prosthetic knowledge
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Pellermodel from Bandai - Creative Toy via JapanTrendShop
now you can create a figure of yourself with a computer and a pre-made plastic figure!
You can imagine the stop-motion creative possibilities / memetic abuse ….
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An Interview with Young Jae Cho
Book by Hyeon-Joo Kang, Seoul: Design Flux, 2010. Paperback, 140 x 224 mm, 256 pp.
This book presents a long interview with one of the pioneers of Korean modern graphic design, Young Jae Cho. The front cover shows a portrait of Cho from the catalogue of his first solo exhibition ‘DECOMAS’ (Design Coordination as a Management Strategy, meaning ‘corporate identity design’) in 1976. We transformed the original black-and-white photograph into a kind of ‘Ascii graphic’ with the numerous logos he designed since the 1970s.
By Sulki Choi and Min Choi, graphic designers in Seoul, Korea.
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Cindy Sherman: Transformations [excerpt, artnewyork.org](via innertubevideo)
This excerpt is a slideshow with narration of some of Shermans’ early Film Stills series.
Her concept of taking self portraits in the role of a cliche ‘role’ in media - here, women in cinema - has been adapated endlessly, but it must have seemed bizzare then when ideas about mass media and identity formation were still emerging.
via mkarmstr
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“No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.” — Marcel Proust (via fuckyeahproust) -
“It’s the same basic principle, you have to be who you are, no matter how dangerous it is.” -
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures 
… we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things:
- Facial Attitude. Is the person smiling? Staring straight ahead? Doing that flirty lip-pursing thing?
- Photo Context. Is there alcohol? Is there a pet? Is the photo outdoors? Is it in a bedroom?
- Skin. How much skin is the person showing? How much face? How much breasts? How much ripped abs?
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(via psychedelicrecordcovers)
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MyKipple.com Kipple is all the useless stuff we collect over time that starts filling up our rooms, houses and eventually our lives. The term “kipple” was first introduced by science fiction author Terry Carr, but it became widely known with the release of Philip K. Dick’s 1968 masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – the book that became the movie Blade Runner
A kind of Social Network tool for our sentimentally attached junk? Potentially engaging.
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A human being is never dependent on his own experience alone for his information
by Simon Evans
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“Actually, a person’s authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that establish themselves as he relates to different people; it is created by and appears within the framework of his interpersonal relationships.” -
“A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island […] [E]ven before he is born, if only by virtue of the name he is given, the human child is already positioned as the referent of a story recounted by those around him, in relation to which he will inevitably chart his course.” — Jean-François Lyotard: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi) (via fuckyeahphilosophy) -
Worst Identites of 2009: Blackwater
Step 1 in the Bad Corporation Protection Program: Rename the corporation. Step 2: Redesign the logo. Step 3: Hope that people forget about your old brand in a couple of years. Oh, and regarding the logo, I have no idea what is going on.
///DH: Oh look, the most evil people on earth have re-branded themselves as an unpronounceable, unintelligible corporate non-entity. How appropriate.
In other news:
Xe™ carried out CIA death raids.
Via thepublics
