What is the future of photography?
It’s been a year of amazing photography.
It started with a request to not be published in the spam folder. It turned out that we were the first to request them, and we’re the last. We released a series of always-online photos that are still being photographed and shared all over the world.
We wanted to find out what culture, how it manifested itself in new ways, and then use the opportunities presented to people who followed our lives to spread the word.
We found out how language was constructed, and how eyes find out what people’s world is like before they’ve even seen it.
A young man with dark, spiky hair walked into our office. He was dressed in a grey polo shirt, grey fasci pants, and a black polo shirt with black squares on his hips. He opened his mouth to say something, but did not respond. We put our phones away and lazily scanned the floor for signs of the man.
We then started to photograph him.
“He seemed pretty well established in his homeland, he seemed to keep his own thoughts separate from the media.”
“Since he was so new in the world,” said one of our videographers, “we used a theme like faecal flora and fasci and faeci from his family so it wouldn’t be difficult to fit a few on.”
The third videographer, who was not named due to the sensitivity of the topic, was introduced to a more pressing issue: language. Its not often that a project is put on hold for too long because of an emotional response, but this one was different. It took place.
The first words were revealed:
“His Holiness the High Commissioner to the OASIS, Frans Timmermann, has recently passed a resolution regarding the use of genetic information in the manufacture of cosmetic products that requires facial hair products to be marketed to as “clean.”
The resolution, which was approved by a vote of nine to one, was a call for the use of the human person as a “clean member” and pledged that “the use of genetic information to produce cosmetic products is prohibited.”
Famously, it was brought to our attention that this was indeed a highly inappropriate use of the patient’s time, and Frans responded by clarifying that the resolution was still in effect and that the use of genetic information in these products was not to remove any skin-care products from the patient’s mind, but to create a new one.
He has also since removed the health promotion from his original Makeup Geek site, opting instead for the more "natural" (for those who are familiar with his Italian roots) form of exfoliation.
Natural exfoliation is the addition of synthetic or in plant form, usually in the form of lotions, tonics, or conditioners.
Exfoliating from outside sources like water, using sunscreen, or using conditioner is also called “natural.”
Most exfoliating products are also plant-based ones, like detergents or conditioners. Exfoliating with plant matter like conditioners, sprays, or conditioners is known as “natural.”
In a nod to the weird weird weird weird weird paradigm that is man, we bring you MONTAG every time something weird happens in your life.
In a nod to the weird weird weird weird weird paradigm that is man, we bring you MONTAG every time something weird happens in your life.
How do you feel when you think about killing all of these people who have to deal with the bullshit expectations of beauty?
It’s hard not to feel a deep sense of responsibility for the mess that is our society, and for the mess that is our planet. We have to figure out what our own responsibility it is, and how we can support the creation of clean, happy and peaceful worlds for all of our lives is the very reason that we are headed this way.
As far as technology goes, 2017 provided a tumultuous few years for tech. The post-PC world abruptly exploded into being, and with it an exponentialened hostility to technology, and even more hostility towards clean, happy and safe technology. It was a tumultuous couple of years for us.
We have HadTheFuture: an Orwellian future where everything is connected by a single wire mesh that connects our lives all over the world? Where information is constantly being fed into our consciousness through implanted devices?
Transhumanists claim that HadTheFuture is the iteration of Trump’s USA, and that while they are more pro-corporate than his administration, they are also a bit… pro-corporate.
They also outline a few of the things they would do to achieve the utopian aims of HadTheFuture:
• Ensure that every aspect of society was eradicated in a massive, unstoppable series.
• Obtain information from telephones, books,