Link to an excellent short documentary on James Mitchell, the Airforce psychologist who helped design the advanced interrogation techniques which are now considered as torture. It is a rare face to face interview. Via Jeremy Scahill, on Twitter. https://news.vice.com/video/the-architect?utm_source=vicenewsfb
Like the use of truncated language. Beautiful and flawed, we are forever. Below is an artifact…her handwritten lyrics.
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Reid Wisemann’s latest Aurora video from ISS.
Artist/Studio Owner, Franck Bordas, and artist Philippe Baudelocque discuss their collaboration, at Studio Bordas in Paris, ( www.studiobordas.com ). More about Philippe Baudelocque: www.baudelocque.com
Symphony in D Minor, an artists large scale interactive installation, simulating thunder storms. Read more about it here.
Artist Carsten Niclolai at Pace Gallery in NYC.
Carlo Bernardini and his triangulation of light installations. More on his website.
Artist’s installation creating structures, webs, links using packing tape.
Artist Isabelle Menin creates images of flowers that are not about flowers. She was a painter, now working in digital imaging.
Two musicians from Bogotá, who met in the U.S. and decided to write music. “Don’t forget this…I am a holy soul in a foreign land…please hear the silence…don’t let it fade away”
Image from 23 YO NYC photographer, Ben Zank. I posted others on Tumblr.
Above is the trailer from the film, 7 Years in Tibet. It is a true story about climber Heinrich Harrer, who was drawn to climb a mountain in the Himalayas, but was forced to turn back from injury and weather. The whole of that expedition was filled with mishaps and obstacles, that he tried to… Continue Reading
Article by Matt Tibbi, (great writer), in Rolling Stone. He makes valid arguments against constant harassment by police, where those out of favor become targets for benign behavior, as a matter of strategy to control or diffuse certain segments of the population.
“Come to the edge.” “We can’t. We’re afraid.” “Come to the edge.” “We can’t. We’ll fall!” “Come to the edge.” And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. —Guillaume Apollinaire