December 2011
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“[Argentine President Cristina] Fernandez is only the latest South American...”
– Argentine President Has Thyroid Cancer - NYTimes.com
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A response to Jussi Parikka: or why materialism... →
So what does OOO offer for my field (the computational arts) which I find helpful and genuinely new? Well it returns to that question which has been removed from the arts which deals with the autonomy of the artwork itself. This is the most important question I feel, the only question worth mulling over, not just aesthetically, but also politically. For the most part, the idea of an artwork...
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Literary Tantalus
thenewinquiry:
The measured release of material has multiplied the way Beckett’s work can be interpreted, transforming the image of Beckett as a leading 20th century existentialist into a historically and culturally complex figure who actively resisted a stable interpretation of his work. What the estate has accomplished through its trickle of archival material is perpetual scholarship,...
“It isn’t a hyperkinetic movie but, rather, one of a dazzling proliferation of...”
– The Front Row: “Dragon Tattoo”: Fast Company : The New Yorker
“Morse admitted that there was no formal reason for that position. It was just a...”
– What College Rankings Really Tell Us : The New Yorker
How to create stunning mood boards with So.cl
fuselabs:
Mood boards are a common tool used by visual designers and marketing teams to establish the look and feel or brand for a project. Typically this is done by searching through image archives and painstakingly building the collections in mosaics, and it involves numerous steps to collect, organize, and layout manually by hand.
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The Ghost of Books: Part I
lareviewofbooks:
SVEN BIRKERTS, GARY PHILLIPS, and JULIE CLINE
Image © Lisa Jane Persky for Los Angeles Review of Books
“The Ghost of Books: Past, Future, and Present” is an experiment not in terror and is not necessarily Dickensian. We’ve asked certain writers to respond to the three times (or tenses) in the subtitle, or simply to the title. In “The Ghost of Books Past,” we learn what...
“I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to...”
– Maurizio Cattelan (via artnotartnot)
Does this even makes sense? Not to me! But I want to know what he means pretty badly.
(via 1000reasonsnottostartmakingart)
Are Creative People More Dishonest? - Carmen Nobel... →
Picasso is attributed with saying “art is a lie that tells the truth”. Creative individuals have also been characterized as those who can hold two conflicting ideas in their mind without going insane. This study comes as no surprise, but as verification
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Steve Jobs was theorethically channeling Picasso when he said ‘Good artists borrow, great artists steal,’ but he may...
“Havel was different, in the end, from so many of his generation. Obsessed for so...”
– Vaclav Havel dead: The Czech leader’s greatest achievement was an essay, “The Power of the Powerless.” - Slate Magazine
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Raph Koster: Good Design, Bad Design, Great Design
humanegames:
Good design is familiar. Bad design is boring. Great design is exciting.
Good design embraces human nature. Bad design exploits human nature. Great design is humane and humanistic.
Good design guides. Bad design controls. Great design invites.
Good design drives habit. Bad design drives frustration. Great design drives passion.
Good design teaches. Bad design lectures. Great...
Teachers Don’t Like Creative Students
by Alex Tabarrok on December 12, 2011 at 7:33 am
in Economics, Education
One of the most consistent findings in educational studies of creativity has been that teachers dislike personality traits associated with creativity. Research has indicated that teachers prefer traits that seem to run counter to creativity, such as conformity and unquestioning acceptance of authority (e.g., Bachtold, 1974;...
Alex Kehayias's Blog: Learning to Code - I did it... →
alexkehayias:
Next week marks the one year anniversary since I started to learn to code with no previous experience (I have a bullshit degree in marketing). I still worked full time on my startup while learning at night and on weekends. In 3 months I was contributing code to my startup, in 5 months I was…
“The Bill of rights was ratified 220 years ago, on December 15, 1791. It is...”
– OccupyWallSt.org (via wilwheaton)
“Art is difficult,” says the 66-year-old firmly. “It’s not entertainment. There...”
– Anselm Kiefer: ‘Art is difficult, it’s not entertainment’ | Art and design | The Guardian (via notgames)
“Arguably nothing he’s done has meant more to Lego than sponsoring the research...”
– Lego Is for Girls - Businessweek (via humanegames)
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INSTANTIATIONS: Jessica Eaton, Cubes for Albers... →
jessicaeaton:
Review by DLK Collection.
JTF (just the facts): A total of 11 color photographs, framed in black and unmatted, and hung in the small single room gallery space and the adjacent viewing alcove. All of the works are archival pigment prints, made in 2010 or 2011. The images have been printed in…
“People who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly.”
– Steven Johnson talking about his online research techniques (via austinkleon)
Auger Loizeau : Blog: Abstract: Why robot? →
augerloizeau:
One of the enduring objects used to represent our technological future is the robot. This legacy means that its promise has the ability to evolve in accordance with our societal and cultural dreams and aspirations, it can reflect the current state of technological development, our hopes for…
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Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That... →
Because, despite Hanauer’s impressive lifestyle—his family owns a plane—most of the $9+ million just goes straight into the bank (where it either sits and earns interest or gets invested in companies that ultimately need strong demand to sell products and create jobs).
If that $9+ million had gone to 9,000 families instead of Hanauer, it would almost certainly have been pumped right back into...
“The Gibsonian Institute”
– Catching Up To the Future: An Appreciation of William Gibson | Tor.com (via denarration
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“You need not come any longer, Freedom. We have found our joys in your absence.”
– Iranian poetess, Elham Eslami, who died in a car accident yesterday along with her poet husband, Gholamreza Boroosan (via seaofgreen)
Space Ipsum →
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“KG: No, Billy Collins … Billy Collins said in the session before me, he...”
– BOMB Magazine: Unedited Transcript: Kenneth Goldsmith by Marcus Boon
That's Revolting!: School for undocumented... →
univisionnews:
University of Georgia Professors are running a school for undocumented students who have been blocked off from the state’s top universities. (Photo by Freedom University)
By JUAN GASTELUM Channel: Immigration
A group of four University of Georgia…