I used to say I was born in the wrong century. The way overly dramatic kids claim to be old souls living in the present day, I was convinced I was secretly an impressionist painter, meant more for turn of the century’s demi-monde opulence rather than today’s world of animators, illustrators, and monster movie artists. [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Miss Teen USA South Carolina
30 August 2007 – 12:53 pm
UPDATE:
When I posted the video on Aug 27th, it had been seen by over 2 million viewers. Twenty-four hours later it had been seen by over 5million, and today it’s clocking in at 9,200,616. This is viral video Ebola.
The Analysis of Tim Howland (via Boing Boing)
I think that everyone has missed something important here; she’s [...]
Ancient Roman Footprint
27 August 2007 – 8:12 pm
This reminds me that the people of the ancient world were physically tinier than we are.
Source
Work Spaces
25 August 2007 – 3:55 pm
Update
William Gibson in his office (detail)
William Gibson (full view)
(one suspects it’s usually less tidy; a clean up job for the video cameras)
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Aug 19
Al Gore in his office
Noam Chomsky in his office
Bill Gates in his office
Robert Hughes in his condo
Pope B at a desk
Haruo Suekichi’s work space
June 2107
25 August 2007 – 3:50 pm
Richard Morgan, from Black Man (UK) /Th1rte3n (US) (Amazon) pages 87-90:
‘So,’ he said..’if the bonobos were patriarchal authority’s wet dream, what does that make variant thirteen?’
‘Variant thirteen?’ Jeff have him the crooked grin again. ‘Variant thirteen gave us back our manhood’.
‘Oh, come on.’
‘Hey, you weren’t there, little brother.’
‘You’re six years older than me, Jeff. [...]
Al Qaeda Websites
19 August 2007 – 11:30 am
Digital Bin Laden by Timothy Comeau
The current forms of Islamic fundamentalism should not be understood as a return to past social forms and values, not even from the perspective of the practitioners. According to Fazlur Rahman: ‘Actually it is even something of a misnomer to call such phenomena in Islam “fundamentalist” except insofar as they [...]
In the name of Jhesus
12 August 2007 – 6:08 pm
White Jesus amongst the White Aboriginals (from the Book of Mormon)
Christian fundamentalisms in the United States also present themselves as movement against social modernization, re-creating what is imagined to be a past social formation based on sacred texts. These movements should certainly be situated in line with the long US tradition of projects to create [...]
The Victorians
6 August 2007 – 9:19 pm
From William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition (2003):
‘How do you think we’ll look,’ Bigend asks, ‘to the future?’
[...]
‘They won’t think of us,’ Cayce says … ‘Any more than we think of the Victorians. I don’t mean the icons, but the ordinary actual living souls.’
‘I think they’ll hate us,’ says Helena.
‘Souls,’ repeats Bignend. [...] ‘Souls?’
‘Of course,’ he says, [...]