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2008-10-04T05:00:00Z

Paris for less than £200: Eating and drinking - Telegraph
Cold War Modern, V&A - Fragile Planet soundscape
Fragile Planet makes up the concluding section of the exhibition Cold War Modern at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. There are no objects in this exit space but it evokes the closing themes of Cold War Modern through sound.
Sign of things to come? New York art market shows evidence of weakness - The Art Newspaper
Global stocks crash; buying drops at auctions in US and fairs in Korea and France
The Impossible Prison / e-flux
Sixteen international artists become "inmates" in The Impossible Prison, an exhibition in an abandoned police station inspired by Michel Foucault's thoughts on power, control and surveillance.

Banksy Talks About The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

2008-10-09T12:08:15Z

From Banksy:

“New Yorkers don’t care about art, they care about pets. So I’m exhibiting them instead. I wanted to make art that questioned our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming, but it ended up as chicken nuggets singing. I took all the money I made exploiting an animal in my last show and used it to fund a new show about the exploitation of animals. If its art and you can see it from the street, I guess it could still be considered street art."

The "Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill" Opens in New York City

2008-10-09T05:18:16Z

While New Yorkers have been consumed by the stock market meltdown, a tiny little pet store quietly opened four days ago at 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street in the West Village of New York City.

There are no puppies or kittens in the windows here.

Instead, a live leopard lounges on a tree in the window.

Or is it?

In other windows, things get a bit more bizarre.

McDonald's Chicken McNuggets sip barbecue sauce. A rabbit puts on her makeup. A CCTV camera nurtures its young.

Clearly, that this isn't your typical pet store.

So who's the "owner" of the Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill at 89 West 7th Avenue?

Banksy.

Once inside Banksy's pet store, you discover such things as breaded fish that swim in a large round bowl while hot dogs are living the high life under heat lamps in cages near the cash register.

This is the first time that Banksy has used animatronics, and the effect is absolutely amazing.

A clear departure form last year's behemoth show in Los Angeles, Banksy's first ever show in New York City (the others have been fakes) is being held in a tiny storefront that's less than 300 square feet and can't hold more than 20 people at any one time.

One of our favorite things about what Banksy has done is that the entire show is completely visible to the public both day and night through the store front windows. And unless you're a hard core Banksy fan, or until someone like us tells you, it's absolutely impossible to know that the work has been done by Banksy. There are no paintings or graffiti in the entire space.

We're sure that as soon as people start reading this, photos and video will be all over the web. But Sara and I don't want to give too much away. It's just too much fun to be surprised (and delighted) in person.

So here's just a taste of what you'll experience in Banksy's "Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill".

Starting the moment you read this, until October 31st (Halloween), Banksy's pet store is officially open each and every daily from 10am until midnight.

One piece of advice - Bring a video camera as still images don't do the place justice!

Robots > Darwin (It’s Just Evolution)

2008-10-03T05:50:51Z

If you can’t afford a $30,000 Keepon Pro, you can still get a little piece of the BeatBots pie by buying one of their t-shirts. It says BeatBots on the back, with a graphic of a robot fish eating a Darwin fish on the front. Technology trumps biology. $29 from the BeatBots Zazzle store, available in a variety of sizes and colors.

[ BeatBots Zazzle Store ]

~20 min

2008-10-04T18:22:08Z

Seen On The Streets Of Paris

2008-10-08T12:32:20Z

Artist: Ludo

А вот у Руса маленькая пара (раз и два) ссылочек на тему

2008-10-07T05:47:12Z

А вот у Руса маленькая пара (раз и два) ссылочек на тему Generation Debt, как нынче вдруг стало модно называть миллениалов.
У меня к этой теме противоречивое отношение. С одной стороны, конечно, долбоебы, не знающие цену деньгам.
С другой стороны, не надо упускать из вида промежуточное звено -- поколение Икс. Поколение людей оставшихся в меньшинстве. С комплексом принца Чарльза. С грустным пониманием того, что попытка играть в жизнь по правилам, установленным их родителями, провалилась, и что этот провал коренится в самих же правилах.
Молодая шпана, покупающая в кредит плазму, дизайнерское шмотье и бэхи, даже не попыталась играть по этим правилам -- хули толку: накопить на первоначальный взнос в ипотеку, проживая впятером в ~~сарае~~ двухбедрумнике, можно было раньше, но уже не год, скажем, назад. Желание брать от жизни все и прямо сейчас совпало с с общим настроем на непрерывный рост потребления -- креативом, создаваемым иксерами на зарплате у бумеров -- ну, и привет.
Ебаные бумеры, ну нахуя было так жадничать.

Да, совсем забыл, буквально неделю или две назад David Jones запустил кредитку Amex со своим логотипом. Превед.

Atheist T-Shirts, sweatshirts, shirts, bumper stickers & gifts from CafePress

2008-09-29T19:43:46Z

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Link from R.Dawkins

Unique atheist designs on clothing, t-shirts, cards, art & posters, stickers & gifts from CafePress. Designs include funny atheist, or atheism, religion, agnostic, and more!

Google Maps

2008-09-29T13:58:58Z

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Banksy Lonodn locations

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2008-09-29T01:31:42Z

Магия множеств регулярных выражений

2008-09-27T18:34:07Z

Моё знакомство с регулярными выражениями началось более чем давно, ещё в то время когда я активно встречал в кодах скриптов и использовал сам для подготовки скриптов при администрировании юникс серверов. Признаться, особой любви к ним я никогда не испытвал. Read More......(read more)

Изображение http://www.djfarivar.dk/assets/images/Acid_House_Club_1988_Holbaek.jpg, orbitoclast - Интернет в картинках: formalista

2008-09-26T08:54:16Z

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House.
It's acid.

Электонитки

2008-09-24T20:20:00Z

Инсталяция из натянутых ниток, Деби Смит (Debbie Smyth), удивительно точная иллюстрация, особенно если вблизи смотреть: вроде нитки и нитки, напутано, а так точно и настроенчески издалека.

Tent London

New Route to Hydrocarbon Biofuels

2008-09-22T04:00:00Z

A simple catalytic process converts plant sugars into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.

3. Throw

2008-09-23T22:22:52Z

London: “In case of civil unrest 1. Remove cement, 2. Break into pieces, 3. Throw”. Via

London from above, at night

2008-08-29T19:18:09Z

… I shoot at night using the very latest digital cameras, mounted on either one or two gyro stablazied mounts, depending on the format of the camera and length of lens I’m having to use.

Amazing aerial photos by Jason Hawkes

Stanford Robotics Courses Available Online, For Free

2008-09-22T06:10:45Z

Feeling ambitious? The Stanford Engineering Everywhere program is now offering a suite of computer and robotics courses online, for free. You can take the same three course introduction to computer science that imparts intelligence to most Stanford undergrads, and follow that up with Introduction to Robotics, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning.

The complete lecture portions of the courses are available on YouTube or iTunes, and you can download PDF versions of the handouts and assignments (answer keys included). What you can get online is identical to the courses taken by Stanford students, but no, you’re not gonna get credit for it.

[ SEE ] VIA [ Mr. Future ]

Tones

2008-09-22T00:00:00Z

people like you need to fuck people like me on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

2008-09-18T17:37:21Z

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What Man Needs

2008-09-17T01:16:05Z

That's what the real man needs.">read more....