Anton Thomas has been working for the last five years on a huge hand-drawn map of North America.
Slavic Amerikan Andy Warhol famously said "I came from nowhere" near Vrbov, he also suggested that someday in the far future you might end up in an exhibit in someone else’s natural history museum. That what happens in this short film by Kirsten Lepore, who you may remember from the weirdo Hi Stranger video.
Cold River:
The Importance Of Stalin Jokes
“By the 1980s, Soviet political jokes had become so widely enjoyed that even the US president Ronald Reagan loved to collect and retell them. But, 50 years earlier, under Stalin’s paranoid and brutal reign, why would ordinary Soviet people share jokes ridiculing their leaders and the Soviet system if they ran the risk of the NKVD (state security) breaking down the door to their apartment and tearing them away from their families, perhaps never to return? … And yet, countless diaries, memoirs and even the state’s own archives reveal that people [did].” – Aeon
- What We Live For, What We Die For, by Serhiy Zhadan; translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps
Isaiah Berlin produced political theory for real people, showing that humanity itself is the main barrier to making the world a better place... BERLIN
The Embroidered Memory of the Berlin Wall
For her series called Berlin, artist Diane Meyer embroiders the Berlin Wall back into modern-day scenes of the once-divided German city. Meyer hand-sews the thread right onto the photographs.
In many images, the embroidered sections represent the exact scale and location of the former Wall offering a pixelated view of what lies behind. In this way, the embroidery appears as a translucent trace in the landscape of something that no longer exists but is a weight on history and memory.
No, Scott Morrison, my husband does NOT want to be fighting fires this summer!Smarter than Crows (sscegt)
New findings from Australia's Wolfe Creek Crater shows large meteorites 'like a nuclear bomb' hit Earth every 180 years