Tag: culture

Damien Hirst

Placed outside of the White Cube Gallery Masons yard at 3:30 in response to the Damien Hirst’s “For The Love of God” diamond skull exhibition.

fucking with damien hirst has to be one of the most meta fucks of all time.

a life-size platinum skull set with 8601 high-quality diamonds. If, as expected, it sells for around $100m this month, it will become the single most expensive piece of contemporary art ever created. Or the most outrageous piece of bling.


2008-09-13:

More than 180 people work for him, creating Damien Hirsts. 2 specialists oversee the formaldehyde unit, which on a visit in July contained 4 dead ponies, a wild boar, an upended cow and, in good “Godfather” style, a horse’s head in a plastic bag.

China Internet Culture

Chinese users have lower standards for their glamor shot — blurry and what i called candid webcam shots are in.

heh
2009-03-03:

This view challenges the dominant paradigm we use to understand the Chinese internet, the Great Firewall. Rebecca argues that this makes it harder to understand cybertarianism. We’re tempted to assume that if we just lift the Firewall, China will be free… and that’s an extremely naive view. The GFW only pertains to servers hosted outside of China. For sites hosted within China, the Net Nanny is a much better metaphor for understanding content control.

it is not as straightforward as “the great firewall”