ShareI attended the Duarte Square action on Saturday…another amazing gathering of the movement. Wanting very badly to avoid arrest, I stood to the side as I watched religious leaders climb the fence and try to Occupy a space for the movement from one of the richest religious institutions in the world. The energy is electric [...]
Dec 19, 2011 | Categories:anxiety, blast visuals, Curent Events, Film Clips, Globalization, Idiots, News, OccupyTogether, OccupyWallStreet | 8 Comments »
Share I pulled some fragments from the fire….
Sep 11, 2010 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, anxiety, blast visuals, Contemporary Culture, Curent Events, Headline, Idiots, Performance Art, Philosophy, politics, Religion, shameless self promo, Spirituality | 9 Comments »
Shareoh, what is the nature of destruction?…what is the nature of secrecy?…what is the nature of political right to knowledge?…this is why these things are interesting…i watch, not because i believe i will crack the code, but because i am interested…because i was there that day…because it was biblical…and because the memory will be a [...]
Sep 03, 2010 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, anxiety, blast visuals, Conspiracy Theory | 3 Comments »
ShareI tried to do a short rap related to this picture, but i got nowhere….and after seeing Universaltron’s post, i realized we were resonating in a similar place…this image is amazing to me…taken by the Nasa Messenger Mission, a satellite that is orbiting Mercury…so this is a picture of how our Earth and Moon would [...]
Aug 27, 2010 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, blast visuals, brilliance, Curent Events, God paints, information visualization, photography, pinch me, Science, Space | 3 Comments »
Share tectonic debates, crunching blue blankets of crusted unearthed motivations the core of molten values, the existential magnetic center seeps out new ground surrounds us, territory for unvegetated investigation the great consumption, driven by madmen to suspend the entropic constant the great presumptions left like dying soldiers to cry out into the night sky…Why me? [...]
May 15, 2010 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, blast visuals, Curent Events, Film Clips, Globalwarming, Poetimage | 1 Comment »
ShareA lot of our readers have asked to see the face of Akbar Lightning….well, if you want to know what he looks like, check out these photos of him in action. Remember not to make the genetic fallacy, associating his presence with the cause of a disaster. What you are seeing in these photos is [...]
May 06, 2010 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, blast visuals, brilliance, Curent Events, God paints, Science | 2 Comments »
Shareyo globatron citizens, i am reporting from last weekend’s New York City art weekend. i am tired, so i’m going to keep it short and sweet, and keep my commentary to the photos…I was more impressed with this year’s armory show than I have ever been. This is the first year I have been and [...]
Mar 08, 2010 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, Art Coverage, blast visuals, Contemporary Culture, Curent Events, Events, Painting | 3 Comments »
Sharein my recent meditation on objects of culture, and their evolution, i present a few images of computers, the Csirac computer, austrialian first generation computer, room sized…i’ve included a graph so you can compare storage power, the numbers are too large for me to adequately translate into language. the point of these posts is to [...]
Mar 03, 2010 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, blast visuals, Futurism, information visualization, Philosophy, Science, TheMachine | Leave A Comment »
Sharei was driving down the west-side highway today, on my way to drop off some artwork at one of the many superfluous art shows of the upcoming art weekend in New York City, all besides the point, when i saw the Intrepid aircraft carrier to my right and a stealth plane sitting on the edge, [...]
Mar 03, 2010 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, blast visuals, Futurism, Philosophy, Science, TheMachine | Leave A Comment »
ShareThe Topic – Acrylic on Canvas – 22″ x 28″ If you would like to know more about this painting read the essay: The Topic : Meditation on the Identification of Legitimacy
Feb 26, 2010 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, blast visuals, Conspiracy Theory, Contemporary Culture, Economics, Featured, information visualization, Philosophy, Science, TheMachine, TheTopic, Transhumanism, UFO | 3 Comments »
ShareHey Peeps, well, it’s happening folks, that’s right! The singularity is now on the calendar mofos…This scientist Henry Markram recently announced he will create a fully conscious electronic brain by 2018…And I know, you are used to these numbers sounding futuristic, but that’s 8 years from now…HAL – lelujah…let me break it down a bit, [...]
Jan 08, 2010 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, blast visuals, Contemporary Culture, Curent Events, Futurism, information visualization, Philosophy, Science, TED Talks, TheMachine, TheTopic, To Save Your Kind, Transhumanism | 1 Comment »
Share contemporary culture, economics, expectations, fear, fiction, film review, philosophy, blast visuals, brilliance, psychology »
Jan 01, 2010 | Categories:blast visuals, brilliance, Contemporary Culture, Economics, Fear, Fiction, Film Review, Philosophy, psychology | Leave A Comment »
ShareThis is the End Army psychologists shooting up the soldiers. Bodies found in pedophiles house. Office shoot em up, days apart. Society is coming undone. When a government practices systematized indifference to people’s suffering, inevitably already unstable people will utilize the abundant weaponry to inflict pain on others. This is the End (Read the Lyrics) [...]
Nov 06, 2009 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, blast visuals, Contemporary Culture, Curent Events, Film Clips, politics, WAR | Leave A Comment »
ShareI love first-person shooters! That’s right! If you read this blog regularly you probably know that I am a radical pacifist, believing that war is never an option for solving a problem. In fact, I don’t believe that countries ought to have standing armies, or that soldiering should be a career option. These are all [...]
Oct 20, 2009 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, blast visuals, Contemporary Culture, Futurism, TheMachine, Transhumanism, WAR | 4 Comments »
ShareDearest Globatron Citizens, I am happy to present to you the latest work of Ken Vallario, The Heart of Markets. Ken Vallario also wrote the following essay as a companion work to this painting, called Heart Transplant. It is an art manifesto of sorts, a vulnerable exploration of artistic practice in the 21st century. I [...]
Sep 21, 2009 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, Art Coverage, blast visuals, New Work, Painting, Philosophy, revelation, shameless self promo, Truth | 4 Comments »
ShareWe live in a time where we can see extreme ends of the human experience. A philosopher now is like a string theorist, desperately trying to piece together a way of interpreting these experiences in a unified way. I present the following pictures as two manifestations of data, with all the requisite sensual triggers. The [...]
Sep 18, 2009 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, blast visuals, Contemporary Culture, God paints, Memorial, Philosophy, photography, politics, WAR | 1 Comment »
ShareAs a companion piece to David Stern’s wonderful work 100 Simple Things, Akbar Lightning will be doing 100 Photoshop drawings of 100 Complex Things. The first piece is entitled Truth (I bet you would have never guessed that one!) TRUTH
May 19, 2009 | Categories:Akbar Lightning, blast visuals, Digital Art, Universals | 9 Comments »
