Month: October 2013

  • cabinsupplies: DIY sewing kit. Classic canvas wrapper, six bobbins of thread, three needles, folding scissors, seam ripper, extra buttons, five safety pins and a tailor’s measuring tape. Available on DIY for $10.

  • crack-dragon: solar-citrus: This has been something that has been bothering me for the past few years, every time I encounter someone who’s just started as an artist, they put themselves down because they’re intimidated by artists who are more experienced.  Intimidation is something that every artist has (or will) encounter in their lives, and they…

  • I think the biggest lesson I’ve learned is segmenting the business mind from the creative mind, because when they start to bleed over into each other too much, you’re compromised. It’s two different mindsets, two different approaches. It’s hard to flip back and forth between the two. Felicia Day on Creativity and Building a Business…

  • faculty members, trained to work for the public good and the advancement of a discipline, are now far more commonly understood to be employees working for the interests of “stakeholders.” Faculty Governance in the New University | AAUP

  • cinoh: The album version of A Dream can be found here, the live version here, Cale performing it solo hereand Lou Reed solo here.

  • ideageneration: Albrecht Dürer, Underweysung der Messung, mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt, in Linien, Ebenen unnd gantzen corporen 1525, Source

  • Tidal from Alex Maclean is a domain-specific language built on top of Haskell, and his new Texture system creates more of a diagramming notation. Dave Griffiths has built his live coding environment, Fluxus, in Racket which is used in Program by Design and Bootstrap CS education projects. Dave did all his live coding at Dagstuhl…