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Been playing around with inks and embossing folders. The first two are of the cover of my sort of inspiration binder. I Mod Podged it with paper that was used to pad a package we received, too pretty not to do something with it. I finished it off with a strip of Washi/paper tape.
I haven’t done anything with the center two pieces, which I embossed and inked up to see how it would go. Dawn surprised me with the embossing folders and I could not wait to try them. They’re in my binder for now, maybe they’ll eventually end up on cards.
The last two are pasted on the inside front and back covers of the same binder. I went a little crazy with our ink sprays and it was hella fun! I like how it’s a blast of color when you open it up, totally unexpected from the sedate, almost proper floral cover. (I’m filling it with a mish-mash of things like that, experiments I can’t seem to toss.)
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Protesters show up at the doorstep of Google self-driving car engineer | Ars Technica, via Tom T.
After arriving at the Berkeley home of Anthony Levandowski on Tuesday morning, the protesters distributed a flier complaining of his role in developing Google Street View and, more recently, his spearheading a new condominium development in downtown Berkeley. Protesters say this development is linked to a design firm that has done work for the US military. Counterforce’s main complaint was that Google has recently acquired Boston Dynamics, a military robotics contractor, and that this fact, combined with Levandowski’s background in automated vehicles, is a frightening prospect. Beyond that, they wrote: “Anthony Levandowski is currently trying to create his own cyber-capitalist utopia in the great city of Berkeley,” citing Levandowski’s purchase of a property that he wants to develop into a 77-unit apartment building designed by the Nautilus Group. -
“The Male Gazed: Surveillance, Power, and Gender” By Kate Losse at Model View Culture
Government surveillance within social networks didn’t arise out of nowhere; instead, it is a product of longstanding inequalities in power in technology that have historically privileged white men above all, who have been much more likely to control surveillance technologies than be targeted by them. The outrage over NSA surveillance has occurred and received massive coverage not because the deployment of technology for citizen surveillance is new but because white, technical, American men have finally become targets of the surveillant gaze rather than its aloof masters.
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WHAT WE FOUND AT HART ISLAND, THE LARGEST MASS GRAVE SITE IN THE U.S.»
Hart Island is a thin, half-mile long blip of land at the yawning mouth of Long Island Sound, just across the water from City Island in the Bronx. Depending on who you ask, it was named either for its organ-like shape or for the deer (or hart) that thrived here after trekking across the frozen sound in the 18th century. Hart is dense with history; it’s been used as a prison for Confederate soldiers, a workhouse for the poor, a women’s asylum, and a Nike missile base during the Cold War.
Its most important role has been to serve as what’s known as a potter’s field, a common gravesite for the city’s unknown dead. Some 900,000 New Yorkers (or adopted New Yorkers) are buried here; hauntingly, the majority are interred by prisoners from Riker’s Island who earn 50 cents an hour digging gravesites and stacking simple wooden boxes in groups of 150 adults and 1,000 infants. These inmates—most of them very young, serving out short sentences—are responsible for building the only memorials on Hart Island: Handmade crosses made of twigs and small offerings of fruit and candy left behind when a grave is finished.
There are a few ways to end up on Hart Island. One third of its inhabitants are infants—some parents couldn’t afford a burial, others didn’t realize what a “city burial” meant when they checked it on the form. Many of the dead here were homeless, while others were simply unclaimed; if your body remains at the city morgue for more than a few weeks, you, too, will be sent for burial by a team of prisoners on Hart Island. These practices have given rise to dozens of cases where parents and families aren’t notified in time to claim the body of their loved one. It can take months (even years) to determine whether your missing mom, dad, sibling, or child ended up at Hart.
(Source: Technoccult)
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Spielkkind makes super fun collage art and is one of the most fun Instagram feeds you can follow
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