In fact, US Customs and Border Protection has long considered US borders and airports a kind of loophole in the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections, one that allows them wide latitude to detain travelers and search their devices. For years, they’ve used that opportunity to hold border-crossers on the slightest suspicion, and demand access to their computers and phones with little… Read more →
British Journalist Thinks The World Owes Latin America an Apology for the So-Called ‘War on Drugs’ · Global Voices
In this story, published in two parts, Estefanía Sepúlveda Portilla interviews British journalist Johann Hari. They discuss and deconstruct the “War on Drugs” and its origins. Source: British Journalist Thinks The World Owes Latin America an Apology for the So-Called ‘War on Drugs’ · Global Voices Read more →
Winter rains could lead to spectacular floral display at California poppy reserve – SFGate
The winter rains could trigger a poppy explosion in the California desert this spring. Source: Winter rains could lead to spectacular floral display at California poppy reserve – SFGate shared without comment. seeds of solitude. sow/reap. Read more →
The Politics of Public Playfulness (transcript) • A Playful Path
The Politics of Public Playfulness (transcript) • A Playful Path. We kind of get embarrassed to be seen being playful. We kind of get a feeling that it’s illegal to be playful. Because, you know, you’re playful, you go out some place and you’re being playful, and people look at you like that. You know: “What are you doing being… Read more →
Zhang Huan’s Poppy Fields
Chinese artist Zhang Huan’s paintings, entitled, “Poppy Fields” are intended to evoke the idea of liberated souls who have undergone the sky burial process that he discovered while traveling through Tibet.
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Blogging here to keep for reference: “who are other artists who are working with images of poppies and what are they doing with them?”
Faces from the Border: We Could Be Them – The New Yorker
The father once illegally crossed the border from Mexico; now the son is a border-patrol agent for the United States. On a spring afternoon, I drive along Paisano Drive, in El Paso, and spot shiny white-and-green Border Patrol vans crawling alongside an eighteen-foot fence. The agents seem bored, guarding the world’s most powerful country from possible terrorists, but mostly from… Read more →
Sad for 60 Minutes – True Tales: a Reporters Blog
I grew up admiring 60 Minutes for its storytelling and investigative reporting. So many original stories. No one on television was doing what 60 Minutes was doing then. It looked so exciting and that was part of why I became … Continue reading → Source: Sad for 60 Minutes – True Tales: a Reporters Blog Sam Quinones is an independent… Read more →
Digital Preservation in the Artist’s Studio — Medium
Rhizome’s curator shares best practices for digital preservation beginning at the source within an artist’s studio. It includes a suggestion of offering Art as a Service, with contracts that allow collectors to reliably come back to the studio should they ever experience data loss. Source: Digital Preservation in the Artist’s Studio — Medium This matters to SWEAT because we have… Read more →
Connected Worlds – Interactive ecosystem for @nysci by @design_io
Large project with NSF funding poetically explores ecosystems at large scale. Blogged here for reference to it’s hardware and software details. Sow/Reap may benefit from their example. Each environment in Connected Worlds runs on a separate machine with software developed with openFrameworks. There are a total of 8 Mac Pros running the whole experience. There is a total of 15 projectors… Read more →
The Kinect is dead | Polygon
The Kinect is dead | Polygon. Ben Kuchera is reading the absence of any mention of the Kinect sensor as evidence that Microsoft is ending support for the device. During the E3 press presentation today there were no new games that rely on the device, nor any expansion of services. We made use of the first generation Kinect sensor for… Read more →