Category Archives: Etc Links in Space

unsorted ephemera bits held onto for some reason or another – might be waiting for a category or tags or just be hanging out waiting for a click or a reason to happen

The cerebral cortex of Albert Einstein: a description and preliminary analysis of unpublished photographs

The cerebral cortex of Albert Einstein: a description and preliminary analysis of unpublished photographs

David Letterman – First NBC Episode (1982) with Bill Murray #video

David Letterman – FIRST NBC EPISODE – Bill Murray (1982)

The show opens with a haunting intro by NYC-based character actor Calvert Deforest; the NBC Peacock girls introduce Dave; throughout the night, a welding demonstration is held backstage; a seemingly drunk Bill Murray dances to Olivia Newton-John’s hit “Physical”; Dave and Don “Mr. Wizard” Herbert experiment with air compression; Steve Fessler recites lines from the movie “Bowery at Midnight.”

Listen to 21-Year-Old David Letterman’s College Radio Show (1969)

Listen to 21-Year-Old David Letterman’s College Radio Show (1969) (via Open Culture)

Audrey Hepburn’s Screen Test for Roman Holiday (1953)

Audrey Hepburn’s Screen Test for Roman Holiday (1953) (via Open Culture)

In his biography of Ms. Hepburn, the author Barry Paris writes:

Her Roman Holiday test took place at Pinewood Studio in London, September 18, 1951, under [Thorold] Dickinson’s direction. “We did some scenes out of the script,” he said, but “Paramount also wanted to see what Audrey was actually like not acting a part, so I did an interview with her. We loaded a thousand feet of film into a camera and every foot of it went on this conversation. She talked about her experiences in the war, the Allied raid on Arnhem, and hiding out in a cellar. A deeply moving thing.”

Later, so the story goes, the director William Wyler watched the footage (shown above) in Rome and found it irresistible. He claimed: “She had everything I was looking for: charm, innocence and talent. She also was very funny. She was absolutely enchanting, and we said, ‘That’s the girl!'”

Elia Kazan’s Private Letters: Sleeping With Marilyn, Chastising Beatty and Discovering Newman

Elia Kazan’s Private Letters: Sleeping With Marilyn, Chastising Beatty and Discovering Newman

Gastown.org | Celebrating 95 Years of Business in Gastown: A Look Back at The Army & Navy Department Store

Gastown.org | Celebrating 95 Years of Business in Gastown: A Look Back at The Army & Navy Department Store

Lawrence Lessig On How To Reclaim The Republic From Big Money

Lawrence Lessig On How To Reclaim The Republic From Big Money | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

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By giving every citizen a chance to donate to politicians, could we even the playing field of what issues politicians work to fix?

Lessig’s solution is to expand the fundraising base through small donor financing. His proposal is to give a $50 “democracy voucher” to every citizen to spend on the politician of their choice (on the proviso, they don’t also take big money). But several other proposals would work just as well, including this one, and this one, he says.

“The most important thing is to spread the recognition among ordinary people that this is a root cause to the inability of Congress to deal sensibly with a wide range of issues on the Left and Right,” he says. “When that becomes conventional wisdom, it will create an environment for someone to step forward and take advantage.”

An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology (Amber Case)

An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology

Summary
Cyborg Anthropology is a way of understanding how we live as technosocially connected citizens in the modern era. Our cell phones, cars and laptops have turned us into cyborgs. What does it mean to extend the body into hyperspace? What are the implications to privacy, information and the formation of identity? Now that we have a second self, how do we protect it?

This text covers various subjects such as time and space compression, hyperlinked memories, panic architecture, mobile technology, interface evaporation and how technology is changing the way we live.

Who is it for?
Useful for researchers, scientists, interface designers, developers, professors, students, and anyone who engages with or wishes to better understand technology and culture.

About the Author
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and UX Designer from Portland, Oregon. Her main focus is applying anthropology to mobile computing and social software.

Case has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT’s Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference, Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder.

Case founded CyborgCamp, an unconference on the future of humans and technology. In 2010 she was named one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Tech.

You can learn more about Cyborg Anthropology at cyborganthropology.com, and on Twitter at @caseorganic.

Purchase the Book at the CyborgAnthropology.com Store