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03/14

The Zeitgeist Movement

Until last week I’ve never heard about (or didn’t registered) this movement before. I tried to study and understand the complete meaning (intentions, documents, films and all) before this post, but according to The Zeitgeist Movement, today is the Zday and I think is a good reason to mention this Z, despite of… Don’t know what.
And also a good reason to know your opinion about this movement.

At a glance:
The Zeitgeist Movement is a worldwide grassroots movement advocating social change, most significantly that of society transitioning from a monetary based economy to a resource-based economy.
Seems interesting!
They are in favour of using technology and science to ensure that everyone's basic needs.
Perfect!

Probably there are points to disagree wtih the movement but I stopped the reading (not at this point) and start to see how hard it is for me join movements, specially political ones. So I checked where in Brazil will happen the celebrations and surprisingly in e i g h t places, yeah… There are Zeitgeisters here as well. (I’m not going to anyone.)

Well, I have no answers for my silly questions - are many popping here and there. I just want to make a parallel illustrating this post with another recent reading. The connections are money and science.

Wish you all a happy Z day!

I'm working with a tedious group of people at this moment. People who I can't have a single interesting conversation. They're disgusting and I'm counting the days to the end of this job.

Yesterday I got myself singing a David Bowie song which is relevant not only to post on my blog. Well, I think so...

The original track - performed by Tin Machine in 1989 - is pretty much intense, but not legally available on internet to post here.



I Can't Read
David Bowie + Reeves Gabrels

I can't read and I can't write down
I don't know a book from countdown
I don't care which shadow gets me
All I've got is someone's face

Money goes to money heaven
Bodies go to body hell
I just cough,
catch the chase
Switch the channel
watch the police car

CHORUS
I can't read shit anymore
I just sit back and ignore
I just can't get it right,
can't get it right
I can't read shit
I can't read shit

When you see a famous smile
No matter where you run your mile
To be right in that photograph
Andy where's my fifteen minutes

David Bowie (*1947)
Is an English artist with numerous visionary works

Enjoy and sing together
Cynthia

Possible New Careers Emerging from Advances in Science and Technology (2010 – 2030)
Final Report | 149 pages | January 2010

Fast Future pdf

The top five roles that respondents would most like to see materialise were:
Old Age Wellness Manager / Consultant
Vertical Farmer
Nano-Medic
Climate Change Reversal Specialist
New Scientists Ethicist

"The response to the global survey suggests these roles can individually and in various combinations make a significant contribution to tackling the care challenges of an ageing society, feeding a growing population and maintaining and enhancing our health. They are also seen as essential to giving us greener mobility solutions and reducing the impact of dangerous climate change. Finally they are expected to help us survive and thrive in the cyberworld, whether through legal protection, counselling or management of our virtual data and ‘personal brand image‘."

A good reading for a long and too hot weekend. With a prosperous vision for Brazil — > could emerge as one of the world's leading scientific powers by 2025.
Controversy level 1

Via Tristan Hambling / @tristanhambling

Them
by Danny Treacy

2002 - Present
178 cm x 215 cm
Editioned Lambda Print



"... They are us and they are Them..."



"... They are made from recovered clothes, collected from those lonely places - the woods, the wasteland, the car-parks..."



"... They are re-stitched and re-fashioned: re-modelled into junk monsters..."



"... They are the figments of his imagination and desire..."



"... They are nightmares of the catwalk, prowling around the outskirts of style's dumb extravagance...”

said David Chandler ©

Via Lisa Katayama @tokyomango BoingBoing

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Sex Slaves, Polls, and Ethics
Mike Treder

— Ethical Technology —
Dec 2, 2009

"So if you never read OUT OF CONTROL, here is a user-generated remix that shortens and focuses the book. You can read it on Lloyd's website or even download the PDF. (And here on kk.org as well.)

"However, if you liked BOOTSTRAPPING COMPLEXITY, you may also want to try my "long-winded" original version with lots more stuff. It is available as web text and a free PDF as well."

Kevin Kelly's book Out of Control is a fascinating book full of fascinating ideas reaching across the board from artificial intelligence, evolution, biology, ecology, robotics and more to explore complexity, cybernetics and self-organising systems in an accessible and engaging way.
Lloyd

Via CT2

It’s being so long since I was thinking about to show you those 3 guys...



Then yesterday I found in an old box a precious Chelpa Ferro CD, so that's the time.

Chelpa Ferro is an art group created in 1995 by the artists Jorge Barrão, Luiz Zerbini and Sergio Mekler.

Hermano Vianna - anthropologist - wrote a release for Chelpa Ferro CD, 1997

“Chelpa Ferro is a band from Rio de Janeiro, formed by a nucleus of fine artists. Barrão is known for his sculptures where machines copulate with each other, and are transformed into Deleuzian-slum creatures. Sérgio Mekler is one of the most sought after editors of video and cinema in Brazil, winner of several awards for best editing of music videos at the MTV Brazil Music Video Awards. Luis Zerbini is one of the most recognized Brazilian painters to come out of the 1980’s. His paintings also edit images from various sources creating pleasantly unbalanced tonalities.
...
"Other members are invited to collaborate on specific projects such as albuns, videos, exhibitions and performances. All of them exclude their previous artistic identities and the work is signed simply by Chelpa Ferro.
...
Chelpa’s first project was a musical CD, which included an interactive track.
...
"As a perverse parody of a rock show, a stand sold Chelpa Ferro Products: shirts, pens, granola, and even a homemade cachaça with the label Chelpinha da Roça.”
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“In the context of Brazil, Chelpa Ferro acts as a strange agent in the field of visual art as well as in the environment of pop music. Maybe this is their role: not to be limited to any area, inventing escape routes from or between conventional categories.”




Totoro - 2009 - Pinacoteca de São Paulo


Jungle Jam - 2008 - Galeria Vermelho São Paulo


picture by LED :)


meskalito gallery, Londres

For me, they are totally in the fine arts field, not only because of all galleries exhibitions but I really don't believe that sophisticated work should be included into Brazilian pop music weak concept. Check their website and also subscribe their YouTube channel.

I would love to attach a track...
Good night!

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Sorry everyone! I promisse this will be my last post about MJ. This time I'll save you from pictures.

Next Nature

"Using childhood photo’s of Michael and knowledge on basic aging trends, forensic artists constructed a portrait of how Michael would have looked at age 50, had he never undergone plastic surgery. The difference between the portraits is striking. But which is the real Michael? The man of flesh and blood, sculpted by plastic surgeons or the highly speculative forensic image? Both Michaels are virtual in their own right."