2012-08-30
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From jocochrane, the cover of g2 containing Oliver Burkeman’s excellent article on how Google and Apple’s digital mapping is mapping us. Some choice quotes:
In an era of previously unimagined opportunities for exploring the far-off and strange, we want mainly to stare at ourselves.
It’s hard to interpret the occasional aerial snapshot of your garden as a big issue when the phone in your pocket is assembling a real-time picture of your movements, preferences and behaviour.
What happens when we come to see the world, to a significant extent, through the eyes of a handful of big companies based in California?
2012-08-09
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afoundling: “Sexism is alive and well in photography”
the guide to posing men. Note the emphasis on professional and natural.
the guide to posing women. Note the… bikini? Emphasising the curvature of the upper body?
so, the men wear the trousers and suits, and women naturally are draped in a piece of cloth (or curtain). Demeaning or what?
2012-04-18
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Richard Rogers Screenprints by Simon Armstrong for the Design Museum.
2012-04-06
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London Icon Map by Calsidyrose on Flickr:
For the Danish traveler—a tour booklet about London.
It’s odd that Senate House and the Guildhall - not usually thought of as tourist destinations - are on here. So’s the Royal Festival Hall, which is nice.
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Body shape diagram, A La Modest:
You know how ridiculously unflattering some of these body shape diagrams are? I mean, instead of making you love your own body, those actually make you feel sick inside. And we’re expected to love our own bodies? The above picture is a fairly acceptable representation of the different bodies.
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math / perfectionism. Model: Alena Ferrari. Photo: Dmitry Alekseyev.
2012-04-04
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Queen of Swords: Drones, from the Hexen 2.0 Tarot deck by Suzanne Treister:
HEXEN 2.0 looks into histories of scientific research behind government programmes of mass control, investigating parallel histories of countercultural and grass roots movements. HEXEN 2.0 charts, within a framework of post-WWII U.S. governmental and military imperatives, the coming together of scientific and social sciences through the development of cybernetics, the history of the internet, the rise of Web 2.0 and increased intelligence gathering, and implications for the future of new systems of societal manipulation towards a control society.
Hexen 2.0 is on show at the Science Museum, London, until 1 May 2012. (Thanks, Kevan.)
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Study for Looking at 1998 San Francisco by Rigo 98 (now Rigo), from the SFMOMA collection at Google Art Project.
