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Hi, I’m Chucky, and I’m your friend till the end. Hidey-ho!
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvp4EBZTtKsから)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRMkh9L0ZwUから)
Hard to Be a God (2013, Aleksey German)
Gif Popular February 25, 2014 at 05:07AM
Space Station Research: Nutrition
Each month, we highlight a different research topic on the International Space Station. In January, our focus is Nutrition. Understanding the role of nutrition in astronaut adaptation to spaceflight has a broader application on Earth. For example, understanding the relationship of nutrition to bone loss in space is potentially valuable for patients suffering from bone loss on Earth.
The space station is being utilized to study the risks to human health that are inherent in space exploration. The human body changes in various ways in microgravity, and nutrition-related investigations help us understand and reduce those risks associated with those changes. Examples are:
Bone mineral density loss
Muscle atrophy
Cardiovascular deconditioning
Immune dysfunction
Radiation
and more
Scientists can also test the effectiveness of potential countermeasures like exercise and nutrition, which can have health benefits for those of us on Earth.
Did you know that in 2015 the space station crew harvested and ate lettuce that was grown on the space station? The Veggie facility on station is an experiment that supports a variety of plant species that can be cultivated for educational outreach, fresh food and even recreation for crew members on long-duration missions. Right now, the crew is growing Zinnia flowers. Understanding how flowering plans grow in microgravity can be applied to growing other edible flowering plants, such as tomatoes.
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Tanapol Kaewpring.
Thank you to Dinosaur Jr.!!!
Still from 5000 Feet is the Best, Omar Fast
For my module this term we’ve been asked to watch this short film, 5000 Feet is the Best, which uses anonymous footage and re-enacted scenes from an interview with the pilot of an unmanned drone active in Pakistan. Not only is the film visually tasty - eerily silent aerial shots of Sin City, wavering and blurring alongside Burnt Face Man’s dulcet voice-over (okay so it’s Denis O'Hare but I couldn’t help thinking of American Horror Story while watching), but its insight into the psychological consequences of remote controlled warfare are powerful. The fragmented imagery and inexplicable scenes of seemingly irrelevant, arbitrary storytelling echo the dislocation which is at the heart of the life and work of the drone pilot: causing damage from a booth halfway across the globe, no doubt with rush hour traffic outside, the bustle of a busy cafe not too far from the walls of the military compound, and yet the world they occupy is accompanied by superhuman sight, the ability to “see what shoes you are wearing from 5,000 feet, a mile away”.
This juxtaposition of space and body, or “Euclidian shit” as O'Hare quips in his role as the pilot, and a sight that is beyond your body in more ways than simply geographically, interests me. What happens when we are given an extension of our body not only in action and distance but in quality? The constant mention of high quality, crystal clear vision which the drone enables doesn’t remove the human capacity for error, however, with the most chilling moment being when the real Predator pilot adds “sometimes I can make mistakes”.
In my reading this week one theme in particular has stood out: the idea that we are entering (or have entered, long ago) an era of post-humanity. Is our warfare ‘post-human’ when the destruction of humans (both through the killing of civilians, dissidents and enemies and the mental destruction visible in the pilot’s “virtual stress” symptoms) is easily quantifiable? Or is the most revealing part of the pilot’s testimony when he describes how the drone missile locks on not to heat, nor the image of a person (although these are used) but ultimately to pixels? Have we reduced our enemy, whoever or wherever that may be, to information, ready to delete?
I’ll leave it up to you, but I’m really looking forward to my seminar tomorrow. That and the fact that we’ll be using Call of Duty as a case study.
#Julien Spianti #art #artist
me when the Star Wars theme started playing tonight
Canadassimo
BGL
Biennale de Venise
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Watch — Video artist Ryan Trecartin’s ‘Center Jenny’. You might not be able to watch the whole thing, but we dare you to try.
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The lungs of my house...
https://soundcloud.com/rk-wave/rkwave_1013
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cute baby
Group Show at Catherine Bastide
Jacolby Satterwhite, How Lovely Is Me Being As I Am, (2014).
FAB feat. MC Parker - Thunderbirds are Go! [Extended]
