12/4/12
THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED; Kirby Dick, 2006
This Film Is Not Yet Rated asks whether Hollywood movies and independent films are rated equally for comparable content; whether sexual content in gay-themed movies are given harsher ratings penalties than their heterosexual counterparts; whether it makes sense that extreme violence is given an R rating while sexuality is banished to the cutting room floor; whether Hollywood studios receive detailed directions as to how to change an NC-17 film into an R while independent film producers are left guessing; and finally, whether keeping the raters and the rating process secret leave the MPAA entirely unaccountable for its decisions.
Robot Flâneur; James Bridle, 201
Follow the instructions or just go full screen for an urban screensaver of your choice.
Here's a selection of reactions on Twitter.
Robot Flâneur has been featured on Londonist, Time, and a number of other sites.
7/4/12
314 - Watch the Road: World's Earliest SatNav
Satellite navigation (SatNav) is a lot older than previously thought. In fact, it’s even decades older than man-made satellites themselves. This fantastic contraption, called the ‘Routefinder’, showed 1920s drivers in the UK the roads they were travelling down, gave them the mileage covered and told them to stop when they came at journey’s end.
The technology – a curious cross between the space age and the stone age – consisted of a little map scroll inside a watch, to be ‘scrolled’ (hence the word) as the driver moved along on the map. A multitude of scrolls could be fitted in the watch to suit the particular trip the driver fancied taking.
The system has several obvious drawbacks – a limited number of available journeys, and the inability of the system to respond to sudden changes of direction. Also: no warning of road works or traffic jams ahead.
Not that there were that many traffic jams in 1920s Britain. The Routefinder, one of many bizarre patented gadgets now on display at the British Library, didn’t take off because there were too few drivers, i.e. potential customers, at that time in Britain. Or maybe also because it was a bit impractical, distracting drivers from what they were supposed to watch – the road.
Many thanks to Toni Hudzina for sending in a link to this story (here on ananova).
From here.
New House Books, Tumblr.
Principles of Cartography, 1962
Map from Australian tourism brochure.
Map of unrealized Palmdale neighborhood in Palm Springs, 1888. You could have lived on Good Luck Avenue.
From the terrific New House Books.
NIRVANA; Jason Lazarus
Jason Lazarus has a really good work over the personal photopraphy archives, like this one of NIRVANA or Too Hard to Keep.
5/4/12
Hollywood Burn; Soda_Jerk with Sam Smith, 2011
Hollywood Burn, 2011
Soda_Jerk with Sam Smith
Digital video, sound, 16:9
Dur: 52 min
This is a trailer for Hollywood Burn (2011), a manifesto against the corporate control of cultural history. Mimicking the hyperbolic rhetoric of today's copyright cops, this 52 minute work pits a righteous league of video pirates against the evil tyrant Moses and his copyright commandments. Plundered from hundreds of sources, this project functions as both a treaties on the ethics of media piracy and a speculative history of sampling practices, stretching from the avant-guarde to the online remix.
1/4/12
Model Cam; Mamar13, 2011.
He recreado los planos en Google Earth, de las imágenes que se emitieron en RTVE tras uno de los disturbios enfrente del parlamento griego, existe una cámara web en el edificio junto al que fueron grabadas estas imágenes.
Aquí su canal.
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