Month: March 2015

  • chaosophia218: The Flower of Life is the modern name given to a geometrical figure composed of multiple evenly-spaced, overlapping circles. They are arranged to form a flower-like pattern with a sixfold symmetry. Within the Flower Of Life’s concentric circle pattern lies another pattern – the The Fruit of Life. This symbol is composed of 13…

  • femfreq: The first episode of our mini-series focusing on Positive Female Characters in video games will premiere this week! 

  • designfictions: Exercising our green thumbs! Top 4 images taken yesterday at our 2015 Green Screen (Chroma Key) workshop… In preparation for the production of their Design Fiction video prototypes. Bottom 3 images of a 2014 student group making their DesFi video prototype (for the Brisbane Airport) using green screening techniques. See their final video here: http://designfictions.tumblr.com/post/87560454080/eq-wall-video-prototype-using-green-screening And…

  • The Early Disruptors: 7 Masterpieces of ‘90s Net Art Everyone Should Know About

  • We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience. Pablo Neruda, The Sea and the Bells (via whyallcaps)

  • so-books: Donald Judd Complete Writings 1959-1975

  • archiemcphee: These whimsical wooden automata are the creations of contemporary Japanese woodworker Kazuaki Harada. We’re particularly fond of the dancing ham and veggies. After first spending a year studying under English master automata-maker Matt Smith, Harada began crafting his own automatons in 2002. His playful pieces vary in both size and complexity, but all are…

  • Survey: The State of Adjunct Professors

    Survey: The State of Adjunct Professors lasmaracuyas: In our new survey, 62 percent of adjuncts say they make less than $20,000 a year from teaching, and 88 percent say working with students is their favorite part.

  • For years, I opened my 11th-grade U.S. history classes by asking students, “What’s the name of that guy they say discovered America?” A few students might object to the word “discover,” but they all knew the fellow I was talking about. “Christopher Columbus!” several called out in unison. “Right. So who did he find when…

  • Stunning board-game history book

    mostlysignssomeportents: “The Games We Played: The Golden Age of Board and Table Games,“ is a stunningly illustrated book from an academic press, collecting board and token-art from a museum collection of boardgames.