From the bottom of the icy black, where sight and sound are swallowed by the darkness of the deepest seas, they swarm from a chasm on the ocean floor, fueled by the dual carnal desires of aquatic beast and machine.

Robot Fish.

Leave your B-Horror flick based assumptions behind, because these particular robot fish are the furthest thing from fiction. The next step in combating pollution, these mechanical anomalies will take us places we’ve never been.

Wal-Mart, Nike, and many other U.S. retailers and manufacturers came under great scrutiny during the 90’s when it became widely known that their products were being produced in sweatshops with atrocious working conditions.

To prevent public outcry, manufacturers and retailers began auditing the factories where their products were being made to ensure reasonable working conditions. In the U.S., we might associate reasonable working conditions with things like a decent wage, safe working environment, and the ability to earn a decent living working around 40 hours a week.

In China, however, these conditions sound like little more than a fantasy.

When I first started visiting England about six years ago, like any tourist, I was amazed by the architecture around me. Especially the churches and I wanted to know more. Now that I’m living here I am able to visit many places nearby that enthrall me on a regular basis as I go about my normal everyday life. I’m always amazed to find out how long many of these beautiful structures have been standing. It’s hard to wrap one’s mind around just how long seven hundred or nine hundred years really is. I currently live in Wiltshire, which has its share of beautiful places and the churches and cathedrals are plentiful. I’d like to share some of my favorite spots across the counties of Wiltshire and Somerset, with a couple of stops in London as well.

From the brilliant inanity of Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show, Great Job!, to the cacophonous assault of bands like Wolf Eyes and Lighting Bolt, the influence of Dada art has reared its beautifully atrocious face in several artistic and cultural incarnations since its 1916 inception in Zurich, Switzerland. The movement sought to provoke audiences by embracing nonsense and transgression, eliciting feelings of disgust, shock or anger through an extensive array of manifestos, literature, music, theater, photography and motion pictures. This is it’s (embarrassingly condensed) story.

The seven dwarfs whistled while they worked; but is it necessary for people to tweet while they do business? To email during dinner or to text while driving? We have trained our internet to go without strings. Untethered, in a world without wires where everyone has the smart phone, the laptop and the Bluetooth required to be constantly connected. But what is the downside of a phone that is never off the hook? Of a world where no one can actually be away from their computer? We are at the brink of technological telepathy and yet we fill the broadcasts with only our skeletal thoughts and undeveloped opinions. But is it better to talk with an unfiltered stream of consciousness than to think before we speak? Do we need to re-learn how to stop thinking out loud? Should communication ever become a distraction?