“Today we are particularly enamoured with churning out visual material – well over a billion image capturing sensors are being churned out in camera phones, cameras, computers and TVs every year – the growth of recorded and shared visual material would stun someone as little as 10 years ago. Photos make excellent containers of information – we are highly evolved at decoding and consuming visual material we have, in the words of Kevin Kelly, developed an acute level of screen literacy. But there are a number of technological trajectories that will change how we validate whether something is real, ‘the truth’ – and the relative importance of a photo in this validation.”
—Future Perfect » A Shift From the Visual
November 2011
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“Divide your life into chapters.
By seeing time as something divisible into chunks, they could more easily stop and self-appraise. They had more control over their fate.” —
By seeing time as something divisible into chunks, they could more easily stop and self-appraise. They had more control over their fate.” —
The Life Reports II - NYTimes.com
This is why I’m happy.
“Whale.fm, a project of Scientific American and Zooniverse, invites the general public to help track and analyze whale songs, gathered from numerous whales around the world. Using embedded recordings, paired with greyscale spectrograms as background/timelines, users can play a whale song, then click through grouped, similar recordings to decide which one best matches.”
—Whaling Songs | HiLobrow
“It’s weird that photographers spend years trying to capture moments that added together don’t even amount to a couple of hours.”
—James Kievom (via photojojo)
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“Appropriately, pirates emerge whenever ‘the commons’ is under threat of enclosure into private property. They rose up to battle the crown-censored publishing monopolies of the 17th century. They rose up as Levellers to defend the poor as they were turfed off common land and forced into vagrancy. They rose up in the 1960’s as pirate DJs when the BBC refused to play Rock and Roll.”
—Kester Brewin in Occupied Times via Composing and protoslacker (via bettyann)
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