It is 1961 and Faema is writing an important page in the history of professional espresso coffee machines with the launch of E61. This one is in mint condition!
Bonneville Speed Week /
My next destination is the "Speed Week" on the Bonneville Salt Flats, maybe as a combo with Burning Man 2018.
Bonneville Speedway is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah, that is marked out for motor sports. It is particularly noted as the venue for numerous land speed records. Racing a car at Speed Week costs $525 if you preregister, and $725 if you just show up at the event.
The Beautiful Burning Man Generation /
Last August I just published “Next generation Burners in Dust.”
What does today’s young adults do on the Playa? They exercise their desire to live in the moment.
With the rise of social media and the 24-hour society, characterized by egocentrism and smartphone addicts, they rather spend their money on an overwhelming offline-experience.
From Black Rock City to Binnekring, here are some of the ultimate festival-doers: the beautiful Burning Man Generation: click here
No, the world's oldest tree has not been cut down /
Reports that the world’s oldest tree has been accidentally chopped down by loggers in Peru has sparked panic among conservationists.
The World News Daily Report claimed that workers were logging deep in the Matsés Indigenous Reserve on the Peruvian and Brazilian border when they felled the ancient specimen. The giant Samauma tree that is thought to be over 5,800 years old judging on its concentric rings and estimated to be close to 40 meters in height was a major part of the native tribes cultural landscape,” the report said, quoting a supposed tribe leader.
While logging in the Matsés Indigenous Reserve is indeed controversial and the Amazon rain-forest is shrinking, but this was FAKE news and the world’s oldest tree is actually somewhere in eastern California and only 5,062 years old.
Kids playing on some seriously old three in the Amazons.
The birth of M10 /
Leica ambassador Richard Seymour takes viewers on a never before seen journey behind the timeless Leica M10. The Leica M10 is made using 1,100 individual pieces, including 30 brass-milled components, 126 screws, and 17 optical elements.
Burning Man & Equilibria /
2017 Burning Man will be remembered for man who ran into the flames during the festival’s final burning ceremony, and died. Attendees have tried to run into the flames as a symbol of rebirth for years and last week was a horrible expectation.
I have mixed feelings on how Burning Man is evolving. I'm not sure it's the “radical self-reliance”, “radical self-expression”, “decommodification” and “participation” event any longer.
When someone spends up to $12,000, and has someone else express herself on his behalf by hiring a costume maker, personal shopper and makeup artist. And swanky $100K camps called “plug and plays” are constructed, some by paid staff.
There is certainly no doubt that there are conspicuous camps in Black Rock City that practice the "concierge culture", and their missteps have been many. The rich people’ is creating a class system within Burning Man, which I don’t believe is beneficial to the community or Burners.
I deeply regret this year's horrible outcome, and will probably go back to Burning Man one day.
10 years of Facebook! /
Today I have been “facebooking” for 10 years, since the 6th of Aug. 2007. My conclusion is that Facebook is as evil as good. I did enjoy reconnecting with a lot of great friends, but I also experienced envious and petty-minded thinking.
This technology impact on what billions of people are thinking. It’s possibly the largest source of influence over people’s thoughts that has ever been created. Religions and governments don’t have that much influence over people’s daily thoughts!
Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook… suck us into their products and takes our time, yes going with the flow is soothing but risky. We’re being controlled and manipulated by apps, websites, advertisers, and notifications. Most of the stuff you look up is junk anyway.
I don't think me reading the “news” is helping anything. I think it's hurting me. It's putting me in a negative state of mind. I feel I live my life, experience things, enjoying taking photos, so I focus on that!
Therefore, I've UNINSTALLED all social applications except Instagram, which I use to share my photos with (forwarded to other media). I will keep all social media accounts for private messaging. Love to hear from you and hopefully taking your picture 😊
Puss & Kram
Richard
Listen to this TED talk carefully, because we're all in it, deep in it. /
Today, a handful of people working at a handful of tech companies, steer the thoughts of billions of people every day. We have seen this worked in the favor of sleazy politicians and greedy corporations already.
AI and greed will make this worse than it is already. Just look around you next time you’re on a bus or in an airport…
In this video Tristan Harris shares how these companies prey on our psychology for their own profit and calls for a design renaissance in which our tech instead encourages us to live out the timeline we want.
Right now, we're seeing the earliest of augmented reality and virtual reality — tech that overlays the digital world onto our human senses. It means information, projected into your eyes and ears, as you need it. Why carry a phone when Netflix and WhatsApp are floating in front of you?
Soon we're not even leaving our home anymore, like 20% of the youth in Japan! The phenomenon, called “hikikomori”, is defined by the Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry as people who have stayed in their home for six months or more without going to school, work or venturing out to socialise.
To some, the Hikikomori is an extension of the Otaku culture: somebody self-consumed in his interests, a compulsive collector of anime and manga memorabilia, lacking basic social skills and with a skeleton in the closet: the Akihabara Massacre. In 2008 a man killed seven people and stabbed ten more in the heart of Akihabara, a neighborhood in Tokyo entirely devoted to anime and manga, ground zero of Otaku culture.
Meanwhile the smartphone is going to die and the same tech companies are leading the race to kill it.
45 years ago on the Moon /
45 years ago, in 1972 during Apollo 16 moonwalks did astronaut Charles Duke left this photo of himself, his wife, and their two kids on the surface of the moon.
I would love to do the same!
Where does it all go? /
Humans have created 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics since large-scale production of the synthetic materials began in the early 1950s, and most of it now resides in landfills or the natural environment, according to a study.
If current trends continue, roughly 12 billion metric tons of plastic waste will be in landfills or the natural environment by 2050. Twelve billion metric tons is about 35,000 times as heavy as the Empire State Building.
An overwhelming majority of packaging plastics are acquired and discarded within the same year. In 2015, 146 million metric tons of polymer plastics went into use as packaging, but 141 million metric tons were thrown out.