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explore-blog: Brian Eno, born on May 15, 1948, on art.

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:49:14 -0400

Brian Eno, born on May 15, 1948, on art.

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Thu, 09 May 2013 18:14:32 -0400

"In its favour, if Google Glass didn’t exist, all these Silicon Valley guys would be having affairs..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 13:45:36 -0400

“In its favour, if Google Glass didn’t exist, all these Silicon Valley guys would be having affairs or buying unsuitable motorbikes”

- (via whitemenwearinggoogleglass)

inventingabstraction: A central thesis of Inventing Abstraction...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:30:04 -0500

inventingabstraction:

A central thesis of Inventing Abstraction is that creativity is developed through social networks. The exhibition’s curatorial team developed a graphic representation of the connections between artists in the exhibition with the help of specialists in network analysis from Columbia Business School and the Museum’s in-house design studio.

For more information on the way networks foster creativity, watch an interview with Paul Ingram, Kravis Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, on MoMA.org.

cultofjoe: I AM NOT HIM - JIM JOE (photo by vdvm)

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:25:27 -0500

cultofjoe:

I AM NOT HIM - JIM JOE

(photo by vdvm)

good: Redesigning ‘Service’: Why I Started a Design Group That...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:23:04 -0500

good:

Redesigning ‘Service’: Why I Started a Design Group That Gives Away Half Its Work for Free
- Matthew Manos wrote in Service, Design and Volunteerism

I started verynice in my apartment as an undergrad at UCLA by staying up late every night to design all kinds of things for non-profit organizations that I would find on craigslist and on campus, at no cost to them. At the time, I had a difficult time seeing verynice as a business, and I never bothered to ask myself the question: “How do I scale the impact I am making?”

Continue reading Matt’s story on good.is

newyorker: Beginning in the late fifties, The New Yorker ran a...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:17:00 -0500

newyorker:

Beginning in the late fifties, The New Yorker ran a series of short Talk items about captivating graffiti slogans. Most of these accounts were brief, including simply the location and a description of the graffiti in question. The magazine chronicled an early example of literary graffiti that would take on greater artistic significance. In 1957, a keen-eyed New Yorker contributor published a small item about someone who had recently visited an “espresso joint” in Greenwich Village. The visitor took note of a phrase that was written, in elegant calligraphy, on the wall beside his chair: “Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Years later, the playwright Edward Albee, who was often asked about the title of his 1962 play, told The Paris Review how he’d been inspired by a line of graffiti that he had seen scrawled on the wall of a Greenwich Village establishment during the mid-fifties. Perhaps this was the very same scribbling the magazine had noted in its pages nearly five years before the play’s début.

pitchfork: The nine-minute, near-industrial epic “Full of...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:05:44 -0500

pitchfork:

The nine-minute, near-industrial epic “Full of Fire”, from the Knife’s forthcoming album Shaking the Habitual, is a Best New Track— watch the video here.

This is just beyond.

storyboard: The Reconstructionists: Celebrating Badass...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:05:04 -0500

storyboard:

The Reconstructionists: Celebrating Badass Women

What do Buddhist artist Agnes Martin, Hollywood inventor Hedy Lamarr, and French-Cuban author Anaïs Nin have in common? Their names may not conjure popular recognition, and yet, for Lisa Congdon and Maria Popova, these women represent a particular breed of cultural trailblazer: female, under-appreciated, badass. They are “Reconstructionists,” as the writer-illustrator duo call them — and for the next year, they’ll be celebrated on a blog of the same name. Every Monday for 12 months, The Reconstructionists will debut a hand-painted illustration and short essay highlighting a woman from fields such as art, science, and literature. The subject needn’t be famous, but she will, as Popova, the creator of Brain Pickings, puts it, “have changed the way we define ourselves as a culture.” We spoke with Popova, and illustrator Congdon, about the inspiration behind their project.

How’d you come up with the name ‘Reconstructionist’?

Maria Popova: It’s very challenging to celebrate women without pigeonholing the project into some stereotypical and alienating feminist corner, the most dangerous part of which is the preaching-to-the-choir quality that many such projects tend to have. So when it was time to come up with a title for the project, it couldn’t be something too literal or too obvious. After sifting through hundreds of letters, diaries, autobiographies, and other writing, I suddenly remembered something Anaïs Nin had written in a 1944 diary entry — about “woman’s role in the reconstruction of the world.” It was perfect. It was the only common denominator between those women – they aren’t all artists, or all writers, or all to be expected in the pages of a tenth-grade history book. They are simply all reconstructionists.

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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:03:06 -0500

explore-blog: Gorgeous vintage posters by A. M. Cassandre, one...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:03:44 -0500

explore-blog:

Gorgeous vintage posters by A. M. Cassandre, one of history’s most influential graphic designers, born 112 years ago today.

micropolisnyc: The dramatically dilapidated Loews King Theatre,...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:41:41 -0500

micropolisnyc:

The dramatically dilapidated Loews King Theatre, on Flatbush Avenue, is set for a resurrection.

The place was built in 1929. A young Barbra Streisand once worked here. So did Sylvester Stallone.

It’s been closed since 1977, but it’s still the largest indoor theater in Brooklyn, with 3,200 seats. I got to walk around inside yesterday, and despite all the dust and decay, it’s pretty spectacular.

The plan is to restore its former grandeur, and turn it into a major performing arts center. Opening set for 2015.

As a former Brooklynite, I should confess: I’m a little envious.

Nothing like urban decay, I swear.

theatlantic: The Never-Before-Told Story of the World’s First...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:40:41 -0500

theatlantic:

The Never-Before-Told Story of the World’s First Computer Art (It’s a Sexy Dame)

During a time when computing power was so scarce that it required a government-defense budget to finance it, a young man used a $238 million military computer, the largest such machine ever built, to render an image of a curvy woman on a glowing cathode ray tube screen. The year was 1956, and the creation was a landmark moment in computer graphics and cultural history that has gone unnoticed until now.

Using equipment designed to guard against the apocalypse, a pin-up girl had been drawn.

She was quite probably the first human likeness to ever appear on a computer screen.

Read more. [Images: Lawrence A. Tipton]

housingworksbookstore: heidijulavits: WARNING: PAPER IS...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:59:22 -0500

housingworksbookstore:

heidijulavits:

WARNING: PAPER IS DANGEROUS

The card catalog is a threat to truth and relevance! It is a constantly intensifying, present-tense menace. It becomes. It does this every day.

EVERY. DAY.

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Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:54:10 -0500

"Did…did you…is that bevel? With a drop shadow?"

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:53:03 -0500

“Did…did you…is that bevel? With a drop shadow?”

- Digg designer upon seeing my terrible terrible logo making skills. (via heyveronica)

flavorpill: 12 Filmmakers’ Musings on New York and Cinema

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:52:11 -0500

flavorpill:

12 Filmmakers’ Musings on New York and Cinema

good: How will you serve in celebration of Dr. King and...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:04:58 -0500

good:

How will you serve in celebration of Dr. King and National Day of Service?

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
with his father and son
in Atlanta, Georgia
March 22, 1963.
Photographed by Richard Avedon

I’m so happy that this image exists.

ruineshumaines: Firewall by Aaron Sherwood. Firewall is an...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:03:10 -0500

ruineshumaines:

Firewall by Aaron Sherwood.

Firewall is an interactive media installation created in collaboration with Mike Allison. A stretched sheet of spandex acts as a membrane interface sensitive to depth that people can push into and create fire-like visuals and expressively play music.
More information available on the project’s blog.

Watch the video here.

strandbooks: Postcard found in a book.

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:40:10 -0500

strandbooks:

Postcard found in a book.