Friday 31 August 2007

LINK CLUSTER

on being sane in insane places (pdf)

infiltration
the surveillance camera players
no border

the milgram experiment

space hi-jackers
billboard subversion and destruction
reporters without borders

the stanford prison experiment

Spanish Civil War

posters from the Spanish Civil War

... originally posted Family Of Breath 4 aug 2005 ...

Terrorists, Victims and Society

there is no "psychology of the terrorist,"

there is only the psychology of the Human that plays out in a multitude of ways.

..."Terrorists, Victims and Society" edited by Andrew Silke

amazon.co.uk
amazon.com

... originally posted Family Of Breath 2 aug 2005 ...

MANY

In 2004 the bbc told us that there's a tribe living in a remote part of Brazil's Amazon rainforest which has no words for numbers beyond two.

The Piraha use "one" to mean one or roughly one, two means two, while any larger number is just "many".

... originally posted Family Of Breath 22 aug 2004 ...

Disappearing Languages

"Of the 6,000 languages still on Earth, 90 percent could be gone by 2100."

"Languages are becoming extinct at twice the rate of endangered mammals and four times the rate of endangered birds."

Disappearing Languages

...originally posted Family Of Breath 6 aug 2004 ...

Playing Dead

playing dead

...originally posted Family Of Breath 30 aug 2003 ...

HOUSE GYMNASTICS

housegymnastics

...originally posted Family Of Breath 22 aug 2003 ...

animation

boyshit

...originally posted Family Of Breath 21 aug 2003 ...

Notes and thoughts re Huxley's Brave New World

"when the 5th marquess of lansdowne wrote to the times suggesting that the 1st world war should be concluded with a compromise, as most wars of the 18th century had been, the editor refused to print it."
(....Aldous Huxley, in his 1946 revised foreword to Brave new world)

ilya ehrenburg said "dadaism has more to do with the battle of the somme, with uprisings and putsches....than with what we usually consider art."
Folowing the war, in the 1920s and 30s, it was taken for granted that art has a social content and that artists ought to work for social change. Dada, in essence, was revolt against war. None of those artists could bring themselves to work for the rebuilding of a society that had proven itself so morally bankrupt and they rejected all accepted values because those values had all succumbed to rabid militarism.

"O brave new world that has such people in it."
Round pegs in Square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and to infect others with their discontents.
THE PROBLEM OF HAPPINESS
THE PROBLEM OF MAKING PEOPLE LOVE THEIR SERVITUDE.

"A really efficient state would be one in which the all powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of Slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. Ensuring that enough people love it is the task assigned to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors, and schoolteachers."
(...Aldous Huxley, in his 1946 revised foreword to Brave new world)

And.....

Great is the truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Embedded Journalism
The US defence department's chief spokesperson, Victoria Clarke, has said the Pentagon was very happy with the outcome of the "embedding" of some 700 journalists with US military units during the war in Iraq. During a conference on 17 June 2003 on news coverage during the war, she said people appreciated the embedding and would like to do it again. She added that more journalists should be brought into this process next time, especially foreign journalists.
( via reporters without borders )

and how many journalists and camera people etc have the americans killed so far?

plus....

the perpetuation of militarism:
The masses as cannon fodder
and the importance of families to produce more cannon fodder and to colonise empty or conquered territories.


...originally posted Family Of Breath 12 aug 2003 ...

Which Book

which book

A site that recommends books (fiction and poetry published since 1995) based on you choosing from a sliding scale of descriptions such as from.....

"safe to disturbing",
"beautiful to disgusting",
"optimistic to bleak", etc.

It then produces a list of books that match your criteria with short reader critiques for you to choose from

... originally posted Family Of Breath 8 Aug 2003 ...

Wednesday 29 August 2007

LINK CLUSTER

http://www.globalideasbank.org/
http://www.anxietyculture.com/
http://www.theplayethic.com/


http://www.greyworld.org/
http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/

PHOTO FRIDAY

photofriday.com

a different challenge theme every friday

...originally posted Family Of Breath 3 aug 2003...

ATTENTION TO DETAIL

doorknobs and handles

every door or drawer knob, handle, or latch he touched from the time he awoke on Thursday, June 3rd until he went to bed on Friday, June 4th.

eat22

11mar2001-11mar2002 Ellie Harrison documents everything she eats.

golberg family (1976 - present)

Diego Golberg and family sit down on June 17 for a family ritual.

...originally posted Family Of Breath 3 aug 2003...

c71123.com

c71123

...originally posted Family Of Breath 3 aug 2003...

ROMAN OPALKA'S TIME

Roman Opalka has painted "time" exclusively since 1965. Not using symbols as clocks or calendar dates, he paints a sequence of numbers to represent the passing of time.

The canvas size, height and style of digits never changes. He records the numbers as he counts in Polish, his mother tongue, and photographs his face at the end of each day’s painting session. The number paintings, photos, sound and texts are all elements Opalka uses for his installations on time. The name of this art work is: OPALKA 1965/ 1-oo

Spending more than half of his life on this single oeuvre. It will be completed only when he dies.

...originally posted Family Of Breath 2 aug 2003...

STEPHEN'S TIME TRAVEL WEBSITE

Stephen's Time Travel Website

...originally posted Family Of Breath 2 aug 2003...

HOLLYWOOD JESUS

hollywoodjesus.com
"POP CULTURE FROM A SPIRITUAL POINT OF VIEW"

...originally posted Family Of Breath 1st aug 2003...

REMOVE "God" FROM THE PLEDGE

the american Constitution forbids government from endorsing religious views.

But in 1954 - fueled by the Cold War and blinded by McCarthyism - after sixty-two secular years, the american pledge of allegiance was changed. Religion was injected into the Pledge, and "under God" was interlarded into that promise which had previously embraced all Americans.

"The Pledge should be a unifying experience for every american citizen. Placing a religious ideal into its midst is not right, and serves no purpose except to alter a purely patriotic tradition into one that satisfies the religious bent of the majority. That is exactly what the First Amendment was written to preclude."

http://www.restorethepledge.com/

...originally posted Family Of Breath 1st aug 2003...

BEYOND GAY MARRIAGE

"We must overcome the tyranny of the natural and build human institutions that serve human needs."

...originally posted Family Of Breath 1st aug 2003...

AN OUTLAW BLOG FROM 2014

AN OUTLAW BLOG FROM 2014

...originally posted Family Of Breath 24 Aug 2002...

CYBORG ACRONYM GENERATOR


Robotic Unit Skilled in Scientific Harm, Immediate Gratification and Galactic Sabotage




Get Your Cyborg Name .....max 10 letters long

...originally posted Family Of Breath 20 aug 2002...