Wall Street Traders Junkie-Portraits
Chris Arnade ist Trader an der Wall Street und macht Fotos von Huren, Obdachlosen, Junkies und Dealern in der Bronx, hört sich ihre Geschichten an und stellt alles online. Beeindruckend unaufdringlich, einem Banker hätte ich sowas nicht zugetraut, aber ich hab’ da auch Vorurteile.
Cynthia, forty six, starting working as a prostitute at the age of thirteen. She turned to the streets after battling her single mother in Brooklyn. “I didn’t want to listen to her. She didn’t give me any time.” Cynthia is now the mother of fifteen children, eleven of whom are still alive. Her “baby” is sixteen, her oldest child thirty.
We talked about the child prostitutes in Hunts Point now. She told me “Hunts Point isn’t what it used to be, when the girls would stick together. Then came crack and heroin, that fucked up everything. A girl out there at that age. She got no choice. It ain’t right.”
Cynthia was strung out, agitated and slurring. When I asked her how she wanted to be described she looked me in the eye, thought for a second, then said “An honest person. Thats what I am. An honest person.”
NYTimes: A Banker Whose Photos Tell the Stories of Bronx Prostitutes, Flickr: Faces of Addiction, Bronx (via MeFi)
Pfandring für öffentliche Mülleimer
Youtube Direkttrash, via Interweb3000
Tolle Idee von Paul Ketz, „entstanden im Rahmen eines Kooperationsprojektes mit der Kölner AWB.“ Sollte schnellstmöglich in Serie gehen.
Street-Photography from ugly New York in the 80s
Tolles Flickr-Set von Steven Siegel mit Bildern aus dem Drecksloch, das New York in den 80ern war. Die Bilder der zerstörten U-Bahn-Wagen in Betrieb sind der Knaller. (via Jason Kottke)
Chinese iPhone Riots
Gestern Nacht sollten in Peking die ersten iPhones4S im Apple Store verkauft werden, vor dem Laden versammelte sich eine Meute von rund 1000 Leuten und dann kam die schlechte Nachricht, dass sie das Handy nicht wie angekündigt verkaufen könnten. Also haben sie den Apple Store mit Eiern beschmissen und die Polizei kloppte sich mit Apple-Fanboys. Von Reuters:
Police dragged some people away and photos appeared on the Chinese blogosphere of a man who had brought raw eggs in a plastic bag handing them out before people heaved them at the store’s tall glass windows.
“We’re suffering from cold and hunger,” a man in his 20s shouted to Reuters Television. “They said they’re not going to sell to us. Why? Why?”
“I got in line around 11 p.m., and beyond the line the plaza was chock full with people,” said Huang Xiantong, 26, outside the store. “Around 5 a.m. the crowds in the plaza broke through and the line disappeared entirely. Everyone was fighting, several people were hurt,” said Huang, who wanted to buy a new iPhone for his girlfriend. “The police just started hitting people. They were just brawling.”
China iPhone sales halted after shoppers pelt Apple store, Massive crowds as iPhone released in China (via Gizmodo)
Fake-Commercial: Photoshop as a Beauty-Product
Vimeo Direktcreme, via HYST
Schönes Fake-Commercial von Jesse Rosten mit Photoshop als Hautcreme oder sowas: „This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty.“
Podcast: Spieler, Störer, Grenzverletzer – Besetzen Hacker den letzten Raum für gesellschaftliche Utopien?
Ich höre grade den netten, halbstündigen Beitrag vom Deutschlandradio über Utopien und Hacktivism:
Streben Hacker die Rolle einer fünften Gewalt an? In unserem Alltag sind sie jedenfalls ständig präsent. Ob spektakuläre Enthüllungen durch Wikileaks oder das Knacken von Datennetzwerken und Hardware: Fast täglich erreichen uns Meldungen über Hackeraktivitäten.
Spieler, Störer, Grenzverletzer – Besetzen Hacker den letzten Raum für gesellschaftliche Utopien?, hier das MP3 (via Netzpolitik)
Jocelyn Bain Hoggs Photography of Londons organized Crime
Jocelyn Bain Hogg hat vor über zehn Jahren Bilder des englischen organisierten Verbrechens geschossen, das kam dann 2001 als das Buch „The Firm“ raus. Seit drei Jahren besucht er die Gangster erneut und hält auf fantastischen Fotos fest, was sich seit damals verändert hat.
The Firm is a searing photographic document of the British organized crime world, which received instant recognition. Over a four-year period Bain Hogg documented different aspects of the underworld, from exile in Tenerife to the broad spectrum of activity in the United Kingdom.
Since Brighton Rock in the 1940s, photographers and film directors have been trying to capture the personalities and characteristics of the British urban gangster on film. These are not the faces of criminals who hide behind the facade of respectability or the corruption of political influence. They are, in fact, the real thing, men who hold their head up when challenged, and who seek no false redemption in the face of public vilification. Bain Hogg has captured for the first time in The Firm the weft and warp of these faces to whom violence is common currency and to whom loyalty is above all.
The project is currently being revisited, ten years later now that the old capos have passed away and in the wake of escalating gang crime in the estates of the UK.
Jocelyn Bain Hogg: The Firm (via We Make Money Not Art)
Amazon-Partnerlink: The Firm
Slavoj Žižek about Occupy Wallstreet, London Riots, Arab Spring and everything else…
(Aljazeera Direktzizek, via MeFi)
Hochspannendes Interview von Al Jazeera mit dem Philosophen Slavoj Žižek über die London Riots, die Wirtschaftskrise, Arab Spring, die Eurokrise und Occupy Wallstreet, die er sämtlich als Symptome einer ausgewachsenen Systemkrise ausmacht. Must Watch für jeden.
Slovenian-born philosopher Slavoj Zizek, whose critical examination of both capitalism and socialism has made him an internationally recognised intellectual, speaks to Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman about the momentous changes taking place in the global financial and political system.
In his distinct and colourful manner, he analyses the Arab Spring, the eurozone crisis, the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and the rise of China. Concerned about the future of the existing western democratic capitalism Zizek believes that the current “system has lost its self-evidence, its automatic legitimacy, and now the field is open.”
“I think today the world is asking for a real alternative. Would you like to live in a world where the only alternative is either anglo-saxon neoliberalism or Chinese-Singaporean capitalism with Asian values?
I claim if we do nothing we will gradually approach a kind of a new type of authoritarian society. Here I see the world historical importance of what is happening today in China. Until now there was one good argument for capitalism: sooner or later it brought a demand for democracy…
What I’m afraid of is with this capitalism with Asian values, we get a capitalism much more efficient and dynamic than our western capitalism. But I don’t share the hope of my liberal friends – give them ten years, [and there will be] another Tiananmen Square demonstration – no, the marriage between capitalism and democracy is over.” Slavoj Zizek
Conservatives agree! Maybe.:
Wenn der Schirrmacher, einer der führenden Konservativen in diesem Land, einen Artikel schreibt mit der Headline: „Ich beginne zu glauben, dass die Linke recht hat“, dann muss ich das hier verlinken. Geht nicht anders. We told you, all the time. „Im bürgerlichen Lager werden die Zweifel immer größer, ob man richtig gelegen hat, ein ganzes Leben lang. Gerade zeigt sich in Echtzeit, dass die Annahmen der größten Gegner zuzutreffen scheinen.“ (via Fefe)
Schicker Text zum gleichen Thema: Der rechte Abschied von der Politik. (Danke Henning!)
Bookmarks for August 3rd: NYC Garbage Art, Hofmanns Potion, Spaceflight Psychology
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared on Vimeo
Retro Future: Space Art Update
Spaceflight Psychology and the New ‘Right Stuff’ | Wired Science | Wired.com
AFP: Icelanders hand in draft of world’s first ‘web’ constitution
Princess Leia Costume Made of Duct Tape
Heather Holliday, Sword Swallower on Vimeo
LEGO Dragon Breathes Actual Fire | Geekosystem
“Space Night – Earth Views” 4-10 komplett online
NYC Garbage, Trashy Art In A Cube From New York City
Hacker stock art – Boing Boing
Mac ‘n’ Cheese on Vimeo: Mac 'n' Cheese is an animated short directed and created by four students at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands. This roughly two minute animation took about five months to make, and about a bajillion peanut butter sandwiches.Synopsis: When you find yourself running scared and running out of energy, there's only a few options left to outrun your opponent through the southern desert. Stopping at nothing, watch these two guys wear each other out and rip through boundaries hitherto unbroken.
Mona Lisa – 6,239 dot to dot drawing on the Behance Network: I created an A0 poster with dots numbered from 1 to 6,329 and took a time lapse video of myself linking them all up over 9 hours. Here's how it turned out.
The Mission to Get Osama Bin Laden : The New Yorker: What happened that night in Abbottabad.
Essential Mix by Paul Kalkbrenner (30.7.2011) [Mix,Download] | Dressed Like Machines: This Essential Mix is a live set of Kalkbrenner’s own productions and remixes, including tracks from his new album ‘Icke Wieder’.
Hofmann’s Potion (LSD documentary) – YouTube: The documentary delves into the little known early history of the world's most notorious psychedelic.Long before Timothy Leary urged a generation to "turn on, tune in and drop out," lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, was being used by researchers trying to understand the human mind. This documentary is a fascinating look at the story of "acid" before it hit the streets.Featuring interviews with many LSD pioneers, Hofmann's Potion is much more than a simple chronicle of the drug's early days. <br />
With thoughtful interviews, beautiful music and stunning cinematography, it is an invitation to look at LSD, and our world, with a more open, compassionate mind.
The Bible of Western War, Now Featuring Cartoon Animals | Danger Room | Wired.com: On War is Clausewitz’s attempt to distill warfare down to its enduring essentials. Its only equal is Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. If you’ve heard the phrase, “war is politics by other means,” you know the nickel version. If you want to go for the jackpot, stroll over to one of the war colleges or onto any military listserv to hear people debate Clausewitz’s relevance to their pet issue or dispute what he really said like he was Marshall McLuhan in Annie Hall.But if you’d like something in between, Fitzgerald’s Clausewitz for Kids blog is slowly recasting On War, section by section, into a lecture series in the Prussian forest, conducted by Hare Clausewitz (get it?), the intense-looking rabbit officer pictured above in Napoleonic-era regalia.
CINEMETRICS: cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.
Christian Groß — SMS to Paper Airplanes: The text messages were filtered and analyzed using PROCESSING. The sender was encoded by the direction of the paper airplane, the length of the message with its size and the amount of positive emotional words with the amounts of folds. Additionally the paper airplanes were divided in two types depending on the length of their text. Finally, the paper airplanes resulting from this construction plan were placed in the room depending on the time when they were sent, as well as their emotional value.
Chicago: The Ferris Bueller high school – YouTube: You can make a strong case for The Blues Brothers as the definitive Chicago film, but Ferris Bueller's Day Off almost seems like a 103-minute commercial from the Chicago Office Of Tourism. That was no accident. Director (and Chicagoan) John Hughes described the film as his "love letter" to the city. He wanted to capture "not just the architecture, but the spirit."
In Test Tube, Hint of Chemicals Coming Alive – NYTimes.com: SAN DIEGO — Here in a laboratory perched on the edge of the continent, researchers are trying to construct Life As We Don’t Know It in a thimbleful of liquid.
Trash Land
Ziemlich unbequeme Fotodokumentation von José Ferreira über Menschen, die auf und von einer Müllhalde in Mosambik leben.
In southern Mozambique, in the heart of Maputo and just a few meters from the airport of the capital, is the dump of Huléne. Mother of many stories, home of many renegades and maintenance of many more. It’s hard to achieve any kind of judgment, when incredulity upheaves any soul or intellectual perception.The limits of the trash, a cut south for a makeshift entrance, a massive hole in the wall of cement, concrete and rough, exceed even the common sensitivity – and even the perspicuity of the look – and not even the walls that imprison her, can hide such nasty scenario.
There converge all sorts of needs and purposes. Constant movement of trucks and people make up a complex interplay of colors and sensations that awaken us to the doorstep of the poor and insensitive. There are many characters, but very few differences.
The “garbage collectors” are the ones who shake their horizons. They are the pawns of a few businesses, and perhaps more profitable, they can still flourish among the deepest and most desperate filthiness – recycling. Desperate, they try to frantically stick the roads of garbage in search of some utility. Because that utility there, and to them, can later be worth a little more bread and milk.Then, the others, which resemble too many caricatures of the poor and homeless, who are often camouflaged between common jokes and cartoons from the civilized world. The others, of the empty eyes. The others, with the shapeless smile and empty faced. The others, that make this experience more human.
Trash Land (via Ronny)
Julian Assange and Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Žižek
(Youtube Direktwikileaks, via MeFi)
Julian Assange und Philosoph Slavoj Žižek – der „Elvis of cultural Theory“ – in einem zweistündigen Gespräch live im The Troxy theater in London, moderiert von Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!). Ich habe die Runde noch nicht gehört/gesehen, dürfte aber hochinteressant sein. Aus der Ankündigung auf Frontline:
Last year, whistleblower website WikiLeaks released three of the biggest ever leaks of classified information in history: the Iraq War Logs, the Afghanistan War Logs and Cablegate.
Since then the world has undoubtedly changed. Ambassadors have resigned amid scandals exposed by leaked cables; the UK government has ordered a review of computer security; and, at the same time, a huge wave of protest has swept the Middle East and North Africa – in part fuelled, some believe, by WikiLeaks revelations.
Discussing the impact of WikiLeaks on the world and what it means for the future, for this very special event WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange will be in conversation with renowned Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek.
Focusing on the ethics and philosophy behind WikiLeaks’ work, the talk will provide a rare opportunity to hear two of the world’s most prominent thinkers discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Žižek kennt vielleicht der ein oder andere durch die ZDF-Dokureihe „Fantastic Voyages: Eine Kosmologie des Musikvideos“, die – wegen Copyright-Bullshits ohne die Musikvideos selbst – auf Youtube online zu sehen ist. Die gibt’s nach dem Klick.
The Kids of russian Oligarchs
Schicke Fotoserie von Anna Skladmann mit den Kids von Russlands neuer Elite, die im Prunk aufwachsen und Kalaschnikovs sammeln. spOnline hatte schon vor einer Woche ein Interview mit ihr, ich hab’s eben erst auf spOnline-International gelesen:
SPIEGEL ONLINE: How did the parents react to your presence?
Skladmann: I was very young when I began the project. The parents saw me as being on a similar level to their children. Many seemed to see me less as a professional photographer and more as a student. One of the conditions of the photo-shoots was that I not publish the last names.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Your images often depict the children as being surrounded by a bizarre form of luxury. One of them, Lisa, is seen in the middle of a crystal palace, where she also plays football. Another, Jakob, is holding a Kalashnikov with a picture of ballerinas behind him. Did the children pose themselves?
Skladmann: The portraits are staged, but in the children’s natural surroundings. Prior to taking the photographs, I interviewed the children briefly in an attempt to find out what their dreams were, what they wanted and how I could show that. Vladimir, for example, explained that he wanted to become an archeologist. I then showed him some pictures from a museum. Later, he decided that he’d rather be Spider Man. In the end, I photographed him on the stage of his grandfather’s theater.
Anna Skladmanns Website, die Bilderserie „Little Adults“ findet man unter „Personal“, spOnline: Children of Russian Oligarchs – Football in the Crystal Palace (via Superpunch)
