Keepalive is Aram Bartholl’s fake hollow boulder in the woods of Neuenkirchen, Germany. It conceals a thermoelectric generator that powers a router configured to serve documents related to wilderness survival. The router switches on if the rock is sufficiently warmed, say by a blazing campfire adjacent to it.
It’s based on Piratebox, a standalone Internet router project for file-sharing.
It’s not the only art/artificial boulder project, though: Ed Ruscha claims to have made an artificial boulder called “Rocky II” and hidden it somewhere in the Mojave, where it is visually indistinguishable from the surrounding rocks, making it all but impossible to find.
that magic rock in the Mojave is going to confuse the fuck out of our descendants one day.
probably not. it’s just a rock. most rocks go unregarded
most rocks aren’t wifi access points!
you need to regard a rock to find out if it is a wifi access point.
w hat the fuck. did the world’s most sadistic text adventure game writer make this rock
You are lost in a woodland clearing. There is a large boulder and a pile of firewood nearby. > check cell phone You open your cell phone to google wilderness survival tips, but you don’t have any service. > make campfire with firewood You could light a fire here, but you’d still be lost. > regard rock It’s a large rock. The underside of the rock appears slightly charred. > light campfire under rock Pretty soon you have a blazing campfire going underneath the boulder. > regard rock The strange boulder, now warmed, has begun to emit a faint mechanical hum. > check cell phone You open your cell phone. There is one wifi network available, named “KeepAlive.” > connect to rock wifi The wifi router opens a webpage full of documents on wilderness survival. > ????? Invalid command. > why Invalid command. > who hides secrets in a magic heat-activated rock Invalid command.
Okay since I find out that some friends don’t know:
Tumblr DOES NOT NOTIFY you about flagged posts, it just flags them. You need to scroll through your blog in the blue background (aka dashboard) view to see what was flagged. It seems if you scroll in profile view it won’t show you.
I had 10 of my drawings flagged and all incorrectly, I sent them to review with a button that is there for it and had all of them unflagged real quick.
Please do the same, check your art and send it to review, protect your harmless drawings! (I believe all art is harmless but well, you know what I mean).
And back up tutorials, half of the ones I reblogged or keep in drafts got flagged probably because of the “anatomy” tags on it. Generally back up the stuff you’re afraid might go. Jeez what dark times =u=
There will be no new bird posts on this tumblr, I’m so sorry! The project will be moving in full to Instagram.
For those who don’t know, I already have an Instagram- but it was mainly for promoting sales, posting process vids, and my other artwork. So it’s cleaned up now and ready to go.
Having to repost over 400 birds and keep them straight is going to be a nightmare, BUT it’ll be fun to see all the birds from 4 years ago. For those who haven’t delved into the depths of this blog, it’ll be a nice opportunity 😊
Scan the IG “nametag” above and it’ll take you to my Instagram, if you don’t know how here’s a link below:
the same people who scream “I’m leaving, this is the final straw” every time staff fucks up are here five minutes later shitposting spongebob memes. let’s be real you were here through the porn bots apocalypse, you gonna be here through the titty prohibition.
shout out to the patient I called to remind to pick up their medication, whose voicemail message was “HEWWO? HEWWO?? WHO IS THIS??? WEAVE A MESSAGE” that rang out throughout the whole pharmacy, killing me instantly
the one time I’m like “this is the one time I dreamed blog” and it isn’t
This is a Blog 2.0 