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Allerton Library, Liverpool
Having photographed Larkill library a few weeks ago due to its imminent demise, I decided to go upto Allerton library which is a twin of Larkhill. Same architect and almost identical, just slightly different proportions. The #39;futurist #39; concrete facade was in good condition, however it lacked Larkhill #39;s little coloured ceramic tiling detail, being substituted with a rather plain black tile. Its almost half a century old and I have put on some comparison photos from when new in 1963. A fantastic piece of striking, light filled 60s functionalism. Love it............From:dpnewboldViews:3 0ratingsTime:01:50More inEducation

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How to Paint Digitally: Livestream 005
nicholaskay.com **** IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE, PLEASE #39;LIKE #39; THIS VIDEO AND SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL**** Facebook page Please "like!" http://www.facebook.com Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com Blog: nicholaskay.blogspot.com Deviant Art: nicholaskay.deviantart.com Twitter: @nicholasmkay Online Store: http://www.mysoti.com ______________________________________________________________________ Some more livestreaming! This video is part 5 of my futurist Hussar. Please feel free to check out my other videos and my blog, nicholaskay.blogspot.com for more updates on my work. Thanks for watching! -Nick Credits: Artist: Nicholas Kay Programs Used: Adobe Photoshop CS4, Camtasia Studio, Windows 7 64bit Equipment Used: Wacom 21 UX Cintiq I have the world wide commercial distribution rights to this video. I created all the still images used for the introduction and credit sequences. I created these images myself using Adobe Photoshop on my personal computer. I created the digital painting featured in this video myself using Adobe Photoshop on my personal computer. I created the recording of my digital painting process (mentioned above) myself using Camtasia Studio on my personal computer. The voice actor in the video is me. There is no music in this video. There are no filmed performances. There are no movie or TV visuals present. There are no video game visuals. The software used was Adobe Photoshop and Camtasia Studio. These were both operated on my personal computer by me.From:Nicholas KayViews:0 52ratingsTime:03:44:26More inEducation

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How to Paint Digitally: Livestream 006
nicholaskay.com **** IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE, PLEASE #39;LIKE #39; THIS VIDEO AND SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL**** Facebook page Please "like!" http://www.facebook.com Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com Blog: nicholaskay.blogspot.com Deviant Art: nicholaskay.deviantart.com Twitter: @nicholasmkay Online Store: http://www.mysoti.com ______________________________________________________________________ Some more livestreaming! This video is part 6 of my futurist Hussar. Please feel free to check out my other videos and my blog, nicholaskay.blogspot.com for more updates on my work. Thanks for watching! -Nick Credits: Artist: Nicholas Kay Programs Used: Adobe Photoshop CS4, Camtasia Studio, Windows 7 64bit Equipment Used: Wacom 21 UX Cintiq I have the world wide commercial distribution rights to this video. I created all the still images used for the introduction and credit sequences. I created these images myself using Adobe Photoshop on my personal computer. I created the digital painting featured in this video myself using Adobe Photoshop on my personal computer. I created the recording of my digital painting process (mentioned above) myself using Camtasia Studio on my personal computer. The voice actor in the video is me. There is no music in this video. There are no filmed performances. There are no movie or TV visuals present. There are no video game visuals. The software used was Adobe Photoshop and Camtasia Studio. These were both operated on my personal computer by me.From:Nicholas KayViews:0 24ratingsTime:02:21:26More inEducation

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My Movie
I #39;m really happy to make up a song about Buck Minster Fuller Please ignore the lyrics of the original song (Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae) and add my lyrics to it according to the song The Fuller song 1..2...3... Its been a really really worked up life from 1895 to 1983 And I worked as an architect, And enginner, author, designer, inventor, futurist La la la, whatever, la la la, it doesn #39;t matter, la la la, oh well, la la la But I #39;ve got I #39;ve got some problems with this Geometry now And I #39;ve got I #39;ve got ideas how to make my own tools now I don #39;t know how I got expelled from Harvard University twice But its alright alright I #39;ve got I #39;ve got I married ANNE HEWLETT in 1917 Jobless and bankrupt by 32, living in public now with low-income housing in Chicago La la la, whatever, la la la, it doesn #39;t matter, la la la, oh well, la la la But I #39;ve got, I #39;ve got Geodesic dome and dymaxion I #39;ve got, I #39;ve got a name by making some great structures I don #39;t know if I #39;ll make it to my 88th b #39;day But I died I died out of cancer and heart attackFrom:Satyashree SethiaViews:2 0ratingsTime:01:31More inEducation

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TEDxSiliconAlley : Ray Kurzweil Juan Enriquez : DEC 3, 2012
TEDxSiliconAlley 2012 at Terminal 5, on December 3: tedxsiliconalley2012.eventbrite.com ----- TEDxSiliconAlley 2012 This year #39;s theme is "Rise of The Machines". Headlining the event will be inventor and futurist, Ray Kurzweil and biotech venture capitalist and futurist, Juan Enriquez. It will be Ray #39;s first public appearance in New York City after the release of his new book, How to Create a Mind. Keynotes will be given by Bre Pettis (Founder CEO of Makerbot), Francessca Ferrando (Philosopher of Posthumanism visiting scholar at Columbia University), Jincey Lumpkin (Attorney Huffington Post sex columnist) and Ken Segall (Creative Director of Apple #39;s "Think Different" campaign). There will be talks by the founders of NYC mobile and geo-location based tech startups, a live musical performance by keyboardist Jon Carin and a screening of the Sundance award-winning short film, TOMO. TEDxSiliconAlley 2012 is an all day event, from 9 to 9:30PM on Dec. 3 at Terminal 5, on West 56th St. in New York City. ----- This TEDx event is operated under license from TED. TED is a 501(c)(3) lrm; nonprofit organization, dedicated to "ideas worth spreading." In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x ...From:Chris GraysonViews:1 0ratingsTime:03:20More inScience Technology

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Blast
Distributed worldwide exclusively by ConcordMedia.org.uk, this film covers the brief history of Vorticism: Britain #39;s only #39;home-grown #39; Modernist art movement. Counterpart in some respects of Futurism in Italy and Cubism in France, Vorticism was launched in 1914 with the publication of the first issue of its magazine Blast containing the Vorticist Manifesto signed by painter and novelist Wyndham Lewis and ten other artists and writers. Here they denounced the bourgeois conventions and hypocrisy of Victorian England, and proclaimed their faith in a new dynamic, machine-made culture appropriate to the 20th century. However in contrast to their Futurist contemporaries, who tended to idolise every aspect of technological change, the Vorticists adopted a more equivocal attitude towards machines, viewing them simultaneously as tools, adversaries, and prey. "We hunt machines, they are our favourite game. We invent them and then hunt them down." In their art, the Vorticists repudiated the irregularities of natural form in favour of hard, metallic, angular surfaces expressive of urban industrial civilisation. By the time of the second-and last-issue of Blast in 1915, war had broken out, and one of the members of the group, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska had already been killed. During the following years the savagely destructive capabilities of machines were overwhelmingly demonstrated. Responding to the war Jacob Epstein (closely associated with Vorticism though not a signatory of the ...From:ConcordMediaUKViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:19More inEducation

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Scott Jackisch (a.k.a., Oakland Futurist Guy) has a post up with the title, Jersey Shore is better than cat burning. Provocative? Yes. Timely? No. Jersey Shore is so 2010. We live in the age of Honey Boo Boo. This is clear from Google Trends. The red line represents searches for Honey Boo Boo, and the blue for Jersey Shore.

Mama June farting up a storm is still superior to cat burning. But about the Sistine Chapel, Ill leave you with Mr. Jackischs ruminations on that and genital mutilation:

Take genital mutilation. Thats cultural. I place it right along side of the Sistine Chapel as an example of culture. Most of the Mills Students agreed that we need to take the good and leave the bad behind in regard to the old cultures. But I wonder how divisible cultural artifacts truly are. Is the Sistine Chapel integrally linked to oppression and Inquisition? Can the beauty really be expunged of the horrors that funded it and the message it inheres? Some things were lost with the passing of Culture. Some horrible things along with the great.

The question of modularity and contingency in cultural production is one that we dont often consider. I suspect its because we dont want to.

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