it is two thousand and motherfucking ten and you sons of bitches can’t think of anything better than this shit? looks like a motherfucking guatemalan rent a cop service’s logo for christ’s sake
My new friend Kraig H. sent along an interesting photo project, called Lugar Común (Common Place), designed to disrupt our acceptance of established social hierarchies. The photographers, Justine Graham and Ruby Rumié, took pictures of 50 pairs of women — maids and their employers — located in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia.
To disrupt the hierarchy inherent in their relationship, Graham and Rumié had them dressed alike, without accessories, and sitting in identical poses. By doing so, they allowed both women to “…look at the camera with the same pride, with the same openness” (source). The viewer is not told which woman is which.
They also asked each pair to sit across from one another and look in each others’ eyes. Even though some had known each other for 30 years or more, Graham said that all of the pairs had trouble looking at each other in this way:
Date: 2010
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The Device for Disappearing at Sea is a floating hiding place, meant to produce a total isolation that can seldom be experienced on land. A sunken, one-person chasm is surrounded by a floating fiberglass ring. Once inside, it’s just you, the sky and the sun. Don’t worry, there is a rope that leads out of the sinkhole — this is intended for a safe and temporary disappearance only. When you’re done being alone, just climb out and swim it right on back to shore.
The project is part of Fantastic, a larger series of devices by Andrew Friend that debuted last night at the opening of the Royal College of Art Design Thesis Show in the Design Interactions section. The project is about creating products to help people experience something fantastic, like disappearance, lightning strike (pictured below), and invisible electromagnetic forces.
We like this series because it proposes new, very direct ways that humans can experience the world. There’s no denying that these products are dangerous, but so are motorcycling and sky-diving. These, though, aren’t about sport. They could have been dreamed up by Werner Herzog: deliberate, in search of the sublime, and totally at the mercy of the terrifying forces of the environment, almost to the point of mysticism.
FarmVille developer Zynga has another hit on its hands with FrontierVille, a pioneering sim that’s picked up an amazing 16.3 monthly active users in just a few weeks, making it the fastest growing app on Facebook for some time now.
Looking to reward its players, the social game developer unveiled the Manure Collection, a new set of virtual items that players could gather over the holiday weekend — finding them all unlocked the saltpeter item, which users needed to create fireworks.
The Manure Collection included a variety of alliterative animal crap — Poultry Puddin’, Piggy Poop, Brush Brownie, Prairie Pile, and Meadow Muffin — produced by virtual sheep, horses, goats, and other creatures in FrontierVille.
GameLife, which discovered and pointed out the collection, notes that virtual goods have now reached their “poop-stained nadir”.
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My new friend Kraig H. sent along an interesting photo project, called Lugar Común (Common Place), designed to disrupt our acceptance of established social hierarchies. The photographers, Justine Graham and Ruby Rumié, took pictures of 50 pairs of women — maids and their employers — located in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia.
To disrupt the hierarchy inherent in their relationship, Graham and Rumié had them dressed alike, without accessories, and sitting in identical poses. By doing so, they allowed both women to “…look at the camera with the same pride, with the same openness” (source). The viewer is not told which woman is which.
They also asked each pair to sit across from one another and look in each others’ eyes. Even though some had known each other for 30 years or more, Graham said that all of the pairs had trouble looking at each other in this way:
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Materials: Processing, Word 2008
Dimensions: 5.5″ x 8.5″
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The Device for Disappearing at Sea is a floating hiding place, meant to produce a total isolation that can seldom be experienced on land. A sunken, one-person chasm is surrounded by a floating fiberglass ring. Once inside, it’s just you, the sky and the sun. Don’t worry, there is a rope that leads out of the sinkhole — this is intended for a safe and temporary disappearance only. When you’re done being alone, just climb out and swim it right on back to shore.
The project is part of Fantastic, a larger series of devices by Andrew Friend that debuted last night at the opening of the Royal College of Art Design Thesis Show in the Design Interactions section. The project is about creating products to help people experience something fantastic, like disappearance, lightning strike (pictured below), and invisible electromagnetic forces.
We like this series because it proposes new, very direct ways that humans can experience the world. There’s no denying that these products are dangerous, but so are motorcycling and sky-diving. These, though, aren’t about sport. They could have been dreamed up by Werner Herzog: deliberate, in search of the sublime, and totally at the mercy of the terrifying forces of the environment, almost to the point of mysticism.
FarmVille developer Zynga has another hit on its hands with FrontierVille, a pioneering sim that’s picked up an amazing 16.3 monthly active users in just a few weeks, making it the fastest growing app on Facebook for some time now.
Looking to reward its players, the social game developer unveiled the Manure Collection, a new set of virtual items that players could gather over the holiday weekend — finding them all unlocked the saltpeter item, which users needed to create fireworks.
The Manure Collection included a variety of alliterative animal crap — Poultry Puddin’, Piggy Poop, Brush Brownie, Prairie Pile, and Meadow Muffin — produced by virtual sheep, horses, goats, and other creatures in FrontierVille.
GameLife, which discovered and pointed out the collection, notes that virtual goods have now reached their “poop-stained nadir”.
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