https://soundcloud.com/maymers/cover-death-is-not-the-end
Alex Wein
New York Times National Security Correspondent David Sanger sees cyber-espionage as a whole new “field of conflict” on the global stage — and that the U.S. isn’t having an open discussion about it:
"The Obama administration has pressed more leak investigations, conducted more leak investigations, launched formal inquiries, or in some cases, criminal cases, than all previous [administrations] combined. And these investigations all have a chilling effect on later stories that you do even if the later stories are on completely different subjects.
I think there’s a lot more concern inside the U.S. government right now about being found to be talking to reporters, even if you’re talking about something that is unclassified. … It’s understandably difficult to get American officials to talk about their plans for potential cyberattacks of cyberdefenses. I understand that, but it’s also very difficult to get officials to talk about our policy about using these cyberweapons as a tool of American power. And that’s what worries me, because in a healthy democracy, I think the American citizens have to be at least informed of — and maybe participate in the debate about — how we want to use these weapons since we are vulnerable to them ourselves.”
Yesterday was the last opportunity to see Xu Bing: Phoenix. Farewell, beautiful birds. Fly on!
This was absolutely stunning.
Yes!
Alessandro Puccinelli - Intersections
Artist’s statement:
"Where Sea and Sky collide.
In essence, Intersections is all about that brief moment of time when the water of the sea blurs with the clouds of a stormy sky and creates a unique and abstract fleeting moment. When the fury of the ocean seems to take a breath before inexorably and inevitably starting again with the next wave.”
Pompey the Pug
Excellent advice from the laundromat bulletin board.
Sunday night entertainment, with a beer and community radio.
A hobbit of a spider
Improved: musical piece called Opuscule
Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth - Tiger & Turtle (2011) - A walk-along “roller coaster” (via likeafieldmouse)
Thoughts of water
oil on canvas
by Jochem Grin http://jochemgrin.tumblr.com/
Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic orchestra during a rehearsal for a concert at Carnegie Hall, New York, 1960
Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt - LIFE archive
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(via arpeggia)
This is one of the best music videos I've seen in a while (and happiest, too!).
Featuring 140 students and faculty from Hunter College High School, get a sample of the diversity, passion and energy that make up this incredible community while flying through the school at breakneck speeds.
1991 photos compiled at 8 FPS - shot entirely on a Canon T3.
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Huge credits to Cheers Elephant for their hyper upbeat track - 'Leaves' which this film was based around!
Light After Death: Mihoko Ogaki’s ‘Milky Way’ Figures Project Stars from Within (via itscolossal)