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New construction range offers girls “a completely new Barbie play experience”. The first ever Barbie construction toys for girls will hit UK shelves on March 9th. Mega Bloks Barbie is ready to launch worldwide following its US launch in December 2012. The range includes a Luxury Mansion, Fashion Boutique, Pet Shop, Pool Party, Barbie’s signature…
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ughpsh: Pelé, 1971
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Author (and former psychogeographer) Iain Sinclair takes us on a walk through the City of London to discover the songs of ‘Surround Me’ Susan Philipsz Tate Gallery commission, placing them in their historical context and explaining the significance of the locations. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Interview Magazine FEBRUARY 2013 | Brian Eno by Laurie Anderson “I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.”
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What do you get when you cross archives and artifacts with timelines, modern and historical maps, and an appreciation for the interpretive aims of humanities scholarship? Today, the Scholars’ Lab is proud to announce the launch of Neatline, our set of Omeka plugins for hand-crafted geo-temporal visualization and interpretation. Here, you can download the 1.0…
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Even without further context, we’d find Frances Henshaw’s 1823 “Book of Penmanship Executed at the Middlebury Female Academy” imaginatively and artistically remarkable. But this 14-year-old girl’s textually-derived maps and cartographically-arranged texts also provide some of our best direct evidence for the teaching practices of famed women’s educational reformer Emma Willard. Willard founded Frances Henshaw’s school…
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brianlucid: Scratch 2.0 Beta is out at http://beta.scratch.mit.edu (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Calling All Geek Girls! Apply for the Huffington Post’s STEM Mentorship Program
Calling All Geek Girls! Apply for the Huffington Post’s STEM Mentorship Program jtotheizzoe: It’s well-established that women face social pressures that push them away from pursuing science as a life passion. It’s also well-established that women who do stay in science face discrimination all the way up the ladder. Women are 50 percent of the…
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towerofsleep: technical difficulties – artforum.com / in print In the new January edition of Artforum, Lauren Cornell and Brian Droitcour responded to Claire Bishop’s controversial “Digital Divide” article from the September issue: “…It was discouraging, after reading several pieces on Artforum’s history of developing critical languages to address emerging art practices, to then arrive at…
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newyorker: Cartoon by Emily Flake. For more from this issue: http://nyr.kr/USOWBM