August 26th, 2009 by Sydney

Ong & Ong’s 55 Blair Road

[via NOTCOT]

August 26th, 2009 by Sydney

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]

August 6th, 2009 by Sydney

[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]

August 6th, 2009 by Sydney

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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August 5th, 2009 by Sydney

[via Posthuman Blues]

August 3rd, 2009 by Sydney

Between January and April of this year, I asked a group of people to answer a set of questions about the future. The questions were as follows:

1. What does the future look like?
2. What color is the sky?
3. What does the future smell like?
4. What does the future taste like?
5. What color is the future?
6. What’s the future’s name?
7. What’s it like to sleep in the future?
8. What’s it like to wake up in the future?
9. What’s it like to dream in the future?
10. What’s it like to die in the future?
11. What is your bedroom like in the future?
12. What is home in the future?
13. What’s it like to walk down the street in the future?
14. What does skin feel like in the future?
15. What is light like in the future?
16. What is God in the future?
17. What is unknown in the future?
18. What is young in the future?
19. How do you communicate in the future?
20. What is lost in the future?
21. What is found in the future?
22. What is bright in the future?
23. What is dark in the future?
24. What is noise in the future?
25. What is silence in the future?

I’m still interested in how people answer these questions. If you would like to share your thought about the future with me, please feel free to send your answers via the contact page.