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Film – The ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Audience? Not This Gamer – NYTimes.com
Film – The ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Audience? Not This Gamer – NYTimes.com
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theyrule
theyrule
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sum1: Advertising creates images of false beauty. Via deltamualpha: Planetary Folklore: BILLBORED
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Design For the First World » About
Design For the First World » About Dx1W began as a sarcastic comment. The idea came to me in a class in which I was asked to create an object on “social design”. The assignment was one week long and there was no specific context. Why would you assume that you can design something to…
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network culture chart | varnelis.net
network culture chart | varnelis.net Kazys Varnelis has been working to craft a chart, a visualization, of the dominant cultural logic of our contemporary period. In this he is following in the steps of (and expanding the work of) Jameson and of Lyotard. The chart is as “handy” as it is important. It helps us…
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Criticism Be meaner. On the front page of my ideal design blog is a daily fugging of something from the world of visual culture. That’s essentially what Unhappy Hipsters is doing for Dwell, or more specifically, for Dwell’s preferred mode of architectural photography. But I can tell they are already tiring of their limited field…
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murraythenut: Behold, a bonus – Tumblr only – alternate version of today’s comic. Don’t say I never did anything for you. Except for you, Thomas. I really never did anything for you.
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Being the bad guys As Molleindustria’s McDonalds’ video game, Oiligarchy places the player in the shoes of the “bad guys” in order to articulate the critique. Our belief is that power structures can be understood more clearly if represented from a privileged position. The player tends to perform actions with both positive outcomes (profits, advancement…
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In any case, Apple’s choice of who to give loaner iPads seems not to be influenced by what we’ve written in the past. It’s a pitch, to audiences it hasn’t yet won. It loaned early units to newspapers and mags not to entice their publishers into the App Store fold–they need no further convincing at…
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Obsession for perfection – The Denver Post
Obsession for perfection – The Denver Post Cultural Event Opportunity “Her deliberate mimicking of the repetition and slick, manufactured feel of today’s female idealizations become a savvy, pointed critique of it.” “The show at Hinterland, 3254 Walnut St., opens with a public reception from 6 to 9 p.m. today and runs through April 23 by…