June 2011
“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video...”
– Arthur C. Clarke (via holdentumbrl)
May 2011
WatchGenerative Gestaltung Lecture - Intro Showreel (by onformative)
○: Abraham Maslow's 8 Ways to Self-Actualize →
oceanofmind:
1. Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experiencing of something: concentrate on it fully, let it totally absorb you.
2. Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and…
While You Were Sleeping: How to Read. →
jasonpermenter:
whileyouweresleeping:
The Inalienable Rights of the Reader, by Daniel Pennac:
the right not to read;
the right to skip pages;
the right not to finish a book;
the right to read again;
the right to read anything;
the right to mistake a book for real life;
the right to read anywhere;
the right to dip in;
the right to read out loud;
the right to be quiet.
I’ve always...
“Ill-defined problems, short project schedules, and a lack of patience are common...”
– The Art of Design Research (and Why It Matters) - Atlantic Mobile (via timoni)
Dale Peck Says Writers and Readers Must Fight... →
towerofsleep:
I don’t know why writers are mourning the death of an industry that’s done so little for them for so long. From where I stand, I can see a world not so far into the future in which books are sold only by authors or small collectives through one or two or three online portals that charge a nominal fee for their service rather than gobbling up the lion’s share of revenue. A world in...
Gil Scott-Heron’s old-fashioned ghetto code →
Rhizome | Fragmentr: a Collaborative Image... →
WatchIt’s crazy how a simple mirror filter can transform a video into something else. (by Craig Shimala)
Stop Kvetching About Wikipedia [The Awl] →
boholawyer:
A long read, but worth it. It’s about as accurate as Brittanica, not meant to be quoted in undergraduate term papers and worth studying as a way to understand how we package and consume information in the Internet age.
“It quite frequently happens that you’re just treading water for quite a long...”
– Brian Eno on the creative process. (via ultravisceral)
Watchjasonachapman:
“Copyleft crusader and Harvard professor Larry Lessig gave a new talk at CERN last week about copyright and how it has affected open access to academic or scientific information, with a bit of commentary about YouTube Copyright School. As usual, it’s blistering commentary. “It’s time to recognize that free access – as in ‘free’ as in speech access – is no fad, and it’s time to...
WatchRyoji Ikeda at Park Avenue Armory. (by jordan levine)
WatchRyoji Ikeda: The Transfinite 10 (by Brooklyn Digital Foundry)
WatchRyoji Ikeda: The Transfinite 15 (by Brooklyn Digital Foundry)
WatchRYOJI IKEDA : ” THE TRANSFINITE ” ( FRONTAL PROJECTION ) (by Stephen Holding)
Watch
Ryoji Ikeda - THE TRANSFINITE
Amazing work from Ryoji Ikeda at the Park Avenue Armory (armoryonpark.org/). On show until June 11, 2011. Don’t miss this. Also, stick with the videos through the drops to black and make sure you’ve got your sound active.
Prepare for blast of Ryoji Ikeda.
Really wish I could see the show that all this documentation comes from.
sndmedres:
It’s a strange business speaking for yourself, in your own name, because it doesn’t come at all with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject. Individuals find a real name for themselves, rather, only through the harshest exercise of depersonalization, by opening themselves up to the multiplicities everywhere within them, to the intensities running through them. -Deleuze,...
“I’m writing you all this from another world, a world of appearances. In a way...”
– Chris Marker : Sans Soleil (via otto-obrien)
“[W]hile the Web has enabled new forms of collective action, it has also enabled...”
– Jonah Lehrer on the tradeoff between the “wisdom of crowds” and groupthink, echoing Eli Pariser’s admonition about “the filter bubble” (via curiositycounts)
“The researchers’ conclusion was that, in the context of strange toys of unknown...”
– The Economist (via protoslacker)
Ten design lessons from Frederick Law Olmsted, the...
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1) Respect “the genius of a place.”
2) Subordinate details to the whole.
3) The art is to conceal art.
4) Aim for the unconscious.
5) Avoid fashion for fashion’s sake.
6) Formal training isn’t required.
7) Words matter.
8) Stand for something.
9) Utility trumps ornament.
10) Never too...
Watchdaqri:
Here we are post-ARE2011, and believe us when we say that we were enthralled the entire time. So much happened over the last few days that we’re still trying to calm down, but in the interim check out this closing fireside chat with science fiction authors Bruce Sterling and Verner Vinge.
We’d like to thank everybody at ARE2011 for putting together a great event and making us feel...
Sustainable Arts Foundation Accepting Applications... →
meinwelt:
Artist Mary Liz Tippin-Moody (https://sites.google.com/site/marylizmoodyart/ ) shared this news. The Sustainable Arts Foundation is a non-profit organization providing support to artists and writers with families—http://www.sustainableartsfoundation.org/ Visit their site to complete applications for 2011 awards.
