Archive for 2006

Home Sweet Home

I can’t beleive they used this as an ad. London is a grey abyss avoid it by tube.

More Disinformation

“We live in a spectacular society, that is, our whole life is surrounded by an immense accumulation of spectacles. Things that were once directly lived are now lived by proxy. Once an experience is taken out of the real world it becomes a commodity. As a commodity the spectacular is developed to the detriment of the real. It becomes a substitute for experience.”- Larry Law, from Images And Everyday Life

Quoted from Wikipedia…Is it ironic to post this, should i have experienced the book?

Drivers Blog

Public Textures

Hooligans

I want to get off

Elephant and Castle















The most beautifully depressing place I’ve found in London. I’d recommend it on a Saturday with an extra bleak market in the shopping centre which epitomises 70’s optimism gone wrong. Top off the experience with a hangover and four hours sleep.

what it said in the papers, thursday 02 march 2006

a review of the printed media of 2nd march. the concluision: it’s not looking good. (sorry thats just my concluision, feel free to post your own)

Backdorm Boys!!!


http://www.tian.cc/2005/10/asian-backstreet-boys.html

The flying spagethi monster

He who created the universe!
http://www.venganza.org/

The Demise of BABYLON


below is a post by kode9 a dubstep producer on his blog http://kode9.blogspot.com/
their blog is a really good insight into an underground movement with many questions beyond music. theyre playing on sat 4th march at mass in brixton. with a 12k very loud soundsystem.im going come one come all.cans and tunes in my gaf first.

kode9_
“I’ve got an article in a new edited collection Cultural Hacking called Speed Tribes: netwar, affective hacking and the audio-social – its about spinoza, grime and the hardcore continuum. . .most of the book is in german

here is the intro
“The virtual architecture of dread defines the affective climate of early 21st century urbanism. It is underpinned by the sense, as a character from William Gibson’s latest novel Pattern Recognition proclaims, that “we have no future because our present is too volatile. . .” Exorcising this dread has been a central objective of cultural hackers. In the late 20th century, through breakbeat and vocal science, it was urban machine musics, and their pre-occupation with generating soundtracks to sonically enact the demise of Babylon, that took up this project. Since the turn of the 20th century, audio futurism has explored the themes of war, speed and sensation. A century later, and under the shadow of ‘shock and awe’, what are the current dynamics of this strain of affective hacking?”

Transparency Now !!!

http://www.transparencynow.com/

Arcosanti: An urban laboratory


http://www.arcosanti.org/

futurefeeder.com


The Clock of the Long Now


Stewart Brand

“Time and responsibility.” What a prime subject for vapid truisms and gaseous generalities adding up to the world’s most boring sermon. To spare us both, let me tie this discussion to a specific device, some specific responsibility mechanisms, and specific problems and cases. The main problem might be stated, “How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare?” How do we make the taking of long-term responsibility inevitable?

The device is a Clock, very big and very slow. For the purposes of this book it is strictly notional, a Clock of the mind, an instrument for thinking about time in a different way. As it happens, such a Clock is in fact being built. The builders are finding that the very idea of the Clock—why to build it, how to build it—forces their thinking in interesting directions; among other things, toward long-term responsibility. Since it works for them, please consider yourself one of the Clock’s builders. It won’t take long to catch up. Here’s how the project summary read in late 1998, complete with preamble:

Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multi-tasking. All are on the increase.

http://www.well.com/user/sbb/