CLOVER (artist):

1.    What does the future look like? the face of a newborn babe
2.    What color is the sky? blue
3.    What does the future smell like? unwashed hair
4.    What does the future taste like? peach
5.    What color is the future? the color of tears

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suggested by mactonnies, via fashiongonerougue

The series of photographs that inspired this website: FUTURE-SPEAK

There’s a sound piece, if you’re interested, that I made that goes with the photographs. The words you hear in it are phrases I chose from the interviews I collected.  Listen to it here.

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[Photographed by Justin Langley, Photoshopped by me, make-up and lack of hair by Amanda Egle]

For more info about this photo, check out my post about it on Fantasy IRL.

[via posthuman blues via oobject]

Ong & Ong’s 55 Blair Road

[via NOTCOT]

Photographs taken in old bomb shelters.

I thought of doing a project like this not too long ago but it looks like someone beat me to it.

[via io9]

[Recently posted on FantasyIRL]

In England, surveillance cameras are being installed into a number of government-subsidized homes.   Their purpose? To watch over the children of “problem families” (whatever that means), making sure they do their homework and get to bed one time.  So parents are incapable raising their children themselves now, I guess. I mean, yeah, there are some people out there that aren’t fit to be parents but could this new system of child welfare also ultimately encourage even more parental neglect and laziness than got them put into the special housing in the first place?

Also, special security will drop by each home from time to time to check in on the kids.  With constant watch over them, the government hopes that fewer of these potentially troubled children will turn to crime or drug and alcohol abuse as ways to cope with their tumultuous family lives.

Like I said, sounds to me like the government is just putting families into a situation where they can be more lazy, knowing that someone is already always watching out for their children.  That or parents and children alike will learn, if they haven’t already, to fear the government.

I think at this point it would be too obvious mention Orwellian future, Big Brother or hey, I wasn’t aware it was still 1984.  Oh wait… I just did.

[via Gizmodo via Daily Express]

Please watch.

ALE (make-up artist):

1. What does the future look like?
Very similar to how it is now. Only grayer and bluer.

2. What color is the sky?
Depends on what planet you’re on. Earth would be blue still if you got high enough to see it. First would be a layer of white grey clouds with only little pieces of blue showing through. The blue would still be there but would be hard to see.

3. What does the future smell like?
Silver.

4. What does the future taste like?
Clean.
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