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I was totally unaware of the existence of this bus, which apparently would have travelled throughout part of the United States starting around 2010, and was surprised find it parked on the Washington Mall on June 28th 2014 when I took this picture.
I first thought it was not for real, like someone was shooting a motion picture, but apparently it was part of a so-called 9/11 Truth "Hacktivists" plan to join Occupy DC Movement and Million Mask March in Spring 2014.
I will say I was rather baffled and I am posting this picture to share my surprise.
Organized by the hacktivist group anonymous - the million mask march has been an annual event since 2103.
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The demonstration this year started in Trafalgar Square, London.
Which mask would you rather wear? Destruction or change?
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Agere, aut pati fortiora
Million Mask March (Anonymous) - Parliament House Adelaide 2014
Nikon D800 - Sigma 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM
A protestor adorning the Guy Fawkes mask was seen in the rally to support Snowden in Central, Hong Kong today.
Originally from the movie V for Vendetta, the Guy Fawkes mask has become the international symbol for the online hacktivist group Anonymous, which might explain why they are often commonly called the “Anonymous mask”.
Although these masks are seen across the globe for different governmental protests relating to the global financial crisis such as the Occupy Movement, it is a rare sight in Hong Kong.
I had expected to see more of these today but this was the only man I saw among the hundreds who showed up today.
# References
1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_mask
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)
# SML Data
+ Date: 2013-06-15T15:32:34+0800
+ Dimensions: 5184 x 3456
+ Exposure: 1/400 sec at f/5.6
+ Focal Length: 275 mm
+ ISO: 320
+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D
+ Lens: Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
+ GPS: 22°16'54" N 114°9'38" E
+ Location: 香港中環遮打花園 Chater Garden, Central, Hong Kong
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130615.7D.42258
+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden (SnowdenHK)
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The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual rock music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend, sharing the same bill.
The Reading Festival is held at Little John’s Farm on Richfield Avenue in central Reading, near the Caversham Bridge. The Leeds event is held in Bramham Park, near Wetherby, the grounds of an historic house. Campsites are available at both sites and weekend tickets include camping. Day tickets are also sold.
Leeds Festival 2016 is one of Britain’s most well known and well loved festivals returns, and promises to be bigger and better than ever before.
Along with her sister festival, Leeds Festival boasts an ever impressive and diverse line up, ranging all the way from punk and metal, through to rock, alternative, indie, dance, and electro; these are a few of the reasons why Leeds Festival 2016 is going to be very special.
Leeds Festival has developed something of a habit of attracting some of the biggest global superstars, and world beating bands on the planet to their Yorkshire home. 2016 is set to be no different.
At Leeds Festival 2016 music fans will also have a chance to see a whole host of new acts and local bands in the smaller tents as well as the more established ones on the main stage. There are also great comedy acts in the alternative tent for when you require a welcome rest from the mosh pit!
Leeds Festival 2016 is set to be one of the most electrifying, and unforgettable festival experiences happening in Britain this year.
25 August 2016
Alternative Stage
Grandmaster Flash
Kurupt FM
DJ Yoda
Cassetteboy vs DJ Rubbish
Nightmares From The Discotheque
Rave Karaoke
Dance To The Radio
Blood Red Shoes
The Wytches
Freak
Blackwaters
Forever Cult
Relentless Stage
Jaguar Skills
Ghetts
Rude Kid
Levelz
Nadia Rose
Flava D
Lady Lykez
Reeps One
The Heavytrackerz
26 August 2016
Main Stage
Biffy Clyro
Fall Out Boy
The Vaccines
A$AP Rocky
Five Finger Death Punch
Sleeping With Sirens
Coheed and Cambria
The Virginmarys
State Champs
NME/BBC Radio 1 Stage
The 1975
The Wombats
Cage The Elephant
Savages
Rat Boy
Half Moon Run
Tonight Alive
Deaf Havana
Spring King
Basement
Black Foxxes
BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage
DJ EZ
David Rodigan MBE
Mistajam
Friction
Jauz
Fred V & Grafix
Redlight
Low Steppa
Delta Heavy
James Organ
The Lock Up
Good Charlotte
The King Blues
MGK
Arcane Roots
Modern Baseball
Roam
Beach Slang
Waterparks
Greywind
Strange Bones
Fighting Caravans
Festival Republic Stage
The Temper Trap
Third Eye Blind
Børns
DMA’s
Eagulls
Clean Cut Kid
Gnash
Ezra Furman
The Magic Gang
The Vryll Society
Will Joseph Cook
Isaac Gracie
Tibet
BBC Radio 1Xtra Stage
Kano
Yung Lean
Hoodie Allen
Big Narstie
Fekky
Raleigh Ritchie
Yungen
Franko Fraize
Kiko Bun
Sneakbo
Astroid Boys
Alternative Stage
Russell Kane
Holly Walsh
Andrew Maxwell
Jamali Maddix
Mark Grist
Anthony Anaxagorou
David Morgan
Kurupt FM
Propaganda with Special Guests
Mystry
Relentless Stage
Feed Me
Jax Jones
Icarus
Luke Hassan
BBC Introducing Stage
SuperGlu
K.O.G & The Zongo Brigade
Lawrence Taylor
Tusk
Sonny Green
Mowbeck
Mouses
Arctic Lake
Castles
Hardwicke Circus
Night Owls
Adore//Repel
27 August 2016
Main Stage
Foals
Disclosure
CHVRCHES
Boy Better Know
Die Antwoord
Lower Than Atlantis
Nothing But Thieves
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Frank Turner And The Sleeping Souls
NME/BBC Radio 1 Stage
Jack Ü
Twenty One Pilots
Crystal Castles
Fetty Wap
The Internet
The Neighbourhood
Giggs
Mura Masa
Hinds
Hælos
Fickle Friends
BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage
Oliver Heldens
Hannah Wants
AlunaGeorge
Philip George
Danny L Harle
Tkay Maidza
Lion Babe
99 Souls
Hermitude
Draper
The Pit
Asking Alexandria
Thrice
Crossfaith
Hacktivist
Nothing More
Dinosaur Pile-Up
Citizen
Superheaven
Creeper
FVK
SWMRS
Festival Republic Stage
Maxïmo Park
Pulled Apart By Horses
Rationale
LUH
Blaenavon
The Sherlocks
Lewis Del Mar
Otherkin
Anteros
Transviolet
Banners
White Miles
Area 52
BBC Radio 1Xtra Stage
Wiley
Protojé
Little Simz
Maverick Sabre
Charlie Sloth
Lady Leshurr
Baauer
Troyboi
Mick Jenkins
K.Flay
Alternative Stage
Russell Howard
Katherine Ryan
Owen Jones
Sara Pascoe
Joel Dommett
Mark Steel
Angela Barnes
Transgressive Sound System
Metronomy [Summer 08 DJ set]
Honne
Bless DJs
Super Hans
Relentless Stage
Hannah Wants
Monki
Camelphat
Luke Hassan
BBC Introducing Stage
Coquin Migale
Beau
Muncie Girls
Paris Youth Foundation
Airways
Happy Accidents
Eat Fast
The Wholls
Strong Asian Mothers
Jordan Allen
Faux Pas
Dusk
28 August 2016
Main Stage
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Imagine Dragons
Courteeners
Eagles Of Death Metal
Slaves
Parkway Drive
Skindred
Clutch
Sundara Karma
NME/Radio 1 Stage
Two Door Cinema Club
Haim
Nas
Jack Garratt
Sigma
Krept & Konan
Netsky
Blossoms
Whitney
Highly Suspect
Sunset Sons
Fatherson
BBC Radio 1 Dance Stage
Duke Dumont
Disciples
My Nu Leng B2B Oneman + Dread MC
Riton
SOPHIE
Birdy Nam Nam
Lemaitre
Zac Samuel
Rag’N’Bone Man
The Japanese House
The Pit
Mastodon
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Kvelertak
Giraffe Tongue Orchestra
Milk Teeth
Heck
Ghost Town
Dead!
Big Spring
Festival Republic Stage
Brian Fallon and the Crowes
White Room
Lapsley
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Palace
Vant
The Hunna
Lany
Seratones
Inheaven
Tuff Love
The Beach
Beach Baby
BBC Radio 1Xtra Stage
Travi$ Scott
Section Boyz
Logic
DJ Semtex
Bugzy Malone
Anderson .PAAK & The Free Nationals
The Range
Metro Boomin
Rejjie Snow
Rude Kid
Clara Amfo
Alternative Stage
Bill Bailey
Marcus Brigstocke
Lee Nelson
Carl Donnelly
John Robins
Al Porter
Dane Baptiste
Daniel Simonsen
Lauren Pattison
Dan Nightingale
Transgressive Sound System
Bless DJs
Loyle Carner
Fat White Family
Relentless Stage
Andy C & MC Tonn Piper
T.Q.D
Sir Spyro
Luke Hassan
BBC Introducing Stage
Fronteers
Ten Tonnes
The Shimmer Band
High Tyde
Cameron A G
The Tin Pigeons
Avalanche Party
Tiny Giant
Haus
We Were Giants
The Indigo Project
I use magenta gel to brake shadows on mask and because I want some contrast to green letters on the keyboard, we all should don't be afraid to use those cool gel colors in our photos ;)
Flash info:
- YN560-III camera left with DIY grid and Cokin Magical Magenta gel
- 1/64 power
- 105mm zoom
Camera shutter and flash was triggered by YN RF-603 wireless triggers.
Suspect Details:
Name: Guy Fawkes
Born: 13 April 1570 (presumed)
Place of Birth: York, England
Aliases: Guido Fawkes, John Johnson
Parents: Edward Fawkes, Edith (née Blake or Jackson)
Occupation: Plotter, Soldier, Revolutionary, Explosives Expert
Enlisted: 20 May 1604
Captured: 5 November 1605
Conviction(s): High treason
Penalty: Hanged, drawn and quartered
Died: 31 January 1606 - Westminster, London, England
Cause: Hanged
I oppose internet surveillance... Free world from anarchy!
Was trying 'Panning' on walking people when 'Anonymous' caught my eye.
Keith W. Downey, one of the (in)famous "PayPal 14" (Wikipedia) was visiting Hackerspace Hack42 for an interview by Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci).
She interviewed Keith on his involvement in Operation Payback/Operation Avenge Assange, hacktivist collective Anonymous, whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks, and his interactions with the U.S. government prior and after his arrest.
Being a hackerspace with access to...err "obscure" hardware and "special" tools, we just *had* to do a couple of shots with the L-3 Communications "STE" phone. An NSA certified telephone for making encrypted phone-calls, used by American embassies, government agencies and POTUS himself, of course.
Note to myself:
Free films on the net.
www.videoscourtesclic.com/films/comedie
www.cosmoetica.com/B1094-DES795.htm
Songza Playlists:
Shakin' All Over Jukebox Party
The Golden Age Of Burlesque
Essential Jazz
DJ Godfather setlist
I DJ PJ - PJ Megga Mix
ll DJ Godfather & Starski - On The Flo
lll Dj Slugo - Godzilla
lV Dj Godfather I Keep Bangin The Beat
V Many Voices Of Erik
Vl DJ Deeon - Shake Dat Butt
Vll SIXFOE "throw some dick at these hoes"
Vlll Dj Godfather & Starski - tek
lX Nehpets - Lay It Down (Millenium Remix)
James Holden influence: 'Consumed' de Plastikman
THE PERFECT VIBRATIONS FOR A LATE NIGHT FIX, JUST BEFORE GOING TO BED, GRAB SOME GOOD HEADPHONES AND PRESS PLAY. ABHI DIJON - TWELVE
Recomended films by friends for viewing :
Food, Inc., Primer, True Romance, Best Offer, Gardians of the Galaxy,
3d audio possible download: softarchive.net/blogs/downloaddownload/_daudioinc_dprecd_...
Artists to give a listen to says Cedric Bixler : zappa, dh peligro, jah wobble, michael rother, pat smear.... boyd rice or anita harris or delia derbshire.. fad gadget... film? yakuza aesthetic... jobriath to dethrone bowie... oshiri pen penz is the best japanese group ever... blues influences eugene chadbourne, sonny sharrock, james blood ulmer... THE MUSIC MACHINE...
Previous gigs @ Pourvoyeur, Petit Medley Simple Malt, Club Dix30, Bar Inc, Saint Édouard, Blizzarts, Brutus, Salon Officiel + partys privés dans plusieurs villes.
individualy message special invites, the experience starts at the door with the bouncers and first impressions, create the sense of comunity, always switch up the formula.
At the same time, do make sure the club/bar/lounge can use their resources to promote your event! To ensure the venue promotes your party and not the others, make it easy for them. Prepare a full media kit (images, event write up, etc) and send it to the venue well ahead of time. Score extra points by pre-writing a few suggested posts for social media that include a link to the event page / ticket purchase page.
Take control of the lighting in the club and set the mood. Learn to use the lighting board. Hire a VJ.
Have an aesthetic in mind and decorate your event to match
no my nails are not painted black but my toenails...well thats a different story
1. Home (2009)
2. Thrive (2011)
3. Paradise or Oblivion (2012)
4. Love, Reality and the Time of Transition (2011)
5. Earthlings (2005)
6. Everything You Know Is Wrong (2000)
7. Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
8. Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)
9. The Money Fix (2009)
10. The Wikileaks Documentary (2010)
11. Owned & Operated (2012)
12. Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis (2010)
13. Apologies of an Economic Hitman (2010)
14. The Beautiful Truth (2008)
15. The Awakening (2011)
16. What Would It Look Like? (2009)
17. The World According to Monsanto (2008)
18. Esoteric Agenda (2008)
19. Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging (2008)
20. College Conspiracy Scam in USA (2011)
21. The Indigo Evolution (2005)
22. Edible City: Grow the Revolution (2012)
23. Collapse (2009)
24. The Global Brain (1983)
25. The White Hole in Time (1993)
26. The Primacy of Consciousness (2011)
27. Fuel (2008)
28. Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil Crisis (2006)
29. What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)
30. Resonance: Beings of Frequency (2012)
31. War by Other Means (1992)
32. Endgame (2007)
33. War Made Easy (2007)
34. The War on Democracy (2007)
35. Rise Like Lions: The Occupy Wall Street Documentary (2011)
36. Propaganda (2012)
37. The Secret of Oz (2009)
38. The One Percent (2006)
39. The Shock Doctrine (2009)
40. Iran Is Not the Problem (2008)
41. PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is the Mind (2010)
42. Vaccine Nation (2008)
43. Psychiatry: An Industry of Death (2006)
44. Flow: For the Love of Water (2008)
45. Kymatica (2009)
46. Pots, Pans, and Other Solutions (2012)
47. Manna: The Psilocybin Mushroom Documentary (2011)
48. What in the World Are They Spraying (2010)
49. Why in the World Are They Spraying (2012)
50. Globalization: The New Rulers of the World (2001)
51. Terrorstorm (2006)
52. Fall of the Republic (2009)
53. Crop Circles: Crossover From Another Dimension (2006)
54. The Day Before Disclosure (2010)
55. 9/11: The Road to Tyranny (2002)
56. 9/11: In Plane Site (2004)
57. 9/11: Press For Truth (2006)
58. The Revelation of the Pyramids (2010)
59. Ancient Knowledge (2012)
60. The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (2007)
61. Money As Debt (2006)
62. Money As Debt II (2009)
63. The Age of Stupid (2009)
64. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism (2004)
65. Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)
66. Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century (2010)
67. Renaissance 2.0 (2010)
68. Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
69. The War on Kids (2009)
70. Palestine Is Still the Issue (2002)
71. Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land (2004)
72. Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority (2006)
73. Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)
74. Big Sugar (2005)
75. The Fluoride Deception (2011)
76. Fluoridegate: An American Tragedy (2013)
77. An Inconvenient Tooth (2012)
78. The Great Culling: Our Water (2013)
79. Shots in the Dark: Silence on Vaccines (2009)
80. I Am Fishead: Are Corporate Leaders Psychopaths? (2011)
81. Capitalism Is the Crisis (2011)
82. Slavery By Consent (2012)
83. The Crisis of Civilization (2011)
84. No Logo: Brands, Globalization, and Resistance (2003)
85. 97% Owned (2012)
86. Culture in Decline – Episode 1: What Democracy? (2012)
87. Culture in Decline – Episode 2: Economics 101 (2012)
88. Culture in Decline – Episode 3: C.V.D. (2012)
89. Culture in Decline – Episode 4: War on Nature (2013)
90. Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds – Part 1: Akasha (2012)
91. Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds – Part 2: The Spiral (2012)
92. Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds – Part 3: The Serpent and the Lotus (2012)
93. Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds – Part 4: Beyond Thinking (2012)
94. Ethos: A Time for Change (2010)
95. Rich Media, Poor Democracy (2003)
96. Weapons of Mass Deception (2004)
97. Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within (2007)
98. American Blackout (2006)
99. Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections (2008)
100. Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2008)
101. Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs (2006)
102. The End of Suburbia (2004)
103. Rethink Afghanistan (2009)
104. There’s No Tomorrow (2012)
105. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)
106. Priceless (2012)
107. What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004)
108. Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (2010)
109. The 11th Hour (2007)
110. Paradise With Side Effects (2004)
111. Starsuckers (2009)
112. Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream (2011)
113. Religulous (2008)
114. Sir! No Sir! – The GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (2005)
115. Gasland (2010)
116. Hacking Democracy (2008)
117. Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? (2012)
118. Vanishing of the Bees (2009)
119. Tapped (2009)
The First 119 Originally posted on: OpenBoxThinking
120. DMT: The Spirit Molecule
121. Baraka (1992)
122. Samsara
123. Cut Poison Burn
124. The Business of Being Born
125. The Cove
126. Ayahuasca: Ancient Plant Medicine
127. Hempster – Plant the Seed
128. Coca Lives
129. Forks Over Knives
130. Dirty Pictures (The God Father of Ecstasy)
131. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
132. The Money Masters
133. The Secret of Oz
134. Spirit Science 1-15
135. Garbage Warrior
136. Top 10 Eco Films of All Time
137. What Babies Want
138. Ring of Power
139. House of Numbers
140. SiCKO
141. True History of Marijuana
142. Run From The Cure
143. Eye of The Illuminati
144. Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business (2011)
145. Shaman Voyage
146. Libertopia
147. Zeitgeist
148. Stepping Into The Fire
149. Propaganda
150. Secret Ancient Knowledge
151. The Holy Mountain
152. Food Inc.
153. The Silent Revelation of Truth
154. The Obama Deception
155. The Great Culling: Our Water
156. Dreaming Awake At The End of Time
157. The New American Century
158. ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11
159. The House I Live In
160. Black Whole
161. We Are Legion – The Story of the Hacktivists (2012)
162. Sirius – 2013
163. The Shock Doctrine
164. Manifesting the Mind: Footprints of the Shaman
165. Genetic Roulette
166. The Disclosure Project
167. Journey To Lucidity: The Planted Seed
- See more at: www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/166-free-documentarie...
Keith W. Downey, one of the (in)famous "PayPal 14" (Wikipedia) was visiting Hackerspace Hack42 for an interview by Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci).
She interviewed Keith on his involvement in Operation Payback/Operation Avenge Assange, hacktivist collective Anonymous, whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks, and his interactions with the U.S. government prior and after his arrest.
While I was shooting a few formal portraits of Keith, my friends Lurwah and BugBlue were busy converting a screenshot of the Low Orbit Ion Cannon software to be able to plot it on our ancient Tektronix 4002A graphic computer terminal.
Taken with a Minolta X-700 camera in week 154 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
www.flickr.com/photos/tony_kemplen/collections/72157623113584240
ISO400 colour negative film (Lomography brand) processed in Tetenal C41 kit.
"Chinga La Migra", courtesy LulzSec, in the news right now but in Arizona? Not so much. If I hadn't been a boing boing reader I would not have learned so much about the hacktivist attack on the Arizona Department of Public Safety. The torrent downloads exposed much material that many many law enforcement people would not want "published". I read a long story with a great deal of detail on the more interesting content through boing boing here
Despite a paucity of media reports within Arizona, this was online tonight and I laughed to learn Sheriff Joe actually has a twitter account! Here is an excerpt of his tweet and link to the story in the Phoenix New Times.
"The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said it was not aware of the cyber attack until LulzSec tweeted Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Twitter account.
"The media has been giving me a lot of heat lately but nothing compared to tent city!" Arpaio tweeted Thursday. LulzSec responded, "Media? Heat? You? Chinga La Migra!"
Tags reflect the story content, see the links provided. It happens I shot this photo a few weeks ago in downtown Phoenix early one morning. This mural was painted on a fence and garage door in the alley off Roosevelt Street in the Arts District. There is a caricature next to Joe's of Jan Brewer. When I get around to it I will post more of these shots.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Right now too many politicians & lawmakers in most of our decaying civilisation of over-consumption are only working for the benefit of themselves, their party, their maecenae, their ideological friends and their corporate sponsors, instead of working for the benefit of the people and the lands (nature, flora, fauna) they have sworn to protect. One way to make sure they do everything they can to do good, is to have them judged by all the people after their reign. Did they betray the people or the land then bannish them without access to their (foreign) bank-accounts. Have them ostracized ike the old Greeks did.
"SMALL WONDER WE SHOULD CHOOSE THIS MEDIUM...Human Congregation, Seated In The Dark Of Theaters, Virtually Hushed, Receptive: Perfect..."
--Alien Anonymous
www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/8687532011/
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POV: FIRST CONTACT Bold-Stroked...
SO: you're in a theater, 40 minutes into, say, a 'romantic comedy'...
SUDDENLY: PALEOLITHIC cave painters appear on screen @ work on the most breathtaking mural ever seen...no explanation...an ineffable gravitas, a virtually palpable sense of history alive, including even (widely reported) the scent of smoke and human sweat...
FOR 12 INEXPLICABLE MINUTES...speaking in a language never heard by modern humanity, one artist even apparently making a joke that elicits loud collective laughter echoing through invisible chambers of an unknown cave (the location soon after discovered, further removing the prospect of a grand hoax & emphasizing a non-human intelligence behind it)
...SOME of the (unknowingly global) audience is intrigued and even mesmerized, others, after a minute or two, irritated, descend across time-zones (but mostly PST, West Coast U.S) to multiplex lobbies to complain, demand an explanation, what'-s-this-TRAILER doing interrupting what-I-Paid-To-SEE, etc...
WELL who knew? it's FIRST CONTACT
...but nothing follows for weeks
...as the world rocks in the vast roll
of a wholly unforeseen See Change...
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HUMANITY'S FIRST COLLECTIVE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE?
FOR THE RECORD:
"...THE WORLD WILL BE BESIDE ITSELF--
THERE WILL BE FEAR...SHOCK...MYSTERY...AWE...REVERENCE...HILARITY...
NEW RELIGIOUS DIVIDES, THRILLING SOLIDARITY, ASTONISHING 'FAULT-LINES' THROUGH EVERY ESTABLISHED POWER-BASE,
ROBUST & UNPREDICTABLE SOCIAL UPHEAVAL
ACROSS THE GLOBE.
MEANWHILE, INCREASINGLY 'FORWARD-LEANING' 'COMPETITION' AMONG HOLLYWOOD'S MOST ILLUSTRIOUS "CANDIDATES" FOR "DIRECTOR'S CUT"
WILL REDEFINE OLD FRIENDSHIPS & RIVALRIES...
AND YES, HOW COULD IT BE OTHERWISE?--
THERE WILL BE DINOSAURS..."
--Wyatt Matturs
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A NOTE ON TITLE & FORMAT OF "ALIEN ANONYMOUS"
E.T. 'MEME-GRAB' OF "ANONYMOUS" HACKTIVIST GROUP "MESSAGING"
[SILENT TEXT, MINUS VOICE-OVER] "SUGGESTS AN "UNSETTLING" EARTH-CYBERCULTURE SAVVY"
Known Former Members Of "Anonymous" Intensely Interrogated For Suspected "Alien Connectivity" Are Finally Released As Being
"In The Same Dark As The Rest Of Us. . ."
[Not Surprisingly, However, There's A Talk-Radioactive Half-Life Factor Not About To Give It uP...]
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ALIEN ANONYMOUS OFFER TO ACADEMY [AMPAS--Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/8847416108/
ACADEMY ACCEPTANCE: www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/9070413572/
POTUS v. PAMPAS --"Talks "Frank". . . www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/8611695316/
TRUTHY IN THE SKY w/ DIAMONDS: bit.ly/11UmtT6
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WHAT IS "CONSCIOUSNESS", THAT YOU ARE "MINDFUL" OF "IT"?
FOR NOW UNSEEN AS SILENCE ITSELF, WE REACH THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
(UPCLOSE &}...SUPERNATURALLY "PERSONAL"...
ALIEN ANONYMOUS--PITCH & ROLL--A SEMI-GRAPHIC NOVELLA Produced In A Reality That Includes {WAIT-For-it} ..."ETERNITY!"
--Random-Sequence Episode 'Flashcards' In The Downscroll
FACEBOOK PAGED @ PARALLEL UNIVERSAL PRESENTS ALIEN ANONYMOUS Movie.Series.Reality www.facebook.com/pages/Parallel-Universal-Presents-Alien-...
FLICKR POOLED @ PARALLEL UNIVERSAL PRESENTS: ALIEN ANONYMOUS www.flickr.com/groups/2227183@N25
PAUSE-AS-NEEDED, CONTEMPLATE AS SPIRIT MOVES:
ALL-IN FLOW-GO---FULL-SCREEN SLIDE SHOW: www.flickr.com/groups/2227183@N25/pool/show/
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THE TIME OF "RIPPLES" IS OVER. We Are Here In Part To "Roll-&-Surf" Your Collective Brain Waves, As It Whir..."Humalien Symbiosis", Your Future Historians, Having Coined It, Will Understand A Term Of "Science"--And Of "Art"...Hands-On, Mind-Around, By Sudden HEART. COME With Us, GO With Us:
Equally Glorious: Differently Infinite. . .
@ArtistGeneral
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NOTE: TWEAKAGE OF WHAT FOLLOWS IN PROGRESS (Version 2.0...ComingSoon...)
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--HOLLYWOULD REPORTER:
"...IN NO NEED OF POSTHUMOUS LIMELIGHT", MARK TWAIN graciously accepts
cutting-room-floor-fall for his featured 'Dinner Party' in ALIEN ANONYMOUS as "First Contact"
Conceding that "smoke trumps mirrors--the gritty universality of the new scene better carries the day for humanity in this indeed majestically distinctive film...besides, I expect the opportunity to recur in a "sequel"--that's what you call it, right? or a "series" in that Pandora's Home Box Office Thing? Nitflix? Exactly! Whatever..."
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ALIEN ANONYMOUS~RATED VO (Vividly Original)--GUARANTEED: CHEESY-CLICHE,
BUG-EYED-ALIEN-FREE!
"OVERRIDING" 30K+ Movie Screens, In Collective Global Simultaneity, Disabling All In-House Communication, Phones, iPads, Etc., Offlined: For 12 UNEXPLAINED MINUTES--Followed By A Silent Text Message--ALIEN ANONYMOUS (Per Se: Invisibly Silent, Save For A 'Tone' Before & After On-Screen Text Messages)
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FIRST CONTACT: THE INAUGURAL GLOBAL SCREEN-HACK
A flawless "capture" of cave painters, clearly speaking a language never written, heard or imagined by modern humanity. Faces torchlit, concentration intense, momentarily broken: echos roll from a brief gale of laughter seemingly in response to something the wide-eyed youngest of the four says. A female voice is heard approaching, with another torch-bearing male, a girl and boy, appearing around 9 and 12 years old.
They have charcoal, feathers, moss in hand. The eldest, maybe mid-forties, inhales deeply, then exhales, as if releasing himself through the sidelong downstroke he stretched for, stubbled-feather brush clotted with pigment, the glistening flank of a larger-than-life bison stands suddenly clear, every stroke audible over the stone, you can hear the soft but distinct huff & puff of the woman's breath blowing soot through a reed into an outline of the girl's hand held to the cave wall. She whispers something in her ear, the girl grins. Then the boy's hand is placed. In theaters everywhere many swear to "experiencing" a smell of bittersweet smoke.
This Scene, both digitally and in film-stock, inexplicably "embeds" in the copy of whatever movie it interrupted, as if it belonged there, allowing endless analysis in the weeks and months that follow, as well as the record uber-viral multi-billion online view count by midweek.
The day after First Contact--Easter Sunday (Christian speculation is especially tweaked, urgent & "confused") near-invisible & barely legible in the palm of a hand print, as if scratched there: what turns out to be GPS coordinates.
These are followed to an undiscovered cave in an unlikely location, three magnificent 'chambers', full of the most accomplished and oldest paleolithic art ever seen.
Dated at 44,000+ years old, computer analysis verifies that every stroke that glistened "live" onscreen in the A.A "OverRide" exactly matches the faded, long-dried pigment of the end result, just now discovered all these ages later, hence further dramatizing the non-human origin of what a now-forever-altered world recently witnessed--
gathered in motley clots of hundreds at a time, by the million: "full-spectrum humanity", having taken pains to sit together, receptively quiet in the dark, waiting for what the Big Screen will bring:
demonstrating why ALIEN ANONYMOUS chose this medium, founded in Hollywood, now, conveniently enough for their undisclosed purpose, among modern humanity's favorite pastimes.
Lines so long have never been seen before this, for anything playing. Because word is out--things are "happening" to people who sat through that first 12 minutes, who witnessed history made.
Some who entered their movie in wheelchairs..."walked" out.
(And Not because they didn't like it...)
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WINGNUT NATION "BESIDE ITSELF" AT RECENT ALIEN ANONYMOUS "OFFER"
"How On EARTH Can This Be Happening?--
NOT A Leader, NOT Even Our Speaker Of The House "Allowed'! No, NO, It'll Be Some Liberal Weeny Hollywood DIRECTOR "Chosen"--By The A-CAD-UH-ME"--Like An OSCAR... bit.ly/10q8ajN
For Solitary 'Face-Time' With This WHATEVER, WHOever, From WHERE-ever "Alien ANONYMOUS" Invasion--And THEN, Insult-To-INjury--Getting To "Choose" 3 Hours
From "The Quan-Tum Archives" Of Earth History! "Billions Of Years", Perfectly "Recorded". Do The MATH On THAT One, Folks! How Do Ya Get BILLIONS Out Of 6 THOUSAND Years?
YES, We HAVE Been "INVADED!" And They CAN, And HAVE, As We've All Seen And Heard TWICE Now, "OverRide" Twitter With Ill-Gotten Video-Streams Of "Power Corrupted"--
PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS Among MAKERS, Folks--Leaders, Movers And Shakers! So Now, So NOW--Anyone Who's "Somebody" Is Afraid To Speak FREELY! And What Does Washington DO About It? NOTHING! NADA! And Look, I Don't CARE If Some Precious Few Who Entered Theaters In Wheel-Chairs "Walked" Out After Seeing One Of These, These So-Called "OverRides" of Theirs...
The DEVIL Couldn't Do This? Read Your Scripture, Folks...
And BTW Have You SEEN The PR Roll-Out Of Hollywoodies Vying For This GOD-forsaken "DIRECTOR'S CUT" Thing?!--SHAMEless! Makes Chopped Liver Of An "Oscar". They Want It So Bad WE Can Taste It...'
.--Rush Limjones, Talk Radio Host
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PLAN B (In Case Of "Very Possible" Movie-Industrial-Mogultard 'Recklessly-Over-Cautious' BUTTheadery):
FLICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCED FOR 'ALIEN ANONYMOUS' PROJECT. HELP US REACH OUR BLOCKBUSTER PRODUCTION GOAL OF $200,000,000!
"NO 'JACK-THE-GIANT-SLAYER' HERE! A-LIST DIRECTORS:
SOME OF YOU--ARE--RIGHT NOW--(SAD BUT TRUE)
"SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING" PROJECTS FAR LESS VISIONARY THAN 'ALIEN ANONYMOUS', ALREADY BLOWING THROUGH OR GEARING UP TO GO THROUGH TENS & HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS ON FILMS DESTINED FOR SHORT-TERM CULTURAL MEMORY OR VIRTUAL NATIONAL AMNESIA...
HOWEVER: ONE OF YOU WILL "GET" ALIEN ANONYMOUS. AND MAKE IT UNFORGETTABLE, AS YOU KNOW YOU CAN, AS YOUR HEART, MIND & GUT WILL TELL YOU, VIRTUALLY ON CONTACT WITH THIS TREATMENT: HERE. NOW.
Secure The Rights, Fool!
And You'll Thank Your Luckiest Stars For The Rest Of Your Career."
--Wyatt Matturs (CEO) CHUTZPAHDUCTIONS, PROUD To Carry The TORCH For AGP (Artist General Projections) And ALIEN ANONYMOUS!
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Michael Masley is a Culture-Jamming, Brain-storm-driven Creactivist, multi-tasking in Music, Poetry, Film Concepts [ALIEN ANONYMOUS] Progressive Politics. AKA the Artist General [GOOGLE]
His life is the subject of this film:
SHORT CLIPS FROM ART OFFICIALLY FAVORED
A Coming-Soon Docufeaturomedy Directed By Martin Yernazian:
MUSIC www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJsV52_2E_s
WORD www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJEDR8j29xc
ARTIST GENERAL www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz2vgdcVW-k
MORE:
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'distributed denial of service' attack
Time newsfeed : 'Hacktivists' Bring Down MasterCard to Support WikiLeaks:
newsfeed.time.com/2010/12/08/hacktivists-bring-down-maste...
Assange supporters attack MasterCard website:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40559236/ns/us_news-wikileaks_in_sec...
WikiLeaks supporters attack MasterCard site: sources:
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B72G620101208
guardian.co.uk PDA's Newsbucket:
www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/dec/09/newsbucket
WikiLeaks supporters disrupt Visa and MasterCard sites in 'Operation Payback'
The Guardian, Thursday 9 December 2010
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-visa-maste...
#OccupyLSX protesters gather at St. Paul's Cathedral - Day One, 15.10.2011
As part of the newly-emerging global "Occupy" movement which has seen a continuous occupation of Liberty Park near Wall Street in New York, and which today saw protests in approximately 950 cities worldwide against the corruption of both bankers and governments, around 4-5,000 activists - having been blocked by police from their original objective, Paternoster Square which leads to the London Stock Exchange - converged on the front steps of St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London to begin an occupation which. it is hoped, will oblige the financiers and bankers to realise that there are real people being grievously punished for the unpunished crimes of the banking industry which have resulted in crashing world economies and swingeing 'austerity measures' which are only paid for by the poor and middle classes. In the meanwhile the entire country has been treated to the disgraceful sight of the very people who caused this unmitigated shitstorm of greed, dishonesty and arrogance having the audacity to reward themselves with millions of pounds in bonuses, despite almost bringing the world economy to its knees.
Throughout the day the completely peaceful protesters discussed their grievances and through a series of open Spanish-style 'congresses' or 'people's assemblies' formulated a series of propositions which form the basis of the mass protest.
During the afternoon the crowd was joined by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who arrived wearing the obligatory Guy Fawkes mask made famous in the cult film "V for Vendetta", which is worn by members of hacktivist group Anonymous. Assange, wearing an electronic tag on his leg imposed by the British court as he is under house arrest awaiting deportation to Sweden - was accompanied by two police detectives, one of whom frequently made a point of holding Assange's shoulder, as if they thought for one second that one of the most identifiable faces in the world right now would ever be able to make a run for it, surrounded completely by a cordon of upwards of 3-400 police.
The only mindless, vindictive violence came from some members of the Territorial Support Group who were militaristic in their brutality towards completely passive citizens when they decided to rush the steps of the cathedral once darkness fell, during which assault they stamped on people's heads and bodies, punched and kicked several people and were seen to rip the hijab off one girl's head. All of this was to prove or gain nothing whatsoever strategically except the ability of the police to be - in my opinion as I watched it from very close quarters - criminally, dangerously violent to passive, peaceful protesters who no longer, it seems, are protected from violence by the agents of the State. When the police commit violence everyone - especially the police - knows it is very difficult to go after them to demand legal justice.
Several hours later the police abandoned the steps at the request of Cathedral officials, leaving everyone to wonder what was the primary motive of the senior officer who gave the order to lead this attack on private land when no crime had been committed. This was Abuse of Process in many people's opinion.
To follow the progress of #OccupyLSX and #OccupyLondon visit their website here, and follow them on Twitter HERE and HERE.
To follow the progress of the second protest camp set up in Finsbury Square on 22.10.2011 (photos soon) visit BeyondClicktivism and follow them on Twitter
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application
Anonymous was one of the initial drivers of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Since then, they've taken a smaller (public) role as the movement has grown organically. Guy Fawkes masks, a symbol of Anonymous, are still prevalent.
Keith W. Downey, one of the (in)famous "PayPal 14" (Wikipedia) was visiting Hackerspace Hack42 for an interview by Dr. Vera K. Wilde (PhD PoliSci).
She interviewed Keith on his involvement in Operation Payback/Operation Avenge Assange, hacktivist collective Anonymous, whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks, and his interactions with the U.S. government prior and after his arrest.
Being a hackerspace with access to...err "obscure" hardware and "special" tools, we just *had* to do a couple of shots with the L-3 Communications "STE" phone. An NSA certified telephone for making encrypted phone-calls, used by American embassies, government agencies and POTUS himself, of course.
#OccupyLSX protesters gather at St. Paul's Cathedral - Day One, 15.10.2011
As part of the newly-emerging global "Occupy" movement which has seen a continuous occupation of Liberty Park near Wall Street in New York, and which today saw protests in approximately 950 cities worldwide against the corruption of both bankers and governments, around 4-5,000 activists - having been blocked by police from their original objective, Paternoster Square which leads to the London Stock Exchange - converged on the front steps of St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London to begin an occupation which. it is hoped, will oblige the financiers and bankers to realise that there are real people being grievously punished for the unpunished crimes of the banking industry which have resulted in crashing world economies and swingeing 'austerity measures' which are only paid for by the poor and middle classes. In the meanwhile the entire country has been treated to the disgraceful sight of the very people who caused this unmitigated shitstorm of greed, dishonesty and arrogance having the audacity to reward themselves with millions of pounds in bonuses, despite almost bringing the world economy to its knees.
Throughout the day the completely peaceful protesters discussed their grievances and through a series of open Spanish-style 'congresses' or 'people's assemblies' formulated a series of propositions which form the basis of the mass protest.
During the afternoon the crowd was joined by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who arrived wearing the obligatory Guy Fawkes mask made famous in the cult film "V for Vendetta", which is worn by members of hacktivist group Anonymous. Assange, wearing an electronic tag on his leg imposed by the British court as he is under house arrest awaiting deportation to Sweden - was accompanied by two police detectives, one of whom frequently made a point of holding Assange's shoulder, as if they thought for one second that one of the most identifiable faces in the world right now would ever be able to make a run for it, surrounded completely by a cordon of upwards of 3-400 police.
The only mindless, vindictive violence came from some members of the Territorial Support Group who were militaristic in their brutality towards completely passive citizens when they decided to rush the steps of the cathedral once darkness fell, during which assault they stamped on people's heads and bodies, punched and kicked several people and were seen to rip the hijab off one girl's head. All of this was to prove or gain nothing whatsoever strategically except the ability of the police to be - in my opinion as I watched it from very close quarters - criminally, dangerously violent to passive, peaceful protesters who no longer, it seems, are protected from violence by the agents of the State. When the police commit violence everyone - especially the police - knows it is very difficult to go after them to demand legal justice.
Several hours later the police abandoned the steps at the request of Cathedral officials, leaving everyone to wonder what was the primary motive of the senior officer who gave the order to lead this attack on private land when no crime had been committed. This was Abuse of Process in many people's opinion.
To follow the progress of #OccupyLSX and #OccupyLondon visit their website here, and follow them on Twitter HERE and HERE.
To follow the progress of the second protest camp set up in Finsbury Square on 22.10.2011 (photos soon) visit BeyondClicktivism and follow them on Twitter
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application
The internet is gearing up for a fight, several sites have pledged to go dark on January 18 in protest of SOPA and PIPA, the internet blacklist legislation currently making their way through Congress. Below is a list of confirmed sites joining in :
1.Reddit.com
2.Tucows.com
3.The entire Cheezburger Network
4.Destructoid.com
5.Hacktivist group, Anonymous
6.Red 5 Studios, developer of the Firefall MMO
7.Mojang.com and Popular MMO, Minecraft
8.NLB Creations
9.Webmaster community Admin Forums
10.Web design company, Skytemple.com
11.Gaming site Video Game Generation
12.Right Angle Recording
13.All sites in Major League Gaming’s network
14.GamingBus.com
15.Errata Security
16.XDA Developers
17.Gaming site, GOG.com
18.Hey It’s Free!
19.Harder Blogger Faster
20.Colossal Mind
21.Sonic Retro
22.BrentAnderson.info
23.Working It Out
24.e-cloudy.com
25.Seibertron.com
26.NewGrounds
27.Through the Eyes of a Pirate
28.Cynical Brit
29.Platform Nation
30.Digital Suicide
31.Kahn Labs
32.Jamacast
33.CryptoCat
34.Joyblind
35.A Much Better Way
36.[H]ard OCP Gaming Community
37.GamersTube.com
38.Boing Boing
39.Inkerro
40.The Weekly Gripe
41.Leslie Networks
42.WordPress for Business Websites
43.Simply Fixed s
44.FriendStream
45.TacticalCraft
46.RedStoneHost.com
47.EcchiDreams
48.RaGEZONE
49.Raspberry Pi
50.LazySlob1
51.GeNyaa
52.Rational Responders
53.Brian Sapient
54.Celebrity Atheists
55.Purpose of Christmas
56.Atheism United
57.Emerald Angel Comics
58.Fairy Tail Episode
59.Vanilla Forums
60.Icrontic
61.New Buddhist
62.This is Xbox
63.CnC Fansite
64.Castle-G.com
65.Faio.org
66.egoArchives
67.Olivero Broadcasting Group
68.BHR Hosting
69.Red Dawn Movie News
70.Splitkick
71.Kona’s Korner
72.Radioactive Nerd
73.Talking About Games
74.GOOD Evening
75.Rage Maker
76.FreakOutNation
77.TheLeakyWiki
78.Doxie Lovers Club
79.Twitpic versions of their site.
80.Age of Coins
81.A Softer World
82.This Is Why Im Broke
83.Cake Wrecks
84.Dance Top 40
85.Code Labs
86.MediaMyriad.com
87.The Ikids Blog
88.MMO Melting Pot
89.Inficron Technologies
90.SeekMyBeat.com
91.Geek Culture and the Joy of Tech comic
92.Identi.ca
93.Quiet Speculation
94.Shdon.com
95.IHateVodafonEgypt.com
96.AnimeWallpapers.com
97.AnimeForum.com
98.AnimeLyrics.com
99.AnimeGalleries.net
GET INVOLVED
Join us and pledge not to tweet between 8AM-8PM EST (1300-0100 UTC) on 18 January [check your local timezone] - Use hashtags #SOPAblackout and #J18
Add “CENSORED” banners to your Twitter pic by going to - www.blackoutsopa.org/
Facebook users are also urged to protest by joining the “Stop Internet Censorship by Protesting SOPA event” www.facebook.com/events/232028526874851/ and posting censored photo galleries to their Facebook walls on the 18th.
WordPress users wanting to join in the protest might find the SOPA Blackout plugin, which adds a temporary 503 status and customisable page to your site automatically. Blogspot users can easily show their support, too.
Approaching the Nanofax Singularity
“Nanofax?”
“Everything the name implies,” says Klaus, “and considerably less.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“Nanofax AG offers a technology that digitally reproduces objects, physically, at a distance. Within certain rather large limitations, of course. A child’s doll, placed in a Lucky Dragon Nanofax unit in London, will be reproduced in the Lucky Dragon Nanofax unit in New York-”
From All Tomorrow’s Parties, by William Gibson.
Published by Putnam in 1999
The theme for the tenth edition of Version Fest is Territories and Infrastructure. Infrastructure is represented in our lives by fiber optic cables delivering the data that keeps us trucking. It is the faucet delivering water to our house, the asphalt we drive on, the flight plan our pilot takes. Infrastructure is the bridges, the networks, the grocery stores. It is the logistical machine the keeps modern life rolling on. But infrastructure is not just the pipes, and the tubes, and the faucets that deliver culture, but the material and methods that manufacture those pipes, tubes, cables and what not. Infrastructure is the tools we use to create.
Recently a new raft of technologies have entered the digital domain, these tools for replicating and manufacturing have already rapidly changed the way we think about producing things. For artists today these techniques and methods represent a new infrastructure.
Approaching the Nanofax Singuarity is a two day symposium featuring presentations and exhibits by artists and designers utilizing the latest techniques in digital fabrication and replication. Hardware once the sole domain of engineers and scientists have become much more accessible in the last five years. Advanced by open source technology, dedicated hacktivists, tinkerers and homebrew engineers have brought this infrastructure from the lofty heights of the machine shop into the alt space network. Now it is possible for designers with a small budget and workspace to utilize tools and equipment such as 3-d printers, RepRap, CNC machines, 3-d scanners, laser cutters and so forth.
So whether it’s making the tools to make the art, or making the art with the tools we’ve made, or making the art with open source tools, there exist many possibilities and options for designers and artists to interact with new digital fabrication techniques. Approaching the Nanofax Singuarity (ATNS) seeks to show case some of these artists currently working in this field here in Chicago.
Margarita Benitez works with fiber, sound and technological components in her practice, she will talk about her new project osloom an open source jacquard loom she is currently developing. DIYLILCNC is a collaborative project by artists Chris Reilly and Taylor Hokanson. Their project is a low cost open source DIY 3 axis CNC mill. Chris and Taylor will demonstrate the machine and talk about CNC technology in general, some of the shortcomings of the present state of CNC and how those are addressed by open-source hardware projects like the DIYLILCNC. We’ll also go over the specs of the DIYLILCNC, giving details about how it is built and its functions. (f)utility projects are a collaboration between Paola Cabal, Michael Genge and Christopher Grieshaber. Previous projects include Depth of Field currently on view at SubCity Projects in Chicago. (f)utility projects will be producing the ATNS pavilion at the NFO XPO. The pavilion will host exhibited projects by ATNS artists. Claudia Hart produces designs for sublime landscape gardens often containing expressive and sensual female bodies meant to interject emotional subjectivity into what is typically the overly-determined Cartesian world of digital design. Mik Kastner and Brian Matthew are members of the Bio Art Network they will talk about their “bio printer” a rapid prototyping machine that will produce organic sculptures from plant and animal cells. Patrick Lichty is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, independent curator, animator for the activist group, The Yes Men, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. Lichty will exhibit his Pixelbox series, laser cut LED pieces whose simple appearance belays an experiment in emergent behavior. Dan Price combines sculpture, performance and experimental documentary practice. His current project Tentacle Shelter will be a wearable “shelter” for a child – like a costume/cape/tent produced in thick felt. For ATNS Price will exhibit a laser cut model and prototype for the shelter. Ben Stagl investigates urban space through a variety of mediums including sculpture, performance, video, and installation. Stagl is largely concerned with how human beings continue to address and experience shared spaces. Many of his projects explore ideas of inclusion through object, often involving collaboration and elements of participation.
Taken together these artists articulate both sides of the coin in terms of digital fabrication. Whether their project is to make the tools of production and distribute them freely to others. Or take up these tools and create new works via the CNC machine, bio printer, rapid prototyper or the laser cutter their work is at the leading edge of modern manufacturing techniques.
The universe is hacking, it’s software, it’s mobile web, it’s rapid prototyping, it’s hardware hacks, the idea of digital infrastructure for artists and designers just goes on and on. The recent article in Wired by Chris Anderson points to this momentum and suggests that what Kinkos was to the 80’s and 90’s so rapid prototyping and it’s various cousins will be to the tens or whatever this decade is going to be called.
Tom Burtonwood, April 2010
References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Tomorrow's_Parties_(novel)
Anonymous' Million Mask March (Brussels)
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I would not have voted for Donald Trump.. although Hillary Clinton was only the lesser of 2 evils
What will happen with a climate denier in charge? Will religion become even more powerful again as seen in Islamist countries (like Turkey)? Will the corporations be completely free to do as they want? Will education go even further down the drain? Will Creationism completely replace Darwinism? Will he keep his word and make the rich richer and completely ignore the poor masses? Will he abolish all social & medical care? Will he allow free speech?Will the NSA and other organisations receive even more power? Will police violence, white male supremacy and rape-tolerating machismo become the new standard? Will his statue be taller than the Statue of Liberty? Who will pay for it? Will he organize sex parties for Putin in the Oval Office to prevent WW3? Will his great wall rival the one in China, or those of Hadrianus & Game of Thrones? Will there be a revolution? Or will he turn out to be more moderate than his speeches showcased and will he end up like Charlie Chaplin at the end of “The great dictator”?
O--bittersweet uncertain future.
On Saturday October 18, 2014, around 90,000 people took part in "Britain Needs A Pay Rise," a march and rally in London organised by the TUC (Trades Union Congress) to highlight the growing inequality in the UK, and to call for an increase in pay for those who are not in the top 10% of earners, who, it was recently revealed, now control 54.1% of the country's wealth. The London march began on Victoria Embankment and proceeded to Hyde Park, where there was a rally. Other protests took place in Glasgow and Belfast.
This photo shows a protester, wearing a V for Vendetta mask, with a placard attributed to the hacktivists group Anonymous. In the background is a banner for ASLEF, the Associated Union of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.
As I explained in an article before the protest, I was "extremely glad to see the TUC putting together a major protest, as it is exactly two years since the last major TUC-organised protest, 'A Future That Works'. Prior to that, there was the 'March for the Alternative' in March 2011."
As I also explained, "I must admit to being extremely disappointed that the unions have not organised massive anti-austerity protests every six months against the butchers of the Tory-led coalition government, who continue with their efforts to destroy almost every aspect of the British state, privatising almost everything that was not privatised by Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and to hand it all over to unaccountable profiteers -- with the exception of their own jobs, and their lavish expenses, and, presumably, parts of the judiciary, the military and the intelligence services."
For the TUC, see: www.tuc.org.uk/
For the Britain Needs A Pay Rise website, see: britainneedsapayrise.org/
For Anonymous, see: www.facebook.com/OffiziellAnonymousPage
For ASLEF, see: www.aslef.org.uk/
For my article publicising the march, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2014/10/16/please-support-brita...
For my photos of "A Future That Works" in October 2012, see: www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/sets/72157631818307...
and: www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/sets/72157631831036...
For my article about the "March for the Alternative" in March 2011, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/03/26/on-the-anti-cuts-pro...
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
#OccupyLSX protesters gather at St. Paul's Cathedral - Day One, 15.10.2011
As part of the newly-emerging global "Occupy" movement which has seen a continuous occupation of Liberty Park near Wall Street in New York, and which today saw protests in approximately 950 cities worldwide against the corruption of both bankers and governments, around 4-5,000 activists - having been blocked by police from their original objective, Paternoster Square which leads to the London Stock Exchange - converged on the front steps of St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London to begin an occupation which. it is hoped, will oblige the financiers and bankers to realise that there are real people being grievously punished for the unpunished crimes of the banking industry which have resulted in crashing world economies and swingeing 'austerity measures' which are only paid for by the poor and middle classes. In the meanwhile the entire country has been treated to the disgraceful sight of the very people who caused this unmitigated shitstorm of greed, dishonesty and arrogance having the audacity to reward themselves with millions of pounds in bonuses, despite almost bringing the world economy to its knees.
Throughout the day the completely peaceful protesters discussed their grievances and through a series of open Spanish-style 'congresses' or 'people's assemblies' formulated a series of propositions which form the basis of the mass protest.
During the afternoon the crowd was joined by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who arrived wearing the obligatory Guy Fawkes mask made famous in the cult film "V for Vendetta", which is worn by members of hacktivist group Anonymous. Assange, wearing an electronic tag on his leg imposed by the British court as he is under house arrest awaiting deportation to Sweden - was accompanied by two police detectives, one of whom frequently made a point of holding Assange's shoulder, as if they thought for one second that one of the most identifiable faces in the world right now would ever be able to make a run for it, surrounded completely by a cordon of upwards of 3-400 police.
The only mindless, vindictive violence came from some members of the Territorial Support Group who were militaristic in their brutality towards completely passive citizens when they decided to rush the steps of the cathedral once darkness fell, during which assault they stamped on people's heads and bodies, punched and kicked several people and were seen to rip the hijab off one girl's head. All of this was to prove or gain nothing whatsoever strategically except the ability of the police to be - in my opinion as I watched it from very close quarters - criminally, dangerously violent to passive, peaceful protesters who no longer, it seems, are protected from violence by the agents of the State. When the police commit violence everyone - especially the police - knows it is very difficult to go after them to demand legal justice.
Several hours later the police abandoned the steps at the request of Cathedral officials, leaving everyone to wonder what was the primary motive of the senior officer who gave the order to lead this attack on private land when no crime had been committed. This was Abuse of Process in many people's opinion.
To follow the progress of #OccupyLSX and #OccupyLondon visit their website here, and follow them on Twitter HERE and HERE.
To follow the progress of the second protest camp set up in Finsbury Square on 22.10.2011 (photos soon) visit BeyondClicktivism and follow them on Twitter
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application
Anonymous Collector Bobblehead Figurine
Limited Edition
This high-quality bobblehead figurine depicts the logo of the hacktivist group Anonymous. The logo is a body of a person with a white shirt, black suit, and a question mark for a head with his/her hands behind their back. Each bobblehead is hand painted. Designed by Rick Lynn of The Bobblehead LLC.
The circular base is black with the character standing the Anonymous logo. On it’s front is ANONYMOUS in white lettering.
The Box is representative of anonymity and is a plain white box
Specifications:
Figurine
Construction:cultured marble (a highly durable mix of polyester resin and marble stone dust).
Paints:Acrylic
Height:7”
Base Diameter:2 9/16”
Weight:6.7 ounces
Boxed:
Construction:Full-color printed chipboard with custom Styrofoam insert.
Height:8 5/16”
Depth and Width:3 7/8 x 3 15/16”
Weight:8.4 ounces
Anonymous is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known. It strongly opposes Internet censorship and surveillance, and has hacked various government websites. It has also targeted major security corporations. It also opposes Scientology, government corruption and homophobia. Its members can be distinguished in public by the wearing of stylized Guy Fawkes masks.
This is a great addition to any bobblehead collection. If you're looking for a unique bobblehead, this is the one to own.
A great gift for any bobblehead fan or collector!
Also perfect as a party favor, guest amenity, event souvenir, reunion gift, and hospitality gift.
- Made of polyresin
- Comes in white box.
#OccupyLSX protesters gather at St. Paul's Cathedral - Day One, 15.10.2011
As part of the newly-emerging global "Occupy" movement which has seen a continuous occupation of Liberty Park near Wall Street in New York, and which today saw protests in approximately 950 cities worldwide against the corruption of both bankers and governments, around 4-5,000 activists - having been blocked by police from their original objective, Paternoster Square which leads to the London Stock Exchange - converged on the front steps of St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London to begin an occupation which. it is hoped, will oblige the financiers and bankers to realise that there are real people being grievously punished for the unpunished crimes of the banking industry which have resulted in crashing world economies and swingeing 'austerity measures' which are only paid for by the poor and middle classes. In the meanwhile the entire country has been treated to the disgraceful sight of the very people who caused this unmitigated shitstorm of greed, dishonesty and arrogance having the audacity to reward themselves with millions of pounds in bonuses, despite almost bringing the world economy to its knees.
Throughout the day the completely peaceful protesters discussed their grievances and through a series of open Spanish-style 'congresses' or 'people's assemblies' formulated a series of propositions which form the basis of the mass protest.
During the afternoon the crowd was joined by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who arrived wearing the obligatory Guy Fawkes mask made famous in the cult film "V for Vendetta", which is worn by members of hacktivist group Anonymous. Assange, wearing an electronic tag on his leg imposed by the British court as he is under house arrest awaiting deportation to Sweden - was accompanied by two police detectives, one of whom frequently made a point of holding Assange's shoulder, as if they thought for one second that one of the most identifiable faces in the world right now would ever be able to make a run for it, surrounded completely by a cordon of upwards of 3-400 police.
The only mindless, vindictive violence came from some members of the Territorial Support Group who were militaristic in their brutality towards completely passive citizens when they decided to rush the steps of the cathedral once darkness fell, during which assault they stamped on people's heads and bodies, punched and kicked several people and were seen to rip the hijab off one girl's head. All of this was to prove or gain nothing whatsoever strategically except the ability of the police to be - in my opinion as I watched it from very close quarters - criminally, dangerously violent to passive, peaceful protesters who no longer, it seems, are protected from violence by the agents of the State. When the police commit violence everyone - especially the police - knows it is very difficult to go after them to demand legal justice.
Several hours later the police abandoned the steps at the request of Cathedral officials, leaving everyone to wonder what was the primary motive of the senior officer who gave the order to lead this attack on private land when no crime had been committed. This was Abuse of Process in many people's opinion.
To follow the progress of #OccupyLSX and #OccupyLondon visit their website here, and follow them on Twitter HERE and HERE.
To follow the progress of the second protest camp set up in Finsbury Square on 22.10.2011 (photos soon) visit BeyondClicktivism and follow them on Twitter
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application
Anonymous Collector Bobblehead Figurine
Limited Edition
This high-quality bobblehead figurine depicts the logo of the hacktivist group Anonymous. The logo is a body of a person with a white shirt, black suit, and a question mark for a head with his/her hands behind their back. Each bobblehead is hand painted. Designed by Rick Lynn of The Bobblehead LLC.
The circular base is black with the character standing the Anonymous logo. On it’s front is ANONYMOUS in white lettering.
The Box is representative of anonymity and is a plain white box
Specifications:
Figurine
Construction:cultured marble (a highly durable mix of polyester resin and marble stone dust).
Paints:Acrylic
Height:7”
Base Diameter:2 9/16”
Weight:6.7 ounces
Boxed:
Construction:Full-color printed chipboard with custom Styrofoam insert.
Height:8 5/16”
Depth and Width:3 7/8 x 3 15/16”
Weight:8.4 ounces
Anonymous is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known. It strongly opposes Internet censorship and surveillance, and has hacked various government websites. It has also targeted major security corporations. It also opposes Scientology, government corruption and homophobia. Its members can be distinguished in public by the wearing of stylized Guy Fawkes masks.
This is a great addition to any bobblehead collection. If you're looking for a unique bobblehead, this is the one to own.
A great gift for any bobblehead fan or collector!
Also perfect as a party favor, guest amenity, event souvenir, reunion gift, and hospitality gift.
- Made of polyresin
- Comes in white box.