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
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.
the fascist JELLYFISH – a socio-cultural bestiary for the age of free market immanence – photo Takashi Murai, from here [an article in support of the bestiary]
Julian Assange on phase shift in the 1930s, certain people saw what was going on. And they saw the general trends. I’m telling you there is a general trend. I am an expert and I’ve lived through it. Other experts have also lived through different facets of this—an American, a German and