The past and the future

At this point in time, 31st of December, 2012 we're inside the age of a new form of dictatorship, 'the scientific dictatorship' which Aldous Huxley and others talked about in the 60's.

Biometric fingerprint scanners are set to be rolled out at my university - every single student will be required to submit to a thumb scan which will be held on record, on a database which is open for all in authority to access and this will be the method of accessing the building. The surveillance grid is tip-toeing up behind us.

One cannot sit neutral, on a moving train. And our train right now is heading full speed with no tracks ahead of us. The crash is inevitable.

The great financial collapse of the 21st century has been widely predicted to take place in 2013, by economists such as Max Keiser. - http://maxkeiser.com/ 

Keiser is one of the co-creators of the Hollywood Stock Exchange and hosts a financial show aired on RT, Russia's state media and image to the world.
Basically what is predicted to take place is, paper money is going to become worthless. The little pieces of paper with all the fancy shiny things on it that you need to exist in this thing we know as life. One cannot exist without it, as to acquire healthy and nutritious food you must have money. If not, you are forced to take what you need, which gets you locked in a concrete box. It is an astonishing reality we have come to accept.

bitch ain't got all this for nuttin.

https://startpage.com/ - this is a search engine which does what it says on the tin. I suggest you use it. fuck googling it, startpage it.


The future will become financially hard for a lot of people who are comfortable right now, food prices will continue to rise, unemployment, crime.. and the austerity will be served super-size with extra large fries with the 5 packets of salt on top. It's going to be brutal. But life is.

That is really real.

We don't know anything really, we just think we do. The past is left to cease to exist, or one accepts that it is still the same moment which we inhabit simultaneously. I wish I could say that 2013 will be a good year with nice things in store, but if I did, I feel I'd be lie1.

Do you understand the darkness that is upon us?

This is magnificent, is it not? My mind screams to add life and color to this room. I'm going to create my own room into something similar, I want to create a physical space that others could inhabit. When I paint I have developed a sense of being inside my work, it's something that I hope I can share with others when they're confronted with my work. But how the fuck does one go about doing so? And why the fuck does one want to?

 Suckinnnnnnn Davey R's phallus right here Debuffet, but you needed the dolla, right? such a nice coincidence that one of the artists that I find I have a great fondness of, produced these things above ^^ for none other than one of the nicest people alive.

 

I love Jean Debuffets work, it's just a shame that he didn't stab the cunt in the neck with a paintbrush when he came to visit his studio, rather than produce art for him. The evil energy that must seep from such a bag of puss can't be healthy for one to be around, I'd imagine it to be very much like standing inside a nuclear reactor.

I feel that for something new to be created, it must come out of something that is completely destroyed. And if we're to take the modern artworld as an example, what has happened to it? what is it? where is it? is there one? why does there need to be one? what if there isn't one?

Armies of biological androids await us, and make no mistake - they are ready to string us up and push salt into our wounds, if we're ever to be taken captive. If you don't understand the playing field, get the fuck out the game. Irrelevance amounts to little more than helping our enemies.

we're watching you, scum

Read:

I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology ... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part ... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.
The subject will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship ... The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray.
Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.

Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy ... It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished ... Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible ...
The Nazis were more scientific than the present rulers of Russia ... If they had survived, they would probably have soon taken to scientific breeding. Any nation which adopts this practice will, within a generation, secure great military advantages. The system, one may surmise, will be something like this: except possibly in the governing aristocracy, all but 5 per cent of males and 30 per cent of females will be sterilized. The 30 per cent of females will be expected to spend the years from eighteen to forty in reproduction, in order to secure adequate cannon fodder. As a rule, artificial insemination will be preferred to the natural method ...
Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.

 After all, most civilised and semi-civilised countries known to history and had a large class of slaves or serfs completely subordinate to their owners. There is nothing in human nature that makes the persistence of such a system impossible. And the whole development of scientific technique has made it easier than it used to be to maintain a despotic rule of a minority. When the government controls the distribution of food, its power is absolute so long as they can count on the police and the armed forces. And their loyalty can be secured by giving them some of the privileges of the governing class. I do not see how any internal movement of revolt can ever bring freedom to the oppressed in a modern scientific dictatorship.

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer. War, as I remarked a moment ago, has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. There would be nothing in this to offend the consciences of the devout or to restrain the ambitions of nationalists. The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s. However, I am wandering from the question of stability, to which I must return.
There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority. All these methods have been practiced: the first, for example, by the Australian aborigines; the second by the Aztecs, the Spartans, and the rulers of Plato’s Republic; the third in the world as some Western internationalists hope to make it and in Soviet Russia ... Of these three, only birth control avoids extreme cruelty and unhappiness for the majority of human beings. Meanwhile, so long as there is not a single world government there will be competition for power among the different nations. And as increase of population brings the threat of famine, national power will become more and more obviously the only way of avoiding starvation. There will therefore be blocs in which the hungry nations band together against those that are well fed. That is the explanation of the victory of communism in China.

 The need for a world government, if the population problem is to be solved in any humane manner, is completely evident on Darwinian principles.
 A society is not stable unless it is on the whole satisfactory to the holders of power and the holders of power are not exposed to the risk of successful revolution.

First, as regards physical conditions. Soil and raw materials must not be used up so fast that scientific progress cannot continually make good the loss by means of new inventions and discoveries ... If raw materials are not to be used up too fast, there must not be free competition for their acquisition and use but an international authority to ration them in – such quantities as may from time to time seem compatible with continued industrial prosperity. And similar considerations apply to soil conservation.
Second, as regards population ... To deal with this problem it will be necessary to find ways of preventing an increase in world population. If this is to be done otherwise than by wars, pestilences, and famines, it will demand a powerful international authority. This authority should deal out the world’s food to the various nations in proportion to their population at the time of the establishment of the authority. If any nation subsequently increased its population it should not on that account receive any more food. The motive for not increasing population would therefore be very compelling.

- Bertrand Russell

Fackin Landaan mate

I recently spent some staying at a friends house in London. The belly of the beast, indeed.

I didn't take as many photos as I'd have liked to, as I was far too busy absorbing the things around me, but here they are nevertheless.

 This caught my eye as it was a nice change from immaculate white walls, shame I can't remember where this was? 'the day of the whiteman is drawing to its end'

 This is Eric Bainbridge's steel sculptures, the one at front right was enjoyable to look at. I was aware of a harmonious energy within the sculpture, all pieces which make the entirety are exactly where they should be.
 

 As much as I'd like this in my house, I did wonder whether or not it would be suitable for this to be in Ikea? A gallery?

Simon Martin
UR Feeling

 This is the view which you are intended to have, if the things acting as gallery attendants had their way. - with the exception of the beautiful girl who was acting as one in the Serpentine. - the vast majority of them are demons though.

 GIACOMETTI, I've been looking at his work since high school. It genuinely excited me being in front of it.

 Bac1! I have to write an essay about his work, what better research is there than being in the presence of it.

 the orange mann

 the surface of this Alexis Harding was spectacular. The colors are sick.
here's a tiny selection of other stuff I seen whilst there;

 Julian's getaway car parked behind me.

 FREE BRADLEY MANNING!

I was intending to pay Julian a visit. But hey, who'd have thought you'd need to book an appointment to see political prisoners who are showing the worlds worst monsters for exactly what they are. The officers waiting for him are no different from the nazi's back in the day. 'only doin me job'


more soooon

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 what is this?

SHORRRRRRRYUUKEN

hahahahahaaa!

15/10/12

 I'm back in the studio now. This is what I'm working on at the moment.. (click to ENLARGE)

 I start usually by putting my house somewhere in the canvas. I have not yet figured out what process or mechanism I use to allocate a space on my canvas for my house. When I come to a creative drought, I use my house to ease me through the hardship. If I paint my house somewhere and I find it actually is in the wrong place, I tend to just paint more houses. But when there's more than one house, I can't live there anymore. It changes the painting to me.

This last image is not the up to date look of the piece, I shall upload more in the coming days. I know people look at my blog, as the stats prove so. I would appreciate comments, regardless of the nature.

straight outta compton

We are the future

If we're allowed to have one, we are the future. If thermonuclear war doesn't tear our world apart, the youth of today will change the world forever. I truly believe this.

All the people I talk to who are of similar age all understand that the fundamental way we're living now is just fucked up, to put it simply. The economy works against us, all children who're born in today's world are born into monetary slavery - and I think people are starting to realize this. Everywhere I go, almost all young people I talk to are completely down for changing the world. And that's all it takes.

People just need to believe in something enough, this simple act alone reinforces it into existence. Take money for example. Pieces of paper with no real value, literally rule our lives. And there are people who have bestowed upon themselves the ability to print out of thin air the tools necessary to control the world essentially. 

The possibility of changing our world is completely viable. But people such as above: are standing in our way. 

We need to remove these obstacles, and create a world which actually values human life. Possibly get rid of these things?..

Elderly woman 'ruins' 19th century fresco

"The last photo taken of the artwork before any damage was done, in 2010, showed Martinez’s intricate brush strokes around the face of Jesus.  A photo taken in July by center officials for a catalog of regional religious art showed the painting splattered by white marks, possibly the work of the woman trying to remove paint.  The final photo, taken this month after Martinez’s relative donated the work, showed broad and thick layers of paint now covering important details in the work, such as the crown of thorns on Jesus’ head."
              ABC news.

 


I personally like the changes this woman has made. I feel it shows how religion is. When this woman was painting it, I imagine she'd have been feeling a connection to the man she was painting. The man she's most likely all her life thanked and been eternally grateful for 'him sacrificing himself four our sins'. As much as I think it's a load of bollocks, I admire this elderly woman for lovingly trying to fix something she held dear. She has balls. If this was 600 years ago, this woman probably would have been killed for doing what she has. I love when true passion simply isn't good enough for elitist religious art critics. The people bitching about it simply cannot accept having their beloved deity portrayed in any other way than the approved manner, enforced for centuries. Jesus would not have been white. Certainly not as white as he is depicted in the majority of paintings I've seen.


"It’s one thing to stage a do-it-yourself renovation on a table, mirror or painting found deep in the weeds of a yard sale.
It’s quite another to attempt a repair job on a one-of-a-kind 19^th century fresco by the Spanish painter Elias Garcia Martinez with a few broad brushstrokes."

But would you have the balls and confidence to attempt such a thing? I don't think many would.

remember when we were all so beautiful?



What I'd give to be back playing THPS3 eating ham sandwiches, not caring about a flying fuck other than getting over a million combo points. 'Growing up' is just being forced to comply with more and more rules. As i 'grow up' more and more, this is just more evident. 'Growing up' is probably the hardest shit ever.




I've been drawing quite a bit. I think my girlfriend has stolen my camera cable though so I need to get it back! once I do I will get my blogging game back on track. When I start uni again I'll be smashing this. I'm going to dabble in 'performance art', not too sure how well it's gonna go down though. But who gives a shit?

like really.. who gives a shit?

aholla