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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

Kicking Silicon & the Death Star – 2 bare links

[Netscape’s ex – sold it to AOL – Marc Andreesen, Google CEO Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and other businesspersons and financiers of the Silicon Valley school] all uniformly emphasized the need for improvements to America’s A) education system, and B) immigration system. Which is great, because

#GOAPNZ @the_icehouse – reviewed

Andy Hamilton started with a joke. “Turn around folks…” “Isn’t it beeeoootifool!” “Aren’t we lucky to be in this beautiful building. Aren’t we lucky to live in this beautiful city!” As if realising Andy’s mistake, Sir Stephen Tindall addressed the issue with words to the effect

from The Curves of Time, 1998, Oscar Niemeyer

“What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.” – quoted here

R.I.P. Oscar Niemeyer, December 15 1907 to December 5 2012

– Office, Rio de Janeiro by Tuca Vieira – Copan, architect Oscar Niemeyer, 1954, photograph by Tuca Vieira

Aotearoa is Not for Sale is for sale on Facebook Now

two slides from Business Insider’s “The Future of Digital” slide deck showing where the money is and who still has it

art beyond opposition

We are living in urgent times, beyond any doubt. Looming global challenges, such as climate change, radically cancel the luxury of being useless, of not doing anything. This includes the artist who, as any other citizen, is called to use his or her abilities to help in preventing a catastrophe.