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  • Unearthing music

    We all knew that Stone Age humans were hunters and gatherers. But sculptors and flutists? Archeologists announced today that they had unearthed the oldest musical instruments ever found — flutes that inhabitants of southwestern Germany laboriously carved from bone and… Continue reading

    Unearthing music

  • Money and Power: The (Secret) City

    Interesting bit of knowledge about the financial world of which I was unaware. I am not putting this forward to participate in conspiracy theories. I have read enough Robert Anton Wilson to know that can never be anything more than… Continue reading

    Money and Power: The (Secret) City

  • ABE : Psychotic Robot Butler

    London filmmaker Rob McLellan;s straightforward short film ABE takes some heavy minutes out of Silence of the Lambs, speciifically where serial killer Buffalo Bill interacts with the girl in the well. The twist: gender enraged psychopath making a “girl dress” is… Continue reading

    ABE : Psychotic Robot Butler

  • Watch These Robotic Plant Roots Grow Like The Real Thing [Video] | Popular Science

    This robot is putting down roots. Recently at the Living Machines conference in London, researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology debuted a system of robotic roots that can grow and turn in response to stimuli in their environment, just… Continue reading

    Watch These Robotic Plant Roots Grow Like The Real Thing [Video] | Popular Science

  • Art in London: Not ticking | The Economist

    THE shadow of a giant second hand sweeps in silent arcs around a sundial’s shaft, patterning the floor. It lengthens, then reverses, crossing tracks with shorter stripes that represent the minute and the hour. In the industrial vault of London’s… Continue reading

    Art in London: Not ticking | The Economist

  • The Crisis of Finance Capitalism and the Exhaustion of Neoliberalism

    The report “Changing Banking for Good” attempts to make bankers personally responsible, to reform bank governance and strengthen the powers of regulators. Some think that if the report’s recommendations are implemented, it will destroy London as a global financial center.… Continue reading

    The Crisis of Finance Capitalism and the Exhaustion of Neoliberalism

  • Thomas Gainsborough | WikiPaintings.org

    Born in rural Suffolk, the largely self-taught [Thomas] Gainsborough established his reputation as a society portraitist at Bath, a popular resort, before moving to London in 1774. Despite his urban success, he never lost his love of the countryside and… Continue reading

    Thomas Gainsborough | WikiPaintings.org

  • Article: London and New York: A Double Exposure Project

    London and New York: A Double Exposure Project http://www.dwell.com/post/article/london-and-new-york-double-exposure-project Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading

  • I:MAGE Exhibition: Making Art is a Magical Act | The Wild Hunt

    …from May 19th through the 25th London [hosted] an international collection of esoteric artists in a special exhibition, “I:MAGE,” sponsored by Fulgur Esoterica (publisher of the Abraxas journal). Boasting an impressive lineup of artists, both classic and contemporary, I:MAGE [promised] to bring more… Continue reading

    I:MAGE Exhibition: Making Art is a Magical Act | The Wild Hunt

  • London at night | sethsnap

    Just discovered Seth Johnson’s photography after he liked one of my reposts. Really great stuff over there at sethsnap. I recommend you take a few minutes to surf around his pages. Well worth the time. For instance, London at night… Continue reading