Tech savvy entrepreneurs take back the network during the Occupy New York movement. They had developed a software / hardware solution to wirelessly network and spread information.

It seems like a very obvious next step for the makers that they develop a portable polling station to improve the accessibility of local voting on issues for instance in an area of a city. Imagine if at the general assembly demonstrators would have been allowed to vote via a server, it would be ingenious and empowering at the same time, minimizing the headache of direct-democracy and making decisions on the spot.

A painting made in several contexts; it has been donated to a Dutch society against ‘human trafficking’.

My Silence is My Rage*, 2010. Ink, Acrylic and Spraypaint on canvas.
Dave PiXelSHift, from the ‘Ink Decay‘ series.

Maya Angelou, writer and poet.

Current events are unfolding Athens, Greece as a reaction to austerity measures.

Meanwhile Iceland (and their handling of the 2008-2012 economic crisis) has it’s own wikipedia entry.

“Wij zijn hier met kunst bezig.” / “We are busy making art here.”

And another angle on the rave.

“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

Maybe ironic, and mostly true.

Anarchy is coming together.

Looking at the fashion this picture was probably taken in the 1970s. The statute of limitations has long ago expired and this photograph is just documenting urban history.

Two guys squat central station Copenhagen! They built a home there of odd-bits and managed to occupy the room for four years in an underground tunnel without the authorities knowing that it existed.


via Erosie’s site.