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“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
Ernst Fischer
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Early Motion Graphics
Notwithstanding the early forays into foto-dynamacism, the early poets enjoyed a foray into moving motion picture and accompanying sound (1913). A quick glance at some early motion graphics. First some early Dadaist expressionism from 1923 with added sound, (the sound was added as an afterthought). The Dada movement was very early mixing poetry with film; and some simple stopmotion which could be considered the beginning of motion on film.
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“RetroTech: Atari Video Music – The Migraine Machine“. 26.04.2017, Techmoan. Online video. Accessed 18 Nov. 2022.
“Electronic Labyrinth“. 1967, INXISIV. Online video. Accessed 18 Nov. 2022.
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Bhagavad-Gita
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.” I supposed we all thought that, one way or another.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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You know, that the initial blast was so bright that it just left shadows. The flash just sealed them on parkbenches, on schoolyards, on sidewalks. Still there.
Jonathan M. Nash. A Beautiful Mind (2001, deleted scene)
Blog>Current Events
Reykjavík Rising
“Only when the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can not eat money.”
attributed to Alanis Obomsawin, 1972
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There is a slow dissemination of information explaining the 2008 economic meltdown and the hidden mechanisms that led up to the disasterous situation.
I’ve stood infront of the Shah of Iran, the presidents of Indonesia, Ecuador, Panama, members of the Royal House of Saudi Arabia and I’ve said something like, ‘In this hand I have millions of dollars, for you and your friends if you play our game. In this hand I have a gun, in case you decide not to.’ Now my words were more diplomatic than that, but that was the message.
Perkins, John.
Iceland was of course one of the first countries’ to go in the 2008 meltdown.
And some say that we are the canary that went into the mine. We were the one that crashed first and should we come out alive then there will be hope for others. And we have come out the other end. And some people say it’s brilliant how unbelievable the recovery is but if nothing changes in the structure itself – it’s not a revolution, and there is nothing great about it. Ofcourse we can resample this Frankenstein monster that just goes on and trashes the earth, and makes the rich more rich. And in the end there’s just going to be a hugh revolution where you know, war or something.
“Reykjavik Rising“, 2014.
To know what is happening now, it is important to remember the mechanisms that were used after the 2008 housing crash, and what effect they will have in the future.
It was back in February of last year that Micheal Burry first warned of high inflation as a consequence of the Fed’s (Federal Reserve Bank) unprecidented money printing. He was tweeting “prepare for inflation”, hashtagging “doomed to repeat”. And calling out the US government and the Federal Reserve over the trillions of dollars worth of stimulus they had done. […] Fast forward twelve months and we are now running at a red hot inflation rate of 8.6%. […] But what is very interesting is that in the past month or so Micheal Burry has not just been doing victory laps, instead he has been tweeting quite extensively explaining why he believes this economic crisis and subsequent market downturn has only just begun.
SOURCES
“Four Horsemen“, 2011. Renegade Inc. Accessed Jan. 17, 2022.
“97% Owned: How is Money Created“, 2012. Independent POV. Accessed Jan. 17, 2022.
“Reykjavik Rising“, 2014. Conscious Collective. Accessed Jan. 17, 2022.
Perkins, John. “An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action“, 24.06.2016. TEDxTraverseCity, online lecture. Accessed May 21, 2022.
“Michael Burry’s Warning for the 2022 Stock Market Crash“, 15.06.2022. New Media, online video. Accessed June 22, 2022.
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Underlying Message
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A Definition (or two)
THE PIXELSHIFT: A DEFINITION (or two)
1. In classical webdesign (which has been around all of 6 years or more), there was an inherit difference/fault between Internet Explorer, Navigator, Safari, Opera and Firefox. This fault (aptly dubbed a ‘feature’ ) by certain developers that I know, caused a shift in a floated layer (.div), which would be interpreted differently in each different browser, and thus causing a layout to break.
Things like margins, paddings and the complexity (amount of nested layers in the layout) amongst other things would influence the effect of this shift. It is also the reason why most front-end webdevelopers today still prefer using seperate CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for IE and different clusters of browsers.
2. In digital cameras (camcorders) with CCD chips. Pixelshifting is used to raise the resolution of lens image to digital data. The CCD chip is moved half a pixel vertical and horizontally in steps to have a finer sample method. A higher resolution of sampling to approach full-HD via with CCD chip with less physical CCD. It is interesting to note that a CCD chip takes a snapshot of the entire frame and a CMOS sensor takes a gradual snapshot called a rolling shutter, effectively making it less responsive for higher frame rate sampling.