"98% of films played in cinemas around the world are produced and manufactured in Hollywood, completing the cycle of cultural hegemony."
@InjusticeFacts
‘Powers of ten’ by designers Charles and Ray Eames (1968/77).
What a trip.
ART THOUGHTZ: To Catch A Millennial
Live at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 9-07-11
(Source: youtube.com)
"Real change doesn’t begin with governments, presidents, or prime ministers. It begins with each of us. In the 20th century, never-ending mass-marketing, monopoly, and mega-politics came together to convince us, each and every one, that we’re not really free: just free enough to choose between different flavors of the same old toxic junk. It was a trick, a ploy, a television hallucination. We’re the freest people in history. It’s time to use it like we meant it."
The Betterness Manifesto by Umair Haque
Douglas Rushkoff - Toward a Peer-to-Peer Economy is a talk from Hello Etsy in Berlin, given and recorded on September 18, 2011.
Digital cameras are now ubiquitous - it is estimated that 2.5 billion people in the world today have a digital camera. Facebook’s photo collection has a staggering 140 billion photos, that’s over 10,000 times larger than the Library of Congress.How many photos have ever been taken?
"QR technology, originally invented for tracking Toyota auto parts traveling through the supply chain, is a simple, freely accessible means for linking data to our physical environment. They are links between a place in space and time, and the atemporal network. And yet, they are utilized simply as large “Go” buttons, their only function being to load a web page. They are the location-web’s version of the “home page” button on the top of your OEM keyboard. In the time it takes for me to load a QR reader app and snap a photo, I could have typed in a URL, which is in a data format my eyes and fingers are already primed to interpret without an app. A QR code can hold over 7,000 numerical characters within its pattern, and we use them as convoluted photographic hyperlinks. What we’re doing with QR codes is leasing out wall space in the art museum for fast food advertisements."
Think Tanks surround politics today and are the very things that are supposed to generate new ideas. But if you go back and look at how they rose up - at who invented them and why - you discover they are not quite what they seem. That in reality they may have nothing to do with genuinely developing new ideas, but have become a branch of the PR industry whose aim is to do the very opposite - to endlessly prop up and reinforce today’s accepted political wisdom.
from Adam Curtis Blog
