Month: September 2011

  • theatlantic: A Jobs Plan for the Post-Cubicle Economy About 150 years ago, American workers began a profound shift from farms to factories. After suffering through poor work conditions, low pay, and no workplace protections, the workers organized and successfully helped build the framework of laws that became known as FDR’s New Deal. This landmark legislation…

  • bashford: This GPS logger weighs 10 grams, most of which is battery. Custom-made by Telemetry Solutions of Concord, California, it’s small enough to attach to a fruit bat for research purposes. Data can be downloaded directly from the chip upon recapture, or it can be downloaded wirelessly from up to 500 meters away.

  • What’s important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What’s important is the energy and courage we are willing to expend reversing entropy, battling cynicism, suffering and challenging mediocre minds, staring down those who would trample our dreams, taking a stand for magic, and advancing…

  • What’s important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What’s important is the energy and courage we are willing to expend reversing entropy, battling cynicism, suffering and challenging mediocre minds, staring down those who would trample our dreams, taking a stand for magic, and advancing…

  • About Cumulus Digital Culture Cumulus Digital Culture is the working group dedicated to Interaction Design & Digital Media, hosted by the Cumulus Association , the widest network of art, design & media higher education institution worlwide, since 2007. (via The Denver Session : the program | Cumulus Digital Culture) @RafaelFajardo is contributing to this session.

  • Overview of Digital Culture Working Group Cumulus Denver 2011 Digital Culture in the United State recognizes that we are in the midst of a revolution. At the start of this revolution there was a great deal of hype around media “convergence” — where the web would intersect with traditional broadcast medium and the “new media”…

  • Overview of Digital Culture Working Group Cumulus Denver 2011 Digital Culture in the United State recognizes that we are in the midst of a revolution. At the start of this revolution there was a great deal of hype around media “convergence” — where the web would intersect with traditional broadcast medium and the “new media”…

  • Beyond Gestaltung at Bielefelder Kunstverein

    September 4, 2011 Bielefelder Kunstverein Franz Erhard Walther, “Xox,” 1957. Pencil and tempera on paper, 50 x 69,7 cm. Courtesy Franz Erhard Walther Foundation. Beyond Gestaltung 10 September–6 November 2011 Opening: Friday, 9 September, 7 pm Artist Talk: Saturday, 10 September, 2 pm Bielefelder Kunstverein im Waldhof Welle 61 D-33602 Bielefeld With contributions by: Eva…

  • Beyond Gestaltung at Bielefelder Kunstverein

    September 4, 2011 Bielefelder Kunstverein Franz Erhard Walther, “Xox,” 1957. Pencil and tempera on paper, 50 x 69,7 cm. Courtesy Franz Erhard Walther Foundation. Beyond Gestaltung 10 September–6 November 2011 Opening: Friday, 9 September, 7 pm Artist Talk: Saturday, 10 September, 2 pm Bielefelder Kunstverein im Waldhof Welle 61 D-33602 Bielefeld With contributions by: Eva…

  • There’s something about Federer’s game these days — some quality of vulnerable, but simultaneously mind-blowing, uncertainty — that seems to call strange images to mind. In his prime, Federer went way beyond everything, took tennis somewhere it had never been before, and now his decline’s taking place in a pretty freaky glade. (via The long…