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prostheticknowledge:

Pixel Cloud by Daniel Arsham

Installation piece that is part of the artist’s exhibition, “The Fall, The Ball, and The Wall’ at the Oh Wow gallery in Los Angeles.

From Design Boom:

‘Ball’ refers to Arsham’s a large-scale, hanging mass of 20000 polyethylene balls in shades of gray, from the set of
Merce Cunningham’s final performances, it is a three-dimensional hanging sculpture based from the pixels of a hyper-magnified photograph of a cloud formation.

More about the exhibition and it’s other pieces can be seen at Design Boom here

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dozs:

Stereo Total - Relax Baby Be Cool

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與女孩們的畢業旅行#1 (by HaoJan)

與女孩們的畢業旅行#1 (by HaoJan)

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Piracy’s preserving effect, while little known, is actually nothing new. Through the centuries, the tablets, scrolls, and books that people copied most often and distributed most widely survived to the present. Libraries everywhere would be devoid of Homer, Beowulf, and even The Bible without unauthorized duplication.
Provocative read on why history needs software piracy. Reminiscent of the story of how the widely pirated first edition of Arabian Nights made it one of the most influential pieces of storytelling in history. (via austinkleon)
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2012_1_29_26_44_62935 (by the pain of fleeting joy)

2012_1_29_26_44_62935 (by the pain of fleeting joy)

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The (Internet) giant has stopped this craziness—here and now. But the challenge is for the giant to recognize the need to stop this craziness generally. We need a system that is not so easily captured by crony capitalists. We need a government that is not so easily bought. And if only the giant could be brought to demand this too, in the few moments we have before it falls back to sleep, then this war—this “copyright war,” this war that Jack Valenti used to call his own “terrorist war,” where apparently the “terrorists” are our children—will have been worth every bit of the battle. I admit, today this hope seems like a pretty far-fetched dream. But I can assure you that a decade ago, the idea that millions would have rallied to stop Hollywood from pushing an “anti-piracy” bill through Congress was also little more than a dream. A dream that hundreds of activists have now made real.
Lawrence Lessig (via azspot)
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thepacegallery:

Chuck Close’s Advice to Young Artists

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brooklynmutt:

Database Cinema: An Instant Movie Mashup Generator

Julian Palacz’s Algorithmic Search for Love, an interactive digital media installation, works like a search engine; viewers can search a collection of films for a certain spoken phrase and the program plays back a montage of all those moments in sequence. The program works by parsing the English subtitle tracks of 500 films on a local hard drive, creating an edit similar to the “supercut” sequences that have been so popular on YouTube lately — like this one. This video demonstrates how the program works with the phrases “where are you?” and “holy shit!” (the video contains some adult language and scenes). 

Read more —> The Atlantic

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It’s dangerous to be an artist. That’s what we talk about in Naked Lunch — and it’s dangerous on many different levels. Politically it can be dangerous, but psychologically it can be quite dangerous too. You make yourself very vulnerable. You put yourself out there and of course you open yourself up to criticism and attack.
David Cronenberg in “It’s Dangerous to be an Artist”   (via predatorywaspobserver)
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Playing “superheroes” with Kai today.

IMG_8039 (by the pain of fleeting joy)

Playing “superheroes” with Kai today.