Month: January 2016

  • It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white, but in my city more than half of the people on bike are not white. I was once talking to a white activist who was photographing “bike commuters” and had only pictures of white people with the occasional “Black professional”…

  • offbeatawkward: victorpopejr: Save the Fajitas I hunt my own fajitas. Free range. my brother was called fajita in high school

  • kenyatta: npr: Star Wars: The Force Awakens revolves around the story of staff-wielding scavenger Rey. (That’s hardly a spoiler; she’s front-and-center in the movie poster, after all.) But in the world of Star Wars toys, Rey’s been hard to find — and fans took to social media, under the hashtags #WheresRey and #WhereisRey, to complain…

  • On the other hand, it must be satisfying to see his gifts as a director, so long forgotten, be praised. “The Force Awakens” makes it once again possible to think about George Lucas as a man of imagination, of conviction, and (minus Jar Jar Binks) of taste—as a brilliant appropriator rather than an average one.…

  • Herein lies the inherent problem with this interactive poverty game. When I’m playing the game, I’m faced with decisions like whether to pay to fix my broken car or start taking the bus instead. I make a decision (taking the bus) and then I see the outcome of that decision (saving money but sometimes being…

  • reluctantconquistador: Uhhhhh (Source: https://vine.co/)

  • creativetime: Artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who worked with Creative Time on a 1983/84 project in which she personally thanked each of NYC’s 8,500 sanitation workers (Sanitation Celebrations, Touch Sanitation Show), is giving a free talk at New School tomorrow (Feb. 5, 2013). Fun Fact: To this day, Mierle Laderman Ukeles is the official, unsalaried artist-in-residence at the…

  • In 1754, a belle-lettrist named Horace Walpole retreated to a desk in his gaudy castle in Twickenham, in southwest London, and penned a letter. Walpole had been entranced by a Persian fairy tale about three princes from the Isle of Serendip who possess superpowers of observation. In his letter, Walpole suggested that this old tale…

  • Exploring Social Justice, Design, and HCI

    Exploring Social Justice, Design, and HCI call for proposals, click through to apply. Super interesting.

  • But he’s at pains to point out that this “anti-art” is itself part of art. “Art has something which destroys its own cells,” says Kiefer. “Damien Hirst is a great anti-artist. To go to Sothebys and sell your paintings directly” – as Hirst did in 2008 – “is destroying art. But in doing it to…