Link roundup
1. "[I]n South Asia, millions remain victims of a wicked form of slavery known as peshgi, or bonded labour. Human Rights Watch estimated as far back as 1999, that India was home to some 40 million bonded labourers. In Pakistan, over one million bonded labourers are currently enslaved in the brick kiln industry alone." Via.
2. Knock-off Ikea store in China. Via.
3. Monastery at dusk. Hell's escalator.
READ MORE - Link roundup
2. Knock-off Ikea store in China. Via.
3. Monastery at dusk. Hell's escalator.
The credits for this advertisement do not include Kris Kuksi?
The listed credits for this advertisement:
Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Jakarta, IndonesiaBut it sure looks like Kris Kuksi's work to me:
Executive Creative Director: Gary Caulfield
Creative Directors: Eric Yeo, Troy Lim, Yuwono Widodo
Art Director: Anthony Tham
Copywriter: Adrian Yeap
Illustrator: Eric Foenander
Illustrator: Qiu Jing
Link roundup
1. Artnet:
2. Double lightning bolts.
3. Beach turned a revolting green by algae in China (like swimming in Nickelodeon's slime). Via.
READ MORE - Link roundup
Artist Janine “Jah Jah” Gordon has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against photographer Ryan McGinley for copyright infringement, arguing that 150 of McGinley’s photographs, including several used in an ad campaign for Levi’s, a co-defendant in the suit, are “substantially based” on Gordon’s original work.Via.
2. Double lightning bolts.
3. Beach turned a revolting green by algae in China (like swimming in Nickelodeon's slime). Via.
Link roundup
1. A few weeks ago Andy Baio mentioned that he'd reluctantly settled for $30,000 a lawsuit in which he was accused of using a photographer's intellectual property. I mentioned at the time, without explaining my reasoning, that I thought he'd indeed stolen the photographer's intellectual property. Well, this post does an excellent job explaining why.
But that's really only half the story. Predictably, internet users angered by the photographer's attempt to protect his intellectual property attacked the photographer both in cyberspace and in the real world. This is a fascinating summary of what occurred. There's a bit of commentary on that post here (make sure to read the "featured comments"). (And from that same site, here's some great photographs). Via.
2. "Hypoallergenic dogs don't actually produce fewer allergy-provoking proteins than other dogs, say researchers who put the claims to the test." Via.
3. Some snails not only survive being eaten and digested by birds, but actually use the experience as a means of travel. Via.
READ MORE - Link roundup
But that's really only half the story. Predictably, internet users angered by the photographer's attempt to protect his intellectual property attacked the photographer both in cyberspace and in the real world. This is a fascinating summary of what occurred. There's a bit of commentary on that post here (make sure to read the "featured comments"). (And from that same site, here's some great photographs). Via.
2. "Hypoallergenic dogs don't actually produce fewer allergy-provoking proteins than other dogs, say researchers who put the claims to the test." Via.
3. Some snails not only survive being eaten and digested by birds, but actually use the experience as a means of travel. Via.
Link roundup
1. Looks like the link is overwhelmed right now, but apparently "when a caterpillar goes into its chrysalis it's body literally melts down into a sac of fluid cells. These cells in turn recreate the entire body from scratch, forming a butterfly."
2. The big internet news today was Andy Baio reporting that he had been sued for profiting off another artist's intellectual property, and had settled because he couldn't afford to fight. I'm inclined to think it was not fair use. But mostly I was surprised that someone already facing a lawsuit he couldn't afford to defend would do something like create an index for The Daily.
3. The BBTS added several new vintage models, including the Mystery Machine, Batcycle, and Batboat.
READ MORE - Link roundup
2. The big internet news today was Andy Baio reporting that he had been sued for profiting off another artist's intellectual property, and had settled because he couldn't afford to fight. I'm inclined to think it was not fair use. But mostly I was surprised that someone already facing a lawsuit he couldn't afford to defend would do something like create an index for The Daily.
3. The BBTS added several new vintage models, including the Mystery Machine, Batcycle, and Batboat.
Link roundup
1. Fascinating site I've never heard of:
2. So did Urban Outfitters rip off an Etsy seller? Or was her design not remotely original?
3. And did Jack Kirby create all of the major Marvel characters? Or was it Stan Lee? Via.
READ MORE - Link roundup
At the time of Göbekli Tepe's construction much of the human race lived in small nomadic bands that survived by foraging for plants and hunting wild animals. Construction of the site would have required more people coming together in one place than had likely occurred before. Amazingly, the temple's builders were able to cut, shape, and transport 16-ton stones hundreds of feet despite having no wheels or beasts of burden. The pilgrims who came to Göbekli Tepe lived in a world without writing, metal, or pottery; to those approaching the temple from below, its pillars must have loomed overhead like rigid giants, the animals on the stones shivering in the firelight—emissaries from a spiritual world that the human mind may have only begun to envision.Via.
Archaeologists are still excavating Göbekli Tepe and debating its meaning. What they do know is that the site is the most significant in a volley of unexpected findings that have overturned earlier ideas about our species' deep past. Just 20 years ago most researchers believed they knew the time, place, and rough sequence of the Neolithic Revolution—the critical transition that resulted in the birth of agriculture, taking Homo sapiens from scattered groups of hunter-gatherers to farming villages and from there to technologically sophisticated societies with great temples and towers and kings and priests who directed the labor of their subjects and recorded their feats in written form. But in recent years multiple new discoveries, Göbekli Tepe preeminent among them, have begun forcing archaeologists to reconsider.
2. So did Urban Outfitters rip off an Etsy seller? Or was her design not remotely original?
3. And did Jack Kirby create all of the major Marvel characters? Or was it Stan Lee? Via.
Link roundup
1. Psychiatry today:
2. Stanley Chow was told by Lions Gate not only to stop selling his Mad Men illustrations, but to remove them from the internet. Via.
3. Andy Warhol meets Bob's Big Boy by Dave MacDowell.
READ MORE - Link roundup
Like many of the nation’s 48,000 psychiatrists, Dr. Levin, in large part because of changes in how much insurance will pay, no longer provides talk therapy, the form of psychiatry popularized by Sigmund Freud that dominated the profession for decades. Instead, he prescribes medication, usually after a brief consultation with each patient.Via.
2. Stanley Chow was told by Lions Gate not only to stop selling his Mad Men illustrations, but to remove them from the internet. Via.
3. Andy Warhol meets Bob's Big Boy by Dave MacDowell.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
