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“The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths. “

http://hypermediadreams.com/

Hypermedia, an extension of the term hypertext, is a nonlinear medium of information which includes graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks. This contrasts with the broader term multimedia, which may include non-interactive linear presentations as well as hypermedia.

Hypermedia Dreams is a hivemind of collective conciousness that creates the digital mesh of our reality. It’s a collective of artists, techno-shamans and technomancers around the world who dabbles in the secret art of digital.

Collective consists artist from wide range of mediums including GIF Art, Video Art, New Media Art and so much more.

Featuring the following artists:

Max Capacity, Kidmograph, Sholim, Aaron Chan, Esra Özkavcı, Mert Günhan, Xcopy, Hexeosis, Raquel Meyers, Trapers, Psykzz, Miron, Matthieu Delourme, Adela Muntean, Agen Tedoble, Flavio Scutti, Tachyons +, Ronen Shai, Zach Willard, Nihil Minus, Kate Parsons, Oliwia Blawat, Christian Petersen, The Current Sea, Jon Cates, Jay Bechtel, Luch Meiranesio, Phe No.

Curated by Haydi Roket

Hypermedia Dreams is part of The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, a global art event founded by David Quiles Guilló. All rights reserved. MMXVI©Sintonison s.l. http://rojoprojects.co/

Seth Kugel, Frugal Traveller columnist for the NYT, on whether you should bring shoe trees when you travel (via putthison)

Find The Truth

Short one-take 360 video for a Japanese TV show released last month is great introduction to what the format can do for storytelling.

If you haven’t tried YouTube 360 video before, all you need is the latest iOS / Android YouTube app installed. Instead of seeing everything like in the examples above, the view will be based on the physical position of the screen, so look around.

Click on this link here to open the video through the app on your device

“Stop me if you’ve heard this one,”

says Cormac McCarthy to his son.

“We burn to ash when the sun explodes,

we blow like pollen across the cosmos

—wait, just kidding, that’s not how it goes.”

“Knock knock, who’s there,

    it’s the end of man,

and woman’s there too, with a frying pan.

She hits the man with that pan of hers

and stokes his bones among the embers.”

“No no, I’m yanking your chain.

What I meant was—limitless pain.

Your body tortured

    in a sharp rain.”

“Gotcher nose,” McCarthy goes,

his breath a host of blackened rose.

“Why did the chicken cross the road?

Why did it peck a poison toad?

And how did it get beheaded like that,

a sacrifice to the boldest rat?”   

“Riddle me this,” McCarthy says now,

“and see if you can tell me how

we each hope to direct the prow

of fate when it’s just a big mistake,

misfortune, misapprehension?

Tomorrow doesn’t mean much to you,

but it can’t mean anything anyway.

And you look at me with surprise?”

“None,” replies McCarthy’s boy.

No really. I often feel a bit left behind with technologies as I follow info about them online but can’t often afford to enjoy the benefits of them till they are the old and crusty thing and everyone’s moved onto something else. Yet I delight in seeing what other people do with the ever-changing technologies of this age.

So I clicked through to watch the video bc I had a few min. And I haven’t had this second-hand smartphone very long so I sometimes forget it can do more than just be a small version of my desktop (+ phone/text). And I was frustrated bc I couldn’t see the doughnuts and I was like, “Emily, why the hell would you just film your own hand!… arm?… wait…” and then I moved. And omg it’s like the whole world opened up!

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Donuts: The day we both got really fat 

This has made me so happy.

No really. I often feel a bit left behind with technologies as I follow info about them online but can’t often afford to enjoy the benefits of them till they are the old and crusty thing and everyone’s moved onto something else. Yet I delight in seeing what other people do with the ever-changing technologies of this age.

So I clicked through to watch the video bc I had a few min. And I haven’t had this second-hand smartphone very long so I sometimes forget it can do more than just be a small version of my desktop (+ phone/text). And I was frustrated bc I couldn’t see the doughnuts and I was like, “Emily, why the hell would you just film your own hand!… arm?… wait…” and then I moved. And omg it’s like the whole world opened up!

I have to be honest, I really wasn’t sure what practical applications you were going to come up with for your neat vr stuff, bc I was thinking it would be all limited to people that had the technology to properly immerse themselves in and play around in that world. I was so wrong. I’m sorry I ever doubted.

before today, i hadn’t heard of “rough rides,” and there’s a good chance you haven’t either. basically, a “rough ride” is a horrifying process in which ‘a handcuffed man or woman is put into the back of a police van or paddy wagon, without being buckled in or secured. The vehicle then drives recklessly, making sharp, dangerous turns and sudden movements in ways that throw the passenger violently around the vehicle.’

as of today, we now know that this is exactly what happened to Freddie Gray before he died. 

here’s the evidence: rather than take Freddie Gray the short 2 minute drive from the arrest site to the police station (see left), he was deliberately driven recklessly for over 40 minutes (see right) around Baltimore, handcuffed and in the back of a police van, with no seatbelt, until his spine broke.

the terrifying thing is that this seems to happen a lot. earlier today, two more people came forward to testify that they were put through rough rides at the hands of the Baltimore PD. a 43-year-old man was charged with ‘public urination’ and given a rough ride that resulted in a spine fracture that rendered him quadriplegic for the rest of his life. five years ago, a former Baltimore police officer admitted that rough rides are an “unsanctioned technique” in which police vans are driven to cause “injury or pain” to unbuckled, handcuffed detainees. rough rides are very much a Real Thing.

Leporiphobia: fear of rabbits

The top 100 fashion infographics of 2014 - Men’s Edition (Click here for the Women’s Edition):

This Is Big: Scientists Just Found Earth’s First-Cousin

Right now, 500 light years away from Earth, there’s a planet that looks a lot like our own. It is bathed in dim orangeish light, which at high noon is only as bright as the golden hour before sunset back home. 

NASA scientists are calling the planet Kepler-186f, and it’s unlike anything they’ve found. The big news: Kepler-186f is the closest relative to the Earth that researchers have discovered. 

It’s the first Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of another star—the sweet spot between too-hot Mercury-like planets and too-cold Neptunes— and it is likely to give scientists their first real opportunity to seek life elsewhere in the universe. “It’s no longer in the realm of science fiction,” said Elisa Quintana, a researcher at the SETI Institute. 

But if there is indeed life on Kepler-186f, it may not look like what we have here. Given the redder wavelengths of light on the planet, vegetation there would sprout in hues of yellow and orange instead of green.