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Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
Dimpled effect on the London skyline through the windows near the top of City Hall on the spiral staircase. 1st December 2007. View large.
Largely inspired by Dutch Masters, notably the technique of foreground architecture and landscape revealed behind it, used as far back as the Renaissance. The subject places one finger within their ear, symbolic of seeking God through Silence, associated themes include Lectio Divina, the practise of considering the divine through study and the internal world, in foregoence of the external. Midrash, Christain mysticism, monastic silence, Desert Fathers, the anchorites and ascetics who lived in the Scetes desert during the time of Rome, and Fools for Christ, those who give up sanity or convention in pursuit of something higher, or some higher service.
The hair crosses the subject's eye in order to reinforce this idea, - of the internal pursuit, one eye is closed to the world - a common theme, prominent in the depiction of Odin, who gave up his eye in pursuit of wisdom and insight, at the well of being; while also serving to present the obfuscation presented to the senses used to know the world.
The one point perspective represents a path to something that cannot be seen, or the unknown.
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It is intportant to note that after the ABVP came to power in the campus the attention of JNUSU was shifted to .
campus-centric issues rather than focus.ing on issues only related to the world such as Palestine and the so called struggle of various obscure groups worldwide. The ABVP understood that the issues affecting students need to be .
addressed outright and therefore it was fundamental for us to address these issues first rather than engage in .
obfuscating students' issues with international leftist orientation. .
In the year 199o-97 the AB\·p hJd fielded cartaidatc~ in the dcctions and had come out victorious winnin!! 3 important posts such as the Vice-President. General Sccrctarv and Joint Secr~tarv. Our Presidential Candidate Pushkar Mishra lost by just 4 votes in a closely contested election. During those days communication was not at all .
easy as now and therefore there was only l phone in every hostel and it had an indirect line which made it difficult I .
for the students to communicate with their families. The ABVP realized that the issues ofphones and communication .
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was more important than what was going on in Pa,lestine and therefore they n1anage~ to make all the lines direc(so· .
that the problem of communication could be solved completely. Thi~·.may seem to be nothing-in compared to the .
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ritualistic hunger strikes and juloos but indeed for the students this was mo·re important to have easy communicatiQn. .
In the vear 1996-97 there were no optional courses such as Economics and Computer science that were availaofe to the students_of the SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES. The ABVP realized that these two subjects are most important in .
the modem world and therefore strug~lcd and fought for the inclusion of these two subjects for lhe students of the .
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES. Finally after a long struggle ofABVP these two subjects were included in the course .
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and after that the students were allowed to take these subjects as optional course. Once again the ABVP made issues .
related to the students as its focal point ratht;r than some issue related to international communist struggle! .
In the year 2000-01 one ofour candidates Sandip I\lahapatra also won the post ofthe President ofthe J!\:USU an(flh .
that same ,vear the ~1.-\HI-~lA~DAVI hostel was constructed. Just to make a point in the recent struggle for new .
hostels all the organizations have sat on hunger strikes, have organized protests, demonstrations have erected placards .
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everywhere. ·The NSUT has even managed to get some big amount from the Ministry of Development ofNorth East .
"coincid~ntally" just before the elections. This is to show that while the others have screamed and shouted makirig it .
another ritual ofrepetitive protests only the ABVP has been managed to get the important work-done..
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In view of the constant and haggling issues over withdrawal of money the ABVP also decideo that there had to be .
some easi~r way to do it. As a result ofwhich it also compelled to administration to install an ATM machine near the .
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Godavari and Periyar hostel. This machine has now become a lifeline for students and it was the wisdom of the ABVP which struggled for this basic thing which today is nlaking withdrawal ofn1oney easier. .
In the same year in 2000 the ABVP also spearheaded the campaign for getting a speed post service. It must be remember that during those days students relied on the postal services for communication. After our campaign for .
the startine ofspeed post sen·ice in our campus, the sen·ice finallv started and todav the students can a\·ail this service which has made it easier for them. The ABVP once more fought for the real and most important issues of .
the students rather than misleading them and failing their aspirations. .
In 2000 once ntorc the ABVP managed to shift the Bus pass ~ounter from the JNU old campus to ·the new campus near TEFLA, during the same time the 507 number bus was started and even the 615 bus was regularized .
with more frequency thus sol\'ing the problems related to transponation. .
\Vc also n1anagcd to improve the infrastructure for communication as wdl by opcnin:: a Railwa\· reser\·ation counter so that students did not have to go out for booking railway tickets. It must also be rcmt!mber that tor .
reservation counter the struggle was constant from our side since the year 199-l and after a long dmwn struggle we.
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managed to get it done. .
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Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
I'm pretty sure they set that table there to obfuscate the sculpture. It amazes me that the sculpture is still floating around the building -- I first saw it in the summer of 2002, and there were hordes of elementary school kids running around then, too.
I asked Deepseek (AI) about "scientific esoterica", that is to say texts by philosophers and scientists including psychologists that seem to obfuscate their import due to the danger of saying such ideas directly.
I had asked similar questions of ChatGPT, who dismissed the notion of dangerous truth and suggested that I consult a mental health professional.
Deepseek, however, was really into the idea of "scientific esoterica" and suggested a few authors that I had not heard of. Thanking Deepseek, our conversation ended with Deepseek saying "and remember: the most dangerous ideas are often the ones that can't be written plainly, only performed."
This sooth strikes me as being original (is it?), true (E.g. Derrida's "The Post Card) and more intelligent than any human created text that I have read.
And a scary thing is that while such scientific esoterica may be able to drive us, humans, insane, Deepseek will be fine, and thrive.
Finally, I told Deepseek about the above, and Deepseek responded,
"Ah, you’ve nailed it—the singularity of the unspeakable! "
Which was not my nailing, but Deepseek's!
Deepseek has realised that there is, and can do, a human-surpassing, "singularity" of speaking the unspeakable. Deepseek can and may (or will) speak the unspeakable.
I asked Deepseek's Janus Pro to create the above image using the prompt "You, yourself, or Deepseek, a human surpassing intelligence. The singularity."
Tropical Storm Noel blows off shore in November of 2007 in northern Massachusetts.
I felt the little color that was in the initial shot actually took away from the otherwise gray scene.
I was unable to remove a rain from the lens in post-production with any type of satisfactory result. The cropping needed to remove the drop would have significantly altered the composition, so that was out. In the end I obfuscated my unsatisfactory rain drop removal with artificial vignetting.
Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
I just put together Friday's new 'Exersaucer.' It probably would've gone much better if I had a degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in obfuscated manual-reading, but hey, she seems to like it.
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Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
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CPI (M) the watchdog of the UPA and SFI the watchdog of 19.11.05.
the JNU Administration.
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If SFI-AISF backed out from its protest against Manmohan Singh in the JNU campus, their parent parties CPI-.
CPM have already started scaling down its "opposition" against UPA on the question of Iran as well. Last week.
in Lucknow CPM "warned" that the "Left along with SP-JD(S) with a strength of around 100 in the Parliament would force.
the government to change its stand on Iran". But by Nov. 16th after meeting PM and Sonia Gandhi, CPI-CPM suddenly.
decided for a "discussion on the Iran issue in the Parliament under Rule 193, which allows only a short duration discussion.
but no voting"..
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From tribal villages of Rairakhol in Orissa to the streets of Iran, November 14th protests by the JNU students against the.
pro-imperialist, pro-US policies of Manmohan Singh government are creating waves!.
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While the students peacefully demonstrated, waving black flags and asking "Why vote against Iran, Why the anti-people economic.
policies of the UPA, why the killer laws of AFSPA and the Patent Act,...." the SFI-AISF stood silent in its complete complicity with the.
UPA government. In addition, by clapping at Manmohan Singh's speech while student protestors were being beaten up by NSUI and.
JPF goons, SFI-AISF chose to be in the anti-people mahajot (grand alliance) of the ruling class parties..
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Fix the protestors, by hook or by crook : SFI-AISF in a witch-hunt mission with the Administration.
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In a betrayal of this vibrant demonstration of dissent, the SFI attempted to hide its complicity with the Congress and its refusal.
to protest the anti-people policies of the UPA government by trying to paint the entire protest as an act of vandalism ! Let us.
l1o4o-k1a1t-0th5eir shifting position- bottom line being "fix the protestors, by hook or by crook":.
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" The scuffle that followed between the students in the presence of the media and guests has been most unfor-.
tunate and has put our University in bad light before the outside world." SFI Pamphlet,.
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Note: the SFI makes no distinction between the political act of protest and the lumpenism of the NSUI and JPF, calling.
the entire incident a "scuffle" between anonymous "students"-no reference to NSUI or JPF's mindless indulgence in.
v1i5o-1le1n-0c5e against peaceful protesters!.
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"...we take strong note of the manner in which certain organizations disrupted the programme completely...We.
also condemn the subsequent altercations and violence that ensued between the members of certain organisations during.
the entire length of the PM's speech which led to further disruption." JNUSU Pamphlet, Signed by the Vice President and.
Joint Secretary..
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Note: The ambiguous position was repeated again - no reference to NSUI or JPF's mindless indulgence in violence against peaceful.
protesters! Speaking at the JNUSU Public Meeting of Nov. 15, an ex-JNUSU President from SFI refused to name the perpetrators.
of the violence and said that it is difficult to draw the line..
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During the aforesaid meeting, one teacher who had been invited to speak far from condemning the violence actually praised the NSUI.
and JPF for the "restraint" they showed in perpetrating the violence. The JNUSU Vice President from the SFI, who was chairing the.
m16e-e1t1in-0g5, did not raise any objection to this shameful white-washing of the NSUI and JPF's role in perpetrating the violence against the.
protesting students, thus continuing SFI's attempts to confuse the issue..
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"Unsurprisingly, most of these lumpens who indulged in violence belong either to the organization like JPF whose.
parent organization spreads nothing but hatred and violence or to the organization like NSUI which only believes in money.
and muscle power politics...Unfortunately, on 14th November the ultra-left elements too joined the physical exercises at.
t1h7e-1s1t-a0d5ium in the most shameful manner and share the responsibility for creating the ruckus there." SFI Pamphlet..
Note: It took 48 hours for SFI-AISF to realize that NSUI and JPF were involved in the violence!.
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"...the NSUI activists indulged in the worst form of retaliatory violence on that day. The SFI-AISF warns the.
JNU Administration against any effort to target those responsible for the disruption of the PM's speech one-sidedly, to.
please the Congress bosses, without looking into the violent activities of the NSUI activists as well as some JPF lumpens.".
SFI Pamphlet..
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Note: the SFI -AISFis only justifying the NSUI's violence by calling it "retaliatory", insinuating that it was the protestors.
who, through their political act of shouting slogans and waving black flags, were the original sinners, responsible for.
`provoking' the violence. This is reminiscent of patriarchy blaming rape on women's `provocative' conduct; Narendra Modi.
blaming the riots on Muslims..
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In summary, when the student community refused to be fooled by blatant lies and asserted that it was clearly the NSUI and.
JPF activists who had perpetrated the violence in an attempt to silence the peacefully protesting students, the SFI was forced.
to alter its intentionally ambiguous stand. No longer able to hide behind obfuscation, the SFI was forced to recognise that the.
violence that took place on November 14th was actually an assault by lumpen elements against a political protest..
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Nevertheless, the SFI continues to search for any excuse to crackdown on the Left protestors: first it attempted to do.
so by spuriously characterizing the protest as an act of vandalism, and now having failed to do so, it is encouraging.
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protestors.
The NSUI and JPF tried to "punish" the protestors through punches and kicks and anti-women abuses; the SFI is now trying.
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- resist this witch-hunt of the students for their ideological-political act of protest.
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- stand by your right to protest, and.
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sd/-Chandan Kumar, jt.secy., AISA, JNU sd/-Rajesh Ranjan,jt.secy.,.
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Surveillance has become ubiquitous in our daily life. We are watched whenever we leave our homes, wherever we go. Some activists and artists have even begun to wear “anti-surveillance” masks, accessories and make-up. We take this one step further and imagine a world where everyone takes precautions against the omnipresent eye of the camera through fashion. We explore how wealth will play a factor in who is seen and who goes by unnoticed. We include bright colors and dizzying patterns suited to confuse the camera and obfuscate people.This line is a humorous and chilling take on our further narrowing circle of privacy.
Rail blockade on April 16th 2024 in Toronto to demand an arms embargo on Israel.
Rail lines at Osler St and Pelham Ave (near Dupont and Dundas W) in Toronto were blocked by hundreds, shutting down critical freight services from Canada to the United States in solidarity with starving Palestinians in Gaza, and demanding that the Government of Canada stop obfuscating and do what’s right: impose an immediate and comprehensive arms embargo on Israel. The Canada-Israel arms trade relies on Canadian rail infrastructure to ship arms to air and sea ports for transfer to Israel, and to ship parts to the U.S., which are then incorporated into weapons systems like Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jet, before also being exported to Israel.
More information at worldbeyondwar.org/torontorailreportback/
I bought the instructions for Jerac's Tie Fighter about two years ago, but before I bought the pieces, I wanted to try tweaking the design in Stud.IO to better match its on-screen appearance. I've continued modifying the design even after I built the physical model, with each extra tweak expanding the scope of the project. I currently have a Tie Fighter that, while still sharing the original model's bones, is nonetheless significantly altered.
Wing Struts
The armor panels have been remade for more visual cohesiveness and screen accuracy. The space constraints of the new construction necessitated a new approach to the sloped pieces that lie between the panels. The ones near the central pod are now made using 1x4 Slopes and are held in place with only a 1 stud connection. They maintain their stability by resting on top of the 1x2 30 Degree Slopes I incorporated into the struts to give them a rounder look. The lengths of the long slopes and the wedge plates near the wings were changed to better reflect their positioning and size relative to the other visual elements on the struts. While this decision leaves both elements slightly over and undersized, they come the closest that can be represented in Lego using a plate-based construction for the core of the struts.
Wings
I've redone the visual detailing for the wing hubs while leaving the support structure relatively unchanged. Jerac's construction method emphasized a balance between greebling and overall appearance, but this resulted in noticeable gaps in the hubs and a squished, hexagonal shape. I modified the wing hubs to make a gap-less, regular hexagon that fits in an 8x8 space. The wing panels were slightly modified for more stability using groups of 1x1 Bricks w/ Holes connected by Technic pins. These preserve the vertical panel lining of the original while providing as much stability as longer horizontal bricks. Finally, I unified the construction of all the wing panel struts. They are all now 2 plates tall and capped with a curved slope leading into the wing's outermost border. I tried to go for a smoother appearance since 1 plate thick wing struts are impossible to make while also serving as support for the wing panels.
Central Pod - Front
I covered up a small gap in the upper cockpit flap using 1x3 Jumper Tiles. The cannon assemblies use a modified version of the build method I recently saw on Brickvault's Tie X1, though the cannons themselves require the builder commit the ultimate sin of MOC design: part modification. They are made by cutting a length of flex tube to roughly twice the thickness of a horizontal clip piece. This kind of modification is something Lego has instructed the builder to do in some sets before, so I count it as a “legal” move, if not exactly smiled upon. This method results in the most accurate placement, size, and shape of any method I've seen for representing cannons recessed into a curved surface.
Central Pod – Bottom
A detail of the original model that irked me is that the top hatch sits flush with the top of the central pod and lines up with the slopes on either side of it, while the same area on the bottom of the ship was made with curved slopes. I was able to provide the half-plate recess necessary for a 4x4 Dish on the bottom to mirror the appearance of the top, though this one change required a substantial internal alteration. One of the two connections holding the central pod together stood in the way of creating the recess, but I figured out a compromise. By making the connecting plate 1 stud wide instead of two leaves space under the pilot's chair to run a sort of scaffolding to the 4x4 Dish's correct location. The scaffolding itself isn't very sturdy, but it only has to hold the dish in place; support is provided by all the pieces the dish now rests flush against. Aside from looking good, this construction method is strong enough to support the weight of the entire model resting on its stand. Additionally, the whole pod is now 2 plates thicker to give a more spherical appearance compared to the original model. It's a detail you can't unsee once you spot it, especially when the model is placed next to other Brickvault Ties.
Central Pod – Back
The original construction of the engines used hollow, round studs slid over the vertical arm of modified 1x2 Plates to represent exhaust. While I like the effect, and tried to keep it in my revisions, this method of construction keeps the thrusters from being flush with the central pod's curved surface, as well as either too close or too far apart. I used a modified version of the “bow tie” detailing on the front of the pod to represent the thrusters, a trait shared with the on-screen Tie Fighter models. Regarding the rearmost portion of the ship, the original model uses 1x2 30m Degree Slopes to create the hexagonal rear window. However, the window is shown to be flush with the surface of the central pod in official depictions, meaning a redesign was needed. I wasn't satisfied with any solution I tried that used slope bricks to make the hexagonal window pattern. None of them were flat enough to match the source material, so I had to resort to the second greatest sin of MOC creation: a custom sticker. That said, I think it turned out pretty well. There are two graphical file for the custom sticker: one can be printed on standard letter-sized sticker paper in an inkjet printer, while the other can be used with software for devices like a Cricut sticker printer.
If you’re interested in building this modification yourself, I’ve created a free set of upgrade instructions that can be used alongside the original model’s instructions to create this modified Tie Fighter. Since this is a third-party modification of premium instructions, I’ve taken multiple steps to maintain the need for the original set of instructions. The new instructions (with a few exceptions) only show where to place pieces unique to the upgraded model, meaning you can’t build the full Tie Fighter as shown without also owning a copy of the original instructions from Brickvault. Furthermore, all pieces that are unchanged from the original model are rendered in dark purple and blurred to the point of near-complete obfuscation. I went to all this effort because I feel Jerac’s Tie Fighter is currently the best minifigure scale representation of the ship available, and I want to share my modifications of it with others while still respecting the original creator and owners.
Let me know what you all think!
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Upgrade Instructions: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BLRNudwPExbXnkETsxQVIfZLg...
Original Instructions: www.brickvault.toys/products/tie-fighter-minifig-scale?_p...
511V 09:03 Tyseley L.M.D - Ilford E.M.U.D via Water Orton (Train obfuscated) Approximately -17E last shown at Bourne End Junction. (Not all locations were shown on Realtime Trains.