Pic Post
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May 5th
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Image by itsjustkate
The literacy and language lab. I don’t know what’s behind the green door.
Johnny Cash mural
May 4th
Johnny Cash mural
Image by alist
New Agendas for Media Literacy meeting, Austin, TX. rtf.utexas.edu/medialiteracy/ at an old record store (now called Intellectual Property?) on Guadalupe in Austin
We
May 4th
We
Image by Bill McIntyre
The original dystopian future novel. Written by a Russian in the 1920s, the plot is in a city made almost entirely of glass so everyone can be watched, and characters have an hour a day to themselves as everything else organsied to maximise their productivity. Everyone is a number rather than a name.The plot develops when the number in charge of building the first spaceship in One State meets a female number who he becomes obsessed with and starts to think outside of the constraints of the system.
A great read – well worth picking up and an inspiration for George Orwell when he wrote 1984, and Kurt Vonnegut writing Player Piano. Orwell always thought it was also an inspiration for Huxley’s Brve New World, but Huxley claimed he hadn’t head of it until after writing his book. Apparently ORwell thought Huxely was lying about this.
Te Punga
May 4th
Eye in the Sky
May 3rd
Eye in the Sky
Image by tomswift46 ( Hi Res Images for Sale)
A novel by Philip K Dick where 8 people fall into a cyclotron and then exist in each other’s mental world: a fanatically religious one, a communist state of mind, a puritanical one and the only way out is to cause the person whose world it is to become unconscious..not always an easy task…
Many ironies and blew my mind as I read it in elementary school.
