Category: DE-GENERATOR
The Face of Things to Come
Image: aly song/ reuters
Scarce Sanctuary
Video Killed
Relative morality and realities in film.
Good Days For Bad News
Political Folly
Kijong-dong in North Korea is a shadow of a city, a façade. It sits on the border of the North and South as an apparent, living breathing example of North Korean urban contentment. However, it is empty. The homes sitting on the horizon are just a false conscious construction of habitation. There are no inhabitants, no glass in the windows, and no rooms behind the house fronts. Though the streets are empty, large speakers bounce patriotic slogans off the concrete.
Cities often slip into disintegration and abandonment because of political idealism, but rarely are they built as a ghost town. The paradox of Kijong-dong is its intangible intentions. It has been built to be spied on from across the border; it pretends to live innocently, knowing full well it serves as a folly for the South.
See:
http://dailypropaganda.com/2011/05/06/kijong-dong-north-korea/
http://www.toposmagazine.com/blog/kijong-dong-potemkin-landscape.html
Chrome Body
J.G.Ballard – in a questionable suit – takes us on a tour of the idea of the motorcar.
Gone to Seed
Britain post-Brits
There’s More Than One of Everything
Even iPhones make mistakes.
Trapcode founder Peder Norrby’s series of well-executed screen captures of glitched iPhone map images, give us a vision of a weird post-apocalyptic parallel world.
Via Animal.
The Post-Religious Hotline (!?)
If you are one of the many people who have determined that religion no longer has a place in their life, but are still dealing with the after-effects in some way or another, Recovering From Religion (RR) may be just the right spot for you.
Falling from grace now has a calling card.
Animal Magic
Tim Noble and Sue Webster/Polly Morgan