inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, in which he tried to perceive and to collect the remnants of the golden age of 19th century production, of that empire. I am trying to read things already deconstructed. Here is where I will place what I will find—in the modern catch-all of the contemporary 21st century empire, or of what is left of it.Tumblr (3.0; @arcadesprojectproject)http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_memspipL1O1r04krdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>4 Dec 2012</p>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/37359480057http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/37359480057Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:48:54 -0800NYCNYPSubway Tracks<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mejatrwYPP1ro74x3o7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mejatrwYPP1ro74x3o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mejatrwYPP1ro74x3o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mejatrwYPP1ro74x3o4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mejatrwYPP1ro74x3o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mejatrwYPP1ro74x3o6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://showslow.tumblr.com/post/37339924244/chinese-families-photographed-with-everything-they">showslow</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://hypenotice.com/artwork/chinese-families-photographed-with-everything-they-own/26/">Chinese Families Photographed With Everything They Own</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Chinese photographer <a href="http://www.798photogallery.cn/EN/photographer/photographer_46.html" title="Huang Qingjun">Huang Qingjun</a><span> has spent nearly 10 years travelling to remote areas in China to convince people to have their picture taken along with all of their possessions. At first glance it’s striking how little they own but as you look closer at each image you’ll discover items that might be unexpected.</span></p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/37350818005http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/37350818005Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:49:22 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6t23h2RDs1qzwuhxo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6t23h2RDs1qzwuhxo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6t23h2RDs1qzwuhxo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6t23h2RDs1qzwuhxo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6t23h2RDs1qzwuhxo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6t23h2RDs1qzwuhxo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6t23h2RDs1qzwuhxo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/26882592460http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/26882592460Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:02:40 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2v2x6AIAY1qz63n0o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://iwontallowit.tumblr.com/post/22645903456/ok">iwontallowit</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>ok</p> </blockquote>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/22646036685http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/22646036685Tue, 08 May 2012 03:16:39 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3kee0rjQO1qa0uujo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://ilovecharts.tumblr.com/post/22464427033/heres-a-really-interesting-photo-an-intern-from">ilovecharts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Here’s a really interesting photo, an intern from Facebook wanted to examine the locality of friendships, pulling some data from Facebook he created this image. What’s incredible is that lines don’t represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line is a friendship between two people, and with enough information these friendships give us a surprisingly accurate map of the world, minus Russia, apparently Facebook isn’t too big over there. </p> <p>You can read more about it <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizing-friendships/469716398919">here</a>.</p> </blockquote> <p>fucking scary!! facebook is taking over the world</p>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/22475884112http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/22475884112Sat, 05 May 2012 15:41:35 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1txeheo0D1qfdbuoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/21487854075http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/21487854075Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:26:31 -0700<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://dadoodoflow.tumblr.com/post/21370510740/that-thing-the-vividness-which-is-poetry-by">dadoodoflow</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p> ”That thing, the vividness which is poetry by itself, makes the poem. There is no need to explain or compare. Make it and it <em>is </em>a poem. This is modern, not the saga. There are no sagas-only trees now, animals, engines: There’s that.” WCW</p> </blockquote>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/21370557286http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/21370557286Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:58:44 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22hew4SGT1qj0pm2o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/20888180644http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/20888180644Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:12:57 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2acctoPbQ1rrmoiho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/20887501669http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/20887501669Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:59:29 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnikgqDamu1qzpxq3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.tweenbots.com/">Tweenbots</a> by Kacie Kinzer:</p> <p>Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.</p> <p>The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”</p> <p>The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.</p> </blockquote>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/20737099555http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/20737099555Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:46:20 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m18udg3VqY1qcl7wao1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://motherjones.tumblr.com/post/19683774256/theatlantic-laphamsquarterly-i-am-very">motherjones</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/post/19683418264/laphamsquarterly-i-am-very-cold-the">theatlantic</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://laphamsquarterly.tumblr.com/post/19683224557/i-am-very-cold-the-parchment-is-very-hairy">laphamsquarterly</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p><strong>“I am very cold”</strong></p> <p><strong>“The parchment is very hairy.”</strong></p> <p><strong>“Oh, my hand.”</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://laphamsquarterly.org/visual/charts-graphs/?page=140">—Notes from medieval monks and scribes in the margins of their work</a></p> <p>Our latest issue <strong><a href="http://laphamsquarterly.org/magazine/index.php">“Means of Communication”</a></strong> is now online. Take a break from the scriptorium to check it out! </p> </blockquote> <p>This is awesome. </p> </blockquote> <p>Yup.</p> </blockquote>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/19717398791http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/19717398791Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:37:24 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz2f1atoaO1qbeumgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>Alejandro Cartagena<br/>All images are taken in the city of Monterrey Mexico where I live. They are done during 7 and 9:30 AM on one of the busiest highways in Monterrey. Some are done in low light as to not be seen by the car poolers. I started doing these images while doing a commission on uses of the street in Monterrey.<br/><a href="http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1300294/0/fotografos-finalistas/sony-world-awards/2012/">via</a></p> </blockquote>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/17675056218http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/17675056218Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:14:01 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lybz88v2Yx1qzwd5oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/17537512444http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/17537512444Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:56:41 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwsqmjJVxV1qabpu5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/16799991928http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/16799991928Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:18:54 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyj2tpC79J1qzw2poo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://badatpettingcats.tumblr.com/post/16655918524/har">badatpettingcats</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>har</p> </blockquote>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/16755609570http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/16755609570Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:55:20 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfw67Mdu71qbpygxo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/16747912282http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/16747912282Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:27:37 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly9zzcPebi1qe3ic9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>motivational signage is like… totally everywhere suddenly.. this guy in class today had a desktop background that kept changing: “capitalize on the fucking experience”, and like. “do fucking something else” lol attitude… anyway… a crazy  old lady on telegraph gave me a book of motivational quotes and i gave her like a handful of change i had on me… and then gave her my chili cheese fries because i like…. wasn’t even that hungry? but anyways</p>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/16557611125http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/16557611125Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:43:00 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx8zsed7ul1qi4ma3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/16335257059http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/16335257059Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:50:30 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw73uokXT91qaak3fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/14556323606http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/14556323606Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:50:45 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwhzlc3AyI1qzs83po1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/14556125124http://arcadesprojectproject.tumblr.com/post/14556125124Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:40:24 -0800