The Next Layer - Image

What normal piracy might have looked like in the 1960s USA

doll_yoko — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:32:37 +0000

Solidarity With the Occupy Movement from Kerala

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:52:41 +0000

Communist shrine

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:57:34 +0000

Such little shrines -- and I really do not have any other word for it as those serve no particular function -- you find everywhere in Kerala. It seems Marxism is the fourth belief system in Kerala, besides Hinduism, Christianity and Islam.

Ropemaker

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:37:21 +0000

This lady was part of a group making rope from coir using an old technique.

Kerala Means Colour

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:33:13 +0000

Just an image taken at the roadside ...

Elephants at Temple Festival in Kerala

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:28:45 +0000

Temple festival near Kollam, January 2012.
Some background and more beautiful images of elephants: http://www.chitra-aiyer.com/blog/2010/11/elephant-camp-aana-kota.html

Big Daddy v Open Data

doll_yoko — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:10:23 +0000

source: http://web.mit.edu/bitbucket/Swartz,%20Aaron%20Indictment.pdf

François Morellet, 3 Double Grids 0°, 30°, 60° (1960-61)

Armin Medosch — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:34:56 +0000

This picture was created by François Morellet by rotating grids at the angles given in the title. The artist defined a method which was then carried out strictly, without subjective interference. Morellet experimented for a lengthy period using graphite pencil on paper, before he arrived at results which were realised on bigger scale. One observer described the visual effect, when looking at the image for a while, as 'like watching the night sky' in a cloudless night.

by the artist

The Chicken as Visual Researcher

Armin Medosch — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 06:08:28 +0000

Pfister's hen is wearing prism's to deviate light. The experiment set out to find if the chicken, like humans, is able to correct an upside down world. It is. However, as a friend asked, is that a good or a bad sign, or can the chicken be considered smarter if it does it more quickly than us humans? Animals were used extensively in experimental research on the physiology of perception. In the literature from the 1950s and 1960s which I have been consulting those animals are always treated as 'things', as soulless non-entities. Yet maybe some animals showed some enthusiasm for the tasks.

by the artist

Graduated Response?

doll_yoko — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:49:38 +0000

Image source: http://i40.tinypic.com/n1exw3.jpg, from http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2009_03_22_archive.html
It was sourced by the author of the webpage from Folger Shakespeare Library at http://www.folger.edu.
As far as I can tell it comes from The history of four-footed beasts and serpents by Edward Topsell, printed by E. Cotes for G. Sawbridge, T. Williams and T. Johnson in London in 1658.