=============================================================================== I HATE IT HERE #018 - NOVEMBER 2020 - TXT FILE BY DESIGN =============================================================================== _____ _ _ _______ _______ _______ | |_____| |_____| | |______ __|__ | | | | | |______ _____ _______ _ _ _______ ______ _______ | | |_____| |______ |_____/ |______ __|__ | | | |______ | \_ |______ -o- A sporadicly released list of interesting and useful RSS/Atom feeds. #FAEWAVE =============================================================================== ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ _________ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ||R |||E |||L |||E |||A |||S |||E ||| |||N |||O |||T |||E |||S || ||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||_______|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|| |/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/_______\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\| =============================================================================== Ever wonder how much the shit you took in as a younger person influenced your whole deal? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This was a thought which occurred recently – so we decided to have a look into it. Take a snack from the bite sized book of bloody weird things. We purchased via the medium of the bay of evil and then went through a batch of conspiracy and new age magazines from the 1990s and the first thing we realised is that this shitty brand of content has become so much more sophisticated in the last 30 years. The second terrifying thing we realised is that 90% of what we were reading was now “mainstream”. This ill-conceived nonsense somehow become the template. That’s right, what was considered trash reading for the lunatic fringe in 1997 is now considered “a day in the timeline of a Facebook normie” in 2020. How the fuck we let that happen is probably the gateway to the biggest conspiracy of them all conveniently never covered in any of these magazines. The pages of these rags are filled with proto anti-vax hysteria, X-files inspired EBE encounters, sightings and theories, the familiar (even in the 90s and already largely washed up) “aliens built the pyramids” narrative, the ol’ “what is going on with the weather” vector, all lightly sprinkled with a fear of the loss of privacy which we see at this point didn’t go nearly far enough, and didn’t cause nearly enough fear (when it should have been the lone red flag we actually paid attention to but was skilfully watered down; peddled alongside utter shite). Fnord. Why would it have raised it’s hard to understand head above the water? Who of the serious kooks let along the mainstream would have foreseen that we’d give it all up for free porn and addictive but valueless user experiences (a term which would have been as alien to your average 90s reader as the imagined chimerical sci-fi myth version of EBEs they want so much to have constructed the pyramids such is their insecurity about the potential of their own species, usually based on their own lack of success; “I can’t even wash my underwear, how could someone possibly build the Sphinx!?”). Besides, people who were worried about digital privacy in the 90s were routinely excluded from parties, and laughed out of university lecture halls! Yeah reader, the memory still hurts. I digress… Very little in these magazines alludes to the past (very little references the proceeding thousands of years of folklore and occultism in which much of its mythos has its real roots) – it is all future facing, leaping into the unknown, the exciting prospect of times so different from the now, despite the core of many of the thoughts within the articles and topics having been first ejaculated into popular culture decades before. The programme serves to keep people looking into the future anxious of change and dystopia they see at the end of every single path – inevitable (which would be amusing, were it not so accurate based on the mainstream view of the world as is today – evidence of a construct? You can decide. I’m not your mother or your lecturer). And there, right there is perhaps the take away from this exercise. I’m not your mother. No… We as a society NEED to look back and what the "kooks" were saying in the past in order to understand what happens in the now, we need to not rely on the mainstream to tell us what happened in history (written by the winners, celebrated by their progeny) - look to the fringes and you’ll see less has changed than you think. Go back thousands of years and the human condition still prioritises the same core-fears and these are exploited consistency in the same ways by the same type of people. If you need a devil to hate, an adversary to function; there it is. These people. The digital nightmare we exist in now represents technological alteration in the speed and method of delivery; but not the overall agenda which remains a constant, and one that is either controlled to a degree that makes it unstoppable (so let’s just party on) or one that backs up what Alan Moore once said (and we paraphrase)… The truth has always been more frightening that any conspiracy. The truth is no one is driving and this is all just absolute fucking chaos. So did this shit influence our deal? Only as the menu. The main course of real earned knowledge filled the gap. Go order from the big boy menu. Get stuck in. - Tengushee @Tengushee Twitter =============================================================================== ____ ____ ____ ____ _________ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ||D |||A |||T |||A ||| |||F |||E |||E |||D |||S || ||__|||__|||__|||__|||_______|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|| |/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/_______\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\| =============================================================================== https://trends.google.com/trends/trendingsearches/daily/rss http://liminal.earth/feed/ http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:44273240/sounds.rss http://cyberpunkonline.net/rss https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=cyberpunk https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=cyberpunkonline https://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/01956812613236172088/3771766199752494152 https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder.rss http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/.rss http://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunk/.rss http://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/.rss http://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/.rss https://store.steampowered.com/feeds/newreleases.xml http://aminet.net/feed.php?arch%5B%5D=generic&get=Get+feed https://feeds.a.dj.com/rss/RSSWSJD.xml https://www.neondystopia.com/feed/ https://mzx.io/nux/feed/ https://bloody-disgusting.com/feed/ https://foon.uk/feeds/rss.xml https://folklorethursday.com/rss http://www.penkilnburn.com/feed/ https://intotheforestdark.wordpress.com/feed/ https://undeadauthorsociety.com/feed/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/OpenCulture https://ultraculture.org/feed/ https://futurism.com/feed/ https://sardonicusblog.com/feed/ https://spartalien.com/news.rss http://www.sofmag.com/feed/ https://nexusmagazine.com/feed/ https://locusmag.com/feed/ http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?query=subject:cyberpunk http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?query=subject:new%20aesthetic http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?query=subject:fairy http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?query=subject:fae http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?query=subject:faerie http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?query=subject:cult http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?query=subject:discordian =============================================================================== ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ |E |||X |||T |||R |||A || |__|||__|||__|||__|||__|| /__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\| =============================================================================== Why online art galleries are so important ----------------------------------------- The world is changing, art is changing, artists are changing. The establishments which have set the rules for how art is viewed and valued are crumbling under the strain of turbulent and rapid pivots in the dynamic of media consumption. Their rules no longer apply. Artists can exhibit without permission from the establishment and this is a good thing. Art should never need permission to find an audience, or indeed, simply exist. Technology and atmospherics are conspiring to take the method of display out of the hands of stagnant systems and placing the ability to create, display and promote, and do so effectively, directly into the hands of an entirely different breed of artist and art connoisseur. The Internet has allowed the transfer and display of images for over thirty years but the ability for artists and curators alike to create spaces and experiences is a game changer for the democratisation of art. Anyone can load a series of jpg’s in a sideshow… but they don’t. That’s no fun. It is not an entertaining or exciting experience. What is exciting, is the execution of experience design. Artists can now easily create spaces as extravagant as galleries in the real world but which also allow for new and unique experiences many of which would not be possible in a real life setting. The extra freedom of online can be executed in new and exciting ways… by new and exciting people. A key factor to a this is that it is possible to provide these experiences to relevant audiences at a relatively low cost. In the real world even providing a white wall experience is a cost prohibitive and geography limiting endeavour. Both those restrictions are removed when exhibiting virtually, opening up any experience that can be imagined to anyone with an Internet connection. All of this represents a significant change in the dynamic of art delivery, both for established artists, and perhaps more importantly, burgeoning artists looking to show their work to the world. Their options for doing so are more varied than they have ever been in the entire history of humankind. This whole epoch does however often raise two questions from those who have trouble likening a real world experience to a virtual one. What is more important; the experience or the art? The concern being the medium can detract from the work. What is more important; the art or selling the art? The concern being that virtual experiences often resemble shopping environments, by design, or by accident (usually a bit of both). The answer to both questions is the art. However, the assumption that a choice between experience and art is binary is a fallacy - it isn’t either or. That dualism is a construct. It can be both, degrees of both - on a case by case. A binary judgement is an unnatural ideal. There is a balance here where the experience supports the value of the art. This is where online galleries excel in supporting the delivery of art direct from those interested in it to a like minded audience, and critically, in a medium free from all traditional barriers of privilege. No one has to ask permission anymore. To some, this is a frightening prospect. It’s time to do it yourself. - Tengushee @Tengushee Twitter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow the white rabbit... 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