The Hagos

Jonathan Hagos u16 2007-08 now has a web site.

to all those wielding an image making machine

Today,Monday 16th February 2009 is the date for Section 76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 comes into force. 

"The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next
month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest - and
imprisonment - of anyone who takes pictures of officers 'likely to be
useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'."

from the British Journal of Photography (BJP) wrote last month:

To read the full BJP article CLICK HERE

By photographers they mean anybody weilding a machine that can take images.

Even the police think it's barmy and uneforceable leading potentially to the arrest of tourists simply taking photos of the changing of the guard.When asked the police could not name a single incident that warranted this law. We should all be aware this is not really going to improve our,the general publics welfare but is in many ways the erosion of civil liberties.A visit to the Stasi Museuem in Berlin would be a timely reminder of the futility and harm these laws can bring to us.

thanks to Nils Jorgensen for bringing this to my attention

Cardboard

Photographs of Thomas Demand.

Theo Jansen

I found this rather delightful video that shows Theo Jansen's work. 

holograms

May be of interest to somebody.Strikes me that nobody really knows how to use this technology but I've been wrong before.

homophily

Learnt a new word this weekend in the Guardian Weekend :) 

It is a word that describes the human tendency to seek out and find others most similar to ourselves.The article is quite amusing and questions the notion of sticking to what you know.One of the reasons I like the radio and television live broadcast is the potential for the random encounter, other spaces that come to mind are fleamarkets and carboot sales.I find the collaborative filtering as used on Amazon can be as irritating as predictive texting.

The article also made me check out the unsuggester .

check this radio show out too.

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