sharonleung:

URBAN SOUND WALKS

“In 2003,” Cabinet Magazine tells us, “Berlin-based sound artist Christina Kubisch began an ongoing project called ‘Electrical Walks.’”
For this project, Kubisch has employed “specially built headphones that receive electromagnetic signals from the environment,” transforming those signals “into sound.” In the process, “Kubisch maps a given territory, noting ‘hot spots’ (ATM machines, security systems, electronic cash registers, subway systems, etc.) where the signals are particularly strong or interesting.” In other words, she performs a kind ofaudial psychogeography, zones of the city turned into MP3s, “very beautiful, very dense sounds… like a movie, an audio movie.”
The images, represent the sound files those sounds produced, digital noise-maps of urban space.

via bldgblog

(Source: tetinotete)

RAHAWA, TODAY YOU ARE GOING OUTSIDE, READING A GOOD BOOK, AND YOU ARE GOING TO BE HAPPY.

- The part of my brain responsible for self-preservation

(Source: myjetpack)

(Source: outtanowheremer)

theamericanbear:

WASHINGTON: Outraged over the conviction of a Pakistani doctor who helped CIA find Osama bin Laden, a US Senate panel has voted unanimously to cut aid to Islamabad by USD 33 million, which in effect means USD 1 million for every year of the physician’s 33-year sentence for high treason.

The unanimous vote on Thursday by the Senate Appropriations committee on the amendment, moved by Senator Lindsey Graham, is reflective of the changing mode in the US especially the growing anger among US lawmakers towards Pakistan.

The US has insisted that there is no basis to imprison Dr Shakil Afridi on treason charges, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denouncing it as “unjust and unwarranted”.

“We regret both the fact that he was convicted and the severity of his sentence,” Clinton told a joint press conference with New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully.

“We are raising it (his case) and we will continue to do so because we think that his treatment is unjust and unwarranted,” she said today.

The latest decision by the key Senate panel represents about four per cent of the USD 800 million set aside for Pakistan for the year 2013. This includes USD 250 million in foreign military aid and another USD 50

Amount in US aid cuts to Ethiopia for countless human rights violations, blatant acts of aggression, and the prolonged incarceration of outspoken members of the press? $0. 

To be clear, I am not anti-Ethiopian, though I strongly oppose Meles Zenawi’s present dictatorship; the international community, however, appears largely undisturbed, bestowing approximately $3bn in aid upon his regime annually.