prosthetic knowledge
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Wax Poetics Blog: Music Industry Confession - The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation
Fascinating (yet unverifiable) anonymous letter discussing a secret meeting that took place in 1991. Many music executives attended (without knowing the subject of it), signed non-disclosure forms, and discovered that their employers had invested in companies which developed ‘Private Prisons’. Government contracts would give more money to these companies if more prisons needed to be built.
So why were the music executives there?
At this point, my industry colleague who had first opened the meeting took the floor again and answered our questions. He told us that since our employers had become silent investors in this prison business, it was now in their interest to make sure that these prisons remained filled. Our job would be to help make this happen by marketing music which promotes criminal behavior, rap being the music of choice. He assured us that this would be a great situation for us because rap music was becoming an increasingly profitable market for our companies, and as employee, we’d also be able to buy personal stocks in these prisons. Immediately, silence came over the room. You could have heard a pin drop. I remember looking around to make sure I wasn’t dreaming and saw half of the people with dropped jaws. My daze was interrupted when someone shouted, “Is this a f****** joke?”
Now, this story isn’t verified, could very well be a conspiracy theory, whatever, and is very much derided by the comments below it. I do think it is worth a read, if you have an interest in music, politics, industry, regardless.
Read the whole article at Wax Poetics Blog here.
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Vertical Prison - First Place winner in the 2010 Skyscraper Competition
Designed by Chow Khoon Toong, Ong Tien Yee, Beh Ssi Cze from Malaysia.
Some studies reveal that post-release offenses are very high and that criminal’s imprisonment is just a temporal solution because they do not have the opportunity to rehabilitate in a desirable community.
This project examines the possibility of creating a vertical prison in the sky where inmates will have to work and live in a community that will contribute to the host city below. The prison will have agricultural fields, factories, and recyclable plants that will be operated by the offenders as a way to give back to the community. They will live “free” until they have completed their sentence and are prepared to rejoin their communities.
The vertical prison has its own transportation system which consists of different “pods” for officers, prisoners, firefighters, and other workers.
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P:Log - blogging technology for prisoners (concept)
Made to allow anonymous posting by inmates, the P:log consists of a touchscreen panel and an integrated printer/scanner unit. Each prisoner will have his own blog account and can upload his thoughts by scanning a written letter. Before the article hits the Internet, the prison warden will be able to screen for undesirable materials or hidden codes, though the identity of the poster remains unknown. The letter will then be released to the public for comments which are accessible by the inmates.
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PRISON-MADE DOUBLE-BARRELED PISTOL
This gun was found along with other homemade firearms in the cell of two Celle prison inmates on November 15, 1984. The weapons had been made in the prison’s metal workshop. They were loaded with pieces of steel and match-heads.
Part of a collection of photographs by Marc Steinmetz - a collection of prison Escape tools :
Inmates have got lots of time on their hands. What better way to make use of this resource than doing handicrafts?
Creativity pays, especially when it facilitates escape. These examples bear witness to man’s love of freedom.Check out the collection of ingenuity and creativity here.
