June 2011
20110628 Marius Watz - Thoughts on Code and Form -... →
Slides from one of the Eyeo talks. These get interesting towrds the end where he introduces a fair amount of other artists and proposes the idea of “soft-ab”….which I would rather refer to as computational formalism.”
Nicholas Felton @Eyeo . Like so many of the presenters here seems like the literary invention of a sci-fi writer. Blurring of Art and Life.
RT @cascio: We have a media-political complex driven by simplicity and spectacle, in a world that desperately needs complexity and focus …
Some detailed minutes from Eyeo conference. →
Some of these presentations coincide with the ones I am attending. Some don’t. I look forward to going over these later.
PBS LearningMedia →
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“What decides whether consensus is reached is the administrator closing the AfD...”
– Notabilia – Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia (via iamdanw)
“We know very little about self-development. But we do know one thing: People in...”
– Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive
And by holding yourself to high expectations, you make room for others to follow suit. I’ve loved working with Amit and the team at Photojojo this summer, at a place where great expectations are the norm. I want to work with people who make me want to be...
“At the start of the parenthesis and before print, information and knowledge were...”
– Digital first: what it means for journalism | Media | The Guardian (via fuckyeahmcluhan)
“Processing seeks to ruin the careers of talented designers by tempting them away...”
– Ben Fry, winner of this year’s National Design Award for Interaction Design, lights up the beginning of the Eyeo Festival with a tongue-in-cheek statement about Processing, the programming environment he developed with Casey Reas a decade ago. Processing 2.0 comes soon. For more of Fry’s thinking...
“Learning a new skill or language doesn’t need to begin with commitments to...”
– Fix Bad Habits: Insights from a 7-Year Obsession :: Tips :: The 99 Percent (via csessums)
“Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a...”
– Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers - Leonard Koren (via bridgettelizabeth)
So many choices for Asian food near the hotel. last night Vietnamese. This afternoon I had bubble tea. Tonight? Either Korean or Taiwanese.
“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new...”
– Jean Piaget (via teachplaysing)
“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new...”
– Jean Piaget (via teachplaysing)
“For, surely, if there was absurdity in writing about art without being able to...”
– Life Studies by Adam Gopnik: The New Yorker
This essay sparkles with really provocative insights about the relationship between art’s traditions and its avant-garde, told through Gopnik’s own attempts at learning to draw, from a teacher who thinks the entirety of modern art was a wrong turn.
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Jason Salavon | Spigot (Babbling Self-Portrait) →
“We live in an increasingly algorithmic society, where our public functions, from...”
– Eli Pariser (via azspot)
flashover
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust crosses the room and jolts the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you’ve built up through decades of friction with the world.
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon →
mitochondria:
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon occurs when a person, after having learned some (usually obscure) fact, word, phrase, or other item for the first time, encounters that item again, perhaps several times, shortly after having learned it.
There are several theories about the psychological explanation of the phenomenon, including a popular one that cites its primary cause as being...
BLA BLA - NFB/interactive - National Film Board of... →
via Kyle McDonald
“Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace nerditude. In the...”
– Bruce Sterling Quotes
“We have consented to measure the results of educational efforts in terms of...”
– From The American Teacher (1912) via The Service of Democratic Education | The Nation (via sparkies)
Watchmeshootpretty:
RYOJI IKEDA the transfinite
Went and saw this amazing installation at Park Avenue Armory. It was definitely awesome, but made me really nauseous. Not sure how some people were “meditating” with such high-pitched sounds. And people were DEFINITELY “meditating”.
Just can’t get enough of the documentation of Ryoji Ikeda’s Transfinite. Sad to have missed it.
LukeW | Device Classes & Responsive Design →
“In an era of simpler technology, devices were defined by bulky, analog...”
– Analog Form | Blog | design mind (via iamdanw)
“We clearly want machines that perform human-like tasks. We want computers that...”
– Charlie Stross (via azspot)
“At the end of the season, the league finds a way to “honor each child” with a...”
– How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic (via iamdanw)
Learning Through Digital Media →
Worth re-visiting.
How to survive the age of distraction →
…And here’s the function that the book – the paper book that doesn’t beep or flash or link or let you watch a thousand videos all at once – does for you that nothing else will. It gives you the capacity for deep, linear concentration. As Ulin puts it: “Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction…. It requires us to pace ourselves. It returns us to a reckoning with time. In...
“Philosophers ought also to say “not the just ideas, just ideas” and bear this...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations (1995[1976]: p. 38-39)
LulzSec Disbands Before Its Members Are Outed -... →
