Veronica Bujeiro

An anonymous developer built a library so big it made Elsevier's legal team cry. It's called Anna's Archive. This got 99 million books and papers. Every shadow library on earth mirrored and searchable in one place. Domain takedowns bounce off it. It just moves to a new URL and keeps going. Here's the story behind it. In November 2022, US law enforcement seized Z-Library's domains and arrested its operators. The largest ebook library on the internet was gone overnight. A pseudonymous developer going only by "Anna" had already seen it coming. She had spent months as part of an anonymous group called the Pirate Library Mirror, quietly making full copies of every major shadow library before they disappeared. When Z-Library fell, she had the entire thing backed up. Days later, Anna's Archive went live. Here's what makes it unkillable. It does not host a single file. It indexes metadata and links to third-party mirrors. Legally, there is nothing to seize. Technically, there is no central server to shut down. The entire codebase is open source. The entire dataset is distributed via torrents and IPFS, a decentralized file system where data lives across thousands of nodes simultaneously. If every domain gets blocked tomorrow, anyone can spin up a new mirror in minutes from the same data. Italy blocked it. Germany blocked it. Publishers sued it. The US Trade Representative put it on their notorious markets list. It added new domains and kept going. What you get for free: → 99M+ books and academic papers → Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, Internet Archive all mirrored in one search → No account required → No subscription → Download via IPFS, torrent, or direct link → Works across multiple mirror domains when one goes down Elsevier charges universities $2 billion a year for journal access. A single anonymous developer with a pseudonym and a backup drive just made that business model look embarrassing. 100% Opensource. annas-archive.gl

Kati Horna: la mirada surrealista de lo cotidiano Un día como hoy, en 1912, nació la fotógrafa Kati Horna. Llegó a México en 1939 y fue clave en la cultura visual. Su obra transformó lo cotidiano en escenas sensibles y cercanas al sueño 📸🎨

Beautifully damaged daguerreotypes from the studio of 19th-century photographer and “father of photojournalism” Matthew Brady, born #onthisday in 1822: publicdomainreview.org/collection/dec… #otd @librarycongress

In 2011, Japanese telecom company Docomo created one of the most beautiful adverts we've ever seen. A giant xylophone in Kyushu playing Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" with a wooden ball rolling down its keys.

This is how Bergman filmed this impossible walk. In Hour of the Wolf, the sequence gives the impression of an impossible movement, which is walking on the floor to the wall to the ceiling, as the camera shifts its orientation between distinct shots. The camera set up is re-established each time the movie shifts to a reaction shot of Max von Sydog. When the action comes back, the frame has been rotated (or reoriented) so the same type of walking will be interpreted as having changed the gravity. The effect isn’t a continuous transformation in one shot, but a carefully edited sequence of multiple setups stitched together, where changes in camera angle between cuts create the illusion of a collapsing, unstable space. #filmtwt

Paris Review - Wallace Shawn, The Art of Theater No. 17 theparisreview.org/interviews/615…

Brian Eno & Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp was born on May 16, 1946 #HappyBirthday

Verónica Bujeiro (@vbujeiro) revisa el legado de Dario Fo en su centenario y pregunta: ¿qué queda del teatro político en una época donde la provocación parece absorbida por el espectáculo cotidiano? letraslibres.com/revista/dario-…

He quedado cautivada por la obra de la acuarelista catalana Nuria Riera (Vic, 1966). Me gusta especialmente cómo su pincelada se disuelve en el papel, creando escenas oníricas, como de algo recordado, que parecen más un sentimiento que un lugar concreto. 👇🏻 Abro hilo.

This is an octopus gargoyle, The Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE | FESTIVAL TRAILER | ENG youtu.be/PZH9WVyUYH0?si… a través de @YouTube

This is what happens when people use AI frequently and uncritically (don't tell me that I didn't warn you!) *Video by @JoeNunnink and @harrisalterman

Roma, Federico Fellini (1972) La pellicola è un flusso di apparizioni, ricordi, fantasmi della città. Una “Roma” vissuta più che narrata — carnale, caotica, volgare, sacra, notturna. Non è un film “su Roma”: è Roma che sogna se stessa.

Cuando un desconocido Andy Wharhol conoció a Marisol Escobar, ella ya había expuesto en el MoMA y aparecía en Life o el New York Times. Warhol, la definió como «la Garbo latina», la primera artista «con glamour». Curiosamente la historia luego la ha reducido a una de sus musas. Quizás porque abrazo la corriente del pop art, aunque está venezolana callada y enigmática, siempre fue alguien con una obra que gritaba color y modernidad.

Portraits of professionals made from the tools of their trade (ca. 1800). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/arc… @ExploreWellcome

Three of the people who made this film died of the same cancer: the director, his wife, and one of the lead actors. All three had been on the same set. Stalker was shot on a river in Estonia. Just upstream from the set, a working chemical plant was dumping poison straight into the water. That white foam you sometimes spot drifting past on screen is the actual pollution. The first death came in 1982. Anatoly Solonitsyn, who plays the Writer in the film, died of lung cancer at age 47. Tarkovsky was next. He died of the same cancer in Paris in December 1986, age 54. His wife Larisa, who was also the film's assistant director, died of it in 1998. The sound designer Vladimir Sharun, who was on the same set and survived, has been saying since 2001 that the river killed them. No medical study has ever proved that. But three of the same lung cancer from one crew is hard to wave off as bad luck. Tarkovsky shot the entire film once in 1977. Took him a whole year. When the Soviet lab developed the footage, it came back ruined. A year of work, gone. He had a heart attack. The Soviet film board wanted to shut the project down right there. So he tried something. He told the board he was making a two-part film. They gave him more money. He fired his cameraman, brought in a new one, and reshot the entire film from June to November 1978. Stalker is based on a novel by two brothers, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. They had also written the script. Tarkovsky put them through nine rewrites of it. The original location was supposed to be in Tajikistan, but a 1976 earthquake destroyed the area and forced the whole production to move to Estonia. Stalker came out in May 1979. In the film, the "Zone" is a contaminated wasteland around a fourth bunker, with a wish-granting room hidden somewhere inside. Seven years later, Reactor Four at Chernobyl exploded. The contaminated land around the real reactor became known as the Zone of Exclusion. Today, the people who illegally smuggle tourists into Chernobyl still call themselves stalkers, named after the film. Stalker is now considered one of the greatest films ever. The shot you are looking at right now is from a movie that, according to the people who made it, took the lives of the director, his wife, and the actor who plays the Writer.

Takahashi Setsuro 🎨 (1914-2007). Constellation Kirameki, 1988.