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Bizarre "gangbanger skin" rugs
Mexican artist Renato Garza Cervera sculpts freakish rugs in the form of skinned gang members.
"Years ago I was watching TV at the house of an ex-girlfriend," he told The Creators Project. "We were watching an animation shortcut where a funny monster had in the floor of its house a green and red dotted hippopotamus rug. So I thought, 'That rug is quite anomalous: it’s not made out of a typical beast. It’s not a lion nor a tiger nor a bear. Those rugs apparently no longer represent fierce creatures, now they are endangered species: So what would nowadays be a beast or represent an animal-like, barbaric kind of bestiality?'"
The "skins" of the Latino male are tattooed with phrases connected to the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs of Los Angeles.
"They represent a group of Latin American and US-established societies who live in a difficult set of circumstances due to an odd system of political, economical, social issues, which are out of my reach and comprehension," Cervera says.
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How To Download And Install The Windows 8.1 Fonts In Ubuntu
How to download and install the Windows 8.1 fonts in Ubuntu
1. Download Microsoft Windows 8.1 Preview ISO.
Both Microsoft Windows 8.1 Preview and Windows 8 Enterprise evaluation are available to download for free.
2. Install the tools required to extract the fonts from the Windows 8.1 ISO.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wimtools p7zip-full
3. Extract the Windows 8.1 fonts from the ISO
cd
7z x WindowsBlue-ClientwithApps-32bit-English-X1899604.iso sources/install.wim
cd sources/
mkdir tmp fonts
imagex mount install.wim 1 tmp
cp tmp/Windows/Fonts/{*.ttf,cambria.ttc} fonts
imagex unmount tmp
4. Optional: convert the Cambria font from TTC to TTF
sudo apt-get install fontforge
cd ~/sources/fonts/
fontforge -lang=ff -c 'Open("cambria.ttc(Cambria)"); Generate("cambria.ttf"); Close(); Open("cambria.ttc(Cambria Math)"); Generate("cambria-math.ttf"); Close();'
5. Install the Windows 8.1 fonts in Ubuntu
To install the Microsoft Windows 8.1 fonts system-wide, use the following command:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win8.1
sudo cp ~/sources/fonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win8.1/
sudo fc-cache -f -v
Or, to install the Windows 8.1 fonts for your user only, use the following commands instead:
mkdir -p ~/.fonts/win8.1
cp ~/sources/fonts/*.ttf ~/.fonts/win8.1/
sudo fc-cache -f -v
Originally published at WebUpd8: Daily Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.