December 2010
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr-khifcl-U&feature=related. I love watching the joy in the reactions to this iPhone app.
“The Civil War was scarcely more than 150 years ago. It’s yesterday. Race in American hasn’t been sorted out. This used to be a country that was run exclusively by white guys in suits. It’s not going to be a country that’s run exclusively by white guys in suits, and that doesn’t have anything to do with politics, it’s just demographics. That makes some people very uncomfortable. The tea party is like the GOP’s Southern strategy coming back to exact the real cost of that strategy.”
—William Gibson (via azspot)
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Wikisori →
wikisori.org
Maybe there is a god — I just discovered what seems to be a comprehensive database of Montessori Albums.
Holla if you know how great that would be.
November 2010
“Information, like humanity, cannot exist apart from the embodiment that brings it into being as a material entity in the world; and embodiment is always instantiated, local, and specific. Embodiment can be destroyed but it cannot be replicated. Once the specific form constituting it is gone, no amount of massaging data will bring it back. This observation is as true of the planet as it is of an individual life-form. As we rush to explore the new vistas that cyberspace has made available for colonization, let us also remember the fragility of a material world that cannot be replaced.”
—N. Katherine Hayles
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, 1999 (via agirlsaidtotheuniverse)
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, 1999 (via agirlsaidtotheuniverse)
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Final Project thoughts
Conception/Research:
To get a better understanding of how processing works, I have attempted to work through several of the tutorials in the book Learning Processing: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming. This book has an accompaning website for additional help: www.learningprocessing.com
I haven’t completed a lot of these lessons, but I did create an interactive robot!
By all means, show us the robot.
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Thanks for reblogging. I appreciate the words of encouragement.
I applied for a VCUarts research grant with my friend in Fashion Design and we unfortunately, didn't get the grant. It sucks to be really passionate about an idea and then not get picked after putting so much effort into it.
Seeing as you're in the art world, any research grants you know of, it'd be great if you could send a name/link my way. I don't plan on giving up on this idea.
Nicole, It took me four years of applying for a tenure-track position. Sometimes I came really close too. I know how these processes can be disappointing. Here’s what helped me out. I believe that it’s good practice. Each time you apply it should be easier and the materials should be better.
A colleague of mine applied for @ 20 years to the VMFA grant without success. He finally got one a year or two ago.
I don’t have such a great lead for interior design or fashion, but I’ll post it if I see something.
“Specialization is for insects.”
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Robert A. Heinlein
(via bisceglie)
I’m tired of trying really hard and not having it result in anything good.
There have been so many moments in my life in which I could relate.
As opposed to encouraging you to “hang in there…”, which seems to reek of desperation, I ask you to simply
persist.
The most useful tool in the artistic toolbox.
persist.
