Search Results for: label/uses for used tires

555 results

How FilmLA Blocks Bike Lanes

Avatar photo
Bikes, Transportation
1 Comment
...od is a bike lane if it’s always blocked by cars and trucks? As anyone who uses what passes for the meager bike infrastructure here in Los Angeles, pretty much only early on Sunday morning will you find your path unimpeded by an assortment of Uber drivers, beer delivery trucks and FedEx employees. But the most annoying bike lane blocking is courtesy of the film and television industry. In order to close a bike lane for filming you have to get a fi...

Read…

The Question Concerning Technology: Heidegger on Tech

Avatar photo
Goats, Thoughtstylings
1 Comment
...recting us, again, to consider our enframing. The example of technology he uses in the essay, a communion chalice, is pregnant with meaning, forcing us to consider the object’s telos, it’s end purpose. Or maybe, as in the case of the communion chalice its poetic “uselessness”. Considering a technology’s telos, say Mark Zuckerberg’s social media, for instance, might lead us to conclude that it’s more about capital accumulation via harvesting our at...

Read…

When Mushrooms Attack

Avatar photo
Thoughtstylings
1 Comment
...al device that allows him to communicate with plants, as one does. Daisuke uses the device to communicate with mushrooms (I know, not a plant, but stay with me here). Handed such a device, let me just say that my first impulse would also be to communicate with the mushrooms to just ask them, like, what the hell are you all up to? Daisuke, unfortunately, gets prodded by a bunch of hoodlum teens to eat one of the mushrooms and a seriously bad trip e...

Read…

Acedia Part II: An Internet of Narcissism

Avatar photo
Thoughtstylings
...hizophrenic implications of social media use, Among the “many narcissistic uses” that Sontag attributes to the camera, “self-surveillance” ranks among the most important, not only because it provides the technical means of ceaseless self-scrutiny but because it renders the sense of selfhood dependent on the consumption of images of the self, at the same time calling into question the reality of the external world. There’s much more to The Culture...

Read…

Behold the Sector

Avatar photo
Design
3 Comments
...out the divider on the workplace. In addition to carpentry the sector was used in navigation, surveying and gunnery. With your handy sector you can also solve multiplication and trigonometry problems. The sector’s invention is attributed to either Galileo Galilei and/or Thomas Hood sometime in the 16th century. If you’re a teacher or a parent looking for a geometry lesson to do in quarantine Jim Toplin has a free paper sector plan you can downloa...

Read…