Selectivism

04/01/2013

Anxiety is healthy reminder that being indentured to dominant consumer culture is a fu**ed up way for a human to spend time on earth.

01/15/2013

Anti-Drone Hoodie - http://selectivism.com/2013/01/stealth-wear/

11/06/2012

"Voting for the “lesser evil”—or failing to vote at all—is part of the corporate agenda to crush what is left of our anemic democracy. And those who continue to participate in the vaudeville of a two-party process, who refuse to confront in every way possible the structures of corporate power, assure our mutual destruction." - Chris Hedges

10/31/2012

I think this is how most of us feel…

This is my four year old daughter, Abigael, after hearing one too many mentions of the election.

10/01/2012

"We have to recognize that there's a time for growth.."

Professor Al Bartlett and Former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm discuss capitalism and its monopoly on unending growth. This is from a panel discussion with Pro...

10/01/2012

Quadrillion is upon us — http://selectivism.com/2012/10/quadrillion-is-upon-us/

09/11/2012

Twin Tower Hollywood Film Cameos (1969 to 2001)

From 1969 to 2001, the Twin Towers made countless cameos in Hollywood films. Sometimes featured prominently in the foreground, sometimes lurking in the distance.…

08/01/2012

"I just go to bed for three days, four nights... s**t, p**s, drink a beer now and then, go back to bed. I come out of that completely re-enlightened for two or three months."

Charles Bukowski on how he coped with depression.

06/28/2012

YOU CAN RIDE THIS SKATEBOARD DOWN STAIRS

06/28/2012

“A $60,000 to $100000 education for like five bucks.”

HELLO WWW, THIS YA BOY HENROCK ALLAH AND IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. WE ALWAYS SEEM TO MEET IN PLACES LIKE THIS. ANYWAYS, THIS PARTICULAR ART THOUGHTZ IS MOR...

05/01/2012

Of course, most of us know what’s wrong with the world. We know about the poverty, war, violence and disease. We’re conscious of the injustice, but not fully conscious of it, because frankly, we have enough to worry about in our own lives. As such, we’ve come to accept these injustices as simple fac...

05/01/2012

NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO BANKING. NO SHOPPING.

04/23/2012

http://selectivism.com/2012/04/television-delivers-people-richard-serra-1973/

04/23/2012

has this changed since 1973?

Produced in 1973, "Television Delivers People" is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control tha...

04/22/2012

"The Occupy Movement has a genuine desire to connect to the Labor Movement. The trouble is, the Labor Movement is lying on a gurney in an alley waiting for Democrats to wheel it into ER."

The official website for the New York General Assembly and the Occupy Wall Street Movement.

04/16/2012

COOL CAT: STEVEN SPIELBERG
http://selectivism.com/2012/04/cool-cat-steven-spielberg/

03/27/2012

Nailed it

Trimmed version of Arthur C Clarke predicting the future

03/20/2012

and just when you thought the internet couldn't get any better

Mitt Romney raps to the tune of Eminem. Hope you like it and share it. By Hugh Atkin youtube.com/hmatkin twitter.com/hmatkin Can I have your attention please...

03/15/2012

We’re being lame right now. While we’re pretty good at it, frequently finding interesting content to share is harder than it may sound. Follow our tumblr, there’s always fresh stuff to look at – we just reblog 17 year olds all day… it’s too easy.

03/09/2012

03/06/2012

Should we make stickers?

03/06/2012

Photographer, Larry Towell, gives us a glimpse of the other side in his photo series, "Faces of the Taliban" http://selectivism.com/2012/03/faces-of-the-taliban/

02/29/2012

Artist, David Bowen taught this colony of house flies how to tweet.

“This device sends twitter messages based on the activities of a swarm of houseflies. The flies live inside an acrylic sphere along with a computer keyboard. As the flies move and interact inside their home they fly over the keys on the keyboard. These movements are collected in real-time via video....

02/21/2012

that's the truth... http://bit.ly/zSW41D

02/19/2012

SAGAN SUNDAY http://bit.ly/yttvAV

02/08/2012

Food of the Future?

“Though they’re consumed in most of the world, people in the West tend to be a little squeamish about eating bugs. But a new project from a group of design students in England hopes to put edible insects in a more gourmet light.” – Read the article at Fastcoexist.com

02/08/2012

1 in 7 American houses are empty.
1 in 402 Americans are homeless.
24 empty houses are available for each homeless American.

(GT)

02/06/2012

Tough.

02/04/2012

M.I.A. HAJWALAH

About a year ago we caught wind of a ridiculous trend called “Hajwalah” or “Tafheet” in which rich Saudi kids drift stock Camrys and BMWs among traffic on the desert highways. Roman Gavras must have too and he ran with the idea, creating a commentary on feminism and middle eastern youth culture for ...

02/02/2012

We have a tumblr. Follow it. http://carefulselection.tumblr.com/

02/02/2012

THE NEXT WALL TO FALL http://bit.ly/AialJA

02/01/2012

They Found a Fungus that Eats Plastic...

Yale sent a group of students to the Amazon to poke around at plants and “As it turns out, they brought back a fungus new to science with a voracious appetite for a global waste problem: polyurethane.”

01/31/2012

Pirate Fishing!

“The precious marine resources of some of the world’s poorest people are being targeted by industrial-scale pirate fishing operations, to feed the seafood hungry markets of Europe and Asia.” - Al Jazeera

01/31/2012

RADICAL

“WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has provided the voice for an animated version of himself in the 500th episode of Fox’s “The Simpsons,” a network spokeswoman confirmed Monday.”-NY Daily News