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Evolution of an art piece through time

Jerry Gretzinger started crafting a map in 1963 adding small features each day like houses, ponds, bridges, monuments and green areas eventually creating two thousand panels ever since. The meticulous work is a life-long achievement in the artistic sense because it shows the evolution of the work, dynamic and continuously evolving just like a real city through time. In a way the city shape takes place by the random use of a card system that Gretzinger invented and with each draw the next step for the expansion of the territory happens without following a particular pattern.

Visions of the future

A collective of images showing how the future was thought according to sci-fi artists.

ADA installation

Artist Karina Smigla Bobinki crated ADA, a kinetic installation attaching charcoals to an helium ball that floats and bounces in a white room. The results are dictated by the forces that interact with the ball on the walls and ceiling.

Tokyo Time

Realities

Greenhouse gas emission

The chart illustrates the groups that produce more greenhouse gasses, from transportation to waste it is clear that heavy percentages are produced by logistic and car usage along with electricity and industry outputs.

Cars were burning in the street of Vancouver in British Coloumbia, Canada. People were rioting like when it happens during the G8 where politicians meet and decide, where a smoke column was rising above the city after many people started wrecking downtown. The result of this terror was a hockey game that saw the Vancouver Canucks loosing against Boston. That's all it took to show the world how powerful stupidity is. But what's more terrifying was the number of people that were afflicting without any purpose or without any reason, just to destroy what's theirs. 

People abandoned morality to pursue futility in an attempt of self glorification while taking pictures next to burning car wrecks, and many of them laughing and smiling as if it was a game they were entitled to participate - "It's my city and I will destroy it!"-. 

It looks like society is slowly slipping into an hegemony of destruction while acknowledging it and doing anything to reverse course, because it is getting harder to cope with each other, with our priorities that don't match our expectation and our persona changes alienating others; and nobody wants to take the blame. Not even stupidity.

They come in pairs...

 - The Witch and the Grinch  -

What a drag being a woman in Saudi Arabia

A recent news about a young Saudi woman who defied the law by driving herself has sparked controversy. Driving by herself is an issue?- Yes, in Saudi Arabia women cannot drive if a make person is not with them and there are other ridiculous laws that prevent women from being emancipated. Do men want their warm supper? Let the girls drive to do groceries.

Audi A9 project

Spanish designer Daniel Garcia created a prototype for the Ingolstadt automaker Audi, with a futuristic four-door car A9 to compete with Porsche Panamera, Aston Martin Rapìde and Lamborghini Estoque.

In the name of DEMOCRACY?

In four months of protesting the continent of Africa saw its northern part shaken by unseen acts of protests. From Tunisia to Egypt, from Algeria to Libya the chain of events saw the people raging onto the streets claiming what's theirs. From food to feed their families to fair prices to live a decent life, those Muslim countries that are in the spot right now have the ability to create their own utopia or face a theocratic future in their life and government. 

But there's another corner of the Arab fellowship that is fighting for its right and that is Syria. There have been around 100 people dead so far in protests taken by civilians into the streets of the country. I have no information of the current situation, but via Reddit I'm posting this gruesome video of what's really happening to the protesters.
(WARNING! VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES OF BLOOD AND VIOLENCE)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=224_1303590464

Happy Easter!

WAR!

It is now time to draw the swords and to fight for our freedom! - These are strange time for the neutrality of the internet and its faith for the near future.

We are not talking about the next ten or twenty years, but what the internet will become the next year and the year after. Our virtual freedom and privacy is under attack by companies that want more than our money for the service we pay for. It has now become evident that those companies want to control our real lives and our habits according to their hidden agenda.

What's happening on the virtual battlefield? It is very simple: the situation is now escalating to direct actions taken from corporations and their lawyers manipulating with their influence the justice system, that for the majority, it's being used as a tool to apply draconian laws created to defend the corporate greed. Who is on the other side of the field? You and many other similar to your personality and life style that are being singled-out and brought to execution without a chance of appeal.

This is what happened in the case where Sony is targeting a young kid nick-named GeoHot for jailbreaking the software inside the Playstation 3 with the launch of a lawsuit. 

Now the situation is so surreal that the US justice system is siding big time with Sony not only over the case of GeoHot, but also against others who are interested in his case. At the beginning of March the news came strong on the Youtube community where a judge ordered the video channel to hand over the real identity of those who post comments over the jailbreaking video. How constitutional is that? How malicious is that from Sony the the American justice? 

But there is something interesting about this, about the tactics that Sony is using to destroy this kid, his life and his family. Rather than come to terms with the fact that Playstation 3 software had many weak points and ask the kid to help them with improvements, Sony prefers to waste millions in lawyers fees and time. This violent and vicious attack against a single kid, that cannot afford top lawyers to defend himself, had sparked controversy over another tantrum that Sony threw at PayPal, requesting detailed information of the donations and donors to pay for GeoHot's legal fees.

What's happening that individual's rights are being ignored and turned down in favor of greedy corporations that are acting so violent in response of their fallacies of their products? Lobbyists are gaining so much ground in politic that are now influencing more than ever representative elected by the people, paid with the tax dollars, to execute their citizens without asking "Why?".

But internet has been abused by the corporate machine for too long to the point where users gathered to answer and fight back... Enter Anonymous - a mysterious entity that is aware of what's happening on the internet that stopped watching and took matter in its on hands. We heard Anonymous before the console controversy when they obstructed visitors and users from accessing PayPal, Visa and Mastercard's website in retaliation against the halt of funds and donations towards Julian Assange in the Wikileaks case.

There is something wrong in this picture: how is it possible that few businesses are capable to influence the ruling in court of the justice system so fast? Is there a link between corporations and the people representing the law? Yes, the link has been found once again where in many cases former lobbyists for corporations become federal judges to infiltrate the legal system in favor of the companies.

It is becoming a wider problem where the law collides too often with companies interest, and it's the case of the judge who was in charge of the Pirate Bay's trial in Sweden two years ago. The judge was member of the Swedish Copyright Association (go figure).

War is now underway on the internet between major corporations and judges, one one side, against internet users and Anonymous, on the other. But the fight is a righteous war waged by David versus Goliath in the attempt to settle the situation once and for all, because there is also another front to this war and that is about net neutrality. Net neutrality means a lot to people and to the democratic process the web should embrace. 

Politicians in Washington don't really have a clue of what is the internet and cannot take personal decisions because are out of touch with technology and its fast changing. The result is that lobbyists are filling the blanks for the politicians transcending also in regulatory branches such as the FCC (Federal Communication Commission) that is now serving as a tool to put a gag on the internet and its bandwidth cap to costumers. All this while monthly bill increases and quality of service goes down.

Who is waging another war against the web users? Companies like AT&T have now reached an almost exclusive power over telecommunications through phones, cellphones and internet. This gives the authority to create a cartel with the other communication providers and set quotas for bandwidth and costs. But AT&T is not only against net neutrality and goes further by expanding its reach into families of employees brainwashing them.

The wish from companies like AT&T and Verizon is to control and limit the use of the internet by adding a limit to its use. For costumer to surpass the limit of traffic flow is pretty easy because they are low and companies wants you to pay more if you dare to go over the cap. It sounds like a scam because companies have been providing poor services to costumers from bad cellphone coverage to iPhones unable to use their network to surd the web, and that upset many costumers including Apple.

The reality is that AT&T is investing little or nothing (like other companies) to upgrade their weak network. There have been claims between 2009 and 20010 where internet providers in North American and Europe were upset at the amount of traffic Youtube was getting and pretended a share of money. Youtube declined and the ISP (Internet Service Providers) attention switched onto creating a massive plan that would cap internet for the users while skyrocketing their bills.

It is already happened with Roger's, a Canadian ISP that placed a limit on the usage of the web and already proposed alternative and more expensive options on how to be safe if the cap is passed.

Freedom of information is important because it affects all of us 360 degrees. It'not only a noble cause that must be won to keep a balance between politics and business, it's also an achievement on recognizing our rights, especially when we pay to access a service like the web or on the phone.

There is a fear among corporations that people (costumers) might get a mind of their own and start taking actions. Anonymous already did not only against powerful ISP, but also against cults such as Scientlogy.

Internet is now a battlefield that has to be controlled in order to win the war of the information and corporations are doing all they can to achieve this goal. Web users have other tools to strike their enemies and so far they have been successful with their DDOS attacks (Denial OF Service), shutting down recently Sony.com and Playstation.com bringing down the entire Playstation Network.

A great fear that companies are experiencing is how people are empowering to defend them self against tyranny for the protection and survival of democracy that is now under threat not only virtually but in real life too.

A quote from the past

Source: Reddit.com

Must have it!

Turkey bacon BBQ turtles.

GTA V

I was reading some speculative material about what the next location of Grand Theft Auto 5 could be. I went through many pages online which predicted where the next installment by Rockstar is going to be based.

Browsing through Reddit I came across this translated page from a German gaming website: the location is predicted to be California... Again? Well, Liberty City was the most inspiring map of the series, but honestly going back go California to have an Hollywood/Sunset Blvd ambiance is going to suck.

Game development is growing and providing better quality each year with title that go form PC to console all the way through portable consoles and smartphones. I believe that Rockstar should push for a title that goes back to Europe in order to change the gaming atmosphere. A city like Paris, Amsterdam or Milan would be the next-gen in gaming development, also speaking of game play and mission to be completed in a total new and different environment.

Leave the US alone for a bit... there's need to change air, fresh air in the old continent!

Radical yacht design

Wally is a French manufacturer based in Monaco founded in 1994 by the Italian business man Luca Bassani. They are today designing and producing the next generation of yachts that break free from the old traditions, in fact the 118 WallyPower is one example of modern thinking.