As part of an interview with The Onion A.V. Club website last June, Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk agreed to answer a few fan questions, including one from someone named MollyPocket, who wondered if true underground movements were still possible, or was “the Internet making everything too readily available to everyone?”
Palahniuk’s answer, in short, was yes and no. “There will always be an underground,” he replied, and predicted “a backlash of veiled, hidden societies” in response to the overload of information provided by reality television and confessional memoirs. full article / RYAN BIGGE for TheStar
It is already possible for an assassin to send someone an e-mail with an innocent-looking attachment to it. When the receiver downloads the attachment, the electrical current and molecular structure of the central processing unit is altered, causing it to blast a apart like a large hand grenade.
/ ijeriko
A young urban artist is no more millionaire, and has (still) not an agency with the marketing of his works, such as the streetart Icon Banksy done. The road offers other options, as a gallery with fixed opening times and dignified Schicki-Sphere. The consistent street artist organize with other guerrillas a wild ILLEGALLERY, public, temporary, unannounced and “open til its gone.”
3rd ILLEGALLERIE >> opened this time in a tunnel near the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, with artists such as Funk25, 1010, Mindfuck, Los Piratos, Karl Toon, Sträfling, GForce, Glue School and HUH?. Photos by Hamburg based streetart photographer TXMX, slideshowILLEGALLERIE >> 08 100% Plakatism, WE NEED MORE!!
Eurozone inflation surged to the highest rate for 16 years
on the back of sharply higher oil prices as consumer spending in the 15-country region showed further signs of weakness.
Annual inflation in the eurozone reached 3.6 per cent in May, according to official data released on Friday, up from 3.3 per cent in the previous month. That appeared to rule out any chance of an early cut in interest rates by the European Central Bank, which aims to keep inflation “below but close” to 2 per cent.
/ ft
I saw the New York premier of Matt Wolf’s first feature-length film, Wild Combination, at the Kitchen last night. It’s an amazing documentary on the life and music of Arthur Russell, the innovative downtown musical composer/performer who just couldn’t stand still and wouldn’t be pinned down, even for his own visions of his art.
… /jameswagner
Wired’s got a strange and evocative slideshow of paleo-air-hostesses from the early days of commercial aviation online. Did they really fly long-haul in miniskirts and knee-high high-heeled boots? Christ, they must have been in agony.
/ bb
Shi Tao is serving a 10-year sentence in prison for writing articles calling for political reform in China. Yahoo helped put him there. FuckFlickr is open-source image gallery software that won’t narc you out. We created it as an alternative to hosting your photos on a certain Yahoo-owned photo sharing site.
No database required; just upload it and put images in the data directory.
/ f.a.t.
Boing BoingTV-Coverage and KGO coverage {ABC affiliate}
The Billboard Liberation Front partners with monochrom to erect the Great Firewall of China on Google’s Mountain View campus.
As shareholders at Google’s annual convention were counting their well earned dividends, America’s premier billboard improvement corporation, Billboard Liberation Front, assisted the Austrian arts collective monochrom in a monumental advertising coup designed to celebrate Google’s online partnership with the Peoples Republic of China.
China’s heroic effort to protect their enormous internet market (162 million!) from an overload of useless information includes a moratorium on abrasive, ugly, and thoroughly misleading concepts such as truth. China’s Internet “Cultural Revolution” is made possible through support from America’s most leviathanesque behemoth, Google Inc. ‘Don’t be evil’ says Google’s PR department!
/ BLF
The Mahalla Intifada
Nasser Nouri | CC 2008
complete slideshow | flickr
In April 2008 Egypt has seen a number of strikes and demonstrations against low salaries and price rises with shootings and mass arrests of strikers and demonstrators.
Reuters’s photographer Nasser Nouri, who was shot by a rubber bullet and later has been arrested at Mahalla’s Police Station, has done a fantastic job. His great b/w work of the struggle of Mahalla’s poor is released on his flickr-account to expose Mubarak’s system.
