Month: April 2011

  • kateoplis: Chinese artist, philosopher, architect, photographer, and one of the Chinese Government’s most prominent internal critics, Ai Weiwei, has been arrested today. The above text is from his Tumblr, where his tweets are translated to English. This is not Ai’s first arrest; he was placed under house arrest in November 2010 to prevent a protest of the demolition of his newly…

  • unicornicopia-deactivated201210: A poster from our latest campaign… @racebending

  • nevver: Xavier Veilhan hmmmmm, I wonder if Veilhan is familiar with Argent’s “I see what you mean” located in downtown Denver.

  • papercraftoftheday: 01.11.11 ~ 11/365 Matchbox Ninja [template]

  • criticaltoys: And then there is Madison Waldrop: Last week, as hundreds of established fashion designers were presenting their fall collections in New York, Madison Waldrop, 13, was just getting started on hers. She … is developing a dress collection called Designs by Malyse, specializing in evening and bridal gowns. She hopes to introduce a full…

  • A proposal for the two new charter schools in Berkeley was approved by the school board in June 2010. With a starting budget of just over $3 million, the REALM schools seek to integrate alternative ways of learning into its curricula, including computer programming, game design and other technology-based projects. The two schools will operate…

  • Without play, there is no experimentation. Paul Rand, ​t​h​e​ ​n​e​w​ ​s​h​e​l​t​o​n​ ​w​e​t​/​d​r​y (via nevver)

  • playhouse by phoyo

  • wearethedigitalkids: “There are already 84m internet-enabled mobiles in Africa. It is predicted that 69% of mobiles in Africa will have internet access by 2014. A week’s worth of data can be had for $3. That’s still too much for the majority of Africans, who earn less than $2 a day, but it seems a miracle…

  • Can Video Games Promote Intergenerational Play & Literacy Learning? by Cynthia Chiong, Ph.D. | December 2009 Forty years of Sesame Street research has consistently demonstrated greater learning benefits when children co-view an educational television program, compared to viewing alone. Might benefits also accrue when adults and children use educational games together? On July 30, 2009,…