons development — for a daily newspaper in South Carolina. Colin is also an award-winning photographer.
the main concept here is cyberspace vs reality. whereas on the internet the girl (red) meets the guy (black) and get to know each other very well to the point of falling in love, yet never meet in person, in the "parallel" real world scenario, that same pair pass by one another, getting only a glimpse of each other's face and keep walking. the plot twist here though is do they keep walking in this image? or do they both stop suddenly from an overpowering deja-vu feeling...
Stelly Riesling: well there are usually multiple concepts behind every work of mine that are conceived either before or after the work is completed. and I can rarely decide which is the best and final one. I have found to like people's interpretation of my stuff better than what I come up with. like what is yours? I'd love to know!
Also featured: 3-DIMENSIONAL TELEVISION, cameras that RECOGNISE YOUR FACE and frickin' ROBOTS WHICH CLEAN YOUR HOUSE.
And so I am standing in Piccadilly Circus listening to William Gibson talk about how he took a walkman full of music onto the streets in order to define his own reality and saw an Apple II and knew that this tool would allow us all to do the same, forever, like the kids playing Space Invaders living inside the screens, in what he called NOTIONAL SPACE.
And I've just come from the ICA, where I'd been listening to OWEN HATHERLEY and PATRICK KEILLER talk about housing—the same ICA which was founded in 1946 as a playground for artists and scientists, where Pop Art was born, which held the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition and the world's first cybercafé and which the goddamn HISTORY CHANNEL decides to note as the London debut of Franz Ferdinand—where Hatherley and Keiller laid the failure of housing—in general, not just social housing—squarely at the feet of capitalism, which demands we do more with less, that puts price above all other considerations, and that is why we all still live in Victorian hutches rather than cities in the sky. Because buildings are still one-off products—massively expensive compared to all other goods—local, fixed and immobile. In short, YOU CANNOT DIGITISE A HOUSE.
"We have a right to ask ‘why’ housing should be as cheap as possible and not, for example, rather expensive, ‘why’ instead of making every effort to reduce it to minimum levels of surface, of thickness, of materials, we should not try to make it spacious, protected, isolated, comfortable, well-equipped, rich in opportunities for privacy, communication, exchange of personal creativity."
Giancarlo di Carlo, ‘Legitimizing Architecture’, Forum Vol.23 1972 — THAT.
And down the road, on the Mall itself, the BRITISH COUNCIL have put up an honest-to-god STATUE OF YURI GAGARIN, unveiled in front of 500 Russians in the SAME GODDAMN WEEK that we all but said fuck that to manned spaceflight.
And my friend Dean is telling me that it's obvious that the problem is that we can't see past this profit motive, that we've got our priorities wrong and I'm all like DUH WTF CAPITALIST REALISM but he is not wrong and in the lecture H & K talked about the Nairn-Anderson thesis that Britain is essentially fucked because it never had a proper revolution, which may or may not be the case, but stuck with me because this weekend I remembered that in 1989 my parents had a Thatcherite Bastille Day garden party for the bicentennary with cockade hats and everything and how fucked up is that? Well, about as fucked up as the mental Tory small-p party currently going on at the South Bank with the whole Festival of Britain thing but that is ANOTHER MATTER.
But the thing is we are all fucked up because we have put THE FUTURE into white goods, that are only allowed to be MAGIC as long as they're also SHINY, instead of, you know, into HOUSING and JUSTICE, and do you really expect us to believe that we can't go to the moon when we seem perfectly capable of building autonomous robots that bomb the shit out of poor people?
But I am also hopeful because the only answer to injustice is organisation—ORGANISE, ORGANISE–and if we can stop moaning long enough then maybe the internet will save us because THAT IS WHAT IT IS FOR. Maybe, just maybe, I don't know, NETWORK BEATS HIERARCHY but what I do know is that notional space is real, that WE ARE 6 BILLION PEOPLE WITH NO HEADS and we are only just beginning to figure this shit out.
BENEATH THE PAVING STONES, THE BEACH.