Secrecy Is the Key to the Next Phase of Social Networking | Wired Design
Secret co-founders David Byttow and Chrys Bader want to create a more authentic internet. Image: Secret Over the past week, I’ve been getting a steady stream of push notifications alerting me that another one of my friends has joined the new social media app Secret. This is, of course, is the whole point of the app. Deep down we all want it, but earnestness on social media is embarrassing. Like Facebook and Twitter, Secret’s declared purpose is to connect people. It’d be easy to call the rash of anonymity-based apps a direct backlash to Facebook, but that isn’t quite right. A Safe Space for Squishy Feelings Authenticity on the web is a slippery idea. But Bader and Byttow like to believe there’s a place for a more authentic web, and they hope Secret will give rise to it. A secret someone in my circle shared. If your friends “heart” something you post, it travels to their friends, and if those friends like, it travels even further. Unintended Uses
valtari videos - valtari by christian larson
the valtari mystery film experiment sigur rós have given a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and asked them to create videos for their new album valtari. the filmmakers have complete creative freedom, the band completely unaware of what to expect. read more film #14: valtari by christian larson written & directed by christian larson. choreography by sidi larbi cherkaoui cinematography by mattias montero, costume designer lydia kovacs, produced by noreen khan. director's comments i've always been inspired by dance, so i wanted to tell a short story with dialogue through movement, without anyone saying anything. sidi larbi cherkaoui's extraordinary choreography created this unique communication between the dancers james o'hara & nicola leahey. larbi's way of working with flexibility played as an interesting contrast to the harsh environment in which matthias montero's pure and ethereal style of cinematography allowed an intimate portrait of the couple. christian larson christianlarson.com
How I Filmed Nanook of the North
Adventures with the Eskimos to Get Pictures of Their Home Life and Their Battles with Nature to Get Food. The Walrus Fight. By Robert J. Flaherty, F.R.G.S. (1922) Originally appeared as Robert J. In August 1910, Sir William MacKenzie whose transcontinental railway, the Canadian Northern, was then in the initial stages of construction, commissioned the writer to undertake an expedition to the East Coast of Hudson Bay to examine deposits of certain islands upon which iron ore were supposed to be located. All told I made four expeditions on Sir William's behalf, during a period of six years, along the East Coast of Hudson Bay, through the barren lands of the hitherto unexplored peninsula of Ungava, along the west coast of Ungava Bay and along the southern coast of Baffin Land. My interest in films, from then on, grew. New forms of travel film were coming out and the Johnson South Sea Island film particularly seemed to me to be an earnest of what might be done in the North. Mr.
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RJ Burrows, March 1995 Abstract For Fred Jameson cyberpunk represents 'the supreme literary expression if not of postmodernism, then of late capitalism itself'. This might well be so, but this paper examines the contention that cyberpunk represents more than just poetics. For some analy sts it also provides a sociologically coherent dystopic vision of a very near future, which is about to collapse on the present. Whether writers such as William Gibson intend it or not, their 'fiction' is being systematically read as social and cultural t heory. At this time of fin-de-millennium pessimism and the loss of the potency of visions of utopian transcendence and hope in a better future some social and cultural analysts have begun to turn to sources of inspiration outside of traditional social scientific and political discourses in order to try and make some sort of sense of our contemporary condition. The relationship between cyberpunk and sociology takes three broad forms. Cyberspace Cyberbodies
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Vic Berger IV Is Vine's Strangest Political Satirist
Image via Vic Berger on Twitter Vic Berger IV is not a man with a Jeb Bush neck tattoo, but he played one on TV. During the mounting madness of the Republican presidential primary season last year, the video editor and Tim & Eric collaborator hoaxed the Bush campaign—and a news media all too eager to monetize awful decisions—when he promised to get #Jeb4Prez permanently etched on his flesh if his Vine of the family fail-son touting Apple products hit one million loops. "I still can't believe it happened," Berger says. "I was trying to show that he's just pandering and trying to prove how 'relatable' he is, but when Jeb and his people tried to make me get this dumb tattoo to reach the youth of America, they proved my point for me." When it comes to Berger's take on America's most terrible famous people, the prank's just the tip of the iceberg. "Those are my guys," Berger says. Jeb Bush Donald Trump Trump is such an awful guy. Chubby Checker Chubby is by far my favorite to work with.
Understanding Drugs and Addiction — King's College London
We are all touched by addiction – personally, within our circle of family and friends, and within our community. Addiction and its related harms can be crippling for those affected and the people around them. But how does addiction develop? What can we do to treat it? What can we do to prevent it? In this course we explore how addiction develops, and look at the risks environmentally, genetically and personally for developing addiction. We examine what happens when a drug enters your body and your brain and how your brain changes – how this process, can make recovering from addiction such a challenge. King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry is a world leader in the science and treatment of addiction. Each week, our teaching is supplemented by some of the world’s leading scientists who will present cutting edge neuroscientific research. By understanding addiction, we can shed light on the greater issues of self-control and choice.
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CV Dazzle: Camouflage from Face Detection
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