Ho Chi Minh City Young Artists Exhibition
City of Melbourne: The Gallery, City Library, Level 1, 253 Flinders Lane Exhibition dates 6-28 Jun gallery hours 8-7.30pm Mon-Thur, 8am-5.30pm Fri 10-12.30pm Sat. Closed Sunday
Jules Verne on the Thames?
By Brendan O’Neill
From a distance, it looks as if one of Jules Verne’s imagined flying contraptions has crashed in to the South Bank of the Thames. Next to Tower Bridge, the massive brown-and-gold item pokes up from the walkway, like the front end of a B-movie UFO – or perhaps some part of a ship’s hull from 200 years ago – winning weird looks from passers-by. Is it a plane? Is it a time machine?
No, it’s the Telectroscope, the wacky, wonderful invention of British artist Paul St. George. The story: Mr. St. George happened upon a stack of dusty papers in his grandmother’s attic, which revealed that his great-grandfather – an eccentric Victorian engineer – had planned to bore a 3,471-mile tunnel from London to New York, allowing us Brits to gawk at you Yanks through the world’s longest telescope. Now, St. George has made his great-gramp’s dream a reality.
The truth is … Oh, who cares about the truth? The point about the Telectroscope – a Victorian-style freakish fairground attraction – is that you believe, or you don’t. And as soon as I look through it, I believe. There, on the other side of the “tunnel,” as clear as day and as large as life, I see real-life, real-time New Yorkers.
I write a message on one of the white boards and hold it up: “Where’s Matt?”
They look around and seem to call his name. One of them holds up a sign: “No Matt here.”
Matt’s late.
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Google to move in with Nasa
Google has signed a deal to build a series of research and development offices at a Nasa lab in Silicon Valley..
The search giant will lease 1.2 million square feet of office space at Nasa’s Ames Research Center in Google’s home town of Mountain View, California.
The 40-year lease will include a US$3.2 million annual payment from Google which will be adjusted according to market rates.
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Green Yedda
We hear about global warming and environment issues almost every day. But do you ever pause to reflect on how these issues affect you? Or what you can do to make things better? Here are some asking-worthy questions about these issues on Yedda:
Is pollution affecting the fragrance of flowers? http://yedda.com/questions/environment_8627163141017/?src=nl:13:qb
When do solar panels give you a return on your investment? http://yedda.com/questions/Cost_alternative_energy_environment_1497126197156//?src=nl:13:qb
Are tornadoes connected to global warming? http://yedda.com/questions/tornadoes_weather_global_warming_1499134132356/?src=nl:13:qb
There is still much to be done to make the world a greener place. What do you think? What is the most important thing we should do to help save the environment? http://yedda.com/questions/important_thing_tne_environment_6274416031663/?src=nl:13:qb
Green Anarchism
Find out what green anarchism is all about, read: THE ECOANARCHIST MANIFESTO
Click on: http://www.anarchy.no/eam.html
The eco-anarchist movement must not be mixed up with neo-luddist, primitivist, anti-civilization and similar groups and policies, i.e. authoritarian and eccentric ideas and practice and far from anarchist, although sometimes posing as ‘libertarian green’ to provoke. The eco-anarchist movement has a rational, libertarian socialist basis for its policy, and rejects principally marxian and other dialectical type ideology, “new-age” and/or “Skippy&Disney” utopian based “animal liberation”, vegetarian fanatism, irrational environmentalism, and similar authoritarian tendencies. The eco-anarchist movement is clearly opposed to and in general denounces the sometimes fanatical and irrational tendencies and guru-hierarchies we have seen within the ecology and green movement in general, as well as terrorism and ochlarchy tendencies, sometimes wrongly called “anarchist” in the media.