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Jun 3

“Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. The word asemic means “having no specific semantic content”. Illegible, invented, or primal scripts (cave paintings, doodles, children’s drawings, etc.) are all influences upon asemic writing. But instead of being thought of as mimicry of preliterate expression, asemic writing can be considered as a postliterate style of writing that uses all forms of creativity for inspiration.” Asemic writing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“our cities, bridges, highways, airliners and art galleries are condensations out of the imagination, but at tremendous cost because we make them out of matter. Once we can make them out of light, out of electrons, we won’t build skyscrapers a hundred and twenty stories high, we’ll build them as high as we want” but does it float

May 30

the new shelton wet/dry

May 26

“All peoples are cultural options.” Wade Davis

May 23

The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » What 13,500 pages micro-etched into nickel looks like

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These peoples are not failed attempts at being modern, quaint and colourful and destined to fade away as if by natural law. In every case these are dynamic living peoples being driven out of existence by identifiable forces.

That is actually an optimistic observation, because if it suggests that human beings are the agents of cultural destruction, we can also be and must be the facilitators of cultural survival.

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Wade Davis on endangered cultures | Video on TED.com

I absolutely love this quote. The same idea can be applied to every form of human destruction. As a statement it inspires hope and responsibility. A glimmer of optimism in our darkest actions.

May 16

“The second step is to then distort this plane wave in the way that an elephant would. This means creating transformational material that distorts a plane lightwave in the same way as an elephant. So anybody looking at this mouse would instead see an elephant.” Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Illusion Cloak Makes One Object Look like Another

Apr 16

Qatif Market, Saudi Arabia (via nick_hardcastle)