Month: November 2012

  • “Dr. Manhattan takes a walk on Titan”, Made with Paper by Rafael Fajardo, 2012.11.01.

  • artlistpro: This morning on Modern Art Notes, I detail a key part of the relationship between Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman. Still famously claimed that Newman stole his “line of force,” the compositionally dominant vertical that Newman called the “zip” and claimed as his own.  So how did the line of force or the zip…

  • spacefictioncuriosities: A postcard of the drawing The Flat Earth, created in 1991 by American cartoonist and illustrator Saul Steinberg (1914-1999)

  • Rochelle Ballantyne, 17, of Brooklyn is taking the chess world by storm. She is on the verge of becoming the first African-American female chess master and her journey has been documented in the film, Brooklyn Castle. Brooklyn Castle tells the stories of five members of the chess team at I.S. 318 middle school in Brooklyn.  Ballantyne, currently a…

  • an open letter in response to amy, re: musicians, volunteering, and the freedom to choose.

    amandapalmer: Cross-posted from my blog. _________________ hola comrades! i am so happy that many of you are deeply loving the record, the response has been absolutely out of control….just amazing.glad that everyone’s getting their kickstarter stuff. more on that later. for now…. this is my response to a letter that was posted a few days…

  • Kern and Burn | A Publication About Design Entrepreneurship

    Kern and Burn | A Publication About Design Entrepreneurship

  • Why I will not draw your comic for free

    faitherinhicks: Sorry tumblrs, I didn’t know you couldn’t reblog questions, and also it’s probably mean of me, exposing that girl’s question like that. So here’s the whole blog post in reblogging format.  Long story short, someone (politely) inquired if I would do character design for them, and then draw their comic. No mention of payment.…

  • “The Precession of Simulacra” by Jean Baudrillard, Translated from English into American

    “The Precession of Simulacra” by Jean Baudrillard, Translated from English into American dropouthangoutspaceout: dropouthangoutspaceout: Precession of Simulacra You think you understand the fucking real, man? Try this shit on for size: “The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.”Ecclesiastes BOOM. Fucking…