connecting*the*dots

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“If we don’t stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we’re going to have a serious problem coming down the road.”
- George W. Bush, October 3, 2000

(shot in Greensboro, NC by Lisa Scheer)

(brilliance uploaded by xylonets)

Remember, indeed.

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(Artist: HelloBard, Oslo, Norway)

If anyone deserves a coloring book that illustrates their colorful quotes, it’s Pat Robertson.

And if 56 artist’s perspectives of Pat Robertson’s most discusting utterances isn’t enough for you, be sure to pick up David Kuo’s Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction — a well reviewed read about the Bush administration’s attempt to use Christianity for purely political ends.

Kuo’s two-part 60 Minutes interview can be found here and here.

(coloring book via Neatorama)

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(photo by happyrobot)

Lisa Scheer and I spent a few hours over at M’Coul’s Pub yesterday, melding minds over how to best use the web to expose her amazing eye to a larger audience and start a conversation about her passion.

Enter tagging.

After a few hours of exchanging philosophical approaches and dissecting interfaces, Lisa left with laptop in tow to start exploring her new sandbox.

Her castle is going to be dope.

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My good friend David Bartel of DeepSoundChannel is performing this Saturday, October 14th at 11pm at Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn, NY.

David’s an incredibly talented composer and musician; if you’re free Saturday night and dig futuristic, ambient, electronica, be sure to check him out.

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There’s more hilarity where that came from.

(via cb)

(photo by jewschool)

Margaret Bourke-White
Bread Line during the Louisville flood, Kentucky
1937

More Banksy brilliance!

Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California.

The sculpture, consisting of an inflatable doll dressed in an orange jumpsuit with its hands and feet manacled remained in place for one and a half hours before Disneyland’s security staff shut down the ride and removed it amid fears over public safety.

(via Neatorama)

Thanks to the good folks at plasq, my screen will now be saved by surreal urban environments splashed with graffiti and textures, all at the discount price of nothing.

Now if I could only have my RSS Visualizer appear within the environment itself…

(via FactoryCity)

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Nike acquired a Phantom v5 digital camera — usually reserved for studying military defense systems — to capture Tiger Woods’ swing at 4000 frames per second.

I’m not a golf enthusiast, but I do love hitting the driving range every now and then. My approach to driving off the tee is a bit twisted; I’ve always imagined that the golf ball has just committed a violent crime against someone in my immediate family before I settle in to take my whacks.

Apparently, if my family were to be accosted in reality, my approach to retribution would only find the actual assailant 10% of the time and I’d get my ass kicked in the process.

But enough of my stupidity on the links. Keep your eyes fixed on Woods’ head and lower body during his entire back-swing. The man is a machine.

Oh, and by the way, what a beautiful piece of work by Nike and their agency of choice. The music is beyond apropos, reaching past elegant into the sublime.

(via Neatorama)

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Shot by blitzcat

Crazy Logic from the mashup mind of DJ Arty Fufkin.

(via BoingBoing)

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Translation: “You… and how many more?”

A Red Line Connects Us
by Abby Sher

“I no longer wish to live my life as usual without acknowledging the widespread violence in the world today and memorializing those killed and injured in the many wars and other conflicts taking place. I chose this very public expression of my concerns in order to provide others who feel the same need a means of expressing their concerns too. As you will see on this site, there are many ways to participate in this project – some very private, and some public – but all conducted in silence. My hope is that together, through our shared participation, we can create a shift in consciousness, where no humanity is devalued and human life is held sacred.�

(via ScriptingNews)

Beautiful, eh? I just stumbled onto this amazing image rendering technique. I’ll let flickr user Kris Kros explain HDR:

“HDR stands for high dynamic range. There’s also a flickr group HDR that is focused with this new technique. Photoshop CS2 has HDR rendering too but my preference is to use Phtotomatix.

Now, this is not a replacement for graphic software like Photoshop. HDR is using multiexposure pictures and blending them into one great picture. But still, it all depends on the person who is using Photomatix. Like you either want more sugar or less for your coffee I guess.”

A neat little bit of coding from Web2DNA; translate your blog code structure into a DNA pattern image.

Considering our current events, I think it’s high time to re-release Terry Gilliam’s masterpiece, Brazil (the directors cut, mind you).

Hard to believe that this beautiful, humorous and chilling narrative was originally released 20 years ago…

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Diseases Of the Rich vs. Diseases Of The Poor, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Online Videos by Veoh.com

I’ve lived in 10 different towns within 4 different states over the past 12 years and never has my interest in local politics and community piqued beyond a yawn until I moved to Greensboro, NC.

I swear there’s something in the water.

(via Ed, original video by Tom Lassiter)

It’s strange how you’ll pause to investigate something as innocuous as a mention of your own name used elsewhere. I’m glad I did, otherwise I would’ve never come across the story of Sean Farrell (and in many ways, the story of all of us).

[…]

Sean’s casual commentary on everything from smoking pot to living with speed freaks was delivered in simple sincerity throughout the soon-to-be famous 15-minute film. This First Child of the notorious decade may have shaken the audience with his simple sentence — “Sure, I smoke pot” — but it was his barefoot impishness which would encapsulate the hope that lay in front of the nation: a promise of infinite possibility.

Thirty years, three generations, and a lifetime later, Arlyck has returned to San Francisco in search of who the adult Sean might have become. And what he finds, to his surprise, tells him as much about his own east-coast migration as it does about the Californian life he left behind-that the choices we’re handed and the choices we make are, very often, quite odd bedfellows.

Anyone know where I can get a copy of Ralph Arlyck’s 1969 student film, Sean?