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The essence of economic recovery

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The Crisis of Credit Visualized

Straightforward explanation. I am looking forward to part II, featuring the stimulus package.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Turkey Cinemascope

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Turkey Cinemascope” series provides some very intense and beautiful photography of Turkey. Shots like the above do a great job of capturing the desolate plains strewn with crumbled cities.
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Log on, shoot an Iraqi.

Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal has locked himself into a studio with live webcams for the month of May and is inviting you to shoot at him via your computer and the internet. Log on, aim and fire, and if you’re good enough the round from the paintball gun will splatter him with faux blood. [[link]]

Steampunk

Steampunk seems to be a growing trend. As everything around us begins to look just a little too slick (User Interfaces, iPods), we are starving the part of ourselves that enjoys rummaging through stalls along Portobello Road. Products designed to look futuristic are great because they add functionality and stand out from everything else we interact with. However, once your shoehorn looks and feels just as futuristic as your iPod, the futuristic “feel” becomes meaningless. Steampunk is a great next step because the user experience and “feel” of the products is drastically different, although the modern functionality is retained. The basic Steampunk recipe is to keep a modern technological core and slap on a 19th Century “skin” (usually consisting of lots of rivets and polished brass- think Jules Verne). If there is growing demand, it seems like an easy way to make money as the investment is mostly in the “skin” and not in technological innovation.

Here are a couple of examples…

Steampunk Keyboard Mod

Les Montres Vianney Halter
Obscenely expensive watches. Watchismo has a good description of the Antiqua watch pictured below.

…sounds familiar

Careful, careful

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