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Exquisite urban interaction! (6 min vid, well worth it!)

 

via: Drawn! the Illustrator 

Getting waisted, those Robertson sisters sure are somethin’!

Erin & Kate. 

I just found an article about my friend Bob a traditional Japanese silk maker, weaver, painter, artist and indigo expert who still lives in the village I used to live in, Fujino-Machi (wysteria fields).  This is where my eldest son spent his formative years and where the installation artist after whom my second son is named lives with his family.  I miss my family, friends, the lifestyle and the place where I lived very very deeply.  Bob and I were the last two Geijins to live there, and now he is the only one left.  I wonder if I’ll ever get to go back.

Canadian finds his own silk road: Bob Whitehead
Photos by: Makoto Miyazaki, Daily Yomiuri Photographer
Written By: Ayako Hirayama, Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer

 

I love it!

"Steampunk lives in the reincarnated collective past of shadows and ignored alleys. It is a historical wunderkabinet, which promises, like Dr. Caligari’s, to wake the somnambulist of the present to the dream-reality of the future. We are archaeologists of the present, reanimating a hallucinatory history."

I have no idea what that means but I’m just going to shut-up and drink the Kool-Aid.(1)

• Steampunk Magazine: A Journal of Misapplied Technology
• Jake von Slatt
  
• Greg Brotherton
• Stéphane Halleux
• Crabfu
• DataMancer

Then there are disturbing genres like ribofunk and splatterpunk. I’ll pass on exploring the latter, but think the former is important particularly in light of transhumanist ideals and the emerging bioart / symbioticA genres.  I find it disturbing and frightening but something that needs to be more popularly discussed until of course it is too late if these become entrenched norms.

• The East London Decapitator
  
• Ron English
• The Splasher
• Banksy