brandon payne

Visual Art // Digital & Film

[Still On The Road @StillOnTheRoad_]

Bob speaks in @nytimes

[Marie Ruiz-Vidal @RuizVidal7]

David Hockney

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

4. The Troll A platform off the west coast of Norway

[Sophia @SophiaFioren]

Wangxian Valley in China with cliff-hugging houses that seem to float above the valley linked by winding wooden stairways

[Laocoon of Troy @LaocoonofTroy]

An advertisement illustration created by futuristic concept artist, Syd Mead, for the Alcoa Aluminum Corporation in 1969. This "high-density cliff community" was intended to show potential uses of aluminum in urban infrastructure and appeared in TIME Magazine.

[Alex Hochuli 🧉🎙️🤯📉 @Alex__1789]

Finally, technology has caught up with 1940s Argentinan literature

[Optic Baudrillard @mauvaismoments]

Living in Pittsburgh will kind of warp your reality ( in a good way). You get used to everyone having maybe a bachelor's degree, a 15 year old Ford Focus, making 50k, working in a hospital.

The second I moved outside the area I realized how rare that was.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

No cameras. No sensors.
Just Wi-Fi reading human movement.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that uses standard WiFi routers to detect human movement through walls—without any cameras.

By applying AI and DensePose model, the system turns WiFi signals into detailed maps of body posture in real time.

[Mathias @bucephalus424]

The history of the 20th century in one line - the breakup of a monopoly at the beginning and its re-formation at the end

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Great artists are entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they've got their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.”

— David Lynch

[𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗺 @chrisbriem]

Southern West Virginia was not where I expected the ramparts to be built.

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, USA, 1964 | Garry Winogrand

[George Waldenberger @GWaldenWeather]

#SpaceNeedle looking UFO-like in this fog on this New Year’s Eve morning. #Seattle #wawx

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://t.co/HsWFThQ5wF) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

These are the salt glaciers of Iran

Million of years ago, the Persian Gulf was a much larger body of water, as the water evaporated/retreated, vast quantities of salt remained

[brandon payne @cmyhsi]

@SilvermanJacob And lose it.

[Lydia Kauppi @lydiakauppi]

One of the worst parts of being alive in this era is being ruled by deeply incurious people when the universe is absolutely teeming with wonder. We can’t even think recreationally anymore

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

Saint John Church of Sohrol, Iran

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Lola Dupre.