February 2012
“Limitations are really good for you. They are a stimulant. If you were told to...”
– David Hockney, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (via)
Why Being Sleepy and Drunk Is Great for Creativity →
austinkleon:
Jonah Lehrer on “the benefits of not being able to pay attention.” He should’ve named his new book this.
give me liberty! or give me television!:... →
artifist:
before i didn’t feel i was worthy of love, that is: i thought to have any part of it i had to find a way to be hidden, to keep the deepest part of me buried from the world, and to sprout was forbidden— i couldn’t rise while i was too worried they’d see the strange root from which i had grown. after all, love was something only given
“A case in point is the current tendency to regard the computer as the ultimate...”
– Hayles, N. Katherine. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. (via carvalhais)
“Some game developers — the digital-era equivalent of songwriters and authors, in...”
– Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio — Tech News and Analysis (via mediafuturist)
Concerning the Violent Peace-Police: An Open... →
Over the course of the next 40 years, Gandhi and his movement were regularly denounced in the media, just as non-violent anarchists are also always denounced in the media (and I might remark here that while not an anarchist himself, Gandhi was strongly influenced by anarchists like Kropotkin and Tolstoy), as a mere front for more violent, terroristic elements, with whom he was said to be...
Double Fine Just Used Kickstarter to Fund their... →
dbreunig:
Their goal was $400,000. They’re at $532,459 in less than 24 hours. Why this matters:
Keeping the scale of the project this small accomplishes two things. First and foremost, Double Fine gets to make the game they want to make, promote it in whatever manner they deem appropriate, and release the finished product on their own terms. Secondly, since they’re only accountable to...
From Distributed Files to Distributed Websites →
dbreunig:
The Pirate Bay recently switched from hosted torrent files to magnet links. This change greatly reduced the size of the site, making it possible for the site to fit on a free USB key:
I’ve never used Pirate Bay, but between their newfound interest in 3D printing, and finding new means of distribution I do admire their forward thinking.
“I did a complete snapshot of ALL the...
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The Rhumboogie: Interview - Jacob van Loon →
jacobvanloon:
Forgive the long-windedness, I’m getting a little better at interviewing with each go of it. Thank you to Adam at therhumboogie for taking the time to ask me a few questions. therhumboogie:
Today I have an interview for you all that I’m really exited about, one of the very first artists I ever followed on Tumblr way back when, Jacob van Loon. I’ve been an admirer of his...
“Of all merchants, the most cursed is the usurer, for he sells a good given by...”
– St. Thomas Aquinas (via azspot)
“The junior officer, who has not been named, was monitoring an area hit by a...”
– CCTV police officer ‘chased himself’ after being mistaken for burglar - Telegraph (via new-aesthetic)
“The role of the imagination is to create new meanings and to discover...”
– Iconic designer and legendary curmudgeon Paul Rand on the role of the imagination. (via curiositycounts)
“Lovers do not notice where they are, do not notice that they repeat themselves....”
– Roger Ebert on Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love (2000)
“That is, our consumption, especially of information, is a mode of production....”
– From “Google and the Production of Curiosity” (via modernandmaterialthings)
Obama backs constitutional amendment to end... →
anticapitalist:
President Barack Obama supports changing the U.S. Constitution to keep private sector dollars from buying elections, campaign officials told Raw Story on background during a conference call with reporters Tuesday.
The decision stands in contrast with the president’s recent embrace of super PAC campaigning, a key feature of the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling in the...
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“Get a sketchbook, any kind. moleskines are nice to use. or you can make your own...”
– Jeaux \m/
damn, i give good advice sometimes. (via lumber)
“These visualizations are really for the human observer of the CV process....”
– Greg Borenstein in a comment on Timo Arnall’s fascinating video compilation, The Robot Readable World. (via blech)
Evgeny Morozov: The Death of the Cyberflâneur -... →
towerofsleep:
THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 — published, of all places, on a Web site called Ceramics Today — caught my eye. Celebrating the rise of the “cyberflâneur,” it painted a bright digital future, brimming with playfulness, intrigue and serendipity, that awaited this mysterious...
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know’.”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from her Nobel Prize acceptance speech (via kateoplis)
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“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple...”
– Gall’s law (via Waffle). (via thinkdrastic)
“All of Barthes’ work is an exploration of the histrionic or ludic; in many...”
– Susan Sontag, on Barthes’ volition to live differently by writing differently (via lazz)
““Basically, we need some serious reform,” [Jimmy] Wales told me. “Everything...”
– A meditation on the aftermath of SOPA and copyright alternatives like OPEN from former New York Times editor in chief Bill Keller, who cites Robert Levine’s Free Ride as “a wonderfully clear-eyed account of this colossal struggle over the future of our cultural lives.” (via curiositycounts)