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A selection of reviews for Virulent Experience
“Your journey into the mid 21st century will take you from the museum’s basement to the roof, and past a dizzying array of disturbing art and challenging performances…I found ‘Virulent Experience’ both confusing and exhilarating in equal…
Picture of the Day: Chicago, Illinois. Several thousand people are lined up at the Navy Pier, all waiting to get more information about the US’ new deferred action program.
Today marked the beginning of the deferred action party for undocumented immigrant youth in the United States. Undocumented immigrants between ages 15 and 30 who meet certain requirements (no felony convictions, etc.) can apply for a two-year work authorization that will temporarily protect them from deportation and give them the opportunity to get legal work with more protections and benefits. As many as 1.7 million people may be eligible for this assistance.
The cost for a deferred action request is $465. Donate to this fund set up by Public Interests Project to help defray the cost of the process!
Credit: Nathan Weber/NYT. Via.
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A mother, who got drunk before accidentally smothering her baby and killing him, was ceaselessly mocked by Headline News host Nancy Grace on one of her shows, asking “Did mommy booze it up and kill her baby?” and suggesting she should have been charged with murder.
That woman, made further despondent after seeing the segment, set herself on fire. She later died.
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Nancy Grace is a shrieking monster.
The wrong person was set on fire, in this story.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles // artwork by Dave Rapoza (2012)
The main cast of the Ninja Turtles legacy portrayed by artist extraordinarie Dave Rapoza, I’m happy to post this one since receiving the announcement of the Michael Bay version of these guys being shut down because of major problems with the script.
Oh holy god these are beautiful…
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Some of you may be catching wind of a story about some state level Michigan Republicans huffing and puffing because a female representative said the word “vagina” on the floor of the House.
Ignore this story. It is a sideshow.
Instead, please turn your attention to this guy. His name is Bruce Rendon, and he is a state representative from a tiny little backwater town in northwest bumble-fuck Michigan with a population of less than 1000.
Bruce Rendon is not an evil man, just a simple one. He has an associates degree in how to draw a straight line. He’s in the construction business just like his daddy used to be, and his idea of a god-fearing good time is judging dairy cows at county fairs. That’s fine. The world needs men who pin prize ribbons on cattle, but those men should not be given the power to legislate complex bioethical issues, because that’s how wars on women get started.
You see, this pointy-headed numnard recently introduced House Bill 5711, a ham-fisted piece of legislation that’s being called the nation’s worst anti-abortion bill. All the ridiculousness on the floor of the Michigan House is a direct result of this ignorant piece of draconian drivel.
It’s unsophisticated men like Bruce Rendon who in their righteousness are fucking things up for the rest of us, and though he may not be an evil man, that doesn’t make him any less an enemy, and I personally believe it’s always a good thing to know your enemy’s name.
Go fuck yourself, Bruce Rendon.
Should we name that sticky, sometimes slimy substance that gets left behind on your dildo or rabbit vibrator after fiercely masturbating with it in my empowered, free, liberal vagina after this guy?
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FoolishPeople are currently inviting submissions from artists working in all mediums to create artworks and installations for our forthcoming exhibition, Virulent Experience, a unique collaboration between Conway Hall and FoolishPeople.
This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your work to a wide audience in an historic Central London venue throughout August 2012.
Virulent Experience explores the evolution and devolution of ethics, morals and the impact to the mind, imagination and free will of humans via a fictional future version of London on the eve of the 2040 Olympics.
FoolishPeople will transform the historic Conway Hall – a landmark of London’s independent, intellectual, political and cultural life – into The Museum of Virulent Experience, housing the entire banned index of thoughts, emotions and desires in an age where Information Prohibition has begun.
We are looking for artists working in any medium to create a series of works that exist within the narrative and fictional world of the Museum of Virulent Experience.
We will also accept proposals for completed works that fit within the context and are pertinent to the piece.
All artists featured within the Virulent Experience exhibition will be included in the exhibition book published by Weaponized, this further explores the themes and context of the project. Please contact art@foolishpeople.org to obtain the full artist’s brief.
Virulent Experience Art © Jase Daniels © 2012. facebook.com/jasedanielsart
I have the pleasure and honour of being involved with this fine crew of mutants. I highly recommend that you take a look, here.
Earlier today I asked the question “Photographers Reading This: If you use digital cameras for your work, how many if any of them have wireless upload/transmission capability?”
And AlterGrounds pointed me at the Eye-Fi X2 Pro 8GB SD Card, which is, as it says, an SD card with a freaking wireless chip in it. And that… That is, in itself, pretty sweet. But the thing is, what the hell, you know?
Basically the question here is this: How, in this day and age, can a photojournalist be commanded to A) stop taking pictures and more importantly B) destroy the film/erase the memory card? By the time any authority is done uttering the command, the pictures should be wirelessly uploaded & published.
And I addressed this to “Photographers,” because I want to know what specifically professional equipment is available, out in the field.
Think about it: A pocket computer like an iPhone or a Droid-based mobile has a shitty-control-having camera in it, but can near-instantaneously upload those pictures to Flickr or Tumblr or whatever (and I bet there are apps which let you make it actually-instantaneous), but so far as I know there does not exist a single professional-grade digital camera which has the full range of shutter speeds, zooms, and controls that a professional photojournalist would want, and which also has wireless connectivity to allow the user instant uploads to a cloud-type situation, or to a network, or synched to your home studio.
Why Is This The Case?
Rasputina - [The Donner Party]—- Right now in the world, for good or ill, everyone’s a potential photojournalist, because everyone’s “phone” has a camera in it, and that camera can stream, upload, and whatever the fuck else, instantly.
But look at the quality of many of those instant pictures. (Messiah - [Temple of Dreams]). Now look at the quality of the pictures taken by embedded photographers. Imagine someone with the ability to frame and take great pictures, and the equipment to make it that little bit easier to quickly do it, and now imagine them with immediate wireless uplink capability.
There is no more “Destroy That Film.” No more “Erase That Memory Card.” And it’s not just “The World Is Watching… mytumblrandtwitterfeedbutseriousyouguysihaveabunchoffollowers.”
It’s “Sorry, Officer/General/Ambassador: The Times Is Already Running It.”
These thoughts brought to you by recently re-reading Transmetropolirtan and hearing a news story, today, about aid workers in Somalia who filmed corruption and were told to stop shooting and erase the memory cards containing the pictures.
Warren Zevon - [Ain’t That Pretty at All]—- Let’s make a better world, people.
