Phillipe Petit, “Man On Wire Trailer”
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“The Side” by artist Kerrin Mansfield, from Monocular 6101 which is “a series of images taken using an ad hoc assembly of a Nokia 6101 cellphone fastened with insulation tape (or often just held) to the right eyepiece of a pair of Chinon 8 x 30 binoculars (8x magnification through a 30mm diameter objective).” (via Jan Chipchase)
Meeting Tokens (for Merlin) (via Mike Monteiro
This one is from a while back and is part of my anti-wasteful meeting collection. It showed up again today via a Merlin Mann presentaion via Russell Davies.
Doris Lessing on education
“You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society.”
-Doris Lessing (via plsj)
“A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.”
iron from brittnybadger’s disassembled household appliances set
The music video for Architecture in Helsinki’s “Like it or Not” features animated embroidery. (via Wooster Collective)
“Over time, however, the canisters have begun to react chemically with the human ashes held inside them; this has thus created mold-like mineral outgrowths on the exterior surfaces of these otherwise gleaming cylinders.”
