tunnel vision

Journalist and photographer from Bremen Johannes Ginter interlaced the feed of six tiny video cameras, carefully mounted at opposing angles to create this footage of what seems to be a man peddling about on a tiny planet. Cobbling together this perspective is a pretty brilliant and disorientating way to project space-time and have the whole warped into the footprint of a roving spotlight.

francophone

The French tend to be perceived as lingual purists and practise a healthy disdain for outside influences that threaten to dilute their language and heritage into some sort of pidgin, especially when there are already perfectly good native words, without the need for borrowing from other sources.
The guardians of the lingua franca, however, are entertaining submissions for candidates to be incorporated into the lexicon. The Local's French edition features some of these entries, which are unquestionably authentic in character and could already pass for common-parlance: some of the best include equivader—a French approximation of the concept of procrastination (for which there is no exactly equivalent), combining the words for chatting and avoidance to describe those easy distractions, se mémériser (from the term mémé for grandmother) means to dress like a granny, and oubliophobie to describe that sinking feeling of loss or dread that we have forgotten something when that experience comes too often as to seem like a malady.

zapadnik

Artist and social-commentator Nastya Nudnik from Kyiv presents an very circumspect gallery in her collection entitled “Emoji Nation,” which illustrates our relationship with technology, modus of communication and basically our peripheral-lifestyle by laying such transparencies (memes) over classical, devotional works of art. It's odd and interesting to see what an evocative penchant such juxtapositions can ring and how a group of singular conventions can creep into all culture at such a galloping pace.

stützpunkt

Germany has called a special commission in order to hopefully seriously investigate the surveillance activities of the USA and the UK, and perhaps most importantly, German complicity in the process. One rallies for outrage with a tremolo-heroism but perhaps most realised that this was always the case and the wages of the modern world, whether willingly or otherwise, despite however one might feel about his or her situational-awareness as compared to the lolling public.
If faith was neither granted nor stinted or even comes as a surprise is a question for the individual, mostly dependent upon convenience and voluntary disclosure. An artificial mystique (though a code easily broken yet infinitely adaptable) of allegory and spindled metaphor has developed to augment and improve insider-messaging, which can be accessed by outsiders still. Concurrently, however, comes the revelation that the revelation that German was also the base for a sort of extraordinary rendition (the speed of light does not out-strip national jurisdictions). A satellite installation of Ramstein not only monitored the continent of Africa but also the whole world around. Though such studiousness is typical, I do not think such behaviour is as ultimately productive as protocols, or consignment, suggests.