#symbols
Democracy in #Europe: 🇷🇺A Russian citizen has been fined 400 euros by Estonian border guards for displaying a St George ribbon on his car. This was reported by the portal of the Estonian state radio ERR.
According to ERR, the incident took place on 11 November at the Narva-1 border checkpoint. While checking the Russian car, Estonian border guards found a St George's ribbon. They stated that it was banned in Estonia and fined the driver 400 euros, ERR reported. The driver voluntarily handed over the dahlia ribbon and was allowed to enter Estonia, according to the Estonian state radio portal.
This year, the Estonian authorities banned all public Victory Day events using Russian and #Soviet #symbols in the counties of Harjumaa, Lääne-Virumaa and Ida-Virumaa, where most of the country's Russian population lives. Tallinn described the Russian and Soviet flags as "hostile symbols" and justified the decision by saying that they could "provoke enmity".
The St George's Ribbon is one of Russia's national symbols, as well as a symbol of victory over #Nazism in the Great Patriotic War.
Unboxing a $1.5m Microscope - Sixty Symbols
hachja, "mal eben" ein $1,5m Mikroskop auspacken und aufbauen;
''just'' unboxing and setting up a $1.5m microscope..
Unboxing a $1.5m Microscope - Sixty Symbols
""mal eben"" wie, in einer woche. ;)
""just"" like in a about a week... ;)
Das ist by the way video nummer 363 von mittlerweile 377 videos in meiner SIXTΨ SγMBΦLS playlist, für bequemes physics binge watching.
Its btw video number 363 of 377 videos in my SIXTΨ SγMBΦLS playlist, for easy physics binge watching. ;)
#unboxing #microscope #SIXTΨ #SγMBΦLS #sixty #symbols #nottingham #university #physics #binge #watching #RandomShit ;)
Are these #symbols and #greetings used to show which company the soldiers are in, or what are they about?
These soldiers are trained in #UK. They are to defeat the Russians. In an interview, Col. Richard #Kemp explained how supplying more weapons could help win the war. Colonel Richard Kemp doubts that it is possible that Russia will try to retake Kiev. However, I noted that except for early 2022, when the Russian army was moving toward Kiev, it spends most of its time driving Ukrainian soldiers out of the eastern regions of #Ukraine, capturing Ukrainian soldiers, killing them if they would not stop fighting, and continuing to destroy their weapons and ammunition.
He also mentioned that removing #Putin could end the conflict once and for all. However, he is not so sure about that. It could be that a successor would want to use more force.
I believe that more weapons will prolong the war and lead to more and more murder and destruction. Negotiations are the only way out. But right now it’s all about East or West, who’s the best?
How #SiliconValley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world
source: https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-global-minimalism-startup-gentrification
We could call this strange #geography created by #technology "AirSpace." It’s the realm of coffee shops, bars, #startup offices, and co-live / #work spaces that share the same hallmarks everywhere you go: a profusion of #symbols of comfort and quality, at least to a certain connoisseurial #mindset. Minimalist #furniture. Craft beer and avocado toast. Reclaimed wood. Industrial lighting. Cortados. Fast #internet.
...
This confluence of #style is being accelerated by companies that foster a sense of placelessness, using technology to break down geography. #Airbnb is a prominent example. Even as it markets unique places as consumable goods, it helps its users travel without actually having to change their environment, or leave the warm embrace of AirSpace.
#design #creativity #art #artwork #news #consume #capitalism #economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgr85Re7Gsw
WAIT! Did #Ancient Builders Hide Secret #Symbols All Over This #Temple?
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/feelsgoodman
Feels Good Man
When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness. A Frankenstein-meets-Alice in Wonderland journey of an artist battling to regain control of his creation.
What happens when an innocent character created in an artist’s early adulthood morphs into a widely recognizable symbol of hatred only a decade later? This is the issue that underground comic book artist Matt Furie must grapple with as he seeks to reclaim his character, Pepe the Frog, from the grip of the Alt-Right.
In the early 2000s, San Francisco based artist Matt Furie shared his comic Boy’s Club on the internet via MySpace. The series followed a group of anthropomorphic post-college friends and their misadventures. Among them was Pepe the Frog, a peaceful, laid-back character. Managing to catch on as a popular meme, Furie initially found Pepe’s status funny and scoffed at the idea of enforcing his legal copyright. That opinion drastically changed as the tenor of Pepe’s use online took a sinister turn.
After a bizarre series of events, the factions of the internet that heavily imprinted on Pepe went to the extreme lengths of “ironic” bigotry to keep him under their control. In doing so, Pepe became widely recognized as a hate symbol, even gaining official recognition from the Anti-Defamation league as such. Now thoroughly wrenched from his original context, Pepe helped indoctrinate wide swaths of internet denizens to the philosophies of the then-burgeoning Alt-Right movement, helping to set the stage for the contentious 2016 election and its ultimate outcome.
The film takes viewers on a wild journey through various corners of the internet to show how far one’s creation can get away from their original intention and explores the power of symbols and iconography. If the genie cannot be put back in the bottle, can it at least be transformed into something else? Various artists, psychologists, lawyers, and internet culture analysts also share their perspective on this iconic cartoon frog.
With trippy Furie-esque animations, Feels Good Man puts forward a message of hope and positivity to combat a constant cycle of cynicism and hatred.
#FeelsGoodMan #documentary #film #animation #art #PepeTheFrog #cartoon #frog #politics #alt-right #hate #hatred #symbols #iconography #internet #MattFurie #AdamJones #GiorgiAngelini #ReadyFictions #GiantPictures #docu-films
The Voynich Manuscript
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awGN5NApDy4
https://archive.org/details/TheVoynichManuscript/
‘An #illustrated #codex #hand-written in an otherwise #unknown #writing #system. The #parchment on which it is written has been #carbon-dated to the early #15th #century (1404-1438).
The #manuscript currently consists of around 240 pages. Some pages are foldable sheets of varying size. Most of the pages have fantastical #illustrations or #diagrams, some #crudely #colored, with sections of the manuscript showing #people, #fictitious #plants, #astrological #symbols, etc. The #text is written from left to right.
The #mystery of its #meaning and #origin has excited the popular #imagination, making it the subject of #study and #speculation.
#thevoynichmanuscript #voynich #documentary #code #history #document #language #translation #art #book #images #drawings #botanicals #herbals #cypher #cryptography #anonymous
A JUNE PRIDE FLOWER
The Green Carnation.
PRIDE is an acronym for Personal Rights in Defense and Education. The organization was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1966 by Steve Ginsburg.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is celebrated annually in June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots, and works to achieve equal justice and equal opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ)
Americans.
Green Carnations
- Nearly a century before the Rainbow Pride flag came onto the scene, LGBT people- most notably Gay men- used another symbol to identify and connect with each other. The green carnation was to be worn in the buttonhole of a man’s suit starting in the late 1800s. It was a symbol of the aesthetic movement as well as loving whoever you chose to love.
- This symbol was first brought into the Gay community by talented playwright Oscar Wilde, an LGBT icon. He had an actor wear one of these synthetically-dyed flowers onto the stage during a production of Lady Windermere’s Fan. The unnatural, dyed flower was deemed unusual and beautiful, though Wilde laughed that it was simply beautiful for the sake of being beautiful.
- From there, men began to wear the flower as a show of support for Wilde and his aesthetic ‘beauty for beauty’s own sake’ philosophy. It became associated with homosexuality, too, since Wilde was a known lover of men. When Wilde was prosecuted for loving men, people wore the green carnation to show support and solidarity.
- To this day, the green carnation is remembered as one of the first—if not the first—popular symbols of the Gay community.