December 2009
“Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing their whole sexual history, their...”
– David Cronenberg (via theresearchsociety) (via existentializzy)
“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...”
– Neil Gaiman (via anditslove) (via brynlutes)
“Of all misrepresentations by media moguls, calling old inconveniences loyalty...”
– cshirky (via emergentfutures)
december/
silhouettes:
the most hectic month of this year awaits…and will probably be crazier than may (finals time). my first class begins tomorrow…luckily i only have three students so everything should be manageable. i’m really pumped to finally not necessarily be in charge…but rather be in control of what goes on in the class when it comes down to allowing projects/ideas evolve and create room for...
Noam Chomsky on Higher Education and Privatization →
newleft:
“I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university is virtually free. I then visited an even more remarkable institution, the college in Mexico City established by former mayor Lopez...
November 2009
How to Talk to Crowds, by Fugazi (RIP) →
ideasareawesome:
Information Visualization Manifesto →
nostrich:
Good time to link to this. Very first thing in that post is this quote:
“The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures”
“The mix tape is a form of American folk art: predigested cultural artifacts...”
– Matias Viegener from the book Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture (via cosyredrainbow)
Oh Matias, you wonderful man, you are in Thurston Moore’s book. I should get it.
@notational
kimclit:
AIM me (since I don’t know how I would go about talking to someone via Google Wave)
doubt by numbers
I’ll try to do that later tonight but it’s been so long since I’ve used it that I totally forget what my account name is. I’ll figure something out after class tonight.
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,...”
– Charles Mingus (via funkadelicer) (via sanabananana) (via gouachegalatea)
N.A.S.A. feat. Tom Waits + Kool Keith: "Spacious... →
Excellent piece of animation.
Last week of classes, then exams. After that job applications, art-making, dealing w/ social services & family time.
“Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of...”
– Florence King
This is yet another part in my reaction to the TED talk. I just didnt like the idea of people putting the “credit/blame” on something else. I feel like humans have worked for the past 1000 yrs to prove their own being…
(via jonhenry)
No names, no links: Writers give themselves a pass...
The conversation continues.
jayrosen:
Mark Cuban: Rupert Murdoch to Block Google = Smart
I love to tweak all the internet information must be free bigots. They get so damn religious about information on the net that they lose what little objectivity and awareness of the real world they had in the first place
Wherever it’s found, bigotry deserves to be called out— say, with a link? Plus,...
3 tags
Big Thinkers: Henry Jenkins on New Media and... →
“What labels me, negates me.”
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (via lastchatwithphontaine)
“Giving me a new idea is like handing a cretin a loaded gun, but I do thank you...”
– Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick (via samsaramotel)
“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly...”
– Albert Einstein (via chrbutler)
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
– Salvador Dali (via jonhenry)
I just generated a #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets. Top three words: photo, link, video - http://w33.us/37q7
WatchShu - Circular Slit Scan @ Processing(Proce55ing) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
When I can find the time I’d love to learn Processing.
“A single moment can retroactively flood an entire life with meaning.”
– Victor Frankl (via oceanofmind) (via petersantiago)
“make rhizomes, not roots, never plant! Don’t sow grow offshoots! Don’t be one or...”
– Deleuze, Mille Plateaux (via afterimg) (via notational) (via jessicalikesthis)
This is why Deleuze is so amenable to military tacticians and management strategists.
(via towerofsleep)
Nice links. D&G also write about “war machines” as being ulterior to the State apparatus.
Lately...
Jennifer Bailey →
“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan...”
– - Ralph Ellison, “The Invisible Man” (via lastchatwithphontaine)
This is a wonderful book. If you haven’t read it yet…please do so.
Social Sculpture (for Micah, et al.)
themedicine:
listening to jazz, tristeza, and tortoise all the time. working hard in school, starting practicum soon. reading constantly. just finished A Scanner Darkly. If you’ve only seen the movie, read the book.
Justin im not sure i understand this social sculpture. Would you mind clarifying a bit?
Several former students asked if I could teach an upper-level class for which they could...
“The more one talks, the less the words mean.”
– Jean-Luc Godard, Vivre Sa Vie (via ambivalence) (via fuckyeahjeanlucgodard)
“Wikipedia contains facts about facts. It’s a collection of facts from other...”
– Seth Godin (via azspot)
No names, no links: Writers give themselves a pass...
The saga continues.
newsweek:
jayrosen:
Mark Cuban: Rupert Murdoch to Block Google = Smart
I love to tweak all the internet information must be free bigots. They get so damn religious about information on the net that they lose what little objectivity and awareness of the real world they had in the first place
Wherever it’s found, bigotry deserves to be called out— say, with a link?
...
DROP -FASHION STREET SNAP (ドロップ ファッション ストリート... →
via Momus
http://imomus.livejournal.com/506680.html
“make rhizomes, not roots, never plant! Don’t sow grow offshoots! Don’t be one or...”
– Deleuze, Mille Plateaux (via afterimg)
We Are The People →
callout:
Education and the future.
“Training materials should be constructed as short task-oriented chunks. [Users]...”
– (via mnmal) (via infoneernet)
On Visualizing Information →
infoneernet:
jingc:
There can be a directness and clarity to visual information that cuts through the noise, the smoke, and the walls of information around us. It can help us zoom in and see what really matters. Or what might be being hidden from us.
So, here is how it goes, you tag five people on...
albeitmanny:
1. i have a love/hate relationship with the west coast 2. i’m a photography/”new genre” major at otis. 3. last week I cut off all my hair 4. i’m almost never home 5. i’m vegan
I went to CalArts for Gradschool. My friend jacob Melchi went to Otis at that time and some of my teachers were teaching there as well. I also had that love/hate relationship with L.A. in particular. I hate...
“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”
– Andy Warhol (via g-overdose)
Rose, I feel like I know you pretty well from following your blog. You’re in too.
Wow, now I think I’m up to 14 or 15…and i’m expecting to hear from at least a handful more.
A school within the school.
“… science would go completely mad if left to its own devices. Look at...”
– Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus (via totempole)
zacharyconcepcion
The Social Sculpture will be open to any art major or creative person. It’s not through the school. Completely unofficial. Please stay posted and join us if you’re interested.
So, here is how it goes, you tag five people on...
eastling:
1. I’m a Metals major. Technically, I’m a Metals & Jewelry major, and I suppose I do make jewelry, but my pieces tend to lean toward the sculptural side rather than the practical, wearable side.
2. I’m a firm believer in gentlemanliness: ladies first, opening doors, walking on the street side, etc. Chivalry is not dead.
3. Things that irritate me: bad drivers, people who take...
Let’s give children the ‘store of human knowledge’ →
Important counter-point to my own leanings and biases.
quiet-time:
“Certainly the questions raised by Greek philosophy, Renaissance poetry, Enlightenment science or the novels of George Eliot continue to be relevant for students in our time and not just to the period that preceded the digital age…
The fetishisation of change is symptomatic of a mood of intellectual malaise, where notions of...
Lauren and Dave
If you’re up for meeting this Friday, Crossroads in the afternoon would be good for me.
Something about doing laundry is strangely energizing for the last few years of my life. In the midst of it now.
