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100,000 Monks

by Luke Duggleby

]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:08:00 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/11549559157 thomforsyth: BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni My work... http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/10930545315





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BIRD RIB Paintings | Maurizio Bongiovanni

My work “Bird Rib” questions the effect that the “digitalization” is taking in the panorama view, re-marking the boundaries of the relationship between nature and technological progress. The world I created is crossed by a paradoxical form of mixing between the natural and technological artifice, and oscillates between a descriptive real and abstract imagines.

]]> Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:52:38 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/10930545315 The Astronaut Suicides http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/9874744077

The Astronaut Suicides

Bonus: original photos by Neil Dacosta

]]> Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:53:01 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/9874744077 Melinda Gibson on Lenscratch via jockohomo http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8907914449

Melinda Gibson on Lenscratch

via jockohomo

]]> Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:50:22 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8907914449 We are as gods and have to get good at it http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/brand09/brand09_index.html The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog, "we are as gods, we might as well get good at it". Photographs of earth from space had that god-like perspective.

What I'm saying now is we are as gods and have to get good at it. Necessity comes from climate change, potentially disastrous for civilization. The planet will be okay, life will be okay. We will lose vast quantities of species, probably lose the rain forests if the climate… ]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:27:00 -0700 http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/brand09/brand09_index.html Gif art without the glitch http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/cinemagraph-stillness-with-a-twist.html I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs.

The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners ads or captured weirdness, 7-8 frames with a limited palette and abrupt transitions. However, like many other old media formats it's remerging, more refined, grown-up and with a new purpose in life. And, as with records, film and other old/new media, obsolescence has been freeing, allowing the gif to exist in a way that's as, if not more, interesting than the way it was originally used. ]]> Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:07:53 -0700 http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/cinemagraph-stillness-with-a-twist.html Credit in the Straight WWW: "DDDDoomed", Berger, and the Image Aggregator http://2thewalls.com/journal/2011/1/10/credit-in-the-straight-www-ddddoomed-berger-and-the-image-ag.html [ED: Nearly all of the text in this post is taken from R. Gerald Nelson's independently published, occasionally problematic but more often brilliantly concise treatise DDDDoomed. Anyone concerned with issues of and methods pertaining to digital image dissemination, authorship and context should make an effort to purchase and read this chapbook. I cannot recommend it enough.]

"With new blogs springing up every day, beautiful images & words are springing up with them. I try to credit everything I put on this blog. I know sometimes I fail. Many of the images I feature are scanned by me… ]]> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:01:21 -0700 http://2thewalls.com/journal/2011/1/10/credit-in-the-straight-www-ddddoomed-berger-and-the-image-ag.html Francis Fukuyama on Why Analog Is Often Better Than Digital http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160300649048270.html Visual and audio reproduction have undergone massive changes as their underlying technologies shifted from analog to digital over the past two decades. It's clear that it is far more convenient to snap photos with a digital point-and-shoot or listen to music on an iPod. But whether the quality of images or music has improved is, however, a highly debatable proposition, one that is contested by legions of enthusiasts who have continued to cling to older technologies not out of Luddite resistance to change, but because they believe the shift to 1's and 0's is actually making things worse.
]]> Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:02:53 -0700 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160300649048270.html Hunters http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/3638249109

Hunters

]]> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 07:52:00 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/3638249109 In Defense of the Poor Image http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/94 by Hito Steyerl

The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, as well as copied and pasted into other channels of distribution.

The poor image is a rag or a rip; an AVI or a JPEG, a lumpen proletarian in the class society of appearances, ranked and valued according to its resolution. The… ]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:27:00 -0700 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/94 J.G. Ballard reviews Chris Marker's La Jetee http://www.scribd.com/doc/38073480/J-G-Ballard-reviews-Chris-Marker-s-La-Jetee This review appeared in New Worlds in 1966 and as far as I can tell is currently unavailable anywhere else. ]]> Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:38:00 -0700 http://www.scribd.com/doc/38073480/J-G-Ballard-reviews-Chris-Marker-s-La-Jetee How Slate Edited History http://www.slate.com/id/2254054/slideshow/2254660/ To test the effects of photographic editing on memory, Slate altered the content or context of five images. The first was a TV screen shot from President Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial, shown here. The original caption said: "This 12 February image taken from CNN television shows the vote count of the US Senate at the point of acquittal on the second vote of obstruction charges against US President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial." Because Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., had just cast the decisive 34th vote for acquittal, Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., who was next in the alphabetical roll call,… ]]> Fri, 28 May 2010 04:30:00 -0700 http://www.slate.com/id/2254054/slideshow/2254660/ Sorted Books project http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/languagetranslation/sortedbooks.php The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized public book collections. The process is the same in every case: culling through a collection of books, pulling particular titles, and eventually grouping the books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence, from top to bottom. The final results are shown either as photographs of the book clusters or as the actual stacks themselves, shown on the shelves of the library they were drawn from. Taken… ]]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:20:00 -0700 http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/languagetranslation/sortedbooks.php More from Eyjafjallajokull http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html As ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano continued to keep European airspace shut down over the weekend, affecting millions of travelers around the world, some government agencies and airlines clashed over the flight bans. Some restricted airspace is now beginning to open up and some limited flights are being allowed now as airlines are pushing for the ability to judge safety conditions for themselves. The volcano continues to rumble and hurl ash skyward, if at a slightly diminished rate now, as the dispersing ash plume has dropped closer to the ground, and the World Health Organization has issued a health warning… ]]> Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:37:00 -0700 http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo? | forgetomori http://forgetomori.com/2010/fortean/time-traveler-caught-in-museum-photo/ It’s the short description for the photograph shown at the virtual Bralorne Pioneer Museum, from British Columbia, Canada. The image can be seen specifically on this page (scroll down to the middle), among other items of the online exhibit. Did you notice anything out of place? Or perhaps, out of time? The man with what appears to be very modern sunglasses seems to be wearing a stamped T-shirt with a nice sweater, all the while holding a portable compact camera! ]]> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:40:00 -0700 http://forgetomori.com/2010/fortean/time-traveler-caught-in-museum-photo/ Manipulating Reality - How Images Redefine the World http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2010/01/-tatjana-hallbaum-in-between.php Manipulating Reality presents a selection of 23 artistic approaches that work through photography and video to develop possible models of reality. Its aim is not to understand whether photographs can convey reality but how this can occur. The works exhibited represent different artistic strategies addressing the construction, reflection or distortion of reality in images. In addition to investigating the value of documentary photography today, many of the artists presented reflect in part the conditions of the tool of photography and adopt known artistic techniques such as collage, presentation in model form, abstraction and the assemblage of different elements. ]]> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:00:00 -0700 http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2010/01/-tatjana-hallbaum-in-between.php IMG MGMT: Teen Image http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/22/img-mgmt-teen-image/ IMG MGMT is an annual image-based artist essay series. Today’s invited artist, Seth Price presents an essay challenging the traditional photo essay format. 1. Ritualized Unknowing People keep trying to get a handle on what’s happening. There’s a fear that others are hastening to make startling connections among the raw material, tracing lines between points we didn’t even know existed. Exacerbating this anxiety is the fact that despite its supposed insistence on the consolidation of knowledge and the worth of information, the Internet produces ritualized unknowing. You could say, however, that this is a good thing, for it provokes a… ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:06:00 -0700 http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/10/22/img-mgmt-teen-image/ Stunning Images of Herds from Above [PICS] http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/herds-from-above/9450 Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an animal herd fleeing from a predator. When seen from above, animal herds seem to follow intricate and intriguing patterns. The large flock of sheep in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, in the picture above, seems to form a heart shape, with a hole at the bottom from where the herder is driving the animals in a particular direction. Animals form herds for protection because a group is less likely to be… ]]> Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:16:00 -0700 http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/herds-from-above/9450 Abandoned Places In The World http://www.dirjournal.com/info/abandoned-places-in-the-world/ When starting on this post for some reason I was thinking that there are not many abandoned places in the world, at least the cities. I knew there are many villages, farms and just lonely houses all around the world but when thousands of people leave, leaving the whole city dead that’s a real tragedy. There are mainly two reasons why people suddenly or little by little leave the place where they used to live for years or even generations: that’s the danger and economic factors. The biggest number of abandoned villages and farms can be found in Unites States… ]]> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:05:00 -0700 http://www.dirjournal.com/info/abandoned-places-in-the-world/ Jamie Livingston's Polaroid of the Day http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/ A collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15131 There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these came from. ]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:24:00 -0700 http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/