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Selectivism Formerly The Motivated Youth, Selectivism challenges convention, celebrates creativity & moves ideas. http://selectivism.com

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Mission: Selectivism.com creates a context for questioning current events, trends, politics, art, design, consumerism & what it means to be human in today's peak-everything society.

04/01/2013

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

11/06/2012
Chris Hedges: Why I’m Voting Green

"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

09/11/2012
Twin Tower Cameos

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.…

"I just go to bed for three days, four nights... sh*t, piss, drink a beer now and then, go back to bed. I come out of th...
08/01/2012
Charles Bukowski on depression

"I just go to bed for three days, four nights... sh*t, piss, 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.

YOU CAN RIDE THIS SKATEBOARD DOWN STAIRS
06/28/2012
STAIR ROVER

YOU CAN RIDE THIS SKATEBOARD DOWN STAIRS

06/28/2012
ART THOUGHTZ: Grad School

“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...

Why Are We Striking? | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
05/01/2012
Why Are We Striking? | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

Why Are We Striking? | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

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...

NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO BANKING. NO SHOPPING.
05/01/2012

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

04/23/2012
Television Delivers People

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...

"The Occupy Movement has a genuine desire to connect to the Labor Movement. The trouble is, the Labor Movement is lying ...
04/22/2012
Occupy Your Workplace | Docs | NYC General Assembly # Occupy Wall Street

"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.

03/20/2012
Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up (feat. Eminem)

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...

A Call to Contributors | Selectivism
03/15/2012
A Call to Contributors | Selectivism

A Call to Contributors | Selectivism

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.

Timeline Photos
03/09/2012

Timeline Photos

Should we make stickers?
03/06/2012

Should we make stickers?

Timeline Photos
03/06/2012

Timeline Photos

Artist, David Bowen taught this colony of house flies how to tweet.
02/29/2012
Follow These Flys on Twitter | Selectivism

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....

Food of the Future?
02/08/2012
Eat Bugs in Style | Selectivism

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

Occupy Los Angeles
02/08/2012

Occupy Los Angeles

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

(GT)

Timeline Photos
02/06/2012

Timeline Photos

02/04/2012
M.I.A. Hajwalah : Selectivism

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 ...

They Found a Fungus that Eats Plastic...
02/01/2012
They Found a Fungus that Eats Plastic : Selectivism

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.”

Pirate Fishing!
01/31/2012
This is Happening: Pirate Fishing : Selectivism

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

RADICAL
01/31/2012
Julian Assange Meets The Simpsons : Selectivism

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

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