If you ever saw someone’s face literally melt into their faces,...

If you ever saw someone’s face literally melt into their faces, then you will appreciate this artwork from French photographer Antoine Geiger..

I saw the artwork originally on CREATOR’S PROJECT.. 

The report,

“The project came spontaniously,” Geiger tells The Creators Project. “All of a sudden I would be on the metro or in the museum and feel on my own while it’s crowded. I could literaly see people’s faces melting on their screens, like their identity was being lost in the non-space of technology, like the spacial dimension of the present has been outstretched.” A bit of post-processing in Photoshop, and his eerie feeling was visualized. 

The photos are chillingly weird and actually quite real–you can almost envision the melting of someone’s complete emotional existence into their smart phones..

HERE IS THE ART WORK .. it’s awesome. 

Some cool Friday night creepy art

If you ever saw someone’s face literally melt into their faces, then you will appreciate this artwork from French photographer Antoine Geiger..

I saw the artwork originally on CREATOR’S PROJECT.. 

The report,

“The project came spontaniously,” Geiger tells The Creators Project. “All of a sudden I would be on the metro or in the museum and feel on my own while it’s crowded. I could literaly see people’s faces melting on their screens, like their identity was being lost in the non-space of technology, like the spacial dimension of the present has been outstretched.” A bit of post-processing in Photoshop, and his eerie feeling was visualized. 

The photos are chillingly weird and actually quite real–you can almost envision the melting of someone’s complete emotional existence into their smart phones..

HERE IS THE ART WORK .. it’s awesome. 

The Lady's half time show bare

Lady Gaga in a bra, a sneak peak of the new Super Bowl Pepsi commercial .. set to start a stir.
By the time the halftime show rolls, we will wonder if we are shaken or stirred..

There is a high degree of attention being paid or the show this year. Hollywood and showbiz has taken to the airwaves to protest every move Donald Trump makes. If things go as some hope, Gags will make a political statement. In that light, there is already online petitions asking her to be BANNED> Because we have become frightened of FREEDOM OF SPEECH in Amurica...?

Regardless, I am intrigued as well by whether the LADY will make her appearance political in nature.

I predict this: We will hear some old songs..we will hear Poker Face.. we will see Patriots fans dancing (before and after the game, I predict as well) ...and we will get a covert statement. Nothing overt.

But that's just me.. and my little zany prediction...
The game time is coming. We will see soon.

The end of employment as you know it

Robots yes. Technology yes. But another thing workers are facing is the end of employment and the dawn of the age of the contractor .. for better or for worse ..

The WALL STREET JOURNAL reports on part,

The contractor model is so prevalent that Google parent Alphabet Inc., ranked by Fortune magazine as the best place to work for seven of the past 10 years, has roughly equal numbers of outsourced workers and full-time employees, according to people familiar with the matter.

About 70,000 TVCs—an abbreviation for temps, vendors and contractors—test drive Google’s self-driving cars, review legal documents, make products easier and better to use, manage marketing and data projects, and do many other jobs. They wear red badges at work, while regular Alphabet employees wear white ones.

Is it morally right to bring actors back from the dead?

Is it morally right to bring actors back from the dead?:

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It’s a discussion that has gained more attention in light of Carrier Fisher’s death, who also appeared in CGI form in Rogue One. In Fisher’s case, she gave permission for the VFX team to recreate her younger self for a Princess Leia cameo while she was still alive. When news of her sudden and tragic death on December 27, 2016 (a fortnight after Rogue One was released) spread, it was naturally assumed by most that the same CGI skill would be used to complete her role in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars 9. In fact, some outlets reported that representatives had spared no time in negotiating with her estate for the rights to do so.

Whether it is morally right or morally wrong, it is going to happen. More and more and more..

Asteroid will zoom past Earth in FOURTH close shave of 2017

Asteroid will zoom past Earth in FOURTH close shave of 2017:

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2017 BS32  is expected to hurtle past at around 8.30pm Thursday.

The space rock – estimated to be around 82ft in size – belongs to the Aten group of asteroids.

Several of the thousands of Atens have been classed as “potentially hazardous” because of their proximity to Earth.

It was only spotted on Monday by astronomers and is the fourth Near-Earth Asteroid to pass this year, according to eagle-eyed asteroid watchers.

But fear not, these close encounters are more common than you might think and researchers at Nasa are keeping tabs on any strays at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Tonight’s close shave will be followed by another giant comet which will approach later this month.

The 2016 WF9, was detected by Nasa in late November and is something of a mystery because of its strange behavior.

At some point we will not be lucky.

The Berkeley Purge

If you never saw the movie the Purge, now might be the time to rent or buy. In that film, a horror parody of life, people are given the permission to commit crimes of any sort for one day a year and the government will not prosecute them.

The whole concept may seem somewhat silly ... however given the state of our current situation in this country, you could almost envision a future in which the Purge would be a non-parody and now a possible reality.

I watched live coverage last night streaming of the riots at Berkeley University. The students took to the campus to express themselves in a violent way because a gay Republican commentator known for sharp insults on Twitter was asked to speak as a guest of the campus Republicans.

But he never got the chance to speak, instead Molotov cocktails were thrown and fires raged as thousands of people took to the campus to express hatred for Milo.

But it wasn't just shouting and signage that caused hostility. There exists several videos of females who are hit with metal or iron rods, and one who is pepper sprayed for wearing a Donald Trump hat. Clearly those women were at the assembly not as protesters but is people who wanted to attend the Milo event..

Since the election last year commentators and talking heads have told us that the Donald Trump crowd has been violent and anti-female. But this new shocking twist of events showcases how more supposedly open minded people could equally be intolerant of speech and even violence towards women, as showcase last night and several videos...

In the latest film Purge election year film, candidates running for president have two sharply different view points on the purge .. The religious candidate likes the purge because it enables him to get rid of political opponents. The female candidate running against him was once the victim of the purge as she saw her entire family be killed when she was young. The movie clearly symbolizes many parts of American society. It is not just a horror comedy/slasher film instead it is a commentary on the world and time we live in.

Right now, it seems like the most common theme of the nightly news is a riot somewhere over political believes, an angry fight in Washington DC about political nominations, or families being torn apart by differing political views. If we would've had television or the Internet in the days leading up to the American Civil War in the 1800s, we may have seen similar events play out.

And that may be more than anything the most trying aspect that has developed since Donald Trump was elected president... look at yourself in the mirror, do you know what you are and what you want? Are you peaceful in nature, or do you deep down want the perch. And if you want to purge, are you completely understanding of all of the difficulties and hers that come with it?

Because by watching the news lately, I'm starting to believe that a lot more Americans than I ever believed would like the purge certainly would except it now. And that my friends is scarier than any horror movie ever made.

The near death life review

You have seen it in movies! A near death experience.. life flashing before your very eyes in a chronological order..

In real life--if this is real--maybe something very similar happens.

Read this article and think about it.. It details how just maybe the flash of life does take place when the last spark of life is being lived.. The brain, instead of using a chronological system however, makes it a little more interesting. The fact that time and space itself seems to be gone, that time--TIME itself!--appears to not exist anymore, is the most amazing of all..

The respondents in the study seem to imply that when their near death experience occurred, the different between 1000 years and 1 second didn't seem to matter, or even be present ..And then to top things off, respondents in the study say that during the life review, they felt the emotions that others felt ..such as a father's emotion towards a child. Fascinating.
And though fascinating, some would call it all false.




Where you stand on near death experiences mostly depends on what you stand on matters of faith and existence itself. An NDE could be proof of an afterlife ...or that the brain fires off a to of charges before eventual death occurs..

I read another study this week that fascinated me as much as the NDE survey: That life tries to continue living even after a body dies.. the study seemed to suggest that cells try to generate even when the brain no longer functions and the heart has long stopped beating...

WE are at the beginning of our understanding of everything. We are infantile in our thoughts..An NDE today could be explained tomorrow..an NDE today could be tomorrow's path to understanding God or an afterlife....or the brain and science.

We do indeed live in amazing times. ANd die in them too...
Maybe before we die those amazing times simply flash by before the play of life finds the curtain of time..

The end of an era: An icon of Cardinal Brennan passes away

To my friends who graduated or attended Cardinal Brennan high school, the end of an era has occurred.. The famed custodian Nate has met his demise.

Godspeed Nate. You are in every students fond memories of Cardinal Brennan and made each day better, brighter, and more interesting ...

Including my memories and days.
Rest In Peace.

Feet don’t fail me now.

Feet don’t fail me now.

The February non surprise?

There is still not enough consistency in the models for the potential Super Bowl Snowstorm along the East Coast.. Too many zig zags, too many low pressure models off the coast not being exactly where it should be to produce a Nor'Easter ...

Still watching and waiting to see how model runs will work out this week.

But if some consistency starts to become seen, get ready for the 6-12 inch range in locations that are going to get snow..

At this point, however, model runs including the storm being rain or even moving out to sea are still possible.

CENTRALIA MEMORIES ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON

This was my house when I was young in Centralia PA.. the one next to the church to the right. That is the mine fire in the top of the photo..

The image being presented simply for the purpose of nostalgia on a Sunday afternoon.

SUNDAY WASHINGTON DC RUMBLINGS

White House discussing asking foreign visitors for social media info and cell phone contacts »

Amid the chaos and confusion of President Donald Trump’s new executive order on immigration and refugees, sources tell CNN that White House policy director Stephen Miller spoke with officials of the State Department, Customs and Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security and others to tell them that the President is deeply committed to the executive order and the public is firmly behind it – urging them not to get distracted by what he described as hysterical voices on TV.

MORE..

White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not respond to a request for comment.Already, Politico reported in December, the US government had quietly begun asking that foreign visitors provide their social media accounts voluntarily. The Obama administration had previously approved asking for much more information from people on terror watch lists, The Intercept reported in 2014.Trump’s executive order bars citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days and suspends the admission of all refugees for 120 days.Trump’s unilateral moves, which have drawn the ire of human rights groups and prompted protests at US airports, reflect the President’s desire to quickly make good on his campaign promises. But they also encapsulate the pitfalls of an administration largely operated by officials with scant federal experience.

With National Security Council Shakeup, Steve Bannon Gets A Seat At The Table »

President Trump has reorganized the National Security Council by elevating his chief strategist Steve Bannon and demoting the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Now, Bannon will join the NSC’s principals committee, the top inter-agency group for discussing national security. The National Security Council is the staff inside the White House that coordinates decision making by the president on such matters, in coordination with outside departments including the State Department and the Pentagon.

Global Criticism of Trump Ban Builds From Germany to Google »

The world is in a flivver…
Trump puts earth in a quiver..
A ban on a plane..
The global pain..
At the future we shiver..

Global opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump intensified on Sunday, as world leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced his decision to limit entry from seven predominantly Muslim countries in the name of fighting terrorism.

Trudeau, in a tweet, said Canada would welcome those fleeing “persecution, terror and war. Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith.” Merkel expressed her concerns about the temporary ban during a call with Trump on Saturday, her chief spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.

Uber Responds to Rage over Alleged 'Strikebreaking' During Protests »

On Saturday night, Uber’s New York City Twitter account notified riders that the company was turning off surge pricing for trips at JFK Airport, the site of protests against President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking some Middle Eastern travelers and refugees.

Critics swiftly accused the ridesharing company of attempting to undermine or profit from a work stoppage by taxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL-CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride-hailing companies like Uber.

What followed was a firestorm of online anger and calls for a boycott of Uber. Well into Sunday morning, #deleteuber was a top trending topic on Twitter, with many commenters sharing screenshots of their deletions or account cancellations.

And now the newest feature of today’s online world; How to quit UBER.. delete UBER.. get rid of UBER..

SO THIS HAPPENED TODAY: Trump asked me how to legally create ‘Muslim ban’ said Giuliani »

Mark Moore writes.

Rudy Giuliani said Donald Trump asked him to work out how he could legally implement a “Muslim ban.”

“He called me up, he said, ‘Put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally,’” the former mayor, who has been advising President Trump, said on “Fox News” Saturday.

Giuliani then said he put a panel together that included former federal Judge Michael Mukasey, Rep. Peter King and Texas Rep. Michael McCaul to come up with a plan that placed the emphasis on threats not religion.

“And what we did was we focused on, instead of religion, danger,” Giuliani said.

“The areas of the word that create danger for us, which is a factual basis, not a religious basis. Perfectly legal, perfectly sensible,” he added.

The president signed an executive order on Friday that bans indefinitely refugees from Syria from entering the US and for 90 days immigrants from seven predominately Muslim countries – Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Libya.

Trump doubles down on refugee ban »

President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his executive order to severely curb refugees and legal immigration, insisting on Twitter that America needs “extreme vetting” to avoid the “horrible mess” elsewhere.

Trump’s defense of his actions came as he faced escalating pressure to rescind the order. A growing number of Republicans chided Trump for the order, humanitarian groups planned a second round of protests Sunday, and some judges issued rulings halting the deportation of refugees and others caught in the fire.

On Twitter of course…..

“Our country needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW. Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world — a horrible mess!” Trump tweeted early in the morning.

Reports: '57 dead' in first US raid on Qaeda in Yemen under President »

A US raid in Yemen killed 41 suspected Al-Qaeda militants and 16 civilians on Sunday, an official said, in what would be America’s first military action in the country under President Donald Trump.

Eight women and eight children were among those killed in the dawn raid in Yakla district, in the central province of Baida, said the provincial official, who did not want to be named, and tribal sources.

Sources in the region said the raid targeted the houses of three tribal chiefs linked to Al-Qaeda.

The provincial official said Apache helicopters also struck a school, a mosque and a medical facility which were all used by Al-Qaeda militants.

White House discussing asking foreign visitors for social media info and cell phone contacts

White House discussing asking foreign visitors for social media info and cell phone contacts:

Amid the chaos and confusion of President Donald Trump’s new executive order on immigration and refugees, sources tell CNN that White House policy director Stephen Miller spoke with officials of the State Department, Customs and Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security and others to tell them that the President is deeply committed to the executive order and the public is firmly behind it – urging them not to get distracted by what he described as hysterical voices on TV.

MORE..

White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not respond to a request for comment.Already, Politico reported in December, the US government had quietly begun asking that foreign visitors provide their social media accounts voluntarily. The Obama administration had previously approved asking for much more information from people on terror watch lists, The Intercept reported in 2014.Trump’s executive order bars citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days and suspends the admission of all refugees for 120 days.Trump’s unilateral moves, which have drawn the ire of human rights groups and prompted protests at US airports, reflect the President’s desire to quickly make good on his campaign promises. But they also encapsulate the pitfalls of an administration largely operated by officials with scant federal experience.

With National Security Council Shakeup, Steve Bannon Gets A Seat At The Table

With National Security Council Shakeup, Steve Bannon Gets A Seat At The Table:

President Trump has reorganized the National Security Council by elevating his chief strategist Steve Bannon and demoting the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Now, Bannon will join the NSC’s principals committee, the top inter-agency group for discussing national security. The National Security Council is the staff inside the White House that coordinates decision making by the president on such matters, in coordination with outside departments including the State Department and the Pentagon.

Global Criticism of Trump Ban Builds From Germany to Google

Global Criticism of Trump Ban Builds From Germany to Google:

The world is in a flivver…
Trump puts earth in a quiver..
A ban on a plane..
The global pain..
At the future we shiver..

Global opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump intensified on Sunday, as world leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced his decision to limit entry from seven predominantly Muslim countries in the name of fighting terrorism.

Trudeau, in a tweet, said Canada would welcome those fleeing “persecution, terror and war. Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith.” Merkel expressed her concerns about the temporary ban during a call with Trump on Saturday, her chief spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.

Uber Responds to Rage over Alleged 'Strikebreaking' During Protests

Uber Responds to Rage over Alleged 'Strikebreaking' During Protests:

On Saturday night, Uber’s New York City Twitter account notified riders that the company was turning off surge pricing for trips at JFK Airport, the site of protests against President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking some Middle Eastern travelers and refugees.

Critics swiftly accused the ridesharing company of attempting to undermine or profit from a work stoppage by taxi drivers that had been called by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, an AFL-CIO affiliate that represents many immigrants, and whose work has been largely focused on stopping the encroachment of ride-hailing companies like Uber.

What followed was a firestorm of online anger and calls for a boycott of Uber. Well into Sunday morning, #deleteuber was a top trending topic on Twitter, with many commenters sharing screenshots of their deletions or account cancellations.

And now the newest feature of today’s online world; How to quit UBER.. delete UBER.. get rid of UBER..

SO THIS HAPPENED TODAY: Trump asked me how to legally create ‘Muslim ban’ said Giuliani

SO THIS HAPPENED TODAY: Trump asked me how to legally create ‘Muslim ban’ said Giuliani:

Mark Moore writes.

Rudy Giuliani said Donald Trump asked him to work out how he could legally implement a “Muslim ban.”

“He called me up, he said, ‘Put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally,’” the former mayor, who has been advising President Trump, said on “Fox News” Saturday.

Giuliani then said he put a panel together that included former federal Judge Michael Mukasey, Rep. Peter King and Texas Rep. Michael McCaul to come up with a plan that placed the emphasis on threats not religion.

“And what we did was we focused on, instead of religion, danger,” Giuliani said.

“The areas of the word that create danger for us, which is a factual basis, not a religious basis. Perfectly legal, perfectly sensible,” he added.

The president signed an executive order on Friday that bans indefinitely refugees from Syria from entering the US and for 90 days immigrants from seven predominately Muslim countries – Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Libya.

Trump doubles down on refugee ban

Trump doubles down on refugee ban:

President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his executive order to severely curb refugees and legal immigration, insisting on Twitter that America needs “extreme vetting” to avoid the “horrible mess” elsewhere.

Trump’s defense of his actions came as he faced escalating pressure to rescind the order. A growing number of Republicans chided Trump for the order, humanitarian groups planned a second round of protests Sunday, and some judges issued rulings halting the deportation of refugees and others caught in the fire.

On Twitter of course…..

“Our country needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW. Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world — a horrible mess!” Trump tweeted early in the morning.

Reports: '57 dead' in first US raid on Qaeda in Yemen under President

Reports: '57 dead' in first US raid on Qaeda in Yemen under President:

A US raid in Yemen killed 41 suspected Al-Qaeda militants and 16 civilians on Sunday, an official said, in what would be America’s first military action in the country under President Donald Trump.

Eight women and eight children were among those killed in the dawn raid in Yakla district, in the central province of Baida, said the provincial official, who did not want to be named, and tribal sources.

Sources in the region said the raid targeted the houses of three tribal chiefs linked to Al-Qaeda.

The provincial official said Apache helicopters also struck a school, a mosque and a medical facility which were all used by Al-Qaeda militants.