Unearthed photos reveal what happened to those who dared to flee through the Berlin Wall.
One sequence in these never-before-seen images shows the arrest of a West German couple and the East German family – a couple and their young child – they were trying to smuggle out in the boot of their car on 3 September 1988. While this arrest was all-too-real, the photographs were in fact staged after the event: the East German guards forced all five people to reenact their attempted escape for training purposes. Working from these photos, the film dramatises the scene from the perspective of the East German mother – one of the estimated 2,000 parents deemed ‘unreliable’ by the GDR whose children were given to politically loyal families.
Queer Criticalities, Instagram, and the Ethics of Museum Display.
In the exchanges between past and present, knowledge and narratives, re-imagined aesthetic relationships and rendered environments, there seems to be missing a queer criticality of the digital repertoire.
My name is Peter, I’m a drummer in a band, and I’m old.
Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users.
A significant part of the Internet-using population is aged 50 or older — including the people who invented it. Designers need to understand what older users need and why it’s not enough to just say, "I can read it, so what’s the problem?"
Leugnen, Twittern, Panik schieben? Klimadebatten im Netz sind vielschichtiger als ihr Ruf.
„Cloud“ ist eine irreführende Metapher, es klingt nach kurzlebig, transparent, leicht und endlos – obwohl es eine gewaltige Infrastruktur mit einem enormen CO2-Fußabdruck ist.
Relevant: contropedia.net – Analysis and visualization of controversies within Wikipedia articles.
What Is A Bezoar?
Der Antisemit macht den Juden, der Demokrat benutzt ihn.
Es gibt so gut wie kein Interesse an einer Jüdischen Sicht auf die aktuellen Probleme, denen wir ausgesetzt sind. Weder braucht der Antisemitismus, noch der Kampf gegen den Antisemitismus Juden. Er findet in Deutschland immer unter Ausschluss von ihnen statt.
Brands keep sending their pointless swag to the space station.
Adidas sent soccer ball to the ISS, ostensibly to test how air resistance affects their spin. But why?
Unix is 50, let’s play the Unix Game.
Planet-centric design doesn’t only mean de-centering the human, it means exploring the future from not only multiple perspectives, but multi-species perspectives.
Like, OK boomer…
Millennialspeak: ‘Like’ is not a lazy linguistic filler. The word has, like, a grammar of its own.
English language snobs shaming the word ‘like’ fail to understand its millennial grammar.