Month: April 2012

  • Dr. Manhattan in a Martian sand storm. Made with Paper

  • Creating Innovators: Why America’s Education System Is Obsolete

    femmebot: Individual achievement is the focus: Students spend a bulk of their time focusing on improving their GPAs — school is a competition among peers. “But innovation is a team sport,” says Wagner. “Yes, it requires some solitude and reflection, but fundamentally problems are too complex to innovate or solve by oneself.” Student Loans: A…

  • (via swissmiss | Fortress Desk)

  • (via swissmiss | Erin Sparling’s Camera Workflow)

  • The band has derived their success — and scorn — by turning contemporary punk culture on its head. Where punk was once relegated to musky basements, squats, and other shabby makeshift venues, Pussy Riot makes all public spaces — the streets, the metro, the church — their stage. While punk bands play for punks, Pussy…

  • Music For Shuffle, Sketch #10 by Matthew Irvine Brown In the video above, each blue column represents an instrument, and each block in a column represents an individual phrase. When one phrase finishes playing, it randomly cues up and plays another one. This is kind of like having five or six separate copies of iTunes,…

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  • wearethedigitalkids: Masters on 45s by Tamir Sher. Stunning. “I took my old record player and decided to use it in my work before I throw it away. I put a reproduction of an old masters paintings and super heroes dolls on it and take pictures in a variable speeds. The low-tech record player connect and…

  • Today, your washing machine is almost certainly controlled by a computer that could be programmed to do astrophysics or word processing instead, if it were given suitable input-output devices and enough memory to hold the necessary data. David Deutsch (via nathanielstuart)