Quartz presents a really fascinating and under-appreciated glimpse on the strange, strained affair that the Chinese government has with Western social-networking heralds and mavens.
Wednesday 17 June 2015
feuilleton
catagories: ๐, ๐ฅธ, ๐ง , lifestyle, networking and blogging
5x5
put the needle on the record: hard-won footage of a stylus on vinyl on a microscopic-scale
your moment of zen: cat serenely balances anything placed on her foot
spoiler-alert: Interstellar’s four-dimensional finale was filmed on an actual set, not just a computer-generated green-screen
atomic gardening: lethal doses of radiation have been used since the 1950s to create heartier, mutated food-crops
moai: neglected colossal US presidential busts in search of a home
Tuesday 16 June 2015
pulp fiction or the sackfull of news
The seller’s prospects and the success or failure of given titles to sell provided invaluable feedback and helped determined what would be reprinted and the character of the genre. These pamphlets covered all sorts of topic, most literate adults also trying their hands at writing—history, education, health, politics, travelogues, often through anecdotal and superficially consulted sources with a repetition and formulaic approach, and often bore the viral, most popular woodcuts of the day—whether that illustration had anything to do with the content or not. Though much criticised as pap for the masses, the surviving bulk of these booklets are cultural artefacts that reveal aspects of life during the Renaissance that would not have been preserved elsewhere.
catagories: ๐, ๐, ๐, ๐, networking and blogging
5x5
flight-path: merry prankster living near an airport welcomes fretful passengers to the wrong city
i want to believe: nature reserve in Vancouver had the most screen time of any of the X-Files stars
prefab: Chinese engineers and architects construct flat-pack skyscrapers in record time
the place of shining light: holographic projector used to recreate the Bamiyan Buddha
identity politics: 1967 Mike Wallace documentary on the homosexuals