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“Technological Disobedience”


Not to lift posts from VBS/Vice, but the video of artist and designer Ernesto Oroza is worth watching if you’re at all interested in DIY culture and technology.

From VBS -
In the 1970s, a group of scientists and mechanics inspired by Che Guevara formed the National Association of Innovators and Rationalizers (ANIR) as a way of organizing and strengthening this homebrew culture, uniting the ethos of the hacker with the needs of an isolated economy and the call of a socialist revolution. Oroza showed us his meticulous collection of these machines, which he has contextualized as art pieces in a movement he calls “Technological Disobedience.”

Final Marks: The Art of the Carved Letter

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If you’re at all interested in design or craft please watch Final Marks: The Art of the Carved Letter. The short documentary explores the work and tradition of the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island, one of the oldest lettercutting shops in America.

The Laughing Heart

Video of the year?

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