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Mrs Tsk *: I’m indebted to David Woodard for telling me that Harry Mathews—a…
Mrs Tsk *: I’m indebted to David Woodard for telling me that Harry Mathews—a… mrstsk: I’m indebted to David Woodard for telling me that Harry Mathews—a close friend of Georges Perec and the only American member of OULIPO (the “workshop for potential literature”)—wrote a long prose piece (illustrated in the Dalkey Archive Press edition by…
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MANY POEMS enact wild rides of the imagination, but John Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” which announced a new kind of craft in 1974, is also vivid in concreteness and its emphasis on form. Referencing a Mannerist painting by Parmigianino, Ashbery carefully elaborates size, angle, light, texture, and time (a “peculiar slant / Of…
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It’s a long read and worth every word. So go read it. A Nearly Perfect Book : OBlog: Design Observer
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Embezzling the (un)real. Jonathan Monaghan | Arte Fuse | online, art blog, art blog new york, art magazine, art magazine new york, manhattan, contemporary, online, art, artists, magazine, gallery, galleries, news, openings, fairs, new york city
Embezzling the (un)real. Jonathan Monaghan | Arte Fuse | online, art blog, art blog new york, art magazine, art magazine new york, manhattan, contemporary, online, art, artists, magazine, gallery, galleries, news, openings, fairs, new york city I had a dream. I was floating in the air, surrounded by beheaded sheep, winged lions’ heads, wired birds,…
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explore-blog: Discoveries which changed the world’s eating habits, from this charming 1949 illustrated cookbook.
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npr: seedtoshirt: Chittagong, Bangladesh – Today was a big day. We took a tour of the factory that is making our men’s t-shirt. These flowers were a gift from our hosts and the badge is an official “buyer” security pass. We even got to ride in the special elevator reserved for buyers only. We are…
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3ders.org – Japanese maker develops 3D printed tail-less ornithopter | 3D Printer News & 3D Printing News
3ders.org – Japanese maker develops 3D printed tail-less ornithopter | 3D Printer News & 3D Printing News Back in December 2012 Flapping wing Factory in Japan designed and built an impressive 3D printed flying crawler. The 3D model was created in Autodesk 123D and main parts were 3D printed at Shapeways. A recent work from Flapping…
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Create an Animated GIF in Photoshop
Create an Animated GIF in Photoshop alexainslie: “Let’s say you have a folder full of images that you want to sequence together as frames in an animated GIF. You can find special programs online to do this, but with some of the new features of Adobe Photoshop, it’s quite fast and simple.” -Brian D’alessandro
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The labor force has been radically restructured (by the Boomers, not insignificantly) so that we work, when we can find work at all, longer hours for less money with no job security. How does one save up for a car or mortgage down payment on the kind of salaries most people who weren’t born into…